SEP 5 to OCT 17, 2026: Michael’s photographs of X theband will be exhibited by Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center at 681 Venice Blvd in Venice, CA.
SAT, SEP 5– RECEPTION, BOOK SIGNING and READINGS
2pm: In celebration of the exhibition opening, Beyond Baroque will also host a reading in the Wanda Coleman Theater featuring X co-lead singer and poet Exene Cervenka, with S.A. Griffin, Brendan Constantine, Chris Morris, Iris Berry, and mike m mollet. Music Journalist Chris Morris will read from his introduction to Perceval Press’ 2025 publication of Michael’s book X: On the Road & at the Crossroads 1980-2024. The reading will be emceed by Henry Mortensen.
Exene Cervenka’s provocative collages, which have garnered high praise in recent New York and Los Angeles gallery shows, are accompanied in this volume by a preface from Kristine McKenna. There is, in McKenna’s words, “an ineffable melancholy that permeates” Cervenka’s art, and a “haunting power to evoke a childhood lost.” In the work represented, you will find a “scent of longing and nostalgia… It is invariably tempered with the essential spirit of her art, which is tender and lyrical. In the end, each piece she’s made is a valentine to a fragile America that’s disappearing before our very eyes, and an homage to the indomitable persistence of beauty.”
Singer/songwriter John Coinman’s new video Long Way From Home from his album Under the Sun features 15 photographs from Michael’s book Along the Migrant Trail.
fronteranueva books in Los Angeles announces the publication of Michael Hyatt’s documentary book: Along the Migrant Trail – A Borderlands Portrait. The book features 114 B/W and color photographs with a forward by scholar Rebecca Fowler Ph.D.
“Michael Hyatt is a documentary photographer whose work exhibits more than words can express. In addition, Michael has been a leading volunteer for 17 years with Samaritans — the humanitarian aid organization dedicated to saving the lives of migrants in the Sonoran Desert. As he has hiked the hundreds of miles of migrant trails carrying life-saving water, food, and medical care, he has photographed courage, spirituality, suffering, and death in this beautiful and tragic land.” —Reverend John Fife, Co-founder of Sanctuary, Tucson Samaritans, and No More Deaths
One of Alvaro Enciso’s Red Dot Memorial Crosses,
Altar Valley, 2016
“The human will is what’s most evident in Michael Hyatt’s photographs. Depicting the principal actors in the real life and death struggle of our time, you feel the pain, the love, the hope and faith that can only come from a deep and long–time involvement as a humanitarian. His powerful images documenting the militarism and humanism in the Sonora and Arizona borderlands are an important contribution to our history.” —Isabel Garcia, Co-founder of Derechos Humanos and winner of the 2018 UNAM Alfonso Garcia-Robles Human Rights Award
