Marcus Xavier Chormicle

On view starting tonight at @thehoodnewmexico Opening reception 6-9pm This ongoing photo study examines the relationship between people and Land specifically in the communities of Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. These rock walls are inescapable here, and are especially prominent in the newly developed suburban neighborhoods. The rocks, extracted from quarries in the Organ and Franklin Mountains are arranged in a maze across the cities. Weaving superficial boundaries across the Land. The self portraits, are taken as part of a daily walking practice. Photographed on a smart phone to maintain the ordinariness of the scene, and to assert the everyday experience of people in these places into the fine art canon. The photographs serve as abstractions of both the Land, through its transformation into the walls and the figure through its representation only as a shadow. The subject matter is further abstracted through the act of photography and then reworked into a wall of its own, putting on display the multitudes of people living in relation to the Land in both its natural and its altered state. Highlighting the authentic relationship within the artificial environment.

Say Uncle Opening today! 4-6pm (link to precise location in Chormicle’s bio) Marcus Xavier Chormicle @chormicle & Michael Dean Chormicle With special guests: Homeland @_homeland_____ Séc-he (“palm springs, ca”) You are invited to join us for the opening reception of an independent installation from Marcus Xavier Chormicle and Michael Dean Chormicle. Together, the nephew and uncle pair has been making photographs in their ancestral homeland on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation since 2021. Walking in the same places their ancestors and relatives have walked since time immemorial. The exhibition will be held outdoors, on the allotment of Michael Dean Chormicle as an expression of sovereignty. All are welcome to attend the exhibition, and are invited to reflect on the legacy of image making, public sculpture, and expressions of Indigenous Sovereignty in Séc-he and the surrounding Indian homelands known today as “palm springs” and the “coachella valley.”

I am deeply honored and humbled to announce that I am one of 15 of the 2025 US Latinx Art Forum @uslaforum Fellows. I am still wrapping my head around being included among the list of incredible artists who have received this distinction, this year and in past years. I’ve worked hard to make the most meaningful work for myself, my family and the people around me from my hometown in Cruces, our neighboring community of El Paso, my birth place of Tucson, to my ancestral homeland in Séc-he, and the places nearby and in between. This opportunity is going to allow me to really dig in and double down on my work. Grateful, blessed and fortunate are words that don’t begin to express how I feel right now. Thank you to the people who nominated me and the jurors who selected me, and the people around me who have shown me constant support. Your belief in me means everything. 🤎🌞🪶 The 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows are: Francheska Alcántara @francheskaalcantarastudio Richmond, VA / The Bronx, NY Santa C. Barraza Kingsville, TX Barbara Carrasco @barbara.carrasco.98 Los Angeles, CA Marie Romero Cash @mccash_ Santa Fe, NM Marcus Xavier Chormicle @chormicle Las Cruces, NM Yanira Collado @yanira_collado North Miami, FL David Antonio Cruz @cruz_art New York, NY Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez @nancyfriedemannsanchez Lincoln, NE Frances Gallardo @_frances_gallardo_ Ithaca, NY Angel Lartigue @sub_scientist New York, NY Tony Cruz Pabón @tony_cruz_pabon San Juan, PR Yelaine Rodriguez @yelaineartspace Bronx, NY Shizu Saldamando Los Angeles, CA Nitza Tufiño @nitzatufino South Orange, NJ Kathy Vargas San Antonio, TX

So excited to be in conversation tomorrow night with @claireawarden and @mrdadmirzaie at the @phxart moderated by Muscle Memory curator @emilia.mickevicius It’s been such an honor to be in this exhibition! Tomorrow night is the pay what you want at the museum so if you’re in the area I hope you can make it 🌞

The Light Went Out 2 Channel Video, 2026, WIP I’m excited to be sharing the progress I’ve made on this video alongside some friends this Thursday in Tucson. If you’re around come thru 🌞

New work on view at @presahousegallery in San Antonio. The Lincoln Torreon, the only remaining one in Southern New Mexico, photographed from 4 perspectives, and the Lincoln Torreon replica at the Lincoln Pageant Grounds photographed from 1 perspective. The perpetuation and flattening of New Mexican colonial history.

New work on view at @presahousegallery These photographs respond to an archive of photographs that include images of my maternal grandfather participating in the Chaparral Gunfighters, a troop of actors who traveled the SW reenacting the historic violence of the Wild West. I assume postures that may have been taking by him as well as my paternal grandfather who was shot by police in Las Cruces and died as a result in the 70s. My performance captures me in free fall alongside my grandfather’s. I play out their deaths, both real and performed. Thank you Samantha Vo-Limón @samantha__vo and Corbin Rouette @corbinrouette for assisting me in the production of this work 🤎🌞

Already been a couple weeks since my trip to San Antonio for the opening of my solo show “Man Down” at Presa House @presahousegallery alongside a solo from Raul Rodriguez @witofrito both on view until April 18 Times flying, it’s been a busy ass semester, but I had such a great time in Texas! Thank you to the Presa crew for the chance to share this work. I’ll be sharing more soon!

New work on view at Presa House @presahousegallery in San Antonio. They will send your sons to kill and die in their name. Risographs made from an archive of my grandfather’s time in the Chaparral Gunfighters, a troop of actors who performed across the Southwest. My grandpa Hoyt, was a bronc rider, construction worker and a soldier drafted into the Vietnam war despite being enrolled at NMSU in the horticulture program. After being forced to participate in the state sponsored violence in Vietnam he returned to the desert and repeatedly performed his own death against the backdrop of colonial violence of the SW. I project a catharsis onto this act. During this time he met my grandmother and raised her children, including my mother. My paternal grandfather, Donny, an Agua Caliente Cahuilla man, was killed by the police in NM during this same time. In these work I isolate the violent act that defined the lives of both my grandfathers, both good, honest and humble men, trapped in the US’ system of violence.

Quick little walk thru of my exhibition “Man Down” at Presa House @presahousegallery It opened last night alongside “Roots of Amnesia” From Raul Rodriguez @witofrito I’ll definitely be sharing more of the work on here soon! Thank you to my family, friends and everyone who came out last night to make it a special one! Thank you to the Presa House crew for making it possible! And thank you to the folks at El Paso Frame Co for making the presentation of the work so clean!

New work for my upcoming exhibition “Man Down” opening at @presahousegallery tonight in San Antonio, 7-11pm, alongside “Roots in Our Memory” by Raul Rodriguez @witofrito These exhibitions bring together Marcus Xavier Chormicle and Raul Rodriguez, two artists who expand photography beyond documentation, using it to excavate memory across the borderlands of the Southwest. Rooted in personal archive and regional history, their practices examine how images carry the weight of family lineage, labor, migration, and inherited narratives. Moving between documentary impulse and material intervention, both artists position the photograph as more than a record; it becomes a site where private memory and public history converge. For this exhibition I’ve made new photographs alongside interventions in an archive of photographs of the Chaparral Gunfighters, including my grandfather. Chaparral Gunfighter 6, Risograph Print, Edition of 3

From my ongoing project “Say Uncle”, made with my uncle in our ancestral homeland.