Must See Booths at Zona Maco 2025

From bold solo displays to thought-provoking group presentations.
Keith Estiler, Hypebeast, February 6, 2025

With Zona Maco celebrating two decades as a cornerstone of the Latin American art scene, this year’s edition highlights bold solo installs to thought-provoking group presentations. Rodrigo Ramírez distorts identity through visceral, layered paintings, while Lewinale Havette reclaims femininity and migration with striking compositions. Pachi Muruchu and Livien Yin weave narratives of heritage and time, Ana Segovia reinvents cinematic nostalgia, while Chavis Mármol delves into the complexities of love and identity.

Adding to the excitement, visitors can vote for their favorite piece from a shortlist of 20, with the winning artist and gallery splitting a $100,000 USD prize from the Erarta Foundation in honor of the fair’s 20th anniversary.

 

Check out our roundup of standout presentations at Zona Maco 2025, running through February 9.

 
Marking its Zona Maco debut, New York’s Palo Gallery presents a solo booth featuring new paintings and works on paper by Lewinale Havette. Her practice interrogates femininity, migration, and identity, shaped by her experiences growing up in Liberia and moving through West Africa. With a striking mix of abstraction and figuration, her paintings layer washes, drips, and gestural marks to depict powerful, fluid representations of womanhood. This presentation builds on Havette’s breakout solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2024, offering fresh works that radiate both defiance and grace.