Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Lilian Garcia-Roig is included in several significant traveling group shows starting with, “Let Us Gather In A Flourishing Way”, curated by Andrea Alvarez, at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York. This show 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. Inspired by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem “Let Us Gather In a Flouring Way”, the show celebrates abundance and presents a vision of Latinx art that is, like the diaspora itself, infinitely complex.
It runs March 6 — September 6, 2026, and 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. Exhibition catalog available.
The second major traveling group show is “Imagining An Archipelago: Art From Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas”, curated by Jessamine Batario, at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. Connecting generations across oceans, the exhibition presents approximately fifty contemporary artworks by more than forty artists. The physically and visually immersive presentation brings together paintings, sculptures, videos, prints, photographs, and multimedia installations—including several newly commissioned, site-specific works—that explore artists’ relationships to the histories and communities of their lands and seas. Uniting the works are themes of cultural and political self-determination, indigeneity and migration, and climate crisis and resilience.
It opens July 26, 2026, and runs through January 27, 2027, after which it will travel to Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California, and the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey. Exhibition catalog available.
In addition, this summer she is preparing for several group shows in the upstate New York areas as well for a large solo show curated by Liliam Dominguez & Sophie Bonet, at the Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines, Florida. “Hyphenated Encounters: Lilian Garcia-Roig” will showcase recent works made while and Artists-In-Residence at the Deering Estate in Miami as well as other large-scale on-site Florida paintings and works from the “Hecho en Cuba”, Hecho con Cuba”, “Hyphenated Nature” & Re-Collecting Roig series. The 18′ walls of the 3,000 square foot galleries will allow for several of her monumental-scale works to be shown together for the first time.
An exhibition catalog with curatorial essays by Sophie Bonet (Chief Curator of the Frank), Liliam Dominguez (Head Curator and Museum Manager at the Deering Estate), Amy Galpin (Executive Director & Chief Curator of Museum of Art & Design Miami Dade College) & Maritza Lacayo, (Associate curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami) will be produced.
The show will open September 17, 2026 and run through January 2027.
More here.