On April 17–19, 2026, State Goods by Joel Gregorio was featured in Hotel Confidential, a new three-day contemporary art exhibition at The Royal Hotel’s Annex building in Prince Edward County. It brought together 16 local and international artists, the exhibition reimagined the hotel through temporary site-specific installations, inviting visitors to encounter contemporary art within spaces typically reserved for guests.
Presented in the Barlow Room alongside Spark Box Studio, Gregorio’s contribution forms part of a broader reimagining of the hotel as a cultural setting. Curated by Christina Zeidler and Stacey Sproule, Hotel Confidential situates State Goods within a compelling contemporary context that bridges art, environment, and experience.
Letters To The Future
Created as the visual design contribution to Letters to the Future, Joel Gregorio’s artwork sits within a substantial international production shaped by music, writing, performance, and public reflection. Led by Miranda Mulholland and developed between Canada and the UK, the project brings together a wide range of artistic voices to consider how imagination, memory, and cultural expression help shape the future.
Gregorio’s response takes form through a dense yet poised visual composition. Botanical growth, archival fragments, figurative elements, and handwritten traces come together in a work that speaks to inheritance and transformation. The image suggests that the future is not clean or singular. It is carried. It is assembled from memory, belief, beauty, grief, and the accumulated weight of what survives across generations.
Set within a wider production that blends original music, spoken word, projection, and collective address, the work does not serve as illustration. It establishes atmosphere. It opens a symbolic space around the project’s central concerns and offers a visual meditation on what we leave behind, what we protect, and what continues forward.
Created with Kinsip, this special limited edition bottle brings together artwork by Joel Gregorio through State Goods and label design by Sovereign State. The project reflects a shared sensibility across art, design, and making, where each element contributes to a more unified whole. What results is a considered collectable object shaped by trust, craft, and the strength of aligned creative practices.
Private Commission
This private commission was created for a client seeking to honour three generations within a single work: the generation before him, his own, and that of his sons. At its centre is an exploration of legacy, not as status or inheritance in the conventional sense, but as a living expression of discipline, foresight, and faith.
The piece reflects on the values that shape a family over time: hard work as duty, vision as the ability to build beyond the present moment, and faith as the force that sustains belief through uncertainty. Rather than depict lineage literally, the work was conceived to hold its emotional and symbolic weight, what is carried forward, what is protected, and what is placed in the hands of the next generation.