Ceclestias Hybrids 2025

Exhibition Archive · Miami Beach · 2025

Celestial Hybrids

A solo presentation by Ray A. Tenorio, curated by Lesley Goldwasser, presented during Art Basel Miami 2025.

December 4, 2025 · 1433 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida

Where mythologies meet, new beings emerge.

In Celestial Hybrids, Ray A. Tenorio brings Yoruba and Norse cosmologies into a shared visual world. Deities, guardians, hunters, tricksters, queens, and creation figures are reimagined as hybrid beings whose bodies carry symbols from different cultures.

The exhibition does not collapse these traditions into one. Instead, it creates a space where their parallels can be seen: creation and sacrifice, war and renewal, beauty and protection, nature and secret knowledge, death and transformation.

Rendered in polychromatic oil-based colored pencil on wood and finished with resin, the works combine intricate drawing, saturated color, layered anatomy, and hand-built frames. Together, they propose mythology as a living language—one that migrates, transforms, and continues to reveal what human beings share across time and place.

Featured Works

The Maker of Men: Odin at Ile-Ife

2025 · 24 × 24 in.

Odin and Obatala meet through shared ideas of wisdom, justice, creation, and the origins of humanity.

Ozain & Heimdall: Secret Between Worlds

2025 · 24 × 24 in.

Two guardians of sacred knowledge become a meditation on nature, vigilance, intuition, and the mysteries we protect.

Tyr & Oggun: War of a New Beginning

2025 · 24 × 24 in.

Courage, iron, sacrifice, and renewal transform conflict into fertile ground for a new beginning.

Ullr & Ochosi: The Two-Spirit Hunter

2023/2025 · 18 × 12 in.

The hunter appears as provider, protector, and spiritual bridge, guided by precision and respect for nature.

The Queen Who Walks Between Worlds

2023/2025 · 18 × 12 in.

Hel and Oya form a sovereign figure who commands the thresholds between life, death, chaos, and rebirth.

The Crossroads That Killed the Sun

2025 · 18 × 12 in.

Loki and Eshu enter the story of Baldur's death as trickster forces that disrupt certainty and redirect destiny.

The Metamorphosis of Two Queens: Freyja & Oshun at Ijesaland

2025 · 48 × 24 in.

Freyja and Oshun become one expanded spirit embodying beauty, motherhood, magic, resilience, and protection.

Ymir & Aggayu: The Giants Who Birthed the Earth

2025 · 48 × 24 in.

The Norse frost giant and the Yoruba force of volcanoes and earth merge into a cross-cultural ancestor of creation.

When Spirits Dance Beneath the Moon

2025 · 24 × 48 in.

A celebration of the ancestral rituals, hopes, and acts of renewal shared beneath the full moon.

Iyamis Osorongas

2024 · 48 × 72 in.

A monumental reflection on the Iyamis as guardians of time, fate, feminine power, and the balance of existence.

Exhibitions & Acquisitions

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