Feria Material 2026 // Jonathan Herrera Soto + Julia García // Feb. 5th – Feb. 8th 2026
In the gallery’s first presentation in Mexico City, we brought to Feria Material’s 12th edition new paintings by Julia García and new drawings by Jonathan Herrera Soto.
Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions of Herrera Soto’s include “Twice the Legal Minute” at Hartford University, “All at Once” at Brown University, and “In Between/Underneath” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School.
Jonathan has exhibited with HAIR+NAILS in group shows “Together” (H+N Minneapolis, 2024), “Freshly For You” (H+N NYC, 2024), “PAINTING SHOW” (2022), “The Human Scale” (Rochester Art Center, 2022), NADA Chicago Invitational (Chicago, 2019), and his solo show “Always Tomorrow (SiempreMañana)” (2021).
http://www.jonathanherrerastudio.com
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Julia García (b. 1992, Pompano Beach, FL) uses a collage-like application of acrylic and ink onto wet raw canvas, a process which reflects her childhood growing up near the Everglades, where the natural flow of the wetlands has been slowly corralled and shaped by urban development. This relationship between time, permeability, and the flow of matter, is underpinned by the dominance of water’s role in García’s process. Water acts as a collaborator, introducing an unpredictable external force which determines the outcome alongside the artist’s hand. With a practice that moves across painting and drawing, García’s work is unified by the compositional relationship between material and visible substrate, which proposes a state of tension between openness and resolution, information and exposure. Julia received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 2014 and her MFA in 2016 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.
García had her first institutional solo exhibition in 2023 at NW9 in Cologne, Germany. Other solo exhibitions have been held at Night Club Gallery, St.Paul, MN; Galerie Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; KDR Gallery, Miami; Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; and HAIR+NAILS NYC.
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