“Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection”

The Laband Art Gallery proudly presents its Fall 2025 exhibition “Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection” on view from Sept. 25 to Dec. 6, 2025. Exhibited during National Hispanic Heritage Month, this expansive show presents a selection of nearly 50 Chicanx artists who have called Southern California their home. “Seeing Chicanx” is curated by Karen Mary Davalos, a leading scholar of Chicana/o/x art history, and drawn from the private collection of Armando and Mary Salinas Durón. The exhibition offers a multi-faceted portrayal of the Los Angeles region’s Chicanx art scene from the 1970s to present day. Davalos has selected close to 50 works from the Durón collection — that, to date, comprises more than 700 pieces — to encapsulate the cultural, social, and artistic ripple effects of the historic Chicano Movement (1965-80).

Originally exhibited at Monterey Museum of Art in spring 2024, this traveling exhibition highlights key contemporary works from the collection to provide a visual history of the Chicanx community’s creative vitality in California.

Public Programming:

Curator’s Walkthrough with Karen Mary Davalos
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025 Noon to 1 p.m., Laband Art Gallery

Opening Reception
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, from 1 to 3 p.m., Laband Art Gallery

Gallery Conversation with Armando Durón & Max Durón
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, 1 p.m., Laband Art Gallery
Join Armando Durón and his son Maximiliano Durón, senior editor of ARTnews, in their first public discussion about the Durón Family Collection

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Photo credit: Roberto Gutierrez (b. 1943), “Trees on Lorena Street,” 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 in. The Durón Family Collection, Copyright held by the artist.