UNDOC+Collective

In Fellowship 2026

Erika Hirugami and Federico Cuatlacuatl stand in a warmly lit auditorium.

UNDOC+Collective is a nationwide network dedicated to building knowledge, visibility, and sustainability for undoc+ (formerly or currently undocumented) creatives working across the contemporary art ecosystem. Grounded in the cultural competency, expertise, wisdom, and vision of undocreatives (undocumented creatives), we center migratory lived experience as a site of knowledge production, artistic innovation, and future-making. Through exhibitions, publications, artist residencies, symposia, digital resources, and public convenings, we construct collective knowledge that spotlights historically excluded undoc+ artistic practices and their intellectual contributions. Our work seeks to reclaim, affirm, and empower the diverse experiences that exist across the undoc+ spectrum, while celebrating the aesthetic, conceptual, and political achievements of undocreatives. Central to our mission is the cultivation of networks of support, kinship, care, and possibility that counter isolation and precarity with solidarity and collective power, recognizing undocumentedness as a generative condition that produces critical insight, artistic rigor, and innovative cultural imaginaries.

An aerial view of UNDOC+Collective members and guests creating zines at Visible Records.
UNDOC+Collective at Visible Records. Photo by Leo Zhang.
A crowded auditorium looks up at a projected video and a man lecturing below it.
Federico Cuatlacuatl premieres a new video at Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales 2025 at University of Virginia. Photo by Evan Gerard Kutsko.