Oswald Saenz

Opening Reception
June 25, 2026
6-8PM

White Columns is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Oswald Saenz that will feature a selection of the artists’ drawings. Saenz renders familiar subjects – women, houses, flowers – stripping them down to their most basic curves and contours and infusing them with hallucinatory color, wobbling rhythm, and traces of spirit made flesh. A cousin of legendary artist Fernando Botero, Saenz taps into the South American tradition of magical realism, in which the natural and supernatural are wrapped up in one another like his tangled vines. The artists is currently affiliated with Y.A.I. Arts (formerly H.A.I./Healing Arts Initiative), a creative studio that supports artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in New York City.