Meet the Artists: Session 8
Chantal Peñalosa Fong, Mira Dayal, and Yashua Klos
Andrew, Anna, and Mamali will be in residence at Fountainhead from November 5 to December 10, 2025.
Chantal Peñalosa Fong
In partnership with FF Projects
Chantal Peñalosa Fong (Tecate, Mexico, 1987) studied fine arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo. She was awarded the acquisition prize in the XIV Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013-2014 and 2015-2016). In 2014 she was also recipient of the Programa Bancomer-MACG in its 4th edition. Peñalosa’s research based practice stems from small gestures and interventions in everyday life, which are meant to expound upon notions of labour, waiting and delay. Repetition is a crucial element in her process, functioning as an allusion to the absurdity, weathering, and alienating effects of work. For Peñalosa repeating actions evoke latent states in which dialogue appears unilateral and time suspended.
Mira Dayal
In partnership with Untitled Art Miami Beach
Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in New York. She produces systems of sculptures that often respond to a site's architecture or history; involve subtle but laborious uses of everyday objects and materials; critically reflect on changing technologies; and push against the limits of language and image. Dayal has held solo and two-person exhibitions at venues including Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia; Princeton University, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Kunstverein Dresden, Germany; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, New York; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and Abrons Art Center, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, New York; Miriam, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Artspace New Haven, CT; OCHI, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; and other spaces. She has participated in residencies at Ox-Bow, Art in General, and A.I.R. Gallery. Dayal is on faculty at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts.
Yashua Klos
In his multi-media practice, Yashua Klos explores themes of identity, memory, and African Americans' relationship to American labor. His large-scale works are created from the intricate formation of woodblock prints, representing ideas of Blackness through multi-dimensional, fragmented compositions. Unlike traditional collage arranged from ready made source material, Klos creates all his collage material through woodblock printing and monotypes. His work reimagines humans as an alchemical beings, surviving and existing within intertwined networks of history, myth, and lived reality.
Yashua Klos (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) received a BFA from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (2000) and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York (2009), both in Fine Art. Recent exhibitions include Building Our Being at Zidoun Bossuyt, Paris, FR (2023) and the major solo show Yashua Klos: OUR LABOUR at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (2022) curated by Tracy L. Adler, and Yashua Klos: OUR LIVING at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME (2022).
