Silverlens New York is pleased to present Catalina Africa: Earth Body Bukid, her first solo exhibition in the US, opening March 6, 2025. For Earth Body Bukid, Africa draws on landscape magic and nature energies from the West Pacific Coast of Baler, known for both its reputation as a surfer’s paradise and location within the Philippines’ “typhoon belt.” Across a shapeshifting practice in painting, sound, sculpture, video, text, and performance, Africa calls upon the natural landscape.

Silverlens New York is pleased to present Pow Martinez: Junk DNA, opening March 6, 2025. For the artist’s first solo presentation in New York, Martinez probes and satirizes the idea of the “American Medieval” with large-scale narrative paintings and intimate portraits featuring his recurring cast of expressionistic and cartoonish characters. Anchored by a large salon-style wall of all-new works, Junk DNA reads like a storybook—or even a family photo album—albeit one that is filled with mutant-like figures and a dystopian sense of desolation.

Silverlens is pleased to present 'Renato Orara: Entangled Pairs,' a major cross-continental exhibition of the artist's work, staged simultaneously across Silverlens' Manila and New York galleries. 'Entangled Pairs' consists of 100 lifelike ballpoint pen drawings of everyday objects: a glove and a plastic water bottle; a teapot and a hammer; a tomato and a butternut squash. These consecutively-made renderings are paired and split from their counterparts across two continents.

Ryan Villamael presents his first ever US solo exhibition 'ISLES' at Silverlens New York. 'ISLES' brings together all new paper-cut map sculptures encased in glass bell jars with an accompanying audio component—the artist's first foray into sound as a medium. For this deeply personal show, Villamael reflects on and traces connections between the Philippines' long and storied history of migration and his own family's story, highlighting a nation of people that have often found themselves the unfortunate casualties of collateral damage wrought by geopolitical tensions and negotiations.

Silverlens New York is pleased to present 'Fugitive Land' opening October 24, 2024. A three-person exhibition organized by Christopher Y. Lew—founder of C/O: Curatorial Office, under whose auspices he has collaborated with Silverlens since 2023, consulting on the overall program and select exhibitions—'Fugitive Land' brings together works by Santiago Bose, Michael Joo, and Stephanie Syjuco. Through a range of strategies, this intergenerational group of artists examines aspects of history and place that have been obscured by power and empire.

Silverlens is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Patricia Perez Eustaquio. The first artist to be represented by the gallery in Manila, Eustaquio debuts her tapestry works in the United States with 'Emporium,' which also marks the first-ever representation of the artist's all-new series of large-scale woven rope sculptures.

Manila-based artist Gary-Ross Pastrana presents the cabinet exhibition 're_mediations,' his first-ever solo in the United States. A transformative ethos recurs in Gary-Ross Pastrana’s works. This tendency has been described as “metabolic, self-renewing form.”

Silverlens New York is pleased to announce its participation in The Armory Show 2024 from 5 to 8 September 2024, showcasing works by nine, mid-career Southeast Asian artists: Tosh Basco, Keka Enriquez, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Kawayan de Guia, Gregory Halili, Mit Jai Inn, Wawi Navarroza, Renato Orara, and Pow Martinez.

Silverlens, in partnership with Times Square Arts, is pleased to present Our Islands 11°16’58.4” N 123°45’07.0”E by Dutch-Filipino artist Martha Atienza, as part of Times Square Arts’ celebrated Midnight Moment series. Screened nightly throughout July 2024, from 11:57 pm to midnight, the acclaimed video work—which takes the form of a dreamlike underwater rendition of a parade originating from the artist’s native Philippines—illuminates the artist’s practice which documents and interrogates pressing issues surrounding both community and the environment.

'Soft Fantasy/Hard Reality' sets out an initial binary: softness and hardness, fantasy and reality. This set of relations can be extended to its cognates: immateriality / materiality, fictive / factual, or even concept / form. The exhibition presents a roster of artists who work across a variety of practices, media, and form: from painting to sculpture, installation, moving image, performance.

Silverlens New York is pleased to present Norberto Roldan's first US solo exhibition, How Not to Win a Revolution. The esteemed Filipino artist, widely acknowledged as an eminent figure in Southeast Asian art, presents a sweeping exploration of the social, political, and cultural conditions shaping his homeland, all while unveiling the oeuvre of a profound cultural practice.

In the Viewing Room, Filipino-American artist Keka Enriquez makes her highly anticipated return to the art world in Keka Enriquez: Odds and Ends, an exhibition unveiling four new works after the artist’s 20-year hiatus from painting.

Silverlens New York is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Frieze New York with a solo booth by Leo Valledor (b. 1936 - d. 1989, San Francisco, USA). Silverlens will display four paintings along with two never-before-seen drawings crafted during the final decade of Valledor’s career, from 1980 through 1982, illustrating the profound depth of his artistic exploration which spanned decades and contributed significantly to the advancement of Minimalism.

Silverlens is proud to present In Passing, the first solo exhibition by artist Nicole Coson (b. 1992, Philippines), in our New York gallery. For Coson, repetition and seriality are conceptual matrixes for questioning the durability of traces across geographies and time.

To coincide with ‘Wawi Navarroza: The Other Shore’, Silverlens New York will present a collection of new miniature paintings on capiz shells by Gregory Halili in the Viewing Room.

Silverlens New York is pleased to kick off 2024 with a solo exhibition by Filipina artist Wawi Navarroza. Known for her large format photographic tableaus and self-portraits, the exhibition will mark the artist’s first solo show in the United States.

Silverlens New York is pleased to present a solo exhibition by leading Thai contemporary artist Mit Jai Inn. Featuring works spanning from 2004 to 2023, the show marks the artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition opens on November 16, 2023.

To be quietly felt in this constellation of works from Leo Valledor and Carlos Villa is the delicate force of encounter. This exhibition stages the tension between the elements at play in the abstraction of this constellation and the particularities of this sensuous encounter. And through and through, space proves to be the basis of at once un-knowing and re-learning.

Silverlens will participate in The Armory Show with a group presentation of works by James Clar, Chati Coronel, Nicole Coson, Mit Jai Inn, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, and Leo Valledor.

Embodied contexts of diaspora, itinerancy, and retreat mark the artists here in ‘Shrines.’ Their works are poignant approaches to identity, where experiences with the body (here being the artists’ subjectivity and the artworks) engender the translation of belief systems that also ensoul distinct realms of personal history.

Silverlens is pleased to participate in Frieze New York for the first time with a solo presentation by pioneering Filipino American Modernist Carlos Villa (1936 – 2013). The presentation comes on the heels of Villa’s bi-coastal touring 2022 retrospective shown at the Newark Museum, San Francisco Art Institute, and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

'By Force of Nature' expands Clar’s decades-long practice of working with light- and screen-based technologies to interrogate the slippages, impositions, and mistranslations that condition life lived in a global diaspora.

State of Flux is a group exhibition that examines the concepts of shapeshifting and humor as protective adaptations to geopolitics and the perils of contemporary existence.

The exhibition links four intergenerational and mixed-gender artists who use abstraction to confront the precarious and uncertain state one experiences when bracing for impact. Emulating the tension felt before breaking, the exhibition examines the inevitable and reactive violence of nature and technology, the result of trauma and stain, and the region’s universal reaction to danger, fear, and stress.

In this new body of work for Silverlens New York, Martha Atienza asks, ‘Who owns the land? Who owns the sea?’. These are questions that persistently come to her mind when working with her home community across the Bantayan group of islands, north of Cebu in the Visayas, the Philippines’ central island group.

Many languages meet for presentation: the digital pixel and the tikar weave, traditional and contemporary motifs, popular song, bodily gesture and sound, photographic image, and script. These position art-making and aesthetics as a means of bridging and understanding diverse experiences and stories.

Silverlens is thrilled to present pieces by three widely collected artists from Southeast Asia: Mit Jai Inn, Pow Martinez, and Maria Taniguchi, marking the gallery’s first participation in The Armory Show. This presentation coincides with the inauguration of SILVERLENS’ New York gallery space located at 505 W 24th Street in Chelsea.