Devotions

Marcel Alcalá (b. 1990, Santa Ana, CA) has had solo exhibitions at Marlborough, New York, NY; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mickey Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. They were a participant in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Their work has been featured in group shows at Lyles & King, New York, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY; and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; among others. Alcalá has also exhibited in numerous museums and institutions, including Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and MCA Chicago, IL. Their work has been written about in LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, and Flaunt, among others. They have been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (2022) and Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles (2020). Alcalá lives and works in Los Angeles.

Ren Light Pan (b. 1990, Irvine, CA) has had solo exhibitions at Queer Thoughts, New York, NY, 2022,  and Jassamine, Dallas, TX, 2023. She has participated in group shows with Asia Society Texas, Houston, TX, 2023; Martos Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO, 2023; Alisan Fine Arts, Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2023; Shoot the Lobster, NADA Miami, 2023; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, 2023; Eli Klein Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, FR, 2024; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, 2024; and Lyles & King, New York, NY, 2024. Her works will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition Ink and Light at the Denver Art Museum in 2026, and have been collected by the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, and the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. Pan lives and works in New York.

Paola Angelini (b. 1983, San Benedetto del Tronto, IT) graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Florence in 2010. In 2011, she attended the workshop of Visual Arts at IUAV University in Venice with Bjarne Melgaard, and in the same year she exhibited in the Norwegian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, in the exhibition entitled Baton Sinister. In 2017, Paola obtained a Master in Fine Arts at KASK Conservatorium in Gent (BE). In 2014 and 2016, she participated at the Artist in Residency program at Nordic Artists’Centre Dale (NKD), Norway. Selected exhibitions include: Forme del tempo, Museo Palazzo Pretorio, Prato, IT, 2017; La conquista dello spazio, Spazio K, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, IT, 2017; Iconoclash, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, IT, 2017; Rethinking Media, Brandstrup Galleri, Oslo, NO, 2018; Babel of Bric a Bràc, BGE Gallery, Stavanger, NO 2019; Splendor Solis, Museo Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, IT, 2021 ; Black Morning, Lyles & King, New York, NY, 2022; and Il Tuffatore, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, IT, 2022. Angelini lives and works in San Benedetto del Tronto.

Brian Oakes (b. 1995) earned a BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Computation, Technology and Culture from Rhode Island School of Design, RI in 2018. They were a Pioneer Works Summer Tech Resident at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY in 2020. They have had solo exhibitions at Merry Gates, Brooklyn, NY, 2021; Ok Gallery, New York, NY, 2022; Feiertag Gallery, Kassel, Germany, 2022; George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 2023, Blade Study, New York, NY, 2024; and Window on Franklin, New York, NY, 2025. Their work has been featured in group exhibitions at Ars Electronica .ART Pavilions, Linz,  AT; 29 Speedway, Queens, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; Below Grand Gallery, New York, NY; Blade Study, New York, NY; SKYLAB, Columbus, OH, and Spazio Fonte, Milan, Italy; among others. Oakes lives and work in Brooklyn, New York.