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Johansson Projects is pleased to announce Sin Contar Cincuenta, the third solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe with the gallery. Arriving at a moment of heightened social and cultural reckoning, the exhibition features a dynamic body of new weavings that reflect not only a rich “pluriverse” of influences–interpolated ways of being and expression that span the artist’s personal life, Bolivian heritage, and art historical precedent–but also the urgent need to honor and defend cultural plurality in today’s world.
Sin Contar Cincuenta runs from January 17 – March 21, 2026 with an opening reception and artist talk on January 17, from 3-5pm.
For all inquiries, contact Johansson Projects at 510-444-9140 or info@johanssonprojects.com
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Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions – weavings, paintings, videos. He starts by finding outdated beauty in paper ephemera from art shows, modernist paintings, discarded audio recordings. They are methodically analyzed, deconstructed, and reverse-engineered. Drawing inspiration from the cultural techniques and motifs of his Andean heritage, Arzabe weaves the fragments together revealing uncanny intersections between form and content, the nostalgic and the hard-edged, failure and recuperation.
Miguel Arzabe holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. His work has been presented in museums and galleries, including MAC Lyon, France; MARS Milan, Italy; RM Projects Auckland, New Zealand; FIFI Projects Mexico City, Mexico; Marylhurst University, Oregon; Johansson Projects, Oakland, California; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, California; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California; Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico; the Tucson Museum of Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; the Jewish Contemporary Museum, San Francisco; Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the ICA SF; and the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville. He has held many residencies, including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, Canada; and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale in Gongju, South Korea. In 2022, Miguel received the Artadia Award, and his work “Te Quiero Inti” was acquired into the permanent collection at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California. In 2023, Miguel was a Pollock-Krasner award recipient and received a Golden Foundation Residency and a Google Artist in Residence. In 2024 Arzabe was in a group show at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, featured in a Made in Paint exhibition at Golden Artist foundation in New Berlin, NY, had a Public Art Commission for the International Airport in Houston, TX, was featured in the New York Percent for Art in Queens, NY, was selected as a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA award, featured at FOG Fair and EXPO Chicago/Frieze Fair and Untitled with Johansson Projects, selected for a group exhibition at ICA SF in “The Poetics of Dimensions” curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, and was featured at the deYoung Museum’s exhibition, Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift.
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