The exhibition catalog for Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art has garnered two additional accolades as a top publication for 2025. The catalog was co-edited by Art History Professor C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz and co-published by Independent Curators International (ICI), Inventory Press, the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, and the Williams College Museum of Art.
The catalog was shortlisted for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association (CAA). Named for the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art and a scholar of early-20th-century painting, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award is presented to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalog in the history of art, published in English by a museum, library or collection. The winner will be announced Feb. 18, during Convocation at the CAA 114th Annual Conference in Chicago.
Artforum named the catalog as one of the best publications of 2025. In the review, Artforum said, “Taking inspiration from Sandoval’s distributed practice of mail art, the book calls forth a chosen family of addressees by telling a history that is both meticulous and speculative.”
The exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is the first museum retrospective dedicated to the inventive though overlooked artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995). A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in both U.S. and international avant-garde movements. This expansive survey assembles works by the artist across many media, with particular attention on his printmaking, drawings, mail art and xerography.
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is on view at The Contemporary Austin through Jan. 11.