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Forthcoming: Esmaa Mohamoud: Let Them Consume Me In The Light: KAVI GUPTA | ELIZABETH ST FL. 1
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SKIN + MASKS |||, Curated by Vic Mensa & Chanelle Lacy
Tuesday - Saturday from 10 AM - 6 PM AT Magnificent Mile Association, 535 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 18 July 2022 - 15 April 2023Kavi Gupta announces the third iteration of SKIN + MASKS, a group exhibition aimed at decolonizing Black art beyond the politics of visibility. Co-curated by gallery director Chanelle Lacy and... -
Allana Clarke, A Particular Fantasy
Art OMI & Usdan Gallery, Ghent, NY & Bennington, VT 13 September 2022 - 8 January 2023Allana Clarke’s first institutional solo exhibition, A Particular Fantasy, is a collaboration between Usdan Gallery and Art Omi, with complementary installations across venues. A Trinidadian-American artist, Clarke is known for... -
Suchitra Mattai & Firelei Báez in Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 19 November 2022 - 23 April 2023The 1990s were a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation. From the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc to the rise of transnational trade agreements, the decade’s large-scale shifts... -
Jeffrey Gibson, THIS BURNING WORLD
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1 October 2022 - 26 March 2023THIS BURNING WORLD speaks to the urgency and importance of our collective relationship to the planet. It places the earth under the ICA SF building in dialogue with video of... -
Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 15 October 2022 - 26 February 2023An immersive, site-responsive installation by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire will transform the exterior windows on the facade of the museum’s main building as well as its... -
Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France 13 October 2022 - 6 February 2023Mickalene Thomas, a distinguished visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and Tony Award nominated co-producer is best known for her paintings, collages, photographs, videos, performance and large-scale installations. Mickalene Thomas has cultivated... -
Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 4 November 2022 - 5 November 2023Jeffrey Gibson’s practice mixes Indigenous aesthetic histories with the visual language of Modernism to explore culture, history, and identity. The artist works with garments, sculpture, performance, video, and painting to... -
Esmaa Mohamoud, The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us, By Us)
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 10 June 2021 - 1 April 2023Focusing 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. Both of the components of... -
Jeffrey Gibson in re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 25 June 2021 - 16 June 2024“I don’t want to wallow in art history,” wrote Jack Whitten. “I want to use art history as a catapult.' As an artist, Whitten recognized the past as both foundation...
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Art Singapore 2023
Booth 1F01, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore 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
Regent's Park, London, UK 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... -
Kavi Gupta, The Armory Show 2022
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EXPO Chicago 2022
Navy Pier | Chicago 7 - 10 April 2022
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Kavi Gupta Celebrates Art Basel Miami 2022 at The Red Rooster
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Opening Reception: Suchitra Mattai, Osmosis and Exhibition Walkthrough with Lauren Haynes
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St. Fl. 2 12 November 2022Join Kavi Gupta on Saturday, November 12 from 4–7 PM for the opening recepetion of Osmosis, a solo exhibition of new multi-media works by Indo-Caribbean American artist Suchitra Mattai. At... -
Opening Reception: James Little, Black Stars & White Paintings
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St. Fl. 1 12 November 2022Join Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St. on Saturday, November 12 from 4–7 PM for the opening reception of Black Stars & White Paintings, the highly anticipated solo exhibition of new... -
Celebrating SKIN + MASKS, Curated by Vic Mensa with Cultured Magazine
Momotaro, Chicago, IL 17 June 2022On Friday, June 17th, Kavi Gupta Gallery teamed up with Cultured Magazine to celebrate the opening weekend of SKIN + MASKS, a group exhibition curated by Grammy-nominated rapper, author, and... -
Celebrating James Little at the Whitney Biennial
30 March 2022
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News
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James Little, Unapologetic Abstractionist Painter, Catches the Limelight
October 26, 2022Mr. Little waited more than 40 years to show his work in the Whitney Biennial. This year, he prepares for two gallery shows and a collaboration with Duke Ellington’s music.... -
James Little: Fear and Transcendence in Abstract Painting
November 30, 2022Poised and self-assured, James Little stands beside a pair of buckets, each filled with a different shade of black paint, in the Brooklyn studio where the artist has worked for... -
James Little’s Constructed Abstractions
November 29, 2022At Kavi Gupta, Chicago, James Little debuts meditative paintings that are about their own making Abstractionist James Little debuts two sets of paintings from an ongoing thematic series at Kavi... -
James Little: 8 Must-See Gallery Shows in December
December 6, 2022James Little at Kavi Gupta, Chicago Moving from Memphis to New York in the 1970s, James Little joined a group of Black artists—including Ed Clark, Al Loving, Jack Whitten and... -
A Conversation with Suchitra Mattai
January 11, 2023Ep. 135 features Suchitra Mattai (b.1973 Georgetown, Guyana), a multi-disciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent. Her work explores how collective and individual memory and the space of myth and folklore allow... -
The Aesthetics of Salt: A Review of Suchitra Mattai’s Osmosis at Kavi Gupta
December 15, 2022The energy in the gallery is palpable. The walls are filled with thick woven sculptures featuring bold colors and materials such as acrylic, vintage saris—including the artist’s mother’s own—tassels, found... -
In It Is What It Is, Alfred Conteh Takes a Realistic Approach to Examining Life for Black Southerners
December 14, 2022The urgency of Alfred Conteh’s portraits lies in the present. He portrays Black people he meets around Atlanta, creating monumental works that accentuate the material both physically and metaphorically, in... -
In Paris, artist Mickalene Thomas takes on Monet, and art history itself
November 22, 2022For Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet, the American artist created works that reflect on the French painter and move Black women into the foreground. Little distinguishes the exterior of artist Mickalene... -
Arghavan Khosravi: Iranian artist's surreal paintings of women take on a new sense of urgency
November 1, 2022For Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi, depicting hair in her paintings has become charged with emotion. In early October, she posted a video of herself, on Instagram, sweeping her paintbrush across... -
Mickalene Thomas: Annie Leibovitz & Thelma Golden on Eight of the Most Influential Female Artists of Our Time
October 13, 2022Cindy Sherman, Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, Amy Sherald, Guerrilla Girls, and more sit for the legendary VF photographer. In the title of her seminal 1971 essay, art historian Linda Nochlin... -
Artist Mickalene Thomas Is Bringing “Black American Girl” Joy to Paris
October 14, 2022“Projecting joy is really important to me,” she says of her first big show at the Musée de l’Orangerie. When you walk into Mickalene Thomas’s Brooklyn studio, your eye is... -
Mickalene Thomas: Must-See Museum Shows in Paris
October 18, 2022October in Paris marks a shift in focus from fashion to art. This is when the city’s major institutions unveil their heavyweight exhibitions, while independent galleries often present their rising... -
Less Than Two Years After It Was First Proposed, the ICA San Francisco Opens With a Solo Project by Jeffrey Gibson
October 17, 2022The museum full opens to the public in January, with a commitment to showing California artists. The Bay Area art scene is getting a major boost, thanks to the recent... -
Jeffrey Gibson’s Indigenous Futurism
October 6, 2022In joyful, speculative work, the artist unpicks and repatterns mythologies around the depiction of native cultures A gridded metal frame on the wall pops with a colourful series of embedded... -
Vic Mensa Makes His Curatorial Debut at Kavi Gupta in Chicago
June 27, 2022The activist, rapper and budding curator Vic Mensa curates the group show SKIN + MASKS: Decolonizing Art Beyond the Politics of Visibility , opened June 18 at Kavi Gupta in... -
Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS LAUGH
Simone Krug talks to Colorado-born artist Jeffrey Gibson ahead of his new performance–taking place on August 3–for this summer's Aspen Art Week SIMONE KRUG Humor is an important part of... -
In the Studio With Canadian Artist Esmaa Mohamoud
July 21, 2022Meet the Toronto artist whose practice combines sports, fashion and racial issues. Esmaa Mohamoud has seduced museums and art critics alike since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and... -
In Chicago, Kavi Gupta and Cultured Team Up for a Weekend of Art Celebrations
June 20, 2022In honor of Kavi Gupta's June 18 opening of exhibition SKIN + MASKS, Vic Mensa's curatorial debut, Cultured hosted a who's who dinner in Chicago on June 17. On Friday,... -
Painter James Little’s Commitment To Abstraction
June 21, 2022With a Whitney Biennial feature and newfound commercial representation, painter James Little’s commitment to abstraction The artist has been making work for nearly 40 years and lately achieved several career... -
James Little: The Single Best Work in the Whitney Biennial
April 18, 2022For those who revere the ancient visual art of painting as the finest of the fine arts, there is not a lot to see at the current edition of the... -
James Little: A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light
March 31, 2022'In [James Little 's] all-black, oil-and-wax “Stars and Stripes” (2021), it’s hard to say whether the bars that make up its geometric pattern are converging or colliding.' After three years... -
James Little Finally Gets His Turn in the Spotlight at this Year’s Whitney Biennial
May 2, 2022A Long Overdue Recognition: James Little Finally Gets His Turn in the Spotlight at this Year’s Whitney Biennial Some artists find global acclaim fresh out of art school. Others toil... -
James Little: A Sharp, Understated Whitney Biennial Looks to the Past to Process the Grief of the Present
March 30, 2022'...striped abstractions by James Little , done in shades of barely distinguishable shades of black, draw on the perception-bending Op art of Bridget Riley with a sly tweak to her... -
Richard Hunt to create installation at Obama Presidential Center
February 28, 2022World-renowned sculptor and artist Richard Hunt was born and raised in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. Richard’s passion for the arts stemmed from his childhood, during... -
Step Inside This Art-Insider's Chicago Family Home
November 9, 2021There are no quick visits with Chicago couple Kavi Gupta and Jessica Moss. Anytime that curators, collectors, or artists drop by Gupta’s namesake Washington Boulevard gallery—the first two floors of...
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