RESISTING THE LONG WAR: Shifting Horizons
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On view through Sunday, April 18th
Shifting Horizons brings together artists whose practices confront the border as one of the long war’s most enduring technologies. From the US–Mexico border wall to Israeli occupation, from Indigenous land struggles to the policing of refugees and migrants worldwide, the exhibition examines how borders operate not simply as geographic boundaries, but as militarized systems that organize movement, belonging, dispossession, and death.
Through weaving, film, performance, installation, and visual art, the artists trace how migration is forced, surveilled, inherited, remembered, and resisted. Their works engage familial histories of displacement, land-based memory, refugee experience, colonial partition, and acts of return and reconnection. Together, they reveal how war reverberates across generations, landscapes, and intimate life, while also locating borderlands as sites of creative insurgency.
Against inherited divisions and militarized geographies, Shifting Horizons imagines other forms of relation: to land, kinship, memory, and freedom. The exhibition asks what becomes possible when artists refuse the horizons imposed by walls, checkpoints, prisons, and occupation. In their place, these works offer practices of dignity, care, movement, and belonging that insist on life beyond the violence of borders.
Shifting Horizons is one of the featured exhibitions of RESISTING THE LONG WAR, the 2026 Veteran Art Triennial. Each exhibition offers a distinct curatorial frame on artists’ creative defiance to war and militarism. Together, the Triennial’s exhibitions uplift overlapping legacies of resistance, presenting alternative visions of peace, healing, and justice generated by diverse communities impacted by war. Additional Triennial exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Elmhurst Art Museum, and Walls Turned Sideways. Exhibition receptions and keynote programs are during the Veteran Art Summit, November 5–8, 2026.
Featured Artists and Contributors
Linda Abdullah, Venancio Aragón (Diné), Carlos Ayala, Cog•nate Collective, Armando De la Torre, Hamada Elkept, Darrell W. Fair, Rafael Fajardo, Eric J. Garcia, Fanny Garcia, Ash Kyrie, Hanaa Malallah, Charles McLaurin, Dylan Miner (Métis Nation of Ontario), Wade Patton (Oglala Lakota), Amanda Raquel Dorval (Nuyorican-Dominican), Gil Rocha and Larissa Sansour.
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