The first Border Biennial, a joint exhibition hosted by the El Paso Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, was held in 2008, and until its fifth iteration in 2016 it didn’t carry any particular theme. Border artists were free to follow their fancies in representing the region and its residents, culture, and environment. But since Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, which at its inception placed the U.S.-Mexico border at the center of American politics, the biennial’s curators have encouraged artists—all of whom reside in the border region or hail from it—to submit work that considers the political questions and anxieties that the border provokes. That ongoing project was interrupted by the pandemic, which led to the twenty-month closure of the…
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