Lyles & King is excited to present new paintings, video, and sculpture by Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galvão, and Ren Light Pan. In dialogue, their respective practices reveal a common ethos of instability, transformation, and flow.
Cato Ouyang draws from art history, cinema, vernacular image-making, and urban planning schematics. Working across video and sculpture, they examines these sources while deliberately misusing the processes through which the work is made: craft, construction, photography. What emerges is a sustained reflection on unstable encounters between the body and the built environment, structures that appear authoritative but yield, under Ouyang's treatment, to contingency and friction.
Fernanda Galvão conceives of painting as a sensitive territory where natural forces absorb one another and continuously transform. Her new canvases propose a marine atmosphere displaced from its origins, threaded with violet and pink, suspended between geological and animal time. A whale becomes indistinguishable from living mineral mass; a shell cradles forms in mutation. Galvão's surfaces are sites of circulation, registering energies invisible yet active, carried by the perpetual movement of water.
Ren Light Pan's paintings move between devotion and dissolution. The imagery of these works emerges from photographs of studio actions. She partitions, cuts, and rearranges the images of her body and a series of objects in a delirium of interchangeable parts. The images float in diffuse pools of black ink soaked into muslin, holding vulnerability, intimacy, and violence in careful tension. Light, water, and ink are not merely the materials composing these paintings, they embody her work's generative instability.
Fernanda Galvão, Cocoa Caracol, 2026, Charcoal, dry pastel, oil bar and oil on linen, 25 5/8 x 31 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches, 65 x 80.5 x 4 cm
Fernanda Galvão, Purple Lightning, 2026, Charcoal, dry pastel, oil bar, and oil on linen, 43 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches, 110 x 112.5 cm
Fernanda Galvão, Whale, 2026, Charcoal, dry pastel, oil bar, and oil on linen, 35 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches, 90 x 130 cm
Ren Light Pan, TBT, 2026, Ink, water, infrared light and canvas, 80 x 60 inches, 203.2 x 152.4 cm
Ren Light Pan, TBT, 2026, Ink, water, infrared light and canvas, 60 x 80 inches, 152.4 x 203.2 cm
Ren Light Pan, TBT, 2026, Ink, water, infrared light and canvas, 60 x 80 inches, 152.4 x 203.2 cm
Cato Ouyang, private collection, 2026, single-channel video, 5:20 minutes, Edition 1 of 3 + 2 AP
Cato Ouyang has exhibited work at Lyles & King, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield; Make Room, Los Angeles; No Place Gallery, Columbus; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Kimball Art Center, Park City; Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D, Portland; Jeffrey Deitch, New York and Los Angeles; James Fuentes, New York; Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna; Simon Lee Gallery, London and Hong Kong; and Micki Meng, San Francisco; and Murmurs, Los Angeles; among many others. Ouyang is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, and was a 2024 Artist in Residence at Fountainhead, Miami and 2020-21 Smack Mellon Artist in Residence. Their work has been written about in publications including Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, Cultured, The Cut, Flaunt Magazine, The New York Times, and Momus. Their work is held in the public collections of Brooklyn Museum, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami; High Museum, Atlanta; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; and Faurschou Foundation, New York. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University and is based in New York. They are represented by Lyles & King, New York and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Ouyang lives and work in Brooklyn, New York.
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Fernanda Galvão (b.1994, São Paulo, Brazil) has a BA in Visual Art from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil. She has had solo exhibitions at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Foundry Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; and Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; among others. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; Trisivrikos, London, England; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil; La Dons Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Neon Gallery, London, England; and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil; among others. She has received the Acquisition Awards; 44º SARP at Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2021) and 47º Salão de Arte Contemporânea Luiz Sacilotto in Santo André, São Paulo. In June 2023, she participated in the Joshua Tree Highlands Art Residency in the Mojave Desert in California and than in the Cité International Des Arts in Paris. Galvão lives and works in Paris, France.
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Ren Light Pan (b. 1990, Irvine, CA) will have her first solo institutional exhibition at the Denver Art Museum in 2026 and will be featured in the forthcoming New Talent issue of Art in America. She has exhibited at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Antennae Space, Shanghai; Asia Society Texas, Houston; Lyles & King, New York; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Queer Thoughts, New York; Jassamine, Dallas; and Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; among others. Pan's work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. Pan lives and works in New York.