"Images from the Ruins" proposes a post-time, post-Mexican temporality where the ruins and fragments of contemporary culture stand as analogues for the failed promises of Modernism, revolution, and identity.

Raised in Tijuana and San Diego, Alan Luna is a Mexican-American contemporary artist and academic living and working in Southern California. His interdisciplinary practice questions the stability of personal and national identity by examining the migration of humans, objects, and ideas across space and time. Luna received his BA in Visual Arts, Studio and Art History, Theory and Criticism from UC San Diego in 2019, under the mentorship of Ruben Ortiz-Torres and Mariana Wardwell-Razo.