i’ve gone to look for america

SaveArtSpace x Murmurs is proud to present I’ve Gone to Look for America, a group public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Los Angeles, CA, opening February 20, 2026, curated by Morgan Elder & Allison Littrell.

Our urban exhibition extends from questions posed in a 2023 show at Murmurs, I’ve Gone to Look for America, evolving its focus toward the current political climate of the United States in 2025— an America where belonging continues to be contested and where the promise of freedom collides with the reality of ICE raids sweeping in Los Angeles and across the country, censorship in media, and systematic defunding of arts and culture. This iteration interrogates the paradox at the heart of American identity: a nation that defines itself through the promise of liberty while sustaining systems of control that decide who is allowed to belong.

This exhibition centers artists of the diaspora— those who have immigrated, and those who are first-generation Americans— whose lives are shaped by the tension between rootedness and displacement. Through personal narratives, these artists navigate the complexities between identity and erasure, visibility and surveillance, the mythology of the “American Dream” and the lived experience of exclusion. Their works are acts of testimony telling the stories of migration, memory, and endurance.

I’ve Gone to Look for America is a submission-based exhibition that calls for work grounded in autobiographical and collective history. Together, these voices form a counter-narrative, one that resists disappearance, insists on complexity, and finds resilience through sculpture, painting, installation, video, and performance. These artists reimagine what “America” means.

Public art will be on view starting February 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA, and will be on view for at least one month.