Will Gabaldón

Will Gabaldón (b. 1978 Belen, New Mexico) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Gabaldón’s intimately scaled oil paintings on linen and panel foreground the natural world. In varying shades of green offset by vibrantly colored skies, Gabaldón creates bucolic scenes based on personal memories of various outdoor spaces as well as imagined scenarios wherein the impacts of climate change are present. 

Gabaldón received his BFA from the University of New Mexico in 2002 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA (2025); Union Pacific, London, UK (2024); The Journal Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Galería Mascota, Mexico City (2023); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA and Seoul, Korea (2022); TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013); amongst others. 

Recent group exhibitions include Karma, Zurich, Switzerland (2024); Greene Naftali, New York, NY (2024); Make Room, Los Angeles CA (2023); Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY (2022); Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM (2020); amongst others. He was in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012). 

His work is in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art.