Featured Exhibitions

Devan Shimoyama

KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1 4 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition featuring a selection of works from Devan Shimoyama’s visually scintillating practice. Devan Shimoyama’s visually scintillating artworks stop people in their tracks. Clad in such finery as fur, feathers, glitter, rhinestones, and sequins, his paintings and sculptures emit a magical and joyous aura. Viewers easily... Read more

James Little, Wadsworth Jarrell, Mickalene Thomas:

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

Mickalene Thomas in 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

KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL 1 10 Apr - 1 Oct 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

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: The B-Sides: 1989-2022

KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 2 18 Nov 2023 - 1 Nov 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

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

Tomokazu Matsuyama Solo Exhibition: Fictional Landscape

Powerlong Museum in Shanghai 11 Nov 2023 - 18 Feb 2024 Tomokazu Matsuyama is pleased to announce his solo exhibition, 'MATSUYAMA Tomokazu: Fictional Landscape,' at the Shanghai Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, China, from November 11, 2023 - February 18, 2024. Curated by Fumio Nanjo, this solo exhibition will be Matsuyama’s second large-scale solo exhibition in mainland China, following his first in... 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 Landmark Solo Exhibition: 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: 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... 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... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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, Expo... 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... 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, T he 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,... 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... 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 brings... 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 the... 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,... 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

James Little: Homecoming

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN 17 Apr - 10 Jul 2022 Dixon Gallery and Gardens present sixteen gallery spaces with independent, Dixon-organized exhibitions, featuring the exhibition James Little: Homecoming . For more than four decades, James Litle has grappled with the history of abstract painting through his bold, geometric compositions. His canvases display controlled brushwork interest in the physical properties of... Read more

Arghavan Khosravi

Currier Museum of Art 14 Apr - 5 Sep 2022 Arghavan Khosravi creates surrealist paintings that explore themes of exile, freedom, and empowerment. The artist’s enigmatic compositions center women protagonists and allude to the restriction of human rights, particularly those of immigrants. Her work is both semiautobiographical and universal. At the Currier Museum of Art, Arghavan Khosravi showcases a range... Read more

Mickalene Thomas in Afro-Atlantic Histories

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 10 Apr - 17 Jul 2022 For centuries, artists have told and retold the complex histories of the African Diaspora. Explore this enduring legacy in the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories, which takes an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of Black and African people since the 17th century. More than 130 powerful works of... Read more

Devan Shimoyama: A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire

Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St Fl. 1 8 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL. 60607 Opening reception: Friday, April 8, from 5 - 9 PM Kavi Gupta proudly presents A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire , a solo exhibition of new works by acclaimed visual artist Devan Shimoyama. The exhibition follows Shimoyama’s debut European solo... Read more

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter: Stars Are Born In Darkness

Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St Fl. 2 8 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL. 60607 Opening reception: Friday, April 8, from 5 - 9 PM Kavi Gupta presents Stars Are Born In Darkness , a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based mixed media artist Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, inaugural Foreland Fellow, 2020 NXTHVN Fellow, Sustainable... Read more

AFRICOBRA: I Am Somebody

The Peninsula 7 Apr - 14 May 2022 EXPO CHICAGO , the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, returns to Navy Pier April 7 to 10, hosting leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. The Peninsula Chicago and Kavi Gutpa, in conjunction with EXPO Chicago, are proud... Read more

Family EXPO OVERRIDE

EXPO Chicago 7 - 17 Apr 2022 During EXPO Chicago, Family (1976), a painting by AFRICOBRA founder Gerald Williams, was featured on OVERRIDE, an ephemeral digital exhibition installed on the Chicago City Digital Network (CDN), a series of digital billboards strategically placed throughout the city of Chicago. Normally, each billboard constantly flips through a series of advertising... Read more

Firelei Báez in Shifting the Silence

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 7 Apr - 5 Sep 2022 Shifting the Silence features dynamic works by thirty-two women artists who use the radical language of abstraction to enhance our understanding of the world we inhabit. Named after artist Etel Adnan’s 2020 book about history and existence, Shifting the Silence embraces experimentation, impermanence, and subjectivity — bold yet poetic characteristics... Read more

Beverly Fishman: FEELS LIKE LOVE

Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd Fl. 1 6 Apr - 21 May 2022 Kavi Gupta proudly presents FEELS LIKE LOVE , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Beverly Fishman, acclaimed visual artist and Anonymous Was A Woman Award Winner, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and National Endowment for the Arts Grantee. A single heart punctuates the eight-foot-long multi-form that serves as... Read more

Arghavan Khosravi: The Witness

Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd Fl 2. 6 Apr - 21 May 2022 Kavi Gupta presents The Witness , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984, Shahr-e-kord, Iran), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grantee and Walter Feldman Fellow. Following recent exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China, and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, this exhibition continues Khosravi’s investigation of... Read more

Mickalene Thomas: Lux et Veritas

NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2 Apr - 23 Oct 2022 The exhibition Lux et Veritas explores a transformative period in contemporary art by focusing on a generation of artists of color who attended Yale School of Art for graduate studies between 2000 and 2010. The exhibition’s title alludes to Yale University’s motto, Lux et Veritas , which translates from Latin... Read more

James Little in the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1 Apr - 5 Sep 2022 Artist James Little, represented by Kavi Gupta in Chicago, standing with three of his Black paintings in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Read more

Devan Shimoyama: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art

Museum of the African Diaspora 31 Mar - 21 Aug 2022 Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art is a group exhibition bringing together an international group of artists who have disrupted or extended the traditional presentation of still lifes. The artists have appropriated the genre in order to create works within a framework of Black diasporic identities, histories, and collective experiences.... Read more

Devan Shimoyama and Alfred Conteh: Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition | On View at California African American Museum 27 Mar - 30 May 2022 Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. profiles revolutionary men—including Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kendrick Lamar—whose journeys have altered the history and culture of the country. Their achievements are woven within the legacy and traditions of the African American experience, becoming emblems of excellence in... Read more

Mickalene Thomas: Guarding the Art

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 26 Mar - 9 Jul 2022 Guarding the Art will feature works from the BMA’s collection, across eras, genres, cultures, and mediums, selected by guest curators from the BMA’s Security department. As guest curators, the officers will collaborate with leadership and staff across the museum to select and reinterpret works. In addition, the team is working... Read more

Firelei Báez, MCA Atrium Project

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 26 Mar 2022 - 9 Apr 2023 In the latest iteration of the MCA Chicago's Atrium Project , Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; lives and works in New York) fills the museum's two-story atrium with a large-scale reproduction of her painting Untitled (Drexciya) (2020). The work's title refers to the myth of... Read more

Kour Pour, New Homes, New Places

Gallery 1957, London, UK 24 Mar - 12 May 2022 Gallery 1957, London is proud to announce a solo exhibition of works by Kour Pour (b. 1987, UK), running from March 17 to April 21, 2022. The exhibition marks his first in the country of his birth. Based in Los Angeles, artist Kour Pour’s creative processes, source material, and painting... Read more

The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse

Crystal Bridges Museum | Bentonville, AR 12 Mar - 15 Jul 2022 The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse , organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, examines southern aesthetic and musical traditions of early twentieth-century Black culture, influences now common throughout the American South and contemporary American art and culture. In an immersive experience that engages... Read more

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art | Mary Sibande, Devan Shimoyama, Jeffrey Gibson, and Esmaa Mohamoud

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY 12 Mar - 14 Aug 2022 The first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art, Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices, several of whom will be exhibiting for the first time in the United States. By... Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: The Collection

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Permanent Installation 5 Mar 2022 - 5 Mar 2023 Permanent collections are complex, amazing, and very weighted. The ways they are formed, presented, and interpreted all speak of choices—choices made one hundred years ago and yesterday. These choices express who we are, and crucially, who we want to be. At the Art Gallery of Hamilton, we are proud of... Read more

Mickalene Thomas in Orlando, Based on a Novel by Virginia Woolf

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 26 Feb - 28 May 2022 The 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman in the age of Queen Elizabeth I who lives for centuries without ageing and has the mysterious ability to switch gender. In 1992, film-maker Sally Potter devised what has become a classic adaptation of the book with actress Tilda... Read more

Richard Hunt and Titus Kaphar: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus

The Cleveland Museum of Art 20 Feb - 26 Jun 2022 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus   puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and mid-career Black artists, as each explores the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history. The connections between the artworks and the themes in this exhibition... Read more

In These Truths

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York 19 Feb - 5 Jun 2022 In These Truths is an exhibition of works by Black cultural producers, co-curated by two of Buffalo’s most influential, charismatic, and insightful artists, Edreys Wajed and Aitina Fareed-Cooke, in collaboration with Curator of Public Art Aaron Ott. This invitational exhibition focuses on Black artists, emerging and established, who, through a... Read more

Tony Tasset in Manif d’art 10: Illusions are Real

Quebec City Biennial 19 Feb - 24 Apr 2022 Manif d’art presents the tenth edition of its flagship event, the Quebec City Biennial. The guest curator Steven Matijcio, Director at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston (Texas), will question the ties between art and it's mirages under the theme Illusions Are Real. For the occasion, Steven Matijcio willbring together... Read more

Michael Joo: Hawaii Triennial 2022

The Bishop Museum 18 Feb - 8 May 2022 Working at the interstices of art and science, Michael Joo’s studio practice creates space for an abstract analysis into ideas inspired by the metaphysical and thinking sciences. Born into a family of research scientists, Joo was immersed in academia from an early age and initially pursued a degree in science... Read more

Mary Sibande: A Red Flight of Fancy

SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 17 Feb - 21 May 2022 “History is a liar”: Mary Sibande’s Theatre of Red Sharlene Khan The colonized races, those slaves of modern times, are impatient. They know that this apparent folly alone can put them out of reach of colonial oppression. A new type of relations is established in the world. The under-developed peoples... Read more

Mary Sibande, The Red Ventriloquist

The macLYON 11 Feb - 10 Jul 2022 For her exhibition The Red Ventriloquist at macLYON, South African artist Mary Sibande has raised sculpture and installation to a level not seen before in her work. Over a number of years, Mary Sibande has been developing a deeply biographical and personalised combination of sculpture and installation, which has generated... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, The Best Part About Us

219 N Elizabeth St. Fl. 1 + 2 5 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Kavi Gupta presents The Best Part About Us,  a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by internationally acclaimed, Japanese-born, New York-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. The exhibition comes on the heels of the artist’s landmark solo exhibitions at two of China’s largest and most influential private museums, Long Museum Shanghai and... Read more

Young, Gifted and Black, Featuring Mickalene Thomas and Chiffon Thomas

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1 Feb - 27 May 2022 Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art showcases works, in a variety of mediums, by emerging artists of African descent, alongside works by established artists who have paved the way for the younger generation. Curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff, the exhibition is accompanied by... Read more

Mickalene Thomas in Positive Fragmentation

Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., VA 29 Jan - 29 May 2022 Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Positive Fragmentation includes more than 100 works by 21 contemporary artists who use fragmentation both stylistically and conceptually. Through their prints, they question the status quo and suggest new perspectives. For some, the result is enough: pulling apart... Read more

Inka Essenhigh in Disruption: Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 16 Jan - 21 Dec 2022 The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will present Disruption: Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection , starting Jan. 16, 2022, through 2022. The presentation, curated by Laura F. Almeida, Curatorial Fellow for Modern & Contemporary Art at the DAM, will feature about 50 artworks including paintings, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media... Read more

Beverly Fishman, Recovery

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI 15 Jan - 7 Aug 2022 An artist of unparalleled vision, Detroit-based artist Beverly Fishman was selected by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum to produce a major new work as part of the museum’s 10th anniversary celebrations in 2022. The two new murals that resulted from this commission are at the heart of the... Read more

A Room of Her Own, featuring Miya Ando

Sundaram Tagore Gallery 14 Jan - 2 Apr 2022 Sundaram Tagore is pleased to present an exhibition of work by eight pioneering women whose paintings, installations and photography reimagine spaces both real and symbolic. From an immersive large-scale light installation that transforms the surrounding environment to vibrant photographic imagery of staged narratives, this work challenges norms. Pakistani-American artist Anila... Read more

Manuel Mathieu in Body Language

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY 7 Jan - 18 Feb 2022 Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to announce Body Language , a group exhibition including six international artists whose work reflects on the human body. In their diverse practices, the artists included do not utilize the body for its physical form, but instead, as a conduit to explore both internal and... Read more

Devan Shimoyama in The Regional

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1 Jan - 20 Mar 2022 The Regional is the first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest and will feature new and recent work, including several site-responsive commissions, by approximately 25 artists working across painting, photography, installation, and performance. The artists come from a variety of backgrounds and are currently based... Read more

Su Su in There Is Always One Direction

De La Cruz Collection | Miami, FL 30 Nov 2021 - 1 Nov 2022 There Is Always One Direction brings together paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations from our private collection. The title of this year’s exhibition is taken from Gabriel Orozco’s sculpture Four Bicycles (There Is Always One Direction) , 1994, currently exhibited on the third floor. Our annual exhibitions represent the collection's history... Read more

Kennedy Yanko: 2021 Artist in Residence at the Rubell Museum

Rubell Museum, Miami, FL 29 Nov 2021 - 1 Oct 2022 Kennedy Yanko is a painter-sculptor and the Rubell Museum’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, Yanko scoured scrapyards in south Florida in search of readymade forms ripe for intervention. Her practice is often a mediation on material, which may be bent, poured, cut, welded or softened. Yanko creates thick velvety skins... Read more

Jessica Stockholder in The Art of Assemblage

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale 21 Nov 2021 - 13 Feb 2022 NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present The Art of Assemblage from November 21 through February 13, 2022. This exhibition features sculptures composed of found objects and that are distinguished by the unlikely combinations of repurposed materials that constitute their form. In the practice of assemblage, materials such as scrap... Read more

Devan Shimoyama in FUTURES at the Smithsonian Institution

Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, VA 20 Nov 2021 - 6 Jul 2022 For its 175th anniversary, the Smithsonian is looking forward. What do you think of when you think of the future? FUTURES is the first building-wide exploration of the future on the National Mall. Designed by the award-winning Rockwell Group, FUTURES spans 32,000 square feet inside the Arts + Industries Building.... Read more

SMoCA Collection \ Recent Acquisitions, featuring Miya Ando

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 30 Oct 2021 - 13 Feb 2022 On view is a selection of works acquired for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) collection in the past year. With a growing permanent collection of artworks – 1,917 in number by 1,400 artists – SMoCA has recently focused its collecting efforts on equity and diversity. SMoCA aims to... Read more

Beverly FIshman, The Promise of Happiness

Walter Storms Galerie | Munich, Germany 28 Oct - 23 Dec 2021 For the first time in Germany, Walter Storms Galerie is showing the powerful, visually electrifying works of American Beverly Fishman. With her highly polished 'pill reliefs', the renowned artist gives the pharmaceutical industry a completely new visual language in terms of content by creating seemingly abstract compositions in bright colours... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Specific Shapes [Extended]

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Oct 2021 - 19 Feb 2022 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Specific Shapes , a solo exhibition of new works by Jessica Stockholder, acclaimed visual artist, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Anonymous Was A Woman grantee, and recipient of the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The... Read more

Abstraction & Social Critique

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Floor 1, Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Oct 2021 - 1 Jan 2022 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Abstraction and Social Critique , an intergenerational group show of artists whose aesthetic positions declare the continued relevance and influence of abstraction. The artist James Little, whose masterful geometric paintings are included in the exhibition, offers this personal elucidation of why he chose to pursue abstraction... Read more

New Glass Now, Featuring Miya Ando

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, VA 22 Oct 2021 - 6 Mar 2022 New Glass Now documents the innovation and dexterity of artists, designers, and architects from around the world working in the challenging material of glass. This global survey is designed to highlight the breadth and depth of contemporary glass making. Its presentation at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery features objects, installations, videos, and... Read more

Mary Sibande, Blue Red Purple

The Frist Art Museum | Nashville, TN 8 Oct 2021 - 2 Jan 2022 n hyperrealistic sculptures and photographs, Johannesburg-based Mary Sibande deconstructs the roles of women in South Africa as both individuals and in terms of race, gender, and class inequity. Sibande’s central character, Sophie, has been cast from her own face and body. In early work, this avatar wears the blue and... Read more

Manuel Mathieu in Social Works II

Gagosian | London, UK 7 Oct - 18 Dec 2021 Gagosian is pleased to present Social Works II, the sequel to the American chapter that was on view at the gallery in New York . Curated by Antwaun Sargent, Social Works II foregrounds artists from the African diaspora and their insights into the relationship between space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic—and... Read more

Firelei Baéz in, Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion

Moore College of Art & Design | Philadelphia, PA 2 Oct - 4 Dec 2021 On view October 2 - December 4, visiting curator Kalia Brooks presents Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion in The Galleries at Moore. The exhibition features the work of three artists, Firelei Baéz, Saya Woolfalk and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, whose practices model new modes of recognizing bodies in motion as... Read more

In the Eye of the Storm, Featuring Manuel Mathieu

Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design, & Architecture | Hasselt, Belgium 26 Sep 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 In this exhibition, leading artists from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Barbados, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Martinique present films, photographs, paintings, sculptures, and installations. They address the impact of literal and figurative storms. Climate change is everywhere, yet it is largely invisible in our daily lives. It is as if we have been... Read more

Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Floor 2, Chicago, IL, 60607 25 Sep 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 Kavi Gupta presents Surface is Only a Material Vehicle for Spirit , a group exhibition spotlighting the work of eight dynamic voices within the field of contemporary abstraction, guest curated by artist Kennedy Yanko. Is there a metaphysical side to materiality? Sculptor Kennedy Yanko’s curatorial debut with Kavi Gupta explores... Read more

Manish Nai, Regenerative Visions

Nature Morte | New Delhi, India 19 Sep - 24 Oct 2021 Manish Nai’s artistic practice is dedicated to an engagement with materials of a diverse variety. Often using the most modest of means and the slightest of gestures, Nai questions the identities of found materials, such as newspapers, books, jute sacks, used clothing, and recycled metals, through the strategies of accumulation,... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama in The Pulse of Modernity

Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China 19 Sep 2021 - 18 May 2022 The Powerlong Museum is proud to present The Pulse of Modernity, a group exhibition featuring Tomokazu Matsuyama, George Condo, Antony Gormley, Vincent Manansala, Takashi Murakami, and more. On view from September 19, 2021 to May 18, 2022 Read more

Miya Ando, Mugetsu (Invisible Moon)

MAKI Gallery, Tokyo 15 Sep - 13 Oct 2021 In September of 2021, MAKI Gallery presented Mugetsu (Invisible Moon) , by New York-based artist Miya Ando’s second solo exhibition at Tennoz II, Tokyo. Almost one year prior, Ando held MAKI Gallery’s largest exhibition to date—spanning across both Tennoz I and II—which featured several bodies of work including paintings, sculptures,... Read more

Textures: The History And Art Of Black Hair, Featuring Mary Sibande

Kent State University Museum | Kent, Ohio 10 Sep 2021 - 22 Aug 2022 TEXTURES synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications... Read more

Devan Shimoyama & Mary Sibande in TEXTURES

The KSU Museum, Kent, Ohio 10 Sep 2021 - 14 Aug 2022 TEXTURES synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications... Read more

Clare Rojas, Wayfinder

San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA 3 Sep 2021 - 7 Mar 2022 Wayfinder: Clare Rojas is a public art project that encourages visitors to explore the heart of downtown San José. Commissioned by SJMA, 40 streetlight banners designed by Rojas in shades of pink, magenta, and lavender are installed along South Market and West San Carlos Streets. Each banner features a cascade... Read more

Manuel Mathieu and Firelei Báez in Fragments of Epic Memory

Art Gallery of Ontario | Ontario, CA 1 Sep 2021 - 21 Feb 2022 Fragments of Epic Memory will invite visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today. The first exhibition organized by the AGO’s new Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, it will blend historical and contemporary narratives,... Read more

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century

BAMPFA, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA 28 Aug 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” Taking Lippard’s statement... Read more

Jaime Muñoz, Evocations

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS. 20 Aug 2021 - 13 Mar 2022 See dozens of “new to view” works in three of our first floor exhibition galleries. Evocations addresses the museum's long commitment to diversity, with numerous major works by African-American, Latinx, Native American, LGBTQ, and women artists highlighted. The exhibit also emphasizes a great range of mediums and expressions. Originally slated... Read more

Miya Ando in In The Meanwhile... Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 15 Aug 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 During the Museum’s recent six-year renovation project with many of the galleries closed, the Contemporary collection continued to evolve. This exhibition celebrates some of the outstanding paintings and sculptures added to the collection during that time and builds on Part I (March 22 – December 6, 2020), which featured prints,... Read more

RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Featuring Manuel Mathieu and Firelei Báez

Esker Foundation | Inglewood, Calgary, AB, Canada 24 Jul - 27 Nov 2021 This group exhibition explores the multiple and complex meanings of the idea of the diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed in painting. “Diaspora issues and concepts are of particular importance to me as a person of colour, born in Canada with mixed Asian origins,” says curator and director... Read more

Mary Sibande in, neuf-3

Le 6b | Cameroon, France 17 Jul - 21 Sep 2021 35 works by 13 different artists offer an original journey through the public space transformed for the occasion into a creative space. Following an initial meeting in September 2019 with Le 6b-the artist residency in Saint-Denis that had invited him to discuss the potential of a drawing exhibition at their... Read more

Crystal Bridges at 10

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR 11 Jul - 27 Sep 2021 Crystal Bridges at 10 is an immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrating the museum’s collection and the local community one decade into the museum’s lifetime. Primarily drawing from the museum’s collection, the exhibition features 130+ artworks, presenting crowd favorites in new ways, showcasing works never before on view... Read more

Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams, Works on Paper

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. 10 Jul - 11 Sep 2021 Since their recent inclusion in such internationally acclaimed exhibitions as Soul of a Nation, AFRICOBRA 50 , and AFRICOBRA: Nation Time , an official collateral exhibition of the 2019 Venice Biennale, Jarrell and Williams are known mostly for their painterly works on canvas and panel. Featuring a broad selection of... Read more

Exposed 2021, Featuring Tony Tasset

The Current | Stowe, Vermont 10 Jul - 23 Oct 2021 The works on display in Exposed. 2021 will highlight artists who focus on current political and social constructs/issues/systems through the relationship of language, sculpture, and installation; language as culturally specific, ideological, controversial, challenging, identifying, uniting, and separating. The works question or identify the disparate ways of communication. Artists Daniel Bejar... Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: Double Dribble

The Bentway | Toronto, CA 7 Jul - 27 Sep 2021 On this impossible basketball court, how will you write your own rules for play? Through the illogical use of basketball motifs, Toronto artist Esmaa Mohamoud transforms The Bentway into a surreal basketball court. Double Dribble is comprised of basketball nets of varying diameters — from half the size, to 3X... Read more

Firelei Báez, ICA Watershed

Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina | East Boston, MA 3 Jul - 6 Sep 2021 In summer 2021, the ICA Watershed will feature a newly commissioned, monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Firelei Báez. In her largest sculptural installation to date, the artist reimagines the archeological ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace in Haiti as though they were revealed in East Boston after the sea receded from... Read more

Devan Shimoyama: Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art

480 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215. 25 Jun 2021 - 15 May 2022 Featuring work by some of the most exciting and thought-provoking artists practicing today, Present Generations comprises the first wave of promised gifts that will inaugurate the Columbus Museum of Art’s Scantland Collection. With vivid paintings as well as photographic and sculptural installations, the works by 27 artists in Present Generations... Read more

Devan Shimoyama, All the Rage

Kunstpalais | Erlangen, Germany 19 Jun - 14 Nov 2021 Luminous color, bright outlines, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers—and time and time again the artist himself, in mythological, fantastic, or historical roles: The material collages by the American painter Devan Shimoyama (1989 in Philadelphia, USA) are midsummer night’s dreams of alternative masculinity. In his works, Shimoyama dissects masculine stereotypes and reassembles... Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us, By Us)

Scotiabank Photography Festival 10 Jun 2021 - 1 Apr 2023 Focusing on the physical connection between Black male bodies by amplifying the symbol of the du-rag, Esmaa Mohamoud confronts the dynamics of gender and race. Both of the components of her two-part commissioned project—a massive photographic mural on Bay Street, unveiled in June 2021, and a bronze sculpture installed at... Read more

Mary Sibande, Unhand Me, Demon!

Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. Floor 1 22 May - 31 Jul 2021 Unhand Me, Demon! brings together for the first time in the United States 13 years of work by renowned South African artist Mary Sibande. Inaugurating Kavi Gupta’s new street-level space at 835 W. Washington Blvd. in Chicago, the exhibition examines a crucial question of our time: How do we shed negative energies and move forward when we find ourselves at a crossroads in life? Read more

The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond, VA 22 May - 6 Sep 2021 The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse , organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, investigates the aesthetic impulses of early 20th-century Black culture that have proved ubiquitous to the southern region of the United States. The exhibition chronicles the pervasive sonic and visual parallels... Read more

Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse In Chicago Art

Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis, IN 21 May - 5 Dec 2021 In the mid-1960s, a cadre of adventurous young artists began exhibiting at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. With myriad influences from Surrealism and non-Western art to comic books and popular culture, their audacious, highly idiosyncratic, and personal approach set them apart from contemporaries working on either the East... Read more

Firelei Báez, Artes Mundi 9

National Museum | Cardiff, Wales 19 May - 5 Sep 2021 Although the shortlist was first confirmed in September 2019—at a time when few could predict the global pandemic that the world was accelerating towards—it is no coincidence that the artists all examine, address and question some of the most significant issues we are currently facing. Presentations of new and recent... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Set Eyes On

Women in Abstraction, The Centre Pompidou | Paris, France 19 May - 23 Aug 2021 Read more

Now Is The Time: Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection

Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD 2 May - 18 Jul 2021 In 2018, the BMA deaccessioned seven artworks from its contemporary holdings to create an acquisition fund for purchases of works by artists underrepresented in its collection and within broader art historical narratives. Twenty-two of the 125 works acquired through the fund in the past three years are on view in... Read more

Manuel Mathieu, Negroland: A Landscape of Desires

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607 24 Apr - 3 Jul 2021 'There is no ground of alternatives but to recover the 'dangerous' chasm, the 'forbidden' ascent and seek a new dimension of feeling – a new oath of humanity.” – Wilson Harris “What can I specifically bring to the table, that no one else can, spiritually?” was Mathieu’s question after a... Read more

Glenn Kaino, In the Light of a Shadow

MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA 4 Apr - 4 Sep 2021 Glenn Kaino: In the Light of a Shadow is inspired by the connection between protests across the globe, specifically those in response to the tragic events known as “Bloody Sunday” from Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland. The exhibition spans the entirety of MASS MoCA’s signature football-field sized Building 5... Read more

Kour Pour, Familiar Spirits

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 60607 3 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Kavi Gupta proudly presents Kour Pour: Familiar Spirits . For this, his debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Pour created a new body of work conceived around the idea of family—not only that into which we are born but the families we construct as our personal histories unfold. Similar to... Read more

Jaime Muñoz, Shattered Glass, Curated by Melahn Frierson and AJ Girard

Jeffrey Deitch 20 Mar - 22 May 2021 March 20–May 22, 2021 925 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles Shattered Glass gathers a group of 40 international artists of color whose subjects don’t ask, but rather demand to take up space. Subjects whose gaze unflinchingly holds the viewer. Figures literally walk off the canvas, asking for more than a... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Accountable Nature

Long Museum | Chongquing, China 7 Mar - 23 May 2021 The Long Museum Chongqing is pleased to present Tomokazu Matsuyama: Accountable Nature from March 7 to May 23, 2021. The exhibition was first presented in Shanghai in November 2020, new works will be added to the Chongqing exhibition, further enriching the exhibition content. This is the first time that Long... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Cut a rug a round square

OGR Project | Torino, Italy 11 Feb - 8 May 2021 On Thursday, 11 February 2021, OGR Cult inaugurates Cut a rug a round square, an exhibition curated by American artist Jessica Stockholder and including works from two important philanthropic and international collections: the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection (Barcelona), one of the most prestigious banking foundation collections, and the one... Read more

Arghavan Khosravi, Kour Pour: A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 29 Jan - 2 May 2021 A collaboration between the Orlando Museum of Art and the American University in Cairo, A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean , presents artworks by 21 US-based artists of Arab and Iranian heritage. Curated by Dr. Shiva Balaghi, with support from Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, the exhibition will be on view in... Read more

Young-Il Ahn, Reflection

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 22 Jan - 20 Mar 2021 Opening in January of 2021, Kavi Gupta proudly presents an exhibition examining three key bodies of work from the pioneering Korean-American abstract painter Young-Il Ahn (1934–2020). The artist passed unexpectedly in the midst of planning this, his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Read more

Manish Nai, Form and Void

Richard Taittinger Gallery | New York, NY 16 Jan - 28 Feb 2021 In collaboration with Richard Taittinger Gallery, Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Form and Void, a solo exhibition of works by the acclaimed Mumbai artist Manish Nai. Featuring examples from several diverse facets of Nai’s transdisciplinary practice, this exhibition seeks to explore the formal and conceptual balance between absence and presence in Nai’s unique aesthetic position.
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Michael Joo, Sensory Meridian

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St., Second Floor, Chicago, IL 14 Jan - 10 Apr 2021 Kavi Gupta presents a multi-media exhibition of works by Michael Joo. Three new sculptures of disincarnate body parts, alchemized from scans of historical works in the Smithsonian Archives, explore issues of representation, transmission, and transformation. Read more

Origins of a Perennial Bouquet - Curated by Bose Krishnamachari

Benitha Perciyal | Manish Nai | Sudarshan Shetty | Sumedh Rajendran | Tanya Goel 17 Dec 2020 - 28 Feb 2021 Manish Nai received a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the L.S. Raheja School of Art in Mumbai. Using material that is both modest and quintessentially Indian, like jute and newspaper, Nai’s pieces are studies in tedious complexities that, once completed, are presented as a tightly organized unit. His studies... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Accountable Nature

Long Museum | Shanghai, China 11 Nov 2020 - 24 Jan 2021 The Long Museum West Bund is pleased to present Accountable Nature, Tomokazu Matsuyama's first solo exhibition in Shanghai, from November 12, 2020 to January 24, 2021. This exhibition will introduce Matsuyama's fundamental notions, which capture the status quo of present-day life and culture in an unembellished manner. The works in... Read more

Manuel Mathieu, World Discovered Under Other Skies

The Power Plant | Toronto, Ontario, Canada 26 Sep 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Manuel Mathieu’s first solo exhibition in Toronto features a collection of new and past works—including paintings, drawings, and ceramics—shedding light on Haiti’s relationship to the world. Read more

Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA. 25 Sep 2020 - 25 Dec 2021 Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is the first exhibition to feature together the work of Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking. Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other will feature over two dozen mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings,... Read more

Manuel Mathieu, Survivance

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Montreal, Quebec, Canada 17 Sep 2020 - 28 Mar 2021 The arresting paintings of Haitian-born Montreal-based artist Manuel Mathieu draw viewers into a world of contrasts, tensions and poetry. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is proud to host this engaged creator for his first solo exhibition in a North American museum. Read more

Louise Nevelson + James Little

Rosenbaum Contemporary | Boca Raton, FL 8 Sep - 30 Oct 2020 Louise Nevelson + James Little, an exhibition pairing Nevelson’s monochromatic black sculptures with Little’s new series of large-scale, black-toned paintings. While at first glance the pairing of Nevelson’s works with Little’s may seem to be driven solely by their use of black pigment, the two artists and their works actually... Read more

James Little: Beyond Geometry

The Art Students League, New York, NY 20 Jul - 1 Dec 2020 This brochure documents the exhibition “James Little: Beyond Geometry” which was to have been installed in March, 2020, but was delayed by the international health emergency. “Born in Memphis, Tennessee, James Little is a son of the working class — his father toiled in construction, his mother was a cook.... Read more

Miya Ando, Equanimity (Meditations)

Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 8 Jul - 12 Oct 2020 Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Miya Ando titled Equanimity (Meditations), on view from July 8 to October 12, 2020. The title of Miya Ando’s Equanimity (Meditations) exhibition evokes mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in difficult situations. For Ando, in... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, JR Shinjuku Station East Square

Permanent Installation Shinjuku Station | Tokyo, Japan 1 Jul 2020 - 1 Jul 2021 In July 2020 Tomokazu Matsuyama launched an ambitious public art project, Shinjuku East Square , at JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo - the world's busiest station that seves around 3.5 million passengers every day. Matsuyama's 26-foot tall sculpture ‘ Hanao-San ’ stands proudly in the center of the community art... Read more

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Museum of Fine Arts | Houston, TX 27 Jun - 30 Aug 2020 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power , featuring work by more than 60 Black artists that was created over two revolutionary decades in American history. The exhibition, organized by Tate Modern in London, was slated to open at... Read more

Sculpture Milwaukee 2020, Featuring Tony Tasset

Sculpture Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI 1 Jun 2020 - 1 Aug 2021 Over the past three decades, multi-media artist Tony Tasset has created several related major bodies of work. Early in his career he explored the post-modern impulse to make art about art—by making art about art. Tasset showed his love and passion for both the post-modern copies and the modern originals,... Read more

Roger Brown, HYPERFRAME

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 26 Mar - 27 Nov 2020 Kavi Gupta presents Roger Brown: Hyperframe, an exhibition bringing together an unprecedented selection of multi-frame paintings by one of America’s greatest Imagists. Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama,Wheels of Fortune

Meiji Jingu Forest Festival of Art | Shibuya City, Tokyo 20 Mar - 13 Dec 2020 “Tenkukaikatsu” (天空海闊) means “expanding into a clear, never-ending sky”. An outstanding feature of Meiji Shrine, one of the most important shrines and temples in Japan, is the 700,000 square meters of forest that encompass the inner and outer gardens. Nowadays, the Meiji Shrine forests are loved and enjoyed as a... Read more

Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL 29 Feb - 27 Sep 2020 Drawing from the city’s public and private art collections, Duro Olowu curates a show that reimagines relationships between artists and objects across time, media, and geography. Featured artists include Jeffrey Gibson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Gerald Williams. Read more

Tony Tasset, The Weight

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL 28 Feb - 1 Aug 2020 Kavi Gupta proudly presents The Weight, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by American artist Tony Tasset.
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Michi Meko, Black and Blur

Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA 23 Feb - 4 Dec 2020 The Clark Atlanta University Art Museum presents Black and Blur , a solo exhibtion of works by Atlanta-based artist Michi Meko featuring a large-scale installation and abstract paintings. The title is inspired by the work of Fred Moten. In Black and Blur : consent not to being a single being,... Read more

State of the Art 2020

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR 22 Feb - 27 Jul 2020 Crystal Bridges begins the new decade with the opening of the Momentary , a new space for contemporary visual and performing arts, and the debut of State of the Art 2020 at both locations with free admissions. Lauren Haynes, curator of visual arts at the Momentary and curator of contemporary... Read more

Counterpressures

Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh, PA 21 Feb 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 FORUM 83 The 83rd installment of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum series presents a thematic group exhibition that addresses the urgency of climate change. The title, taken from a quotation in Pittsburgh environmentalist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), identifies the show’s focus on the fraught relationship between humans and the... Read more

Tell Me Your Story

Kunsthal KAde | Amersfoort, Netherlands 8 Feb - 30 Aug 2020 Tell Me Your Story is an exhibition at the Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, organized as part of the museum's 2020 trilogy on the United States. It includes Kavi Gupta artists Devan Shimoyama, Gerald Williams, and Wadsworth Jarrell. Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: To the Hoop | Basketball and Contemporary Art

Weatherspoon Art Museum | UNC Greensboro, NC 31 Jan - 21 Nov 2020 From its storied invention in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith as a recreational activity for “incorrigible” youth, to its multibillion-dollar industry today, basketball has uniquely captured America’s imagination—and stolen North Carolina's heart. Embedded in its history are many of the topics fueling current social concerns and contemporary art. Divisions between... Read more

Manish Nai, Art Basel Miami Beach, Meridians

Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 4 - 8 Dec 2019 In the inaugural edition of the Art Basel Miami Beach Meridians sector, Kavi Gupta is honored to present a large-scale installation by Manish Nai of 100 Burma teak sticks wrapped in indigo-dyed jute cloth. Read more

Mickalene Thomas, Better Nights

The Bass Museum of Art | Miami Beach, FL 1 Dec 2019 - 16 Nov 2020 Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights is an installation that transforms the galleries into an immersive art experience and that presents programming arranged by the artist. The first chapter, Better Days, took place at the Galerie Volkhaus in Basel, Switzerland during Art Basel 2013. Read more

Marie Watt: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014. 22 Nov 2019 - 20 Feb 2020 Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The... Read more

Miya Ando, Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form

Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX 16 Nov 2019 - 29 Mar 2020 Asia Society Texas Center (ASTC) welcomes the multi-media artist Miya Ando for her ASTC debut in her installation exhibition Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form , a title which evokes Buddhism’s cherished text, the Heart Sutra . In addition to water and light, the exhibition makes use of wood and... Read more

To Reclaim

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 15 Nov 2019 - 22 Feb 2020 To Reclaim is an exhibition featuring six artists—Willie Cole, Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Kass, Mary Sibande, and Stan Squirewell—whose work “reclaims” in some form, be it reclamation of material, reclamation of symbol, reclamation of history, or reclamation of conceptual power. Read more

Theater Of Operations, The Gulf Wars 1991 – 2011

Moma PS1 | New York, NY 14 Nov 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 is a large-scale group exhibition that examines the legacies of these conflicts beginning with the Gulf War in 1991, featuring over 300 works by more than 80 artists based in Iraq and its diasporas, as well as those responding to the war from the West. Read more

Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

de Young Museum | San Francisco, CA 9 Nov 2019 - 15 Mar 2020 Kavi Gupta congratulates gallery artists Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Gerald Williams on their participation in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which opens at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, after traveling from the the Broad Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Tate Modern, and Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, AR. Read more

Glenn Kaino, With Arms Drawn: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith

San José Museum of Art | San José, CA 1 Nov 2019 - 5 Apr 2020 In 1968, at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, San José State University runner Tommie Smith raised a gloved fist during the medal ceremony to protest human rights abuses around the world, and to bring international attention to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. This act of protest, which still reverberates today, is explored in a series of collaborations between Smith and Los Angeles–based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino. The exhibition includes monumental sculpture, print-based projects, and memorabilia from Smith’s personal collection that reflect his time as an athlete and civil rights activist. Read more

Miya Ando in Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 12 Oct 2019 - 6 Jan 2020 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the debut of Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today on view October 12, 2019 to January 6, 2020. Crystals in Art features 75 objects, including artworks, artifacts, and 10 crystal specimens that explore how crystals have captured the human imagination across time, place,... Read more

Mary Sibande, I Came Apart At The Seams

Somerset House | London, England 3 Oct 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 This October, Somerset House and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair are proud to present Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams, a free exhibition of new and selected works from one of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists, Mary Sibande. Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Bowery Mural

76 E Houston St. | NYC 24 Sep - 24 Jan 2019 The launch of the Houston Bowery Wall program in New York City was a fruitful renaissance for one of the highest regarded mural walls in the United States. Keith Haring made the wall famous by painting an original mural as a gift to the community in the late 1970s. With... Read more

Kennedy Yanko, HANNAH

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL 20 Sep - 21 Dec 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present HANNAH, a solo exhibition of new work by Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, USA). Read more

Arghavan Khosravi: Beyond The Canvas

Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI 19 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 The Jamestown Arts Center presents Beyond The Canvas , a group exhibition featuring works by David Barnes, Thomas Crouch, Bob Dilworth, Arghavan Khosravi , Luke Randall, Hannah Stahl, Yann Weiner, & Coral Woodbury. Beyond The Canvas centers on painters that are pushing the boundaries of painting either in genre, subject... Read more

James Little, The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection

St. Louis Museum | St. Louis, MO 17 Sep 2019 - 11 Oct 2020 The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection presents paintings, drawings, and prints by five generations of black artists who have revolutionized abstract art since the 1940s. The exhibition includes Norman Lewis’s gestural drawings, Sam Gilliam’s radically shaped paintings, James Little’s experiments with color, and Chakaia Booker’s explorations in... Read more

Manish Nai, A History Of Gestures

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL 14 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Manish Nai’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, A History of Gestures. Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat

Museum London, Ontario, Canada 14 Sep 2019 - 30 Apr 2023 To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat is a celebration of diversity and an urgent call to action around issues of racial marginalization. Taking inspiration from the African American writer Ralph Ellison, artist Esmaa Mohamoud explores the ways in which Black bodies at once appear―and yet are rendered metaphorically... Read more

Fragile Figures: Beings and Time

21C Museum Hotels 1 Sep 2019 - 30 Jun 2022 The slow-moving figures in Bill Viola’s Surrender express the visual signs of grief: their faces contort in grimaces of pain and sorrow, breaking into tears before gradually lowering their faces to the waterline at waist level. As small waves ripple out on the surface of the water, the reflections of... Read more

Miya Ando in Energy: The Power of Art

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 20 Jul 2019 - 3 Nov 2020 In a ground-breaking effort for a fine arts museum, top-tier science and major art by Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Julie Mehretu, Miya Ando, Frank Stella, Joseph Cornell and Man Ray will be fused in one dynamic and interactive exhibition. Working with the Brookhaven National Laboratory and... Read more

The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art

Pérez Art Museum | Miami, FL 18 Jul 2019 - 7 Jun 2020 The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?” With a series of newly commissioned works, The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the... Read more

Wadsworth Jarrell, Come Saturday Punch

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 Jul - 3 Aug 2019 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Come Saturday Punch, a career survey of the art of Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929, USA). Read more

Firelei Báez, Immersion into Compounded Time

Mennello Museum of Art | Orlando, FL 2 Jul - 1 Sep 2019 The Mennello Museum of American Art is pleased to present IMMERSION INTO COMPOUNDED TIME AND THE PAINTINGS OF FIRELEI BÁEZ . The exhibition will be on view at the Mennello Museum from June 7 through September 1, 2019, with an Opening Reception on June 7. This exhibition will explore Firelei... Read more

Arghavan Khosravi: Silent Narrative

Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchian, China 2 Jun - 8 Aug 2019 Based on the art and history of the Ancient silk road, in juxtaposition with artifacts/historical documentaries and contemporary art works, ‘silent narrative’ constructs a historical space within time, culture, and geographic limits. The exhibition contains three main themes: East Asia (focus on China), Mid-Asia (Byzantine Empire, Mesopotamia regions and Persian... Read more

Inka Essenhigh, Uchronia

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 1 Jun - 24 Aug 2019 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Uchronia, a solo exhibition of new works by Inka Essenhigh that envisage a hypothetical, idyllic future for the inhabitants of Earth. Read more

AFRICOBRA NATION TIME

Venice Biennale 2019 | La Biennale di Venezia 2019 in Venice, Italy. 11 May - 24 Nov 2019 Kavi Gupta is honored to sponsor AFRICOBRA: Nation Time as an official Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia 2019 (May 11th – November 24th 2019), in Venice, Italy. Read more

Miya Ando in Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space

Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 5 May - 2 Sep 2019 Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space transforms Socrates Sculpture Park into a gateway to the universe, presenting artworks that consider space, time, and matter in relationship to celestial entities and earth-bound processes. In the open-air environment of the Long Island City waterfront park, the exhibition uses scale to put the... Read more

Devan Shimoyama, The Barbershop Project: Mighty Mighty

THEARC | Washington, DC 4 May - 24 Aug 2019 In celebration of CulturalDC’s 20th Anniversary Season, Devan Shimoyama’s Mighty Mighty forms the centerpiece of The Barbershop Project, “a multidisciplinary arts activation inspired by the performance of styling, art of hair and shop culture. Read more

Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes

Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY 2 May - 15 Sep 2019 Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes brings together, for the first time, a vast grouping of the artist’s “Virtual Still Life” paintings (1995–97) made near the end of his career. Read more

Firelei Báez, On the High Line En Plein Air

The High Line | NYC 1 May 2019 - 1 May 2020 En Plein Air , inspired by the unique site of the High Line, examines and expands the tradition of outdoor painting. The title refers to the mid-19th century practice of en plein air painting (French for “in the open air”). When pre-mixed paints became readily available in tubes, and thus... Read more

FIXED CONTAINED, Curated by Tomokazu Matsuyama

Kotaru Nukaga | Tokyo, Japan 20 Apr - 29 Jun 2019 KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to present FIXED CONTAINED, a group exhibition of seven international contemporary artists: Brian Alfred, Firelei Báez, Inka Essenhigh, Nir Hod, Tony Matelli, Tomokazu Matsuyama, and Carlos Rolón. This exhibition is guest curated by Matsuyama, and will be on view from April 20, 2019 through June 29,... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Stuff Matters

Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands 19 Apr - 1 Sep 2019 This summer, Centraal Museum presents Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters. Jessica Stockholder (USA, 1959) came to fame in the early 1990s with colourful and picturesque as well as monumental installations. In her work, Stockholder combines all sorts of everyday items – ranging from umbrellas and cushions to furniture and lamps – to form an overwhelming composition. Through her playful manipulation of form and colour, she is able to transform the entire room. Read more

Idea Sale

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Idea Sale, a group exhibition of original works by Glenn Kaino, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Manish Nai, Scott Reeder, Tony Tasset, José Lerma, Jessica Stockholder, and Angel Otero. Read more

Beverly FIshman, Future Perfect

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 Apr - 22 Jun 2019 For her second solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Beverly Fishman invites viewers to survey the present cultural moment through the lens of three iconic bodies of work: a series of cast resin pharmaceutical pill forms Fishman originated in the late 1990s; a series of phosphorescent pill forms connecting pharmaceutical industry... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Save on Select Landscape & Outdoor Lighting: Song to Mind Uncouples

The Contemporary Austin Laguna Gloria | Austin, TX 1 Apr 2019 - 1 Apr 2020 With the eye of a painter, Chicago-based artist Jessica Stockholder is attentive to how color, form, and abstraction embedded in everyday objects are affective and meaningful. Prefabricated street lamps, grating, and bollards work together to create geometric form, both using volume and as a two-dimensional image. The lines between colors and the edges between materials function as drawing, shaping continuity between parts that includes negative space—such as the triangular volume of air held between the flat orange triangle on the platform and the green arms of the lamp heads above. The top of one lamp morphs into a lump of resin, divided in two by color; the line between the two colors suggests that the orange half of the shape is pushed up against a large green triangle and left dangling in the vast uncharted space outside of the sculpture. As a viewing platform, the work draws the surrounding landscape into its vortex.

“Song to mind uncouples” is a line from a poem by bpNichol (1944–1988). Read more

Devan Shimoyama, We Named Her Gladys

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Mar - 18 May 2019 Kavi Gupta presents We Named Her Gladys a solo exhibition of new work by Devan Shimoyama. We Named Her Gladys is a bold new body of painting and sculpture inspired by his evolving connections to identity, ancestry, community, and the definition of home.





















Devan Shimoyama, We Named Her Gladys
03.23.2019 — 05.18.2019

Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition of new work by Devan Shimoyama, whose recent debut museum exhibition, Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, was acclaimed by The New York Times, GQ, Hyperallergic, and many other critical voices. For his inaugural solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Shimoyama presents a bold new body of painting and sculpture inspired by his evolving connections to identity, ancestry, community, and the definition of home.

Shimoyama recently became a first time homeowner, purchasing a 1926 Craftsman home in the borough of Brentwood on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Says Shimoyama, “The house is made of a classic, golden yellow brick that was developed in Pittsburgh. It’s a very Pittsburgh house.” Since moving in, tiny moments of discovery both inside and outside of the house have pulled Shimoyama backwards in time, moving him to grapple with the mythos of ownership, the discovery of secrets, and the ways history intertwines and negotiates with the present. Says Shimoyama, “This body of work has grown out of me thinking about how significant and important it is to own where you live; to maintain and tend to it. Many young people, especially young people of color, shy away from home ownership. This is negative in a lot of ways.” Read more

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

The Broad | Los Angeles, CA 23 Mar - 1 Sep 2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists made over two decades, beginning in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement. Soul of a Nation explores how social justice movements, as well as... Read more

HOW CHICAGO! IMAGISTS 1960S & 70s

Goldsmiths CCA | St James’ New Cross London 15 Mar - 26 May 2019 Artists: Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Jim Falconer, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida. Read more

New York–Centric Curated by James Little

Gallery of the American Fine Arts Society | Student Arts League, NYC 5 Mar - 5 May 2019 I organized this exhibition with the following requirements in mind: the work should be abstract, produced in or around New York during the latter half of the 20th or beginning of the 21st century, and it must be painting. My decision was to bring together exemplary work and ideas that... Read more

Project: Michael Joo

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Project: Michael Joo. Read more

Smart To The Core: Embodying The Self

Smart Museum of Art 29 Jan - 19 May 2019 This exhibition brings together modern and contemporary artists who explore the visual construction of selfhood across a range of gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, and intersectional identities. Read more

Firelei Báez, New Work

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art | Rotterdam, Netherlands 27 Jan - 12 May 2019 In this exhibition, a new body of work is presented featuring three paintings and a immersive installation manifest from the artist’s research on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and its enduring significance. Read more

Alchemy: Explorations in Indigo

Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum Lalbaug | Gujarat, India 27 Jan - 1 Aug 2019 India is world famous for its fine textiles, as well as for the sourcing and production of indigo , a natural dye that produces a brilliant range of blue hues. Indigo has been used in the past to color everything from blue jeans to the first American flags. Recently the... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Thousand Regards/Shape of Color

Metro construction sound wall | Beverly Hills, CA 12 Jan 2019 - 12 Jan 2020 With the Metro’s Purple Line Extension construction underway for two new stations in Beverly Hills, a temporary sound wall has been put in place on North Cañon Drive at Wilshire Boulevard where the Wilshire/Rodeo Station will become a reality in 2025. The City of Beverly Hills selected artist, Tomokazu Matsuyama,... Read more

Manish Nai, Paper City and Ghost Modernity

Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke | Mumbai, India 5 Dec 2018 - 7 Mar 2019 Rooted in the treatment of materials that come from my immediate surrounding and environment. I began to work with jute clothe material and have continued to explore the material ever since. Experimental by nature the material I used in very familiar rooted in the soil of the land. It is... Read more

Michi Meko, It Doesn't Prepare You for Arrival

Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 It Doesn’t Prepare You for Arrival is an exhibition that seeks silence and the comfort of solitude. The wilderness can provide this solitude. However, there are countless reasons black people have felt unwelcomed in natural spaces. For some African Americans, spending time in rural spaces and areas that preserve the... Read more

AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami | Miami, FL 27 Nov 2018 - 24 Mar 2019 MOCA presents a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the founding of AFRICOBRA – the Black artist collective that helped define the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the collective, which came out of Chicago.
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Miya Ando in in their element

Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC 15 Nov 2018 - 10 Feb 2019 Humans have used symbols of earth, fire, water, and air for millennia, using them as metaphors to communicate universal ideals and truths about the world in which we live. This exhibition dives into a variety of contemporary practices that continue to express our awe, reverence, and dependence on two of... Read more

Roger Brown, La Conchita

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 Nov 2018 - 12 Feb 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Roger Brown: La Conchita. Opening November, 10 at the Kavi Gupta Elizabeth St. location, the exhibition will feature the contents of Roger Brown’s southern California home. Brown, seeking a new place to work in a warmer climate, built his Temple of Painting at La Conchita, California, commissioning Stanley Tigerman to design the new home. Read more

Alfred Conteh, The Sweet Spot

Clark University Art Museum | Atlanta, GA 28 Oct 2018 - 17 Jan 2019 The Sweet Spot exhibition and catalog contributes to a growing interest in examining the significance of the South in relation to the production of African American art and critical intellectual thought. The catalog chronicles the two-part exhibition, inspired by Conteh’s painting The Sweet Spot. The exhibitions pulls from Conteh’s Two... Read more

Devan Shimoyama, Cry Baby

Warhol Museum | Pittsburgh, PA 13 Oct - 13 Mar 2018 Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography, and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time. His work... Read more

AFRICOBRA 50

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 29 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present AFRICOBRA 50, a landmark exhibition of original works by the five founding members of AFRICOBRA—Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Jeff Donaldson, and Barbara Jones-Hogu—as well as a select group of peers who influenced or were influenced by AFRICOBRA, including Basil Kincaid, Carolyn Lawrence, Bernard Williams, Sherman Beck, Shahar Caren Weaver, Robert Paige, and James Phillips. Read more

Glenn Kaino, With Arms Drawn: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith

High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA 29 Sep 2018 - 13 Feb 2019 A half century before NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee, gold medal sprinter Tommie Smith raised a fist at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico to protest abuse of human rights around the world and in response to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. His historic gesture, and its reverberations over the past 50 years, are explored in this important exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art. Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Relational Aesthetics

The Contemporary Austin | Austin, TX 15 Sep 2018 - 3 Mar 2019 This exhibition of the work of Chicago-based artist Jessica Stockholder (American-Canadian, born 1959 in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia) will span both of The Contemporary Austin’s venues. At the entryway to Laguna Gloria, Stockholder has created a new outdoor sculpture commission, Save on select landscape & outdoor lighting: Song to mind uncouples, 2018, which will be on view in late 2018.

Bringing painting into three-dimensional space, Stockholder uses everyday objects as building materials, celebrating the potential for color, form, and abstraction to generate meaning in tandem with the environment and surrounding architecture. The artist’s first solo presentation in Texas in over a decade, Relational Aesthetics includes a new, painted architectural installation—which she refers to as a “situation”—that doubles as a viewing platform and pedestal. A selection of new and recent sculptures are also on view, some of which incorporate found electronic elements. Also included are other works Stockholder calls “assists”—sculptures that require support in order to stand upright. Read more

Firelei Báez, How to Slip Out of Your Body Quietly

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 15 Sep - 14 Nov 2018 Kavi Gupta Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of new work by Dominican-American artist Firelei Báez, whose monumental installation at the recent 10th Berlin Biennale and concurrent solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem continue to receive international acclaim. Read more

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Brooklyn Museum | NY 14 Sep 2018 - 3 Feb 2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance. Read more

The Time Is NOW! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980

Smart Museum of Art | Chicago, IL 13 Sep - 30 Dec 2018 The Time Is Now! examines this watershed cultural moment—brimming with change and conflict—and the figures who defined it. Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud, The Draft

The gallery at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities | Ann Arbor, MI 13 Sep - 11 Oct 2018 African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate... Read more

Roger Brown, 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980

Tang Art Museum | Saratoga Springs, NY 8 Sep 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980 explores the sculptural work and dimensional paintings of a group of Chicago artists collectively known as the Chicago Imagists. Read more

Between the Lines

Bunker Projects | ​Pittsburgh, PA 1 Sep - 11 Jan 2018 Between the Lines is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Su Su curated by Bunker Projects Director, Jessie Rommelt. Su Su’s paintings are a stunning mix of 21st century imagery, re-woven into rich, non-linear narrative devices. Her works bring us into a world that is notably enticing, disjointed and... Read more

Manish Nai in Trees of Life, Knowledge in Material

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore 21 Jul - 30 Sep 2018 NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is embarking on an inquiry into natural materials, exploring the knowledge they embody as biological forms as well as within social, geopolitical, and historical contexts. Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material is part of the Centre’s long-term research cluster Climates.Habitats.Environments. This exhibition focuses... Read more

Miya Ando in True Colors

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 21 Jul - 4 Nov 2018 Potent even to the point of being considered dangerous, color is the most exciting element of art, the strongest tool in the toolbox. Because it is also a largely uncontrollable force, it remains the most vital source of new art. “Color, above all, is a means of liberation,” Matisse declared.... Read more

Manish Nai, Capturing Time

The Noordbrabants Museum | Netherlands 18 Jul - 4 Nov 2018 The monographic exhibition Manish Nai: Capturing Time will open on July 28th at The Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. It will be the Indian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the country, and will feature 12 of his recent large-scale works. Read more

Young-Il Ahn, Young-Il Ahn

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 14 Jul - 25 Aug 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present a monographic exhibition of paintings by Young-Il Ahn. Born in Gaeseong, Korea, in 1934, Ahn is renowned for his intricate, large-scale paintings, which explore his relationship with beauty, nature and music. His work is frequently associated with Dansaekhwa, an aesthetic position specific to Korea, which expresses natural processes through a mostly monochromatic palette
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FRONT International

Cleveland Triennial, Cleveland Art Museum | Cleveland, OH 14 Jun - 30 Sep 2018 Congratulations to artists Beverly Fishman, Jessica Stockholder and Tony Tasset for their participation in the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Both Fishman and Stockholder are two of the twenty-one artists who will be exhibiting in The Great Lakes Research , one of the many events that comprise the... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Art Basel Parcours

Telling Stories for the Future | Art Basel 2018 11 - 17 Jun 2018 Jessica Stockholder, Art Basel Parcours Read more

Mary Sibande, A Crescendo of Ecstasy

The Mixed Reality Workshop | Johannesburg, South Africa 9 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 A Crescendo of Ecstasy , presented by TMRW in collaboration with Eden Labs, combines familiar sculptural forms with a Virtual Reality component that brings the work dramatically to life. Based on Mary Sibande’s use of alter-ego figures made in her own likeness, the piece creates an immersive environment for the... Read more

Firelei Báez, Berlin Biennale

Akademie der Künste | Berlin, Germany 6 Jun - 9 Sep 2018 Kavi Gupta congratulates Firelei Báez on her participation in the 10th Berlin Biennale. Read more

Jaime Muñoz, 4 Threads

Riverside Art Museum 3 Jun - 4 Nov 2018 If you don’t know their names, you should. These highly talented and acclaimed artists uniquely illustrate the contemporary Chicano experience. Mesoamerican imagery is prominent in the richly layered paintings by Jaime Muñoz and fused with the Cholo styles of the ’70s and ’80s in Jamie Chavez‘s fantastical work. From Jaime... Read more

Clare Rojas, Egret

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 May - 7 Jul 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Egret, an exhibition of new work by Clare Rojas at the gallery’s Elizabeth Street location. For Rojas (b. 1976, USA), storytelling manifests in many different ways: sometimes visually, as a painting, drawing, or sculpture; or other times musically, as a song. Read more

Firelei Báez, To See Beyond

Contemporary Art Center | Cincinnati, OH 18 May - 19 Aug 2018 "There's a fluidity of color, of race, in the Caribbean … In America, you're black.” Caribbean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Firelei Báez navigates a broad spectrum of color, race and identity in her first Ohio exhibition. Read more

Tony Tasset, For Your Infotainment: Hudson and Feature Inc.

Frieze New York 2018 Curated by Matthew Higgins | NYC 2 - 6 May 2018 This unique presentation is part of the first ever themed section at Frieze New York. Curated by Matthew Higgs (White Columns, New York), For Your Infotainment: Hudson and Feature Inc. celebrates the career of the acclaimed curator, dancer, and performance artist Hudson Read more

Firelei Báez, Joy Out Of Fire

The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with the Schomburg 1 May - 24 Nov 2018 Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose legacies are preserved and maintained by the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reimagining them in... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Same Same, Different

Lumine Zero | Tokyo, Japan 29 Apr - 6 May 2018 Brooklyn-based Tomokazu Matsuyama’s art reflects his bicultural experiences in Japan and America. The work on show here captures “the shared aesthetics of both extremes,” reflecting the masterful use of two-dimensional design in Nihonga painting as well as the dynamism of American Abstract Expressionism. His work goes beyond cultural stereotypes to... Read more

Miya Ando: Clouds

Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY 25 Apr - 19 Aug 2018 The Noguchi Museum presents Miya Ando: Clouds , an installation of two site-specific sculptures in the Museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery. The works, suspended plate-glass sculptures internally etched with images of clouds, share Isamu Noguchi’s interest in sculpting ephemeral materials, and in using them to shape space. Raised in a Buddhist temple... Read more

Alfred Conteh: Visions of a Cultural Commentator

Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 14 Apr - 17 Jun 2018 Alfred Conteh: Visions of a Cultural Commentator is a retrospective exhibition of the Atlanta artist’s body of work, which encompasses realistic portraiture and symbolic abstraction. This exhibition explores the evolving methods and themes throughout Conteh’s career, but also aims to expand understanding of the dynamic and complicated Black American experience.... Read more

Miya Ando, Kumo (Cloud Field)

Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington D.C. 3 Apr - 27 May 2018 Miya Ando's artwork ranges from monochrome to subtle color palates, offering a glimpse of the immense calming energy of the infinite. Ando creates an immersive work that engages the viewers, bringing nature to mind, reminding the viewers of their own connection to, and place within, nature and nature's cycles. Her works... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Nike Commission

NIKE | Japan HQ 1 Apr 2018 - 1 Sep 2021 Read more

Manuel Mathieu, Nobody is Watching

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Mar - 2 Jun 2018 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Nobody is Watching, the first American solo exhibition of the work of Manuel Mathieu. Read more

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300—Now)

The Met Breuer | New York City, New York 21 Mar - 22 Jul 2018 From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, artists working in the Western classical tradition favored idealized statuary. Typically, marble sculptures of the flawless human form were set high on pedestals and made otherworldly by their lack of color. By contrast, within the same period we also encounter highly realistic sculptures... Read more

Inka Essenhigh, A Fine Line

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art | Virginia Beach, VA 17 Mar - 19 Aug 2018 Inka Essenhigh creates beautiful paintings through a studio practice that emphasizes experimentation and exploration. Since Essenhigh’s emergence into the art world during the late 1990’s, she has consistently questioned and redefined her relationship with her media. Read more

From Vietnam to Berlin

Asia Culture Center | Gwangju, Korea 9 Mar - 8 Jul 2018 Through 170 artworks, this exhibition focuses on a period of political instability dating from the intensification of the US military presence in Vietnam in 1955 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Organized by the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, the exhibition From Vietnam to Berlin, presents over... Read more

Beverly Fishman, Chemical Sublime

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 Feb - 21 Apr 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present CHEMICAL SUBLIME, a solo exhibition of original work by Beverly Fishman. Combining the handmade with the industrial, Fishman employs a variety of techniques to explore technological, scientific, and biological systems of perception and representation, instigating constructive conversations about the ways people see their bodies and minds, and construct their identities. Read more

Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Suspiro

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 Feb - 17 Mar 2018 Kavi Gupta presents the first major solo exhibition of paintings by Venezuela-born, Chicago-based artist Jeffly Gabriela Molina. Read more

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR 3 Feb - 23 Apr 2018 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to an important period in American history and art. Featuring the work of 60 artists and including vibrant paintings, powerful sculptures, street photography, murals, and more, this landmark... Read more

Alfred Conteh in Portraits of Who We Are

The David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD 1 Feb - 18 May 2018 The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland is proud to announce its spring exhibition, Portraits of Who We Are . The exhibition focuses on self-portraits by African American artists and also... Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art

Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada 27 Jan - 22 Apr 2018 What is the Black Canadian presence and history in our country? Explore these ideas, and the issues of belonging, in the ROM original exhibition, Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art , presented by TD Bank Group, through the contemporary works of nine Canadian artists. Challenge yourself to think... Read more

IN THIS HOUSE

Elmhurst Art Museum | Elmhurst, IL 20 Jan - 18 Mar 2018 This exhibition features work of five artists—Paula Crown, Michelle Grabner, Brad Killam, Tony Tasset, and James Welling—that unburden familiar objects from their function. Material, pattern, shape, and color of the domestic items are celebrated and displayed minimally throughout the volume of the McCormick House living space. From 1952 to 1991,... Read more

Manish Nai, Asymmetrical Objects

Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai 19 Jan - 28 Mar 2018 Participating artists: Atul Bhalla, Jitish Kallat, Manish Nai, Mithu Sen, Prajakta Potnis, Ranbir Kaleka, Reena Kallat, Rohini Devasher, Sahej Rahal and Shilpa Gupta. In January 2018, the Museum will complete 10 years since it opened to the public in 2008 after a major restoration that took 5 years. In March... Read more

Alfred Conteh in PERSPECTIVES

Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, GA 14 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 Works by five of Georgia’s most vibrant and contemporary artists are proudly exhibited at the both the Steffen Thomas Museum of Art and the Morgan County African American Museum – Lynn Marshall Linnemeier, Kevin Cole, Kevin Sipp, Shanequa Gay and Alfred Conteh. Each artist’s work offers a unique perspective, from... Read more

Pardon My Language, Curated by Tomokazu Matsuyama

Zidoun-Bossuyt | Luxembourg, Germany 9 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Pardon my Language’ is an exploration of how Globalization has changed our perception of cultural identity and how ‘identity’ is shifting and changing in the 20th/21st Century. The exhibition, curated by Tomokazu Matsuyama, aims to examine the blurred social and cultural boundaries which make our time and place unique. A... Read more

Manish Nai

The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace | Jaipur, India 11 Dec 2017 - 1 Apr 2018 India’s first contemporary sculpture park opened to the public yesterday, December 10, in Jaipur, Rajasthan, where 55 sculptures by 24 artists have been installed inside an 18th-century fort high up in the hills surrounding the city. Read more

Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell

Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland, OH 19 Nov 2017 - 25 Feb 2018 Inspired by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s recent acquisition of Wadsworth Jarrell’s Heritage (1973), a painting of great significance, the exhibition Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell examines the work and enduring legacy of multidisciplinary artists Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell. Featuring 15 works from the mid-1960s to the present, the exhibition... Read more

Kour Pour in Decoration never dies, anyway

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 18 Nov 2017 - 25 Feb 2018 Decoration has always existed together in hand with mankind. Beginning with rituals mourning the deceased and tattoos associated with sorcery, although on occasion rendered a mere formality, it is that which has continued to persist while repeatedly undergoing changes and harboring new meanings in correspondence to the times. Decoration could... Read more

Glenn Kaino, A Shout Within a Storm

Contemporary Art Center | Cincinnati, OH 17 Nov 2017 - 22 Apr 2018 Kavi Gupta is happy to announce Glenn Kaino’s solo exhibition, Glenn Kaino: A Shout Within a Storm Curated by Steven Matijcio, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH. Read more

Young Il-Ahn, When Sky Meets Water

Long Beach Museum of Art | Long Beach, CA 10 Nov 2017 - 28 Jan 2018 This exhibition is the second show of Young-Il Ahn's work at the Long Beach Museum of Art. It honors the celebrated South Korean artist with a major thirty-five-year retrospective, presenting a selection of abstract paintings from 1983 to the present. Ahn, who lives and works in Los Angeles, has focused... Read more

Roger Brown Estate, Famous Artists From Chicago 1965-1975

Fondazione Prada | Milan, Italy 27 Oct 2017 - 15 Jan 2018 Fondazione Prada will present at its Milan venue a research and information program on the Chicago art scene developed in the aftermath of World War II. Read more

Angel Otero, Elegies

Bronx Museum of Art | Bronx, NYC 25 Oct 2017 - 19 Apr 2018 Since early on in his career Angel Otero has aligned his practice to the oldest and most revered painting tradition, which he endeavors to constantly reinvent it. Thus, Otero not only retains a commitment to making paintings and sculptures, but at key points in his career he has underscored that dedication with a personal mission to revisit key examples of the art of the past. Using a disciplined, thoroughgoing, empirical studio process, Otero has established a compositional method that brings together and pulls apart disparate artistic influences to develop his own unique visual language.

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Mary Sibande, In the Midst of Chaos there is Opportunity

Zeitz MOCCA | Cape Town, South Africa 22 Sep 2017 - 1 Sep 2018 South Africa artist, Mary Sibande introduced Sophie, the life-sized avatar you see atop the horse in 2009. This figure is moulded in the artist’s own image. Adorned in elaborate Victorian dress, Sibande makes reference to the uniform typically worn by domestic workers in South Africa and draws on her mother... Read more

Glenn Kaino, Sign

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 15 Sep - 2 Dec 2017 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Sign, a solo exhibition of original work by Glenn Kaino. Read more

Miya Ando in Atmosphere in Japanese Painting

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 15 Sep 2017 - 4 Feb 2018 In the Japanese language, there are about 50 words for rain, but also an equivalent surfeit of terms for snow, mist, and fog. In winter, Japan’s weather is dominated by a cold air mass from Siberia, which transfers moisture from the ocean, bringing heavy snow to the Japan Alps and... Read more

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

ICA | Philadelphia, PA 14 Sep - 19 Mar 2017 The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now links the vibrant legacy of the 1960s African American avant-garde to current art and culture. It is occasioned in part by the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a still-flourishing... Read more

Manish Nai, IN/SITU

Expo Chicago 13 - 17 Sep 2017 Kavi Gupta is happy to announce Manish Nai’s participation in IN/SITU at EXPO CHICAGO 2017. Read more

José Lerma, Nunquam Prandium Liberum

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Sep - 12 Dec 2017 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Nunquam Prandium Liberum, a new solo exhibition by José Lerma. For Nunquam Prandium Liberum, Jose Lerma has transformed the gallery into a version of heaven based on Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s 1757 fresco, Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue. Throughout Nunquam Prandium Liberum, signifiers of class, merit, excess and abuse intermingle, highlighting how the transgressions of the wealthy are often ignored. Read more

Gerald Williams, Gerald Williams

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Sep - 2 Dec 2017 Kavi Gupta is pleased present Gerald Williams, the first solo exhibition of the work of AFRICOBRA co-founder Gerald Williams in more than 20 years. Read more

Jaime Muñoz, How to Read El Pato Pascual

MAK Center for Art and Architecture 9 Sep 2017 - 14 Jan 2018 How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney is a Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition of over 150 works by 48 Latin American artists who investigate and challenge nearly one hundred years of cultural influence between Latin America and Disney. Spanning painting, photography, graphic work,... Read more

Miya Ando, Temporal

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA 17 Aug 2017 - 4 Feb 2018 SCAD Museum of Art presents an exhibition by Miya Ando that profiles her ongoing, finely calibrated exploration of images and materials and their cultural significance. Temporal brings together three significant works and series in the artist’s oeuvre, made of wood, steel and silk chiffon. The nature of these materials provides... Read more

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Tate Modern | London, UK 12 Jul - 22 Oct 2017 Gerald Williams Wadsworth Jarrell and Jae Jarrell's work will be featured in the Tate Modern’s current exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud: Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood

Art Gallery Ontario, Ontario, Canada 29 Jun - 10 Dec 2017 Taking over the entire fourth floor of the AGO’s Contemporary Tower, Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood explores three urgent questions through the eyes of some of the country’s best emerging and established artists: where has Canada come from, what it is now, and where is it going? The 150th anniversary... Read more

Tony Tasset and Scott Reeder, Chicago Riverwalk

Riverwalk | Chicago, IL 26 Jun - 1 Nov 2017 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce Tony Tasset’s and Scott Reeder’s participation in the Chicago River Walk Public Sculpture Exhibition, as part of the Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Year of Public Art. The works will be on view till November 1, 2017.
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Paper

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 Jun - 5 Aug 2017 Kavi Gupta is pleased to presentPaper, a curated selection of works whichengage paper as a multifaceted material. Inexpensive to procure, easy tostore, flexible to manipulate, and diverse in color and texture, paper haslong been a beloved component of artists’ practices worldwide. Read more

Manish Nai, Manish Nai: Fondation Fernet Branca

Kavi Gupta | St. Louis, France 10 Jun - 8 Oct 2017 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce a new self titled solo exhibition by Manish Nai at Fondation Fernet Branca. Read more

Irena Haiduk, Documenta 14

Documenta 14 l Kassel, Germany 10 Jun - 17 Sep 2017 The epicenter of all Yugoexport operations at documenta 14 in Kassel is located on the top floor of the Neue Neue Galerie. At the heart of this space is SER (Seductive Exacting Realism), 2015-ongoing, a sound program based on an interview the artist Irena Haiduk conducted on January 14, 2015... Read more

Alfred Conteh in Respondez S'il Vous Plait (RSVP)

Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA 2 Jun - 17 Jul 2017 Black artists have historically given voice to the social, economic and systemic oppression found in the United States and throughout the African Diaspora. Hammonds House Museum examines the role of black artists as activists in Respondez S’il Vous Plait (RSVP) . Featured works by Alfred Conteh, Maurice Evans, Grace Kisa,... Read more

Jessica Stockholder and Tony Tasset, Sculpture Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI 1 Jun - 22 Oct 2017 Kavi Gupta is happy to announce Jessica Stockholder and Tony Tasset’s inclusion in Sculpture Milwaukee. Read more

McArthur Binion, 57th Venice Biennale

Giardini and the Arsenale | Venice, Italy 11 May - 26 Nov 2017 McArthur Binion is featured in the 2017 Venice Biennale in an exhibition titled Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel. Read more

Roger Brown Estate, Estate Paintings

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 5 May - 24 Jun 2017 Read more

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85

Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NYC 21 Apr - 17 Sep 2017 This exhibition presents the work of more than forty artists and activists who built their careers—and committed themselves to political change—during a time of social tumult in the United States. Beginning in the 1960s, a number of movements to combat social injustice emerged, with the Black Power, Civil Rights, and... Read more

Firelei Báez, Vessels of Genealogies

DePaul Art Museum | Chicago, IL 17 Apr - 6 Aug 2017 Firelei Báez is a Dominican-American artist whose large-scale paintings, drawings, and textiles evoke the beauty and political implications of hairstyles, textiles, and tattoos for those whose cultural identities have remained traditionally absent from dominant culture. Báez explores her own divine being signifying a wide range of imagery that attests to... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Oh Magic Night

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation | Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, China 19 Mar - 4 Sep 2017 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation (HOCA) proudly announces its first landmark exhibition of 2017 “Oh Magic Night”, the inaugural institutional solo-exhibition of Japanese-American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama in Hong Kong. The exhibition will survey Matsuyama’s artistic development, anchored by themes of mythological guardians, fictional tableaux and ornate abstraction. The exhibition, timed... Read more

Irena Haiduk, SERVERS FOR .YU And Frauenbank

Whitney Biennial 2017 | NYC 17 Mar - 11 Jun 2017 Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, wall didactic text for SERVERS. FOR .YU and Frauenbank
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Patrick Chamberlain, Unreliable Narrator

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washingtion Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Mar - 10 Jun 2017 Patrick Chamberlain's first solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta. Read more

Young-Il Ahn, Unexpected Light

LACMA | Los Angeles, CA 25 Feb 2017 - 22 Jul 2018 Korean-American artist Young Il Ahn was born in 1934 in Gaeseong, historically known as the capital of the Goryeo dynasty (912–1392) and geographically located in North Korea today. While acknowledged as a child prodigy, Ahn carried out his most prolific work in Los Angeles since his arrival in the U.S. in 1966. Since then, Ahn’s works have consistently focused on his interest in the local surroundings rather than the country he left. This exhibition showcases many works from his best-known series, Water, which was inspired by a near-death incident on the Pacific Ocean in 1983, as well as his most recent works. The Water series marks a notable shift in Ahn’s style from semi abstraction to complete abstraction, which has continued to define his style to this day.

This exhibition marks the first-ever introduction of a Korean-American artist at LACMA, highlighting the ever expanding diversity and realities within the ethnic Korean population in Los Angeles. Read more

Beverly Fishman, DOSE, Curated by Nick Cave

Cue Art Foundation 23 Feb - 5 Apr 2017 CUE Art Foundation is pleased to present DOSE, an exhibition of paintings by Beverly Fishman, curated by artist Nick Cave. Read more

Firelei Báez, Bloodlines

The Andy Warhol Museum | Pittsburgh, PA 17 Feb - 21 May 2017 Firelei Báez: Bloodlines is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz. Read more

Michi Meko, Gut Feelings

Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA 28 Jan - 7 May 2017 Gut Feelings brought together a group of contemporary artists whose work looks to food, eating, feeding, and cooking as symbolic representations of exchanged emotion or power. Food as subject matter is both personal and relational. It allows intimate expressions of individual identity to interweave with broader cultural histories. Desire is... Read more

Michi Meko, One Last Smile Before the Undertow

Lamar Dodd School of Art | University of Georgia 26 Jan - 24 Feb 2017 In One Last Smile Before the Undertow , Meko presents a new body of work that acts as navigation maps and movements to convey narratives based in the personal and historic. Mashing up iconography and remixing content to establish new hybridized identities, Meko endows ordinary and rejected objects with spiritual... Read more

Angel Otero, Everything and Nothing

CAMH | Houston, TX 10 Dec 2016 - 19 Mar 2017 Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing is Otero’s first survey exhibition and encompasses nearly a decade of his painting and sculpture. Read more

James Little in Circa 1970

Studio Museum Harlem | Harlem, NYC 17 Nov 2016 - 2 Apr 2017 Circa 1970 presents paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture from the Studio Museum’s collection. The featured works, all made between 1970 and 1979, reflect the historical, socio-political and cultural landscapes of the decade. Recent, key gifts to the Studio Museum’s permanent collection of artworks by McArthur Binion, Robert Blackburn and... Read more

Roger Brown and Andy Warhol, Politics, Rhetoric, Pop

Kavi Gupta | Elzabeth St 23 Sep - 22 Nov 2016 Penning a list of pop artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and himself, Roger Brown writes in the 1980 Who Chicago? that “what is shared is attitude and not style.” Brown’s admiration for—and aesthetic affiliation with—Warhol’s work positions him far beyond the superfluity of purely regionalist designations.

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McArthur Binion, Seasons

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Sep - 22 Nov 2016 To be seasoned is to be experienced—seeing the benefits of knowledge gained over times distill in one’s work. Read more

Manish Nai, Matter as Medium

Galerie Karsten Greve | Paris, France 10 Sep - 26 Oct 2016 Matter as Medium, the first solo exhibition in France of the Indian artist Manish Nai. His composite and multiform work summons a set of references and affinities from both Arte Povera in the use of discarded materials, cardboard, papers and fabrics in particular, and procedural art, in so far as... Read more

Gist & Gesture

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 4 Jun - 6 Aug 2016 Featuring:
Roger Brown
Edie Fake
Barbara Kasten
Aay Preston-Myint
Catherine Sullivan/Katarzyna Wińska and Teatr Opera Buffa
& Nicholas Sullivan
Curated by Katherine Harvath
Centered around performativity in visual arts, Gist & Gesture includes paintings, objects, photographs and other projects that utilize dramatic techniques. Read more

Johanna Billing, Learning How To Drive A Piano

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 4 Jun - 6 Aug 2016 Learning How to Drive a Piano features a striking and immersive presentation of two films and their accompanying albums by Johanna Billing at Kavi Gupta’s Elizabeth Street space. Read more

Michi Meko, Before We Blast Off: The Journey of Divine Forces

Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA 19 May - 6 Nov 2016 Multidisciplinary artist Michi Meko (b. 1974, Florence, Alabama) draws influence from Southern culture and contemporary urban. He has an uncanny ability to inspire an urbanized aesthetic that is innovative, challenging and thoughtful. The works allude to conditions both physical and psychological. His work is a proclamation of strength, perseverance and... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Color Jam Houston

Downtown | Houston, TX 22 Apr 2016 - 1 Mar 2017 A vibrant blast of geometric shapes has taken over the intersection of McKinney and Main streets, crawling on top of buildings, light fixtures and sidewalks. Color Jam Houston by Jessica Stockholder, still in progress, represents the social and political balance between individual rights, freedoms, responsibilities and our collective well-being and... Read more

Esmaa Mohamoud, #000000 VIOLENCE

YYZ Artists' Outlet | Toronto, CA 29 Mar - 5 Apr 2016 #000000 VIOLENCE is an exhibition that investigates the Black male body in contemporary culture and the (in)tangibility of Blackness through the exploration of athletics—specifically, the sport of basketball. Utilizing the visual vernacular of basketball to delineate structural violence, the works explore contemporary notions of Black masculinity enunciated and examined through... Read more

Tony Tasset, Me And My Arrow

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 18 Mar - 14 May 2016 Me And My Arrow, a new solo exhibition by Tony Tasset, features an overwhelming grid of sixty-six Arrow Paintings alongside Arrow Sculptures. Read more

Miya Ando in Gold Rush

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 15 Jan - 13 Mar 2016 Guest curated by Chris Sicat, Gold Rush brings together works by nationally and internationally recognized artists to explore the history of Northern California and the symbolism of gold. The exhibition showcases California history in conjunction with contemporary art, sports, and culture. Through the work of well-known artists the exhibition encourages... Read more

Picture The Cricket’s Legs Apart

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 7 Nov 2015 - 20 Feb 2016 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present P​icture the Cricket’s Legs Apart, ​an exhibition featuring works by Ketuta Alexi-­Meskhishvili, Aaron Garber­-Maikovska, Justin Hansch, Natalie Häusler, Julian Hoeber, Dawn Kasper, Alexi Kukuljevic and Analia Saban. Read more

James Krone, An Ornithology For Birds

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 7 Nov 2015 - 20 Feb 2016 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce An Ornithology for Birds, James Krone’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Read more

Firelei Báez, Bloodlines

Pérez Art Museum | Miami, FL 15 Oct 2015 - 6 Mar 2016 Tracing the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean, Bloodlines presents a series of new works by Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; lives in New York) inspired by lineages of black resistance. Read more

Outside the Lines Color Across the Collections

The Newark Museum of Art | Newark, NJ 19 Sep 2015 - 10 Jan 2016 Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections presents modern and contemporary works from the Museum’s four main permanent collections—African, American, Asian and Decorative Arts. Featuring a number of recent acquisitions, Outside the Lines sets up a visual dialogue that crosses not only international lines but also traditional divisions between fine... Read more

Assisted, Curated by Jessica Stockholder

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Sep 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Featuring works by
Laylah Ali
Polly Apfelbaum
Anthony Caro
Patrick Chamberlain
Cheryl Donegan
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Sol LeWitt
Nancy Lupo
Rebecca Morris
Sam Moyer
Jo Nigoghossian
Stephen Prina
Michael Queenland
Kay Rosen
Haim Steinbach
Tony Tasset
ASSISTED, curated by Jessica Stockholder, follows on two earlier related ventures and accompanies her solo exhibition titled Door Hinges at Kavi Gupta in Chicago this September.
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Scott Reeder, Put The Cat On The Phone

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Sep - 24 Oct 2015 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Put the Cat on the Phone, a new exhibition of paintings and objects including new neon work by Scott Reeder. Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Door Hinges

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Sep 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Jessica Stockholder’s first solo exhibition in Chicago in 24 years. Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Rose's Inclination

Smart Museum of Art | Chicago, IL 12 Sep 2015 - 13 Aug 2017 In a site-specific Threshold series installation, Jessica Stockholder intersects the Smart’s lobby with a wave of color and texture that climbs to the clerestory, cuts across the floor, and travels outwards into the Museum’s sculpture garden and beyond. Rose’s Inclination makes use of ordinary materials—lamps, paint, Plexiglas, carpet, and garden... Read more

Beverly Fishman: Big Pharma

Beeler Gallery | Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio 10 Sep - 11 Dec 2015 Beverly Fishman’s overarching subject is how technology affects the body: representing, supplementing, idealizing, stereotyping and changing us. Throughout her career she has explored abstraction though materiality and raised questions regarding the transformation of human beings through science and technology—developing a hybrid art-making process that integrates subjective color choices and gesture... Read more

Beverly Fishman: In Sickness and In Health

Chrysler Museum of Art | Norfolk, VA 15 Jul 2015 - 3 Jan 2016 “Critics have compared my work to both post-Pop art and Minimalist styles,” Fishman wrote in her artist’s statement. “I do engage directly with the legacies of these movements, but I pursue an aesthetic that combines abstract form with social and political critique.” In this case, the critique is aimed at... Read more

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music

MCA | Chicago, IL 11 Jul - 22 Nov 2015 The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now links the vibrant legacy of the 1960s African American avant-garde to current art and culture. It is occasioned in part by the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a still-flourishing... Read more

Manish Nai, Manish Nai

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 6 Jun - 1 Aug 2015 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Mumbai based artist Manish Nai. This will be Nai’s first solo exhibition in North America and will feature four large-scale site-specific works in addition to wall hangings, sculptures, and prints. Manish Nai’s adoration of twentieth... Read more

Claire Sherman, Funeral Mountain

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 6 Jun - 1 Aug 2015 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Funeral Mountain, a new series of paintings by Claire Sherman. Read more

Miya Ando in Frontiers Reimagined

Collateral Exhibition, 56th Venice Biennale, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy 9 May - 22 Nov 2015 The phenomenon of globalization, where cultures are colliding and melding as never before, offers rich and complex sources of inspiration for artists. Frontiers Reimagined examines the results of these cultural entanglements through the work of forty-four painters, sculptors, photographers and installation artists who are exploring the notion of cultural boundaries.... Read more

Glenn Kaino, Tank

Grand Arts | Kansas City, MO 15 Apr - 6 Jun 2015 Produced in conjunction with Grand Arts Kansas City, Tank consists of a series of aquariums populated by multi-colored coral, each species vying for superiority over the other. The title of this work is multivalent, referring simultaneously to the aquariums, and to the translucent resin-cast fragments of a decommissioned M-60 Patton military tank that construct the architecture within each of these. The cast resin pieces allude to the practice of sinking decommissioned tanks and other military apparatus in order to construct artificial coral reefs, thus rendering these tools of destruction into life-sustaining habitats. The vibrant colors that the viewers encounter in these tanks are not, however, entirely peaceful; as the polyps grow, they encroach on each other’s boundaries, thereby creating new visual demarcations of color and density while simultaneously exposing a slow motion war for survival. Tools of large-scale displacement are reclaimed by much smaller organisms only to become a microcosmic reflection of the colonialism they once facilitated. Read more

Angel Otero, Lago

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 28 Mar - 16 May 2015 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce an exhibition of new paintings, Lago, by Angel Otero. This will be the first exhibition to showcase Otero’s series of silicone transfers onto canvas with brightly powdered pigment. Read more

Kour Pour, Samsara

DEPART Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 31 Jan - 7 Mar 2015 Depart Foundation presents Samsara , Kour Pour’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, curated by Nicola Ricciardi. The exhibition will coincide with Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015. Samsara by Los Angeles-based Kour Pour includes new paintings and related installation works that continue the artist’s recent carpet painting series. In the... Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Angled Tangle, 2014

Art Basel Miami Beach 2014 4 - 7 Dec 2014 Kavi Gupta proudly presented Angled Tangle, Jessica Stockholder’s site-responsive sculpture at Art Basel Miami Beach Public 2014. Read more

Clare Rojas, Everyone Has Those Spaces

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 22 Nov 2014 - 1 Feb 2015 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present its fourth solo exhibition of work by Clare E. Rojas. Read more

Glenn Kaino, Tank

Prospect 3 | New Orleans 25 Oct 2014 - 25 Jan 2015 Kaino’s contribution to Prospect.3 is Tank , a series of aquariums in which parts of an armored tank—cast in clear resin—are submerged. The inert surfaces are primed as sites, assembled battlefields, on which a different form of combat takes place. Human militants have been replaced with variant species of coral,... Read more

Glenn Kaino, Leviathan

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 Sep 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 Kavi Gupta is proud to present its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Glenn Kaino, entitled Leviathan. Read more

Mickalene Thomas, I Was Born To Do Great Things

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 Sep 2014 - 31 Jan 2015 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce its first solo exhibition with New York based artist Mickalene Thomas, entitled I was born to do great things. Read more

Glenn Kaino, Bridge

Alter/Abolish/Address The 5x5 Project | Naval Building 170 Washington, D.C. 6 Sep - 6 Dec 2014 Glenn Kaino’s Bridge read from afar as an assembly of bones or a golden-slatted rope footbridge, though closer inspection revealed that the 200 “slats” are in the form of a familiar arm, not quite recognizable out of context. The slats were made from a contemporary cast of athlete Tommie Smith’s... Read more

McArthur Binion, DNA Study

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 May - 2 Aug 2014 DNA Study brings together two interrelated strands of McArthur Binion’s practice, his DNA studies and his self-portraits, furthering the dialogue stimulated by his works over the last 40 years. Read more

Tony Tasset, Spill Paintings

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 May - 27 Jul 2014 Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | BERLIN is proud to announce Spill Paintings, Tony Tasset’s first exhibition since his inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Read more

José Lerma, La Bella Crisis

MOCAD | Detroit, MI 16 May - 27 Jul 2014 In La Bella Crisis Puerto Rican artist José Lerma revisits MOCAD’s history by transforming the museum’s main gallery, once an auto showroom, into an “art fair”. Lerma’s site specific installation is a still life comprised of found materials, paintings, and personal artifacts, constructed over the period of a month and dismantled at the end of the exhibition. Read more

Glenn Kaino, 19.83

Studio Museum Harlem | NYC 27 Mar - 29 Jun 2014 19.83 is an exercise in the crystallization and dissipation of memory that takes as a point of departure the process through which a historical event is transformed into a powerful iconic image that then circulates in a shared imaginary—leading to the shredding of a past singular moment into multiple stories... Read more

José Lerma, Gloriosa Superba

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 22 Feb - 3 May 2014 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce its first solo exhibition with Chicago based artist José Lerma entitled Gloriosa Superba. All history is born from a sea of personal narratives. José Lerma’s work finds inspiration from his own autobiography and an interest in long-lost historical figures, a dialogue that he chooses to have within the context of painting and painting’s relationship to history. Read more

Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves (Outside the Lines series)

Contemporary Art Museum | Houston, TX 25 Jan - 23 Mar 2014 Conceived as the companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy , which explored the fragmentation of the figurative as well as the loose and expansive nature of abstraction, this section chronicles the history of black artists whose work relies on the drama of restraint. Drawing upon the historical... Read more

Nathan Baker, Participate

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 23 Nov 2013 - 25 Jan 2014 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Participle, a solo exhibition of new work by Nathan Baker. Comprised of a handful of new paintings, Participle furthers many of Baker's aesthetic aims of the past few years. “The prisoner was burning.” “Burning what, a cigarette? An effigy? A random bit of parchment... Read more

Curtis Mann, A Matter of Structure and Utility

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 16 Nov 2013 - 16 Feb 2014 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present its third solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Curtis Mann entitled A Matter of Structure and Utility. The exhibition marks the introduction of a new body of work that continues Mann’s exploration with the physicality of photography. Read more

Clare Rojas

Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld | NYC 15 Nov - 15 Dec 2013 Read more

Roxy Paine, Apparatus

Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Sep - 20 Dec 2013 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce its first exhibition with New York based artist Roxy Paine titled Apparatus. Apparatus will be the inaugural exhibition at our newest gallery location at 219 N. Elizabeth St. and Paine’s first solo exhibition in Chicago. Read more

Theaster Gates, Accumulated Affects Of Migration

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Sep - 9 Nov 2013 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce an exhibition by Theaster Gates entitled Accumulated Affects of Migration. Read more

Focus: Beverly Fishman

MSU Broad | East Lansing, MI 13 Sep 2013 - 5 Jan 2014 Beverly Fishman is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A celebrated artist, who has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, she has developed a singular and iconic style of visual form in her painting practice. Her large scale images, most... Read more

Glenn Kaino at the 12th Lyon Biennial

Lyon, France 12 Sep 2013 - 5 Jan 2014 “On the night of October 16th 1968, I had stood on a platform on the infield of the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City, with a gold medal around my neck…” Tommie Smith is the American athlete who, after winning the 200 metre at the 1968 Mexico CIty Olympics in 19.83... Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Palimpsest

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1 Sep - 1 Nov 2013 In celebration of its 40th anniversary, RIJS hosted an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama (b. 1976). Titled “Palimpsest,” after a parchment text that has been washed and reused, leaving traces of earlier writing underneath, this exhibition showcased a selection of paintings distinctive for their many layers of... Read more

AFRICOBRA: Philosophy

Logan Center Gallery | Chicago, IL 28 Jun - 11 Aug 2013 AFRICOBRA in Chicago is a linked series of exhibitions and public programs scheduled May–September 2013 focusing on the Chicago artist group AFRICOBRA (African Commune Of Bad Relevant Artists), founded in 1968 and still active. The founding members, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, and Gerald Williams, came together... Read more

Scott Reeder, Paintings of Things

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 29 Apr - 1 Jun 2013 Read more

McArthur Binion, Ghost: Rhythms

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 6 Apr - 19 Sep 2013 Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | BERLIN is proud to present its first exhibition with McArthur Binion entitled Ghost: Rhythms. Ghost: Rhythms focuses on the artist’s early career in 1970s New York City. Read more

Matthew Metzger, Waver

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Feb - 30 Mar 2013 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present Matthew Metzger’s Waver , the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The three works in this exhibition stem from Metzger’s ongoing inquiry into Abstraction, and its relationship to the copy as a way of positioning painting between the limits of figuration and the... Read more

Johanna Billing, I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Feb - 30 Mar 2013 Johanna Billing (b. 1973 in Jönköping, SE) lives and works in Stockholm, SE.
Working in video and performance, Billing has become renowned for her participatory or collaborative works that make transparent the complexities of human intersubjectivity. Read more

James Krone, Waterhome

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 15 Dec 2012 - 3 Feb 2013 Kavi Gupta Gallery Chicago is proud to present “Waterhome”, an exhibition by Berlin-based artist James Krone. A performance of exposures, constructed over the past four years, “Waterhome” is a series of choreographed aesthetic procedures in reaction to a contained natural phenomena; it is an ongoing work with the memory of its own making, its own being and its own entropy. Read more

Persistence of Vision

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 1 Nov 2012 - 1 Jan 2013 Paul Cowan, Fergus Feehily, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Bernard Piffaretti Read more

Melanie Schiff, Sun Land

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 26 Oct - 8 Dec 2012 Kavi Gupta CHICAGO is proud to present its third solo exhibition with LA photographer Melanie Schiff. Comprised of the artist's most recent photographs, the exhibition takes its name from the town where the artist lives on the periphery of Los Angeles. Like much of Schiff's previous work, "Sun Land" brings together discrete events to form an enigmatic environment, an imagined landscape that eludes navigation and gradually imparts each work's depth and complexity. Read more

Angel Otero, New Works

CAM Raleigh | Raleigh North Carolina 19 Oct 2012 - 14 Feb 2013 CAM Raleigh’s latest Independent Weekly Gallery Emerging Artist Series exhibition by Angel Otero is a museum premiere of new works and the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. The exhibition, consisting primarily of new artworks including never-been-exhibited sculpture made from steel and porcelain, opens October 19, 2012. CAM Raleigh Executive Director... Read more

Clare Rojas, Spaces In Between

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Sep - 10 Oct 2012 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Clare Rojas entitled Spaces in Between. Clare Rojas is a storyteller and is highly regarded for her paintings, installations, and performances that explore the private narrative. Read more

Katrin Plavçak, Elemente von M.

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 7 Sep - 27 Oct 2012 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Elemente von M. , a solo exhibition of new painting, collage and sculpture by the artist Katrin Plavçak. Elemente von M. reformulates many of Plavčak's political and social positions that have been at stake in her work over the past decade. Questioning the creation... Read more

Henning Strassburger, I Am A Girl

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 May - 28 Jul 2012 Kavi Gupta Gallery Chicago is proud to present I Am A Girl, a solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Henning Strassburger Read more

Scott Reeder

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 May - 12 Aug 2012 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present its first solo exhibition by Scott Reeder. Reeder is highly regarded for his multiple talents. As a conceptual artist, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and performances. For the past few years, Reeder has honed an approach to painting with noodles. Read more

Tomokazu Matsuyama, Thousand Regards

Katzen Arts Center at American University | Washington, DC 24 Apr - 20 May 2012 The Katzen Arts Center celebrated the debut of Tomokazu Matsuyama's first solo museum exhibit, entitled Thousand Regards . This exhibit is in conjunction with the Japanese embassy, to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the US. Serving as a mini-retrospective,... Read more

Ari Marcopoulos, Midway

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 30 Mar - 6 May 2012 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition for Ari Marcopoulos entitled Midway. Ari Marcopoulos has been an active documentarian and participant of American pop culture for thirty years. A native of Amsterdam, Marcopoulos moved to New York in 1979 were he began taking portraits of artists and social figures of the 1980's downtown scene. Read more

Antonia Gurkovska, Index

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 3 Feb - 25 Mar 2012 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition for Antonia Gurkovska entitled Index.
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Sayre Gomez, Windows And Mirrors

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 Nov 2011 - 29 Jan 2012 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Windows and Mirrors, the debut exhibition in his Chicago gallery of new work from the Los Angeles based artist Sayre Gomez. On view are the artist’s new works on canvas, thirty small works on paper, and a single graphite drawing. Read more

Tony Tasset, Hot Dog Man

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 11 Nov 2011 - 30 Jan 2012 Kavi Gupta is proud to present a new exhibition of work by renowned American sculptor Tony Tasset. The homecoming exhibition marks the artist’s first gallery exhibition of new work in Chicago in 15 years and presents two works, Hot Dog Man (2011) and Mood Sculpture (2011). Read more

Abstract Ilona

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 11 Nov 2011 - 28 Jan 2012 Read more

Angel Otero, The Dangerous Ability to Fascinate Other People

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Sep - 12 Nov 2011 Kavi Gupta is proud to present The Dangerous Ability To Fascinate Other People , the second gallery solo exhibition of paintings by New York based artist Angel Otero. While much of Otero's works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of... Read more

Nathaniel Donnett, Holla if You Hear Me; The Vibrational Theory

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Sep - 12 Nov 2011 Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago is proud to present Holla If You Hear Me; The Vibrational Theory, the first gallery exhibition of Houston-based artist Nathaniel Donnett. Exploring how music and technology has historically been used as a tool of empowerment, Donnett's installation begs the question of what is the relationship... Read more

Ideal Narratives in Contemporary South African Art, 54th Venice Biennale

South African Pavilion | Torre di Porta Nuova, Arsenale Nuovissimo 3 Jun - 27 Nov 2011 The exhibition features South African artists whose work explores a range of realities, memories and fantasies. The artists produce imaginary truths or rather ideal narratives that reflect on South Africa, a country that is simultaneously adored and detested. South Africa is a specific cultural geography desired and envied due to... Read more

Tony Tasset, Life During Wartime

Rochester Art Center | Rochester, MN 1 Jun - 1 Dec 2011 Read more

Style & Desire

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 14 May - 18 Jun 2011 Kavi Gupta Gallery Berlin is proud to present Style & Desire, a new exhibition of painting, sculpture and collage. Is conceptualism actually distinct from expressionism? The process by which these categorizations come to be represented in art history is often so haphazard, similar to the clumsy means by which one decides what they feel from what they think. As a disfigured and fragmentary chapbook of contemporary style, Style & Desire is premised by the question of how reproduction and representation are related. Read more

Theaster Gates, An Epitaph for Civil Rights and Other Domesticated Structures

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 30 Apr - 2 Jul 2011 On May 3, 1963, Commissioner for Public Safety, “Bull” Connor, ordered the police and fire departments of Birmingham, Alabama to haze demonstrators who participated in the Southern Christian Leadership Council’s Birmingham campaign. Those potent images are always with me through relatives and friends who were there and others who have... Read more

Eric Legris, Jellyfish

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 12 Mar - 1 May 2011 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present Jellyfish, a new exhibition of paintings and collage by Eric Legris. While jellyfish are visually absent from the exhibition, the titular organism stands as an entity whose body and environment give form to each other. In part influenced by Marcel Broodthaers, Legris' Jellyfish... Read more

Claire Sherman, Palms Wild

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 Feb - 16 Apr 2011 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present Palms Wild, a new exhibition of paintings by New York artist Claire Sherman. Comprised of five massive landscape paintings, Palms Wild furthers Sherman’s practice of representing how we conceive of nature.
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A Knot For Ariadne

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 11 Dec 2010 - 29 Jan 2011 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present A Knot For Ariadne, a group exhibition of new works of painting, collage, and sculpture. At 9PM during the opening reception, Berlin artist Patrick Alt will present his PIN Performance Reading (2010). Nathan Baker (b. 1979 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) lives and works... Read more

Curtis Mann, Everything After

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Oct - 4 Dec 2010 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present it's first solo exhibition with Curtis Mann titled everything after. This is Curtis Mann's first U.S. exhibition since his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
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Melanie Schiff, Spider

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 9 Oct - 27 Nov 2010 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce Spider , a new solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Melanie Schiff. Comprising the exhibition are select photos Schiff created during her residency at the prestigious Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Melanie Schiff (b. 1977 in Chicago) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent... Read more

Chris Johanson, Backwards Toward Forwards

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 Sep - 18 Oct 2010 STATEMENT FOR BACKWARDS TOWARD FORWARDS 'The exhibit is about restorative energy and healing through art. At the center of the exhibit is a sculpture consisting of pieces of painted black wood. They are pieces of life, fractures of energy and space. Connected to the center sculpture are four groupings of... Read more

James Krone, Trickle Down Ergonomics

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Aug - 4 Dec 2010 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Trickle Down Ergonomics, the debut Chicago exhibition by the Berlin artist, James Krone. Comprising the exhibition will be select works from Krone’s Ceremonial Painting (2010), a suite of paintings and chairs entitled Chair Paintings (2010)
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Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 - 19 Aug 2010 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer, a diptych screening of film and video works spanning from the mid-nineties to the present. Created with a siamese approach that interposes the renowned musical genre typified by Barry Manilow or Olivia Newton-John with "Dirty Black Summer", a song from metal crooner Glenn Danzig's album, How The Gods Kill (1992). Taken together the videos confuse genre to question how viewers perceive aesthetic category and distinguish specific forms. Each work represents this dilemma inherent in the double title; whether it is the ultra-gratuitous raw snuff of Los Angeles artist Julian Hoeber's "Killing Friends" (2001), where a teen slowly murders his friends or Landon Wigg's "Riot On The Unset Trip" (2010), a cropped appropriation of Mimsy Farmer's freakout in exploitation classic "Riot On The Sunset Strip" (1967), the works appear just as sordid, self-interested, and dramatic as they are modest, populist and subliminal. Read more

Jessica Stockholder, Peer Out to See

Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía | Madrid, Spain 14 Jul 2010 - 25 Apr 2011 Jessica Stockholder (Seattle, United States, 1959) is one of the most influential sculptors of her generation. Her work spans over three decades and is characterised by a commitment to colour and materials. The interpretation of objects has become the distinguishing feature of Stockholder’s creations, as she participates both in the... Read more

Mary Sibande, Long Live The Dead Queen

Joburg City, World Premier Annual Exhibition 3 | Johannesburg, South Africa 11 Jun - 11 Jul 2010 Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen series was featured within the city of Johannesburg on the side of buildings and other structures as large, photographic murals. The pieces are actually sculptures which sibande creates and then has photographed. The images portray a series of fantasies and imagined narratives focusing... Read more

Tony Tasset, Selected Works From 1986-1996

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 1 May - 14 Aug 2010 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Tony Tasset, Selected works from 1986-1996 , an exhibition of several sculptures from the artist's early career. Working with the then recent history of Minimalism, Tasset's sculptures address this formal apex of Modernism with the same grimace and subtle humor that come to characterize... Read more

Cordy Ryman, Tempest

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Mar - 25 Apr 2010 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with New York artist Cordy Ryman. Read more

Rewind: 1970s to 1900s Works From the MCA Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL 13 Mar - 5 Sep 2010 During its 40-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history of contemporary art. These exhibitions have, in turn, stimulated the museum and its supporters to acquire important and often numerous pieces by these artists. A resulting hallmark of the MCA... Read more

Susan Giles, Buildings and Gestures

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 6 Feb - 13 Mar 2010 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce it's fourth solo exhibition Buildings and Gestures with Chicago artist Susan Giles. Read more

Angel Otero

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Dec 2009 - 30 Jan 2010 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Angel Otero's work. Read more

Josh Azzarella, Untitled #100 (Fantasia)

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 31 Oct - 5 Dec 2009 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition of a new film by New York artist Josh Azzarella. Azzarella's new video Untitled #100 (Fantasia) 2007- 2009 makes a departure from his former use of historic press images to augment what is likely the 20th century's greatest pop... Read more

Scott Treleaven, Your Shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 31 Oct - 5 Dec 2009 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of new work by Canadian, Paris-based artist, Scott Treleaven. Treleaven's current exhibit memorializes the beautiful delirium of the 19th-century psychocultural impetus to capture the ephemeral - that which throbs just beneath the scrim of consciousness or skin, via travelogue,... Read more

James Krone and Jason Loebs

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 25 Sep - 7 Nov 2009 Kavi Gupta is proud to announce the opening of his new gallery in Berlin featuring a two person exhibition of new works from gallery artist Jason Loebs and Berlin-based painter James Krone. Read more

Melanie Schiff, The Mirror

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 11 Sep - 24 Oct 2009 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present a new series of photographs by Los Angeles-based artist Melanie Schiff. Her latest exhibition titled The Mirror presents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Chicago since her inclusion in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Melanie Schiff has become known for her constructed narrative photographs that are imbued with a poetic use of light to explore ideas of spirituality as well as personal and collective experience. Schiff’s previous photographs spanned classic genres of portraiture, still life and performance as they found their footing within multiple histories of photography. Often subtle references to youth culture and popular music came to the surface and objects like empty beer bottles, CD cases, and record covers became minimal forms which were arranged and manipulated placing them within a mystical happening. Read more

Variations On A Theme

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 16 May - 31 Jul 2009 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Variations on a Theme, a group exhibition of new paintings by Benjamin Degen, Melissa Gordon, Jason Karolak, Angel Otero, Baker Overstreet and Cordy Ryman.
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Clare Rojas, Believe Me

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 16 May - 2 Jun 2009 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present our second solo exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artist Clare Rojas. Clare Rojas is well known for her intimate gouache paintings and expansive wall-based murals and installations that feel as if they have been plucked out of the pages of a... Read more

James Little, De-Classified: New Paintings

June Kelly Gallery | NYC 1 Apr - 9 Jun 2009 'Gene Davis with points,' is how one painter described James Little's new body of work, De-Classified: New Paintings at the June Kelly gallery. He was joking, of course. Davis may be a visual antecedent, along with Barnett Newman and maybe Kenneth Noland, but I'd describe Little's new work as 'Geometry... Read more

Vaguely Paperly

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 27 Mar - 9 May 2009 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Vaguely Paperly, a group exhibition curated by Chris Johanson and featuring work by Randy Colosky, Dana Dart-McLean, Brendan Fowler, Tom Greenwood, Randy Moore, and Max Schumann Read more

Angelina Gualdoni, Proposals for Remnants

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 27 Mar - 9 May 2009 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present our third solo exhibition by New York based painter Angelina Gualdoni. Angelina Gualdoni’s subject matter has been focused on modern ruins such as abandoned strip malls, decaying corporate high-rises, and housing projects in various states of demolition. As Gualdoni’s work became more anonymous, buildings... Read more

Ankica Marjanovic

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Dec 2008 - 31 Jan 2009 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the United States of Cologne-based artist Ankica Marjanovic in an exhibition curated by Georg Elben, who is the Director of the International Videonale in Bonn, Germany. Read more

Ulf Puder

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 12 Dec 2008 - 20 Mar 2009 Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the Leipzig-based painter Ulf Puder. Ulf Puder’s latest series of paintings describes the artist’s unique imaginary world of desolate and haunting environments populated only by abandoned architecture and rendered in his signature muted palette. Tents, mobile homes, churches, train cars and other recreational spaces that should be occupied are left emptied and silent. Bungalows float on makeshift platforms within flooded streets; other structures seem to be in the midst of a storm. Natural disasters come to mind - places that have recently seen the unthinkable and have been left uninhabitable. Read more

Hard Rain

Kavi Gupta | Berlin 24 Oct - 2 Dec 2008 Kavi Gupta is very pleased to announce that the gallery is opening an exhibition space in Berlin, Germany. The gallery is located in Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße adjacent to other prestigious galleries such as Galerie Kamm, Christian Nagel and Kuttner Siebert. The gallery will host two opening receptions on October 24 and October 29 during Art Forum Berlin with a group exhibition entitled Hard Rain including work by Sayre Gomez, Angelina Gualdoni, Jason Loebs, Melanie Schiff, Tony Tasset and Danielle Gustafson-Sundell.
Referencing the Bob Dylan song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall and the Hard Rain, 2006 photograph by Tony Tasset and Melanie Schiff, the show softly brings to mind multiple issues that plague our current global political and economic situation. The work in this exhibition is quiet and uneasy, imbued with an overwhelming feeling of malaise. A longer perusal reveals the subtle multiple underlying ideas at work that look toward the past as a reflection for answers. Read more

Danica Phelps

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Oct 2008 - 29 Nov 2018 Kavi Gupta is proud to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Danica Phelps. Danica Phelps is known for documenting her life through skillful fluid line drawings and has been painting intricate stripe charts formulated using her own simple monetary system for the past ten years. This project has illustrated important events in the artist’s life through the filter of her personal finances. Her stripe paintings recently became a larger project referred to as The Stripe Factory where the process became unmoored from her personal data and self-referential to the individuals hired to produce these works. Read more

Josh Azzarella

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Oct - 29 Nov 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist Josh Azzarella. Josh Azzarella borrows iconic historical imagery and manipulates the contents to reveal an altered view of potent events that have shaped our collective conscience. The images chosen for this exhibition range from serene landscapes wiped of their violent and defining events to scenes taken from more obvious sources, slightly edited, shed of the actions that disrupted our past and continue to influence our lives. Read more

Forward and Reverse Engineering for Live Analog Broadcast

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 5 Sep - 11 Oct 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to invite Neighborhood Public Radio artists Jon Brumit, Lee Montgomery and Michael Trigilio for a live radio project that will consist of interactive programming and workshops. The opening weekend and subsequent weekends during the span of the exhibition will be filled with impromptu collaborations, interviews,... Read more

Constellation

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 5 Sep - 11 Oct 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is proud to present Constellation, a group exhibition of painting, drawing, video, collage, and sculpture featuring Los Angeles artists Sayre Gomez, Mark Hagen, Julian Hoeber, Brett Lund, and Landon Wiggs. Constellation is an exhibition that addresses notions of time, process, and human agency. Elementary in nature, Constellation places emphasis on formlessness, physical affect, and expression to look at the metaphysical purpose of art making. The exhibition draws a common thread through multiple movements as it references Romanticism, Minimalism, and Surrealism and ventures to relate cosmological movement and natural phenomenon to themes of idealism, fate, and free will.
Through the ominous gaze of a surveillance camera, Landon Wiggs's video Trans Live shows different views of the steel skeleton of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Words slowly form out of the building's structure, eventually succeeding into a rapid constantly morphing series of anagrams. Wiggs's clever and textual play starts with what the suburban megalopolis in background affirms, specifically, that "everything happens". Read more

Andrew Falkowksi and Jason Loebs

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Jun - 9 Aug 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the work of two painters whose work divergently explores the histories of painting through fundamentals of both art history and the personal mythologizing and readings of past events, objects, images and reference points. Andrew Falkowski creates hyper-realistic paintings of lost historical prerogatives. Several... Read more

Claire Sherman, Brink

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 28 Apr - 14 Jun 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present “Brink”, Claire Sherman’s second solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
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Tyson Reeder, Sweaters

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 18 Apr - 14 Jun 2008 Tyson Reeder's paintings are eclectic scenes which embody a rich history of painting borrowed most noticeably from Fauvism and Impressionism. Colors are accentuated and dramatized. Space is often flattened or textured by the use of washy color, and mixing mediums of acrylic paint, pen and pencil creating areas of abstract depth in relation to his representational and often figurative subject matter. Though his work often includes clues to current fashions, the urban landscape and other signifiers of contemporary culture, Reeder's work feels rooted in a dialogue that spans several painting histories. Tyson Reeder's project room exhibition titled Sweaters features a collection of works on paper depicting ornate, brightly colored sweaters from different periods in different positions and poses. Read more

Scott Anderson, Misiisto

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 7 Mar - 12 Apr 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Misiisto by Chicago-based artist Scott Anderson. Anderson, who is best known for his abundant imagery depicting places that nod to surrealism while utilizing the picture-plane as an adaptable space where fictional narrative shifts its weight with the process of painting. Anderson’s latest body... Read more

Johanna Billing, This is How We Walk on The Moon

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 3 Mar - 12 Apr 2008 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Johanna Billing’s most recent film This is How We Walk on the Moon , 2007, which debuted this past summer at documenta 12. Billing is well known for her films that engage a group of people in a collective experience. Throughout these constructed realities,... Read more

Simon Lee, Connecticut Bed & Breakfast

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Connecticut, Bed and Breakfast, a project by New York-based artist Simon Lee. Connecticut, Bed and Breakfast consists of a video projection with accompanying photo-montages continuing his interest in film projections and the use of everyday objects. Lee’s work often depicts fleeting moments of time leaving viewers with a feeling of inevitable emotional loss. Read more

Fearful Objects

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 30 Nov 2007 - 26 Feb 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Fearful Objects, a group exhibition including seven artists who use sculpture as their primary medium. Felix Schramm, John Isaacs, Lorna Macintyre, Michael Stumpf, Nathan Mabry, Sterling Ruby, Tony Tasset
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Paul Shambroom, Securtiy

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 26 Oct - 24 Dec 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by American artist Paul Shambroom whose work is marked by an ongoing interest in documenting the various power structures that symbolize our democracy. The exhibition will include a body of work from Shambrooms latest series of work titled Security.... Read more

Three One-Man Exhibitions: James Little, Aimé Mpane, George Smith

Station Museum of Contemporary Art | Houston, TX 16 Sep 2007 - 1 Mar 2008 Great artistic skill, truthfulness, idealism, vision and passion are fundamental to the creation of a profoundly spiritual art. In this ravaged time of endless war, a fresh approach to the spiritual needs of the American people is critical to their mental health. Who can we turn to but artists and... Read more

Hans Hemmert, This preparation of readiness for keeping oneself open to the arrival or absence of the god

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 7 Sep - 26 Oct 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert who is well known for his philosophical investigations between ideas of space, physicality, religion and the presence and absence of being. The title of the exhibition emphasizes Hemmert’s ongoing interests in these subjects as it... Read more

Matt Stokes, Long After Tonight

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 7 Sep - 26 Oct 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by British artist Matt Stokes whose work is marked by an ongoing interest in cultural movements associated with underground music scenes and the uncanny way in which these events contribute to a collective social experience. The exhibition will include... Read more

Danielle Gustafson-Sundell, "it’s midnight and i’m lonely"

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 29 Jun - 11 Aug 2007 Read more

Justin Lieberman, Kurt Russell : RE-GENESIS A Topographic Exhibition Exploring The Mechanics of Cult Iconology

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 29 Jun - 11 Aug 2007 Kurt Russell: RE-GENESIS A Topographic Exhibition Exploring The Mechanics of Cult Iconology i began the first of the works in the exhibition KURT RUSSELL: REGENESIS well before his re-genesis actually occurred in Quentin Tarantino's filmDeath Proof. Up to that point Kurt Russell as an actor and a public persona was... Read more

Zak Smith, Half the Artist’s Proceeds from This Show Will Go to Benefit the Victims of God and Capitalism

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 4 - 16 May 2007 Read more

Melanie Schiff, Underwater Photographer

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Mar - 28 Apr 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the first major solo exhibition of a new extensive body of photographs as well as the debut of a new video projection by Chicago-based artist Melanie Schiff. Her exhibition titled "Underwater Photographer” expands on her previous photographic images which encompass self portraiture, landscape, still-life, and performance. Read more

Garth Weiser

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 Mar - 28 Apr 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show in Chicago of New York based painter Garth Weiser. Weiser’s latest body of work featuring three large canvases as well as three smaller works on panel continues his unique visual language which pursues the picture plane as a space... Read more

Claire Sherman, Slow Pan

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 2 Feb - 17 Mar 2007 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the first US solo show of young Chicago-based painter Claire Sherman in an ambitious debut featuring eight large canvases as well as a new series of works on paper. This new work continues her aggressive painterly approach to image-making utilizing the subject of the landscape as a starting point to reveal a dialogue that spans romanticism, abstraction, existentialism and the sublime. Read more

Scott Treleaven, My dear, my darling, do you hear me where you sleep?

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Oct - 25 Nov 2006 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present Canadian artist and filmmaker Scott Treleaven’s largest solo exhibition to date taking over three exhibition spaces. Borrowing his title from the final lines of Elizabeth Smart’s tragically romantic masterpiece, ‘By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept’, Scott Treleaven continues his exploration of contemporary mythology, subcultures and longing, in a show that encompasses photography, installation, collage and film. Read more

Chris Johanson, Contemporary Landscapes

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 8 Sep - 14 Oct 2006 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition titled Contemporary Landscapes by Portland-based artist Chris Johanson. Chris Johanson is well known for his paintings, sculptures, and installations depicting the human experience and the resulting physical world they inhabit together. Johanson has developed his own personal pictorial language... Read more

Ulf Puder, Zwischenhalt

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 5 May - 24 Jun 2006 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by the Leipzig painter Ulf Puder titled Zwischenhalt. Read more

Johanna Billing, Magic & Loss // Magical World

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 17 Mar - 22 Apr 2006 Read more

India: Two Views, Danica Phelps & Debi Ray-Chaudhuri

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 Dec 2005 - 28 Jan 2006 Danica Phelps creates charts and drawings which document her life through the use of different systems and parameters such as her daily spending, which ultimately reveal her personal activities, relationships and habits. This body of work is based on a specific period of time where she and Debi Ray-Chaudhuri traveled... Read more

Clare Rojas, Hah! ha, ha, ha!

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 Oct - 22 Nov 2005 Read more

Angelina Gualdoni, It is Happening Again

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 Dec 2004 - 5 Feb 2005 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Chicago based artist Angelina Gualdoni. Gualdoni's previous series of paintings was based on the 1999 demolition of the Horizons Pavilion, in Future World at Disney's Epcot Center. Horizons was a ridethrough attraction that brought viewers on a journey... Read more

James Little in Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection

The Studio Museum | Harlem, NYC 15 Jul - 25 Sep 2004 Unearthing the past, present and future of the Studio Museum’s permanent collection, Seeds and Roots digs deep into our garden of artful delights. Organized by SMH Chief Curator Thelma Golden and Curatorial Assistant Rashida Bumbray, this exhibition takes its inspiration and title from Chris Ofili’s graphite drawing, Roots (2001). This... Read more

Johanna Billing, You Don't Love Me Yet

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 30 Apr - 6 May 2004 Read more

Hans Hemmert

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 Oct - 6 Dec 2003 Read more

Yannick Demmerle, New Work

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 2 May - 14 Jun 2003 Read more

Jay Heikes, Kill Yr Idols

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2002 Read more

Angelina Gualdoni, Demo

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 Dec 2001 - 7 Feb 2002 Kavi Gupta Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Chicago based artist Angelina Gualdoni. Read more

Hans Hemmert

Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 8 Sep - 14 Oct 2000 Read more

Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon

Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN 12 Dec 1992 - 4 Apr 1993 WIth works by such artists as James Little, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon explores the cultural and political legacy of one of the most galvanizing African-American leaders in U.S. history. An exhibition exploring the representation of Malcolm X in American visual culture. The show was organized... Read more

James Little in Afro-American Abstraction

MoMA PS1 | NYC 17 Feb - 16 Apr 1980 This is the world I want to live in,” thought artist Lorraine O’Grady while attending the opening of Afro-American Abstraction at P.S.1 in 1981. “I found myself surrounded by 200 black people who were thinking about things the way I was.” Guest-curated by art critic April Kingsley, Afro-American Abstraction drew... Read more

Another Generation: Contemporary Abstractionists

Studio Museum Harlem | Harlem, NYC 1 Apr - 1 Jul 1979 Group exhibition. Included: Frank Bowling, Barbara Chase-Riboud, John Dowell, James Little, Al Loving, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, et al. Read more

Africobra I: Ten in Search of a Nation

Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC 21 Jun - 30 Aug 1970 AFRICOBRA – AFRICAN COMMUNE OF BAD RELEVANT ARTISTS It is Nation time and we are searching. In the spirit of Nation-ness we are examining the rootsand branches of our African family tree for the seeable which is the most expressive of our people/art. We are trying to make images inspired... Read more