Solo Exhibitions

Tierra Mojada (Wet Land) (2025), Curator


Photography: Faviola Lopez-Romani & Josh Bogotin

Tierra Mojada (Wet Land) at Flux IV (New York) features multidisciplinary artist Itala Aguilera’s eponymous video performance project, which explores modes of striptease in hand-made, degradable garments. The clothes, designed to dissolve or be ingested, become the centerpiece of the performances, documented in collaboration with filmmaker Joshua Bogatin. Using her background in textile design, the artist bends the popular genre of the striptease, combining the traditional ideas of beauty and seduction contained in historical clothing with experimental materials.
Artist: Itala Aguilera

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Press Release (PDF)

Press
“Eat Me: Itala Aguilera’s Tierra Mojada”
IMPULSE Magazine




Maureen Catbagan: Alagaan ang Salaysáy (2025), Curator


Photography: Yann Chashanovski

In Maureen Catbagan: Alagaan ang Salaysáy (Take Care of the Story) at Flux IV (New York) artist Maureen Catbagan honors Filipino nurses in Queens, Brooklyn, and New York City. Drawing on the migration story sparked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the 1970s nurse recruitment drives, Catbagan gathers oral histories from a community whose work has sustained the city’s healthcare system for decades. The words tita (aunt), ate (sister), and kuya (brother) recur—titles of care and respect that transcend bloodlines.Visitors are invited to listen and read these stories vocally, transforming each into what Catbagan calls “a living monument of care.” In doing so, the exhibition turns listening into an act of devotion, infusing nurses’ labor into cultural memory.
Artist: Maureen Catbagan

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Press Release (PDF)




Xyza Cruz Bacani: The Diaspora is Home (2025), Curator


Photography: Nick Papananias

Xyza Cruz Bacani: The Diaspora is Home at Flux IV (New York) presents photographs of the Asian American diaspora, from portraits in living rooms to scenes of community gatherings, food traditions, and religious practices. Installed within a living room environment, Bacani’s work evokes belonging and cultural continuity, transforming the gallery into a space of warmth, reflection, and collective memory. Developed through visits to homes and close engagement with community members, Bacani’s works reflect an intimate process of trust and reciprocity. The accompanying living room installation mirrors the spaces in which the photographs were taken, creating a familiar and welcoming environment. By inviting visitors to gather, sit, and reflect, the installation transforms Flux IV into a site of hospitality and shared presence, underscoring the centrality of home within the diasporic experience. Artist: Xyza Cruz Bacani

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Press Release (PDF)

Press
“A photographer’s intimate look at immigrant lives”
Queens Chronicle

“Artist Xyza Cruz Bacani meditates on the meaning of ‘home’”
The FilAm




Tamar Ettun: How To Trap A Demon (2022), Curator

Photography: Yann Chashanovski

Tamar Ettun: How to Trap A Demon at SUNY Purchase Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase), built on the Ettun’s research into the insidious side of empathy, trauma-healing modalities, and astrology as storytelling. The exhibition featured a large body of ceramics, textiles, and sculptures produced throughout the artist’s Windgate Residency at SUNY Purchase. Focusing on the artist’s retelling of Lilith mythology, the exhibition asked us to consider whose stories, memories, and experiences are occluded in the process of demonization.Artist: Tamar Ettun

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Press Release (PDF)

Press
“Tamar Ettun Demonstrates How To Trap A Demon,”  Whitewall