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Alday Hunken Gallery is a cross-city project connecting Mexico City and Atlanta, two places whose art scenes are shaped by movement, migration, and constant reinvention. Working between these contexts, the gallery focuses on artists who push material, emotional, and conceptual boundaries — artists who are building their language in real time.

The gallery’s approach, which the founders describe as “hypercuration,” is grounded in flexibility: instead of confining artists to a single white-cube format, Alday Hunken works across homes, studios, borrowed spaces, and experimental sites to give every artwork the context it deserves. Each presentation is tailored, intuitive, and responsive to the work itself.

Alday Hunken collaborates with emerging voices whose practices often lean toward abstraction — not as an escape from identity, but as a refusal to reduce it to clichés. Their artists use material, gesture, and form as subtle carriers of memory, culture, and lived experience. The gallery believes in complexity, in nuance, and in giving space to artists who resist easy categorization.

While the program is not exclusively dedicated to women, female-identifying artists are central to Alday Hunken’s vision. The founders’ perspectives are shaped by the strong women who raised them and by the data made visible in the Burns Halperin Report, which highlights the structural disparities that still shape the art world.

At its core, the gallery operates with a simple intention:

to hold space for artists who are building new languages, and to meet them with care, curiosity, and rigor.

The Team

Vai Jong Hunken

Director

Vai Jong Hunken leads the curatorial direction of the gallery, shaping exhibitions and collaborating closely with artists across Mexico City and Atlanta. His work centers on emerging practices, material experimentation, and the creation of intimate, intentional contexts for new voices. He approaches curation as a form of dialogue — responsive, intuitive, and grounded in trust.

Alfonso Alday Vergara

Co-Director

Alfonso Alday Vergara brings a global perspective and a strategic backbone to the gallery’s projects. His focus is on sustainability, long-term support for artists, and expanding the gallery’s presence across cities and communities. He is committed to making Alday Hunken a space where emerging talent can grow with freedom and ambition.