Rocío Sáenz

(From Iron Gallery in Chicago) With a career defined by experimentation and spatial exploration, Rocío Sáenz transforms her experiences into an artistic proposal that challenges boundaries. Her work has been exhibited across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, earning her accolades such as the Chihuahua Award in Arts and Sciences and the Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial. More

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Germán Tagle

(From Aninat Galeria) In the crossroad where fiction and history meet, German Tagle has established a place of observation with the intention of catching in his paintings those narrative fragments that allow us to reread the territory where our main cultural icons lie, this is to say, all the output of diverse images taken from paintings, of advertisement, movies, anyplace we can recognize without even being sure we have even really seen it.

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Zio Ziegler

I first blogged about Zio in 2021 by noting A Case Against Reality, a two-part solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Zio. At the time I wrote their work was like Christian– abstractions but not abstraction.

Zio’s recent Six Trees exhibition at the Almine Rech gallery features work that harkens more to Mondrian.

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Shaikha Al Mazrou

Danielle at Artsy ranks the 10 best public art works installed in 2025 (international version in case you were wondering) and points at Shaikha’s Deliberate Pauses. Mazrou’s practice is anchored in history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. Influenced by artists from the Modernist and Bauhaus Movements – such as Paul Klee, Carle Andre and Wassily Kandinsky – Al Mazrou uses the formal aspects of minimalism to engage in a current fascination with materiality in art.

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Nnena Kalu

Nnena is the 2025 winner of the Turner Prize. She is the first learning-disabled artist to win. Born in Glasgow in 1966 to Nigerian parents, Kalu is known for sculptures resembling cocoon-like forms that she strews with videotape, cellophane, and other unconventional materials. 
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