NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Amazonia A鐄, an exhibition that sheds light on the multiplicities of the Amazon, a region which comprises many different communities each distinguished by its own belief system, culture, and language.
On view from September 3, 2025 to April 18, 2026, the show includes paintings, textiles, ceramics, drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures from artists and collectives of all nine countries of the Pan-Amazon region: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Amazonia A鐄 will feature over fifty contemporary artworks, from 1990 to the present. The exhibition provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the aesthetic, cultural, and material diversity found in the Amazon as a means to upend flattening generalizations typically associated with the territory and to frame the discourse surrounding the region within a contemporary context.
“The ‘Amazonia A鐄’ — the latter a Tupi-Guaran word for ‘large’ or ‘expanded’ —is not only the largest carbon sink on Earth and a sanctuary of biodiversity, but also home to hundreds of languages and other forms of cultural expression,” said Aim Iglesias Lukin, Americas Society’s Director and Chief Curator of Art. “The exhibition aims to highlight the diversity of the region, encouraging future research and other exhibition projects to expand study of the territory.”
The show is co-curated by a committee of representatives from each country within the Amazon region: Curatorial Advisor Keyna Eleison and Mateus Nunes, of Brazil, Elvira Espejo Ayca of Bolivia, Mar韆 Wills of Colombia, Diana Iturralde of Ecuador, T2i and NouN of French Guiana, Grace Aneiza Ali of Guyana, Christian Benday醤 of Peru, Miguel Keerveld of Suriname and Luis Romero of Venezuela.
“Very much like Amazonia, the exhibition is not self-contained. It is a space of openness, interconnection, and meeting. Each work selected, each narrative constructed, carries within itself a story that adds to other stories, creating a collective quilt,” said Eleison. “The curators, all from different Amazonian territories, are more than art mediators; they are guardians of their cultures, histories, and worldviews. They invite us to look beyond stereotypes of the Amazon, listen to its deeper tones, connect ourselves with its subtler layers.”
The exhibition shows artworks like Untitled (Pei Ken 1, 2019), a piece in which sprout leaves repeated in flawless precision hint a forest landscape. Peruvian artist Sara Flores used the ken design tradition of the Shipibo-Konibo people that women in her family taught her to create her unique palette with natural dyes on a wild-cotton canvas.
Amazonia A鐄 also displays works that combine manual collage, photomontage, and painting on raffia, like Hist髍ias do Anu III by Brazilian artist G Viana, in which she shows the Afro-diasporic and Indigenous everyday life of the Maranh鉶 territory, in Northeast Brazil.
Other artists participating in this exhibition include: Danasion Akobe, Ang閘ica Alomoto, Pablo Amaringo, Johan Amiemba, Lola Ankarapi, Chonon Bensho, Darrell A. Carpenay, El韆s Caurey Caurey, Colectivo TAWNA, Comunidad Weenhayek, Estela Dagua, PV Dias, Dawa Garc韆, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Shaundell Horton, Sri Irodikromo, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Wilfrido Lusitande Piaguaje, Thiago Martins de Melo, H閘io Melo, Mary Morales Barrientos, NouN, Claudia Opim Vaca, Bernadette Indira Persaud, Javier Puunawe, Abel Rodr韌uez (Mogaje Guihu), Aycoobo (Wilson Rodr韌uez), Nancy Santi, Nelly Sheimi, T2i, Agustina Valera and Oliver Agust韓, and Santiago Yahuarcani.
To accompany the show, Americas Society will present a series of public programs and publish a catalogue.
