An art exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, whose work comments on issues facing U.S. Latinos, seemed like a natural fit for the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton, north of Dallas. Nearly a quarter of the students are Hispanic and the show focused on Quiñonez’s dual cultural identity, as someone born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and raised in East Dallas, Texas.

Before it traveled to Texas, the show, called “Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá — Neither from Here Nor from There,” had a successful run in Massachusetts at Boston University. But within a couple of days of its opening at UNT on Feb. 3, Quiñonez was being pinged on social media by students: The exhibition had been shut down.