Marcus Xavier Chormicle

Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Our Carcass, 2020
Paper Size: 10x14 inches
Edition of 20
Inkjet print produced by Light Work and signed by the artist.

My practice is founded in documentary photography and is an enduring attempt at understanding my own grief through broader topics of the legacy of colonial violence in the Southwest, generational cycles, Indigenous perceptions of place, exhibitionalism, and familial and photographic legacy.

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Marcus Xavier Chormicle is a lens-based artist and independent curator from Las Cruces, New Mexico and lineal descendant of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. His work focuses on family, memory, and the intersection of class, race, and history in the Southwest.

He recently closed the Cristian Anthony Vallejo Memorial Gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico, an art space dedicated to his late little cousin who passed away of a drug overdose in 2020. During the two year run at the gallery he curated 15 exhibitions of primarily Indigenous and Latinx artists, with exhibitions focusing on generational cycles, issues of migration, spirituality, and Indigenous ways of expressing place.

In 2023 he completed the Light Work Artist in Residency Program in Syracuse, New York, and in 2024 he completed the New Mexico Arts Fellowship and residency in Lincoln New Mexico.

In 2024 he held his first museum solo exhibition at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas El Paso.

In 2025 he held an independent exhibition on his ancestral homeland on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in response to the Desert X Bienniel. Additionally he received the US Latinx Arts Forum Artist Fellowship and was accepted to the University of Arizona Photography, Video and Imaging MFA program. In August he will hold a solo exhibition at Smoke The Moon Gallery in Santa Fe during Indian Market.

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