Mindy Solomon is pleased to present My Sunshine, featuring a new body of work by Brooklyn-based artist Asif Hoque in his third exhibition with the gallery. This chapter of Hoque’s career-long visual epic exalts the moment that its hero—the artist’s avatar, Golden Boy—first beholds his beloved, translating autobiography into mythic register.
The distinct compositions of this vibrant cycle all originate from a single, charged second, frozen and refracted. In this instant, Golden Boy encounters a celestial being whose warm radiance illuminates and invites all in her orbit. His perspective guides how viewers experience her: weightless, magnetic, aglow. Enhaloed in loose curls, she emits a gleaming aura that holds the blues of the sky and sea at its perimeter. Unspoken, but felt, is the revelation that she holds some connection to the golden light that has permeated Hoque’s prior cycles. This truth, laid bare in a fleeting moment, is monumentalized across canvases in a cinematic montage of resplendent love letters.
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present Indigenous Futurism, the work of Shipibo tribe member Cecilia Vásquez Yui. The Shipibo people, also known as the Shipibo-Conibo, are an indigenous group primarily residing along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. They are one of the largest indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon, with an estimated population of over 20,000. Formerly two separate groups, they merged into a single tribe through intermarriage and communal rituals. The Shipibo-Conibo speak the Shipibo language, which is recognized as an indigenous language in Peru. Supported by the Shipibo Cultural Center in Harlem, New York, whose mission is to preserve and protect the Shipibo community, Vásquez Yui merges centuries-old traditions with a contemporary narrative. The Shipibo-Conibo people have been working with polychrome earthenware pottery for the last 1200 years.
In her upcoming series, inspired by the concept of Indigenous Futurism, Vásquez Yui marks an exciting evolution in her practice. Creating new ceramic sculptures that move beyond her previous focus on Amazonian animals, she offers an imaginative reinterpretation of technological objects—rendered in painted clay—as if they were relics from the future that have landed in the rainforest.
Mindy Solomon is proud to present Who By Fire by Zoë Buckman. This marks the artist’s first solo show at the gallery. Drawing its title from Leonard Cohen’s haunting reinterpretation of the Jewish prayer Unetaneh Tokef, the exhibition invokes themes of mortality, judgment, and spiritual reckoning—resonant questions that echo through Jewish ritual and lived experience.
This new body of work represents a deeply personal exploration of Jewish identity, memory, and collective resilience. Through photographs of family and community members in intimate, domestic spaces, often within their own homes, Buckman considers the fragility of sanctuary and belonging. These domestic images become sites of both comfort and vulnerability, reflecting a history in which the idea of “home” for the Jewish people has often been precarious, impermanent, and shadowed by displacement.
Using a process that combines ink and acrylic painting on vintage domestic textiles, which are subsequently hand-embroidered, Buckman’s work invokes a language of care, labor, and tradition. The tactile quality of the materials echoes generational rituals passed down through matrilineal lines, while the imagery and text delve into ongoing themes in her practice: generational trauma, sexual violence, and bodily autonomy.
Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. The gallery represents artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, and video in both narrative and non-objective styles. The gallery program explores the intersection of art and design through an ongoing dialog between two and three-dimensional objects, while embracing diasporic voices. Utilizing the gallery space as a platform for inventive exhibitions, museum visitations, and public lectures, Solomon invites a sense of community and aesthetic enrichment.
Solomon founded the gallery in 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she established her reputation as a contemporary art dealer. She is a Board member of the Miami Art Dealers Association and is currently located in the Allapattah neighborhood in Miami.
