2026: Buffalo AKG group show
Super excited & honored to be included in this show alongside so many artists I have long admired-
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way , curated by Andrea Alvarez, 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.
ABOVE: “Hyphenated Nature: Northern Florida-Cuban Painting Relations (after Carta)”, 30” x 78”. (left & right are on-site , oil on canvas paintings & middle is acrylic & handmade Cuban soil-pigment on canvas (2020) and is my contribution to the “Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way” exhibition.
For years I have been searching for ways to hyphenate my perceptually based on-site painting practice with my conceptually based interest in connecting with the Cuban landscape and with the history of the Cuban artists who painted it. This triptych is composed of two Northern Florida paintings made “en plein-air” over the course an entire day at St Mark‘s Nature Preserve, which bookend an Albers-based square work that has an image of a Cuban landscape painted by using Cuban soil pigment. This middle piece is based on a famous painting “Las Malangas” by Valentin Sanz Carta that is in El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana. I originally saw this painting on my first visit to Cuba in 1999 and was immediately drawn to it. I chose to use this piece as the hyphenation for my two on-site works because I saw elements in the Carta painting in each of my works. - The painting on the left was of a creek with tannic waters surrounded by dense vegetation and trunks leading over it. The work on the right had a sable palm that was similar to the ones in the Carta painting.
I created my Albers Square grid foundation by pulling colors from my on-site paintings and then repainted a section of the Carta work using actual Cuban soil, which I ground-up by hand into pigment. By literally superimposing “Cuba” (in the form of soil/pigment) on Western Bauhausian modernism, I embraced the modernist grid while simultaneously bursting out of it and rejecting it with the Cuban vernacular landscape, and in so doing found a new culturally and pictorially hyphenated space to paint.
The show’s intergenerational and regionally broad dialogue is reflected in seven thematic groupings: (New) Histories, offering new perspectives on personal, cultural, and global histories; Bodies & Figures, representations of and by marginalized people, considering the importance of the body, and who is or isn’t seen in an image; Identity/Place, a consideration of how identity and place shape each other with a diasporic lens; Land/tierra, varied approaches to land and the built environment, from the material to the imaginary; Community, highlighting various communities—artistic, blood, and chosen—and their importance to populations within the diaspora; Pinturx, contemporary Latinx approaches to traditional painting genres like still life and portraiture; and Abstractions, exploring centuries-long Indigenous and European abstract traditions still in use by artists today.
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.
In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting
This core show is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading Pennsylvania and augmented by landscape-themed works from the permanent collection of the Art Museum of South Texas. It runs January 22- May 3, 2026.
Works in the Reading collection combine early depictions of bucolic North American vistas—intimate forest interiors, sweeping panoramic views of natural wonders, and dramatic images of the untamed land and sea—with scenes of Europe, the Near East, and South America.
In addition to works by nineteenth-century landscape artists such as Thomas Birch, Frederic Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Worthington Whittredge, William Trost Richards, Hermann Herzog, and Aaron Draper Shattuck, the exhibition also examines the late-nineteenth century shift to Impressionism and Tonalism at the turn of the century by painters including George Inness, N. C. Wyeth, Childe Hassam, Edward Willis Redfield, John Fulton Folinsbee, John Mulhaupt and Robert Spencer. These movements captured the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere by employing new and innovative techniques including painting out-of-doors, en plein air.
Cumulative Nature: Layered View (WA) , 48” x 36”, oil on canvas, 2008 (in the permanent collection of the Art Museum of South Texas)
The expanded exhibition explores the progression from naturalistic depictions of pastoral landscapes to the stylized and individual impressions of time and place reflect the sensibilities of visual culture in the United States over the course of two centuries. The on-site (en plein air) painting above is my piece in this show.
2019: Palm Beach Contemporary (Cernuda Arte)
2019: Flatbed Press in Austin
So pleased to have been part of the early wave of female Texas artists that were invited to work at Flatbed Press in Austin. I used to do a lot of printmaking when I lived in Austin and Director Katherine Brimberry's enthusiasm for all things printed was contagious-Hope to be able to work with her again. Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle wrote a great article about the show "WOMEN OF FLATBED: A RETROSPECTIVE" which is currently on view at the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin.
2019: comma box
2019: Park Ave Studios
Below are two of the several works I exhibited at PARK AVE STUDIOS in Savanah as part of a pop-up show organized by Ms. Sharon Norwood. The exhibition's theme was "Hyphenated-Nature" because I paired some of my on-site US made works with my "Hecho Con Cuba" series.
2019: Blue Spiral 1 “En Plein Air”
2019: "Made in Texas", an exhibition with "Latino Art Now" in Houston
So pleased to be part of "Made in Texas", an exhibition that is part of the "Latino Art Now" symposium and events in Houston. This show features Latinx women artists whose careers and production have been associated with Texas. All the works are drawn from The Gilberto and Dolores Cardenas Collection in Austin. Gilberto Cardenas, a professor of Mexican American & Latin American studies at both UT Austin & Notre Dame, has been a major figure in the exhibition, collection & promotion of Chicano & Latinx art for over 30 years. Artists in the show include: Connie Aristmendi, Ana Fuentes, Santa Barraza, Claudia Elisa Zapata, Candace M. Briceno, Suzy Gonzalez, Melanie Cervantes, Paloma Mayorga, Irene Perez & Me-
2019: Portland Museum of Art
Read a review of the show by Daniel Kany of the Portland Press Herald at: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/24/art-review-contemporary-art-of-caribbean-highlights-fraught-history/
2019: Featured Visual Artist for the 2019 MacDowell National Gala
2019: Florida Prize in Contemporary Art (Orlando Museum)
https://omart.org/exhibitions/2019_orlando_museum_of_art_florida_prize_in_contemporary_art/
https://www.facebook.com/OrlandoMuseumofArt/videos/vb.55260623619/411233306130958/?type=2&theater
Read the Orlando Sentinel's "Eyes on the Prize: Latest Florida Prize brings in artists from around the state" by Trevor Fraser at: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-et-florida-prize-orlando-museum-of-art-20190529-bbncxvez3fhlxml3bwglwrjet4-story.html
2019: Todd Art Gallery
What’s So Funny About the End of the World?- an exhibition at Todd Art Gallery, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN.
Artists: Chalet Comellas, Patrick DeGuira, Craig Drennen, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Kristi Hargrove, Ron Lambert, Judith Rushin & Clint Sleeper.
2019: Residency at VCCA
Sneak-peek at some of the new Hecho Con Cuba works made during my 2-week residency at VCCA- Interesting how when I was working at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains I ended up making works about chasing the Caribbean picturesque in a post-utopian landscape by literally super-imposing the iconic Pinar del Rio Cuban landscape (with Cuban soil I turned into pigment from the Viñales Valley) onto the Modernist grid (which were based on the local house colors)-simultaneously embracing and rejecting "the grid"-
2019: The Pennsylvania Gazette
Pleased to be featured in the NOV/DEC issue of the The Pennsylvania Gazette in their Arts section. The article was written by Danielle Braff.
You can read the full article on line at: https://thepenngazette.com/imaginary-homelands/
2019: The Baker Museum
Pleased to be featured in the NOV/DEC issue of the The Pennsylvania Gazette in their Arts section. The article was written by Danielle Braff.
You can read the full article on line at:
https://thepenngazette.com/imaginary-homelands/
Sneak-peek at some of the new Hecho Con Cuba works made during my 2-week residency at VCCA- Interesting how when I was working at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains I ended up making works about chasing the Caribbean picturesque in a post-utopian landscape by literally super-imposing the iconic Pinar del Rio Cuban landscape (with Cuban soil I turned into pigment from the Viñales Valley) onto the Modernist grid (which were based on the local house colors)-simultaneously embracing and rejecting "the grid"-
What’s So Funny About the End of the World?
- an exhibition at Todd Art Gallery, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN. Artists: Chalet Comellas, Patrick DeGuira, Craig Drennen, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Kristi Hargrove, Ron Lambert, Judith Rushin & Clint Sleeper.
https://omart.org/exhibitions/2019_orlando_museum_of_art_florida_prize_in_contemporary_art/
https://www.facebook.com/OrlandoMuseumofArt/videos/vb.55260623619/411233306130958/?type=2&theater
YouTube video of the opening By Mark Kateli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPVj5w-oFY
Read the Orlando Sentinel's "Eyes on the Prize: Latest Florida Prize brings in artists from around the state" by Trevor Fraser at:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-et-florida-prize-orlando-museum-of-art-20190529-bbncxvez3fhlxml3bwglwrjet4-story.html
And make sure to hear the short video clip on the site by Trevore Fraser which talks about his favorite pieces-
Lilian Garcia-Roig: Featured Visual Artist for the 2019 MacDowell National Gala
Read a review of the show by Daniel Kany of the Portland Press Herald at https://www.pressherald.com/2019/03/24/art-review-contemporary-art-of-caribbean-highlights-fraught-history/
So pleased to be part of "Made in Texas", an exhibition that is part of the "Latino Art Now" symposium and events in Houston. This show features Latinx women artists whose careers and production have been associated with Texas. All the works are drawn from The Gilberto and Dolores Cardenas Collection in Austin. Gilberto Cardenas, a professor of Mexican American & Latin American studies at both UT Austin & Notre Dame, has been a major figure in the exhibition, collection & promotion of Chicano & Latinx art for over 30 years. Artists in the show include: Connie Aristmendi, Ana Fuentes, Santa Barraza, Claudia Elisa Zapata, Candace M. Briceno, Suzy Gonzalez, Melanie Cervantes, Paloma Mayorga, Irene Perez & Me-
Below are two of the several works I exhibited at PARK AVE STUDIOS in Savanah as part of a pop-up show organized by Ms. Sharon Norwood. The exhibition's theme was "Hyphenated-Nature" because I paired some of my on-site US made works with my "Hecho Con Cuba" series-.
Read more about that series on my website at:
http://www.liliangarcia-roig.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/HechoConCubaState.pdf
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/uploads/pdf/2018-WideningCircles-Web.pdf
So pleased to have been part of the early wave of female Texas artists that were invited to work at Flatbed Press in Austin. I used to do a lot of printmaking when I lived in Austin and Director Katherine Brimberry's enthusiasm for all things printed was contagious-Hope to be able to work with her again. Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle wrote a great article about the show "WOMEN OF FLATBED: A RETROSPECTIVE" which is currently on view at the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-01-11/celebrating-the-women-of-flatbed-press-at-printaustin-2019/
2018: Relational Undercurrents
RELATIONAL UNDERCURRENTS show extended through March 4.
In a new review of Relational Undercurrents James Scarborough writes, "WHAT IF I JUST HAD 20 MINUTES? Once you understand how banyan trees grow from seeds that land on other trees and, over time, germinate and strangle their host, you'll better appreciate the incisive commentary of Lilian Garcia-Roig’s Fluid Perceptions: Banyan as Metaphor, 2016."- January 29, 2018Great to see that my painting was the first work prioritized to see if you only had 20 minutes to view the show-read the full review at:
2018: Cernuda Arte (HECHO EN CUBA)
Cernuda Arte will be showing my new HECHO EN CUBA paintings this year. A solo show of these works will open May 4 but a sneak preview is up now. These paintings were made on-site in, in the iconic Pinar del Rio region of Cuba....I was trying to (as literally as possible) follow in the footsteps of the great Cuban landscape painters...while still trying to do my own Cuban-American thing.
2018: HECHO CON CUBA series at FSU's MOFA
2018: Dallas Art Fair
2018: Enchanted Florida
http://artandhistory.org/event/enchanted-florida-picturing-contemporary-landscape
Super excited and honored to be in this amazing group show of Latinx artists-
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.
