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08/22/2026

‘The Majesty of the Elemental’ is on view through August 29, 2026

Studio Lenca Historiantes comes from a monumental tradition in its own right: the ceremonial masked dances of rural El Salvador, the artist’s homeland. Displaced during the Salvadoran Civil War and a dancer himself,
Studio Lenca, born Jose Campos, was drawn to the Historiantes’ movement, their ability to embody and reenact history, and the insight they offer into his place of origin. He poses as and paints the Historiantes, the word itself a portmanteau of “history” and “student”; some works are housed in ornate, European frames,
painted over, the portraits spilling into them. It’s an attempt, he explained in an interview with Talking With Creatives, “to think about how messy history actually is.”

08/17/2026

Belkis Ayón Estate ‘Myth and Disobedience’ is on
view MALBA through October 12, 2026

Created between 1991 and 1998, the works presented here belong to a pivotal period in Ayón’s practice, marked by the recurring presence of Sikán, the central figure in the Abakuá foundation myth, whom the artist
reinterpreted in order to challenge the patriarchal structure of the brotherhood. Ayón sought to give visual form to a ritual tradition that had previously lacked pictorial representation, as the Abakuá myth had been
transmitted exclusively through oral tradition.

Top image: Ayón Estate, La Cena , 1993.

‘The Majesty of the Elemental’ is on view

08/10/2026

Sanford Biggers’ ‘Lo-Phi’ is on view as part of his solo show ‘Drift’ Parrish Art Museum featuring new textile works, prints, sculptures, and site responsive installations.

Biggers describes his practice as emerging from an aggregate process of “transposing, combining, and juxtaposing ideas, forms, and genres that challenge traditional historiography.”

On view through September 3, 2026

Installation view of Sanford Biggers: Drift at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (May 17–September 13, 2026). Photo: Jenny Gorman.

07/22/2026

Pepe Mar & Lyle Ashton Harris in Turn the volume up! Nasher Museum examines how artists, activists, and everyday people have used their voices to challenge injustice, build communities, and shape public life, inviting visitors to consider how we might do the same. Open during the United States’ 250th anniversary, the exhibition situates these stories within the broader history of American democracy, highlighting how speaking out, documenting events, organizing movements, and creating art can galvanize collective action. On view August 27, 2026 – July 11, 2027. Turn the volume up! is organized by Xuxa Rodríguez, PhD, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art, with support from Julianne Miao, Curatorial Associate. Featured Artists

Carrie Mae Weems, Ode to Affirmative Action, 1989
Juan Abreu, Francis Alÿs, Holly Bass, Chuck Close, Robert Colescott, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Jamal Cyrus, Bruce Davidson, Karla Diaz, Sam Durant, Jordan Eagles, Tom Farris, Bill Fick, Laura Fields, Leonard Freed, Juan Genovés, Ralph Gibson, Guerrilla Girls, Lyle Ashton Harris, Ken Heyman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Vitaly Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, Pedro Lasch, Pepe Mar, Mary Ellen Mark, Spider Martin, Paul Pfeiffer, Marielle Plaisir, John Rhoden, Larry Rivers, Dario Robleto, Milton Rogovin, Sheldon Scott, Leonid Sokov, Lou Stoumen, Carol Summers, Mark di Suvero, Barthélémy Toguo, Carlos Vega, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Peter Williams, Purvis Young, and Ross Bleckner, Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley, Simon Leung, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, and Nancy Spero for ACT UP. Image: Pepe Mar, Green Spiral, 2025, collage & mixed media on wood panel in artist’s laminate frame. Collection Stefanie & Doug Kahn, Raleigh, NC.

07/14/2026

‘The Majesty of the Elemental’ is on view through August 29, 2026

Biggers’s work has consistently synthesized the past, present, and future, challenging the linearity of history—he is a syncretic artist, drawing on Americana, Buddhism, music, and talismanic magic. He’s used the term “future ethnography” to describe what his artwork constitutes—its atemporality, its undecipherable origins. His quilt-based pieces reference the long history of textiles in this country, particularly in African American communities—for storytelling, cultural preservation, utility—while his ceramic sculptures, including Double Braid (2025), on view here, recall the place where he deepened the practice (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) and the tradition itself, which dates back to antiquity.
Double Braid, shaped like a rippling helix, belongs to the lineage of ceramics, though it’s uniquely the artist’s.

Image: Sanford Biggers, Double Braid, 2025

06/27/2026

‘The Majesty of the Elemental’ is on view through August 29, 2026

Studio Lenca’s Historiantes comes from a monumental tradition in its own right: the ceremonial masked dances of rural El Salvador, the artist’s homeland. Displaced during the Salvadoran Civil War and a dancer himself, Studio Lenca, born Jose Campos, was drawn to the Historiantes’ movement, their ability to embody and reenact history, and the insight they offer into his place of origin.

Pepe Mar responds to the ongoing erasure of q***r histories, continually evoking them in his microcosmic installations—particularly through Paprika, his alter-ego and a genderless creature of science fiction who represents all those who exist outside the mainstream. Mar is, in effect, a mythologist: Paprika might come from the past or the future or both, but they are omnipresent, often displayed alongside Mar’s homages to real-life q***r icons, like the drag artist Varla. Through Paprika, Mar iterates and expands the canon of q***r art.

Image: Installation View of ‘The Majesty of the Elemental’ at David Castillo

06/11/2026

Pepe Mar’s solo exhibition El Gato Negro commissioned by THE BASS with support of Creative Capital opens March 18, 2027. The exhibition will be presented in the museum’s recently renovated historic rotunda building designed by Albert Vrana. The exhibition is curated by the museum’s associate curator Jasa McKenzie.

Mar is one of 13 visual artists throughout the nation who have received a prestigious 2026 Creative Capital Award. He will receive the maximum prize amount of $50,000.

The Creative Capital Award is recognized for funding boundary-pushing artists working across a wide range of disciplines and for identifying and supporting talent at catalytic moments in artists’ lives. As the only national open-call grant program dedicated to funding the creation of new work in every discipline, Creative Capital supports artists working in visual arts, performing arts, film, literature, technology, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms through a rigorous, external, multidisciplinary review process. The awards will support the creation of 49 new works across visual arts, film, dance, theater, music/jazz, and literature, as well as technology-based, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged practices.

06/06/2026

David Castillo presents ‘The Majesty of the Elemental’, a group exhibition of gallery artists concerning the monument- that landmark meant to both preserve and evoke memory.

The works here are monumental not for their size but rather their narrative power. Studio Lenca’s Historiantes, Pepe Mar’s q***r narratives, Belkis Ayón’s depictions of the Abakuá, Sanford Biggers’ future ethnographies, Quisqueya Henríquez’s conceptual reflections on Latin American modernist art: each artist tends to and draws from the histories inherent in their work. The monument here is legacy, and the way legacy might be contained in process and a resulting vision.

On view June 11 - August 29, 2026.

With works from and

Image: Studio Lenca, Movimiento, 2026

studiolenca

06/05/2026

in Abstraction as Legacy, on view through October 18, 2026.

Alongside Young-Il Ahn, Sam Gilliam, Carmen Herrera, Hans Hofmann, Virginia Jaramillo, Lloyd Kiva New, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, George Morrison, Noemí Ruiz, and Zilia Sánchez.

The act of painting can also make history. Through hard edges and expressive forms, American artists re-imagined painting and used abstraction as a mechanism to consider the human body, natural environs, architecture, emotion, and an economy of line.

06/02/2026

in ‘Speaking in Tongues’ through August 23, 2026.

The exhibition’s title, Speaking in Tongues, references a term commonly associated with the Pentecostal church and said to describe someone who becomes so consumed by their encounter with the Holy Spirit that they respond in indecipherable languages and uncanny movements. While language, like religion, has often been a tool of colonization and erasure, Speaking in Tongues points to mother tongues that evade capture, honoring those whose communities, native languages, and sacred rituals have been systemically riven by Colonialism.

Installation view, Speaking in Tongues, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 4–August 23, 2026. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA.

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