PLURAL AMAZONIA: A LIVING CARTOGRAPHY IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK
Americas Society presents Amazonia Açu, an exhibition that explores the cultural, historical, and spiritual diversity of the Pan-Amazon region through contemporary and Indigenous perspectives.
From September 3, 2025, to April 18, 2026, Americas Society in New York will present Amazonia Açu, an exhibition that considers the Amazon as a plural region encompassing communities and territories across Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Peru.
Featuring over fifty modern and contemporary artworks—ranging from paintings, textiles, and ceramics to drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures—the show spans works created from 1990 to the present. Emphasizing Indigenous ontologies, cultures, and knowledge systems, Amazonia Açu seeks to move away from any monolithic or stereotyped view of the region, instead highlighting the multiplicity of worldviews and ways of life that coexist within it.
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Pablo Amaringo. El baile de los Puca-bufeos (Puca-bufeos’ dance), 2009. Oil on canvas, 44 ½ × 34 ¾ inches (113 × 88.5 cm). Hochschild Correa Collection. Photo: Christian Bendayán
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PV Dias. Interior de uma casa (Interior of a house), from the series Rasura (Erasure), 2021. Digital painting on photograph printed on cotton paper, 27 ⅝ × 27 ⅝ inches (70 × 70 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
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Sri Irodikromo, Metamorphosis, 2022. Driftwood and clay, 7 ⅛ × 11 × 16 ½ inches (18 × 28 × 42 cm). Courtesy of Readytex Art Gallery. Photo: Gilbert Jacott/Courtesy of Readytex Art Gallery
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Sara Flores. Untitled (Pei Kené 1, 2019), 2019. Natural dyes on wild-cotton canvas, 59 1⁄8 × 55 1⁄8 inches (150 × 140 cm). Courtesy of the Hochschild Correa Collection, the artist and The Shipibo-Conibo Center, NY
The exhibition is co-curated by a committee of representatives from each country in the Amazon region: Elvira Espejo (Bolivia), Keyna Eleison and Mateus Nunes (Brazil), María Wills (Colombia), Diana Iturralde (Ecuador), T2i and NouN (French Guiana), Grace Aneiza Ali (Guyana), Christian Bendayán (Peru), Miguel Keerveld (Suriname), and Luis Romero (Venezuela).
The thirty-four participating artists and collectives include Danasion Akobe, Angélica Alomoto, Pablo Amaringo, Johan Amiemba, Chonon Bensho, Elías Caurey Caurey, Colectivo TAWNA, Comunidad Weenhayek, PV Dias, Sara Flores, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Sri Irodikromo, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Thiago Martins de Melo, Hélio Melo, Claudia Opimí Vaca, Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu), Aycoobo (Wilson Rodríguez), Gê Viana, and Santiago Yahuarcani, among others. Their works reflect on memory, territory, tradition, and the biodiversity that surrounds and sustains their communities.
Through this collective, transnational approach, Amazonia Açu proposes a sensitive and decentralized vision of the Amazon, where art becomes a space to inhabit, narrate, and safeguard one of the world’s most complex and vital regions.
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