Julio Galán’s two-part exhibition at kurimanzutto and Luhring Augustine in Chelsea marks his first significant solo presentation in New York in over two decades. Spanning nearly his entire career, the paintings and pastels on view depict unsettling, dreamlike spaces where real and imagined characters merge with personal narratives.
In the iteration of From the Archive, we look at the artist’s life—tragically cut short at the age of 47—and the charged visual language of a practice that presents identity as performed, fractured, and perpetually in flux.
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