Nine emerging Latino artists explore the cultural, social and political implications of the phenomenon of "El Niño.”

This exhibition featured internationally-acclaimed Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky's images of the Mazahua Indians of Mexico, as well as examples of the Mazahua's extraordinary embroidery work. Ms. Yampolsky presented an artists' talk, and Enriqueta and Juvenal Bernardino Gómez, Mazahua artesans, offered textile-work demonstrations during a week-long residency.

A cross-cultural celebration of the Day of the Dead in the context of Spanish and American colonial history. Participating Artists: Pepón Osorio, DIWA Arts, Erika Hannes, Doze, Olivia Y. Armas, and the Mail Order Brides/MOB.

Folk art sale featuring Mexican and Latin American folk art and crafts, including market pottery, ceramics, textiles, clothing, toys, dolls and children’s books, cards, posters, calendars, art books, tin and lacquer ware, silver jewelry, masks, ornaments, and specialty items for Christmas.

An open-form exhibit showcasing work by Adál, Francisco X. Camplis, Víctor Cartagena, Leonard Castellanos, Eugenio Castro, Enrique Chagoya, Sal García, Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra, Ester Hernandez, Gigi Otalvaro, Isis Rodríguez, Daniel Salazar.

An exhibition of pencil art by self-taught artists featured in Mi Vida Loca Magazine, a publication of art, literature and poetry for young Latinos/as.

Papel Picado: The Paper Cut-Outs of Carmen Lomas-Garza was this South Texas-born Chicana's first public presentation of large-scale paper cut-outs.

A juried exhibition organized by Galería's ReGeneration Collective. Participating artists included: Nao Bustamante, DX, Raúl Aguilar, Gerardo Pérez, Verónica Duarte, Janjaap Dekker, Dr. Lacra, Juan Carlos Pometta, Favianna Rodriguez, and others. An evening of performance and poetry by emerging Latino writers was held in conjunction with the exhibition.

Y2K: A History of Displacement launched Galería's Digital Mural Program. The mural explores the Mission District's history of resistance and displacement. It was created by John Leaños and students of the San Francisco School of the Arts, including Jonah Copi, Natasha Robinson and Zach Segal.

The Brown Sheep Project was a two-month performance workshop directed by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, seeking to groom emerging cultural leaders and develop new models of artist/community relations. Participants included: Lorraine Bautista, e-mael, Paul Flores, René García, Leticia Hernández, Robert Karimi, Mary Mendoza, Noelia Mendoza, Gigi Otalvaro, René Yañez, and Norman Zelaya.

Curated by René Yañez and Carolina Ponce de León, this exhibition featured the art, photos, props and videos of Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza). The exhibition included paintings, drops, drawings, prints & artworks by José Antonio Burciaga, Gronk, Acebo, David Avalos and others.

Galería de la Raza launches the second in a series of digital billboards for the year 2000 with the computer-generated mural Social Cyberpunkenetics by Lucia Grosberger-Morales.

An exhibition of works on paper featuring cartoons, tattoo designs, pinto & fine art drawings that reveal the intersection of lowrider aesthetics, street culture and gallery art inspired by Mexican and border pop culture. Participating Artists: Lalo Alcaraz, Ronnie Burk, Mr. Cartoon, Enrique Chagoya, Sandra Chang, Doze, Felipe Erhenberg, Paco Excel, Ruben Franco, Adrian García, Javier Hernández, Ester Hernández, Evangelina Griego, Rhode Montijo, Carmen Murillo, Refugio Posadas, Juan Puente, Victor Spider, Rafael Navarro, Esteban Oriol, José Antonio Suárez, Artemio Rodríguez, Leon Ferrari, and Daniel Marquez Ponce. Curated by Carolina Ponce de Leon

eVICTED is the third in a series of digital murals for the year 2000. Created by Mission district artist Albert Lujan.

Curated by Jaime Cortez and Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, this exhibition featured wall-to wall graffiti. It included female writers, adding a gender twist to the male paradigm often connected to graffiti art.

Ese, the Last Mexican in the Mission (2000) was a performance and public art project about the cultural whitewashing of the Mission District of San Francisco. The work parodied the early 20th century Californian story of Ishi, the last of the Yahi tribe.

Organized by Galería’s Education Manager, Robert García, El Último Difunto was a collaborative project with the Mexican Museum and the ReGeneration program. The project presented a critical perspective on the "mainstreaming" of Day of the Dead celebrations in California.

Curated by Carolina Ponce de León, Amigo Racism examined how artists of color have internalized, appropriated and transformed racial and cultural representations circulated and perpetuated through the media and pop culture. It comprised works by 25 artists, including emerging and established artists. Events: Live Poetry TV taping, film screenings, and a chihuahua fashion contest.

Heaven by Los Angeles-based digital artist, Alma Lopez, communicates an intimate story of struggle and rebellion against cultural "correctness" and religious pressures.

Robert Karimi, an Iranian-Guatemalteco graphic designer and performance poet, and Conchita Villalba, a graphic designer, video artist, and community arts activist of Chinese and Mexican descent, teamed up to bring to the surface the history of racial profiling against Asian and Latino communities by law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Members of ReGeneration, Galería's emerging artists program collaborated with their Asian counterparts at Kearny Street Workshop-Next to assemble a fresh series of art events. The centerpiece of this collaboration was atlas(t), a 35-artist exhibition of new multimedia art. The project was curated by Jaime Cortez, Claire Light and a curatorial team from KSW-Next and Galería. Artists include e-mael, Micheal Arcega, Jim Coi, Jaime Cortez, Wei Ming Dariotis, Tony de Carlo, Vikki del Rosario, Richard godinez, mariana Jimenez, Claire Light, Pang Hui Lim, Brian Locicero, Alma Lopez, Jason Luz, Varonica Majano, Enrique Andrade & Mario Lemos, Jorge Natividad, Lark Pien, Kathryn Pinto, Jesus Quintero, Jose Luiz Rodriguez, Anthony Salgado, Alexandra Blum & the SF Print Collective, Robynn Takayama, Conchita Villalba, Jean Yi and Marilyn Yu.

The emergence of a technologically driven surveillance society is the central issue of El Webopticon, a public art project on Galería's Bryant Street billboard, created by Los Cybrids, a trio of Latino artists who focus on the dark side of the information age, particularly as it relates to communities of color and the production of content.

An exhibition exploring the history and political ramifications of the Zapatista movement focusing on the visual culture and language identified with the uprising. It included over 80 photographs depicting the famous, infamous and unknown participants in the Zapatista uprising, Zapatista folk embroideries, dolls and hand-crafts, Zapatista-inspired novelty items, and videos.

The second in a series of three digital murals, The Last One to Cross the Digital Divide is a Rotten Egg! raises questions regarding the digital divide such as to which extent is the access to and production of information promoted by corporations and the media truly "democratic"?

A year-long new-genre public arts project featuring Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Crítica AKA René García, John Leaños, and Praba Pilar. The project consisted of an installation in the gallery, three digital murals and performances.

"Everyday Passions" presented recent works by major Chicana artist, Ester Hernandez, who has been associated with both San Francisco's Mission District and the Galería since the 1970s.

In collaboration with La Peña Cultural Center, Elia Arce led a cast of emerging artists in a multi-media performance focusing on the issue of Latino immigrant relations to family, society and each other. Participants: Paul Flores, Alma García, Leticia Hernandez, Anna Herrera, Melissa Lozano, Marc Pinate, Gigi Otalvaro, Jime Salcedo, Pablo Rodríguez, and Isaías Rodríguez.

Curated by Carolina Ponce de León, Photographic Memory focused on the way photos reinforce, distort, create and dissolve memory. It featured photography, video, and computer-mediated art by 14 artists from the Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego and from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Uruguay.

Appropriating Seurat's masterpiece, Chicano artists Robert J. Sanchez and Richard A. Lou, AKA Los Anthropolocos transpose the politics of identity and race.

An evening of performances by students participating in Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's performance class at the San Francisco Art Institute.

An exhibition of vintage posters from Galería's archives presentig works created by Ralph Maradiaga, Xavier Viramontes, RCAF, Nancy Hom, Louie The Foot Gonzalez, and many others. It was organized by Jaime Cortez.

Elenco by Liliana Porter was the first digital mural in a series titled Pervasive Forces, exploring the theme of globalization and culture. Pervasive Forces featured Latino artists’ investigations of the impact globalization has on the representation of identity, cultural difference, and community.

A ReGeneration exhibition with work by Justino, Eduardo Díaz, Ivan Rubio, Andrea Calderon, Caleb Duarte, Cristianne Dugan-Cuadra, Ana Machado, Erika Hannes, Fernando Marti, Jaime Guerrero, Regina Caudillo, Deanna Scoggin-Torra, Liliana Rodriguez, Pablo Aurelius Manga, Mariana Garibay, Rick Godinez, Juan Carlos Pometta, Shizu Saldamando. Artist talk moderated by Lydia Matthews.

Samoan poet Dan Taulapapa McMullin collaborated with Colombian sound artist Marcos Larsen to create an audio installation that re-told the Samoan story, The Resurrection of Tigilau, by sourcing traditional Samoan narratives, oral histories and contemporary environmental location recordings. Organized by Jaime Cortez.

Aztlán Life Extension Foundation, by Armando Rascón, is a digital mural based on a meta-fiction that offers “an alternative path towards extending life thru the alchemy of spirit and science.”

An exploration of artists’ responses to the manifestations of violence that afflict communities north and south of the US/Mexico border, ranging from entertainment to domestic, political, and institutional violence. Traveled to Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton CA (Nov.1-Dec. 12, 2003). Curated by Carolina Ponce de León.

Somoson featured a series of large-scale photographs and light-boxes by LA-based artist, Patrick “Pato” Hebert. Organized by Jaime Cortez and Carolina Ponce de León.

Patrick Hebert's public artwork, No Haters Here, was part of Galería’s billboard series Pervasive Forces: Private Identities and the Public Sphere. The artist designed the mural as a campaign against hate crimes after conducting a workshop with youth of color examining the rise in hate crimes committed by youth.

Little Balls, by Brazilian artists, Rosângela Rennó, was part of Galería’s digital mural series "Pervasive Forces: Globalization, Private Identities and the Public Sphere." The series was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

A collective collage created by over 150 artists. To create it, Galería used a radically open and non-discriminatory exhibiting system: any artist or poet could bring an art piece addressing their most pressing thoughts about our times and the advent of the US-led war in Iraq. The artist/poet then chose a spot on the wall and added his/her piece to the collective wallscape.

"Border Xicanography," by Armando Rascón, was a a postmodern shrine to the complexities that inform the contemporary border psyche. The hybrid word 'xicanography', a play between Xicano + Iconography, references the forging of new identities in transition as the action of crossing borders and cultures is enacted. Organized by Jaime Cortez and Carolina Ponce de León.

Customize was a public billboard project by San Francisco artist, Julio C. Morales with San Francisco Art Institute student, Rachel Hewlett and Urban Pioneer High School student, Claudio Michelo. It was part of Galería’s digital mural series Pervasive Forces: Globalization, Private Identities and the Public Sphere. The series is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

A ReGeneration Group Exhibition presenting work by Justin De Leon, Lisa Marie Delgadillo, Caleb Duarte, Verónica Duarte, Rick Godinez, Al Hernandez, and Branca Nitzsche. An artist talk hosted by Yolanda Lopez was held on Wed, Sept 3. Organized by the ReGeneration Advisory Board.

Lalo Alcaraz's Run Bush Run brought into public space a cartoon that captured the growing distrust in the White House’s justifications for going to war in Iraq.

Event co-sponsored by Galeria & Modern Times Bookstore featuring Juana Guzman Lisea.

Public Lecture by London-based performance & multi-media artist Franko B and introduction by Guillermo Gomez-Pena at Timken Lecture Hall - California College of the Arts (CCA) - SF Campus.  Co-Sponsored by Galeria de la Raza.

"C_Scape" featured artists whose works explore the (ex)change of cultural information in the context of contemporary urban life. It presents work by Charles Beronio (USA), François Boucher (Colombia), Paco Cao (Spain), Claudia Joskowicz (Bolivia), Carlos Lersundy (Colombia), and Mario Ybarra Jr. (USA). Curated by Deborah Cullen (Museo del Barrio, NYC) and Carolina Ponce de León.

Spoken-word poetas Leticia Hernández and Tomás Riley have gathered an amazing group of talent for the evening of musíca, poesía, love and despecho. Experimental cello player, Diana Nucera and guest Dj, Darren De Leon – The Aztec Parrot will join poets:Melissa Lozano, Tina Bartolomé, Elz Desmangles, Jime Salcedo-Malo, Cathy Arellano, members of Los Delicados, Mad-Mex Gomez-Peña and more.

Nueva Flora, is part of an ongoing project by Colombian artist María Elvira Escallón, which consists of interventions done directly to native trees in Colombian forests.

A night of soundscapes produced from electronic, acoustic and homemade instruments as well as field recordings and samples of sound designs. TRANSIENT is comprised of composer, sound designer, musician David Molina and electronic musician, sound artist, instrument builder Garret Lafever. Together they create soundscapes and music from electronic, acoustic, and homemade instruments; amplified or prerecorded miniature objects; field recordings, and samples of sound designs and music Molina has done for theatre, dance and film. The music ranges from minimal, dense, ambient, meditative, bliss out washes of sound; to dark, disturbing, depressing, harsh, nightmarish, yet beautiful, imaginary landscapes.

Featuring: David Molina, Garret La Fever, Trip Tech, Juan Carlos Mendizabal and Ricardo Flores.