El Salvador to Participate in Venice Biennale for the First Time

Each edition of the Venice Biennale grows a little bigger as countries join the event’s national pavilion line-up. That will be the case again this year with the debut of El Salvador’s first national pavilion at the 2026 Biennale.The inaugural artist will be J. Oscar Molina, a Salvadoran American artist who was born in the country in 1971, was raised along the Gulf of Fonseca in the south of El Salvador, and fled the country in 1989 when he was 16 at the height of the country’s