Hulda Guzmán: Please awake – asked Nature kindly

Sat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026

Turner Contemporary presents the first European institutional exhibition of the Dominican artist, Hulda Guzmán. Hulda Guzmán’s paintings open portals into vibrant, dreamlike worlds, where the artist, her family, animals and mythical beings exist in close dialogue with nature. 

About the exhibition

Drawing on Mexican muralism, Caribbean vernacular traditions and Western art history, the exhibition introduces Guzmán’s vibrant vision of landscape as a site of mysticism and ecological consciousness to Margate.

The biodiverse environment of the artist’s home in the rainforest mountains of Samaná in the Dominican Republic deeply shapes Guzmán’s visual language. Her richly layered, landscapes and interiors echo the lush abundance of her surroundings while engaging with questions of identity, belonging and the urgent realities of climate change.

Please awake – asked Nature kindly is Guzmán’s most extensive solo exhibition to date, and traces the evolution of her practice from intimate studio interiors rendered on wooden panels to expansive landscapes. Across these works, Guzmán develops interconnected themes of mysticism and the enduring wonder of the natural world.

About Hulda Guzmán

Hulda Guzmán (b.1984), lives and works in Samaná and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She studied fine art and illustration at the Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavón, in the Dominican Republic, and completed her bachelor’s degree in visual arts specialising in photography and mural painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, in Mexico City.

In 2025 Guzmán held her first solo museum exhibition Miracle Fruits at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil. Recent group exhibitions include the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs; Denver Art Museum; Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. and Pérez Art Museum, Miami, all in the US, and Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica and Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo. In 2019, she was part of the Dominican Republic pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Guzmán’s paintings are held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Dallas Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), He Art Museum (HEM), Guangdong, China; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; among others.

Supporters

Hulda Guzmán: Please awake – asked Nature kindly is generously supported by Alexander Berggruen, New York. Additional support from the Hulda Guzmán Exhibition Circle: Chelsea Heuer, Erica Roberts Art Foundation, Mildred Palley, Nora Wessel and Scott Baxter and those who wish to remain anonymous.

Hulda Guzmán: Please awake – asked Nature kindly

Sat 23 May–Sun 13 Sep 2026

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, UK

Open: Tuesday–Sunday, & Bank Holidays, 11am–5pm

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Image: Hulda Guzmán, Under the bitter Orange tree,  2020. Tomokazu Matsuyama. © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni.