Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Tonia Calderon on the opening of her solo exhibition, Endless, at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, AZ, on view from February 7th through July 5th, 2026.
As part of ASU Art Museum’s Art in Focus series, Calderon’s exhibition positions the gallery as a site of learning, reflection, and experimentation. Calderon will be in conversation with collector and music manager Troy Carter on March 26th.
For this project, Los Angeles–based artist Tonia Calderon brings elements of her studio into the museum, including a large-scale panel painting, a newly created suite of works on paper and her personal library. Layered surfaces, dense textures and shifts in scale characterize the work, moving between the microscopic and the expansive. Calderon combines natural and synthetic materials, often incorporating flowers as both subject and pigment to reference cycles of growth, decay and renewal.
At the center of the installation, Calderon’s library underscores reading as an active and generative part of her practice. Language, memory and material remain in motion throughout “Endless,” which resists resolution and embraces repetition, return and transformation. The exhibition invites visitors to linger within this rhythm and to consider art as a lifelong practice of becoming.
Tonia Calderon: Endless is organized by ASU Art Museum Senior Curator Alana Hernandez and ASU Art Museum Latinx Curatorial Fellow Natalie Solis.
“What a painful enchanting moment this is. Becoming.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1048
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLaneInquire
“What a painful enchanting moment this is. Becoming.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1048
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“What a painful enchanting moment this is. Becoming.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1048
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Our children live in the flowers. I hope this reminds you to live small.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1047
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLaneInquire
“Our children live in the flowers. I hope this reminds you to live small.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1047
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“Our children live in the flowers. I hope this reminds you to live small.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1047
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“I can see how many things no longer trouble her. The way she makes her coffee.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1046
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLaneInquire
“I can see how many things no longer trouble her. The way she makes her coffee.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1046
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“I can see how many things no longer trouble her. The way she makes her coffee.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 68.58 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1046
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“I let all the leaves gather at my feet. And then I looked up, it was spring.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1045
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLaneInquire
“I let all the leaves gather at my feet. And then I looked up, it was spring.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1045
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“I let all the leaves gather at my feet. And then I looked up, it was spring.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1045
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“How could I live without this illusion? Our only chance for an endless life.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1044
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLaneInquire
“How could I live without this illusion? Our only chance for an endless life.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1044
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
“How could I live without this illusion? Our only chance for an endless life.,” 2026
Acrylic, Oil, Floral Pigment, Ink, Fuel, Sand, Glass and Resin on Paper
30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm) each unframed
35 ³⁄₄" x 27 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (90.8 x 70.48 x 5.08 cm) each framed
Inventory #CAL1044
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane