UC Berkeley Art Practice
Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley

Xandra Ibarra

Mores McWreath

Full Adjunct Professor

Email: mcwreath@berkeley.edu

Website: moresmcwreath.com

Instagram: @moresmcwreath

Office: Anthropology and Art Practice building 226

Office hours: by appointment

Bio:

Mores McWreath received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. Recent solo and two person exhibitions/commissions include the New Museum, CUE Art Foundation, and M+B Gallery. Select group shows include The Kitchen, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Walker Art Center, Art in General, Soloway Gallery, ar/ge kunst Bolzano, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program. His videos have been screened in festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, Taiwan International Video Exhibition, Fonlad Portugal, Videomedeja Serbia, Crosstalk Budapest, 700IS Iceland, and the Jakarta International Video Festival. He taught video art classes at The Cooper Union for thirteen years.

Classes Taught:

ART 26 Moving Image: Foundations

ART 171 Video Projects

FILM 85 Introduction to Moving Image Production

Photo of Xandra Ibarra

Xandra Ibarra

Email: xandraibarra@berkeley.edu
Website: www.xandraibarra.com
Office Hours: By appointment only, and on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4pm-5pm

Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects.

Ibarra’s work has been featured at The Broad Museum (LA), ExTeresa Arte Actual (DF, Mexico), The Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), ONE Archives (LA) and Anderson Collection (Stanford) to name a few.  She has received the Creative Capital Award, the Queer Art Prize for Recent Work, the Art Matters Grant, the Eisner Film and Video Prize, The Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship, The Eureka Fellowship, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award among others. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic, Art in America, ArtNews and in various academic journals and books nationally and internationally. 

As a community organizer, Ibarra’s work is located within feminist anti-rape and prison abolitionist movements. Since 2003, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE! and Survived and Punished, both national feminist of color organizations dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. As a lecturer, Ibarra has taught Ethnic Studies, Sexuality Studies, Art Practice/Studio and History and Theory of Contemporary Art courses at various Universities. Past adjunct and part-time teaching posts have included: Stanford University, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and California College of the Arts.  Ibarra holds an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University and attended the Post-Colonial Studies program held at the Universidat Rovira | Virgili (Spain). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Courses Taught:
ART 14 Sculpture Foundations