Julio Cesar Morales
Boy in Suitcase

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Boy in Suitcase
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ArtistAmerican, born Mexico, 1966
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Boy in Suitcase
Date2015
MediumSingle-channel video with sound and mirror
Dimensions3 minutes, 33 seconds
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the 2017 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction
Object number2018.83
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; [Wendi Norris Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Standard Forms," Bard Hessel Museum, New York, April 3–April 24, 2016.

"Home—So Different, So Appealing," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 11–October 15, 2017; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 17, 2017–January 21, 2018.

"Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration," Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building Gallery, Santa Clara University, California, January 8–April 6, 2018.

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