✸SOLO Fanihi Star June 7–Sept 14, 2024, The Wolford House, Los Angeles 

✸SOLO New Nuebu Call Back February 24–March 30, 2024, Pilele Projects, Los Angeles 

The exhibition, titled New Nuebu Call Back, continues Duenas’ ongoing explorations of the poetics of Chamoru diasporic experience. Duenas is carefully attuned to how the processes and materials of his practice operate as modes of translation, transcription, and repetition. He shapes each series of work as a materialized metaphor for the paradox of distance—cultural, gestural, linguistic, emotional—that characterizes the experience of living the faraway so close. / For Duenas reading and writing are not limited to text alone, but to attentiveness as well. His work considers how the subject of a work may withdraw itself from legibility while drawing in the viewer through their own inquiry, or from contexts arranged by the artist toward a nexus of reads. The interplay of withdrawal and revelation brings to light a notion that absence is not a blank space, but active and spectral. The alteration of things and events through synthesis or Songi (Chamoru for 'burn') is a conceptual underpinning that is often visually described by the use of iterative strategies. / The title of the show, New Nuebu Call Back, is emblematic of his unique sensibility. New and Nuebu repeat and translate each other both conceptually and sonically, while Call Back recalls the disconnect of long distance call bouncing back in the time zone lag of trans-Pasifika lifeways. If there is a melancholy here, there is also a deep sense of humor and an optimism that announces the beginning of something new as the persistence of something cherished. So the twinned themes of Duenas’ work—memory and translation—fold across each other, reweaving the new from the fragments of the present. Sid M. Duenas & Edward Sterrett, 2024

✸REVIEW Art Forum Catherine Taft on New Nuebu Call Back at Pilele Projects

https://www.artforum.com/events/catherine-taft-sid-m-duenas-pilele-projects-2024-552915/

✸GROUP At The Wolford House December 9, 2023-January 28, 2024, Wolford House, Los Angeles 

ARTISTS: Jacinto Astiazaran, Nora Berman, Brice Bischoff, Pui Tiffany Chow, Sid M. Duenas, Nik Gelormino, Maxfield Hegedus, Alex Heilbron, Lizette Hernandez, Farrell Hundley, Doug Inglish, Sam Kenswil, Kacie Lees, Katy Mixon, Jeanne Blisset Robertson, Julie Sadowski, Nick Scoville, and Julia Yerger. Curated by Lena Daly and Kylen McMorran

✸RECORD RELEASE Screaming Wind Dog Fight LP

A Small World (https://smallworldmfg.info/releases/sid-m-duenas-screaming-wind-dog-fight) record release, November 7, 2023. Screaming Wind Dog Fight is a record of spoken poetry. The texts were developed following the artist's experience of a super typhoon that occurred while visiting his birthplace of Saipan in 2018. It was read from a score that allows for different permutations. Typed in bold condensed letters, the language is rooted in a matrix of words that appear and interchange in slight iterations. Each of the 15 texts are included on a 2-sided poster. The LP cover features a Fregata minor bird, better known to some native Chamorro speakers as Paya'ya (pronounced pa-jzah-jzah). A Paya'ya sighting is sometimes considered an indicator that a storm is coming. LeRoy Stevens, 2023

✸PUBLICATION Upon Shared Waters: A Playbook on Identity & Memory 2023

Compiled & Edited by Noelle Marie Falcis. Contributions by Amelia Butler, Sid M. Duenas, Stevie Merino, Melodie Turori, Jason “JP” Pereira, Toni M. Pasion, Kiki Rivera.

✸GROUP READ NO READ July 23-September 10, 2022, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles 

ARTISTS: Sarah Conaway, Sid M. Duenas, Merideth Hillbrand, Nicole Miller, Ragen Moss, Chadwick Rantanen, Rosha Yaghmai. "'READ NO READ' brings together the work of seven artists based in Southern California. The artists and the respective artworks presented in this exhibition, while distinct from one another, share a layered approach to language and a concentrated relationship to form. Whether an object, an image, a text, or an amalgamation, the ways in which artists choose to articulate or obfuscate carries meaning—it has weight. Artworks are strange containers, forms authored by the artist to convey some thing or idea, while also maintaining a certain resistance. This negotiation between visibility and concealment, between what is legible and what is left intentionally obtuse, is perhaps one reason that art remains such an infinite and compelling read. In certain instances within this exhibition, meaning(s) rest on the surface of an artwork, worn on the sleeve of a form, while in other moments there is the embedding of intent, a language that is held on to, or in keeping with metaphor—kept close to the vest. Moving from the immediate read to the slow, from transparency to opacity, the ability for artists to construct language and to embody ideas is seismic, grounding, and vast." By Lisa Williamson

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Space Eraser, Place Eraser 2021

Part of Proximity, 2014-2022. Hand/measuring-star printed, hand/measuring-star made, signed 17PDT or 18PST with Category 5.

✸INTERVIEW With Jamillah James. 2021

H.W.L.. Read: https://www.theicala.org/en/yellow-pages/jamillah-james/sid-duenas

INA—Moonlight monochrome the gangs i ga’chong-hu the see more kolor brown fanihi star.

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Curving Earth—Short films, Readings and Discussion at ICA LA. April 22, 2021

The program includes "Magellan Doesn't Live Here" by Mariquita “Micki” Davis, a CHamoru multimedia artist, and Re-Millenium Voyage 2000-2017 by Sid M. Duenas, and other works by the artists and Dr. Vicente M. Diaz, an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in critical indigenous studies in North America and the Pacific Ocean region. Watch: https://youtu.be/a7Z8QExNwV8

INA—Making, writing included, as supplement.

INA—Find. Hold. Lose. Retrieve. Re-do.

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✸RESIDENCY Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Mar. 22 - May 1, 2020

. . . despite the collapsing together of divided elements for the purpose of accurate description, an incomplete image as temporary entity is briefly apprehended instead. The sprawling duration-silhouette makes clear that the conical shadow of Earth and the Belt of Venus—distinctions in motion—are bound by vast and volatile space . . .

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Wearing night still. From the water a.m. fisherman. There and through fog tree low fire. One day Bill & Candy’s dad. There became medicine. Coconut oil on wrist on neck. That fish must be cooked on the ground. And senot’s hand shadowing clear today onto crabs moving sand, my head. Set behind an eye especially the flying talaya. Terror of Easter Rabbit. Tall grass to Rowena’s. Tan Ana’s tree. The bird egg and the Big Wheel. To the first cold rain 6000 miles away. These events pressed. Red clay. The shine of beer bottles tipping. Basalt containing every make-it-right within the scent of pepper leaf. Tides two-ing a friend-form smiling in District 4. Where the channel traded a speargun for just a few of his breaths, not enough to drown. And introduced to the black & white photo that survived only in his hair. He knew me as a child. I spoke differently then.

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Brian Fuata, Mountains dissolved (ext. 1-2). Nov. 25, 2020 at fg-ce.info

Spiral image-stage-studio-floor and [ha ah] between salts in solution there is “this is not a hand, this is a library” this is not just so middle an off-ing force together and reading I am pleased to announce . . .

✸RESIDENCY Pasifika Transmissions at PIEAM, October 2020

Pasifika Transmissions is a monthly distance learning series that will invite indigenous artists in our community to visit the archives and develop a video “transmission” geared toward our K-12 audience and their families. Pasifika Transmissions presented by Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (Long Beach, California). Fran Lujan: Curator/Museum Director, Mariquita "Micki" Davis: Co-curator/producer: Mariquita "Micki" Davis, Eseel Borlasa: Publicist

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Dan Taulapapa McMullin, ~~A Queer Gray~~ Theirstory ~~of Polynesia~~. Oct. 17, 2020 at fg-ce.info

Either spark on-&-off dust the body pause bright text and ankles at times their chorus by night by day strikethrough. I am pleased to announce . . .

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OILY constellation short not sung girl go-boy with inward y say the callers carry their debt under palapala sky. tins of food and 12 packs glow cosmic caller-debtor-girl-boy-eraser. kelaguen star descends a line to titiyas, shrimp patty, eating-hand aligns with apigigi bbq horizon. light into a kind of light and so on but only the giver’s debt is fixed

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Mariquita Micki Davis, Gapotulu as Portal. July 30, 2020 at fg-ce.info

Hair strand star course lightsong, upside-down wave turn paginated constellation. The diurnal carry-on luggage sentence, warmly glitched through airport loudspeaker. I-am-pl-eased alll da wayyy over the green flash to announce . . .

✸RECOGNITION Rosa Reyes Duenas Spirit Prize, May 30, 2020

Awarded to Taotao Songi for work that consisits of three parts. Please sit, InspacespacespaceFrom night. We are not InnightnightnightFrom darkness enough! TothreepersonthirdpersonpowerpowerpowerIn first-light-still-&-rapid. Please talisay (or almonds) in pocket this familial ceremony-&-enabling grant commemorate darkdarkdarkspacespacespace and beginnings.

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Sssuper Nulu releases Bad Reception, March 2020

✸NEWS Chetton

✸GROUP Off the Wall, June 1, 2019, Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena

ARTISTS: Kim Abeles, Edgar Arceneaux, Carmen Argote, Sara Kathryn Arledge, Susu Attar, Judie Bamber, Whitney Bedford, Sigrid Burton, Cassils, Marta Chaffee, Diane Christiansen, Andrea Chung, Robbie Conal, Sid M. Duenas, Connor Everts, Fallen Fruit, Steve Galloway , Jill Giegerich, Joel Glassman, Sherin Guirguis, Al Held, Robert Hilton, Jessie Homer French, Chris Kallmyer, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Farrah Karapetian, Soo Kim, Alice Könitz, Hirokazu Kosaka, Rockne Krebs, laub, Charles Long, Patrick Martinez, Steve Mayerson, Nicole Miller, Justin Moore, Amitis Motevalli, Oliver Nowlin, Chris Oliveria, Michael Parker, Luciano Perna, Paul Pescador, Nancy Popp, Susan Rankaitis, Vicente Razo, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Analia Saban, Connie Samaras, Raymond Saunders, Richard Serra, Sister Frances Shimotsuma, Susan Silton, Henry Taylor, Neal Taylor, Devon Tsuno, Sadao Uetani, LaMonte Westmoreland, Brian Wills, Kim Zumpfe.

Daytime mwarmwar boat story shiny head and heavy plumeria convulsing stomach tightening throats tear after tear everyone squeezing at the picnic table here sweet mosquito coil cherry-re time and Ofeng’s marijuana aluminum foil on light bulb tonight illegal bat and turtle from a friend of a friend shadow out of a tree dog dancing dead man and his refrigerator pressing peppers to the top of his mouth in the tall deer catching razor grass the front-people spit city boy burning remember whiskey from belly to spine half circle nerve attack soothed with coral limestone and banana leaf thank my auntie pay-your-bills

✸GROUP Allan Kaprow/Words, April 6-25, 2019, Converso, Milano, Italy

ARTISTS: Mitchell Anderson, Michel Auder, Marie Auvity, Laetitia Badaut Haussmann, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Tenzing Barshee, Alessandro Bava, Julie Beaufils, Will Benedict, Judith Bernstein, Jonathan Binet, Christopher Bollen, Edoardo Bonaspetti, Jennifer Bornstein, Julie Boukobza, Francesca Brusa, Katarina Burin, Marin Buschel, Victoria Cabello, Alessandro Carano, Xinyi Cheng, Mieke Chew, Tyler Coburn, James Crump, Michele D’Aurizio, Anna Daneri, Adrian Dannatt, Kamran Diba, Leah Dieterich, Sid M. Duenas, Paula Dykstra Bettina Funcke, Alexander Galán, Jeanne Graff, Joseph Grigely, Mark Harris, Rachel Harrison, Martin Hatebur, Lena Henke, Karl Holmqvist, Jonathan Horowitz, John Houck, Peter Huttinger, Ana Iwataki, Hadrien Jacquelet, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, Jenny Jaskey, Charlie Jeffery, Tony Just, Stefan Kalmár, Matt Keegan, Young Kim, Henning Kober, Agnieszka Kurant, Martin Laborde, Ann Lauterbach, Lykke Li, Massimiliano Locatelli, Jason Loebs, Vicki Mansoor, Karen Marta, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos & Charles Teyssou, Marie Matusz, Molly Caro May, Sarah McCrory, Ryan McNamara, Ingo Niermann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joel Otterson, Maureen Paley, Marco Paltrinieri, Riccardo Paratore, Philippe Parreno, Thymaya Payne, Baptiste Pinteaux, Gea Politi, Rob Pruitt, Asad Raza, Noushin Redjaian, Cédric Rivrain, Allen Ruppersberg, Ronnie Sassoon, Matt Saunders, Eric Shiner, Amy Sillman, Sue Spaid, Tommaso Speretta, Christabel Stewart, Michael Stipe, Davide Stucchi, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Emily Sundblad, Kate Sutton, Catherine Taft, Benjamin Thorel, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nicolas Tremblay, Frederic Tuten, Philip Ursprung, Jill Van Epps, Marion Vasseur-Raluy, Philippe Vergne, Artie Vierkant, Amy Vogel, Claire Wilcox, Jake Wotherspoon, Mia Wotherspoon, Linda Yablonsky, Simon Zoric

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✸GROUP Mandujano/Cell & Field Projects, Feb 7-10, 2019, Material Art Fair, CDMX

ARTISTS: Juan Capistran, Sid M. Duenas, Rochele Gomez, Hazel Mandujano, Alex Sanchez.

✸→EMBED Oil I.O. Flower I.A.

✸FOUNDING Chalan Kiya Evidentiary Prize, 2019

Awarded to Taotao Songi that produces a work on-location or in reference to Chalan Kiya.

Writing, which includes reading, may privilege the stability of the mark but the textual recording, however important its function as a choral opportunity for disparately timed readers, is deeply contrasted to a fishing trip glimmer fish below caught a dozen at least yet hardly the amount in blue.

✸ONGOING Lodging recent events 2018-2022

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Hospitality high tides and full mooners, comers-lately.

✸SOLO Fanihi Star June 7–Sept 14, 2024, The Wolford House, Los Angeles

✸SOLO New Nuebu Call Back February 24–March 30, 2024, Pilele Projects, Los Angeles

✸REVIEW Art Forum Catherine Taft on New Nuebu Call Back at Pilele Projects

✸GROUP At The Wolford House December 9, 2023-January 28, 2024, Wolford House, Los Angeles

✸RECORD RELEASE Screaming Wind Dog Fight LP

✸PUBLICATION Upon Shared Waters: A Playbook on Identity & Memory 2023

✸GROUP READ NO READ July 23-September 10, 2022, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Space Eraser, Place Eraser 2021

✸INTERVIEW With Jamillah James. 2021

INA—Moonlight monochrome the gangs i ga’chong-hu the see more kolor brown fanihi star.

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Curving Earth—Short films, Readings and Discussion at ICA LA. April 22, 2021

INA—Making, writing included, as supplement.

INA—Find. Hold. Lose. Retrieve. Re-do.

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✸RESIDENCY Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Mar. 22 - May 1, 2020

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✸ANNOUNCEMENT Brian Fuata, Mountains dissolved (ext. 1-2). Nov. 25, 2020 at fg-ce.info

✸RESIDENCY Pasifika Transmissions at PIEAM, October 2020

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Dan Taulapapa McMullin, A Queer Gray Theirstory of Polynesia. Oct. 17, 2020 at fg-ce.info

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✸ANNOUNCEMENT Mariquita Micki Davis, Gapotulu as Portal. July 30, 2020 at fg-ce.info

✸RECOGNITION Rosa Reyes Duenas Spirit Prize, May 30, 2020

✸ANNOUNCEMENT Sssuper Nulu releases Bad Reception, March 2020

INA—Present only in its reversion to the front-before.

✸NEWS Chetton

✸GROUP Off the Wall, June 1, 2019, Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena

✸GROUP Allan Kaprow/Words, April 6-25, 2019, Converso, Milano, Italy

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✸GROUP Mandujano/Cell & Field Projects, Feb 7-10, 2019, Material Art Fair, CDMX

✸→EMBED Oil I.O. Flower I.A.

✸FOUNDING Chalan Kiya Evidentiary Prize, 2019

Writing, which includes reading, may privilege the stability of the mark but the textual recording, however important its function as a choral opportunity for disparately timed readers, is deeply contrasted to a fishing trip glimmer fish below caught a dozen at least yet hardly the amount in blue.

✸ONGOING Lodging recent events 2018-2022