Verónica Gaona:
La última corazonada del día
June 6 - July 12, 2026
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La última corazonada del día, reflects on the layered spatial and material implications of remittances as embedded social practices and rituals that sustain relationships across geographies. In Verónica Gaona’s practice, these repeated systems of exchange become forms of embedded memory, where economic flows, ephemeral materials and gestures extend into everyday life.
In the exhibition, Gaona examines how remittances function as social practices and rituals resisting capital structures by turning to funerary traditions of repatriation (“translados”), where the return of the body or its remains to the place of origin becomes an act of identification and belonging. These rituals not only repair death but also reaffirm continuity with home, symbolically resolving the ambiguity of ongoing movement. The desire for return in death emerges here as an intuitive pull toward permanence.
This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of artist and collaborator, Elijah Jimenez.
Verónica Gaona was born in Brownsville, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border and is based in Houston. Gaona received an MFA in Studio Art - Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston (2021) and a BA in Mass Communications from The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (2018). Gaona was awarded the Latinx Fellowship Award (2023), the Chispa Award (2022) by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, and the Artadia Award (2021). Gaona attended the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency in Omaha, Nebraska (2026), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine (2025), International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York (2024), PAC Residency in Houston (2024), Lawndale Art Residency in Houston (2022-2023), DUST in Marfa (2019), and School Fine Arts De Nantes Saint-Nazaire in Nantes, France (2019). Gaona has exhibited her work at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona, Burlington City Arts in Vermont, Lawndale Art Center, DiverseWorks, Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas and Galeria Pedro Banda in Mexico. Gaona’s work was featured in the Wyeth Lecture in American Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor in Houston at University of Houston, School of Art and Houston Community College.
La última corazonada del día
June 6 - July 12, 2026
La última corazonada del día, reflects on the layered spatial and material implications of remittances as embedded social practices and rituals that sustain relationships across geographies. In Verónica Gaona’s practice, these repeated systems of exchange become forms of embedded memory, where economic flows, ephemeral materials and gestures extend into everyday life.
In the exhibition, Gaona examines how remittances function as social practices and rituals resisting capital structures by turning to funerary traditions of repatriation (“translados”), where the return of the body or its remains to the place of origin becomes an act of identification and belonging. These rituals not only repair death but also reaffirm continuity with home, symbolically resolving the ambiguity of ongoing movement. The desire for return in death emerges here as an intuitive pull toward permanence.
This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of artist and collaborator, Elijah Jimenez.
Verónica Gaona was born in Brownsville, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border and is based in Houston. Gaona received an MFA in Studio Art - Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston (2021) and a BA in Mass Communications from The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (2018). Gaona was awarded the Latinx Fellowship Award (2023), the Chispa Award (2022) by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, and the Artadia Award (2021). Gaona attended the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency in Omaha, Nebraska (2026), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine (2025), International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York (2024), PAC Residency in Houston (2024), Lawndale Art Residency in Houston (2022-2023), DUST in Marfa (2019), and School Fine Arts De Nantes Saint-Nazaire in Nantes, France (2019). Gaona has exhibited her work at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona, Burlington City Arts in Vermont, Lawndale Art Center, DiverseWorks, Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas and Galeria Pedro Banda in Mexico. Gaona’s work was featured in the Wyeth Lecture in American Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor in Houston at University of Houston, School of Art and Houston Community College.
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