Exhibitions

SummaryBig Picture marks Josh Sperling’s first West Coast solo exhibitionThe showcase will include both sculptural paintings and artistic furnitureHosted by Perrotin Los Angeles, the exhibition will run from May 31 to July 3, 2025Josh Sperling is set to unveil Big Picture, his first-ever solo showcase on the West Coast. Hosted by Perrotin Los Angeles, the showcase merges Sperling’s decade-long exploration of sculptural painting with his latest venture into functional design. Known for his mastery of form and color, the Ithaca-based artist introduces new dimensions to his work, where practicality and visual expression intertwine seamlessly. This exhibition marks a significant step in his creative journey, expanding beyond traditional canvases to embrace interactive, modular elements.A core ...

SummarySouth Korean artist Jang Koal will present her solo exhibition, Solitary Inn, at Nanzuka Underground from May 16 through June 21.The showcase will debut 15 new paintings, staged as "rooms," that explore introspective moments of the everyday.For Seoul-based artist Jang Koal, a window is a portal into something close to magic. Much of her work takes cues from views from her studio – cityscapes and bursts of greenery below, pulsing with shifting emotions, rich narratives and flecks of hope.In Solitary Inn, her upcoming solo showcase at Nanzuka Underground, the painter invites viewers into her inner worlds. The exhibition features 15 new works that explore quiet, introspective moments that welcome the memory to the forefront.Staged in a series of room-like vignettes, each painting is an...

SummaryHiroki Muraoka is a professional skateboarder who launched his first solo exhibition at Taipei's Little HutThe show will go on view from May 17 through June 1Bright Moments focuses on the happiness found in everyday lifeHiroki Muraoka is an emerging contemporary painter based in Tokyo, Japan who paints vivid, flat-based figurative scenes that capture his experiences as a professional skateboarder. Having been repped by big brands such as adidas and Traffic for his skateboarding talents, Muraoka has spent most of his daily life on four tiny polyurethane wheels, but would reserve his down time working on sketches, drawings and paintings. Taiwan's Little Hut has recognized Muraoka's creative skills beyond the action sport and is gearing up to launch a solo exhibition called Bright Mome...

SummarySky High Farm, an artist-founded nonprofit working to combat food injustice, has announced its inaugural art biennial.The exhibition will be on view from June 28 through October 2025 in Germantown, New York.Among the 50 featured artists are Anne Imhof, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tschabalala Self, Félix González-Torres and more.Sky High Farm is launching its first art biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END. In the last several years, the non-profit has made major waves, teaming up with fashion heavyweights like Dover Street Market and Balenciaga to join the fight against food insecurity. Now, the organization ringing in a new era with this significant milestone, as it expands to a new 560-acre, riverside site.Curated by founder and Gagosian-backed artist Dan Colen, the site-specific...

SummaryLos Encuentros is opening at Ballroom Marfa on July 4.The exhibition features work by Ozzie Juarez, Justin Favela, Antonia Lechuga, Narsiso Martinez and Yvette Mayorga.The works unpack social realities through painting, sculpture and installation.This summer, Ballroom Marfa will lift the veil on Los Encuentros, a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned works from five pioneering Latinx artists – Ozzie Juarez, Justin Favela, Antonio Lechuga, Narsiso Martinez and Yvette Mayorga – bound by the allure of everyday materials.A commitment to community, collaboration and the expression of Latinx culture, threads throughout the showcase of painting, sculpture and installation, with Marfa's proximity to Mexico adding a rich layer of context. Together, the artists confront colonial narra...

SummaryOver 90 works spanning Rashid Johnson’s three-decade career"Sanguine" installation transforms the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a living archiveThemes of race, identity, mental health and collective expressionNYC's Guggenheim Museum is showing Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, the artist’s most extensive solo exhibition to date. Curated by Naomi Beckwith and Andrea Karnes, the show takes over the museum’s spiraling rotunda with more than 90 works that examine race, personal history, mental health and cultural inheritance.At the top of the ramp, a new site-specific installation titled "Sanguine" anchors the experience. Steel structures hold live plants, books by Black writers, and an upright piano intended for public performances. The installation was designed to interact with th...

There’s something slippery about Alicja Kwade’s work. It’s a characteristic that defines her multifaceted practice, and encapsulates a hungry curiosity for the world around her and the possibility that resides within and beyond its systems.Kwade is currently presenting a new exhibition at Pace Gallery, marking her first solo show with the New York gallery since joining in 2023. The presentation expands on the artist’s long-standing fascination with material, form and perception, challenging viewers to consider: What is time, really? What exactly does it encapsulate, and what slips through it?At the heart of Telos Tales are three towering sculptures — rigid, geometric steel frames that dissolve into molten, tree-like limbs of bronze. Self-contained yet interwoven at once, each piece is titl...

Curators William Croghan, Benno Tubbesing and Matthieu Von Matt of American Art Projects mark their debut in Europe with America Unframed, a bold group exhibition in Berlin. On view through June 13, the show brings together a new generation of U.S.-based artists whose works reflect the evolving visual language of American culture.Rather than focusing on medium or style, the exhibition centers on a cultural thread that binds the featured artists: a shared vocabulary shaped by Pop Art, American Realism, commercial sign painting, Hollywood, and the ever-expanding influence of the Internet. America Unframed is the first in a planned series of transatlantic shows intended to foster deeper dialogue between the American and Berlin art scenes. “This is not a manifesto,” the organizers note, “but a...

The Miami Art Society presented Tropical Brainstorm, a solo exhibition by Gustavo Oviedo at The Goodtime Hotel a Tribute Portfolio Hotel by Marriott Bonvoy. The show featured over 20 new works spanning paintings, ceramics and collages, alongside the debut of Oviedo’s latest art book of the same name.Rooted in his experiences as a diver and underwater videographer, Tropical Brainstorm captured the tension between natural ecosystems and human debris. Oviedo drew from biomorphic forms and marine life observed during deep-sea expeditions, using recurring visual motifs, what he called "form families," to mirror nature’s organized chaos.At the core of the exhibition were his “Brainstorms,” cloud-and-lightning forms that served as visual meditations on improvisation, evolution, and interconnected...

In a cultural moment marked by censorship and retrenchment, Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 presents a bold counternarrative: The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939. Spanning more than 300 works from 125 artists across 40 countries, the exhibition traces the emergence of queer identity. The show brings together pieces from major institutions including the Tate in London and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, alongside rarer finds from small private collections in countries like Spain and Sri Lanka.Curated by scholar Jonathan D. Katz and eight years in the making, the show rewinds to 1869, the year the term "homosexual" first entered public discourse. Through provocative works—drag portraits, two-spirit celebrations, early same-sex unions—the show dismantles the myth of ...

Iván Argote made waves in New York last fall when his 16-foot pigeon made a home for itself on the High Line in Downtown Manhattan. Now, the Colombian artist and filmmaker is back, just in time for Frieze Week, with a new special solo exhibition at Perrotin.Spanning nearly two decades of practice, Breathings arrives on the heels of three major international projects: Descanso, a central outdoor installation at the 2024 Venice Biennale; Dinosaur, his High Line Plinth commission (2024–2026); and Air de Jeu, part of the Prix Marcel Duchamp exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (2022–2023). Employing a deeply reflective lens on power and history, these works position Argote as one of the most resonant voices interrogating the role of monuments in both preserving and challenging dominant narratives...

SummaryDIRTY TEDDY GALLERY's Hong Kong exhibition explores psychological collapse and irrationalityNatural materials are crucial in shaping the exhibition's unsettling breakdown of perception and emotional controlThe exhibition runs until May 11 at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSEDIRTY TEDDY GALLERY presents There’s a Strange Looking Man at My Door, their first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Hosted by THE SHOPHOUSE at its otherthings space. The exhibition examines psychological collapse, exploring the disconnection from reality and the irrationality that arises despite intelligence. Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault’s theories on madness, the works reshape familiar forms into surreal, fragmented structures that blur the boundary between perception and illusion.Through artwear, masks and ...