Conceived under the motto Small Space Big Stories, the new gallery opens its doors on April 14 with a group exhibition curated by Ezequiel Taveras, bringing together eleven artists to think of Latin American identity as a field in expansion
New York. — On April 14, 2026, at 6:00 PM, UN CHIN Art Gallery will open its doors in Upper Manhattan, a new space devoted to contemporary Latin American art arriving in New York with a proposal as modest in square footage as it is ambitious in conceptual reach. The inaugural exhibition, titled Continuum and curated by Ezequiel Taveras, brings together eleven artists tied to the Latin American diaspora in the city and offers, rather than a closed thesis, an invitation to approach the Latin American as an open question.
The gallery presents itself under a motto that doubles as a statement of principles: Small Space Big Stories. And the very shape of the space, a street-facing exhibition window that engages directly with the public sphere, seems to confirm it. UN CHIN does not aspire to compete with the logic of the institutional white cube; it aspires, rather, to slip into the everyday flow of Upper Manhattan and to bring contemporary art within reach of communities that have historically remained at the margins of traditional cultural circuits.
A Curatorial Wager Against Synthesis
Continuum departs from a curatorial intuition that deliberately resists the temptation to classify. Rather than proposing a unified narrative about the Latin American, the exhibition wagers on multiplicity. Notions of origin, identity, and diaspora unfold through diverse approaches, where each work contributes to a field of relations in which differences are not neutralized but made visible.
Taveras articulates this wager with clarity. In a context where the Latin American has too often been reduced to homogeneous images and simplified narratives, Continuum positions itself elsewhere: within complexity. Diaspora, in this reading, ceases to be a mere geographical displacement and becomes a productive condition, a space where inheritance and lived experience intertwine to generate new forms of identity that respond not to fixed models, but to processes in constant transformation.
The exhibition's title sums up that wager well. The continuum it suggests is not a uniform line, but a field in expansion.
Eleven Voices, Eleven Geographies
The roster gathers artists from Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, and other territories of the Caribbean and Latin America, all tied to the contemporary scene from New York: Nicole Bueso, Mildor Chevalier, Patricia Encarnación, Ivonne Ferrer, Scherezade García, Iliana Emilia García, Susana González-Revilla, Franklin Graulau, Homero Herrera, Wildriana Paulino, and Rodney Zelenka.
The practices brought together are as diverse as the trajectories of those who sign them. Puerto Rican Nicole Bueso works with mixed media to construct a visual language traversed by the affective memory of the island and by the diasporic experience. Haitian Mildor Chevalier articulates, through painting, drawing, and printmaking, a symbolic language in which the spirituality and sociopolitical tensions of his country coexist in critical dialogue. Afro-Dominican Patricia Encarnación works in ceramics, video, photography, and installation to interrogate colonial legacies and recontextualize the everyday objects of the Caribbean, challenging preconceived notions of tropical aesthetics.
Cuban artist Ivonne Ferrer, trained at San Alejandro Academy and at the René Portocarrero National Serigraphy Workshop, brings a body of work shaped by irony, surrealism, and a persistent meditation on the female figure, deployed across painting, ceramics, collage, and installation. Dominican artists Scherezade García and Iliana Emilia García each build, in their own language, visual narratives where migration, cultural memory, and the displacements of the Caribbean intertwine with abstraction and gesture.
From Panama, Susana González-Revilla offers a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses painting, installation, video, and performance, centered on the exploration of color and emotional experience as states of being. Puerto Rican Franklin Graulau brings contemporary ceramics as an expanded medium, in a body of work that combines technical tradition and experimentation. Dominican artist Homero Herrera investigates the image as narrative structure, in compositions that oscillate between the figurative and the abstract. Wildriana Paulino, also Dominican, builds, through drawing and painting, images that question the narratives imposed upon the body, especially in contexts of diaspora and social inequality. Closing the exhibition is Panamanian artist Rodney Zelenka, whose multidisciplinary practice addresses the relationships between power, identity, and the human condition through painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation.
Eleven voices, eleven geographies, eleven ways of inhabiting the Latin American: more than a network of approaches.
A Window onto the Street
The decision to install Continuum in a window visible from the public space is no minor gesture. UN CHIN Art Gallery is not conceived as a room one must enter, but as a surface one stumbles upon while walking through the neighborhood. That proximity is deliberate. The gallery understands cultural mediation as an act of closeness, not distance, and proposes an experience where each work does not compete for prominence, but contributes to a common fabric.
In that sense, Continuum also functions as a programmatic statement of the space that hosts it. As the inaugural exhibition, it sets a clear position: UN CHIN is not conceived as a site of homogeneous representation, but as a platform where the diversity of Latin American thought and artistic practice can unfold in all its complexity.
An Institutional Alliance
UN CHIN Art Gallery is a cultural initiative developed in collaboration by UN CHIN Media, Eze Dreams Corp, and the Fundación Duartiana, three organizations converging in New York to sustain this new space. Located in Upper Manhattan, the gallery operates as an experimental platform focused on accessibility, cultural mediation, and community engagement, with the aim of strengthening the ties between Latin American artists and the communities that inhabit this part of the city.
With Continuum, UN CHIN not only presents its first exhibition. It also announces the beginning of an ongoing program of exhibitions, public conversations, and interdisciplinary activities that aspire to make Upper Manhattan a new point on the New York map of contemporary Latin American art.
Because, as the title of its inaugural exhibition suggests, the Latin American is not a straight line. It is a continuum. And continua, by definition, do not close.
FACT SHEET
Exhibition: Continuum
Gallery: UN CHIN Art Gallery
Curated by: Ezequiel Taveras
Opening: Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 6:00 PM
Address: 408 Fort Washington Avenue, Suite 23B, New York, NY 10033
Artists: Nicole Bueso, Mildor Chevalier, Patricia Encarnación, Ivonne Ferrer, Scherezade García, Susana González-Revilla, Franklin Graulau, Homero Herrera, Wildriana Paulino, and Rodney Zelenka
An initiative by: UN CHIN Media, Eze Dreams Corp, and Fundación Duartiana
