Boston Art Review: Fall’s Must-See Museum Shows
Boston University Art Galleries exhibition, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, is included in the lineup of fourteen exhibitions across New England that challenge and invite new ways of seeing
Installation view, Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, “Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There),” Boston University Art Galleries, 2025. Photo by Tim Correira. Courtesy of Boston University Art Galleries.
Boston Art Review: Fall’s Must-See Museum Shows
Boston University Art Galleries exhibition, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, a neo indigenous solo show by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, is included in the lineup of fourteen exhibitions across New England that challenge, unsettle, and invite new ways of seeing
This article was first published in Boston Art Review on September 16, 2025. By BAR Editorial
Excerpt
Summer may have been for detours, but fall welcomes us back into the action with new thresholds a little bit closer to home. Across New England, museums and university galleries are staging encounters with shifting histories and unfamiliar worlds: textiles that expose colonial entanglements, portraits that fracture and reassemble, archives broken open and reclaimed. Roxbury-born Tourmaline returns to Boston with her first institutional show, Fred Wilson fills the Rose Art Museum with abundance, and one hundred years of contemporary Indigenous art will be on view at the ICA / Boston. Together, these fourteen shows mark the season’s most compelling—and unmissable—crossings.
Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There)
September 5–December 10, 2025
Boston University Art Galleries
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
At Boston University’s Stone Gallery, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá is an exhibition that is immersive, bright, layered, and fully alive. Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez blends graffiti, hip-hop, Chicanx aesthetics, and pop culture in ways that feel both muralistic and intimate, but also a bit rebellious. There are works whose graffiti lines spill out past the canvas boundaries and onto the white walls of the gallery. The I.C.E cream truck hits with humor and urgency, while the pop-up botánica quietly holds memory and ritual in candles, flowers, and devotional objects. The work makes presence and displacement tangible, celebrating resilience and identity in ways that are immediate, messy, and unforgettable, without ever feeling like it’s trying too hard. It’s cheeky but not rushed, and it’s this level of care that Marka27 clearly infuses into his work that shines the brightest.
—Emmy Liu
Plan your visit to see Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
Dates, times, photos, media mentions, more on Quiñonez, and a virtual tour can be found on the official exhibition page.