Installation view, Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding. Courtesy Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Cocktails con Celia! celebrates the artist’s solo show Breaking the Binding, opening officially on June 5 at the Philbrook Museum of Art. On May 31, guests will be treated to cocktails and a private exhibition tour with the artist and Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.

This event includes a book signing and access to grand Member opening. Copies of Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding are available for purchase at the Museum and online.

Please note that space is limited, so RSVP here.

About the exhibition

Spanning forty years, Breaking the Binding is the first career retrospective of Conceptual artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz (b. 1937, El Paso, TX). Featuring over thirty-five artworks—including large-scale immersive installations, photographic series, and book projects—this major exhibition highlights the artist’s playful, witty style, often characterized by her use of storytelling, and of bilingual puns and mistranslations in both text and image. Muñoz often draws inspiration from her lived experience as a resident of the United States-Mexico borderlands. Learn more here.

Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding

Artwork by Celia Álvarez Muñoz
Essays by Kate Green, Isabel Casso, and Josh Franco
Conversation with Celia Álvarez Muñoz and Roberto Tejada

Hardcover Z-binding in a slipcase
9.5 x 12 inches
224 pages / 90 images

Copies of Breaking the Binding will be available for purchase at the Museum.