Selected exhibitions since 2021. The complete exhibition history since 1979 is in the CV.
2026
Solo exhibition · Lichtundfire, New York, USA · March 4–28, 2026
Curated by Priska Juschka
Zelenka's third solo exhibition at Lichtundfire, 175 Rivington Street. The opening reception was held on March 11 and a walk-through and conversation with the artist on March 24.
2025
Solo exhibition · Vitrinas culturales, Metro Zócalo/Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico · Opened March 5, 2025
Curated by Pancho López, Laura Reséndiz
Works in collage, paper, acrylic and fabric showing people pushed to the margins by social norms, or who chose to break with them, installed in the display cases of one of the city's busiest metro stations.
2025
Solo exhibition · Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico · Opened March 5, 2025
Curated by Pancho López, Laura Reséndiz
About a dozen works in painting, drawing and collage on how power is exercised, imposed and eventually cracks: figures caught between control and resistance. It opened the same day as Personalidades desubicadas at the Zócalo metro station, with a public debate with Edgardo Ganado Kim.
2025
Solo exhibition · Galería del Centro Cultural Teatro García Carrillo, Festival Internacional de las Artes, Saltillo, Mexico · 2025
Presented as part of the Festival Internacional de las Artes.
2024
Solo exhibition · Lichtundfire, New York, USA · October 2–26, 2024
Curated by Elga Wimmer, Priska Juschka
Painting, sculpture, video and works on paper that approach migration as a whole, following Rivers of Babylon. A panel moderated by Elga Wimmer was held on October 10.
2024
Solo exhibition · Galería Juan Manuel Cedeño, Ministerio de Cultura, Panama City, Panama · June 2024
Curated by Gladys Turner Bosso
Shown at the Ministry of Culture's gallery facing Las Bóvedas, in the Casco Antiguo.
2024
Solo exhibition · Facultad de Artes Visuales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico · February 2024
Curated by Celeste Flores
2023
Solo exhibition · Lichtundfire, New York, USA · June 27 – July 28, 2023
Curated by Elga Wimmer, Priska Juschka
His first solo exhibition at Lichtundfire: works on paper in acrylic, ink, gold leaf and metal pins about global migration. The title refers to Psalm 137 and the Babylonian exile.
2023–24
Solo exhibition · Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro · Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey · Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico · Touring, 2023–2024
Curated by Francisco (Pancho) López
A touring solo exhibition: at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Ciudad Juárez (June–September 2023, more than 60 works, with public forums at the Centro Cultural de las Fronteras), at the Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey (opened January 24, 2024) and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro (May–July 2024, more than 50 works on paper and canvas, sculpture, video and installation).
2022
Solo exhibition · Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA · November 17 – December 22, 2022
Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Elga Wimmer
Acrylic paintings on canvas made during the COVID-19 period, on poverty, power and displacement.
Celestial Power (2020), Colors and Black and White (2021), Hard Labor (2021), Migration Ball (2021), Waiting Has a Price (2021), Web Masters (2021), Black Vultures and Red Snapper, Martin Luther King's Dream Come True (2021)
2022–23
Solo exhibition · Centro Estatal de las Artes (CEART) Tecate · Ensenada · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico · Touring, 2022–2023
Curated by Francisco (Pancho) López, Olga Margarita Dávila García
Zelenka's first exhibition in Mexico opened in August 2022 in the Sala Internacional Álvaro Blancarte of CEART Tecate, with 49 paintings, 5 sculptures and 5 wood carvings from the 1970s to the present, arranged in five sections: Orígenes, Deforestación, Orates, Desequilibrio and Fuerza desmedida. It then travelled to CEART Ensenada (2022) and CEART Tijuana (2023).
2021–22
Group exhibition · Museo Casa Pintada, Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón, Mula, Murcia, Spain · 2021–2022
Curated by Elga Wimmer, Berta Sichel
A group exhibition on art and politics. Zelenka's works included his series after Goya's Caprichos.
Exhibition film · 2023
Exhibition film by NYC Gallery Openings.
Talk · 2023
Conversation at Lichtundfire, 175 Rivington Street, with Mark Bloch, Mary Hrbacek and Priska Juschka, moderated by Elga Wimmer. Filmed by NYC Gallery Openings.
Exhibition film · 2022
Exhibition film by NYC Gallery Openings.
