Marcus Xavier Chormicle

Marcus Xavier Chormicle Photographer working out of Tempe, Arizona.

Man Down1/8 Risograph prints currently on view at made from an archive of my grandfather’s time in the Chaparral Gunfig...
05/27/2026

Man Down

1/8 Risograph prints currently on view at made from an archive of my grandfather’s time in the Chaparral Gunfighters, a troop of actors who performed across the Southwest. My grandpa Hoyt, was a bronc rider, construction worker and a soldier drafted into the Vietnam war despite being enrolled at NMSU in the horticulture program. After being forced to participate in the state sponsored violence in Vietnam he returned to the desert and repeatedly performed his own death against the backdrop of colonial violence of the SW. I project a catharsis onto this act. During this time he met my grandmother and raised her children, including my mother. My paternal grandfather, Donny, an Agua Caliente Cahuilla man, was killed by the police in NM during this same time. In these work I isolate the violent act that defined the lives of both my grandfathers, both good, honest and humble men, trapped in the US’ system of violence.

So excited to be in conversation tomorrow night with and at the moderated by Muscle Memory curator .mickevicius It’s ...
05/13/2026

So excited to be in conversation tomorrow night with and at the moderated by Muscle Memory curator .mickevicius

It’s been such an honor to be in this exhibition! Tomorrow night is the pay what you want at the museum so if you’re in the area I hope you can make it 🌞

The Light Went Out2 Channel Video, 2026, WIPI’m excited to be sharing the progress I’ve made on this video alongside som...
05/06/2026

The Light Went Out
2 Channel Video, 2026, WIP

I’m excited to be sharing the progress I’ve made on this video alongside some friends this Thursday in Tucson. If you’re around come thru 🌞

New work on view at in San Antonio. The Lincoln Torreon, the only remaining one in Southern New Mexico, photographed fr...
03/28/2026

New work on view at in San Antonio.

The Lincoln Torreon, the only remaining one in Southern New Mexico, photographed from 4 perspectives, and the Lincoln Torreon replica at the Lincoln Pageant Grounds photographed from 1 perspective.

The perpetuation and flattening of New Mexican colonial history.

New work on view at These photographs respond to an archive of photographs that include images of my maternal grandfath...
03/26/2026

New work on view at

These photographs respond to an archive of photographs that include images of my maternal grandfather participating in the Chaparral Gunfighters, a troop of actors who traveled the SW reenacting the historic violence of the Wild West. I assume postures that may have been taking by him as well as my paternal grandfather who was shot by police in Las Cruces and died as a result in the 70s. My performance captures me in free fall alongside my grandfather’s. I play out their deaths, both real and performed.

Thank you Samantha Vo-Limón and Corbin Rouette for assisting me in the production of this work 🤎🌞

New work on view at Presa House in San Antonio. Risographs made from an archive of my grandfather’s time in the Chaparr...
03/18/2026

New work on view at Presa House in San Antonio.

Risographs made from an archive of my grandfather’s time in the Chaparral Gunfighters, a troop of actors who performed across the Southwest. My grandpa Hoyt, was a bronc rider, construction worker and a soldier drafted into the Vietnam war despite being enrolled at NMSU in the horticulture program. After being forced to participate in the state sponsored violence in Vietnam he returned to the desert and repeatedly performed his own death against the backdrop of colonial violence of the SW. I project a catharsis onto this act. During this time he met my grandmother and raised her children, including my mother. My paternal grandfather, Donny, an Agua Caliente Cahuilla man, was killed by the police in NM during this same time. In these work I isolate the violent act that defined the lives of both my grandfathers, both good, honest and humble men by all accounts, trapped in the US’ system of violence.

03/08/2026

Quick little walk thru of my exhibition “Man Down” at Presa House It opened last night alongside “Roots of Amnesia” From Raul Rodriguez

I’ll definitely be sharing more of the work on here soon! Thank you to my family, friends and everyone who came out last night to make it a special one! Thank you to the Presa House crew for making it possible! And thank you to the folks at El Paso Frame Co for making the presentation of the work so clean!

New work for my upcoming exhibition “Man Down” opening at tonight in San Antonio, 7-11pm, alongside “Roots in Our Memor...
03/07/2026

New work for my upcoming exhibition “Man Down” opening at tonight in San Antonio, 7-11pm, alongside “Roots in Our Memory” by Raul Rodriguez

These exhibitions bring together Marcus Xavier Chormicle and Raul Rodriguez, two artists who expand photography beyond documentation, using it to excavate memory across the borderlands of the Southwest. Rooted in personal archive and regional history, their practices examine how images carry the weight of family lineage, labor, migration, and inherited narratives. Moving between documentary impulse and material intervention, both artists position the photograph as more than a record; it becomes a site where private memory and public history converge.

For this exhibition I’ve made new photographs alongside interventions in an archive of photographs of the Chaparral Gunfighters, including my grandfather.

Chaparral Gunfighter 6, Risograph Print, Edition of 3

Excited to be including in “Topographies of Self” a virtual group exhibition through the Griffin Museum of Photography ...
03/02/2026

Excited to be including in “Topographies of Self” a virtual group exhibition through the Griffin Museum of Photography

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The self takes shape through collective geography as much as through fragmented memories and private imaginaries. The exhibition, Topographies of Self, features works from 65 artists examining our multilayered connection to place through photographic portraiture. Selected from over 240 global submissions, the works challenge, intertwine, and even mystify ideas of identity through location. Together, they bring people into close proximity and friction with the cultural codes and personal mythologies that characterize our understanding of (a) place. We stand at a nebulous crossroad. These “portraits of place” suggest an incomplete cartography: an expanse without an end or borders, a map that will be redrawn again and again. We invite you to look at these images not in search of answers or a monolith. Rather, this exhibition is a textured roadmap for navigating a topography of the self that is inherently tectonic, shifting slowly yet with great force across place, time and psyche.

Featuring: Alexander Brauer, Amy Parrish, Angela Rowlings, Aubree Lourdes Guilbault, Aylin Kizil, Bonnie Providence, Brandon Holland, Carter Kim, Caterina Maina, Chelsea Wong, Christopher López, Clair Robins, Connor Archambault, David Tucker II, Ebuka Mordi, Edward Hernandez, Eliza Ollinger, Eric Esteves, Evie Hansford, Huda Abdulmughni, Imoutta, Ishan Jadhav, Jaiya Rose, Jeff Tidwell, Joan Piekny, Joshua Mokry, Julie Pawlowski, Katelynn M. Rogers, Long Xi Vlessing, Lucía Alonso Garrido, Makele White, Malik Fabian-Mahmud, Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Maryam al-Khasawneh, Matt Roberts, Maurice Wolf, Melanee Brown, Michael Young, Naomi Bujdei, Natalia Poniatowska, Niki Stevens, Nina Nelson, Nina Tanujaya, Norfatihah Yusof, Omar Reyna, Paulo Monteiro, Rajesh Dhar, Raquel Trejo, Roger Archibald, Ronald D. Butler, Ruken Delal Yildiz, Sara Swaty, Sean Niu, Shang Salah, Shrvan Mandal, Stephen Clay, Tatiana Bulanova, Tebogo Losaba, Theodore Pasquale, Trần Quỳnh Nhi, Vaibhav Bhardwaj, Victoria Manzoli, Virginia Hine

New work for my upcoming exhibition “Man Down” opening at this Saturday Mar 7 in San Antonio alongside “Roots in Our Me...
03/02/2026

New work for my upcoming exhibition “Man Down” opening at this Saturday Mar 7 in San Antonio alongside “Roots in Our Memory” by Raul Rodriguez

These exhibitions bring together Marcus Xavier Chormicle and Raul Rodriguez, two artists who expand photography beyond documentation, using it to excavate memory across the borderlands of the Southwest. Rooted in personal archive and regional history, their practices examine how images carry the weight of family lineage, labor, migration, and inherited narratives. Moving between documentary impulse and material intervention, both artists position the photograph as more than a record; it becomes a site where private memory and public history converge.

For this exhibition I’ve made new photographs alongside interventions in an archive of photographs of the Chaparral Gunfighters, including my grandfather.

Chaparral Gunfighter 6, Risograph Print, Edition of 3

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