Community Portraits and Exhibition Tour with Star Montana
Saturday, August 8, 2026, 11–2 PM
No RSVP needed
Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Entrance Hall, El Cubo
P.º de los Héroes 9350, Zona Urbana Rio Tijuana, 22010 Tijuana, B.C., México
After an exhibition tour of Excavación del presente / A Tender Excavation with LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs, Selene Preciado, artist Star Montana will offer free individual, family, and group portraits for participants’ personal and family archives. Participants will receive a printed photograph on site and an optional digital copy.
This program builds on her previous collaborations including Meet Me at the Park (2024) in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, a photography pop-up event at Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights, which offered free family photography sessions and individual portraits to the community; and Meet Me at the Museum (2025), which took place at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum in Santa Barbara, CA. This new iteration will take place at CECUT in Tijuana as part of LACE’s current exhibition, Excavación del presente / A Tender Excavation, on view until August 30, 2026.
Excavación del presente / A Tender Excavation approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists who work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation. Artists featured in the exhibition include Zeynep Abes, Susu Attar, Jamil G Baldwin, Mely Barragán, Artemisa Clark, Arleene Correa Valencia, Mercedes Dorame, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Leah King, Tarrah Krajnak, Heesoo Kwon, Ann Le, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, and Camille Wong. Learn more about the exhibition here.
About the Artist
Star Montana is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Her work has recently been exhibited at Charlie James Gallery (2019, 2016); Residency Art Gallery (2018); LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (2018); Occidental College (2017); The Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts at the Mexican Consulate General of Mexico (2017); The Main Museum (2017); Ballroom Marfa (2017); and Vincent Price Art Museum (2016). Montana will be an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2020. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and an Associate of Arts in Photography from East Los Angeles College.
