forthcoming: marie watt, Sky Dances Light
835 W WASHINGTON BLVD, FL 1. CHICAGO, IL 10 June 2023 - 30 september 2023
ROGER BROWN, PALACE OF WONDERS
835 W WASHINGTON BLVD, FL 2. CHICAGO, IL 14 APRIL 2023 - 10 june 2023
ESMAA MOHAMOUD, LET THEM CONSUME ME IN THE LIGHT
219 N ELIZABETH ST, FL 1. CHICAGO, IL 14 APRIL 2023 - 29 JULY 2023
Current and Forthcoming
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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 -
Esmaa Mohamoud: Let Them Consume Me In The Light
KAVI GUPTA | ELIZABETH ST FL. 1 14 Apr - 29 Jul 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 -
Forthcoming: Suchitra Mattai at the ICA San Francisco
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Mary Sibande, Sower in the Field
The Chazen Museum of Art Mary Sibande, Sower in the Field, is now on view at the Chazen Museum of Art's first floor. Mary Sibande is best known for her sculptures and works on paper, which document performances. In these works, Sibande places female domestic workers in roles of power denied to them under apartheid... Read more -
Deborah Kass in Scenes from the Collection
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The Jewish Museum collection is a unique mix of artworks and ceremonial objects. In Scenes from the Collection, selected works are presented in thematic “scenes,” weaving together centuries of art and Judaica. Each gallery suggests a different filter through which we may approach and understand art. Works in the collection... Read more -
Miya Ando, Since 9/11
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Zaha Hadid Aquatic Centre, London, UK Since 9/11 is a unique and historic piece of art made from World Trade Centre steel, donated to London by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The steel was recovered from the devastation of Ground Zero following the terrorist attacks on New York on 11th September 2001,... 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 -
Deborah Kass: OY/YO
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA 20 Dec 2019 Brooklyn-based painter, printmaker and sculptor Deborah Kass is known for working at the intersection of art history, popular culture and identity -- particularly related to Jewish culture and elements of difference – all three of which come together in OY/YO. Commissioned in 2019, OY/YO greets visitors to the Cantor at... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson in re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 25 Jun 2021 - 16 Jun 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 and launching pad by which to reach as yet uncharted realms. Organized in celebration of the Rose’s 60th anniversary, the... 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 -
Tomokazu Matsuyama's Dancer | Armory Off-Site
Flatiron Plaza, New York, NY 7 Sep 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 -
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter in Parallax: Framing the Cosmos
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1 Oct 2022 - 19 Jun 2023 Parallax describes how an object appears to change position when viewed from different vantage points, as in the viewfinder of a camera or when a star is seen from two different places in Earth’s orbit. As an astronomical term and a metaphor for shifting perspectives, parallax reminds us that no... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
An Art Intervention by 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Forthcoming, 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 -
Forthcoming 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
Online
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Jeffrey Gibson, Believe! Believe!
Online Exhibition 1 - 29 Jul 2020 Kavi Gupta proudly presents the digital exhibition BELIEVE! BELIEVE!, Jeffrey Gibson's first show of works on paper. The prints in this exhibition extend his exploration of the contemporary confluence of Native American traditions with the visual languages of Modernism, personal identity, culture, history, and international social narratives. Read more -
Alfred Conteh, Our Reality
Online Exhibition 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Our Reality, a digital exhibition of new and recent work by Alfred Conteh. The work extends his critically-acclaimed Two Fronts series exploring how African diasporal societies in the American South are fighting social, economic, educational, and psychological wars on two fronts—from within and without—in order to survive. Read more -
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 -
The Written Word
Online Exhibition 23 Apr - 5 May 2020 Kavi Gupta presents The Written Word, an online exhibition examining the visual value of the verbal. Read more -
The Figure in Solitude
Online Exhibition 13 - 28 Apr 2020 Kavi Gupta presents The Figure in Solitude, an online exhibition examining oneness. For years to come, tales of the forced, global solitude of 2020 will be told. Along with sagas of hardship and loneliness, there will be many who also share stories of creativity and strength. Now is the time to ask ourselves: what will we make of our time alone? Read more -
Radical Optimism
Online Exhibition 7 - 20 Apr 2020 Kavi Gupta presents Radical Optimism, a special digital exhibition of works by artists rebelling against cynicism to imagine a joyful future for humanity. 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
Online
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Jeffrey Gibson, Believe! Believe!
Online Exhibition 1 - 29 Jul 2020 Kavi Gupta proudly presents the digital exhibition BELIEVE! BELIEVE!, Jeffrey Gibson's first show of works on paper. The prints in this exhibition extend his exploration of the contemporary confluence of Native American traditions with the visual languages of Modernism, personal identity, culture, history, and international social narratives. Read more -
Alfred Conteh, Our Reality
Online Exhibition 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Our Reality, a digital exhibition of new and recent work by Alfred Conteh. The work extends his critically-acclaimed Two Fronts series exploring how African diasporal societies in the American South are fighting social, economic, educational, and psychological wars on two fronts—from within and without—in order to survive. Read more -
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 -
The Written Word
Online Exhibition 23 Apr - 5 May 2020 Kavi Gupta presents The Written Word, an online exhibition examining the visual value of the verbal. Read more -
The Figure in Solitude
Online Exhibition 13 - 28 Apr 2020 Kavi Gupta presents The Figure in Solitude, an online exhibition examining oneness. For years to come, tales of the forced, global solitude of 2020 will be told. Along with sagas of hardship and loneliness, there will be many who also share stories of creativity and strength. Now is the time to ask ourselves: what will we make of our time alone? Read more -
Radical Optimism
Online Exhibition 7 - 20 Apr 2020 Kavi Gupta presents Radical Optimism, a special digital exhibition of works by artists rebelling against cynicism to imagine a joyful future for humanity. 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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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 involves the... 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 works,... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Richard Hunt in Celebrating Black History Month
The Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN 16 Jan - 1 Mar 2023 In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, the Brauer Museum of Art opens Celebrating Black Artists. The exhibition presents works by eighteen Black artists drawn from the Brauer’s collection and that of Professor Michael Chikeleze, Richard C. and Fancelia A. Gozon University Chair in Values-Based Leadership. Through the course of... 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 -
Clare Rojas in What Can Art Do for Women
The Contemporary Austin, Texas 1 - 29 Jan 2023 When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, it left nearly 22 million women of reproductive age without access to safe abortions. Texas has one of the most severe bans in the country: There are no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, and medical exceptions... 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 -
Suchitra Mattai in State of the Art: Constructs
Akron Art Museum, Ohio 22 Nov 2022 - 26 Feb 2023 State of the Art: Constructs came about through a journey led by curators from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. These curators traveled across the United States searching for the most impressive artists currently working. Their search brought together a diverse group of sixty-one artists. These artists reflect the... 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 -
Suchitra Mattai & Firelei Báez in Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 19 Nov 2022 - 23 Apr 2023 The 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 ushered in an era of international connectivity and social upheaval. In the cultural sector, art exhibitions expanded and turned global,... Read more -
Allana Clarke in Home/Work
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA 19 Nov 2022 - 5 Mar 2023 Home/Work presents the work of fourteen contemporary artists whose work together questions our collective experiences of home. The works gathered in this exhibition reflect on the unique and intimate experiences of the artists who made them — and invite us to consider how we achieve balance in our busy lives... 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 -
Deborah Kass in We Fancy: A Legacy of LGBTQIA+ Artists at the League
The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 27 Oct - 27 Nov 2022 Since its inception, the Art Students League has been a site of unbridled creativity and a home for radical artmakers who reject social norms in the name of Art. It is not surprising that many LGBTQIA+ artists have found the League to be a space where they can express themselves... Read more -
Richard Hunt in Monumental
Omaha, NE 23 Oct 2022 - 5 Feb 2023 What makes something Monumental? Monumentality is often understood with the contexts of scale, visibility, intrepidness, and permanence. Still, it also concerns the meaning created by and through negotiated relationships between objects, individuals, and shared histories. All these meanings coalesce in the work of Richard Hunt (b. 1935), one of the... 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 -
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 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 -
Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime
Pazo Fine Art, Kensington, MD 17 Sep - 3 Nov 2022 Pazo Fine Art is pleased to announce The Technological Sublime , an exhibition of works by Beverly Fishman , Rockne Krebs , and Ruth Pastine . Beverly Fishman is a post-formalist artist whose painted objects call attention to how perception is structured in myriad cultural ways. In a social sense,... 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 -
Allana Clarke, A Particular Fantasy
Art OMI & Usdan Gallery, Ghent, NY & Bennington, VT 13 Sep 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 Allana 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 using materials such as sugar, cocoa butter and hair-bonding glue to confront histories of colonialism and Western standards of beauty.... 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 -
Dominic Chambers | What Makes the Earth Shake
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA 10 Sep - 20 Nov 2022 Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) presents What Makes the Earth Shake featuring works by proliferate, figurative painter Dominic Chambers. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Dominic Chambers (b. 1993 St. Louis, MO; lives and works in New Haven,... 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 -
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... 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 -
Jeffrey Gibson in The Future of Work: Parallel Economies
Art Gallery Burlington, Burlington, Ontario, CA 27 Aug - 31 Dec 2022 The Future of Work is a three-part exhibition series formed as sites of continual research on the labour markets, essential work, equity, and mobility. In collaboration with the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (WAHC), the exhibitions are a process to examine how the pandemic has affected the labour markets and... Read more -
Suchitra Mattai: The Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive
Green Family Foundation Gallery, Miami, FL 11 Aug - 20 Oct 2022 On view from August 11th to October 20th, The Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive is a group exhibition featuring Suchitra Mattai offering a strident and compassionate investigation of the ideas and structures of otherness. Curated by Disapora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace, this exhibition is... 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 -
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 -
Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows | Devan Shimoyama, Allana Clarke & Firelei Báez
FRONT Triennial, NW Ohio 16 Jul - 2 Oct 2022 Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows embraces art as an agent of transformation, a mode of healing, and a therapeutic process. The title is an homage to a 1957 poem “ Two Somewhat Different Epigrams” by Langston Hughes, who moved to Cleveland in his childhood and maintained an artistic connection... 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 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Shinnecock Monuments | Another Justice: Us is Them
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 4 Jul - 30 Sep 2022 As part of the exhibition, Another Justice: US is Them—Hank Willis Thomas | For Freedoms, on view at the Parrish Art Museum from July 23 to November 6, the Museum has activated the local Shinnecock Monuments throughout July, August, and September with digital billboards by Indigenous artists Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock),... 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 -
Suchitra Mattai: i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT 24 Jun 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body focuses on the use of the figure, in contemporary art, to explore culture, identity, fluidity, body positivity––and to provide a space for self-authorship, unfiltered through the lens of others. The show’s title uses the familiar playground childhood... 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 -
Suchitra Mattai in Reorient: Journeys Through Art and Healing
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA 10 Jun 2022 - 14 May 2023 Art and history come together to tell a multidimensional story about humanity. Art is a catalyst for healing cultural pain, both personal and collective. In this exhibition, four artists address stories of immigration where art is a sanctuary, resulting in regeneration and innovation. They speak through their works about histories... 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 -
José Lerma in Hooking Up: Meet the Collection
The Cleve Carney Museum of Art 4 Jun - 7 Aug 2022 The Cleve Carney Museum of Art (CCMA) , located at 425 Fawell Blvd. on the College of DuPage campus, presents Hooking Up: Meet the Collection, June 4 – August 7, 2022 . This exhibition celebrates the recent conversion of the Cleve Carney Art Gallery to the Cleve Carney Museum of... 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 -
Jeffrey Gibson in This is Not America's Flag
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA 21 May - 25 Sep 2022 Featuring over twenty artists, the special exhibition This Is Not America’s Flag spotlights the myriad ways artists explore the symbol of the flag of the United States of America, underscoring its vast, divergent, and complex meanings. Titled after Alfredo Jaar’s iconic 1987 work, A Logo for America, This Is Not... 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 -
Jeffrey Gibson in Land Back
Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, Centre culturel de Pointe-Claire 7 May - 26 Jun 2022 'As a cornerstone of this exhibition, Jeffrey Gibson presents his video I Was Here (2018), a return to the land as imagined as literal – a deep rootedness in the land and the nurturing earth.' Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples have protected biodiversity in the face of continued human population... Read more -
Jeffrey Gibson, The Body Electric
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 6 May - 11 Sep 2022 Jeffrey Gibson's new solo exhibition, The Body Electric, features a comprehensive survey of Gibson’s multi-decade practice highlighting his purposeful use of material, provocative language, and collaborative community-rooted performances. The Body Electric is on view May 6, 2022, through September 11, 2022. “The Body Electric, features a selection of paintings, sculptures,... 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 -
Deborah Kass, OY/YO at the Weitzman
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History 1 May 2022 - 1 May 2023 Beginning on Saturday, April 30th, Brooklyn-based artist Deborah Kass’ monumental “OY/YO” sculpture will open on the grounds of the Weitzman, at 5th and Market Streets on Independence Mall, for the next 12 months. The bright yellow aluminum statue is creative word play using just two letters, with several meanings. One... 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
