biennial

Name: Artist Talk | Guillermo Estrada & Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Start: 2026-01-10T15:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-10T17:00:00-08:00
Location: MXCL BNL LAB

May 2025
May 31, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - July 5, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Adrián Pereda Vidal | Sonic Meditations: Synthesizing the Supernatural

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

The MexiCali Biennial presents Sonic Meditations: Synthesizing the Supernatural, Adrián Pereda Vidal’s ephemeral sound exhibition at the MXCL BNL LAB for the PARA/normal Borders program. The artist has created three distinct soundworks which will play simultaneously to inhabit the LAB. The installation invites visitors to immerse themselves in a paranormal state of contemplation as they […]
June 2025
June 26, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys | Alejandro Espinoza

Arista 1701 Colonia Nueva, Mexicali, Baja, Mexico

This is not a homage. A Mini-Epic Tale of Alien Assault: Yízus the man and the Kiosko Boys by Alejandro Espinoza is a conversation and virtual walk through both current and vanished sites featured in the narrative journey of the novel Yízus the Man y los Kiosko Boys, with the aim of creating a memory-based map […]
July 2025
July 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - August 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

María José Crespo: Screen Memories

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

Screen Memories, a solo exhibition by María José Crespo, is an immersive, research-driven installation that explores Tijuana as a haunted city saturated with sensorial excess, systemic violence, and poetic resonance. This project proposes a counter-infrastructure through a speculative data center where ghosts, understood as social figures, lead us into fractured temporalities and hidden memory circuits. […]
September 2025
September 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

PARA/normal Borders Supper Club 3: Asada/Transborder Aesthetics – Part II

This event is at capacity. If you RSVP'd but have not received directions/information, please email info@mexicalibiennial.org. Thank you. The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club continues by bringing a traditional Mexicali-style asada with an extra-terrestrial twist as imagined by Colectivo Bajaghost and Bibiana Padilla Maltos. Asada/Transborder Aesthetics - Part II will be held at a private residence […]

Free
October 2025
October 3, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Networking + Mixer

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

Please join us on Friday, October 3rd from 6 - 9:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB - Whittier for the second in a series of salons aimed at engaging artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This event invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who […]
December 2025
December 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - January 10, 2026 @ 5:00 pm

Window Installation by Guillermo Estrada and Holiday Hours

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada's current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window "portal" as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders. Please note that […]
January 2026
January 10 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Artist Talk | Guillermo Estrada & Rubén Ortiz-Torres

MXCL BNL LAB 6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA

Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada's current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view […]

May 2025

June 2025

July 2025

September 2025

October 2025

December 2025

January 2026