The Juan Pablo Duarte (JPD) Foundation is proud to announce a major milestone in our mission to serve Northern Manhattan. We have officially transformed a dedicated portion of our 1,515-square-foot JPD Community Space at the George Washington Bridge Port Authority Terminal to host the new UN CHÍN Art Gallery.
This evolution of our community hub represents a groundbreaking collaboration with Un Chín Media, a Latino-led storytelling platform founded by Ramón Veras that amplifies Latino voices through digital content and community engagement. We firmly believe that contemporary fine arts belong in public spaces. By dedicating part of our neighborhood hub to a physical gallery, we are working to democratize access to world-class art right in the heart of Washington Heights.
Small Space Big Stories: Inaugural exhibition of “CONTINUUM”
The UN CHIN Art Gallery is pleased to present Continuum, its inaugural exhibition, opening on June 3, 2026, at 6:00 PM inside the JPD Community Space, in Upper Manhattan. Conceived as a platform dedicated to the visibility and experimentation of contemporary Latin American art, the gallery launches its program with a collective exhibition bringing together artists from the Latin American diaspora in New York alongside artists engaged with contemporary practices across Latin America.
Curated by Ezequiel Taveras, Continuum explores the notions of origin, identity, and diaspora through a multiplicity of artistic perspectives. Rather than proposing a singular or homogeneous narrative, the exhibition foregrounds the richness and complexity of contemporary Latin American cultural production, understanding diversity not as fragmentation, but as one of its most vital structural forces.
The exhibition features works by:
Nicole Bueso, Mildor Chevalier, Patricia Encarnación, Ivonne Ferrer, Scherezade García, Ileana García, Susana González-Revilla, Franklin Graulau, Homero Herrera, Vanessa Nieto, Wildriana Paulino, and Rodney Zelenka.
Installed within the gallery’s distinctive format—a street-facing exhibition window—Continuum establishes a direct dialogue with the city, inviting audiences into an immediate and accessible encounter with contemporary art. This approach reflects the gallery’s mission to bring contemporary Latin American artistic practices closer to communities that often remain outside traditional cultural circuits.
Through diverse media and conceptual approaches, the participating artists address identity not as a fixed condition, but as an evolving process shaped by memory, displacement, and lived experience. The exhibition proposes an open field of interpretation in which different ways of understanding the Latin American experience coexist within a shared continuum.
As the inaugural exhibition of UN CHIN Art Gallery, Continuum establishes a curatorial direction grounded in accessibility, dialogue, and sustained engagement with contemporary Latin American art. It also marks the beginning of an ongoing program of exhibitions, public conversations, and interdisciplinary activities aimed at strengthening connections between artists and the Upper Manhattan community.
This project is presented in collaboration with the Juan Pablo Duarte Foundation, Eze Dreams, and The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA), reinforcing a network of institutions committed to the visibility, circulation, and critical reflection of contemporary Latin American art in New York.
Opening Information
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: UN CHIN Art Gallery, inside the JPD Community Space
408 Fort Washington Avenue, Suite 23B, New York, NY 10033
