CSRC Library Exhibitions
Rotating exhibitions are on display inside the library and in the vitrine near the front entrance. All exhibitions are free to the public and viewable during regular library hours.
¡Somos Superpoderosxs! Latines in Comics
Fall Quarter 2025
In the library and hallway vitrine
Illustration by Jeaux Janovsky
No matter where one is from in Latin America—from Mexico to Argentina—Latinos across the world share a commonality in finding solace and strength in their history, community, and culture through storytelling. Storytelling connects the past to the present, and through the visual literature of comics, comes alive with both words and images.
The exhibition ¡Somos Superpoderosxs! Latines in Comics celebrates Hispanic and Latine heritage, showcasing the many ways Latine characters, histories, and culture are a part of the comics universe, from stories told about lucha libre, brujeria and spiritualism, homies and lowrider culture, and the Chicano movement, to comics across Latinoamérica that give insight on the humor and culture of specific countries, such as Condorito, which is iconically Chilean, and Mafalda, which captures the Argentinean political climate of the late twentieth century. The exhibition also includes works by renowned Chicano comic creators Javier Hernandez (El Muerto), Rafael Navarro (El Sonámbulo), Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets), J. Gonzo (La Mano del Destino), and Henry Barajas (La Voz de M.A.Y.O.).
¡Somos Superpoderosxs! Latines in Comics draws from the Latinx Comics and Visual Literature Collection at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the private collection of CSRC Librarian Xaviera Flores and animator and cartoonist Jeaux Janovsky.
PAST CSRC Library Exhibitions
Dos Frutas Del Mismo Árbol (February 18 - May 30, 2025)
Latina Lesbian Lineage (September 26 - December 13, 2024)
Be in the Moment: Portraits from L.A. Lowrider, Goth, and Punk Cultures (August 4 - December 8, 2023)
Latina Lesbian Lineage (June - July 2023)
Raices (April-June 2023)
Surrendity (March 2-31, 2023)
Profiles of Activism (October 17, 2019 - March 17, 2020)
Family, Community, Country: The Nell and Phil Soto Story (October 11, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
The 1968 Walkouts: Selections from UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Collections (March 10 - May 11, 2018)
Casos de Justicia: The Los Angeles Street Vendor Movement (February 8 - 23, 2018)
Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Shred Your Worries and Other Destructions (May 30 – December 15, 2017)
Taking to the Streets: Art in Public Space at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (November 17, 2016 – March 24, 2017)
Selections from Star Montana: Tear Drops & Three Dots (August 22 - October 28, 2016)
Selections from Star Montana: Tear Drops & Three Dots (August 22 - October 28, 2016)
Mexican Surf and Turf: Mexicano Cultural Continuity in West Los Angeles through Surfing and Soccer (February 26 - June 10, 2016)
Selections from the Grace Montañez Davis Papers, 1940-1990 (October 13 - December 18, 2015)
Untamed: Cultivating Collaboration in Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (May 15 – June 12, 2015)
Young Workers Rising: Demonstrating a Movement for Better Wages (April 6 - May 1, 2015)
Make 'Em All Mexican: Works by Linda Vallejo (January 12 - March 20, 2015)
That's Entertainment: Dan Guerrero and the Making of a Hollywood Original (October 29 - December 19, 2014)
Embodied Aesthetics: 30 Years of Chicana and Women of Color Printmakers at the Self Help Graphics Atelier (May 7 – June 13, 2014)
You Found Me: Photographs by Christopher Anthony Velasco (January 3 – March 21, 2014)
Sal Castro: Legacy of a Teacher (October 15 - December 13, 2013)
Mujeres in the Movement for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA (May 28 – June 28, 2013)
Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata (April 15 - May 10, 2013)
Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted (February 4 – April 8, 2013)
Alex Donis: Floating World (November 13, 2012 – January 21, 2013)
Dichos: The David Damian Figueroa Collection (September 19 - October 30, 2012)
Mapping Truth: Following the Paper Trail in the Murder of Ruben Salazar (August 20 - September 12, 2012)
La Cocina (April 2 - August 15, 2012)
Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza (February 6 - June 1, 2012)
Gronk: Paper Napkins (January 5 - March 23, 2012)
Chican@s Collect: The Durón Family Collection (September 22 - December 9, 2011)
Rubén Salazar & the Chicano Moratorium (July - August 2011)
LGBT & Mujeres Initiative (May – June 2011)
Cesar E. Chavez (March 31 - April 2011)
CSRC Collection Highlights (March 2011)