Join us Friday, March 21, 2025, 6:00 p.m. at the Crowley Theater, for a conversation between Kelly Lytle Hernández and Cameron Rowland that engages with Zoe Leonard’s exhibition Al río / To the River, on view at the Chinati Foundation through June 22, 2025. Free and open to all.

Kelly Lytle Hernández holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA and leads the Big Data research initiative, Million Dollar Hoods, which maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W. W. Norton, 2022). 

Cameron Rowland lives and works in New York. Their work is grounded in the black radical antagonism of property. Rowland’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Dia Art Foundation, Beacon; Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Établissement d’en face, Brussels; Artists Space, New York; and Essex Street / Maxwell Graham, New York.

This program is generously supported by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The City of Marfa, Hauser & Wirth, Kathleen Irvin Loughlin and Christopher Loughlin, Celeste and Anthony Meier, Lisa and John Runyon, Rod and Nancy Sanders, and Texas Commission on the Arts. Additional support has been provided by Chinati’s Director’s Circle.