Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way

Friday, March 6, 2026–Sunday, September 6, 2026

Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field. The fifty-eight artists in the exhibition—and those in the Latinx field more broadly—encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines. This exhibition therefore celebrates artists whose expressions are first and foremost personal and subjective, but whose heterogeneous and culturally specific interventions enrich one another and the history of American and contemporary art, two fields from which such artists have been historically excluded. Inspired by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem “[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way],” the show celebrates abundance and presents a vision of Latinx art that is, like the diaspora itself, infinitely complex.  

Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and curated by Curator Andrea Alvarez. It will be followed by a national tour including presentations at the Des Moines Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle. A stunning catalog is available on AKG Museum page.

October 24, 2026 – January 24, 2027: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

March 19 – August 22, 2027: MCA Denver, Denver, CO

November 10, 2027 – February 27, 2028: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

April 25 – August 20, 2028: Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA