Selected Works
Miguel Angel Payano Jr.
Urumqi Night
2022
60 x 61.5 x 16 cm
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
雷底嘎嘎 (Lei Di Ga Ga)
2023
67 x 63 x 21 cm
Photographed by Yang Hao
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Thoughts Unsaid
2023
60 x 60 x 22 cm
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
New Prospects
2023
138 cm x 135 cm x 35 cm
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Riptide
2023
125 x 130 x 25 cm
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Night Glider
2023
150 x 162 x 12 cm
Miguel Angel Payano Jr.
AKA
2022
60 x 62 x 18 cm
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Gimme Shelter aka My Song
2023
60 x 63 x 18 cm
Photographed by Yang Hao
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.
Holding Court
2023
119 x 178 x 5 cm
Biography
Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980) is an Afro-Caribbean American visual artist born in New York, USA. He completed a BA at Williams College in Chinese Language & Studio Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts (2003); an MFA in Oil Painting from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2008) and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, CUNY, NY (2020). Heavily influenced by American, Caribbean and Chinese cultures, Payano’s mixed media works investigate themes of identity-formation and class.
Throughout his career, Payano has exhibited extensively with notable shows at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara in California and Ad-Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia, Hauser & Wirth and Simon Lee, among others. In 2024, Payano’s work will be shown in a solo exhibition at UCCA, Beijing, China. Recent solo exhibitions include Out From, Charles Moffett, New York, US (2023); Sojourn Summits, Galleria Poggiali, Milano (2022); Elusive Nature, Make Room, Los Angeles (2021) and Miguel Ángel Payano Jr., Charles Moffett, New York (2021). Selected group exhibitions include Resilience, Eastville Museum, Sag Harbor, New York, US (2022); 1-54 Art Fair with Galleria Poggiali, London (2022); NADA, Charles Moffett, Miami (2021) and Universes, Curator S. Bogojev, Droste Gallery, Paris (2021). Payano currently lives and works between Beijing and New York.
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