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Jeffrey Gibson, Beyond the Horizon: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 1, Chicago, IL, 60607
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Jessica Stockholder, Specific Shapes: Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607
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Abstraction & Social Critique: Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 1, Chicago, IL, 60607
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Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607
25 September - 23 December 2021Image of Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit, Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 2, 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.
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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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Jeffrey Gibson, Beyond the Horizon
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 1, Chicago, IL, 60607 13 November 2021 - 8 January 2022 Kavi Gupta presents Beyond the Horizon, a solo show of new works by Jeffrey Gibson, acclaimed visual artist and 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Gibson’s aesthetic position is rooted in the spaces... -
Abstraction & Social Critique
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 1, Chicago, IL, 60607 23 October - 23 December 2021 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Abstraction and Social Critique, an intergenerational group show of artists whose aesthetic positions declare the continued relevance and influence of abstraction. The artist James Little, whose... -
Jessica Stockholder, Specific Shapes
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607 23 October - 23 December 2021 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Specific Shapes, a solo exhibition of new works by Jessica Stockholder, acclaimed visual artist, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow,... -
Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607 25 September - 23 December 2021 Kavi Gupta presents Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit, a group exhibition spotlighting the work of eight dynamic voices within the field of contemporary abstraction, guest curated by... -
Beverly FIshman, The Promise of Happiness
Walter Storms Galerie | Munich, Germany 28 October - 23 December 2021 For the first time in Germany, Walter Storms Galerie is showing the powerful, visually electrifying works of American Beverly Fishman. With her highly polished 'pill reliefs', the renowned artist gives... -
Jeffrey Gibson, INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum 17 October 2021 - 13 March 2022 This exhibition concerns the intersections of four powerful words—INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE. The two outer terms suggest boundless spaces and generative, tender relationships. The two interior terms convey markers of identity that Jeffrey Gibson disassembles and reconstructs through his artistic practice as a queer Choctaw-Cherokee man. Altogether this title offers a bold, declarative framework for this exhibition which debuts a series of collages, an immersive display featuring three hanging fringe sculptures, and recent videos created with collaborators, musicians, and performers. Shown together, these dazzling artistic expressions suggest that identity is pieced together by public life, popular culture, and intimate human bonds. -
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... -
Manuel Mathieu in Social Works II
Gagosian | London, UK 7 October - 18 December 2021 Gagosian is pleased to present Social Works II, the sequel to the American chapter that was on view at the gallery in New York . Curated by Antwaun Sargent,... -
Mary Sibande, Blue Red Purple
The Frist Art Museum | Nashville, TN 8 October 2021 - 2 January 2022 n hyperrealistic sculptures and photographs, Johannesburg-based Mary Sibande deconstructs the roles of women in South Africa as both individuals and in terms of race, gender, and class inequity. Sibande’s central... -
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Featuring Manuel Mathieu and Firelei Báez
Esker Foundation | Inglewood, Calgary, AB, Canada 24 July - 27 November 2021 This group exhibition explores the multiple and complex meanings of the idea of the diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed in painting. “Diaspora issues and concepts are of... -
Jeffrey Gibson, To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth
Art OMI | Ghent, NY 11 September 2021 - 3 January 2022 Jeffery Gibson's quilts, garments, drums, prints, and videos, are set to be featured in the Newmark Gallery's exhibition, To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth . The exhibition title derives... -
Firelei Baéz in, Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion
Moore College of Art & Design | Philadelphia, PA 2 October - 4 December 2021 On view October 2 - December 4, visiting curator Kalia Brooks presents Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion in The Galleries at Moore. The exhibition features the work of three... -
Esmaa Mohamoud, The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us, By Us)
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 10 June 2021 - 1 April 2023 Focusing on the physical connection between Black male bodies by amplifying the symbol of the du-rag, Esmaa Mohamoud confronts the dynamics of gender and race. Her massive photographic mural, the... -
In the Eye of the Storm, Featuring Manuel Mathieu
Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design, & Architecture | Hasselt, Belgium 26 September 2021 - 23 January 2022 In this exhibition, leading artists from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Barbados, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Martinique present films, photographs, paintings, sculptures, and installations. They address the impact of literal and figurative storms.... -
Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse In Chicago Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis, IN 21 May - 5 December 2021 In the mid-1960s, a cadre of adventurous young artists began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. With myriad influences from Surrealism and non-Western art to comic books... -
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... -
Manuel Mathieu in Fragments of Epic Memory
Art Gallery of Ontario | Ontario, CA 1 September 2021 - 21 February 2022 Fragments of Epic Memory will invite visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today. The first exhibition... -
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... -
Jeffrey Gibson, BECAUSE ONCE YOU ENTER MY HOUSE, IT BECOMES OUR HOUSE
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA 4 June 2021 - 1 June 2022 A monumental sculpture by renowned artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee), the title, Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House, comes from a song Gibson associates with nightclubs...
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The ADAA Art Show 2021, Young IL-Ahn
Park Avenue Armory, New York 3 - 7 November 2021 Kavi Gupta proudly presents a solo presentation of Young-Il Ahn’s Water series for The Art Show 2021, presented by ADAA. This survey will offer viewers an intimate introduction to an... -
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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Devan Shimoyama, All The Rage at Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
November 8, 2021 Continuing their exciting program that features prominent international emerging artists (we've featured their Grace Weaver showcasea while ago), Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, is currently wrapping up their big solo exhibition with... -
The Best Booths at ADAA’s 2021 Art Show, From Vodou Flags to Tour-de-Force Abstraction
November 4, 2021 Last night, the Art Dealers Association of America opened its Art Show, with an evening preview to benefit the Henry Street Settlement. Top art collectors like Agnes Gund and J.... -
At the deCordova, Jeffrey Gibson weaves a dazzling display of subversion and joy
November 4, 2021 LINCOLN — There are exhibitions — rare as they are — that I hesitate to put words to. Not that I can’t — hey, it’s a living — but more... -
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... -
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter Uses Glitter to Create Dazzling and Complex Artworks
August 27, 2019 Alisa Sikelianos-Carter’s inkjet prints transform pictures of hair into vibrant and suggestive new shapes. The artist finds photographs of braids, cornrows, and twists on the internet and in catalogues, then... -
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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