Uncool GalleryUncool Gallery
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/dates: Nov 19–29, 2025
/presented artist: Ailyn Lee
Once Again My Autumn Lamp presents new drawings, sculptures, and a short film by Ailyn Lee. The exhibition explores the body and found objects as vessels of memory, vulnerability, and desire. Drawing inspiration from her grandmother’s antique shop and guided by Surrealist automatism, Lee transforms discarded materials and dream imagery into poetic meditations on transformation and resilience.
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/dates: October 18, 2025
/presented artists: Hannah Bang · Marco Caridad · Maria Kunigk · Clarice Sanvicente · Stefania Urist
ALTER is a group exhibition of 2025 presented by Uncool Artist members. Bringing together five artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, the exhibition delves into the relationship between environment and materiality, questioning how matter transforms human experience, perception, and interaction within space.
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/dates: August 9-16, 2025
/presented artist: Jessica Caldas
/excerpt: This site-specific installation makes use of the ephemera of the artist’s grandparents’ lives. Using the memoirs of their grandfather, which he spent years writing before he died, and the miscellaneous objects of his life with the artist’s grandmother, this work incorporates their photos, writings, certificates, family documents, and paintings, etc. alongside the artist’s own photos, writing, research, and drawings.
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/dates: August 28-30, 2025
/presented artist: Helen Yu
/excerpt: Helen Yu’s debut exhibition examines digital feminism through themes of consumption, labor, and performance. Featuring works that weave together glossy confections, staged gestures, and hyperreal detail, the exhibition interrogates how feminine identity is constructed, curated, and surveilled in physical and virtual spaces.
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/dates: July 19 to August 2, 2025
/curated by: Carolina Paz
/presented artists: Adelaida Cortés, Anita Kucharczyk, Eluart Barajas, Mikaela Montenegro, and Yuskadd
/excerpt: five artists of the 2025 UAR Residency Program who, collectively, present a body of work that refuses to provide easy answers or comforting representations of our lives. Their work does not promise hopeful forecasts. Yet, their pieces imply that there is some kind of beauty in facing loss and grief.
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/dates: May 17 – 31, 2025
/curated by: Stefania Urist and Marco Caridad
/presented artists: Rafael Beck, Adelaida Cortés, INFLUX Collective, Janey Roanna and Anita Kucharczyk.
/excerpt: Uncool Artist presents a year-long collaborative series led by UA members Stefania Urist and Marco Caridad. The series aims to explore how contemporary art serves as a vital response to changing environments and human relationships. By literally or metaphorically flipping things upside down, the project reshapes the context in which objects, words, meanings, purposes, and intentions are examined.
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/dates: April 3-5, 2025
/curated by: Carolina Paz
/presented artists: Andres Palomar, Anita Kucharczyk, Anne Hamilton, Carol Paik, Caryn Xie, Clarice Sanvicente, Masha Neverova and Rafael Beck Lenz.
/excerpt: Intimate, small-format pieces that explore personal worlds through layered translucency, delicate mark-making, vigorous movements, decisive choices, and suggestive forms. Each piece reveals combinations of private landscapes and narratives, sometimes through subtle shifts of light and shadow and others by overlapping textures.
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/dates: January 25 to February 1, 2025
/curated and presented by: Stefania Urist and Marco Caridad.
/excerpt: An immersive art installation that reflects on transformation and the act of altering contexts. At the core of this installation is the idea that art can disrupt the ordinary, offering a new lens through which to view familiar materials and experiences. Urist and Caridad, while grounded in their individual investigations of environmental issues and identity, will transform the spaces and materials with which they work.
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/dates: November 9 to December 14, 2024
/curated by: Carolina Paz
/presented artists: Aledra, Amy Deal, Clarice Sanvicente, Débora Rayel Eva, Fábia Bercsek, Kayla Singh Griffin, Maria Kunigk, Michan Pour-Azar, Mikaela Montenegro, Nirvana Geuvdjelian Herrera, Petya Zasheva and Summer McCroskey.
/excerpt: Drawing on months of study and discussion around Michel Foucault’s The Order of Discourse, the artists committed to collaborate in elaborate poetically on discourse as a mechanism of social control, examining how power molds bodies and voices, particularly women’s, across generations.
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/dates: October 10 to November 5, 2024
/curatorial text by: David Gibson
/presented artist: Isolde Kille
/excerpt: A deep exploration into the realms of metaphysics, dreams, and subconscious creation. The Land of the Lilies deals with the blurred boundaries between myth, time, and the intangible. Drawing on her interdisciplinary approach, the exhibition merges painting, sculpture, and works on paper into an immersive, multifaceted environment.
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/dates: September 12 to October 5, 2024
/curatorial text by: Cyro Almeida
/presented artist: Tiago Aguiar
/excerpt: Rusá showcases a series of photographic and photo-installation artworks exploring the rich cultural tapestry of the Festa do Rosário, celebrated annually in Serro, Minas Gerais. The artist, Tiago Aguiar employs relational photography, recognizing the sacred in the other and highlighting individual identities within the collective in a reversed ethnographic process, valuing those individuals who are often marginalized outside the festival.
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/dates: June 6 to June 15, 2024
/curated by: Carolina Paz
/presented artists: Alejandro Macias, Marta Monteiro, Vanessa Lam, Forrest Wilson, Kiwoun Shin, Amy Deal, A/Bel Andrade, Sarah Beilenson, Borja Colom Borafull, Brenda Sabbagh, Jay Lee, Albert NG, Melissa Sclafani, Lauren Grudzien, Kate Greenberg, Esther Bonder, Luana Seu, Sangho Han and Erika Choe.
/excerpt: Displayed within the Uncool Gallery storefront and the BNY residency studio. Obsession and observation: two dimensions encapsulating their creative process. Each piece reflects a focused refinement, experimentation, and dedication to their craft.
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/dates: June 27 to July 27, 2024
/curated by: Carolina Paz and Daniela Avelar
/presented artists: Silvana Soriano with Bella Cardim and Fernanda Froes, Gustavo Rizeiro, Isabell Llaguno, Heli Fouchard, Peilian Li, Tiago Aguiar, Ana Júlia Vilela, Mariana Battistelli, Wilson Orellana, Jay Lee and Erika Choe.
/excerpt: A collective exhibition to initiate discussions about the diverse experiences of acceleration prevalent in today’s world, shaped by pressing issues such as climate change, ethics, and political dilemmas.