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Recent Exhibitions
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Devan Shimoyama & Tomokazu Matsuyama: Our Lives Story Telling
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL 1 10 April - 1 October 2024DEVAN SHIMOYAMA, ARTIST: ‘I HAVE A DESIRE TO PUT MORE BLACK QUEER BODIES OR QUEER REPRESENTATION INTO THE CANON’ TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA BLENDS POP CULTURE AND ART HISTORY TO EXPLORE HIS... -
Willie Cole: The B-Sides: 1989-2022
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 1 November 2023 - 4 March 2024Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition surveying the career of acclaimed artist and perceptual engineer Willie Cole. Cole’s aesthetic position has long been associated with upcycling: the creative reuse of... -
Nikko Washington: For The Old Gods and The New
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 28 October 2023 - 9 March 2024Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Chicago-based artist Nikko Washington, whose work was recently featured in the gallery’s critically acclaimed, philanthropic exhibition Skin + Masks ,... -
Marie Watt: Sky Dances Light
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 10 June - 30 September 2023Kavi Gupta presents Sky Dances Light , a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated, interdisciplinary Seneca artist Marie Watt, whose bold, multi-sensory visual language celebrates and fosters community connections.... -
LightSpace
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 22 July - 14 October 2023Kavi Gupta presents Lightspace, a group exhibition examining aesthetic spaces, physical and metaphysical, within contemporary art where concepts of lightness are central to the work. In this exhibition, a lightspace... -
Roger Brown: Palace of Wonders
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 1 April - 10 June 2023Kavi Gupta presents Roger Brown, Palace of Wonders , an exhibition celebrating Roger Brown’s late-career series of paintings based on the visual language of circus sideshow banners. Brown was an... -
James Little, Black Stars & White Paintings
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St Fl. 1 12 November 2022 - 4 March 2023Kavi Gupta presents Black Stars & White Paintings , the highly anticipated solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based abstract artist James Little, a critically and publicly celebrated highlight...
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Recent Fairs
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The Armory Show 2024
6 - 8 September 2024Booth 326 JAVITS CENTER 429 11TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10001 VIP Preview: Thursday, September 5 | 11 - 7 PM Friday, September 6 | 11 – 7 PM Saturday,... -
Felix Art Fair 2024
28 February - 3 March 2024Kavi Gupta is excited to return to the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles. The historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel offers a unique setting in which to contextualize important works of... -
The Armory Show 2023
8 - 10 September 2023VIP PREVIEW Thursday, September 7 PUBLIC DATES Friday, September 8 | 11 AM–7 PM Saturday, September 9 | 11 AM–7 PM Sunday, September 10 | 11 AM–6 PM Booth 217... -
EXPO Chicago 2023
13 - 16 April 2023VIP : Thursday, April 13 | 12 PM–9 PM PUBLIC : Friday, April 14 | 11 AM–7 PM Saturday, April 15 | 11 AM–7 PM Sunday, April 16 | 11... -
Felix Art Fair 2023
15 - 19 February 2023Kavi Gupta welcomes the return of the Felix Art Fair, February 15-19, 2023 in Los Angeles. The elegant, boutique interior of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel offers us a unique... -
Art Singapore 2023
11 - 15 January 2023Join us January 11-15, 2023, in Singapore for the inaugural edition of ART SG, Southeast Asia’s largest art fair. Our presentation will include a diverse selection of works from across... -
Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
29 November - 3 December 2022Kavi Gupta’s presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 continues our mission to amplify the voices of diverse and underrepresented artists by spotlighting new works by an international and intergenerational... -
Frieze London 2022
12 - 16 October 2022VIP PREVIEW Wednesday, October 12 | 11 AM–7 PM OPENING HOURS Thursday, October 13 | 11 AM–7 PM Friday, October 14 | 11 AM–7 PM Saturday, October 15 | 11...
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Featured Events
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Tomokazu Matsuyama: Director-Led Tour
Edward Hopper House 17 - 21 July 2025Coinciding with Upstate Art Weekend, Frieze Connect members are invited to a special evening at the Edward Hopper House in Nyack. Executive Director Kathleen Motes Bennewitz will lead an exclusive... -
Devan Shimoyama: The Barbershop Project
Cultural DC 22 May 2025Opening May 22 5-8PM | 901 G Street NW Mobile Art Gallery CulturalDC is proud to bring The Barbershop Project back to Washington, DC - this time in the heart... -
Mickalene Thomas: Debuts Installation at NYC Health & Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health
22 May 2025Located in the lobby of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, the mosaic includes images of the late Supreme Court Justice's favorite flowers: freesias and white hydrangeas This is the twelfth... -
Opening Reception: Matter of Fact: Material as a Political Act
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL.2 25 April 2025Join us for the opening reception of Matter of Fact: Material as a Political Act featuring director-led tours and refreshments to celebrate the opening of our Spring exhibitions. From our... -
Opening Reception Mapping Resistance: The Legacy of Black Liberation (1925-1975)
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL.1 25 April 2025Join us for the opening reception of Mapping Resistance: The Legacy of Black Liberation (1925-1975) at Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd. Fl.1 featuring director-led tours and refreshments to celebrate the opening... -
EXPO Chicago: Private Event
KAVI GUPTA | ELIZABETH ST. 25 April 2025Kavi Gupta invites select clients to join us after hours Friday, April 25th at Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St. for an exclusive event held in conjunction with EXPO Chicago. We... -
Devan Shimoyama: Artist Lecture
Mcknight Art Center 3 March 2025Over a hundred people gathered in the McKnight Art Center on Thursday night to listen to Devan Shimoyama talk about some of his recent projects. In these projects, Shimoyama uses... -
Willie Cole: Descending the Staircase
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 20 July 2024Artist Willie Cole, whose work is currently on view in Descending the Staircase, discusses his practice of assembling everyday consumer products into surreal forms. Cole is joined in dialogue by... -
Closing Reception: Our Lives Story Telling
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. Fl.1 4 October 2024Join Kavi Gupta October 4th to celebrate the closing of Devan Shimoyama and Tomokazu Matsuyama's Our Lives Story Telling. Featuring an open bar from 6pm-11pm, and director-led tours of the... -
EXPO Chicago: CXW
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. 4 - 6 October 2024Join Kavi Gupta October 4th-6th for Chicago Exhibition Weekend, Powered by Gertie and EXPO Chicago. Stop by Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd. between 4-7 pm on Friday October 4th for extended... -
Alfred Conteh: Access for All
Peoria Riverfront Museum 9 June 2024Join Peoria Riverfront Museum, Sunday, June 9, 2024 as nationally renowned artist Alfred Conteh returns to unveil his first ever piece based on a subject outside of his hometown of... -
Willie Cole: Syncretism and Sustainability
National Academy of Design 25 April 2024Sites of Impermanence artists Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, and Mel Kendrick will participate in a moderated discussion about formal innovation through the use and reuse of materials, hybridity, and the... -
EXPO Chicago: Art After Hours
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. 12 April 2024Join Kavi Gupta Gallery Friday, April 12 for Expo Art After Hours Powered by Gertie. Stop by Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd. between 4-8 pm for an open bar, a custom... -
Opening Reception: Our Lives Story Telling
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. Fl.1 12 April 2024Join Kavi Gupta April 12th for the opening reception of Devan Shimoyama and Tomokazu Matsuyama's Our Lives Story Telling. Featuring an open bar, custom cocktail menu from 6pm-11pm, and director-led... -
AFRICOBRA: Black Visions, Black Voices and the Power of Black Art
Case Western Reserve University 9 April 2024Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a two-session remote program titled 'Black Visions, Black Voices and the Power... -
Arghavan Khosravi: In Conversation
Newport Art Museum 27 March 2024Join Newport Art Museum for an illuminating conversation with exhibiting artists Arghavan Khosravi and Minoo Emami , Dr. Francine Weiss , the Museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator,... -
Miya Ando: Clouds and Mono no aware (The transience of things)
Detroit Institute of Arts 7 March 2024Miya Ando discusses her Cloud series of artworks from their genesis - arising from her earlier Hamon paintings (referring to a cloud-like pattern on the edge of a sword) -...
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Featured Press
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Willie Cole: Challenging America’s Stories: “Readymade Remix” at the San Antonio Museum of Art
July 15, 2025In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp submitted an upside-down porcelain urinal as a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists in New York under the pseudonym R. Mutt. The artwork... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Ten Upstate Weekend Exhibitions
July 16, 2025As New York lurches into full-blown swamp mode—teetering between torrid heat, high humidity and sudden, moody summer storms—city dwellers resume their annual search for cooler air and greener pastures. As... -
Mary Sibande: Narratives in Focus
June 20, 2025Narratives in focus is a photography exhibition featuring a diverse range of artists from the Caribbean, United States Latin America, and Africa. This presentation delves into nuanced expressions of individual... -
Mary Sibande: Is this the most political fashion item?
CNN June 26, 2025Overlooked, familiar, homely… These are the words traditionally associated with the apron, a detachable, workaday garment that has historically functioned 'almost like an invisibility cloak.' So said Carol Tulloch, a... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Artist to Watch
May 30, 2025'If you go to an encyclopedic museum like The Met or the Louvre, every single pattern, even a gingham or tartan check, represents a family crest,' says the Brooklyn artist... -
Mickalene Thomas: Designed Race Car Makes Miami Debut
May 1, 2025The women-led DART team is partnering with contemporary female artists to elevate women in the world of motorsports. The world of motorsports hasn't always been synonymous with female management or... -
Miya Ando: Saint Laurent Rive Droite
April 30, 2025Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles presents Mono no aware, an exhibition by Miya Ando, a Japanese and American artist based in New York, featuring a selection of her paintings,... -
Devan Shimoyama: Hyperallergic
April 8, 2025Devan Shimoyama: Rituals is on view now at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, through June 14. Shimoyama, a contemporary American artist, uses mixed media to build worlds... -
Mickalene Thomas: British Vogue
March 30, 2025'My Mother's Transformation Was Her Greatest Gift To Me” Artist Mickalene Thomas On The Muse Behind Her Groundbreaking London Show Celebrating Black Women In the high-ceilinged brutalist halls of London’s... -
Mickalene Thomas: IFPDA Print Fair’s Buzzy Opening
March 29, 2025Travel back to the everyday 1970s with Mickalene Thomas , exploring quintessential living rooms where a lemon yellow sofa and verdant plants punch up the linoleum flooring, fabricated paneling, upholstery,... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Azabudai Hills Gallery To Present ‘FIRST LAST’ Exhibition
February 25, 2025Coming to Tokyo in March, New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama will soon unveil his newest solo exhibition, Tomokazu Matsuyama: FIRST LAST . The show will take place at the... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama Is Headlining in L.A. With His Chameleonic Globalized Pop
February 19, 2025Matsuyama's art embodies the cultural fluidity that defines the diasporic experience and global identity, reflecting the constant interplay of narratives that shape individuals moving across borders. Moving beyond the Western-centered... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Doubles Down on Decorative Density
April 22, 2025When Bijutsu Techo , Japan's authoritative art journal since 1948, devoted its entire June 2021 issue to Japan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, critics erupted, questioning the decision to spotlight someone... -
Willie Cole: SVA Featured Portfolio
February 15, 2025In his heart of hearts, artist Willie Cole (BFA 1976 Media Arts)-whose illustrious career spans decades-says that he is a painter. But it is his sculptural work and printmaking, which... -
Kavi Gupta: 5 Asian American Led Galleries Building Inclusive Art Communities
May 21, 2024Since the term 'Asian American' was coined by activists in 1968 to foster a sense of community among a diverse population, those identifying as Asian American or Pacific Islanders (AAPI)... -
Mickalene Thomas: Takes Los Angeles
April 26, 2024The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist's work over the last 20 years. Mickalene Thomas has been getting into neon. But then, the artist is constantly... -
James Little: Yale University Radio
January 5, 2025James Little joined us to talk about his show, Affirmed/Actions, which closes January 11 at Petzel Gallery. On the topic of receiving the acclaim he enjoys as a Black artist... -
Mary Sibande: Top French honour
November 19, 2024Celebrated South African artist Mary Sibande and curator Dr Paul Bayliss have been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by... -
James Little: Art Students League Honoree
November 8, 2024At MoMA, the Art Students League Honored One of Their Own Earlier this week, the Art Students League of New York celebrated its 149-year legacy of bringing arts education to... -
James Little: Gifts Painting to Syracuse Art Museum
March 8, 2024American artist James Little G'76 has donated an oil painting he created, 'Euclidean Squares,' to the Syracuse University Art Museum's permanent collection. 'James Little's contributions to contemporary American art have... -
Willie Cole: Startland News
July 28, 2023Willie Cole didn’t choose to be an artist. It’s always been part of him. “I think I was an artist in a previous life,” said the contemporary American sculptor, printer...
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