Performance in the Garden: Elizabeth Z. Pineda
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | 6:30 pm
Dorrance Sculpture Garden
TICKETS: Free
Join 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Award recipient Elizabeth Z. Pineda for a special performance of Un Libro de Familia, 02.
This “open book” installation brings to light the names recorded in the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner and Humane Borders’ Migrant Death Mapping document. During the performance, Pineda will complete the final pages of the installation, a piece currently on view in the Katz Wing as part of the 2024 Arizona Artist Awards.
This program is presented in collaboration with the Arizona Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting women artists and broadening the NMWA’s global reach. Pineda was recently selected as the Arizona nominee for the NMWA’s Women to Watch 2027.
About the Artist
Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is a photographic emerging artist whose work explores complex issues regarding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths in the Arizona desert. Her practice is deeply rooted in handmaking and utilizes historic and non-traditional photographic, printmaking, papermaking, and book-art processes to speak visually of community and culture.
Pineda holds an MFA in Photography from Arizona State University and is a member of the Undoc + Collective. Her work has been recognized with the Pat Mutterer award at the 2023 Arizona Biennial (Tucson Museum of Art) and as the inaugural recipient of the Jay and Susie Tyrrell Excellence in Works By Hand Award. In addition to her current exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum, her work has been shown at the Maltz Museum (Ohio) and published in The Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Black & White Photographic Materials (Focal Press) and The World of Photography 2 (Fotonostrum Publishing).