Exhibitions

NANZUKA will soon present a retrospective exhibition on Hajime Sorayama, the renowned Japanese illustrator who’s known for his superrealist artworks featuring sexy robots.Entitled, Light, Reflection, Transparency exhibition will include a vast body of artworks from as far back as the 1970s. As highlighted in the show’s title, light, reflection and transparency are elements that are explored and pursued in Sorayama’s art — evidence of the artist’s constant strife in depicting light beyond the constraints of traditional painting.In Sorayama's illustrations, human figures, animals and extinct creatures like dinosaurs are depicted alongside robots, offering a speculative vision of a future where organic life forms merge with mechanical civilization. These creations are deliberately crafted to ...

A major survey exhibition of works by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is coming to the Tate Modern this spring, marking his first London solo in over twenty years. Titled The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, the show traces three decades of Suh's compelling practice, adding new site-specific works to his iconic oeuvre of translucent architecture. The artist takes viewers on an introspective journey that explores the multifaceted nature of home, identity and how we inhabit the world, culling personal and collective memory in a dynamic and reflective showcase.The title of the show, Walk the House, draws from an expression referring to the hanok, a traditional Korean house that can be disassembled and rebuilt at a new site. Drawing on the idea of a transportable home, Suh bears wi...

Barry McGee brought a West Coast follow-up to his recent New York show, ‘Cherry Picking.’ Titled ‘Cherry Pit,’ the sprawling presentation is tucked away in The Hole’s art storage. The show features a slew of McGee’s own work, pieces from his collection and contributions from over 50 artists.For Frieze Week in LA, McGee has also organized a zine fair at the gallery. McGee’s paintings, drawings, and mixed-media installations explore the complexities of urban life, reflecting themes of transience and outsider communities. Introduced to graffiti at 18, he gained recognition under the tag Twist, painting hobo figures, liquor bottles, and industrial motifs across city walls and subway cars. He emerged as a key figure in San Francisco’s Mission School, a group of artists from the late 1990s whos...

Shu Lea Cheang’s daring futuristic vision is taking over Munich’s Haus der Kunst in KI$$ KI$$, her first institutional survey. Described as a “machine of experience,” the exhibition takes audiences on a sensorial journey through the avant-anarch oeuvre that cemented her status as a pioneering voice in new media art.Beginning with her 1994 feature film Fresh Kill , the show delves into three decades of works spanning video, installation, performance and cinema. Circling software installations, internet interactions and multiplayer performances, Cheang transforms each gallery into a world of its own, inviting a playful reconsideration of the physical and the digital.“She thinks of her art as a sketch or a rehearsal leading towards film,” the museum wrote. The show “focuses on the mise-en-scè...

Hypeart celebrated its THRESHOLD exhibition at Bonhams Los Angeles with a special reception on Thursday, February 20. The event drew a packed crowd, with guests gathering for a panel discussion led by Isabel Norsten, Bonhams' Specialist in Post-War & Contemporary Art. Norsten steered a compelling conversation around the show’s theme of breaking boundaries, featuring renowned artist Shepard Fairey, Hypeart’s Keith Estiler, Juxtapoz’s Evan Pricco, gallerist Richard Scarry of Subliminal Projects and Ralph Taylor, Bonhams’ Global Head of 20th/21st Century Art. The discussion culminated in the unveiling of Fairey-isms, a book published by No More Rulers in collaboration with Princeton University Press, compiling notable quotes from Fairey, the artist and activist behind the iconic Obama "Ho...

They say that rock and roll never dies, and there’s one ducktail-haired group in Tokyo that’s making sure of it. A mash-up of rock and roll and country, rockabilly stands as one of the lesser known fashion tribes of Japan, yet, visually, it’s hard to miss. Characterized by heavy leather, unabashed twisting and slicked back hair, thick with gel, the 1950s subculture, while niche, continues to romance the bygone era.Photographer Alvin Kean Wong is bringing the rebellious, rockabilly spirit to New York’s Lower East Side for a special weekend-long exhibition. Staged at Café Studio,  Roller Zoku: Journey into Tokyo’s Rock and Roll Tribe follows Wong’s intimate immersion into the subculture, offering an up-close account of a community frozen in the fantasies of mid-century Americana.Born in Sing...

A trove of Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs is set to hit Gagosian's Beverly Hills outpost. Showcasing 36 works taken between December 1963 and February 1964, some previously unseen, the exhibition offers an intimate slice of life during the height of Beatlemania. The exhibition runs parallel to the ongoing Eyes of the Storm tour, which has made stops at the Brooklyn Museum and London's National Portrait Gallery, though for this show, the Beatle has teamed up with the gallery to produce and sell signed print editions with a portion of proceeds going toward ongoing recovery and rebuilding efforts in Southern California.Just as their music captured the hearts of generations, so too did McCartney on his 35mm Pentax camera. Fresh off the number one album With the Beatles and ...

Art’s love for cars is certainly no secret. From Daniel Arsham’s latest Arsham Motorsport to the late Pippa Garner’s seminal Karmann sculpture, both art and the automotive serve as prime vehicles for ideas of progress, technology and desire. Now, at Anat Ebgi gallery in Los Angeles, American artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy presents her own take on the connection in Temperature Check, a new solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures.Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bellamy surveys driving and car culture as a symbol of her city, putting her own fantastical spin to the conventional "body shop": at the heart of the gallery, a striking Mantis “insecto-cycle” emerges from the ground; while in Objects in Mirror figures two screens fixed inside passenger side-mirror sculptures play a sequence of dr...

After nearly a decade, Pharrell Williams is putting curator hat back on for a new show at Perrotin Paris. In FEMMES, a powerful group exhibition, the creative polymath celebrates the enduring impact of Black women – “the artists who transform the world through the power of their hands” – through a kaleidoscopic exploration of femininity, calling on the wife, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and muses who have shaped him.FEMMES showcases work by 39 international artists from pioneers like Esther Mahlangu and Carrie Mae Weems to rising stars Emma Prempeh and Naomi Lulendo, and art icons such as Mickalene Thomas, Nina Chanel Abney and Prince Gyasi.The show comes as a long-awaited follow-up to the Williams-curated exhibition G I R L, inspired by his sophomore album, at the Parisian gallery...

Dan Friedman's Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day? marks the first gallery presentation of the late artist's work since 1994. Staged in Lower Manhattan's Superhouse, the exhibition arrives in honor of the 30th anniversary of Friedman's passing in 1995 and is an immersive imagining of the artist's Washington Square Park residence.In the late 1970s, Friedman transformed his one-bedroom apartment into what he called "a living sketchbook" for his art, using every surface as a canvas. "I created an extreme caricature of the beautiful modern American home to bring into question our notion of what is a beautiful modern American home," he stated at the time. The installation emulates the same energy of the pivotal Lower East Side artist's apartment as documented in his influential 1994 work Radical ...

Hannah Traore Gallery is lifting the veil on a new solo showcase by Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Through a collection of portraits taken over the course of two decades, Hajjaj presents a visual dialogue between North African heritage and Western iconography, breathing vibrant life into every aspect of his work – from the subjects' sartorial style down to the colorful, multi-patterned frames.People of My Time reflects the ethos of the artist’s practice. Hajjaj weaves traditional Moroccan traditions with British pop iconography, where the faces of Imaan Hammam, Che Lovelace, Honey Dijon, Sarah Perles and Afrikan Boy serve as his creative muses.Surrounding each portrait, frames created from repurposed floor mates, conjures the bustle of Medina, adorning the figures with a tactile real...

The Arts Club of Chicago presents The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone, a solo exhibition by Jamaica-born, Los Angeles-based artist Cosmo Whyte, now on view through April 2. In a showcase of works across several mediums, Whyte finds clarity in the haze of memory, exploring the inescapable connection between the personal and collective through the idea of spectacle.Using his later father’s architectural archives as a point of departure, Whyte interrogates the act of seeing: “What makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?” Uncovering new layers of meaning along the way, the artist employs a postmodernist approach to imagery, reworking photographs to reveal to alternative contexts.Standouts include "4x4 Timing/Hush Now, Don’t Explain" (2023), a multi-fold steel ...