CHERUBY is proud to launch its inaugural residency programme. For our first edition, we have invited Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane as our resident artist. During his three-month stay in Shanghai from September to November, our dedicated residency curators will provide support for his research investigations and facilitate local network connections.

This residency marks Sánchez-Kane’s first participation in a programme of this kind throughout his artistic career, and CHERUBY is deeply honoured to support his contextual research while witnessing the unfolding of a creative journey in Shanghai.

About the Artist

Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Born in 1987, Mérida, Mexico, he now lives and works in Mexico City. Under the figure of the macho sentimental, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting or installation, all of his works present the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.

Past solo exhibitions and performances include:
Fortuna Y Fetiche, Dashwood Projects, New York, NY (duo exhibition with Sofiá Alazraki) (2025); Aguas Frescas, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City (2025); En la punta de un alfiler, Collegium, Arévalo, Ávila, Spain (2025); Young Boy Sánchez-Kane, organized by Dover Street Market, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles (2024); New Lexicons of Embodiment, kurimanzutto, New York (2023); Sánchezkaneismo, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2022); Prêt-à-Patria, as part of Siembra, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2021); Latino Couture, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City (2020); Macho Sentimental vol.II, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Las Puertas al Sentimentalismo, Licenciado Gallery, Mexico City (2019); Macho Sentimental vol.I, Grand Tour Studio, Milan (2018); and Vast Graveyard of the Missing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA Los Angeles), CA (2017), among others.

Past group exhibitions include:
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale (2024); The Campus group show, Claverack, NY (2024); The Lady and the Unicorn: New Tapestry, Salon 94 Gallery, New York (2024); La Mano Negra, guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico (2023); Vida Social, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2023); Objects of Permanence, Abrons Arts Center, New York (2023); Diseño en femenino. México 1940–2022, Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (2022); TODOS JUNTOS (All Together), kurimanzutto, New York, NY (2022); Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama Art Summit, Japan (2022); Calor Universal, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY (2022); Para Morelio, PEANA, Mexico City (2021); De por Vida, Company Gallery, New York, NY (2021); en llamas, LLANO, Mexico City (2021); OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2020); SEÑORA!, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna, Austria (2020); and Prince·sse·s des villes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), among others.