Exhibitions

Joshua Vides has pulled Check Engine Light into New York City, transforming Morton Street Partners into a high-contrast mechanic’s workshop complete with painted foam tires, racing hoods, limited-edition acrylic tools and a fully customized limousine as its striking centerpiece.Following the success of the Los Angeles debut, the NYC iteration deepens Vides’ exploration of car culture, craftsmanship, and consumer aspiration, all rendered in his signature black-and-white sketch style. The show, produced in collaboration with Cart Dept and No More Rulers, turns the gallery into a surreal garage where utility becomes art and the familiar becomes cartoonishly uncanny.At the heart of the project is a zine and limited edition print released by No More Rulers as part of its Capturing Creativity se...

Houston-based artist Gao Hang makes a powerful homecoming with Screen Life Drawing, his first solo show in China, at Tang Contemporary Art’s Beijing Headquarters.At first glance, his neon figures and low-poly forms might recall the clunky charm of ’90s video game graphics, yet beneath the titular punchlines, like Your Boss and Your Boss’ Boss and Two Good Looking Asians, are powerful observations of a "carnival of virtual identity," as the gallery describes; a reality where “self-improvement” takes the shape of KPI competitions and existential meaning has been hollowed out.Intentionally awkward and, at times, visually dissonant, in Screen Life Drawing sketching gets an algorithmic treatment: technical flaws become aesthetic emblems and an in-person reality crumbles at the hands of digital ...

Takashi Murakami reimagines art history in his upcoming JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige, staged at Gagosian’s West 21st Street gallery in New York from May 8 through July 12.On view are 121 new and recent (re)works produced in response to the enduring influence of the ukiyo-e school, particularly Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views for its strength in narrative, style and technique. In a nod to Japonisme – the 19th-century Western fascination with Japanese art – Murakami also re-envisions paintings by European Impressionists and Post-Impressionists who were inspired by the movement through his own eyes, closing the loop on cultural exchange while reclaiming the visual language of pictorial flatness, asymmetrical splendor and blushing colors.The showcase expands o...

British artist Thomas J Price arrives in New York with a monumental double presence: a massive sculpture in the heart of Times Square and a major solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, his first with Wooster Street gallery. Through stillness and scale, Price asks: Who gets to stand tall in public space? Who gets to be remembered in bronze?Mounted beneath the circus of billboards is Grounded in the Stars (2023), a 12-foot woman towering above passersby with quiet confidence. Rather than being based on a single person, the subject culminates in a composite of faces from places around the globe, resisting assumption in her open-ended identity. The slight bend of knee and ease of stance recall the contrapposto of Michaelangelo’s David, yet her presence redefines sculptural conventions of trium...

New York-based artist Emma Stern unveiled her latest solo exhibition, Hell is Hot, at Almine Rech's Paris outpost. Expanding her cast of latex-slick avatars, this new body of work offer a new lens for embodiment, desire and perversion, with an off-kilter brand of feminism, one of the Crash (1996) variety. Between all its adorable "bunny-eared" and "mermaid-tailed" monsters, Stern captures the collision of fantasy and flesh in all its dreamy, disarming intensity.The artist's process begins in 3D software, digitally sculpting bodies that are later translated into lush gradients and vaporous washes of paint. Her figures — part doll, part cyborg — stand as monuments to the hyper-sexualized imagery of the internet, while also reimagining it with a meticulous, almost devotional hand. Every shimm...

Bay Area graffiti legend Barry McGee is days away from unveiling his latest solo exhibition at Perrotin Paris. For his second show at the French outpost, the artist fills the space with constellations of frames, floor-to-ceiling installations, bursts of spray, evoking an urgent sense of presence throughout.Titled I’m Listening, McGee confronts the noise of modern life – a relentless hum that drowns out the simple joys of nature's harmonies. “I focus on everything that is shitty on our little planet right now. But I also celebrate all these incredible things that humans invent to stay positive and healthy,” he expressed. It’s a duality that threads through the show, offering both critique of and optimism for our shared state of reality.Expanding on themes from his secret Cherry Picking exhi...

This summer, London’s Hayward Gallery will play host to a major retrospective of the iconic Yoshitomo Nara. Featuring more than 150 works created over the last 40 years, the eponymous exhibition welcomes audiences into the world of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists.Known for his child-like characters, fashioned with wide gazes and a slight rebel touch, Nara often uses his cherubic figures to explore real world issues and calls to action: “I’m interested in both the individual human experience and the wider political landscape in which humanity exists.”Having grown up during the height of the Vietnam War, his brothers’ participation in the era’s student movements nurtured Nara’s ongoing interest in environmental issues and world peace. “Hippie culture’s emphasis on community also reson...

The Chicago art scene is gearing up for this year’s edition of EXPO, and with it comes resonance, a powerful group exhibition curated by Lauren Halsey at West Loop’s Anthony Gallery. Bringing together an exciting lineup of 30 emerging and established artists, Halsey refuses white-cube sterility, and nurtures, as she puts it, “the spirit of a kiccbacc” – an opportunity for pleasure, rekindling old connections and cultivating new ones.Spanning installation, painting, photography, mixed-media and sculptures, resonance thrives in its multiplicity. Each work takes root in Halsey’s ethos of community-driven creativity, and threaded together by the figuration of people, plants and animals as metaphors for interconnectedness, care and lived experience.Best known for her large-scale foil collages, ...

For Vienna-based photographer Sophie Thun, the darkroom is both a laboratory and sanctuary. In Wet Rooms, her latest exhibition at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, the artist immerses viewers in this personal and alchemical space, bringing her rich analog practice into focus, and with it, a romance of soft red hues and rippling chemical baths.Toying with ideas of scale and trompe-lœil, Thun sheathes the gallery in collages of photograms and large-format prints, where she overlays her own image onto the spaces she’s inhabited – homes, studios, and galleries. Through this approach, she joins a lineage of women exploring mise-en-abyme – the image within the image – as a strategy of self-reflection and resistance.Both the creator and subject of the image, Thun disrupts conventional codes of the ...

Brooklyn-based artist Michael Kagan brings his latest solo show, Downforce, to life with 16 new collage works inspired by the fast-paced world of Formula One racing.Shifting from paint to paper, Kagan layers monoprints, created using squeegees and brushes, to capture the intensity, motion and drama of the sport. The show’s title, Downforce, references the aerodynamic force that keeps F1 cars glued to the track at over 200 mph. For Kagan, it also symbolizes human endurance and control under extreme pressure.The collages spotlight iconic F1 moments, like Lewis Hamilton’s first Grand Prix win in "Global Player" and the fiery crash between Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc in "Moving Through Time" and "Space." Instead of focusing on facial features, Kagan uses bold colors and sponsor logos t...

American artist Nate Lowman is preparing to open his first solo exhibition in Japan, This Neighborhood's Changed. Curated by Matt Black (the Paris-born, New York-based creative behind the contemporary art platform REFLECTIONS), Lowman's debut Japan show will feature a mix of new works and some of the artist's most celebrated pieces.Open from April 26 to May 25, the exhibition will highlight the past and present of Lowman's thought-provoking portfolio. "Through his pop-influenced visuals filled with both humor and social commentary, Lowman forces us to rethink the meaning behind the images we are surrounded with," reads the official description. Lowman's older works, including his bullet hole canvases and Edvard Munch-inspired remixes, will sit alongside new pieces, like those inspired by "...

Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s ascent to art stardom has been nothing short of stellar. In 2021, his work was launched into space, marking a major moment for the artist and African contemporary art at large. That same year, Kim Jones tapped him to create visuals for Dior’s Summer 2021 campaign, and later, he caught the attention of mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, who referred to him as the “future of portraiture.”Now the renowned painter is making his UK solo debut with I Do Not Come to You by Chance at Gagosian London – a celebration of his Accra roots and a tribute to the artistic community that gave way to his meteoric rise. Unfolding across three rooms, the exhibition introduces a new body of fingertip-painted works – celebrations of Black joy that “counter the flawed narrative of stereoty...