Current and Forthcoming
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Mapping Resistance: The Legacy of Black Liberation (1925-1975)
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 25 Apr - 20 Jun 2025 Spanning five decades featuring works by Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Sherman Beck, Jeff Donaldson, Omar Lama, and photographic works from the Kavi Gupta Archive by James P. Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Carl Van Vechten, this exhibition traces a lineage of artists whose practices assert the power of image-making as both cultural archive and radical form. Read more -
Matter of Fact: Material as a Political Act
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 25 Apr - 20 Jun 2025 These artists explore the politics of materiality, how thread, clay, pigment, and gesture can serve as acts of reclamation, resistance, and cultural continuity. Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: Rituals
Ulrich Museum of Art 23 Jan - 14 Jun 2025 Contemporary American artist Devan Shimoyama’s work playfully and poignantly dismantles social conventions by representing the complexities of race, gender, and sexuality with compelling, intimate images. Shimoyama pictures the Black American experience and the queer experience as fantastical and ornate, using rich textures, pop-culture references, and decorative materials (an homage to... Read more -
Jessica Stockholder: Cardinal Directions
Es Baluard Museu D'art ContemporaniI De Palma Spain 31 Jan - 24 Aug 2025 The work of Jessica Stockholder (born in Seattle, United States, 1959 and raised in Vancouver, B.C. Canada) reveals the complex relationship between the illusionistic space of painting and the physical presence of sculpture. Intrigued by the ways things are bounded and how we understand them, she explores this question in... Read more -
Jessica Stockholder: The Squared Circle: Ringing
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto 17 Apr - 3 Aug 2025 This project marks the artist's return to Canada after many years in the United States, where her work and teaching have inspired new generations of artists. Since the 1980s, Stockholder has played a pivotal role in expanding the dialogue between painting and sculpture, blending attentive use of vibrant colours with... Read more -
José Lerma: Domestic in a Foreign Sense by José Lerma
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 2 May - 14 Sep 2025 The title of the exhibition is a transposition of the phrase 'foreign in a domestic sense,' which is how US Supreme Court Justice Henry Brown described Puerto Rico in his 1901 decision that placed the island as neither fully part of the United States nor an independent country. This contradictory... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: Mighty Mighty: The Barbershop Project
Cultural DC 22 May - 27 Jul 2025 Originally launched in 2019 with artist Devan Shimoyama, The Barbershop Project transforms our Mobile Art Gallery into a fully immersive, reimagined barbershop that explores themes of identity, care, and belonging. The space will once again offer free haircuts in partnership with DC Public Library. This interactive installation honors the barbershop... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun
Edward Hopper House 20 Jun - 5 Oct 2025 The exhibition offers a contemporary tribute to Edward Hopper's iconic 1952 paintingMorning Sun (Columbus Museum of Art), delving into the complexities of solitude and life in a globalized, consumer-driven world-recurring themes in Matsu's work. To engage with Hopper's themes, Matsu intricately weaves together diverse visual references that reflect his cross-cultural... Read more
Past
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Miya Ando: Mono no aware
Saint Laurent Rive Droite 8 Apr - 4 Jun 2025 Curated by Anthony Vaccarello, Miya Ando’s solo exhibition at Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Los Angeles investigates this idea in her new installation of sculptures, painting and silkscreens. On view is a recreation of the karesansui (dry Zen garden) of Ryōanji Temple in Kyoto. Ando’s version of this historically significant garden... Read more -
Miya Ando: Transformative Energies
Kylin Gallery 22 Mar - 18 May 2025 Kylin Gallery is thrilled to announce its first curated exhibition of 2025. 'Transformative Energies: Two-Dimensional Works by Yoshio Ikezaki, Miya Ando, and Joseph Akerman' features three artists and their respective approaches to depicting universal vital energy (Japanese: ki; Chinese: qi), with a Buddhist reverence for the transitory qualities of all... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: FIRST LAST
Azabudai Hills Gallery | Tokyo, Japan 8 Mar - 15 May 2025 Having worked for over 20 years in the cultural crossroads of New York and shaped by my roots in both Japan and the United States, this exhibition in Tokyo holds deep personal significance for me. I believe there are unique insights we can share across countries, languages, cultures, and generations... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
The Hayward Gallery 11 Feb - 5 May 2025 The Hayward Gallery presents Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, the pioneering artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Thomas is a trailblazer of portraiture and collage, widely renowned for her large-scale paintings of Black women posed against boldly patterned backgrounds... Read more -
Mary Sibande, Willie Cole: Strategic Interplay: African Art and Imagery in Black and White
Toledo Museum of Art 9 Nov 2024 - 23 Feb 2025 The connections date from the late 7th century, when the royal game spread throughout the continent with the rise of Islamic conquest, to the 'Age of Discovery' in the 15th century onward, when African talent and materials sourced Europe's burgeoning appetite for black labor and ivory sets. By the nineteenth... Read more -
James Little: Affirmed/Actions
Petzel Gallery 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 The show marks Little's second solo exhibition at the gallery and will be on view from November 7 to December 21, 2024, at Petzel's Chelsea location at 520 W 25th Street. Little will unveil a new group of encaustic black paintings and white oil paintings, the latter featuring many apertures... Read more -
Miya Ando: Blue Sky Codex
Sundaram Tagore 24 Oct - 14 Dec 2024 Sundaram Tagore presents a new series of paintings on metal by Miya Ando (b. 1973, Los Angeles), which explores subtle shifts in the coloration of the sky. For the past decade, Ando has been closely studying the sky, taking photographs almost daily in New York as well as during her... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &...
Fondation Louis Vuitton | Paris, France 17 Oct 2024 - 24 Feb 2025 From 17 October 2024 to 24 February 2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton presents “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…”, an exhibition dedicated to Pop Art, one of the major artistic movements of the 1960s, whose influence continues to be felt across all continents and amongst all generations. The exhibition is centered around... Read more -
James Little, Wadsworth Jarrell, Mickalene Thomas: Edges of Ailey
Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, New York 25 Sep 2024 - 9 Feb 2025 Whitney Museum of American Art | Floor 5 Sept 25, 2024 – Feb 9, 2025 Edges of Ailey, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin... Read more -
José Lerma: Relator con Amargura
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico 17 Aug 2024 - 15 Feb 2025 Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico presents Relator con Amargura , a major museum survey of José Lerma. The show will include over 60 works spanning almost two decades. This exhibition is also part of the museum's Regresos/Homeward Bound series, which features contemporary artists from the Puerto Rican Diaspora. José... Read more -
Willie Cole: Home Assembly
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 13 Jul 2024 - 27 Apr 2025 This solo exhibition of work by Willie Cole, who was an Arts/Industry resident in the Kohler Co. Pottery in 2000, features newly commissioned sculptures alongside a selection of works spanning over three decades. By using craft and household objects in his artworks, Cole spreads awareness of women's and enslaved peoples'... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas: MULTIPLICITY: BLACKNESS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COLLAGE
The Phillips Collection 6 Jul - 22 Sep 2024 Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to exploring collage by contemporary Black American artists such as Mickalene Thomas, Mark Bradford, Kerry James Marshall, Tschabalala Self, and Kara Walker. Featuring nearly 60 works by 49 artists, this exhibition celebrates the broad variety and complexity of... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
The Broad 25 May - 29 Sep 2024 The Broad is pleased to announce the launch of a new touring special exhibition Mickalene Thomas: All About Love , running from May 25 to September 29, 2024. Co-organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and in partnership with the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Mickalene Thomas: All... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Mythologiques
Magazzino No. 41 | Venice, Italy 20 Apr - 24 Nov 2024 The Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, in collaboration with its esteemed partner, Turkish Airlines, proudly announces Tomokazu Matsuyama's groundbreaking solo exhibition Mythologiques , running concurrently with the 60th Venice Biennale. This eagerly anticipated showcase, curated by Christoph Doswald, will unfold at Magazzino No. 41, Marina Militare, Arsenale di Venezia, from April 20... Read more -
Marie Watt: Land Stitches Water Sky
Carnegie Museum of Art 13 Apr - 22 Sep 2024 Marie Watt: LAND STITCHES WATER SKY explores steel and glass-materials deeply tied to Western Pennsylvania's industrial history-from Watt's Indigenous perspective as a citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scot ancestry. This exhibition presents sculptures informed by the artist's community collaboration and invites visitors to consider the layered histories and personal... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies | Dwelling on the Invisible
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 10 Apr - 6 Oct 2024 In his first solo exhibition at a major United States institution, Manuel Mathieu showcases his vibrant paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. Mathieu's works serve as reflections of our intertwined lives, where the boundaries between the past and present, or the personal and political are often blurred. Sharing memories... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama & Tomokazu Matsuyama: Our Lives Story Telling
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL 1 10 Apr - 1 Sep 2024 DEVAN 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 GLOBAL IDENTITY Read more -
Jessica Stockholder: For Events
Hutchinson Courtyard | The University of Chicago 1 Apr - 5 May 2024 This exhibition honors artist Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959) on the occasion of her retirement from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. The installation is anchored by a single sculpture, For Events (2015), which encapsulates the artist's decades-long consideration of how objects encounter one another: how they... Read more -
Willie Cole: Lyrical Reconstructions
Haley Gallery | Country Music Hall of Fame 28 Mar - 16 May 2024 Willie Cole: Lyrical Reconstructions , new and recent works by the critically acclaimed American sculptor and printmaker, opens Thursday, March 28, with a reception and musical performance by the artist. Cole's creative process blends familiar consumer objects with references to the appropriation of African and African American images, resulting in... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: Fade Cut
Serlachius Museum Gösta 23 Mar - 18 Aug 2024 US artist Devan Shimoyama explores themes of sexuality, race and gender in his carnivalesque works. He refects on queer identity, appending to it references from mythology and art history. In terms of technique, the works are playful: the artist combines in his paintings different materials, such as glitter, fabric and... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama in The Plural of He
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art 15 Mar - 21 Jul 2024 Through newly commissioned works by five artists, The Plural of He explores the life and work of Colin Robinson (1961-2021), the Trinidadian American poet, critic, and unsung hero of social and sexual liberation movements in New York, the Caribbean, and throughout the world. Displayed alongside archival objects, the commissioned works... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu: The end of figuration
De La Warr Pavilion 17 Feb - 27 May 2024 In February 2024, the De La Warr Pavilion will present The end of figuration , Manuel Mathieu's first major institutional presentation in Europe. Manuel Mathieu (b. 1986, Haiti) is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches... Read more -
Willie Cole: Century: 100 Years Of Black Art at MAM
9 Feb - 7 Jul 2024 Century is organized around six major themes that highlight how art has long been a living, generative force in Black life. We explore the importance of Black Portraiture over the past hundred years and its central role in the project of crafting Black identities while subverting reductive, often racist, portrayals... Read more -
Miya Ando: Vespertine Clouds (Yūgumo)
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore 13 Jan - 26 Feb 2024 VESPERTINE CLOUDS (Yūgumo) We are pleased to present new paintings on metal by Miya Ando (b. 1973, Los Angeles). The New York-based artist created this body of work centering on cloud formations captured in the evening hours. This is Ando's first solo exhibition in Singapore since 2019. Ando's cloud works... Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi
Newport Art Museum 18 Nov 2023 - 5 May 2024 Born and raised in Iran, Arghavan Khosravi came to the United States in 2015 to pursue her MFA in painting at RISD. Combining aspects of Surrealism and Persian miniature painting, Khosravi creates evocative works of art that interrogate ideas of freedom, agency, and identity. At the core of these issues... Read more -
Willie Cole: The B-Sides: 1989-2022
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 1 Nov 2023 - 4 Mar 2024 Kavi 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 materials that might otherwise be destined for the junkyard. He has made artworks out of old clothes irons, vintage shoes,... Read more -
Nikko Washington: For The Old Gods and The New
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 28 Oct 2023 - 9 Mar 2024 Kavi 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 , curated by award-winning rapper and social activist Vic Mensa. Washington’s emotive portraits of Black athletes make space for new perspectives... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Fictional Landscape
The Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art 27 Oct 2023 - 17 Mar 2024 The Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art will present an exhibition by contemporary artist MATSUYAMA Tomokazu as its Autumn/Winter program for 2023, from Friday, October 27, 2023, to Sunday, March 17, 2024. The exhibition will be the artist’s first large-scale solo showing in Japan. MATSUYAMA Tomokazu (1976 -) is a New... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: The Barbershop Project
The Armory Show | NYC, NY 7 - 10 Sep 2023 For the 2023 Armory Fair in New York, Kavi Gupta will present the second iteration of Devan Shimoyama’s Barbershop Project. Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 3 Aug - 22 Oct 2023 Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain presents a comprehensive survey of drawings, paintings, and sculptural reliefs, by the Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984). The exhibition traces the trajectory of her oeuvre—from small-scale drawings produced upon her arrival in the United States in 2015 to recent monumental compositions, straddling painting and sculpture.... Read more -
Marie Watt in Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
Smithsonian Art Museum 28 Jul 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 This exhibition presents an opportunity to examine previous misconceptions, question racist clichés, and highlight the multiple communities and histories that continue to form this iconic region of the United States. Working in various media, from painting and sculpture to photography and mixed media, the artists featured bring a nuanced and... Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi and Mickalene Thomas:Change Agents
Southampton Arts Center 22 Jul - 30 Sep 2023 For their 10th anniversary, Southampton Arts Center (SAC) presented CHANGE AGENTS: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World , an exhibition that showcased the unparalleled vision of 14 women collectors dedicated to championing artists and their practices. The first of its kind at SAC, the exhibition celebrated these international pioneers, whose... Read more -
LightSpace
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 22 Jul - 14 Oct 2023 Kavi 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 can be a zone of literal brightness, a mental space free from heavy burdens, or an ethereal space welcoming of... Read more -
FIRELEI BÁEZ
The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 16 Jul 2023 In her largest sculptural installation to date, Firelei Báez invites visitors to traverse passageways and travel through time and space, engaging with streams of intervention and interconnectedness. In its second iteration, Báez’s sculpture revisits the centuries-long exchange of ideas and influence between Europe, the African continent, and the Americas, reclaiming... Read more -
Michi Meko: While I’m Here…A Different South
San Antonio, TX. 13 Jul - 10 Sep 2023 Michi Meko’s exhibition at Artpace, While I’m Here…A Different South delves into the artist’s journey from Georgia to Texas and his search for the transcendent moment. Through painting, sculpture, and sound, Meko creates a pathway for the viewer through his anxiety toward a tranquil horizon. Upon entering, the viewer is... Read more -
Marie Watt: Sky Dances Light
835 W Washington Blvd. FL 1. 10 Jun - 30 Sep 2023 Kavi 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. Watt’s debut exhibition with the gallery, Sky Dances Light centers her highly anticipated new series of jingle clouds: biomorphic, hanging... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: Full and Pure: Body, Materiality
Green Family Art Foundation. Dallas, TX 75201. 10 Jun - 23 Sep 2023 Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender explores the scene of deliverance by reflecting on the becomings of gender, bodies, and materiality. This exhibition is comprised of the works of 37 intergenerational artists creating in a range of mediums: from poetry, video, and sculpture, to painting, photography, and installation. Every work... Read more -
Angel Otero: The Sea Remembers
Hauser and Wirth Hong Kong 1 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 Angel Otero is known for his signature approach to visual storytelling, synthesizing magical realism and abstraction, the observed and the imagined, and the past and the present. Beginning 1 June, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents ‘The Sea Remembers,’ Otero’s first solo exhibition in Asia since he joined the gallery... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama: Tell Me
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga 26 May - 27 Aug 2023 The Contemporary Art Center of Malaga presents the Tell Me exhibition by the artist Devan Shimoyama, his first individual exhibition in Spain. Curated by Helena Juncosa and Fernando Francés, the exhibition brings together fifteen works created by the artist from 2020 to the present. All the works belong to the... Read more -
Miya Ando: Ceremony
MAEBASHI GALLERIA, GUNMA, JAPAN 6 May - 8 Jul 2023 CEREMONY: MIYA ANDO, KENGO KITO, MAKIKO KUDO, VIK MUNIZ Read more -
Suchitra Mattai: Osmosis: In the face of the sea
KAVI GUPTA | ELIZABETH ST. FL. 2 15 Apr - 13 May 2023 Kavi Gupta presents Osmosis: in the face of the sea , an expanded and extended edition of Suchitra Mattai’s groundbreaking solo exhibition Osmosis . Thinking about the saltwater ocean migrations that have shaped her family’s heritage, Mattai has both a scientific and a poetic interest in osmosis, a process that... Read more -
Esmaa Mohamoud: Let Them Consume Me In The Light
KAVI GUPTA | ELIZABETH ST FL. 1 14 Apr - 26 Aug 2023 Kavi Gupta presents Let Them Consume Me In The Light , a solo exhibition of new works by internationally acclaimed conceptual artist Esmaa Mohamoud. The exhibition examines what Mohamoud calls “Black body politics”—a web of interconnected personal, social, economic, and historical factors that shape how Blackness is perceived by Black... Read more -
Allana Clarke: I Feel Everything
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 14 Apr - 27 May 2023 Kavi Gupta presents I Feel Everything , an exhibition of new sculptural paintings by Trinidadian- American artist Allana Clarke made from Salon Pro 30 Sec. Super Hair Bond Glue , a material that has become signature to her practice. Clarke’s first solo exhibition to focus exclusively on this series of... Read more -
Roger Brown: Palace of Wonders
KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 1 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 Kavi 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 avid student of American visual culture. He trained and taught in arguably the best art school of his time, but... Read more -
Marie Watt: Sun Drinks White
12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS. 24 Mar - 30 Jul 2023 The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a poem titled 'Haiku Journey' by Indigenous writer, photographer, and scholar Kimberly Blaeser. The poem is structured in four parts, each representing one of the four seasons. This section of Blaeser’s poem reflects upon winter, and her words conjure the brisk feeling... Read more -
Inka Essenhigh in ROUNDING THE CIRCLE: THE MARY AND AL SHANDS COLLECTION
Louisville, Kentucky 23 Mar - 6 Aug 2023 The Speed Art Museum presents Rounding the Circle: The Mary and Al Shands Collection , a major exhibition celebrating the extensive and significant collection of contemporary artworks assembled by the late Alfred R. Shands III (1928-2021) and Mary Norton Shands (1930-2009). This presentation also commemorates the transformative gift of art... Read more -
Alfred Conteh in Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Forth Worth, TX 12 Mar - 9 Jul 2023 On view during the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Highlighting the perspectives of contemporary Black artists, Emancipation features commissioned and recent works by... Read more -
Marie Watt: Singing Everything
299 Grand Street, New York, New York. 12 Mar - 20 May 2023 Marc Strauss second solo show exhibition, Singing Everything , owith interdisciplinary American artist Marie Watt. A member of the Seneca Nation, Watt also has German-Scott ancestry. Her layered and complex influences include Indigenous knowledge and Iroquois proto-feminism, the matriarchal structures of certain Native American nations, the rise of social activism... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in Picasso Celebration: The Collection In A New Light
Musée Picasso Paris, Paris, France 7 Mar - 27 Aug 2023 April 8, 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso and thus places the year under the sign of the celebration of his work and his international artistic heritage in France and Spain. On the occasion of this anniversary year, the Musée national Picasso-Paris invites the British... Read more -
MICKALENE THOMAS: THE "UNIVERSE OF POP” ARRIVES ON THE GOLD COAST
135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 26 Feb - 4 Jun 2023 The Legends of Pop Art, a world exclusive exhibition, only on the Gold Coast. In a world exclusive exhibition, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York , pairs these three superstars alongside artists inspired by their legacy. Together they paint a unique picture of Pop Art across the... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama in The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback
Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, TX 11 Feb - 21 May 2023 The Cabin LA’s residency program was formed in 2015 when Danny First constructed a 180-square foot edifice in the backyard of his Hancock Park, LA home to share art with friends, fellow art lovers, and artists. First named this dedicated structure The Cabin. Shortly thereafter, First combined the shows he... Read more -
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Cornell University. 114 Central Avenue Ithaca, NY. 11 Feb - 30 Jul 2023 Multimedia artist Marie Watt is a storyteller. As a member of the Seneca Nation (one of six that comprise the Haudenosaunee Confederacy) with German-Scots ancestry, her stories draw from Native and non-Native traditions: Greco-Roman myth; pop music and Pop art; Indigenous oral narratives; Star Wars and Star Trek . Watt... Read more -
Mary Sibande: A Reverse Retrogress Scene 1 at Sharjah Biennial 15
Al Shuwaihean, Sharjah. United Arab Emirates. 7 Feb - 11 Jun 2023 Mary Sibande engages counterhistorical narratives and the language of dress to animate the stories of South African women and critique western imperialist depictions of their lives. A Reverse Retrogress: Scene 1 (2013) features her alter ego, Sophie, whose many incarnations speak to Sibande’s mother’s and grandmother’s experiences under apartheid. In... Read more -
Miya Ando in Waiting for the Moon
The Bolinas Museum, California 4 Feb - 2 Apr 2023 Miya Ando’s artworks are a visual meditation on the cycles of nature and the passage of time; concept, image, and material are inextricably linked. The layered, refractive surfaces of Ando’s sculptures and paintings on metal or wood are a physical articulation of contemplation of the impermanent, temporal nature of their... Read more -
Marie Watt in Many West
Utah, Salt Lake City 4 Feb - 11 Jun 2023 A groundbreaking, nationally touring exhibition re-examining the American West through modern and contemporary art is coming to Salt Lake City in early 2023. Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea will be on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah Sunday, February 5–Sunday,... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson in The Body Electric
Frist Art Museum, Santa Fe, TX 3 Feb - 23 Apr 2023 This major exhibition is devoted to one of today’s leading artists, whose multidisciplinary practice combines aspects of traditional Indigenous art and culture with a modernist visual vocabulary. Born in Colorado in 1972, Jeffrey Gibson is of Cherokee heritage and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. His vibrant work,... Read more -
Willie Cole: Spirit Catcher and Lumen-Less Lantern
Express Newark 54 Halsey Street Newark, NJ. 2 Feb 2023 - 2 Feb 2024 Express Newark Spirit Catcher and Lumen-less Lantern , by Newark native Willie Cole, are two large-scale, chandelier-like sculptures made up of more than 3,000 plastic water bottles held together by metal wire. Cole recently created these works to address Newark’s dual environmental crisis of 2019: the lead contamination of drinking... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in Resting Our Eyes, Curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA 21 Jan - 25 Jun 2023 The Combahee River Collective believed that society would inevitably benefit from the success of Black women-centered movements. When we consider what technologies have already been used to dismantle systems of oppression on a personal level, leisure and adornment are often overlooked, but extremely present in everyday life. From silk bonnets,... Read more -
Marie Watt in Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today
Houston, Texas 13 Jan - 13 May 2023 Celebrating a new generation of international artists at the forefront of fiber arts, Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today includes work by twenty-two artists including Igshaan Adams, Hangama Amiri, Felipe Baeza, Diedrick Brackens, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Orly Genger, Ana María Hernando, Woomin Kim, Eric N. Mack, María Nepomuceno, Ernesto Neto,... Read more -
Micheal Joo in INTROVERSE: ALLEGORY TODAY
New York 14 Dec 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 Introverse: Allegory Today intimates the allegorical turn in current artistic practice characterized by the psychological interiorization, libidinal symbolism, and melancholic contemplation of contemporary life. Featuring 12 artists, the exhibition presents diffused figurations and extended metaphors that embody the spiritual and political complexities of our times, traversing individual interiorities to reflect... Read more -
José Lerma, Quieto, Quietud, Quietudes
Almine Rech | Shanghai 9 Dec 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 José Lerma’s recent hyper-painterly portraits are paradoxically austere. The copious amount of paint loaded onto each canvas counters the scant number of brushstrokes: only three to ten per piece. Though impasto typically conveys dynamism and spontaneity, here it rigidly describes static heads from the front or side. Stark and solemn,... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in Femme Fatal: Gaze - Power - Gender
Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum 9 Dec 2022 - 10 Apr 2023 The femme fatale is a myth, a projection, a construction. She symbolizes a visually coded female stereotype: the sensual, erotic and seductive woman whose allegedly demonic nature reveals itself in her ability to lure and enchant men – often leading to fatal results. It is this likewise dazzling and clichéd... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama in Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 8 Dec 2022 - 16 Apr 2023 This group exhibition assembles a range of creative practices–including painting, sculpture, video, fashion, and nail artistry–that embrace lavish, sumptuous aesthetics to examine how America’s obsession with wealth and the ways it is displayed shapes class, race, and gender. In a capitalist society where ‘good taste’ often signals class affiliations, status,... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama, Firelei Baéz And Mickalene Thomas, When We See Us: A Century Of Black Figuration In Painting
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa 20 Nov 2022 - 3 Sep 2023 When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting comprises an exhibition, publication and discursive programming that explores Black self-representation and celebrates global Black subjectivities and Black consciousness from pan-African and pan-diasporic perspectives. It boldly brings together artworks from the last 100 years, by Black artists working globally,... Read more -
Alfred Conteh, It Is What It Is
Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd Fl. 1 19 Nov 2022 - 4 Mar 2023 Kavi Gupta presents It Is What It Is , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alfred Conteh. Following the recent inclusion of Conteh’s work in the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth ., and in The Legacy Museum’s inaugural exhibition at the National Memorial for... Read more -
James Little, Black Stars & White Paintings
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St Fl. 1 12 Nov 2022 - 4 Mar 2023 Kavi 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 of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It's Kept. In her recent longform profile on Little in The New York... Read more -
Suchitra Mattai, Osmosis
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St. Fl. 2 12 Nov 2022 - 4 Mar 2023 Kavi Gupta presents Osmosis , a solo exhibition of new multi-media works by Indo-Caribbean American artist Suchitra Mattai. Thinking about the saltwater ocean migrations that have shaped her family’s cultural and geographic heritage, Mattai has both a scientific and a poetic interest in the process of osmosis, which involves the... Read more -
Angel Otero, Swimming Where Time Was
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY 10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Beginning 10 November, Angel Otero will present his first major solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Swimming Where Time Was . Filling the 5th floor of the gallery’s 22nd street location, this new body of work marks a turning point in the artist’s career, revealing a new sensibility that has... Read more -
Mary Sibande, A Gateway To Possible Worlds, Art & Science Fiction
Centre Pompidou-Metz 5 Nov 2022 - 10 Apr 2023 The American writer Ray Bradbury said: 'Science fiction is the art of the possible.' Under the guise of anticipating the future, it speaks to us of the present. It is a laboratory of hypotheses that manipulate and extrapolate the repressive norms and dogmas of today's world, its ambitions, social afflictions,... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 4 Nov 2022 - 5 Nov 2023 Jeffrey 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 consider the complex and fluid narratives surrounding selfhood in this country. Gibson uses his surroundings as sources, mixing references from... Read more -
Marie Watt in Social Fabric Exhibition Opening Reception
Newport, RI 28 Oct 2022 - 11 Jun 2023 From the cradle to the grave, human beings are wrapped in, and surrounded by textiles. What people make to clothe, protect, and decorate themselves and their spaces, tells us about their cultures, eras, identities, families, and lives. This exhibition brings together a diverse array of contemporary textile artists who are... Read more -
Jaime Muñoz in Hot Concrete: LA to HK
K11 Musea, Hong Kong, China 21 Oct - 13 Nov 2022 A hot new arrival to the Hong Kong art scene, K11 MUSEA joins hands with WOAW Gallery to bring sunny Los Angeles to Hong Kong in Hot Concrete: LA to HK . Curated by LA gallery Sow & Tailor and co-organised by Ouyang Art Consulting, Hot Concrete is an ambitious... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 15 Oct 2022 - 26 Feb 2023 An 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 two-story interior Schnitzer Sculpture Court. This dynamic work will celebrate Portland’s Indigenous history, presence and vitality through the use of... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France 13 Oct 2022 - 6 Feb 2023 Mickalene 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 a distinct visual vocabulary of Black erotica, Black sexuality, and Black queer aesthetics centered around leisure, joy and thought. For... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson, THIS BURNING WORLD
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1 Oct 2022 - 26 Mar 2023 THIS 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 the natural world beyond these walls. This installation is a reminder to the hidden land, “This is where you come... Read more -
Michi Meko in Oneness That Is, Too
Temporary Studios x Art Papers, Atlanta, GA 29 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Art Papers is teaming up with Temporary Studios to present an exhibition curated by Art Papers editor + artistic director Sarah Higgins alongside open studios featuring some of Atlanta’s premier artists: Scott Ingram, Fredrik Brauer, Antonio Darden, Jill Frank, Michi Meko, Michael Reese, Brandon Sadler, Ellex Swavoni and Mark Wentzel.... Read more -
Mary Sibande, Willie Cole: Past Is Present
Herron Galleries, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 28 Sep 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery raises important questions about slavery's past and present, reflecting on how this complicated history is not to be repeated in the future. Local histories are used as a starting point for confronting slavery and its legacy. The exhibit... Read more -
Jessica Stockholder & Tony Tasset in Monochrome Multitudes
Smart Museum of Art | The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 22 Sep 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 This exhibition traces “the monochrome” as a fundamental if surprisingly expansive artistic practice. Revisiting classic modernist ideas about flatness, idealized form, and colors, Monochrome Multitudes opens up this seemingly reductive art to reveal its global resonance and creative possibilities while working toward a more expansive narrative of 20th and 21st... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama in The Istanbul Biennale
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts & Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey 17 Sep - 20 Nov 2022 Dirimart is pleased to announce Tomokazu Matsuyama’s public projects United We Stand Divided and Nirvana Tropicana in collaboration with Yanköşe and Galataport. Both large scale sculptures by Matsuyama will be exhibited upon invitation by IKSV as an official collateral project to the 17th Istanbul Biennial. New York-based Japanese artist is... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson & Firelei Báez in Dialogues Across Disciplines
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art | Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 17 Sep 2022 - 20 May 2023 Dialogues Across Disciplines celebrates the ten year anniversary of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. Featuring a selection of artworks acquired through gifts and purchases over the last decade, the exhibition highlights the museum’s ongoing commitment to building a globally representative collection that is reflective of the academic... Read more
