Phalyn

This year has been our best yet!! 🤏🏾✨🦁! It ain't over til' it's over! Join me in celebrating our student curators on producing their first exhibition: Hannah Estrada @devined_photography & Jaidyn Harvey @bsmproduxtions !! ✨ These are two of JY's Finest student photographers who go above and beyond to rep the JY Photo Lab with pure talent and dedication! We hope to see you all on Friday, May 22nd at the Opening Reception. 5-8 pm!! Special Thanks to @thirdwardculture for inviting us to collaborate on this opportunity! We are so happy to be included in the Foto Fest Participating Spaces circuit, as we uplift the 100-Year Legacy of Third Ward High! None of this would have been possible without the support of @phayln who helped us to structure our process and designs! -- Commemorating the Jack Yates High School centennial, this exhibition honors the photographic legacy of students and legendary mentor Ray Carrington III. It revisits the origins of the acclaimed Eye on Houston series, drawing from a rich archive of student work and ephemera to preserve the neighborhood’s storied cultural landscape. By bridging Carrington’s historical tenure with contemporary student imagery, the collection sparks a vital cross-generational dialogue. A partnership between the JY Photo Lab and Third Ward Cultural District, this retrospective amplifies youth voices, reinforcing a century-long tradition of pride, excellence, and artistic vibrancy within the Third Ward. Building on a thirty-year legacy, the partnership between the Jack Yates Photography program and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston remains vital today, with Eye on Houston: An Eye on Third Ward currently on view through Winter 2027. @thirdwardculture @bsmproduxtions @devined_photography @phayln @jyphotolab @diasporicdaughter

SEEING ONE BEING ONE 🫂 An immersive movement workshop led by Indigo Dewdrop Ghonima @indigo_dewdrop in collaboration with Phalyn Honora (me). This experience welcomes healthy play and expression with the goal to dissolve social performance shields. You are invited to jest and experiment with your body in ways you possibly haven’t amongst strangers and friends, and exhibit yourself vulnerably as a way to truly see yourself and be seen in community. Come move your body and connect this SUNDAY May 3rd (sorry for typos!!) @friendsgalleryhtx from 3pm-6pm! Comfy clothes are encouraged, openness is welcome. Major shoutout again to my wonderful Pesadito family! Please come see the work from myself, @comolocolocoloco , @tiboncy , & @closestsight2heavn up until May 10, 2026 🌟

SMÜSH! new works up Saturday, April 25th in Pesadito! @friendsgalleryhtx 1-4PM opening reception 🌟 thank you @santotemplo + @dj_stepmami for inviting us to play in this space and create something special. i am so excited to be in collaboration with @comolocolocoloco @tiboncy & @closestsight2heavn ! artist talk begins at 2pm 🦅

☆ Gold Was Made Fa’ Her is proud to announce our partnership with FotoFest to award a scholarship for The Meeting Place 2026 Portfolio Review to Houston-based artist Phalyn Honora. The FotoFest Meeting Place Portfolio Review is the largest and longest-running photography portfolio review event in the United States. It connects artists with international arts professionals for focused one-on-one reviews, professional development, and creative exchange during the FotoFest Biennial 2026, taking place March 12–16 in Houston, Texas. — Phalyn Honora (b. 2001) is an experimental artist working in Houston, TX with alternative photography, sculpture, and film. She examines the complexity of humanity and identity; analyzing forms of destruction, and the paths to the pursuit of collective liberation. Her work is conceptualized through existential and sociological lenses, particularly within the contexts of her experience as a Black, queer woman in America. She understands the urgency to respond to the needs of her community, and also centers her practice in social sculpture. Honora’s work has been featured in group shows at the Blaffer Art Museum, the Eldorado Ballroom, and SANMAN Studios. Among these, she has also participated in the Summer Studios Artist Residency at Project Row Houses in 2023, and SANMAN Studios’ artist-in-residence program in collaboration with FLATS Film Lab in 2025. Gold Was Made Fa’ Her extends our deepest gratitude to MPB for funding this scholarship and to FotoFest for supporting our commitment to radical care by ensuring Black women artists have the resources, visibility, and access needed to self-sustain and grow their practices. 🌹 #goldwasmadefaher🌹 #fotofest26 #fotofestmeetingplace

Join SANMAN artists-in-residence Phalyn Honora and Kaelyn Provost for an immersive experience exploring self-discovery through collage. Saturday, Jan 10 | 3-6PM (RSVP in bio). The event will include a portraiture session led by Phalyn Honora and a mindful discussion led by cultural worker, Jai Stamps. Immerse yourself in the main gallery with Corey Sherrard Jr., Phalyn Honora, and Kaelyn Provost's work, accompanied by ambient music. Bring comfortable attire, cushions, and blankets to ensure a soothing experience. We look forward to sharing this moment with you.

for the past nine months i've been thinking and experimenting and studying at @sanmanstudios + @thereadingroom.htx + @flatspresents i developed my ideas on constructs and the ways constructed systems, ideals, and mentalities may restrict our ability to realize our fullness as humans. i'm playing around with figurative abstraction through silhouettes of human bodies, and material manipulation to visualize my understandings of this. how are we constructed (socially, materially, personally, etc.), and in what ways are we limited? how do we deconstruct these ideas internally and externally? it was so great to get back in the darkroom at FLATS after leaning away from film for a few years. i am so full having been afforded the resources to experiment to my heart's desire. this journey has been so fun, sometimes exhausting and scary, but i am very grateful to have been guided and supported by such amazing community leaders in the arts here in Houston. i love y'all 🥹 please go see what myself, Corey Sherrard Jr. @cds__j and Kaelyn Provost @strwbrrykaewi have created at SANMAN until January 11, 2026! our artist talk is this Sunday, December 7th at SANMAN 2P-4P, come chat 🤸🏽‍♀️ + feel free to message me for a tour or a chat. i've really enjoyed connecting with everyone discussing the work <3 more to come, soon gallery photos by @notmrkl

Meet Phalyn Honora, an experimental photographer from Houston, Texas. Phalyn’s body of work explores her internal observations of the world. Using analog photography as her medium, Phalyn’s art is organic and intentional. Her process draws on her inner ruminations and sociological theories to frame her work. Honora creates despite the many systems that operate to challenge her existence and this is shown in her dynamic and thought-provoking work. Phalyn is apart of the SANMAN Art Residency 2025 Cohort in collaboration with FLATS (@flatspresents ), an artist-run photography space located in the heart of Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. FLATS provided access to their 24-hour photo lab and community darkroom throughout Phalyns residency. Come see her work at their upcoming exhibition ‘Time Stamp’. On view from November 8 - January 11 | Opening Exhibition will be November 8th from 6-9PM. (RSVP link in bio)

We are pleased to present 'Time Stamp,' the culmination of the 2025 SANMAN Art Residency cohort, featuring Phalyn Honora, Kaelyn Provost, and Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr. This exhibition explores the depths of internal and external landscapes. On display from November 8, 2025, to January 11, 2026. Join us for the opening reception on November 8th from 6-9PM - RSVP link in bio. The SANMAN Art Residency program is supported by @seeaneed_meetaneed Foundation whose focus is specifically on supporting burgeoning visual arts talent in Houston.

Some BTS from the @reelquickfilmlab commercial that RQ coincidentally developed for me 😸😸😸

Another one for @52weeksrecords 💃🏾 Trying out some new stuffff! Enjoy enjoy

stills n snippet of an experimental piece i did for @52weeksrecords !! check it out if you like european techno 👾⚔️ link in their bio for the full vid!

some recent work - used these in a project attempting to communicate my perspective of black “masculine” ideals & maybe the destruction of how black men are socialized as a whole. thankful to @nilorellie who let me capture his grills after briefly meeting one night.