The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is pleased to present Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance as its Fall 2026 Main Galleries exhibition. Activating Chicana Resistance is adapted from a larger exhibition curated by Josie Lopez, PhD at the Albuquerque Museum in 2026. The exhibition features artworks selected from seven major bodies of work Montoya made from the 1990s through the 2010s For decades, the artist has explored identity, place, community, gender, and political resistance. 

Photographer and printmaker Delilah Montoya (b. 1955) centers the Chicanx community as her subject matter. As a Chicana herself, Montoya has lived through the rise of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s as well as its later transition and growth from the 1980s through today. She has made her art concurrently with the movement. At times she has both embraced it and criticized  it. She has also expanded upon its practices and principles.