Exhibitions

SummaryGeoff McFetridge unveils a new collection of paintings for a show titled 'Grasslands' at Toronto's Cooper Cole Gallery.The exhibition features rolling landscapes inspired by the Canadian prairies where the artist was raised.There’s a quiet power lingering throughout Geoff McFetridge’s latest body of work at Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery. Channeling the charged stillness of the late Alex Colville’s photorealistic paintings, McFetridge brings a similar sense of motionlessness to the rural scenes and tranquil environments of Grasslands. The exhibition features rolling landscapes inspired by the Canadian prairies where the artist was raised.It's easy to slip into a dreamlike state while looking at "Afloat," an oil and gesso painting depicting a figure lying in a soft field of grass, per...

SummarySable Elyse Smith’s Clockwork brings sculpture, video, neon and photography to The FLAG Art Foundation.The exhibition examines policing, incarceration, media and the systems shaping everyday life.Clockwork runs from September 24, 2026 through February 13, 2027.Sable Elyse Smith’s Clockwork is heading to The FLAG Art Foundation this fall, following its presentation at The Contemporary Austin. Opening September 24, the exhibition brings together new and recent sculpture, video, neon and photography by the 2026 recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize.For its New York presentation, FLAG expands the show’s cinematic qualities into an immersive, stage-like environment. Across the exhibition, Smith looks closely at the systems that shape everyday life, particularly ...

SummaryYoshitomo Nara’s first David Zwirner exhibition opens in New York on October 29, 2026.The two-location exhibition features new atmospheric paintings and large-format drawings.The 19th Street location will feature thirteen monumental white bronze head sculptures.Opening this fall, David Zwirner will present Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, spanning its 533 West 19th Street and 537 West 20th Street locations in New York. Marking the artist's first major solo presentation in the city in nearly a decade, the expansive showcase features new 2026 paintings, large-format drawings, recent sculptures and foundational early works from the 1980s chosen by Nara himself.The presentation at the 537 West 20th Street space highlights the latest stylistic ...

SummarySotheby's Salon in Hong Kong presents a major exhibition celebrating the seven-decade career of artist Yayoi KusamaThe curated showcase features rare works spanning the 1950s to 2010s across three thematic sectionsThe exhibition is currently open at Sotheby's Maison through August 20, 2026Sotheby’s Salon has officially opened a major exhibition celebrating legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at 1/F, Sotheby’s Maison in Hong Kong's The Landmark. Tracing seven decades of influential output, the retrospective highlights paintings, works on paper, and screenprints spanning from the 1950s to the 2010s.Organized into three distinct thematic sections—Nature and Nurture, Fauna and Flora, and The Urban and Pop—the exhibition charts Kusama's artistic evolution from her formative years in J...

SummarySabri Sundos’ Chasing Flowers uses floral imagery to explore beauty, escape and political uncertainty.The Palestinian American artist blends painting, textiles and traditional craft to examine heritage, memory and identity.The exhibition is on view at Fisk Gallery in Portland through September 5.Portland's Fisk Gallery recently opened Chasing Flowers, a new solo exhibition by New York-based Palestinian American artist Sabri Sundos.The exhibition explores the tension between escape and engagement, using floral imagery as a symbol of beauty, refuge and resilience. Sundos presents flowers as moments of pause within a world shaped by constant demands, noise and political uncertainty. Their familiarity offers a temporary sense of calm, while the realities surrounding them continue to pul...

SummaryBTS’ RM is bringing his personal art collection to SFMOMA.The exhibition pairs Korean modern and contemporary art with works from the museum’s holdings.'Between You and Me' opens October 3, 2026.RM’s relationship with art is moving from the intimacy of his home and studio into a major museum setting. The BTS leader will present works from his personal collection in RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me, opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this fall.The show marks the first museum presentation dedicated to artworks collected by RM, born Kim Namjoon. Co-curated by RM alongside SFMOMA’s América Castillo and Hyoeun Kim, the show will bring together 200 works drawn from his collection and the museum’s holdings. Many of the Korean artworks included have never previously been exhib...

SummaryTom Wesselmann's Cooper Square Studio will open to the public for the first time during Armory Week 2026Almine Rech is also unveiling a duet exhibition between the late pop artist and Japanese-American Tomokazu MatsuyamaThe exhibition is on view from September 19 through 26, with timed visits for the studio taking place throughout the weekTom Wesselmann's longtime New York studio will welcome the public for the first time since the artist's death. This Armory Week, fans of the American pop artist will get to experience the Cooper Square space, where many of his works were created during his final era, from 1994 to 2004.Wesselmann, known for his “Great American Nude” series and larger-than-life commercial still lifes, saw his practice as a pursuit of “super reality,” — a way to eleva...

SummaryJack Coulter returns with his first public exhibition in three years, presenting 25 new abstract paintings in London.Inspired by his synaesthesia, the works translate music by artists including The Beatles, Amy Winehouse and Olivia Dean into color, texture and movement.The exhibition follows Coulter’s recent collaboration with Elton John and runs at Gallery 8 through August 9, 2026.Jack Coulter is back in London with With Every Light and With Every Song, a new solo exhibition featuring 25 previously unseen abstract paintings.Presented by Winsor Birch at Gallery 8 in St James’s, the show marks Coulter's first public showcase in three years. The collection continues the artist's exploration of the relationship between sound, color and emotion, with works inspired by musicians ranging ...

SummaryFelipe Pantone and Etai debut their first collaborative exhibition at albertz benda Los Angeles.The show pairs Pantone’s kinetic artworks with reworked mid-century furniture and custom textiles.Together, they explore the intersection of optical art, craftsmanship and functional design.Felipe Pantone and Los Angeles designer Etai Drori have joined forces for Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces, their first exhibition together, now on view at albertz benda’s Los Angeles gallery.Installed inside the gallery’s mid-century modern home, the presentation brings Pantone’s kinetic wall works into conversation with a new series of collaborative furniture pieces. Rather than blending their practices into a single style, the project allows each artist’s methods to rem...

SummaryPace Berlin is currently hosting a new group exhibition, Goodbye Sadness, Hello SadnessThe show features 27 artists whose work explores the emotional terrains of night and nightlife, spanning immersive installations, sculpture, painting, and photographyA highlight of the show is “Bar Va Bene” (2026), a functioning recreation of Friedrich Kunath’s studio bar in Los AngelesA bar is the unlikely centerpiece of the ongoing Goodbye Sadness, Hello Sadness. But it is Pace Berlin after all. You can expect the unexpected when it comes to settings and interiors from the mega-gallery’s German outpost, itself housed in an ex-gas 1950s station in Schöneberg.The gallery is exploring the euphoric and melancholic landscapes of nightlife in its latest group exhibition, running until August 23. Ancho...

SummaryWhitney Museum of American Art will unveil Roy Lichtenstein: Like New this OctoberThe exhibition features over 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, and installations by the artist, spanning his most iconic paintings to early worksYou could argue that Roy Lichtenstein helped lay the groundwork for today's culture of unstable images. His most recognizable works – taken straight from comic books, enlarged, painted over, and Ben Day-dotted – feel like primers to the endless acts of cropping, reposting, and memeing, even, that define contemporary visual culture.The Pop Art pioneer will be the star of a major survey presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art this fall. Opening in New York on October 11, Like New gathers over 130 works, including painting, drawing, collage, pri...

SummaryOkuda San Miguel presents his first major immersive exhibition at W1 Curates in London.Ancestral Futurism reimagines his signature geometric figures, bold colors and hybrid creatures through large-scale digital environments.The free exhibition runs on Oxford Street through August 5.Okuda San Miguel has transformed W1 Curates on London’s Oxford Street with Ancestral Futurism, his first major immersive exhibition.The show reimagines key works from the Spanish artist’s career as large-scale digital environments filled with his signature geometric figures, hybrid creatures, bold colors and recurring symbols. Together, they trace the evolution of his practice from graffiti and painting to sculpture, installation and digital art.At its core, Ancestral Futurism is about coexistence. Okuda’...