Entry
£10 low income / £15 standard admission / £20 pay it forward
Date
Thu 28 May 2026
Time
5.30–7pm
Location
Turner Contemporary
Join artist Hulda Guzmán and Senior Curator Melissa Blanchflower for a special tour of Please awake – asked Nature kindly.
Discover the vivid, mystical worlds of Hulda Guzmán through an intimate exploration of the exhibition. Together, the artist and curator will share the stories, ideas, and influences behind the paintings, as well as Guzmán’s distinctive approach to process, materials, and image-making.
This is a rare opportunity to hear Hulda talk about her paintings from the past decade and hear how the exhibition developed with the curator.
Following the tour, enjoy a complimentary drink and an opportunity to continue the conversation.
Places are limited and expected to book quickly, so advance booking is recommended.
Please note: a limited number of audio and induction loop tour systems will be available.
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Hulda Guzmán, 'Uva de playa 2', 2020 [Seagrape 2]. Private Collection, New York . © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni. -
Hulda Guzmán, 'In the studio' (detail), 2022. Collection of Hester Koper and Stefan von Bartha. © Hulda Guzmán. Photo: courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen NY. -
Hulda Guzmán, 'avatara' (detail), 2023. Private Collection, UK. © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
Header image: Hulda Guzmán, Holy Visit (detail), 2021. Anat Ebgi and Josh Rosenblat. © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York. Photo: Mason Kuehler.
About the artist
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.
About the curator
Melissa Blanchflower is Senior Curator at Turner. Since taking up the role, she has worked with Beatriz Milhazes, Mark Leckey, Anya Gallaccio, Bridget Riley, and curated the first Sunley Window Commission with Cassi Namoda. Prior to this, she spent eight years as a curator at Serpentine curating notable projects including exhibitions of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Jennifer Packer, Faith Ringgold, Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Rose Wylie, which won the Sky Arts Award for Visual Art in 2018, as well as Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz.
Exhibition Lead Supporter
Exhibition Circle Supporters
Alberto Cruz Foundation
Chelsea Heuer
Erica Roberts Art Foundation
Mildred Palley
Nora Wessel & Scott Baxter
And those who wish to remain anonymous
Public Funding
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