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Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607
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Realms of Refuge: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607
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Kavi Gupta amplifies voices of diverse and underrepresented artists to expand the canon of art history. Through innovative and ambitious exhibitions, multimedia programming, and rigorous publications, we foster an evolving conversation among international communities about art and ideas.
COVID-19 Announcement
In consideration of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, viewing of our exhibitions will be by appointment only. Masks and social distancing will be required, and temperatures taken prior to entry. Meanwhile, we continue to host regular online exhibitions, virtual studio visits, and other special virtual programming. For viewing appointments and other inquiries, including information about our artists, our exhibitions, online art fairs, and shipping options during the pandemic, please email us at info@kavigupta.com.
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Realms of Refuge
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607 10 July - 30 October 2021 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Realms of Refuge, a group show bringing together for the first time new works by eight of the most dynamic artists working today: Dominic Chambers, Allana Clarke, Basil Kincaid, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Suchitra Mattai, Michi Meko, Devan Shimoyama, and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. -
Jeffrey Gibson, Sweet Bitter Love: An Initiative of Toward Common Cause
The Newberry, Hanson Gallery | Chicago, IL 28 May - 18 September 2021 Sweet Bitter Love: An Initiative of Toward Common Cause presents Jeffrey Gibson’s reflections on representations of Indigenous people in cultural institutions. Responding to a series of 19th-century portraits by Eldridge Ayer Burbank, Gibson (a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent) refutes the stereotypical imagery that, for centuries, has helped create and reinforce pernicious myths about Indigenous people. -
Devan Shimoyama, All the Rage
Kunstpalais | Erlangen, Germany 19 June - 14 November 2021 Luminous color, bright outlines, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers—and time and time again the artist himself, in mythological, fantastic, or historical roles: The material collages by the American painter Devan Shimoyama... -
Exposed 2021, Featuring Tony Tasset
The Current | Stowe, Vermont 10 July - 23 October 2021 The works on display in Exposed. 2021 will highlight artists who focus on current political and social constructs/issues/systems through the relationship of language, sculpture, and installation; language as culturally specific,... -
Mary Sibande in, The New Project - 3
Le 6b | Cameroon, France 17 July - 21 September 2021 5 works by 13 different artists offer an original journey through the public space transformed for the occasion into a creative space. The nine-3 project was born from the meeting... -
Clare Rojas, Wayfinder
San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA 3 September 2021 - 7 March 2022 Wayfinder: Clare Rojas is a public art project that encourages visitors to explore the heart of downtown San José. Commissioned by SJMA, 40 streetlight banners designed by Rojas in shades... -
Textures: The History And Art Of Black Hair, Featuring Mary Sibande
Kent State University Museum | Kent, Ohio 10 September 2021 - 22 August 2022 TEXTURES synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in...
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Forthcoming
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Fairs
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FRIEZE LONDON/ FRIEZE MASTERS
13 - 17 October 2021 Kavi Gupta is proud to be returning once again to London to participate in both Frieze London, and Frieze Masters 2021. For Frieze London, we will present a selection of... -
The ADAA Art Show 2021
3 - 7 November 2021 Organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show brings together members of the ADAA to showcase incisively curated exhibitions of both historical and contemporary works.... -
Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021
5 - 7 November 2021 Art Collaboration Kyoto Executive Committee Establishment Prospectus Since ancient times, Kyoto's cultural arts have developed as the basis of various economic and social activities while being linked to people's lives... -
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
2 - 4 December 2021 For Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, Kavi Gupta will proudly present a selection of new and historically important works by the artists in our program. In addition to our participation...
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News
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Resisting Marginalization: Jeffrey Gibson Reconsiders the Cultural Representation of Indigenous People
September 8, 2021 “Sweet Bitter Love” at the Newberry Library is an exhibition of new mixed media work by Jeffrey Gibson, whose core theme is how Native Americans have been brought into and... -
Kennedy Yanko | To Paint Is To Love, To Love Is To Scrap Metal
August 30, 2021 Artist Kennedy Yanko tells me one painfully hot summer afternoon: “I’m interested in imbuing the life that I’ve been thinking about as my hands touch the work in other ways.”... -
Inside the Studio Where Artist Kennedy Yanko Creates Her Surreal Sculptures
July 11, 2021 “I realized I could create worlds with my art when I was 15,” says artist Kennedy Yanko. Those worlds consist of dreamy sculptures and installations made out of paint skins... -
Ida B. Wells monument is unveiled in Chicago and a neighborhood turns out
July 1, 2021 The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument in Bronzeville, curling skyward above the modest trees of its surrounding park, stands 30 feet tall. Created by famed sculptor Richard... -
Oil paintings by Dominic Chambers that focus on 'black talent, creativity and mysticism'
June 24, 2020 In his latest body of work, Dominic Chambers explores the relationship between reality and fantasy by painting black figures, relaxed and still, in imagined landscapes, full of vivid primary colours.... -
BASIL KINCAID DISCUSSES MEANING AND SYMBOLISM IN HIS NEW QUILTS
June 29, 2021 By Phillip Barcio St. Louis-based artist Basil Kincaid is known for creating dramatic, colorful quilts, using a mixture of found and donated fabrics. Yet, the methods and techniques of quilting... -
In Boston, Art That Rises From the Deep
July 2, 2021 History meets flamboyant fantasy in the work of Firelei Báez, whose installation on the waterfront reasserts the importance of the Caribbean in world history. BOSTON - The East Boston shipyard... -
‘My Whole Body Is Moving With It’: Artist Kennedy Yanko on the Performative Nature of Making Sculpture
June 16, 2021 The painter and sculptor is the Rubell Museum of Art's 2021 artist in residence. Kennedy Yanko paints and sculpts to a kind of choreography. The Brooklyn-based rising star is known... -
Artist Explores History Of Indigo In Exhibit Inspired By Haiti
July 14, 2021 WBUR's Cristela Guerra takes us inside the latest work of renowned artist Firelei Báez, who explores the complicated history of the color indigo and pays homage to a majestic ruin... -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Boom Bye Bye Pain
May 22, 2021 SPOTLIGHT Tomokazu Matsuyama’s solo exhibition “Boom Bye Bye Pain” (May 22 – July 10, 2021) is the first show to be held at KOTARO NUKAGA’s new space in Roppongi, Tokyo,... -
Devan Shimoyama Installation at Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building
June 15, 2021 When the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building (AIB) reopens to the public this November, visitors will enter the historic museum through a kaleidoscopic archway that shifts in appearance depending on... -
Deborah Kass: Teenage Dream by William J. Simmons
December 3, 2020 'Regarding Glee I would say two things: 1. It's not like my work. It is my work; and 2. I want to gay marry Ryan Murphy.' - Deborah Kass1 You... -
Let the Chaos Happen: An Interview with Jeffrey Gibson
June 8, 2021 Sweet Bitter Love , presenting artist Jeffrey Gibson’s reflections on representations of Indigenous peoples in cultural institutions, is now on display at the Newberry through September 18. Responding to a... -
Manuel Mathieu: In Pursuit of Expansion
June 4, 2021 Manuel Mathieu says his practice is on the cusp of expansion—a seemingly impossible feat, considering it already encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and installation. Yet this expansion is grounded in... -
ALLANA CLARKE TALKS BACK TO HISTORY
June 9, 2021 In 2014 Kara Walker presented A Subtlety, also known as the Marvelous Sugar Baby, at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was a monumental sculpture of a Black... -
In the Studio With Clare Rojas, the Painter Who Won’t Be Boxed In
June 8, 2021 When Jessica Silverman was planning the May opening of her splashy new gallery space in San Francisco’s Chinatown, she knew exactly which artist she wanted to showcase. While the career-making... -
Kennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire
May 1, 2021 In the historic landmark townhouse housing Tilton Gallery on New York City’s Upper East Side, Kennedy Yanko presents her latest exhibition and first solo show with the gallery, Postcapitalist Desire.... -
MANUEL MATHIEU’S PAINTINGS OF TRAUMA AND DESIRE
May 12, 2021 Pareidolia, the brain’s tendency to find familiar patterns or images in the visual world, wasn’t always understood as a natural cognitive function: finding a human face in the passing clouds... -
Fostering Culture: A Review of Kour Pour at Kavi Gupta
May 24, 2021 The magic of Kour Pour’s Familiar Spirits, his first exhibition with Kavi Gupta, lies in its treatment of repetition. In twenty-one separate works, the British-born artist presents and explores a... -
Dominic Chambers Has a New Vision of Black Intellectualism
February 11, 2021 Artist Dominic Chambers’ Blue Sugar baby (Moses in Blue), part of his Primary Magic series, depicts a Black woman reading a book on the couch — her head supported slightly... -
Suchitra Mattai’s latest exhibit takes a hard look at a difficult year, and envisions a path forward
July 28, 2020 Her solo show at K Contemporary is a must-see right now Suchitra Mattai is having a well-deserved moment. The prolific Denver artist is fresh off two career-making appearances in internationally-watched... -
Beverly Fishman’s intoxicating artworks are hard pills to swallow
May 14, 2021 Beverly Fishman’s work might appear enticing and harmless, but one need only scratch the surface before something more murky comes bubbling up. At Gavlak gallery, Fishman’s show, ‘Love Letter to... -
‘They Have a Lot More Control Than They Think’: How Black Art Promoters Are Urging Artists to Look Beyond Traditional Wh
May 11, 2021 A few years ago, the former Atlanta art dealer Jeremiah Ojo was FaceTiming with an artist when he noticed in the background some figural paintings incorporating African fabrics. Thinking the... -
Suchitra Mattai Expands Our Sense of History and Identity in New Solo Show
July 23, 2020 When it comes to holding a world view, Denver and Paris-based artist Suchitra Mattai carries a unique and global one. Born in Guyana, South America, Mattai has also lived throughout... -
DOMINIC CHAMBERS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS PROCESS AND WHAT HE’S BEEN MAKING IN QUARANTINE
July 23, 2020 Dominic Chambers’s depictions of joy, lounging and reading help rethink the Black intellectual. The St. Louis, Missouri native earned his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in... -
Michi Meko 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient
November 4, 2017 The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced its 2017 Painters & Sculptors grant recipients, a group of 25 artists who will each receive $25,000 in unrestricted funds. Established by the foundation’s... -
Michi Meko’s work is “the contemporary experience of black life and survival”
February 28, 2018 After a sobering shift in tone, Meko has found his voice—and garnered national recognition In 2009, artist Michi Meko walked me through some of Atlanta’s seedier, trash-choked byways for a... -
How Tomokazu Matsuyama Appropriates Images to Create Fine Art
February 1, 2019 A behind-the-scenes look at the Japanese artist’s process. Tomokazu Matsuyama is a Japanese contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. Matsuyama is widely-known for appropriating traditional Japanese icons,...
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