Sebastián Llovera Selected for "Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time"

Sebastián Llovera (MFA ​’23) has been selected as one of 47 participating artists in Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time, one of the largest public art exhibitions in the United States. On view September 12 through December 12, 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri, Llovera will present a new commission at the last Carnegie Library built, situated along South Grand. Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time is curated by Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush.

Unfolding across five key sites shaped by St. Louis’s historical and civic conditions, Coyote Time brings together artists engaging urgent issues including education, climate, technology and immigration. The title, Coyote Time, draws from Alice Bucknell​’s 2026 triennial commission, a video game set within St. Louis’ City Museum, and refers to the brief moment in gameplay that allows a player to decide between leaping forward or returning to safety. For its 2026 edition, curated by Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush, Counterpublic invites you to inhabit Coyote Time, framing uncertainty as a space for experimentation, risk, and possibility.

​“The Coyote Time artist list is decidedly diasporic in scope, reflecting a global outlook while remaining rooted in St. Louis at a moment marked by renewed borders and divisions,” says James McAnally, Executive and Artistic Director of Counterpublic. ​“Artists and collectives are drawn equally from the exhibition’s immediate neighborhoods and the Global South, bringing multilingual and multifaceted perspectives to questions of civic structures, migration, identity, and technology. Across nearly fifty commissions, Coyote Time takes a speculative and socially oriented approach to the moment.”

The curatorial ensemble, Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush, adds: ​“Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time gathers artists working across material practice, time-based media, and emergent technologies. Together, they address contested questions of our historical moment around the terms of civic life, displacement, ecological crisis, and the accelerating entanglements of computation and lived experience. Each artist engages local and site-responsive practices with wider international considerations and reverberations. In the face of these structural and political conditions, the artists offer patient, searching and speculative propositions and poetic reckonings that expand the range of what is imaginable, thinkable, and possible. In Coyote Time, the suspended instant after the leap is itself the form to consider.”

Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
Exhibition Dates: September 12-December 12, 2026
St Louis, MO