ZsONAMACO 2026

ZsONAMACO 2026 brings together over 228 galleries from three continents in Mexico City, presenting contemporary and modern art, design, antiques, photography, and publications under the artistic direction of Direlia Lazo (Cuba). Featuring galleries from 26 countries, its 22nd edition unites established projects and emerging voices from the global art scene, reaffirming its role as the region’s foremost meeting point for art and collecting.

ZsONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo
Brings together galleries from around the world across four sections with distinct curatorial approaches, presenting contemporary and modern artworks by emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

ZsONAMACO Main Section
Selection committee Teófilo Cohen (Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City)
Karen Huber (Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City)
Lauren Kelly (Sean Kelly Gallery, New York / Los Angeles)
Ben Loveless (Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin / Mexico City / Stockholm)
Guilherme Simões de Assis (Simões de Assis, São Paulo / Curitiba / Balneario Camboriú)
About Dedicated to contemporary art, this section features galleries from around the world presenting recent and representative works across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and new technologies.

ZsONAMACO Ejes
Curator Aimé Iglesias Lukin (Buenos Aires)
This section invites galleries, hybrid spaces, and independent projects to explore exchange. In a world where the flow of ideas and objects is increasingly constrained, contemporary art offers a space to question history and the present, foster collective dialogue, and highlight inequalities.

ZsONAMACO SUR
Curator Manuela Moscoso (Ecuador)
Sur brings together artistic practices that question dominant narratives and give space to diverse ways of inhabiting the world. While maintaining a focus on the Global South, it also includes works that explore identities, histories, and personal experiences from intersectional perspectives, engaging with broad global contexts.

ZSONAMACO Foto
Curator Luis Graham Castillo (Dominican Republic)
This section, dedicated to photography, brings together documentary approaches, collective creation, and interdisciplinary collaborations, offering discursive exercises that reflect new imaginaries of human thought and the surrounding reality.

ZSONAMACO Diseño and Diseño Emergente
Artistic Director Cecilia León de la Barra (Mexico)
Co-curator Cecilia León de la Barra (Mexico)
Co-curator Joel Escalona (Mexico)
Co-curator Jorge Diego Etienne (Mexico)
This section of the fair brings together leading national and international design studios, established Mexican brands, academic institutions, and independent designers.

ZSONAMACO Arte Moderno
Curator Esteban King Álvarez (Mexico)
Arte Moderno presents a selection of historical works mainly linked to twentieth-century art movements. The section includes key figures of Latin American modern art as well as artists from other regions who played significant roles in shaping twentieth-century art.

ZSONAMACO Salón del Anticuario
Co-curator Alfonso Miranda (Mexico)
Co-curator Mario Uvence (Mexico)
A unique space within Mexico’s contemporary art fair scene, dedicated to the exhibition, promotion, and sale of pieces from the exclusive symbolic universe of antiques, ranging from historical artefacts to objects of great patrimonial value.

ZSONAMACO Libros
A space dedicated to art, design, architecture, and photography publishing, featuring specialist publications, exhibition catalogues, artist books, and monographs. This section connects publishers, authors, and collectors with the public, fostering the exchange of ideas and access to unique, high-quality printed works that enrich the fair’s artistic and cultural experience.

Conversations Programme
The ZsONAMACO Conversations Programme brought together a distinguished group of international curators, artists, gallerists, critics, museum directors, and other leading cultural figures to take part in engaging talks.