ABOUT THE Work
Live Performance
Asian Art Museum (2014)
Broad Museum (2016)
Plaza de Diego in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016)
Maccarone Gallery, NYC (2016)
Anderson Collection Museum, Stanford, California (2017)
ExTeresa Arte Actual, D.F. Mexico (2019)
Using laughter and her own nude body as material, Ibarra uncovers racial/sexual norms dominant in social relations. Embodying the skein (knots) of race, she negotiates the simultaneous joys and pains of subjection, abjection, and personhood.
(2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Review by Huffington Post
Review by Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Amelia Jones. In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance, Routledge Press, 2020
Ivan Ramos. Breaking Down, Breaking Together: Xandra Ibarra’s Nude Laughing and the Violence of the Encounter in Duke University Press, 2025