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An artist-run space, exhibiting emerging to established artist. The awareness towards under-represented and marginalized artist is the predominant focus.

Projects will incorporate paintings, sculpture, drawings, installation art, and interactive art.

10/15/2026

On view in Asistente de Morfeo

Manuela Caicedo
Otra noche brillante (Another flaming night), 2026
Oil on found wood
24 x 49 in

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

10/06/2026

Manuela Caicedo
Venus as Fire, 2026
Oil on yupo paper
80 x 60 each panel

📸 image courtesy Elliott Desai

10/02/2026

On view in Asistente de Morfeo through October 24th✨

Manuela Caicedo
Los días del fuego (The days of fire) #4, 2026
Oil on wood
1 x 2 in each

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/28/2026

In addition to drawing from art history, Greek mythology, and religious iconography, Manuela Caicedo also builds upon literature and philosophy, including Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism and Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano’s concept of razón poética (poetic reasoning). Zambrano’s 1986 essay collection De la aurora (Of the dawn) depicts dawn as an in-between period of unstructured time ripe with potential. Dawn is the threshold where ideas emerge outside of our grasp and slowly transition into understanding. Manuela’s work embodies this in material approach as well as concept. Haziness, blur, and various degrees of rendering suggest the elusiveness of clarity and subtle formation of meaning from what appears before our eyes—and that which does not.

Hypnos, 2026
Oil on found wood
35 x 34.5 in

Flor del Sueño #1- #8, 2026
Oil on linen
6 x 6 in, 6 x 4 in each, 8 x 8 in

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/24/2026

In Manuela Caicedo’s work, sleeping is represented as a portal to this subconscious creativity; the pillow is the door.

La Puerta (The door), 2026
Oil on linen
36 x 40 in

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/22/2026

Influenced by the natural environment of her home country Colombia and drawn to fire as a source of both creative and destructive energy, Manuela Caicedo iterates on the image of a volcanic landscape in a series of miniature paintings. On view in Asistente de Morfeo through October 24th.

Los días del fuego (The days of fire) #7, 2026
Oil on wood
1.375 x 2.25 in

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/17/2026

Manuela Caicedo instills her female subjects with the power and wisdom of mythological and biblical heroines. Working from memory of her grandmother Amanda and referencing art historic depictions of Eve and Mary Magdalene (specifically in paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Artemisia Gentileschie), Manuela imagines Eve as everyone’s grandmother and each woman as inheritor of the fuego (fire)—the powerful life force and generative energy passed down through women. As an inheritor herself, she applies her vision and imagination to each painting, building upon history to open new ways of seeing and understanding. She considers herself Asistente de Morfeo (Morfeus’ Assistant) for this reason. She steps in for the Greek god of dreams as messenger; subconscious creativity becomes the divine.

Las Evas, 2026
Oil on linen
30 x 40 each

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/11/2026

“Y cuando le preguntaron qué sabía hacer, ella solo dijo la verdad: ‘Sueño.’”

“And when they asked her what she knew how to do, she simply told the truth: ‘I dream.’”

— Gabriel García Márquez, I Sell My Dreams

Manuela Caicedo: Asistente de Morfeo is now on view until October 24th ✨🌙🪽

📸 images courtesy Elliott Desai

09/08/2026

Manuela Caicedo’s debut solo exhibition Asistente de Morfeo opens this Thursday! Please join us for a reception 6-8pm 🥂✨

Manuela Caicedo (b. 1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is a New York-based artist.In 2022, she earned a degree in Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she received a Meritorious Thesis distinction for her first film, I Left Strawberries in My Pocket Until the Day the Suns Go Out. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Academy Scholar Award. That same year, she undertook a residency at the University of Notre Dame in Kylemore, Ireland, and was awarded the Chubb Fellowship—the highest honor granted by the New York Academy of Art to its alumni—culminating in the Chubb Fellows Show 2025 (New York).

In 2025, she presented Las Dragonas at ARTBO | Salas (Bogotá), participated in Mínima Expresión at Galería Policroma (Medellín), took part in Chubb Fellows and Friends at the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas), and exhibited at Art Basel 2024 and 2025 (Miami) for the second consecutive year through the Chubb Fellowship. In December 2025, she participated in Between Myth and Memory at 81 Leonard (New York), and in February 2026 in Lenguajes de Papel at Galería El Museo (Bogotá, Colombia).

09/04/2026

On view through this Saturday! Oren Fischer HALLEL
Open today + tomorrow 12-6

Mother Goddess, 2025
Oil and acrylic paint, golden, silver, and copper leaves on canvas
175 x 83 in

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