DAVID CORREA

I will inherit a great many acres of land, and I will try to cultivate upon this land, and I will try to feed those I love, but I will grow no crops here.

We’re thrilled to announce that David Correa is the third commissioned artist of Season Eight—a season of world-building in all its forms. 🦾 Blending performance, film, poetry, object, and imagery, Correa’s practice presents surreal narratives exploring and satirizing man’s existential relationship to the tool and the self. Contextualized through collective aspects of Latin American situationism, he informs these narratives by referencing political theory, mythology, history, and philosophy, and creates networks of ideologies that anchor the Latin laborer as an absurd figure. Through his time-based work, Correa’s presentation of ephemera as sculpture deepens this investigation by humanizing and memorializing the tool. Likewise, his “non-ephemeral” objects act as contextual reference for the narrative. We invite you to join us in @daavud world. An artist-in-residence at @__tunnel , alumnus of @nwsaschool @youngarts , and represented by @queue_gallery , this commission is more than its individual parts. Here, our experience together is the archive. Reveal performance night is Friday, May 8. 🩶 Film by @juanluismatos.info

David Correa Obliteration, 2024 print on tarp 8 x 12 ft Recently on view in Un Gran Amor por La Bomba, Correa’s solo exhibition in Mexico City during 2026 Art week. David Correa (b. 1999, Miami, FL) is a contemporary artist based in Miami. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and works across disciplines to construct narrative-driven installations and performances. His practice explores existentialism and post-humanism, examining the human body as a system subject to modification and control. Correa is represented by QUEUE Gallery and has presented work with Voloshyn, Primary, the Miami Design District, and Untitled Art Fairs, is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently in residence at Tunnel Projects.

David Correa The Floor Scrapers, 2024 print on tarp 8 x 12 ft Recently on view in Un Gran Amor por La Bomba, Correa’s solo exhibition in Mexico City during 2026 Art week. David Correa (b. 1999, Miami, FL) is a contemporary artist based in Miami. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and works across disciplines to construct narrative-driven installations and performances. His practice explores existentialism and post-humanism, examining the human body as a system subject to modification and control. Correa is represented by QUEUE Gallery and has presented work with Voloshyn, Primary, the Miami Design District, and Untitled Art Fairs, is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently in residence at Tunnel Projects.

Thank you to @artpilcom Artpil Magazine and Italy-based writer and curator Chiara Causo @chiaracso for the thoughtful piece on the conceptual framework of Q-represented artist @daavud David Correa’s recent solo exhibition in Mexico City, Un Gran Amor por La Bomba. Thank you to everyone who helped make this exhibition possible. Thank you to various friends for the beautiful images. You can read the full article on Artpil.com. You can read more about the exhibition and see the full catalogue on queuegallery.net.

Gracias, por todo el apoyo, toda la ayuda, todo el amor, las amistades, las conversaciones, las colaboraciones, y las historias. Gracias. Gracias a @angelicaisabellev @mixedbylucci @obnoxiousrich @jstjsh Por todas las fotos y documentación. Gracias a @stacey_calle_ por su actuación y por ser parte de la obra. Gracias a @catuxxca y @queue_gallery por ser mi colaboradora siempre. Gracias a @valentine.worldwide por hospedarnos y facilitar todo esto. Gracias a todos los que me ayudaron de cualquier forma con esta exhibición. Gracias. Jamas quiero hacer esto solo, y veo que jamás lo haré. No se nada de crear arte, pero he aprendido que contar historias funciona solo en comunidad. Que gran amor por una bomba.

@queue_gallery , in partnership with @valentine.worldwide , presents ‘Un Gran Amor por La Bomba,’ a solo exhibition by David Correa (@daavud ) in Mexico City. The show explores power from the sun to the atomic bomb and how systems of labor shape and value the human body. On view through February 10, 12–6 pm at Maestro Antonio Caso 147, CDMX. With an opening performance by @joaquin_stacey_ and documentation by @angelicaisabellev . Credits: @queue_gallery , @angelicaisabellev , @keithestiler /@hypeart

OPEN TODAY 2-6pm/ 12:00–18:00 daily through the 10th : QUEUE Gallery × @valentine.worldwide are pleased to present “Un Gran Amor por La Bomba”, a solo exhibition by Q represented artist David Correa @daavud in Mexico City. Ciudad de México ° Address: Maestro Antonio Caso 147 Thank you to everyone who made it to the opening and was able to see the live play and a massive thank you to @joaquin_stacey_ who graciously laid for over 5 hours for this opening reception live performance. The solo exhibition is on view today alongside the group exhibition— I Dream in 2 Languages. Un Gran Amor por La Bomba is structured around the idea that humanity has historically worshipped the sun as a divine, natural thermonuclear force, and later sought to replicate this power through the atomic bomb—a man-made god engineered to embody divine power, efficiency, and inevitability. Emerging from Correa’s ongoing inquiry into anthropology, weaponry, and labor, the exhibition examines these systems as parallel mechanisms of extraction, each producing a “perfected” body through displacement, study, and instrumentalization. Correa draws a critical parallel between the bomb and the immigrant laborer, both produced by American systems as ideal tools, perfected through repetition and valued only through function and productivity. David Correa (b. 1999, Miami, FL) is a contemporary artist based in Miami. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and works across disciplines to construct narrative-driven installations and performances. His practice explores existentialism and post-humanism, examining the human body as a system subject to modification and control. Correa is represented by QUEUE Gallery and has presented work with Voloshyn, Primary, the Miami Design District, and Untitled Art Fairs, is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently in residence at Tunnel Projects. and thank you @angelicaisabellev for the documentation.

QUEUE Gallery is pleased to present Un Gran Amor por La Bomba, a solo exhibition by Q represented artist David Correa @daavud , opening February 4 in Mexico City In collaboration with @valentine.worldwide . Un Gran Amor por La Bomba is structured around the idea that humanity has historically worshipped the sun as a divine, natural thermonuclear force, and later sought to replicate this power through the atomic bomb—a man-made god engineered to embody divine power, efficiency, and inevitability. Emerging from Correa’s ongoing inquiry into anthropology, weaponry, and labor, the exhibition examines these systems as parallel mechanisms of extraction, each producing a “perfected” body through displacement, study, and instrumentalization. Correa draws a critical parallel between the bomb and the immigrant laborer, both produced by American systems as ideal tools, perfected through repetition and valued only through function and productivity. At the symbolic center of the solo exhibition is Bluegill Prime, a failed U.S. nuclear test that detonated prematurely before it was meant to. Correa reimagines this malfunction as an act of protest: a man-made god that kills itself before fulfilling its purpose. Within the live performance, the bomb is embodied as a character who becomes the exhibition’s spiritual core; a divinity that refuses its own existence, rebelling through implosion and non functionality.   “I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one.”
— Gustave Courbet David Correa (b. 1999, Miami, FL) is a contemporary artist based in Miami. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and works across disciplines to construct narrative-driven installations and performances. His practice explores existentialism and post-humanism, examining the human body as a system subject to modification and control. Correa is represented by QUEUE Gallery and has presented work with Voloshyn, Primary, the Miami Design District, and Untitled Art Fairs, is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently in residence at Tunnel Projects.

Artist Spotlight: David Correa (@daavud ) David Correa (b. 1999 Miami, Florida) is a contemporary artist based out of Miami. Having received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Correa’s work takes a multi-disciplinary approach to creating and presenting narrative. His work explores existentialism and post-humanism, depicting the efficiency of the human body as a system which can be modified and instrumentalized. Correa is represented by Queue Gallery (@queue_gallery ) and has notably exhibited at Untitled Art fairs, Primary Projects and Voloshyn. He is also an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and currently in residence at Tunnel Projects (@__tunnel ). David Correa (n. 1999, Miami, Florida) es un artista contemporáneo radicado en Miami. Egresado del Maryland Institute College of Art, su práctica adopta un enfoque multidisciplinario para la creación y presentación de narrativas. Su obra explora temas como el existencialismo y el posthumanismo, abordando el cuerpo humano como un sistema eficiente susceptible de ser modificado e instrumentalizado. Correa está representado por Queue Gallery y ha participado en exposiciones destacadas en Untitled Art, Primary Projects y Voloshyn. Es egresado de la Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture y actualmente realiza una residencia en Tunnel Projects.

To stand bare on an open field, my friend. To find a great deal of strain in this work, my friend. What great love it brings me.