Curated by Esteban King Álvarez

Cinema, photography and technology engage in dialogue with the ideas of David Alfaro Siqueiros and the notion of montage.

The exhibition brings together works from the collection of the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros alongside pieces by contemporary artists:
Valentina Díaz
Fabiola Menchelli
Daniel Monroy Cuevas
Ismael Sentíes
Fabiola Torres Alzaga

Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros
October 25, 2025
Tres Picos 29
Polanco, Mexico City

Curated by Jorge Zarur

Cynthia Gutiérrez
Enrique Hernández
Nicola López
Fabiola Menchelli
Javier MM. Rodríguez
Alejandra Ruiz Rincón
Roberto Turnbull
Rodrigo Valenzuela

August 2, 2025
Tiro al Blanco Gallery
Juan Álvarez 833
Sagrada Familia, 44200
Guadalajara, Jalisco

In her solo exhibition at Contemporary at Blue Star, Fabiola Menchelli’s photograms bend the definitions of photography and sculpture, “creating a converging space where light ceases to be an external element and instead becomes the very material of the work.”
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The installation debuts new photographic prints, a continuation of her Parallelograms body of work. The work strips down the photographic print to its essential materials and physical properties, creating a diffused perceptual experience.

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Fabiola Menchelli: ombré
July 11 – October 5, 2025
Contemporay at Blue Star
San Antonio, Texas
116 Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78204

Curated by and Allison Raddock

West Palm Beach, FL – September 2024 – GAVLAK is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, “Women In Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism,” which will run from March 1, 2025 to April 5, 2025 at its West Palm Beach location. This bold and transformative showcase brings together the work of pioneering female artists who have each made a significant impact on the world of abstract expressionism.

“Women In Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism” not only celebrates the individuality and achievements of these extraordinary artists but also underscores the vital role women have played in the evolution of abstract expressionism. The exhibition invites viewers to experience the rich diversity of styles and perspectives that these artists bring to the genre.

Betty Parsons
Betty Woodman
Elizabeth Neel
Field Kallop
Fabiola Menchelli
Gisela Colon
Hedda Sterne
Helen Frankenthaler
Jessica Cannon
Joan Mitchell
Joanna Pousette-Dart
Judy Chicago
Kylie Manning
Lily Stockman
Loie Hollowell
Lynda Benglis
Marina Adams
Mary Weatherford
Pat Passlof
Ruth Asawa
Ruth Duckworth
Torkwase Dyson
Wangechi Mutu
Yayoi Kusama

2406 Florida Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Honored to be the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence at the Norton Museum of Art from February to March 2025

The Norton Museum of Art established the artist-in-residence (AiR) program in 2019. The program features four artists annually, emphasizes the Norton’s commitment to fostering creative and intellectual growth for mid- to late-career artists whose work warrants greater attention, and to promoting gender, racial, and ethnic parity in the arts through the dedication of two residencies annually for women artists. One of those is exclusively for an African-American or Latina woman artist, and is endowed as the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence.

Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence
February to March 2025
Norton Museum of Art
1450 S. Dixie Highway | West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Omar Barquet, Taka Fernández, Madeline Jiménez, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Fabiola Menchelli, José Luis Landet, Mauro Giaconi, Ícaro Zorbar, Perla Krauze, Moris

ZONA MACO 2025
Arróniz Gallery, Booth C116
Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
February 5 – 9, 2025

Marshall Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of unique copper-plate works by Mexico City-based artist Fabiola Menchelli.

The installation will showcase a suite of nine unique copper heliogravure plates made from Menchelli’s abstract photograms and will run from February 15 – March 15,  including an artist’s reception at the gallery during Frieze Art Week. Additional programming details are forthcoming.

Known for her continual progression of camera-less and photo-sculptural processes, Menchelli’s work is also the focus of the concurrent solo exhibition certain silence on view now Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL.

Marshall Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. #A6
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday and Monday by Appointment

“Disobedience is the transversal of mirages,
a manner of lightheartedly breaking bonds,
because one has agreed to lose everything, including life.”

– Anne Dufourmantelle, In Praise of Risk (2011)

In the darkroom, Mexican artist Fabiola Menchelli (born 1983) transforms light from source to raw material. Working in complete darkness without the aid of a “safelight,” she folds, unfolds, exposes, develops, and sometimes solarizes vivid, abstract color photograms. There is no camera and there are no negatives. Rather, she relies upon touch, sound, and color theory to make each work with the movements of her own body. There is also physical risk: working with color in the darkroom is demanding and unforgiving, requiring special safety gear and a reorientation of the body and mind. The results are atmospheric and ethereal, liquid and often unmeasured. They are at once photographs, paintings, and sculptures—and the process of making is recorded directly onto the surface of the paper.

Considering Menchelli works blindly, encounters with risk, chance, and error are central to her practice. Historically, the photographic medium has been both praised and constrained by its capacity for technical precision: framing, composition, focus, defined light and shadow, all further calibrated in darkroom processing. Menchelli’s photograms push against this tradition, requiring a physical presence and exchange between her body and the photographic paper that goes beyond the two-dimensional frame. Rather than operate a camera to capture the world, she enacts disobedience, to allow for other ways of understanding existence from feminist perspectives. She trusts her own intuition and muscle memory, embracing uncertainty as a radical act of unlearning.

The Norton is honored to welcome Menchelli as our 2024-25 Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence. certain silence marks her first solo museum exhibition.

All works courtesy of the artist, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, and Marshall Gallery, unless otherwise noted.

Lauren Richman, Ph.D.
William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography
Organized by the Norton Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition was provided by the William and Sarah Ross Soter Photography Fund.

Thank you to Lauren Richman for her incredible kindness, trust, and support in making this show. Thank you to Rachel Gustafson, Pam Parry, Victoria Pesta, Sarah Bass, Carlos R. Faure Maurás, Ashley Kerr, Scott Simmons, Erin Ammon, Arthur Salazar, Lorraine Bond, Glenn Tomlinson, and everyone at the Norton Museum of Art. Thank you to my team at FocoLab. My deepest gratitude to Priscila Vanneuville, Laura Orozco, Beatriz Diaz, Miguel Angel Ortega, Melvin Lara, Leslie Moody-Castro, Andrea Manuel, Andrea Martinez, Andrea Chapela, Jess Perlitz, Bean Gilsdorf, Artemio, Douglas Marshall, and Gustavo Arróniz. To Blaz and all my family with love.

Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach
6 a 8 de diciembre, 2024

Arróniz
Booth C44 con NIEVESFERNÁNDEZ and Nueveochenta

Chiharu Shiota, José Vera Matos, Rafael Grassi, Jordi Alcaraz, Fabiola Menchelli, Fernando Uhía, Lester Rodríguez y Moris

Marshall Gallery
Booth B35

Chris McCaw, Fabiola Menchelli, Albarran Cabrera, Rodrigo Valenzuela y Natalia Sanchez

TM · PARIS PHOTO 2024

Alexander Apóstol, Iñaki Bonillas, Miguel G. Counahan, Pilar Goutas, Fabiola Menchelli, Eric Taubman & Portfolio selection

Paris Photo 2024
TM, Voices Sector, Booth V03
Grand Palais, Paris
7-10th of November