In the Shadow of the Border: an online conversation with artists Monica Lozano, Elizabeth Piñeda, and Griselda San Martin

In the Shadow of the Border: an online conversation with artists Monica Lozano, Elizabeth Piñeda, and Griselda San Martin
February 19, 2026 | Thursday 6pm
Free w/ RSVP

Please join PCNW for an online moderated conversation with contemporary artists Monica Lozano, Elizabeth Piñeda, and Griselda San Martin, all three of whom are featured in the exhibition In the Shadow of the Border, a companion show to our current exhibition Crossings by Susan Meiselas. The conversation will make space to discuss how each of these artists creatively interrogates the complexity of humanity and the physical and political boundaries that separate us.

Participant Bios:

Elizabeth Pineda’s series, “Sin Nombre en Esta Tierra Sagrada” (translates to Nameless in this Sacred Land), honors the thousands who have died in the Arizona borderlands, reflecting on displacement and erasure. Pineda holds an MFA from Arizona State University and is a member of Undoc + Collective. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Phoenix Art Museum, 2024 Arizona Artist Awards.

Griselda San Martin’s video piece filmed in 2016 and titled, The Other Side, documents a now no longer permitted ritual at Friendship Park, where a deported father and his daughter met through the steel mesh dividing them. Griselda San Martín is a Spanish documentary photographer based between New York City and Mexico City. Through long-term, in-depth projects, her work explores issues of immigration, identity, and belonging. San Martín’s photography and video work have been exhibited internationally

Monica Lozano’s series “The Borders” documents the instant when the notion of “home” is lost and people invisibly cross into an uncertain world where survival becomes their only option. Lozano is a Mexican-American photographer born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in the sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. With over two decades of photographic documentation, her work delves deeply into the migrant experience across global borders.

Image credits: L, top-bottom: Elizabeth Pineda, Griselda San Martin, R: Monica Lozano