Tell Me How It Ends explores the precarious and unresolved nature of undocumentedness in the United States as experienced by an DACAmented individual. Gloria Martinez-Granados is a Phoenix-based, multidisciplinary artist, born in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of eight, she immigrated north with her family and has been DACA recipient since 2012. Her artwork explores themes of migration, citizenship, identity, and place. Personal government-issued documents, school certificates, and old family photographs are digitally manipulated, printed, and assembled in unique arrangements, oLering viewers a glimpse at the bureaucratization of personhood created by this policy. Stripped from their use, these artifacts interrogate the rigid notion of citizenship, but most importantly they tell a story of resilience and survival.

Gloria Martinez-Granados earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She is an award recipient of the 40th Annual Environmental Excellence Award and Valle Del Sol’s 2022 Profiles of Success honoree. Her work has been exhibited in the Phoenix Art Museum as part of the Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artists Awards Exhibition and most recently at the Chicano Park Museum in San Diego, California.

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