Xandra Ibarra

Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to explore abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racial, gender, and queer subject. Her work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Broad Museum (LA, USA), ExTeresa Arte Actual (DF, Mexico), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. Since 2003, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE!, a national feminist of color organization dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. 

 
 

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

 
 
 

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ass Tassel Series, 2018-2020. Photography. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ya Estuvo, 2016. Detail from video loop, Color, Sound; 1:03 Minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ya Estuvo, 2016. Detail from video loop, Color, Sound; 1:03 Minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

 
Xandra Ibarra, Ya Estuvo, 2016. Video loop, Color, Sound; 1:03 Minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Ya Estuvo, 2016. Video loop, Color, Sound; 1:03 Minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Xandra Ibarra, Lady Parts, 2019. Trailer fender, mud flap, hair, cosmetic paints, rhinestones, patent leather, buckram, reflection cloth, thimbles, and metal rings; Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Lady Parts, 2019. Trailer fender, mud flap, hair, cosmetic paints, rhinestones, patent leather, buckram, reflection cloth, thimbles, and metal rings; Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

Xandra Ibarra, Lady Parts, 2019. Trailer fender, mud flap, hair, cosmetic paints, rhinestones, patent leather, buckram, reflection cloth, thimbles, and metal rings; Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.