Works
Exhibitions
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Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Out From 8 April - 13 May 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present Out From, a solo exhibition of new works by Bronx-based artist Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. Following a series of collaborations in 2021, including a solo exhibition and a presentation at NADA Miami, this marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery since officially joining the program last spring.Read more -
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
4 February - 7 March 2021Charles Moffett is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by New York and Beijing-based artist, Miguel Angel Payano Jr. The exhibition is Payano’s first in New York,...Read more
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Biography
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980, New York, New York; lives and works in the Bronx, New York. MFA Hunter College 2021, New York; MFA Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing 2008; BA Williams College 2003.) was born in an Afro-Caribbean family in New York and studied in New England before moving to China in his twenties, Payano has always had to navigate between and among several languages and cultures. Learning to communicate across these contexts, Payano became more and more attuned to the importance of language in our understanding of and relation to one another. Now living and working between New York and Beijing, the mouth-partial and potent-has become an anchoring image in Payano's practice. While earlier in his career Payano worked mostly in paint, in recent years he's expanded his practice to embrace sculptural and quasi-sculptural forms - with his peach-mouths joined by other images, textures, and found, transformed, and assembled objects that form strange human-like portraits that fuse painting and sculpture. Charles Moffett's representation of Payano follows a series of collaborations over the course of the last year, including a solo exhibition in early 2021 and a presentation at NADA Miami 2021.
Press
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Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. Interviewed by Melissa Joseph
Melissa Josephs, BOMB, 26 April 2023 -
An Uptown Cat Became a Chinese Artist. Then He Returned Home.
Siddhartha Mitter, The New York Times, 14 April 2023 -
Three Outstanding Gallery Installations at NADA Miami 2021
Davis Graver, Cool Hunting, 6 December 2021