Cossette Zeno: San Juan to Paris
Sept. 10 - Oct. 30, 2026, Richard Saltoun Gallery, New York City, New York
Curated by José Correa-Vigier
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Cossette Zeno: San Juan to Paris, an exhibition dedicated to the formative years of the Puerto Rican Surrealist artist Cossette Zeno. A significant yet overlooked figure within Caribbean and international Surrealism, Zeno developed a distinctive visual language during a pivotal five-year period, moving from the avant-garde circles of Puerto Rico to the center of André Breton’s Surrealist movement in post-war Paris.
The exhibition reunites works from this remarkable formative period for the first time in North America. It offers a focused examination of the artist's emergence within the transnational networks of Caribbean and European Surrealism revealing the originality of a practice shaped by cultural exchange and artistic experimentation. The exhibition, curated by Zeno's biographer, José Correa-Vigier, positions Zeno not as a peripheral figure but as an important voice within the history of twentieth-century Surrealism.
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