Sediment/o
Omar Pimienta

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A landscape photograph of a wide coastal marsh with green vegetation and a winding river beneath an overcast sky. Large gray text reads, “Language is born from a river’s mouth.

The LBCC Art Gallery is pleased to present Sediment/o, an exhibition whose title is drawn from a poetry collection by featured artist Omar Pimienta. The exhibition continues Pimienta’s longstanding exploration of borders, migration, memory, and the layered realities of life in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Through photography, video, and installation, Pimienta brings language and lived experience into dialogue, offering a powerful meditation on migration, resilience, and the enduring marks left by human and nonhuman movement across borders.

Exhibition date: Sept 17 – October 24, 2026

Opening reception: Thurs, Sept 17, 2026 from 5-7pm

Artist talk: Saturday, October 24, 2026 from 1-3pm

Artist Biography

Omar Pimienta  Omar Pimienta is a transborder artist, poet, writer, and scholar raised in Colonia Libertad, Tijuana. He is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches creative writing and transborder cultural production. He earned an MFA in Visual Arts and a PhD in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.

Working across poetry, performance, installation, and community-based art, Pimienta explores migration, memory, cultural citizenship, and the identities formed between Mexico and the United States. He is the author of five poetry collections, including Sediment/o (2024), Album of Fences (2018), and Escribo desde aquí (2010), as well as the short-story collection Té (2019).

Pimienta received an Art Matters Grant in 2017, and his visual work has appeared in exhibitions including the Casablanca International Biennale, the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez Transborder Biennial, and the Mexicali Biennial. From 2019 to 2022, he was a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in poetry.

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  • Tuesday: 11pm-4pm
  • Wednesdays: 11am -4pm
  • Thursday: 11pm -4pm
  • Friday: 11pm -4pm
  • Weekends open by appointment

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STUDENTS ONLY
If you require Sign language interpreting services or Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services , please contact Karla Aguiniga, Art Gallery & Exhibitions Manager and Stephanie Bonales at least 72 hours prior to the event at (562) 938-4918 or sbonales@lbcc.edu.

FACULTY AND STAFF ONLY
If you require Sign language interpreting services, please contact Karla Aguiniga, Art Gallery & Exhibitions Manager and Rebecca Lucas at rlucas@lbcc.edu at least 5 business days prior to the event.

If you require Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services, please contact Karla Aguiniga, Art Gallery & Exhibitions Manager and Elizabeth Perez-Rodriguez at cart@lbcc.edu at least 5 business days prior to the event. *Please note requests are based on provider availability*