Contemporary Art Journal

Aurora Kalos and the Search for Home

Aurora Kalos paints migration and the inner search for home, her figures held between adaptation and loss in luminous, dissolving oil on canvas.

Johanna El Zelah models feeling into clay, shaping masks, flowers, and the female figure into small, charged, confessional hand-modeled ceramics.

Karlos Ibarra paints the human figure as a vessel for feeling, exploring balance, intimacy, and the charged space between people in large-format oil.

Molly van Amerongen builds quiet abstractions in oil and marble dust on wood, fields of color that read as landscapes of feeling rather than place.

Niamh Barry paints the leisure underside of corporate life, drawing on seven years in growth equity to reveal the quiet behind a polished surface.

Su Lin Casanova paints the inner life as hard-won resilience. Her obsidian mirror motif turns looking into a confrontation with the self.

Josh Stein / July 21, 2026

Mexico City has become a magnetic destination for contemporary art collectors. What draws them and why the appeal keeps growing.

How to find emerging contemporary artists in Mexico City, from independent project spaces and open studios to galleries championing new voices.

Mexico City Art Week for collectors: which fairs matter, how to plan gallery visits by neighborhood, and how to buy well during a crowded week.

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to Mexico City’s contemporary art districts, from Roma and Juarez to Polanco and San Miguel Chapultepec.