Culled from the museum’s permanent collection, “Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration” explores the complexities of migration and the factors that drive human, plant, animal and metaphysical movements across time and space. It is an invitation to ask: what if we grew up learning that migration was part of the natural order of our world? What if we understood that people, flora, and fauna migrate, settle, collaborate, and co-create new, more resilient communities and ecosystems? What if we knew that movements among species are an ancient phenomenon?
The exhibition explores various topics, including forced migration and diaspora, trade and commerce, nature and ecosystems in collaboration, and cultural identity informed by these ambulations, including concepts of resilience and survivance like chosen families and hybridity. The presentation, punctuated by loans from the Art Bridges Foundation Collection and the Gochman Foundation Collection, offers a unique opportunity to delve into the themes of migration and expanded territories through the museum’s permanent holdings, offering a rare chance to migrate permanent collections around the country.
“Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration” is organized by ASU Art Museum Senior Curator Alana Hernandez, with ASU Art Museum Curator Brittany Corrales, ASU Art Museum Windgate Curatorial Fellow Sade Moore, and ASU Art Museum Latinx Curatorial Fellow Natalie Solis, and made possible by generous funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional funding provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Windgate Charitable Foundation, and the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with a Community of Practice composed of Ileana Salinas, Cultiva Program Manager at Aliento; Giselle Valadez Godinez, Program & Development Coordinator at Phoenix Legal Action Network (PLAN); and Almalía Berríos-Payton, BS in Anthropology and Strategic Communications, Descended from Lenca and Pipil of El Salvador.
Installation Shots
Installation view of “Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration.” ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, Aug 23, 2025–Aug 2, 2026. Photograph courtesy of ASU Art Museum © Diego Lozano
Artworks in this exhibit
Tea Time (from 'Rise' series) is in the Gochman Collection in New York City and is on loan for Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration.
