Past Recipients of the ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

2025

James Oles (ed), Mexichrome: Fotografía y color en México (Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes/Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2023)

Honorable Mention: Rigoberto Luna (ed), Soy de Tejas: A Statewide Survey of Latinx Art (San Antonio: City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture, Centro de Artes Gallery, 2024)

2024

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press / Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022)

Curated by Joanna Szupinska

Edited by Rebecca Epstein

With contributions from Rebecca Epstein, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Julian Myers, Chon A. Noriega, Sally Stein, Joanna Szupinska, Roberto Tejada, and Susanna V. Temkin

Honorable Mention: Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023), Curated by María Esther Fernández and Laura E. Pérez, Edited by Laura E. Pérez and María Esther Fernández

2023
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche. Denver Art Museum, with Yale University Press, 2022. Edited by Victoria Lyall and Terezita Romo, with contributions by Camilla Townshend, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Jesse Laird Ortega, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Sandra Messinger Cypress, Luis Vargas-Santiago, Inés Hernández-Ávila, Lisa Sousa, Emmanuel Ortega, Karen Cordero Reiman, Victoria Lyall, Terezita Romo, Rosario Castellanos, Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, Sylvia Alicia Gonáles, Lucha Corpi, Carmen Tafolla, Naomi Quiñonez, and Pat Mora

Honorable mention: Diego Rivera’s America, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with University of California Press, 2022. Edited by James Oles, with contributions by Sandra Zetina, James Oles, Adriana Zavala, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Maria Castro, Rachel Kaplan, Claire F. Fox, John Lear, Jennifer A. González, Michelle Barger, and Kiernan Graves

2022
E. Carmen Ramos, ed., with contributions from E. Carmen Ramos, Tatiana Reinoza, Terezita Romo, and Claudia E. Zapata, !Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (Smithsonian American Art Museum, with Princeton University Press, 2020).

2021
Luis C. Garza and Amy Scott, curators, and Colin Gunckel, ed., for La Raza (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2020).

Honorable Mention: Barbara Haskell, ed., for Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020).

2020 co-winners
Beverly Adams and Natalia Majluf, eds., The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s (Museo de Arte de Lima; Blanton Museum of Art, 2019).

Esther Gabara, ed., Pop América 1965-1975 (Duke University Press, 2018).

2019
C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano LA. (Munich: Prestel, 2018).

Honorable Mention: Daniela Bleichmar, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017).