Exhibitions

SummaryBritish artists Slawn and Opake team up on Heroes, Villains and Violence, an upcoming showcase at The Art of Hip Hop, coinciding with Miami Art WeekFeaturing a range of new works, the artists muse on childhood dreams and future directionsFresh off their TABOO drop, London’s new iconoclast duo Slawn and Opake are back together for an immersive showcase at Wynwood’s Art of Hip Hop, just in time for Miami Art Week. Running from December 3 through 31, their new exhibition, Heroes, Villains and Violence, pushes deeper into the chaotic, self-mythologizing universe the two have been building together, taking heavy cues from both pop cultural spectacle and personal narrative. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Opake (@opake_art) This new suite of collaborative works delve into the ...

Summary'Thinking Out Loud' is Toh’s most focused and confident abstract work to dateThe show marks a major career jump, backed by strong collector interest and a recent Louis Vuitton Paris acquisitionAfter working in fashion across New York, Hong Kong and Sydney, Jono Toh has shifted his focus to painting. His work explores the space between conscious thought and intuition, using bold shapes to translate personal memories and emotions into visual form. Thinking Out Loud, his new exhibition at A2Z Art Gallery makes that internal process visible through a series of clear, graphic compositions."These visual expressions move through the uncertainties of my life with clarity and optimism,” he said in a press release. “They invite the viewer into a space where thought becomes visible, and where ...

SummaryStickymonger is set to open her latest exhibition, See Through, at NANZUKA UNDERGROUNDRunning from November 22 through December 27, the 21-piece showcase explores the curious act of seeing and a tender, self-reflective gazeBrooklyn-based artist Stickymonger returns to NANZUKA this season with a new solo presentation at its Tokyo flagship gallery. Entitled See Through, the exhibition introduces a new body of uniquely contoured canvases that channel nostalgia through snapshots of everyday life, blending whimsy and introspection with a deft, spray painterly hand.The girls that enliven these surreal scenes draw their charm from a multicultural blend of pop sensibilities, reminiscent of the artist’s inspirations and creative upbringing. From growing up in Korea in the 1990s to carving ou...

SummaryThe KAWS:HOLIDAY exhibition has debuted in Abu Dhabi at Souq Al Mina, in partnership with AllRightsReservedThe installation features a monumental, luminous COMPANION figure reclining while cradling a glowing moon, exploring themes of light and scaleThe public art display, organized by Manar Abu Dhabi, will run from November 15, 2025, through January 4, 2026The global public art project KAWS:HOLIDAY has landed in the Middle East, debuting in Abu Dhabi with a massive, luminous installation that redefines scale and light. In collaboration with long-time partner AllRightsReserved (ARR), the exhibition is centrally featured at Souq Al Mina as part of the second public light art exhibition presented by Manar Abu Dhabi.The monumental work features KAWS’s iconic COMPANION figure in a serene...

SummaryJulie Curtiss has lifted the veil on Maid in Feathers at White Cube SeoulRunning through January 10, the exhibition features new paintings, works on paper and sculpture that explore the psychological dimensions of early motherhoodFrench artist Julie Curtiss sees her work as a portal into a surreal world, often reworking social archetypes to expose the humor, darkness and uncanny of reality. Her new showcase at White Cube in Seoul pushes deeper into this “shadow-side,” bringing forth an intimate meditation on early motherhood and psychological transformation.Maid in Feathers is, as Curtiss describes, “all about light and darkness, and difficulty,” peeling back the layers of everyday life. Across acrylic and oil paintings, gouache works on paper and lacquered sculptures, the artist cr...

SummaryForever Is Now returns for its fifth edition, running through December on the Giza PlateauThe showcase features 10 site-specific commissions by an international roster of artistsThe theme centers the mythic and historical dimensions of the pyramids and the timeless power of artFresh off the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Forever Is Now returns to the Giza Plateau with a crop of new sculptural commissions, for that special month of the year when the ancient pyramids turn into an open-air art gallery. Running through December 6, the 2025 edition pays tribute to the timeless allure of Egypt’s cultural heritage, exploring the mythic layers of the pyramids and how they’ve rippled into arenas of art, philosophy, culture and history.Ten international artists were tapped to ...

SummaryDavid Brian Smith’s All around the Wrekin exhibition explores English pastoral traditions through luminous, surrealistic landscapesWorks such as "Another Dream" and "A Dragons Eye" combine oil and gold leaf on herringbone linenOn view at Ross + Kramer until November 22, 2025London-based contemporary artist David Brian Smith’s latest exhibition at Ross + Kramer Gallery is titled All around the Wrekin. The show presents a series of luminous new landscapes that merge memory, folklore and ancestral heritage into richly symbolic compositions. The title itself references a Midlands expression meaning “to take the long way around,” a fitting metaphor for Smith’s winding journey through personal history and imaginative reinterpretation of rural life.The show features several notable large‑s...

SummaryAmerican artist Mark Ryden, known for his leading the pop surrealist aesthetic, has lifted the veil on Eye Am at Perrotin Los AngelesOn view through December 20, the exhibition features a mix of paintings and drawings that revel in intuition, curiosity and feelingWhimsy, wondrous and delightfully absurd, Mark Ryden’s fantastical worlds offer up an escape from our own, from the confines of logic, from chronology and the pressures of corporate enclosure. The pop surrealist pioneer has built a career out of elusive, Victorian-inflected dreamscapes, and his new exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles only takes us further down this rabbit hold.There’s thinking and there’s feeling, and as Eye Am points out, one often comes at the expense of the other. As a result, this new suite of paintings ...

SummaryFondation Beyeler hosts Switzerland’s first major Yayoi Kusama retrospective, showcasing over 300 worksHighlights include Infinity "Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart," "Narcissus Garden" and immersive polka‑dot tentacle installationsThe show will run until January 25, 2026The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is hosting Switzerland’s first major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama. The show presents a vast vision of the artist's prolific output, featuring approximately 300 works that span her entire career, presenting both iconic installations and previously unseen pieces that highlight her lifelong exploration of infinity, repetition and the interplay between art and life.Among the standout works is "Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart" (2025), a mirrored cube installed i...

Meet Mariko Mori, the time traveler. From ancient cosmologies to technological futures, the Japanese artist has long used her practice as a way to bridge the gap between matter and spirit, this world and the next, revealing the unseen dimensions that bind the universe. She sees connections where others see borders, and commits herself to bringing these immaterial links into a rich, resonant reality — a pursuit she considers her “mission.”This metaphysical journey extends into her ongoing exhibition, Radiance, at New York’s Sean Kelly, running through December 20. Connecting her enduring fascination with quantum imagination and primordial faith, the showcase explores the transcendental energy of iwakura – sacred rock sites found across Japan – and like these stones, the works on view are de...

SummaryAyoung Kim is set to open, Delivery Dancer Codex, her debut U.S. exhibition at New York's MoMA PS1The film trilogy will be shown together for the first timeIn addition to the exhibition, Kim will also premiere a live work, “Body^n,” at Performa festival from November 13 through 15South Korean artist Ayoung Kim makes her U.S. debut at MoMA PS1 with Delivery Dancer Codex, bringing together the entirety of her celebrated video installation trilogy for the first time. A pioneering voice in the new media space, Kim’s works fuse virtuality reality, game engines, AI and sculpture to create immersive speculative systems that interrogate geopolitics, myth and technology.The trilogy follows two doppelgänger couriers hurtling through the backstreets of Seoul. What begins as a routine drop-off ...