By honoring, centering, and uplifting individuals across the undoc+ spectrum, we work toward a future in which undocreatives are sustainable, visible, and positioned to shape the cultural landscape of the arts ecosystem.
Who are we?
Through exhibitions, publications, artist residencies, symposia, digital resources, and public convenings, UNDOC+Collective constructs collective knowledge that spotlights historically excluded artistic practices and their intellectual contributions. Our work seeks to reclaim, affirm, and empower the diverse experiences and narratives that exist across the undoc+ spectrum, while celebrating the aesthetic, conceptual, and political achievements of undocreatives.
UNDOC+Collective is a nationwide network dedicated to building knowledge, visibility, and sustainability for undocreatives working across the contemporary art ecosystem. Grounded in the cultural competency, expertise, wisdom, and vision of undocreatives (undocumented creatives), we center lived experience as a site of knowledge production, artistic innovation, and future-making.
UNDOC+Collective is committed to expanding the visibility of undocumentedness within contemporary art practices, creating professional and economic opportunities for undocreatives, and nurturing a sustainable creative ecosystem shaped by and for our community. Central to this mission is the cultivation of networks of support, kinship, care, and possibility that counter isolation and precarity with solidarity and collective power.