In January 2026, the installation brings Muñoz and Posada’s intertwined practices into dialogue to explore the railroad as subject matter and its connection to culture, language, and borders

Fort Worth, TX, October 9, 2025 — The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) today announced that it will present conceptual and multimedia artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s installation El Límite (the boundary or limit) as the next exhibition in the Museum’s first-floor Sloping Gallery—the space linking the Carter’s original 1961 building and its 2001 expansion. Based in Texas, Muñoz is celebrated for her work that addresses the dichotomies of the Mexican American experience through photography, works on paper, and various multimedia. Celia Álvarez Muñoz: El Límite will be on view from January 17, 2026, through October 18, 2026.

In El Límite, Muñoz explores the railroad and its role in the connection and division of countries, traditions, cultures, and languages. Originally exhibited in 1991 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Muñoz’s installation at the Carter will be augmented by direct references to and works by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, whose practice Muñoz first encountered at the Carter in his 1980 solo exhibition. Posada’s Mexico, which was co-organized by the Carter, exposed Muñoz to the woodcut aesthetic of the iconic Mexican printmaker’s work and his interest in daily life and the railroad as subject matter, all of which deeply impacted the original conception of El Límite and the rest of Muñoz’s practice.

“The Carter’s presentation of El Límite marks a special homecoming of Muñoz’s installation to a profound point in her life that catalyzed the rest of her artistic career,” said Andrew Eschelbacher, Director of Collections & Exhibitions. “By bringing these two artists’ interconnected practices together, audiences can draw parallels between Muñoz’s and Posada’s nuanced explorations of the railroad’s disruptiveness and connectivity. Our Sloping Gallery—a space that physically bridges the eras of our Museum—provides a symbolic setting to present these two different generations of artistic output.”

Anchoring the installation will be two large-scale photographs by Muñoz depicting a train formed with empty cans filled with mundane materials, both printed on felt and mounted on bright yellow walls. The images draw inspiration from the toy trains with which Muñoz’s father played while growing up on the US-Mexico border and also feature train-related stories in Spanish and English text directly on the works. Throughout the rest of the installation, satellite images painted in the gallery reflect the railroad’s role in facilitating the Mexican Revolution and as an industrial intervention into rural communities.

Several Posada relief prints from the Carter’s collection will complement the installation, allowing audiences to trace the direct references in form and style that Muñoz emits in her work. Visitors can also compare and contrast Posada’s depictions of various Mexican subcultures, customs, and symbols with that of Muñoz in each of the works.

With Celia Álvarez Muñoz: El Límite, Muñoz joins an esteemed list of artists who have presented site-specific installations in the first-floor gallery space as part of the Carter’s commissioning initiative, which has featured works from Jean Shin (2024-25), Leonardo Drew (2023-24), Stephanie Syjuco (2021-22), Natasha Bowdoin (2020-21), and Justin Favela (2019-20). The “Sloping Gallery” initiative, which began in 2019 as a means of reimagining the corridor joining the Carter’s two buildings, provides a venue for the curatorial team to spotlight the work of living artists. While connecting physical spaces, the gallery also bridges past and present, ushering in new work by today’s artists who find inspiration in the American artistic tradition.

Celia Álvarez Muñoz: El Límite is organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The exhibition is supported by The David H. Gibson Foundation.

Image credit: Installation view, Celia Álvarez Muñoz: El Límite, MCASD, February 16–June 2, 1991.

About Celia Álvarez Muñoz

Celia Álvarez Muñoz is a conceptual multimedia Texas artist known for her diverse works including, Artist's Books, Photography, Installation, and Public Art. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards in Photography and New Genres; CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Recognition Award; Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts by Women's Caucus for Art; The Outstanding Centennial Alumnus by University of North Texas College of Arts and Sciences; and many others. Her work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and included in the Whitney Museum of American Art 1991 Biennial. Her work is in numerous private and public special collections of major museums, universities and corporations. The book, Celia Alvarez Munoz, by writer/poet Roberto Tejada, is available via Amazon books. Latest cataloged exhibition, "Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985," International tour, 2015-2018. Books; Art and Politics Now; Cultural Activism, by Susan Noyes Platt, 2011 Shooting from the Wild Side: A study of Chicana Art Photographers, by Asta M. Kuusinen, 2006. Art of the Found Object: Texas Artists by Robert James Craig, Texas A&M University Press 2017. Icons and Symbols of the Borderlands, by Diana Molina of Juntos Art 2020. Obras, Art League Houston, Cattywampus Press, for Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. U.S. Latinx Art Forum Fellowship, 2021. Texas on the Arts Commission State 2D Artist 2022. 22-24 Celia Alvarez Retrospective (Best of Design catalog), MOCASD, NMSUMUSEUM, and Philbrook Museum. 2024 “Los Brillantes,” Acquisition exhibit, Ruby City Museum, San Antonio TX, MFAH Hirsch Library. Talk with Roberto J. Tejada “Artist & the Book,” 2025 “Es Hora” Initiating group exhibit, MACC, El Paso TX, “Apothecary” Solo, Tureen Gallery, Dallas TX.

About the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Located in the heart of Fort Worth’s Cultural District, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) is a dynamic cultural resource that provides unique access and insight into the history and future of American creativity through its expansive exhibitions and programming. The Carter’s preeminent collection includes masterworks by legendary American artists such as Ruth Asawa, Alexander Calder, Frederic Church, Stuart Davis, Robert Duncanson, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, and John Singer Sargent, as well as one of the country’s foremost repositories of American photography. In addition to its innovative exhibition program and engagement with artists working today, the Museum’s premier primary research collection and leading conservation program make it a must-see destination for art lovers and scholars of all ages nationwide. Admission is always free. To learn more about the Carter, visit cartermuseum.org.