February 2026
We're presenting at NADA NY!
join us May 13 -17
We're thrilled to announce that FORGOTTEN LANDS will be joining over 110 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations from 15 countries at the 12th edition of NADA New York, taking place May 13–17, 2026 at the iconic Starrett-Lehigh Building in West Chelsea.
Founded in 2002, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art — building pathways and fostering lasting connections for galleries, artists, institutions, and collectors through year-round programming and partnerships. Among 53 first-time exhibitors, FORGOTTEN LANDS will be part of one of the most exciting platforms for discovery during New York's art week. More details to come!
FORGOTTEN LANDS EVENTS
WATER at CARA | Saturday, April 11 at 4PM
📍 225 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Mark your calendars we'll be at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) as part of The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant, a series of four Saturday gatherings featuring invited artists whose practices engage Glissant's thinking, responding to earth, fire, water, and winds through dialogue, shared poetics, and polyvocality. Join us for the Water gathering alongside collaborators Chenée Daley (Vol. 07), Yaissa Jiménez (Vol. 06), and Okai Musik , with a closing performance by Las Mariquitas. Free and open to all.
ICP Book Fest 2026 | May 8-10
📍 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY
We're tabling at the ICP Photobook Fest 2026! Join us at the International Center of Photography on the Lower East Side for a three-day celebration of photobook publishing from around the world.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Lizania Cruz
Congratulations to artist, designer, and educator Lizania Cruz (featured in Vol 04) on being named MoMA's 2026 Adobe Creative Resident! Over the course of the yearlong residency, Cruz will develop Geography of Life — a research-based, site-specific project exploring interdependencies between humans and nature in the context of climate change and migration, in collaboration with New York City community members. The residency culminates in a presentation at MoMA.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Jamaica Kincaid & Edwidge Danticat at Schomburg Center
📍515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY
Columbia University's annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture brings together Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat for an evening of conversation, two of the most vital voices in Caribbean and diasporic literature, in dialogue at Harlem's legendary Schomburg Center.
The Caribbean Film Series at BAM
📍30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Programmed by Third Horizon and The Luminal Theater, The Caribbean Film Series at BAM this season turns toward the shared island of Haiti and the Dominican Republic — examining its fraught legacies, layered histories, and living realities through cinema.
Tacto Sonoro: Exploración y Documentación at Sabroso!
📍 802 Calle Corchado, Santurce, Puerto Rico
San Juan-based Sabroso Projects presents Tacto Sonoro: Exploración y Documentación, a new exhibition by Miguel González Cordero in collaboration with Andreína Hidalgo and Krisia Vélez Rivera, exploring the relationship between body, sound, and movement through performative interventions documented in video and audio.
Burning the Mask at The Latinx Project, NYU
📍 20 Cooper Square, 1st FL Gallery, NYC
The Latinx Project guest curator Patricia Encarnación presents Burning the Mask featuring works by artists Abigail Lucien (Vol 06) and Lizania Cruz (Vol. 04), alongside Brenda Barrios, Coco Fusco, Emmanuel Massillon, Hazel Batrezchavez, Jeffrey Meris, Karlo Ibarra, Santiago Forero, Vincent Valdez, and Yvette Mayorga.
Moments of Being at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
📍 5247 W Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
A solo exhibition of new work by Anina Major (Vol. 07), Moments of Being continues Major's engagement with Bahamian plaiting as a contemporary practice, Major considers how states of awareness emerge through the body — weaving together African traditions and European influences carried forward through displaced materials, interrupted rituals, and symbols without full archival continuity.
JAKMÈL | The Unveiling of Kanaval at Haiti Cultural Exchange
35 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Haiti Cultural Exchange presents work by Haitian artists Steven Baboun (Vol 03), FL Community Director Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Bacheler Jean-Pierre, Charles Jean-Pierre, Lori Martineau, Christina Rateau, and Kedler St-Hilaire. Curated by Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain, JAKMÈL explores the historical, artistic, and cultural significance of the city's Carnival as a living archive of survival, memory, and self-expression.
Passages at The Wexner Center for the Arts
📍 1871 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio
Passages is the most comprehensive survey to date of Volume 04 artist Hew Locke's work. Spanning three decades of installation, photography, sculpture, and works on paper that examine the visual language of empire, colonialism, and diasporic identity, the exhibition is on view through May 24 in Columbus, Ohio at The Wexner Center for the Arts on The Ohio State University before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Texas in June.
otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua at MAC Panamá
📍 C. San Blas, Panamá, Provincia de Panamá, Panama
A commissioned exhibition bringing together artists Nadia Huggins (Vol. 03) and Tessa Mars , curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and Juan Canela. Through video installation and audio-pictorial works, the two artists explore the ocean as a space of emancipatory imagination, improvisational freedom, and Caribbean resistance, with Huggins tracing the historical journey of the Garífuna nation and Mars mapping mountains as sites of marronage and transformation.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
March - April
Textile Arts Center Artist in Residence Cycle 18 (NYC, USA) | Deadline: March 6 Apply >>
Interlude Artist Residency (Hudson Valley, NY, USA) | Deadline: March 7 Apply >>
The Image Centre Research Fellowships: Photography (International, Toronto, CA) | Deadline: March 13 Apply >>
2026 DAG Visual Art Prize (USA) | Deadline: March 18 Apply >>
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art (NYC, USA) | Deadline: April 1 Apply >>
The Latinx Project Artist-in-Residence (NYC, USA) | Deadline: April 13 Apply >>
The Vilcek Foundation 2026 Open Call for Grants (USA) | Deadline: April 30 Apply >>
RECENT PRESS
Out of 51 first-time exhibitors, we're honored to be featured in this ArtNews article about our upcoming NADA gallery booth! Over the next few weeks we'll share more about our upcoming presentation, artists, and artworks for sale.