Maia Cruz Palileo's 'The World Tangled in You' Opens at David Kordansky Gallery

Key facts

• Maia Cruz Palileo's 'The World Tangled in You' is on view at David Kordansky Gallery in Chelsea from September 10 to October 24, 2026.
• The exhibition marks the gallery's first presentation of Palileo's work in New York.
• Palileo was born in Chicago in 1979 and is based in Brooklyn.
• The show features new large- and small-scale paintings that combine family archives, Filipino heritage, colonial histories, migration, and imagined worlds.
• Palileo's practice is informed by their family's migration from the Philippines to the United States and addresses colonialism, displacement, assimilation, and the Philippine–American War.
• The artist builds images through layers of oil paint, allowing earlier passages to remain materially present even when concealed.
• Works in the exhibition include 'Bundók the Boondocks' (2026), 'Makiling the Restless Mountain' (2026), 'Twilight' (2026), 'Rio Hudson' (2026), 'Bone Collectors' (2026), 'Starting A Fight' (2026), 'Reruns' (2026), and 'The World Tangled in You' (2026).
• The gallery is located at 520 West 20th Street and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.