Photo credit: Erin Morgan Taylor

Ep.203 Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin and a founder of the arts and culture magazine Jettison Quarterly. Aguilar serves on the board of Chicago Artist Coalition and is a member of the Society for Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Photo credit: Erin Morgan Taylor

Patron https://patrongallery.com/about

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuel-aguilar-9819194/

Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/organizations/patron

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/arts/design/whitney-biennial-review-museum-art.html

Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/877662/first-impressions-from-the-2024-whitney-biennial/

Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/patron-gallery-chicago-interview/

Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2024/04/artseen/Whitney-Biennial-2024-Even-Better-Than-the-Real-Thing

Bay State banner https://www.baystatebanner.com/2024/03/20/noe-martinez-explores-indigenous-ancestry-and-trauma-of-colonialism-in-the-body-remembers/

SETI Org https://www.seti.org/seti-air-newsletter-march-2024

e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/599131/81st-whitney-biennial-even-better-than-the-real-thing

AnOther Magazine https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/15214/chantal-akerman-exhibition-2023-jeanne-dielman-collier-schorr-carmen-winant

Art Basel https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/3688/Patron?lang=en | https://www.artbasel.com/stories/young-voices-from-the-whitney-biennial-2024

Frieze https://www.frieze.com/gallery/patron | https://www.frieze.com/article/focus-frieze-new-york-stanley-stellar-reverend-joyce-mcdonald

The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/21/whitney-biennial-2024-even-better-than-the-real-thing

Six Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-atmosphere-that-holds-us-an-interview-with-brittany-nelson-on-i-cant-make-you-love-me/

Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/03/13/whitney-biennial-new-york-art

Harold Mendez
Cuentos y cuentas (Notes on embodiment)

2023-2024
Pigment, encaustic, gesso, watercolor, oxidized brass, iron filings, fabric with traces of gold, platinum and silver, tallow, cochineal, offset printing,sandpaper, resist coatings, charcoal, tri-directional foil, and fiberglass mounted on dibond.
13 × 17 × 1 in

Jamal Cyrus
Signal

2023
Bleached denim, denim, zippers, cotton, thread, sea shells, glue
46..5 × 64 in

Noé Martínez
Tlacuache

2024
Sgraffito high-temperature ceramic, obsidian, and glass beads
8h x 9 1/2w x 9d in

Greg Breda
This too

2021
Acrylic on vellum
40 × 43 in

Charisse Pearlina Weston
Edge Circuit I

2024
Photographic inkjet print on Hahnemühle canvas etched with glass from the impending surge, tempered glass, resin,acrylic paint, frit
44 × 67 in