Shuhūd (Witnesses)

April 23, 2026 Roberta Gentry

March 21st - April 19th, 2026

Featured in Hyperallergic's "10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This April”

Monte Vista Projects is proud to present Shuhūd (Witnesses), a group installation curated by Seanna Latiff featuring over 35 artists who have created portraits of approximately 150 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. Shuhūd immerses us into a world of memory, inviting us to participate in collective mourning and remembrance. The exhibit will run from March 21 to April 19 with an opening reception on March 21 from 7 PM to 10 PM.

Shuhūd is a two-part project featuring an exhibition and fundraiser. This project transforms Monte Vista Projects into an immersive installation of portraits of journalists murdered by Israel. Participating artists include: Brett Park, Molly Segal, Kiara Machado, Chloe Hiu See Tsang, Michael Hambouz, and many more, who memorialize these journalists as both a political act and an attentive caretaking. Materialized into the physical realm, their faces will cover the walls of the gallery, turning the white cube into a confrontation with the scale of loss where one cannot look away. Through the creative act of portrait-making, artists are harnessing their personal arsenal of rebellion to create a counter-archive subverting dehumanizing power structures. Challenging systemic erasure and domination, Shuhūd investigates the cycles of injury and care, asking, "Why must the onus of repair fall onto those most affected?" Together, our offering is attention and remembrance: alchemized into action.

In addition to the memorial installation, Shuhūd invites us to turn our collective grief into tangible care through an online fundraiser featuring donated works from artists such as Shizu Saldamondo, Molly Segal, Josiah O’Balles and more. 100% of the profits from the fundraiser sales will be donated to The Sameer Project's "Rebuild Gaza" campaign, which undertakes the labor of infrastructural repair. By clearing streets of rubble and tending to destroyed neighborhoods, the Rebuild Gaza campaign aids Palestinian families in their journey to return home. The portraits of journalists found in the installation serve as a memorial and will not be for sale. To resist the passive compliance in white violence propagated by cultural institutions, Shuhūd reimagines the fundamental actions within the art world of commerce and viewership. The donation of time, resources, and labor affirms a collective responsibility to transform grief into sustained solidarity.

It is in the space where the gaze of the journalists meets ours that threads of collective consciousness are woven and preserved. We will honor the witnesses who held the world's eyes in their hands. During their lifetimes, these individuals positioned themselves as spotlights, illuminating what would otherwise be hidden. Now we let the seers be seen as more than portals to the pain we are taught to look away from. We remember them as people with crow's feet framing their eyes, and crooked smiles in family photos, just like any one of us.

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Participating Artists:

Aaron Abunu
Gi Alcala
Michael Alvarez
Ambika
Roi Bagsic
Luna Beller-Tadiar
Savannah Bediakian
Rachid Bouhamidi
Kelsey Christensen
Elly Dallas
Christian Espinoza
Sheldon Gantt
Michael Hambouz
Imarlie Isaacs
Marion Ivory
Seanna Latiff
Nilay Lawson
Kiara Machado
Alison Ma
Isa Melendez
Grayden McIntyre
James Mize
Anika Nyman
Laurana Nyman
Josiah O'Balles
Brett Park
Aaron Parris
Roel Punzalan
Manuel Reyes
Justin Sado
Christine Sandoval
Ash Schimkus
Molly Segal
Karim Shuquem
Michael Stocke
Josie Stocks
Camilla Taylor
Chloe Hiu See Tsang
Nia Williams
Hailey Sivadge

Seanna Latiff (b. 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Her work engages collective histories through a decolonial lens of care and reckoning.

Written by Lue “LIKETHEHIGHWAY” Khoury
Edited by Seanna Latiff and Karim Shuquem

Beatriz Mejia Krumbein and Rebecca Waring-Crane - With This Body

March 10, 2026 Roberta Gentry

Beatriz Mejia Krumbein | Rebecca Waring-Crane
With This Body

February 14th - March 8th, 2026

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present With This Body, a two-person exhibition by Rebecca Waring-Crane and Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein.

Waring-Crane’s sculptures merge the human form with domestic objects and natural elements, creating poignant meditations on identity, sacrifice, and belonging. A bronze-cast human arm replacing a chair leg evokes a maternal sacrifice to nurture the others, and upside down feet emerging from a tree form resembling our effort to contort ourselves to fit within familial and social structures. Waring-Crane’s works ultimately find poetry in the nuances of embodied transformation within the mundane objects.

Following a profound physical transformation after a stroke, Mejia-Krumbein’s textural wall pieces represent her artistic evolution from figurative social justice work to abstract explorations of material. Her compositions of sand and beach findings create topographical landscapes that echo the body’s vulnerability and resilience. These works map both physical terrain and internal landscapes of recovery, adaptation, and renewal.

Together, these artists reveal how the body—whether present, abstracted, or transformed—remains central to our understanding of place and identity. Their works speak to the ways we physically and metaphorically reshape ourselves and our environments, transforming limitation into possibility and fragmentation into wholeness. Through their distinct yet complementary practices, Waring-Crane and Mejia-Krumbein invite us to consider how we are simultaneously shaped by and shapers of the materials that constitute our lives.

Ariel Oakley - Quanta Qualia

February 9, 2026 Roberta Gentry

Ariel Oakley
Quanta Qualia

January 10th - February 1st, 2026

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present Quanta Qualia, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Ariel Oakley.

In Quanta Qualia, Oakley uses medieval religious iconography and medical imaging to blur the boundary between the sacred and scientific. Her interdisciplinary interplay is a form of science-art worlding, an epistemology of entangled participants in a collective ecological body.

A lit candle, quavering, stands in for time and the decreation of the artist. Small sculptures of found object assemblage, cast bronze, and bioplastic assert a visceral presence while evoking both reliquary and votive offering. Chimeric figures crowd the assembled paintings with anatomical, plant, and invertebrate elements such as antennae and coral. A golden halo crowns a figure resembling the Virgin Mary, whose torso is an inverted rendering of the cardiovascular system and whose face is bubbling with lichen. Working in acrylic and vinyl emulsion on canvas to produce these new icons, Oakley constructs sacred images of a collective future.

The works in Quanta Qualia envision an earthly Eden of the sensuous body. The living gestures of aliveness between the minute multitudes of sensuous bodies that make up each of our bodies. In giving subjective experience to the most minute units of matter Quanta Qualia rejects a heavenly answer to our mortal toil, whispering instead: what if? What if? What if? What if the body is the soul?

Ariel Oakley is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Studio Art at Maryland Institute College of Art, and her BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She spends her days as a nurse in surgery at Keck Hospital of USC, where her passion for open-heart surgery continues to inform her art.