Kates-Ferri Projects is pleased to announce a multi-venued summer series, titled X MARKS THE SPOT: NextGen LatinX Artists. The series includes three exhibitions featuring sixteen artists, and two artist residences, hosting multiple artists. Together, these Latinx artists offer a complete and varied representation of the growing influence of the Americas in contemporary art. Each artist creates unique understandings and new relationships between form and story in their work.

X MARKS THE SPOT takes over DeMuro Das in New York City for the summer. From Memorial Day to Labor Day (May 30 to September 5, 2022), works of Cecile Chong, C.J. Chueca, Francisco Donoso, Guillermo García Cruz, Gonzalo Hernandez, Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Boris Torres, and Martin Touzon will be on view at the international design firm’s showroom. Art and Design are married with the modernist designer furnishings in the space, the works activate the interior with a fun atmosphere through colorful patterns and repetition. From Chong’s guaguas (“baby” in Quechua) to Touzon’s Medias Hojas series of “sock sheets,” the sculptures and paintings unveil the questions of identity, place, and belonging beyond the abstract form. 

About the Artists:

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. She is a multimedia artist working in painting, sculpture and installation layering materials, identities, histories, and languages. She was awarded fellowships and residencies including NYS Council on the Arts, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, Hispanic Society Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/AIM Artist Hub, BRIC Media Arts, the Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, the Lower East Side Printshop, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, The Center for Book Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, AIM - Bronx Museum, Urban Artist Initiative NYC, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners has been installed in the five boroughs of New York City. Solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Five Myles Plus Space, Selena Gallery, BRIC House, Emerson Gallery Berlin Germany, Honey Ramka Project Space, Figureworks, Praxis, Corridor Gallery and ArtSPACE. She received an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.

C.J. Chueca has lived between Lima and New York since 2003. Chueca’s history as a perpetual immigrant (earlier years found her in different cities in Mexico) has lead her to explore the concepts of home, territory, transit, multicultural experiences, uprooting and solitude. Focusing on discussions about lives that are still on the road (or without route) in the streets of the world. C.J. Chueca’s exhibition highlights include Micaela, La Sangre de Todas in Vigil Gonzales Galería, A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art, Art Souterrain in Montreal with a public commissioned installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at Palais des Congres and Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima to name a few. Her work has been featured in Hyperalergic, Artnet, Flaunt, Artishock and Artifoid. Forthcoming, C.J. Chueca will work in a public commission in the Bronx managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Francisco Donoso is a transnational artist based in NYC. Originally from Ecuador, but raised in Miami, FL, he’s a recipient of DACA and an advocate for immigrants. He received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in residencies at NYCAMS, Stony Brook University, The Bronx Museum, and the Kates-Ferri Projects among others, and a Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill. Francisco has exhibited throughout NYC at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum, Field Projects, Affordable Art Fair, and Latchkey Gallery among others, in Los Angeles with Baik + Khnessyer, in Las Vegas at the Believer Festival and in Berlin with Emerson Gallery. He is a recipient of an Artist Corp Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant. His work is in the permanent collection of the New York Community Trust and the Kates-Ferri Collection.

Guillermo Garcia Cruz is one of the most important young artists in Uruguay, His work has been exhibited individually at the Contemporary Art Space in Montevideo, and internationally in exhibitions in Lima, Buenos Aires, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Lisbon and Tianjin. Among other articles and mentions, in 2019 he has been globally distinguished among the 12 artists in the focus of the next generation, by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado. He currently works between the cities of Madrid, NY, Montevideo and Lima, developing an interdisciplinary body of work that is made up of painting, photography, action and installation, pursuing a problematic look at the phenomenon of validation in the current contemporary art system. In addition, he works as Professor of the Visual Arts Degree at the Catholic University of Montevideo.

Gonzalo Hernandez studied at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Corriente Alterna and holds an M.F.A. and M.A. from the Savannah College of Arts and Design in Fibers and Painting. Recent solo and group exhibitions include, "Almost There", Laundromat Art Space - Miami (2021),
"SIH", The End project space with Todd Schroeder-Atlanta (2021),"):)", SCAD Museum of Art, (2020); "F.F.A. Corp" - Hen House (2019); "Factory 1.1" - Alexander Hall (2018); "Java"- La Vitrina de la Oficina m20 Hotel Savoy, Lima (2019); "Sorry Not Sorry: posiciones, disposiciones y oposiciones” - curated by Max Hernandez CCPUCP, Lima (2020); "Threaded" curated by Mark Newport and Maria-Elisa Heg MCC Art Gallery, Arizona (2019) and "The Artist as Muse" Gutstein Gallery curated by Ariella Wolens and Ben Tollefson (2019). He was also part of the first Chuquimarca Residency program in Summer 2020, Longroad Projects Erie Residency in November of 2020, Kate-Ferri Projects in November of 2021. Co-Founder of Abrir Galeria, an independent gallery project that focuses on Latin American young artists.

Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in 1989 and raised in the U.S./Mexico borderland city of El Paso, Texas. Eric earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2011, a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2015 focusing on art education and border studies, and a MFA in Fine Art from the New York University in 2017. He has shown in Texas, New Mexico and New York.

Boris Torres (b. 1976, Ecuador) received a MFA from Brooklyn College, a MA in Art Education from City College, and a BFA from Parsons. Torres’s work has been part of numerous museum and group shows, including Art Aids America (Bronx Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum), Found (Leslie-Lohman Museum, NY), Queery (LatchKey gallery, NY), and Self-Consciousness (Curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als, Veneklasen Werner Gallery, Berlin). Previous solo shows include Bowman Gallery, Los Angeles; Prinz Eisenherz, Berlin; La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa; and La Naranjilla Mecánica in Quito, Ecuador. A 2019 recipient of the Leslie Lohman Museum Fellowship, his work has been featured in Hyperallergic, reviewed in The New York Times and included in several critically acclaimed films such as Tu Me Manques, Keep the Lights On, and Love is Strange. In Art & Queer Culture, by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Torres's work is included in an historical survey of significant work on culture and sexual identity from the last 125 years.

Martin Touzon After receiving a degree in Economics, he completed the Artists Program at the Torcuato di Tella University. During this period, he pursues a master's degree in Argentine and Latin American Art History from IDAES. His education is not just focused on a formal institutional level. His practice was nourished by working with the artist, curator and editor Sigismond de Vajay and since 2017 with Guillermo Kuitca in his projects and exhibitions. He participated in individual and collective exhibitions and made interventions in public space. He received public support such as the Patronage of the City of Buenos Aires, the Creation Grant by the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Science and the Bicentennial Grant of the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. In addition, he made residences abroad in Torino (Italy, 2017) Premio Italia - Argentina per l'Arte and in The Banff Center (Canada, 2013).

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