Centro Exhibitions
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Inside Centro Cultural De La Raza!
Video displays a walk around video tour of Centro’s gallery during the Roberto R Pozos Solo exhibition in 2024
The Centro offers a gallery space for emerging and experienced artists to showcase their work to the San Diego / Tijuana Region and international visitors. Our volunteer curators bring diverse artistic visions to life. We feature exciting new exhibits and recurring ones, such as Day of the Dead and Enero Zapatista. Each exhibit opens with a reception where you can meet the artists, enjoy live entertainment, purchase artwork, and support local talent. Most exhibits are free, donation-based, or offered on a sliding scale.
EXHIBIT on view
Exhibit January 9th trough February 12th
The Enero Zapatista Coordinating Committee warmly invites you to the 22nd Annual Enero Zapatista:
El Común Zapatista in the Face of the Storm: An Encounter of Resistances and Rebellions Against Fascism.
upcoming exhibit
Rage is a collective force—born from memory, shaped by harm, and ignited by injustice. This exhibition brings together voices that understand rabia not as something to be silenced, but as a mobilizing power rooted in anti-imperialist feminist struggle. As history has shown, systems of imperialism, militarization, policing, and border enforcement are inseparable from sexism, racism, and class exploitation—impacting women and queer communities most deeply, at home and abroad. This exhibition is a collective expression of rebeldía and remembrance, resisting erasure and calling for the dismantling of oppressive systems. Our rage is justified. We refuse silence. Ni perdón, ni olvido.
Exhibition Opening: March 14 — Save the Date
PREVIOUS Exhibits
Enero Zapatista
Enero Zapatista is a month-long series of politically and culturally conscious events on unceded Kumeyaay land that commemorate the uprising of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)/Zapatista Army of National Liberation, better known as the Zapatistas, in January 1994. For 21 years, San Diego has held Enero events every January, with over 10 years of hosting a closing concert and art exhibit at the Centro Cultural as part of the month’s activities.
This past January’s exhibit was titled We Teach Life: Towards Other Geographies and Calendars, which was itself the third part in our four-part series Borderlands Visions
Roberto R. Pozos
Solo Exhibition
The Roberto R. Pozos Solo Exhibit featured the works of longtime border resident and artist, Roberto R. Pozos. Pozos, originally from Calexico, really captures the essence of life on the U.S./Mexico border. From individual portraits of fronterizas/os to realistic landscapes depicting the trials and tribulations, the angst and the joy of life en la Frontera, Pozos’ solo show brought much life, laughter and joy to the Centro Cultural de la Raza.
Indigenous BorderLands
Borderlands Visions III
Indigenous Borderlands: Weaving Nepantla, Remembering Sacred Relations at Centro Cultural de la Raza! This exhibition weaves together the connections, community, and history shared by Indigenous peoples, challenging conventional norms to create a space of healing, reflection, and unity.
It is an attempt to situate the historic connection that Chicano Mexicanos have had with our land bases, but also as a tribalized community, acknowledging that we are also on unceded Indigenous Kumeyaay territory. We’ve, historically, always had important political, cultural, sacred, and historical connections to Indigenous peoples of this area.