Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana is the first major traveling exhibition to explore  and celebrate the vibrant interdisciplinary art scene in Tijuana, Mexico, one of the world's leading crucibles of cultural innovation.  The exhibition will feature over fifty works by twenty of Tijuana's most important contemporary artists, architects, designers and filmmakers.  Their bold, cutting-edge work embodies the powerful creative energy of a city transformed by crosscurrents of globalization, media and issues of migration and identity.

Whether as the subject or the actual physical source of the materials used to create works of art, the City of Tijuana is at the core of everything in Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo.  Situated at the most heavily trafficked internaiotnal border in the world, Tijuana lies almost directly adjacent to San Diego, forming a metropolitan region with a population exceeding 5 million people.  Tijuana's newfound wealth, rapid growth, and haphazard expansion inspired the broad range of artistic production represented in the exhibition - from painting to conceptually-driven installations; from street-level digital video to ambitious photo-documentation, filmmaking and political work; from sophisticated architectural proposals to product design.  The city has also emerged as the center of the internationally renowned "Nortec" musical movement.  Both in homage and as critigue, the artists in Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo have discovered new visual, verbal and audio forms to manifest their experience of the rapidly changing interconnected realities of the local urban and global environments.