Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art

Teddy Sandoval's queer and Chicane artistic practice exploring gender, sexuality, and identity through photography, collage, and performance from the 1970s–1990s.

Why go

A major retrospective of a historically underrecognized Los Angeles-based artist whose work engaged queer and diasporic artistic communities across the Americas; the exhibition expands beyond a single-artist survey to place Sandoval in dialogue with a multigenerational group of Latine and Latin American artists sharing related visual languages and

What to expect

Spanning photography, painting, drawing, collage, conceptual art, and performance, the exhibition features works from Sandoval's career alongside pieces by Yolanda Andrade, Félix Ángel, Myrna Báez, Ester Hernández, Hudinilson Jr., Marisol, Marta Minujín, Joey Terrill, Martin Wong, and others, organized around the conceptual framework of the fiction

Things to know

• Teddy Sandoval lived 1949–1995 and was based in Los Angeles's queer and Chicane artistic communities.
• The exhibition takes its title from Butch Gardens, a gay bar in Los Angeles frequented by Sandoval and fellow Chicane patrons in the early 1
• Curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz; organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) in partnership with Williams Coll
• El Museo del Barrio is the only New York City venue to host this traveling retrospective.
• Presentation overseen by Lee Sessions, El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collections Associate Curator.
• The exhibition runs September 10, 2026 – January 10, 2027.

Plan your visit

Las Galerías open Thursday–Sunday, 11am–5pm. Closed Monday–Wednesday. General admission and ticket information available at elmuseo.org/visit/plan-your-visit.