Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]

Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen creates multimedia installations that blend fact, memory, myth, and mysticism and use lush imagery to draw out these entanglements. By digging deep into archives and collaborating with communities, his projects weave together many voices to reveal other truths about — and strategies of repair from — colonial violence. In this Washington, DC debut, his video work […]

For the Smart’s 50th anniversary, South Side artist Robert Earl Paige creates a multi-part pattern-based installation and sprawling public art project that invites communities into a collective experience of space.

Recent Acquisitions presents newly acquired artworks by artists with deep connections to the Pacific Northwest. Some artists were born here, others are transplants—all have meaningfully shaped our artistic community. Reflecting the artistic production in our region, the gathered artworks defy genre conventions, often pushing the boundaries of their mediums. Ellen Lesperance (born 1971, lives and works […]

Pictures of Belonging is an unprecedented examination of these three trailblazing figures.  By tracing their artistic development before, during, and after the mass incarceration and displacement of Japanese Americans during World War II, the exhibition offers a nuanced view of how these women continued to explore and experiment with new artistic expression throughout their lives. Created during […]

Seattle artist Dawn Cerny’s abstract sculptures transform a museum gallery into a colorful domestic landscape. Her interactive furniture pieces crafted from humble materials celebrate the theatricality of everyday life, often to humorous effect.

Explore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces showcases 12 life-size hand-quilted and embroidered portraits created from combinations of photographs taken in the marketplaces of Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) and Ghana, where secondhand clothing discarded by […]

The Clyfford Still Museum’s guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence (Artists Select: Katherine Simóne Reynolds), illuminates multiple competing desires held in constant tension within the Museum. Organized by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and curator Katherine Simóne Reynolds, the exhibition draws deeply on CSM’s collections. The exhibition runs from January 25–September 14, 2025. According to Reynolds, the collection testifies […]

View the complete exhibition checklist Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio & Nandor Fodor: The Search for the Beloved, a first-of-its-kind exhibition exploring the impact of the theories of Hungarian psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor on the art of Alfonso Ossorio (1916–1990). Fodor’s 1949 book, The Search for the Beloved: A Clinical Investigation of the Trauma […]

Bold Women explores how women have pushed the boundaries of art and spurred social and cultural change across generations and geographies. The exhibition showcases more than 75 works of art by nearly 50 artists in a variety of mediums including photography, video, painting, sculpture, textiles, and installations. Bold Women remains on view through July 6, 2025. […]

David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive is a major traveling retrospective exhibition that spans the seven decades of this South African photographer’s career, from the 1950s to the 2010s, demonstrating Goldblatt’s commitment to showing the realities of daily life in his country. The exhibition and accompanying publication bring together roughly 150 works by Goldblatt from the collections […]

MARTIN WEINSTEIN | LookingThrough Times Feb 21 - June 22, 2025 Southern Vermont Art Center 860 Southern Vermont Arts Center Dr, Manchester, VT 05254 (802) 362-1405 Cross Contemporary Art Project presents the multi-dimensional paintings of Martin Weinstein at the Southern Vermont Art Center. Weinstein's unique practice of painting on different layers of acrylic sheets, then […]

Alex Katz: Theater and Dance explores six decades of the New York painter’s dynamic collaborations with choreographers and avant-garde theater groups, offering an exciting glimpse into the intersection of the visual and performing arts.

“Applebroog pursues issues that transcend gender – issues of innocence and vulnerability, of self-knowledge and mortality.  She does not want us to forget the reality of mass murders and political terrorism or to accept nuclear weapons as a fact of life.  Applebroog does not offer solutions.  Rather, she makes us see what’s there – the […]

Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. The Harvard Art […]

Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.  […]

Russell Craig, Pixy Liao, LuYang, Helina Metaferia, Azita Moradkhani, Kambui Olujimi, Lau Wai

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Trust Me, Be Careful, I Like Your Shoes, Zipora Fried’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Bringing together four bodies of work; large works on paper, new intimately scaled drawings, ceramic sculptures, and a monumental hanging drawing, this exhibition highlights Fried’s mastery of mark-making and her continued exploration of […]

Painters intuitively start with ideas about color. Less obvious and equally as important are the various reductive or additive strategies the artists apply. No prior subject is referenced, no personal content shared, and there is nothing to interpret, only the painting's physical presence exists. Each artist develops a unique method for the creation of works […]

Amos Eno Gallery, a non-profit, artist-run gallery, is pleased to present Contact Traces, a solo exhibition by artist Aaron Wilder. The exhibition will be on view from March 20 to April 27, 2025, with an Opening Reception on Friday, March 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. and a Panel Discussion & Closing Reception on Friday, […]

Guy Laramée has been working with books as a sculptural medium for over twenty years. Carving directly into the bound pages of vintage volumes, the artist creates intricately detailed landscapes and architectures, often textured and painted to render complex topographies and surface vegetation. Laramée frequently works with old dictionaries and encyclopedias, bringing the geological timescale […]