Nikko Washington: For the Old GODs and the new
835 W Washington blvd. fl. 2 | 28 October 2023 - 10 February 2024
Willie Cole: The B-Sides: 1989-2022
835 W WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 | 18 November 2023 - 10 February 2024
Current and Forthcoming
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Jessica Stockholder, As Glue, Material & Surface: Paper Works
Online Exhibition 26 May - 27 Jun 2020 Kavi Gupta and Kathmandu Projects are pleased to announce the online exhibition Jessica Stockholder: As Glue, Material & Surface: Paper Works. It would be inaccurate to call Stockholder’s new series of sculptural paper pieces “works on paper.” It’s more like the paper is the work. Stockholder created the series during a residency in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, in late autumn of 2019. Read more -
Beverly Fishman, Studies on Relief
Online Exhibition 15 Jul - 12 Aug 2020 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Studies on Relief, an online exhibition of works on paper by Beverly Fishman. Best known for her sculptural Pill Reliefs—luminous, abstract multi-forms gleaned from the visual languages of polypharmacy and modernism—Fishman reveals the experimental process that culminates in her large-scale works through these delicate collages. Read more
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Jessica Stockholder, As Glue, Material & Surface: Paper Works
Online Exhibition 26 May - 27 Jun 2020 Kavi Gupta and Kathmandu Projects are pleased to announce the online exhibition Jessica Stockholder: As Glue, Material & Surface: Paper Works. It would be inaccurate to call Stockholder’s new series of sculptural paper pieces “works on paper.” It’s more like the paper is the work. Stockholder created the series during a residency in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, in late autumn of 2019. Read more -
Beverly Fishman, Studies on Relief
Online Exhibition 15 Jul - 12 Aug 2020 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Studies on Relief, an online exhibition of works on paper by Beverly Fishman. Best known for her sculptural Pill Reliefs—luminous, abstract multi-forms gleaned from the visual languages of polypharmacy and modernism—Fishman reveals the experimental process that culminates in her large-scale works through these delicate collages. Read more
Past
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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 -
Arghavan Khosravi and Mickalene Thomas:CHANGE AGENTS: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World
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 missions... 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 -
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 sculptures... 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... 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 people... 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 made... 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 throughout... 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 reminds... 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 -
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 Peace and... 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 Times,... 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 migration... 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 emerged... 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 -
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 group... 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 -
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 in 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... 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 -
Devan Shimoyama in Make–Believe
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. 10 Sep - 11 Dec 2022 Make-Believe explores artistic world-building and the crafting of alternate realities. The exhibition presents sculptures by Georgia Saxelby and paintings by Devan Shimoyama in the context of a post-pandemic world where fantasies and the imagination have played increasingly vital roles. Make-Believe considers the artists’ shared use of decoration, craft and visual... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu, Silk Road Traveler, Lethe's Wanderer
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China 9 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 Longlati Foundation is honored to present “Silk Road Traveler, Lethe’s Wanderer”, the solo exhibition of Manuel Mathieu (b.1986, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti) curated by Chinese artist Pu Yingwei, which marks the launch of Longlati Curatorial Exchange Program, a pioneering gesture of the foundation to demonstrate “exhibition as form” when artists are playing... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama's Dancer | Armory Off-Site
Flatiron Plaza, New York, NY 7 Sep - 16 Nov 2022 In conjunction with The Armory Show’s renowned public art program, Armory Off-Site, Kavi Gupta is proud to debut Tomokazu Matsuyama’s ambitious public sculpture Dancer, premiering during the fair in Manhattan’s iconic Flatiron Plaza. Dancer’s sinuous, mirrored-steel limbs undulate in joyous abandonment while reflecting a glittering jungle of whirling colors and... Read more -
Roxy Paine in SEDIMENTARY LENS
Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Georgia 7 Sep 2022 - 23 Jan 2023 Throughout his decades-long career, Roxy Paine has investigated the tensions between human intention and the power of the natural world. The artist’s multifaceted practice includes large-scale, multimedia sculptures that examine complex systems, from the biological to the geological to the industrial. Through the expression of these interdependent systems, Paine’s work... Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi, Art In Focus
Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 6 Sep - 11 Nov 2022 Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund continue their Art in Focus partnership with the presentation of work by multidisciplinary artist Arghavan Khosravi (she/her) throughout the Rockefeller Center campus, beginning September 6, 2022. Arghavan Khosravi is a US-based Iranian artist known for her sculptural multi-paneled paintings. Symbolism, metaphor, and abstraction are essential... Read more -
Su Su, From Your Special Friend
Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. Fl. 1 3 Sep - 5 Nov 2022 Kavi Gupta presents From Your Special Friend, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Beijing-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Su Su. This exhibition coincides with the inclusion of Su Su’s work in the groundbreaking exhibition Wonder Women, inspired by Genny Lim’s eponymous poem and featuring thirty Asian American and diasporic women and... Read more -
Miya Ando, Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon)
Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. Fl. 2 3 Sep 2022 - 4 Mar 2023 Kavi Gupta presents Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon), a solo exhibition of new paintings by Miya Ando. Expressive of the transitory and immaterial quality of clouds at night, the exhibition spotlights nature’s impermanence and interdependence, concepts also prevalent in Ando’s recent solo exhibitions... Read more -
Su Su in Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA 3 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Genny Lim’s poem “Wonder Woman,” first published in 1981, follows the reflections of a narrator who observes the everyday lives of Asian women—across generations, countries, and socioeconomic backgrounds—wondering if their experiences reflect her own. The poem centers Asian women as its protagonists and ponders what commonalities exist between these women.... Read more -
Miya Ando in To Bough and To Bend
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA 30 Aug 2022 - 26 Mar 2023 Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art presents the exhibition To Bough and To Bend, curated by Bridge Projects. “Simple Gifts” is the Shaker song from which To Bough and To Bend borrows its title . Written by Joseph Brackett in 1848, the song was both an instruction for... Read more -
Roger Brown & Miesian Metropolitanism
Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, IL 7 Aug - 27 Nov 2022 Roger Brown and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe stand as exemplars of their respective aesthetic positions—beacons of pure intention and masterful execution. This exhibition seeks to examine Brown’s particular “Miesian” tendencies, both within his aesthetic practice and his personal life. While many of his paintings ruminated on buildings, the topic... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in In Dialogue: Unexpected Visual Conversations
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL 6 Aug 2022 - 25 Jun 2023 Featuring eleven major works from the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, and an additional painting from the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, Florida, this exhibition juxtaposes modern and contemporary pieces with paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Fine Arts. Installed throughout the MFA Collection galleries,... Read more -
Jaime Muñoz: Loveline
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 5 Aug - 2 Oct 2022 The fourth industrial revolution is marked by the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. Artists Mario Ayala, Gajin Fujita, Jay Lynn Gomez, Sayre Gomez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Greg Ito, Yung Jake, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Lori LaMont, David Leggett, Tidawhitney Lek, Patrick Martinez, Matt McCormick, Jaime Muñoz,... Read more -
Mary Sibande, The Wake
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany 30 Jul - 23 Oct 2022 Bright colors, life-size figures and impressive installations – the works of the artist Mary Sibande (born 1982 Barberton, South Africa) are engaging from the very first moment. In her expressive sculptures and photographs, the artist addresses topics such as racism, gender and class inequality. In doing so, she situates her... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in Young, Gifted,and Black
jan shrem and maria manetti shrem museum of art, Davis, CA 28 Jul - 19 Dec 2022 The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, at the University of California, Davis is pleased to present Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. This wide-ranging exhibition highlighting artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history makes its West... Read more -
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 Jul 2022 - 15 Apr 2023 Kavi 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 rapper, activist, and philanthropist Vic Mensa, the exhibition brings together works by an inter-generational group of Chicago-based contemporary artists, and... Read more -
Miya Ando in New Glass Now
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan 16 Jul - 16 Oct 2022 In April 2021, the Toyama Glass Art Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass (USA), one of the world’s largest glass collection s, signed an agreement to cooperate on cultural projects, beginning with this joint presentation of the exhibition New Glass Now. Since 1959, when The Corning Museum of Glass... Read more -
Jessica Stockholder in Informal Get Together
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 14 Jul - 19 Aug 2022 Informal Get Together is an exhibition bringing together painting and sculpture by Keltie Ferris, Joanne Greenbaum, Arlene Shechet and Jessica Stockholder on view from July 14 through August 19, 2022. Taking its title from the 2014 sculpture by Jessica Stockholder, Informal Get Together highlights Shechet and Stockholder’s painterly approach to... Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi in that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany 25 Jun - 25 Sep 2022 that other world, the world of the teapot, is the world the writer and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk is longing for. In her Nobel Lecture, the author recalls Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a teapot, broken by the people's awkwardness and their carelessness, and... Read more -
Skin + Masks: Decolonizing Art Beyond the Politics of Visibility curated by Vic Mensa
Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth Street 18 Jun - 29 Oct 2022 Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL. 60607 Due to the incredible public response to Vic Mensa’s curatorial debut, we’re extending the run of SKIN + MASKS, as well as adding additional works from several of the artists, including Nikko Washington and Erol Scott Harris. Washington’s painterly figurative... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in 30 Americans
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 17 Jun - 30 Oct 2022 Drawn from the acclaimed Rubell Museum in Miami, Florida, 30 Americans showcases works by some of the most significant artists of the last four decades, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. This groundbreaking exhibition tells the story of Black humanity through the gaze... Read more -
Tomokazu Matsuyama: Harmless Charm
Sotheby's Hong Kong 14 - 21 Jun 2022 Following the success of The Best Part About Us, Tomokazu Matsuyama's critically acclaimed, Chicago debut exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Matsuyama’s solo exhibition Harmless Charm at Sotheby’s Hong Kong represents the artist’s inaugural foray into the medium of NFTs. Matsu is renowned for his ability to create harmony out of contradiction.... Read more -
José Lerma in Seeking Knowledge
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, University Park, FL 11 Jun - 11 Sep 2022 Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora gifted by Gamaliel R. Herrera As a child growing up on the campus of Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, Dr. Gamaliel R. Herrera developed a keen interest in art and philosophy. While pursuing his own education, Herrera began collecting contemporary art, focusing on... Read more -
Michi Meko, Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground
Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd Fl. 1 4 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Kavi Gupta presents Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground, a solo exhibition and catalogue of new work by Michi Meko, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grantee and Artadia Award winner. Featuring works created entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition reflects on Meko’s ideas and experiences during isolation, and follows... Read more -
Sherman Beck
Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd Fl. 2 4 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Kavi Gupta presents a solo retrospective of paintings by Sherman Beck, original member of the historic Black Arts collective AFRICOBRA. Following inclusions of Beck’s work in pivotal group exhibitions such as AFRICOBRA I: Ten in Search of a Nation, at the Studio Museum in Harlem , I Am Somebody,... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu in The Vibration of Things
Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach, Germany 4 Jun - 3 Oct 2022 The 15th edition of the Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach deals with the vitality of things. Things, including artistic objects, are integrated into social and societal contexts. Objects are alive, they vibrate and generate resonance. When they travel, their meanings and values shift. They possess a charge that can change... Read more -
Michi Meko in FLOW
The University of Alabama Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL 3 Jun - 27 Jul 2022 The UA Department of Art and Art History is proud to present FLOW, two exhibitions in their downtown galleries opening First Friday, June 3, 2022, with receptions for the artists: from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in The University of Alabama Gallery and from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Paul... Read more -
Devan Shimoyama in The Regional
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO 3 Jun - 11 Sep 2022 The first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest, The Regional brings together work by 23 artists working across painting, photography, installation, and performance. The artists come from a variety of backgrounds and are based across the region in cities like Detroit, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus,... Read more -
Mary Sibande, Let me tell you about Red…
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa 3 Jun - 30 Sep 2022 Let me tell you about Red… is Mary Sibande’s first solo exhibition at the Durban Art Gallery. The exhibition takes place across three gallery spaces, with each gallery encapsulating the phases and periods of Sibande’s alter ego, Sophie, from her birth, to her expansion: following her evolution from 2009 to... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA 28 May - 29 Aug 2022 Manuel Mathieu is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. His work reflects on our intertwined lives, in which the boundaries between the past and present or the personal and political are often blurred. Sharing recollections that depict everyday scenes, Mathieu also blends into his canvases... Read more -
Inka Essenhigh in The View from Here
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME 28 May - 11 Sep 2022 CMCA presents the thematic group exhibition, The View from Here, featuring works by 20 artists (including two collaboratives) who have previously exhibited or otherwise been involved at CMCA across our history (1952-2022). The celebratory exhibition coincides with CMCA’s 70th anniversary, and the unifying concept is unique and dynamic ways of... Read more -
Set It Off, curated by Mickalene Thomas, featuring Kennedy Yanko
Parrish Art Museum | Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas 22 May - 24 Jul 2022 SET IT OFF CURATED BY RACQUEL CHEVREMONT & MICKALENE THOMAS—COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS DEUX FEMMES NOIRES May 22 - July 24, 2022 LEILAH BABIRYE, TORKWASE DYSON, FEBRUARY JAMES, KARYN OLIVIER, KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED, & KENNEDY YANKO Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires—Set It Off... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas in Women Painting Women
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX 15 May - 25 Sep 2022 Women Painting Women is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in... Read more -
Mickalene Thomas: BLACK VENUS Curated by Aindrea Emelife
Fotografiska 13 May - 28 Aug 2022 BLACK VENUS is an exhibition that surveys the legacy of Black women in visual culture – from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures, to the present-day reclamation of the rich complexity of Black womanhood by 19 artists (of numerous nationalities and with birth years spanning 1942 to 1997). This exhibition is a celebration... Read more -
Beverly Fishman, CURE
The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH 5 May - 22 Jul 2022 THE DR. ROBERT L. BRANDT, JR. GALLERY Beverly Fishman is an American painter and sculptor whose work explores science, medicine, and the body. Her large, exquisitely crafted object-paintings feature titles like Untitled (Epilepsy, Pain, Chronic Pain, Opiate Dependence) , derived from geometric arrangements of tablets, capsules, and pills; prescribed cocktails... Read more -
Esmaa Mohamoud: IT CANNOT ALWAYS BE NIGHT
Arsenal Contemporary 5 May - 18 Jun 2022 Darkness Doesn't Rise To The Sun, But We Do is Mohamoud's first large-scale in-gallery immersive installation consisting of 500 matte-black metal dandelions, arranged in large and meandering groupings that take over the exhibition floor. As though birthed from the concrete, this massive groundswell of metal flora is softened and balanced... Read more -
Kennedy Yanko: Moving Weight
CFHILL, Stockholm, SE 29 Apr - 27 May 2022 CFHILL is delighted to present American artist and rising star, Kennedy Yanko, in her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the Missouri native has created a new visual language with her sensual hanging sculptures and wall reliefs. By redefining the traditional concept of painting by delving... Read more -
Manuel Mathieu, Keeping Things Whole
Pilar Corrias 28 Apr - 28 May 2022 Pilar Corrias is pleased to announce that a solo exhibition of Manuel Mathieu’s new body of work, titled Keeping Things Whole, will open at Pilar Corrias Eastcastle Street on 28 April 2022, running until 28 May 2022. Mathieu (b. 1986) is a multi-disciplinary artist, working across painting, ceramics and installation.... Read more -
Arghavan Khosravi in Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained
Collateral Exhibtion | Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy 23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022 For the duration of the 59th Biennale Arte di Venezia, 23 April to 27 November 2022, Parasol unit will present Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, a group exhibition of works by eleven international contemporary visual artists at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venice. The artists, Darren Almond, Oliver Beer, Rana... Read more -
Firelei Báez, The Milk of Dreams
The 2022 Venice Biennale 23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022 The 59th International Art Exhibition, titled The Milk of Dreams and curated by Cecilia Alemani, is organised by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Roberto Cicutto. The Pre-opening will take place on April 20, 21 and 22; the Awards Ceremony and Inauguration will be held on 23 April 2022. The... Read more
