David Castillo

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.

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.

‘Material, Material World (Miami)’ is on view through May 30th, 2026

The painter Elaine de Kooning once said, “a painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.” It is the event, and its attendant discoveries and revelations, that guides this group of artists, the process alone divulging new information or affirming what they’d always known. The results, shared in Material, Material World (Miami), are sublime.

Image: Installation View of ‘Material, Material World (Miami)’ at David Castillo

On view and opening soon in museums throughout Miami 💗💗

Works by Belkis Ayón, Quisqueya Henriquez, Pepe Mar, Xaviera Simmons, Vaughn Spann, and Studio Lenca.

1. Bekis Ayon in Shadows and Traces through June 7, 2026

2. Studio Lenca

3. Pepe Mar through October 4, 2026

4. Upcoming: Vaughn Spann opens May 27, 2026

5. Upcoming: Xaviera Simmons

6. Upcoming: Quisqueya Henriquez opening June 6, 2026

7. Quisqueya Henriquez through June 3, 2026

8. Pepe Mar on permanent view

9. Quisqueya Henriquez on permanent view

solo exhibition “Drift” opens tomorrow, May 17th, 2026

“Drift” traces the multidisciplinary nature of Biggers’ work through the motif of the cloud, a symbol that has engaged the artist for decades.

The Codex works reference the legend of “quilt codes,” said to have guided freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad; though historians have debated this narrative, it remains a potent metaphor for perseverance and liberation.

Image: Sanford Biggers, “Lo-Phi”

Pepe Mar ‘Matador’ 2025 is on view through September 27, 2026

Something Borrowed, Something New showcases a diverse range of artworks produced by some of the most prominent artists of our time. Complementing these borrowed selections, this show also features exciting new pieces and creates a dialogue between the works of late 20th-century trailblazers and today’s leading global artists.

Image: Pepe Mar, Matador, 2025

David Castillo is pleased to announce and are included in Denniston Hill’s presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale .art.biennale curated by the team of the late curator Koyo Kouoh, In Minor Keys, on view in the historic Giardini from 9th May to 22nd November 2026.

In Minor Keys is an invitation to tune into the subtler emotional frequencies made possible by the arts, including music and poetry. The theme aims to provide a radical reconnection with art’s natural habitat and role in society, that of the sensory, the effective, the subjective.

Material, Material World (Miami)’ is on view through May 30th, 2026.

In an interview, Tapia-Chuning characterized the
chief motif of her practice—the dismantling and
deconstruction of Mexican serapes—as a ritual, one that places her in a direct dialogue with her ancestors and that reveals the complex histories ( of colonization, of knowledge, of reclamation) contained within the fabrics. The serape in “Piercing through the Sky / Echoes through the Wind”, arrow-shaped and tinged with blue, seems to soar through clouds to other realms.

Image: Kelly Tapia-Chuning, ‘Piercing through the sky /Echoes in the Wind’ , 2025

Vaughn Spann’s ‘Rover’ , 2021, is on view as part of the exhibition ‘Bold: New Voices in Contemporary Art’ through June 28, 2026.

Image: Vaughn Spann, Rover, 2021

According To The Seasons
April 24th - June 14th

Opening Reception:
Friday April 24th 6-8

Xaviera Simmons in conversation with Christina Vassallo Saturday at 2 pm at the Contemporary Art Center Black Box Theater