Guan-Hong Lu's Apocalypse Now: From Cradle to Grave acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami

Guan-hong Lu, Apocalypse Now: From Cradle to Grave, 2024, oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 63 3/4 in | 120 x 162 cm

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to share that Guan-Hong Lu's Apocalypse Now: From Cradle to Grave has been acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami. In this work, Lu engages themes of absurdism, lingering violence, and the faceless power of media to create a rich scene that explores both the relationship between the depicted characters, and the contrast between the characters and their surrounding environment. Through his meticulous attention to detail, Lu creates a powerful image that invites the viewer to reflect on their own perceptions of cultural difference. His keen understanding of color and texture results a piece that is not only culturally resonant and narratively strong, but also visually compelling and complex.

Through intentional misplacements, Guan-Hong Lu's work poses questions about the media's role in shaping narratives. By examining the processes of creating and consuming images, he reveals how meaning can be distorted, misinterpreted, or even lost, yet can simultaneously give rise to something unintended and thought-provoking. He intertwines a sense of richness with banality, inviting viewers to see the essence of everyday life from alternative perspectives. His work captures the absurdity and tension of living in an era of contradictions—fragile yet resilient, connected yet distant.

Lu's Apocalypse Now: From Cradle to Grave was featured in his solo exhibition, View From My Window, on view at Nunu Fine Art New York | Project Space in 2025. Nunu Fine Art looks forward to presenting a solo exhibition for Lu at the newly-renovated Taipei gallery in August 2026.

Ning Fu's Supa Lonely acquired by the North Dakota Museum of Art

Ning Fu, Supa Lonely, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 51 1/8 x 51 1/8 inches | 129.9 x 129.9 cm

Nunu Fine Art is excited to share that Ning Fu's Supa Lonely has been acquired by the North Dakota Museum of Art.

Ning Fu’s work utilizes images as both form and source material to create her paintings. Most of these images are not produced by her; rather, she sources existing documentation and images that are easily accessible online. This deliberate approach reflects a distinctly contemporary experience, mirroring the illusion of ease with which our private lives are circulated in the public realm of the internet. Fu is interested in how, through the proliferation of social media, online images construct a new reality—one in which our physical experience and surroundings are no longer the primary factors in shaping our identities. ​

Ning Fu was featured in the 2024 group exhibition, In the Moment: Six Artists from Taiwan, at Nunu Fine Art New York.

Cianne Fragione's Mare Ionian (afternoon light) acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art

Cianne Fragione, Mare Ionian (afternoon light), 2020-2022, oil-based paint, pigment, collage older works, beaded textile, and graphite on paper, 53 x 61.3 in | 134.62 x 155.7 cm (framed: 58 x 66.1 x 3 in | 147.32 x 167.89 x 7.62 cm)

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to announce that Cianne Fragione's Mare Ionian (afternoon light) has been acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art.

With roots in the San Francisco Bay Area Beat and Funk art milieus, Fragione has developed her own process-oriented artistic vocabulary over the past four decades that crosses boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, and between object and image. Her signature style is characterized by striking combination of oil paint, mixed-media materials, found objects, and textiles. Each piece, whether two- or three-dimensional, is built slowly over lengthy periods, becoming a dense synthesis of influences and personal perspectives, including mid-century gestural abstraction and the physical fluency of her early training as a professional dancer. While a sense of space and movement dominates her two-dimensional works, her assemblage pieces tend to be denser and more corporeal. Her most recent works respond to two collections of poems by Italian poet and writer Eugenio Montale: Mediterraneo and Ossi di Seppia.​

In 2025, Nunu Fine Art New York presented What Remains, its first solo exhibition of Cianne Fragione.

Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog acquired by the Portland Museum of Art

Rona Pondick, Prairie Dog, 2011-13, stainless steel, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in, 10.8 x 19.68 x 12.06 cm.

Nunu Fine Art is excited to share that Rona Pondick's Prairie Dog has been acquired by the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine through a generous gift from Antonio Homem.

Since she came to prominence in the late 1980’s, the New York-based artist has worked with fragments that evoke the body—such as shoes, baby bottles, and teeth—reconfigured into new psychologically provocative wholes. In the late 1990s, she produced the first of her hybrid sculptures that marry her own body parts with those of animals and trees. In Prairie Dog, Pondick continues this exploration of the human body as a site for metamorphosis and hybridity. The sculpture fuses human and animal parts into an ambiguous form that resists easy categorization. Cast in stainless steel, the reflective surface invites the viewer to reflect on the fluid boundaries between body and environment, self and other.

In 2021, Nunu Fine Art Taipei presented Rona Pondick: Sculpture, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia.

Chiao-Han Chueh's She-wolf and Shida Kuo's Untitled 24-02 acquired by the Chazen Museum of Art

Chiao-Han Chueh, She-wolf, 2024

acrylic on canvas

52 x 32 in | 132 x 81 cm

Shida Kuo, Untitled 24-02, 2024

fired clay

20.5 x 14 x 5.5 in｜52.1 x 35.6 x 14 cm

Nunu Fine Art is delighted to announce the acquisition of Chiao-Han Chueh's She-wolf and Shida Kuo's Untitled 24-02 by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chief Curator Katherine Alcauskas remarks, "The Chazen Museum of Art celebrates the addition of works by Shida Kuo and Chiao-Han Chueh, enriching our diverse collection of Asian paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts. These striking artworks join contemporary masterpieces by Xu Bing, Xiang Jing, and Loretta Hui-Shan Yang, deepening the dialogue between tradition and innovation in our galleries."

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Hamburg-based Taiwanese artist Chiao-Han Chueh reflects on her experience of growing up in Taiwan and later living in the West as an Asian woman, contesting the normative gender constraints of women’s bodies and sexuality by portraying primarily nude female figures engaging in unbridled behavior within fantastical spaces. Her approach to oil painting has been shaped by canonical Western traditions and Chinese calligraphy and ink painting, which she learned at art school in Taiwan. Her work demonstrates the convergence of her personal experience and aesthetics, influenced by diverse artistic traditions.

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to have presented Chueh's first exhibition in the United States, Intimate Play, in 2023.

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Shida Kuo has developed a distinct vocabulary of biomorphic forms inspired by nature. Kuo subtracts from clay and wood until they are reduced to fundamental, richly tactile shapes. He sculpts entirely by hand and often embraces a time-consuming processes; as a result, the sculptures carry traces of their making and convey the simplicity and truthfulness of their materials.

Kuo is inspired by the shared experience of perception, and specifically by the phenomenon of people from different origins and backgrounds reacting to forms and materials in very similar ways. His work explores our human capacity to respond to emotional and spiritual impacts on a bodily or visceral level before such responses are processed in our mind. The materials he favors—ceramic and wood—have been used by various peoples for thousands of years, and as such, represent connections between cultures and generations. While his sculptures appeal to viewers visually through their puzzlingly unrecognizable curves, they also prompt the subconscious to search for forgotten—or perhaps even future—forms in them.

In 2024, Nunu Fine Art New York presented Shida Kuo: Selected Works 1993 to 2023, a survey exhibition of Kuo's works spanning three decades..

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir participates in Creative Responses at Akureyri Art Museum

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to congratulate Thordis Adalsteinsdottir on her curatorial role in the exhibition “Creative Responses” at the Akureyri Art Museum. The exhibition opens on November 27, 2025 and runs through February 8, 2026. 

 The exhibition focuses on ideas drawn from a collection of articles titled “Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature” (2025) and centers around the role, responsibility, and significance of art and culture in the face of today’s accelerating environmental change. 

 A collaboration between the University of Iceland’s Thingeyjarsveit Research Center, Specta Gallery, and the Akureyri Art Museum, the exhibition is led by curators Thordis Adalsteinsdottir and Audur Adalsteinsdottir. The exhibition presents artworks discussed in the anthology, as well as works by additional artists whose practices resonate with its core questions. Together, these works shed deeper light on how art responds to ecological crises and the emotional and cultural issues arising from them. 

 Creative Responses  ｜Duration: November 27, 2025 - February 8, 2026  ｜Venue: Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland  ｜Opening Hours: 12 PM - 5 PM daily 

Mimian Hsu featured in inaugural exhibition of Lenguajes Errantes (Errant Languages) at MADC

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to share that Mimian Hsu (b. 1980) is featured as one of the artists in the inaugural exhibition of the Lenguages Errantes (Errant Languages) program at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in San José, Costa Rica. 

Hsu, a Costa Rican artist with Taiwanese heritage, explores cultural hybridity, migration, and identity through autobiographical, poetic, and non-figurative visual languages. Her practice interrogates the boundaries between cultures and selves, often through portraits, performances, and installations. 

In this inaugural exhibition, Hsu enters into dialogue with Costa Rican artist Elia Arce, and together they reflect on how their migratory paths unsettle fixed notions of belonging and identity—shifting away from a monolithic idea of “the Costa Rican” toward identities that are fluid and continually evolving. 

In a time where difference is criminalized and borders militarized, Hsu and Arce's work testifies that our shared humanity—and greatest richness—lies in empathy and diversity.

Lenguajes Errantes | Duration: November 8, 2025 - May 2026 | Venue: Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica | Opening Hours: Tues - Sat 10 AM - 4:50 PM

Kaspar Bonnén interviewed in Nordic Portraits podcast

Kaspar Bonnen, The Raft, 2018, oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 94 1/2 in | 200 x 240 cm

Nunu Fine Art is excited to share that Kaspar Bonnén was recently interviewed for the Nordic Portraits podcast. Hosted by the Copenhagen-based producer Ben Catford, Nordic Portraits engages Danish artists in conversations that explore themes ranging from professional insights to deeply personal experiences. 

In Bonnén's episode, the multi-disciplinary artist and writer—who works between painting, ceramics, installation, and poetry—discusses his upbringing, his early curiosity and search for an artistic language, and the role creative expression has played in processing trauma. He also reflects on his ongoing pursuit of personal growth and on the themes of memory, identity, and sense of place that continue to shape his practice. 

As Bonnén notes, "art was a place where I could... open up to these emotions and try to explain to myself what was really going on." 

Listen to the episode here.

Rona Pondick's Wallaby currently on view at Walker Art Center

Rona Pondick, Wallaby, 2007-12, stainless steel, edition of 3 + 1 AP, 24 x 44 3/8 x 10 7/8 in (60.96 x 112.71 x 27.62 cm). All images credit to the artist.

Nunu Fine Art is thrilled to announce that Rona Pondick's Wallaby is currently on view in the Walker Art Center's exhibition, Sculpture Court. Sculpture Court brings together the works of nearly 40 artists who "radically reimagined what it means to represent the body, through a range of materials, scales, and formal interpretations." The exhibition explores—and derives its name from—the concept of the "sculpture court," transforming its Perlman Gallery to resemble the airy courtyards and gardens that have historically served as forums to present sculptural works since the 16th century. 

Curated by Henriette Huldisch, with Laurel Rand-Lewis, Huldsich shares that "the Walker's contemporary interpretation [of the historical sculpture court] takes visitors on a brief tour through the radical changes in representing the human figure over the course of the 20th century.”

Sculpture Court | Duration: October 18, 2025 - September 6, 2026 | Venue: Waker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | Opening Hours: Wed, Fri - Sun 10 AM - 5 PM, Thurs 10 AM - 9 PM

Rona Pondick's Untitled Tree currently on view at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Rona Pondick, Untitled Tree, 1997, Cast-aluminum, Unique, Tree 180 x 180 x 168 in (457.2 x 457.2 x 426.72 cm) 3 x 4 x 4 1/2 in (7.62 x 10.16 x 11.43 cm) Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2025. Gift of Sherry Vogel Mallin, Class of 1955, and Joel Mallin, Class of 1955

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to congratulate Rona Pondick on the recent installation of “Untitled Tree” at Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

“Untitled Tree,” a cast-aluminum sculpture created in 1997, will sit on the southwest lawn next to the I.M. Pei Building as part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Alex Hernández-Dueñas and Ariamna Contino’s Total Cartography on view at Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Alex Hernández and Ariamna Contino, Total Cartography, 2023/2025, installation work: photovoltaic generator, air and water filters coupled to a cultivation system

Nunu Fine Art is delighted to share that artist duo Alex-Dueñas Hernández and Ariamna Contino’s Total Cartography is currently on view in the garden of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum. The museum garden is the site for this year’s Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend, which features sculptures by 14 artists, and is open now until October 26.

Total Cartography is an installation work composed of a symbiotic micro-ecosystem made up of a set of interconnected sculptures. Each one fulfills a vital function: a photovoltaic generator, air and water filters coupled to a cultivation system. 

The sensitive devices incorporate a weather station that records and translates environmental data from the surroundings, thus making visible the conditions of the place where they are installed. The structure operates as a regeneration laboratory that sustains a garden, enabling the real-time tracking of a biological process of nature while simultaneously functioning as a metaphor for the construction of a landscape-ecosystem through a technological interface. This data is then used to construct a visual record through abstract works on cut-out paper, based on their own statistics. This methodological approach constitutes the foundation of their concept of ‘landscapes.’

Sculpture Exhibition at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum | Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend | Duration: September 11, 2025 – October 26, 2025 | Venue: Lázaro Galdiano Museum | Opening Hours: Tues-Fri 9:30 AM – 3 PM and 4:30 – 7:30 PM, Sat-Sun 9:30 AM – 3 PM

Madeline Jiménez Santil to be featured in Group Show Tierra Cifrada / Coded Earth at MOLAA

Credit: artist studio

Nunu Fine Art is thrilled to announce that Madeline Jiménez Santil has been awarded an Emerging Artist prize by the 2025 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Grants & Commissions Program. Jiménez Santil’s work will feature in a group exhibition jointly-organized by CIFO and The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) titled Tierra Cifrada / Coded Earth, opening October 19 at MOLAA.

Curated by MOLAA Chief Curator, Gabriela Uritaga, Tierra Cifrada / Coded Earth brings together the work of nine emerging, mid-career, and established artist spanning five Latin American countries, who all use their creative processes to address issues related to territory, memory, power, the body, or materiality. Jiménez Santil’s work “investigates the possibilities of a decolonized object and its function within the structures of contemporary art.”

Nunu Fine Art looks forward to opening Jiménez Santil's first solo exhibition with the gallery in November 2026.

Tierra Cifrada / Coded Earth | Duration: October 19, 2025 – March 2026 | Venue: The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) | Opening Hours: Wed-Sun 11 AM – 6 PM

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir’s Events Taking Place Outside in upcoming group exhibition A Time for Everything at Scandinavia House

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Events Taking Place Outside, acrylic and flashe on canvas, 47.25 x 47.25 in | 120 x 120 cm

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to share that Thordis Adalsteinsdottir is currently featured in the group exhibition “A Time for Everything: 25 Years of Contemporary Art” at Scandinavia House in New York City.

“A Time for Everything” features work by 28 internationally acclaimed Nordic artists. Organized by The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) and curated by Emily Stoddart, the exhibition celebrates Scandinavia House’s long-standing mission of fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Nordic and American artists.

Adalsteinsdottir, renowned for her “ultra-flat compositions combining anthropomorphic animals and eccentric non-sensical objects, which evoke whimsy while belying a more sinister undertone,” presents her 2023 painting “Events Taking Place Outside” in the exhibition.

A Time for Everything: 25 Years of Contemporary Art at Scandinavia House |Duration: October 18, 2025 – February 14, 2026 |Venue: Scandinavia House (58 Park Ave, New York) |Opening Hours: Tues - Sat 12-6 PM / Wed 12-7 PM

Caroline Monnet Participates in “An Indigenous Present” at ICA Boston

We are pleased to congratulate Caroline Monnet, currently exhibiting at our New York gallery, on her participation in An Indigenous Present at ICA Boston, on view until March 8th, 2026.

An Indigenous Present is a thematic exhibition spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art. The exhibition includes new commissions and significant works by 15 artists who use strategies of abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives, describe specific and imagined places, and build upon cultural and aesthetic traditions. Co-organized by artist Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter, the exhibition offers an expansive consideration of Indigenous art practices that highlights a continuum of elders and emerging makers, and premieres newly commissioned site-specific works by Caroline Monnet.

An Indigenous Present
| Duration: October 9, 2025 - March 8, 2026
| Venue: The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
| Opening Hours: Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun 10 AM - 5 PM / Thur, Fri 10 AM - 9 PM

Cianne Fragione’s Workers Wearing Toe Shoes on view in Women Artists of the DMV

Cianne Fragione,Workers Wearing Toe Shoes, 2021-2022 , oil base paint, conté crayon, chalk pastel, recycled paint tube metal, collage on paper, 44 x 31.25 in | 111.7 x 79.4 cm , Framed: 48 x 34 in | 121.9 x 86.3 cm 

We are honored to announce that Cianne Fragione’s "Workers Wearing Toe Shoes" (2021-2022) is included in “Women Artists of the DMV” curated by F. Lennox "Lenny" Campello. The exhibition will take place in sixteen venues across the greater Washington, DC region from September to December 2025. This may be the largest curated fine art exhibition ever staged in the United States. 

"Workers Wearing Toe Shoes" is displayed at Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association | Athenaeum. In this piece, the artist explores the themes of memories, traditions and histories, both personal and cultural. 

Campello writes:

“Cianne Fragione is known for her mixed-media works that often incorporate found objects and textiles into her oil paintings and collages. Over many years of developing and refining her artwork, Fragione has established herself as one of the key DMV artists and was one of the earliest artists that I selected for the Women Artists of the DMV show. “

Rona Pondick's "Dog" Included in the Sonnabend Collection Foundation

Rona Pondick, “Dog (yellow stainless steel)”, 1998-2001, Yellow stainless steel, Edition of 6 + 1 AP, 28 x 16 1/2 x 32 in (71.12 x 41.91 x 81.28 cm)

Nunu Fine Art (Taipei/ New York) is thrilled to share that “Dog”, by Rona Pondick, is included in the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, opening at the Pallazo della Ragione, Mantua, Italy, on Saturday, November 29, 2025.

The Sonnabend Collection has been traveling for many years to various museums in Italy, Portugal, Canada, the U.S., and is now set to reside in Mantova. The collection, shaped by a visionary gallerist Ileana Sonnabend, her husband Michael Sonnabend, and Antonio Homem, bridges American and European art, showcasing some of the most important works of the 20th century. Housed in the heart of Mantua, this collection celebrates the power of art to transcend borders and illuminates our time.

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir Awarded Prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Installation photo, CREDIT: MARTIN SECK

We extend our warm congratulations to artist Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, one of this year’s Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients.

Adalsteinsdottir shared that during her grant year, she plans to focus on creating a new body of paintings. She will also produce works for and curate the second installment of "Creative Responses" at the Akureyri Museum in Iceland, and participate in a group exhibition at Scandinavia House in New York City. Most importantly, she will devote substantial time in the studio to developing her painting practice, taking creative risks, and experimenting with new ideas.

Founded in 1985 at the bequest of American abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner, the widow of legendary artist Jackson Pollock, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has for more than three decades supported outstanding and promising artists, fostering their creative practice and artistic growth.

Franziska Fennert unveiled her latest work "Cosmocentric Human" at Taman Pintar

Photo credit: Mariel Reyes and Tania Candiani

German artist Franziska Fennert presents Cosmocentric Human at Taman Pintar, Yogyakarta—an installation made of recycled single-use plastics collected from local beaches and rivers. The four-sided relief sculpture (160×120×4 cm) features a multi-eyed figure symbolizing holistic awareness, Indonesian philosophical inscriptions, and imagery of harmony between humans and nature.

Based in Indonesia since 2013, Fennert continues to advocate for sustainability through art. “Everyone can act to protect the environment,” she says. Also the park highlights the work’s educational value in showing children that waste, through creativity, can become meaningful art.

｜Exhibition Period: From June 22, 2025
｜Location: Jogja Smart Park, Yogyakarta

Ana Teresa Barboza Presents “Interwoven Stories” at Helsinki Biennial 2025

Ana Teresa Barboza Interwoven Stories, 2025 ,  Vallisaari Island

We are pleased to share that Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza is participating in the third edition of Helsinki Biennial 2025 with her latest installation Interwoven Stories, on view at the Alexander Battery on Vallisaari Island.

Curated by Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre, this year’s biennial explores the theme of Shelter, reflecting on the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world. Barboza’s work weaves together tree bark fibres from the Amazon and Nordic forests, connecting cultural traditions through craft. Created in collaboration with the Mariche family—artisans from Puerto Maldonado, Peru—the installation highlights the reciprocal histories between plants and people.

Location: Vallisaari Island, in Esplanade Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

Duration: 8 June to 21 September, 2025

“Let it GROW Again!” Wins Czech ICOM Committee Prize for Best International Exhibition

Rona Pondick, Slim Jack, 2011-22, Patinated bronze, 47 x 24 x 27 in (119.38 x 60.96 x 68.58 cm)

We are honored to announce that the group exhibition Let it GROW Again! featuring Rona Pondick as a participating artist, has been awarded the Czech ICOM Committee Prize, recognizing it as the Best International Exhibition of the Year. 

The exhibition was co-curated by a Czech organizing institution in collaboration with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria. It centered on the “tree”—a symbol of deep significance throughout art history—exploring its mythology, symbolism, and environmental dimensions. Through the intersection of art and nature, the exhibition offered a profound reflection on a millennia-long dialogue between the two. 

In its official statement, the jury remarked: 

“The intensive partnership with the leading Austrian art museum in Vienna's Belvedere resulted in an exceptionally ambitious exhibition project that explored the motif of the tree – an extraordinarily significant symbol in art history. The exhibition brought its mythology, rich symbolism, and role as a source of inspiration closer to the viewer. It became a celebration of the thousand-year symbiosis of art and nature, while at the same time prompting urgent reflections on environmental protection.”