Every Woman Biennial: Spectalia

I’m honored to present for Every Woman Biennial 2026 at Pen + Brush Gallery three manang (Tagalog for “sister”) time capsules bearing the names of Filipina women who stood at the frontlines of the Delano Grape Strike of 1965: Maria Rifo, Guadalupe Pena, and Esperanza Pulmano. They fought for dignity, better working conditions, a living wage, and a retirement home for their older, single, unhoused brothers.

Mexican and Filipino women were the unsung heroes behind the United Farm Workers movement, less visible than their union brothers, yet essential as the backbone of collective organizing, care, and survival. Each capsule holds goods from Little Manila, Woodside. Offerings that layer time itself: a gesture from the present to honor past elders, and seed future acts of remembrance.

Every Woman Biennial 2026: SPECTALiA
A show and a spell on building new worlds in a troubled times.

Exhibition from March 8 — April 11, 2026


Pen + Brush


29 E 22nd Street, NYC


Gallery Hours: Tuesday — Saturday · 11 AM — 6 PM

Exhibition Programming: Every Woman Biennial 2026 Calendar

monday night tales: global narratives through cinema

Queer Vistas: Sintiendo la Marea brings together a constellation of Filipinx queer films that reflect on body, desire, spirituality, myth, memory, and archives. The programme embraces queerness not as a fixed identity, but as a relational and fluid force — one that unsettles colonial, national, gendered, and cinematic boundaries. Rooted in an intersectional perspective, the selected works acknowledge the complexity of queer Filipinx experience — shaped by histories of migration, diaspora, and cultural hybridity. These films move like tides: shifting between spaces, navigating silences, and carrying the emotional textures of lives that often remain at the margins of dominant narratives.

Featuring works by Dinaly J. Tran, Maureen Catbagan, Berjer B. Capati, Joshua Serafin, and Kitty Yeung. This screening invites reflection on how experimental and poetic film can become a tool for collective memory, resistance, and re-imagining belonging. Beyond the screen, this gathering is also an opportunity to connect — to deepen exchange within the Filipinx creative community in Barcelona and to celebrate its richness through conversation and care.

Screening was on Monday, June 16, 7-10 pm at La Guacara Gallery, Barcelona in collaboration with Monday Night Tales, Ratita Films, and Nowness Asia.

CICA Museum - Form 2024

“Form” introduces photography, painting, video and interactive art, sculpture, and installation work on the subject of forms, shapes, or media. The exhibition runs from October 2 – 20, 2024.

Featured Artists: Stella Arion, Syl Arena, Bela Balog, Abbey Behan, Johnny Boy, Maureen Catbagan, Daura Campos, Hugh Choi,  Gregory Deddo, Ramiro Diaz, Carla Forte, Leo Hainzl, Heather Coker Hawkins, HWANG HYUN SOOK, Jang sung-suk,  Anais Kim, EUNSUNG KIM, Olena Kishkurno, Song Yeon,  Gumi G. Lu, Lee hye won, Yunbo Ma, Leslie Streit & Robin McCain, Michael N. Meyer, Joonhee Myung, Yoonsik Chico Park, Antoine Plainfossé, Ashley Quast, Elif Sezen, Shim Yun Joo,  Hyogeun Song, Song GaHee, Joseph Tigert, Mikala Valeur, Maximilian Vermilye, Stef Will.

Dyke+ Arthaus visits the bureau

The Philadelphia-based Dyke+ ArtHaus is a community-driven space for Dyke artists of all persuasions, centering those 40 and over. Co-curated by Juno Rosenhaus, Dyke+ ArtHaus Founder, and Lola Flash, artist and activist, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in New York City, the exhibit aims to reflect the diversity of Dykes and the diversity of their art practices. The theme is the show itself.

Dyke+ ArtHaus Visits The Bureau sits within the lineage of lesbian artist group exhibitions including A Lesbian Show (1978), Great American Lesbian Art Show (1980), Lesbians To Watch Out For: 90s Queer LA Activism (2019), and Rebel Dykes Art and Archive Show (2021).

Dyke+ ArtHaus Visits the Bureau runs May 17-Sep 8, 2024. Closing celebration is on Saturday, Sep 7, 5:30-7:30.

Contemporary Landscapes at Gallery Omnibus

Contemporary Landscapes is a virtual 3D exhibition at Gallery Omnibus curated by Light Bear. Featuring the works of 44 international artists, the show will run from May 15 - June 15.

“Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.”

© Rebecca Solnit,

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics