The University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly shuttered an exhibition of works by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez (marka_27), whose practice centers the lived experience of immigrants in the United States and their inhumane treatment by federal agencies. “Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá” (Spanish for “neither from here nor from there”) opened on February 3 and was slated to run through May 1, but the artist learned about the show’s closure through messages from UNT students on social media. A few days later, on February 11, he received a four-line email from Stefanie Dlugosz-Acton, director of UNT’s CVAD Galleries, letting him know the exhibition had been terminated. Quiñonez acknowledged that he wasn’t given a reason for the closure and could only speculate about the motive, but suspects a pattern of censorship against artists who speak out against the government. “It’s been a trend in this country to suppress any kind of expression that’s going against what this administration is doing to civilians...