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Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Suspiro
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 February - 17 March 2018 Kavi Gupta presents the first major solo exhibition of paintings by Venezuela-born, Chicago-based artist Jeffly Gabriela Molina. -
Beverly Fishman, Chemical Sublime
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 24 February - 21 April 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present CHEMICAL SUBLIME, a solo exhibition of original work by Beverly Fishman. Combining the handmade with the industrial, Fishman employs a variety of techniques to explore technological, scientific, and biological systems of perception and representation, instigating constructive conversations about the ways people see their bodies and minds, and construct their identities. -
Manuel Mathieu, Nobody is Watching
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 March - 2 June 2018 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Nobody is Watching, the first American solo exhibition of the work of Manuel Mathieu. -
Firelei Báez, Joy Out Of Fire
The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with the Schomburg 1 May - 24 November 2018 Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire continues the artist’s longstanding interest in representations of women, particularly Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latina women in visual culture and history. In this exhibition, Báez features women whose... -
Jeffrey Gibson, Like a Hammer
Denver Art Museum | Denver, CO 13 May - 12 August 2018 Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer—the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work—chronicles a pivotal moment in Gibson’s career when his contemporary artistic practice converged with his Native American heritage. -
Clare Rojas, Egret
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 19 May - 7 July 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Egret, an exhibition of new work by Clare Rojas at the gallery’s Elizabeth Street location. For Rojas (b. 1976, USA), storytelling manifests in many different ways: sometimes visually, as a painting, drawing, or sculpture; or other times musically, as a song. -
Tony Tasset, For Your Infotainment: Hudson and Feature Inc.
Frieze New York 2018 Curated by Matthew Higgins | NYC 2 - 6 May 2018 This unique presentation is part of the first ever themed section at Frieze New York. Curated by Matthew Higgs (White Columns, New York), For Your Infotainment: Hudson and Feature Inc. celebrates the career of the acclaimed curator, dancer, and performance artist Hudson -
Firelei Báez, Berlin Biennale
Akademie der Künste | Berlin, Germany 6 June - 9 September 2018 Kavi Gupta congratulates Firelei Báez on her participation in the 10th Berlin Biennale. -
Jessica Stockholder, Art Basel Parcours
Telling Stories for the Future | Art Basel 2018 11 - 17 June 2018 Jessica Stockholder, Art Basel Parcours -
FRONT International
Cleveland Triennial, Cleveland Art Museum | Cleveland, OH 14 June - 30 September 2018 Congratulations to artists Beverly Fishman, Jessica Stockholder and Tony Tasset for their participation in the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Both Fishman and Stockholder are two of the... -
Parallel Lives
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 16 June - 24 August 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Parallel Lives. This group exhibition brings a diverse selection of contemporary artists working in figuration and portraiture: Firelei Baez, Alfred Conteh, Inka Essenhigh, Jeffrey Gibson, Glenn Kaino, Titus Kaphar, Basil Kincaid, & Devan Shimoyama. Each artist approaches the motif through unique technical applications and each has their own personal conceptual goals, however, the exhibition seeks to unite how the human subject in art serves as a channel between artist and audience, or audience to audience. -
Richard Hunt, Sculpting A Chicago Artist
Koehnline Museum of Art | Des Plaines, IL 12 July - 14 September 2018 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago cultivated artist Richard Hunt in the 1950s by the guidance of two dynamic teachers. Nelli Bar taught Richard Hunt during his adolescence, and Egon Weiner was his college professor. Bar and Weiner represent the generation of artists who fled Europe after the rise of the Nazi regime and found Chicago as the new home for their artistic ambitions. Both received their education in European academies under prominent teachers during the 1920s. Weiner and Bar produced a new post-war generation of artists, including Richard Hunt. Bar continued to accompany Hunt’s career as he recalls: “She has influenced me as a person over our 30-year relationship.” Hunt remembers Weiner for “his exuberance and nurturing manner – and for being a bundle of energy.” This energy was transmitted to his student Richard Hunt as the Museum of Modern Art purchased one of his sculptures in 1957 just after his graduation and eventually he evolved into one of the most prominent Chicago sculptors and an international master. -
Young-Il Ahn, Young-Il Ahn
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 14 July - 25 August 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present a monographic exhibition of paintings by Young-Il Ahn. Born in Gaeseong, Korea, in 1934, Ahn is renowned for his intricate, large-scale paintings, which explore his relationship with beauty, nature and music. His work is frequently associated with Dansaekhwa, an aesthetic position specific to Korea, which expresses natural processes through a mostly monochromatic palette -
Manish Nai, Trees of Life, Knowledge in Material
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore 21 July - 30 September 2018 NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is embarking on an inquiry into natural materials, exploring the knowledge they embody as biological forms as well as within social, geopolitical, and historical... -
Manish Nai, Capturing Time
The Noordbrabants Museum | Netherlands 18 July - 4 November 2018 The monographic exhibition Manish Nai: Capturing Time will open on July 28th at The Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. It will be the Indian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the country, and will feature 12 of his recent large-scale works. -
Jeffrey Gibson, This is the Day
Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College | Clinton, NY 8 September - 9 December 2018 Jeffrey Gibson’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses a wide range of mediums and draws on a variety of influences and visual languages to comment on race, sexuality, religion, and gender, among other topical issues. Combining popular and queer culture with references to Native American history and current events, Gibson reflects on his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage as a means of exploring the significance, traditions, and rituals of personal adornment and identity. -
Firelei Báez, How to Slip Out of Your Body Quietly
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 15 September - 14 November 2018 Kavi Gupta Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of new work by Dominican-American artist Firelei Báez, whose monumental installation at the recent 10th Berlin Biennale and concurrent solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem continue to receive international acclaim. -
Glenn Kaino, With Arms Drawn: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith
High Museum of Art | Atalanta, GA 29 September 2018 - 13 February 2019 A half century before NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee, gold medal sprinter Tommie Smith raised a fist at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico to protest abuse of human rights around the world and in response to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. His historic gesture, and its reverberations over the past 50 years, are explored in this important exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art. -
AFRICOBRA 50
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 29 September - 27 October 2018 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present AFRICOBRA 50, a landmark exhibition of original works by the five founding members of AFRICOBRA—Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Jeff Donaldson, and Barbara Jones-Hogu—as well as a select group of peers who influenced or were influenced by AFRICOBRA, including Basil Kincaid, Carolyn Lawrence, Bernard Williams, Sherman Beck, Shahar Caren Weaver, Robert Paige, and James Phillips. -
Devan Shimoyama, Cry Baby
Warhol Museum | Pittsburgh, PA 13 October - 13 March 2018 Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting,... -
Alfred Conteh, The Sweet Spot
Clark University Art Museum | Atlanta, GA 28 October 2018 - 17 January 2019 This two-part exhibition at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum revisits Alfred Conteh’s Two Fronts and Tetanus series. Conteh’s works are inspired by daily life in areas of Atlanta where... -
Roger Brown, La Conchita
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 10 November 2018 - 12 February 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Roger Brown: La Conchita. Opening November, 10 at the Kavi Gupta Elizabeth St. location, the exhibition will feature the contents of Roger Brown’s southern California home. Brown, seeking a new place to work in a warmer climate, built his Temple of Painting at La Conchita, California, commissioning Stanley Tigerman to design the new home. -
AFRICOBRA Messages to the People
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami | Miami, FL 27 November 2018 - 24 March 2019 MOCA presents a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the founding of AFRICOBRA – the Black artist collective that helped define the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the collective, which came out of Chicago. November 27, 2018 – March 24, 2019 -
Manish Nai, Asymmetrical Objects
Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai 19 January - 28 March 2018 Participating artists: Atul Bhalla, Jitish Kallat, Manish Nai, Mithu Sen, Prajakta Potnis, Ranbir Kaleka, Reena Kallat, Rohini Devasher, Sahej Rahal and Shilpa Gupta. In January 2018, the Museum will complete... -
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR 3 February - 23 April 2018 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to an important period in American history and... -
Jeffrey Gibson, Without You I Am Nothing
Armory Show 2018 | NYC 7 - 11 March 2018 Jeffrey Gibson WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING 2018 Installation at the Armory Show 2018 -
From Vietnam to Berlin
Asia Culture Center | Gwangju, Korea 9 March - 8 July 2018 Through 170 artworks, this exhibition focuses on a period of political instability dating from the intensification of the US military presence in Vietnam in 1955 until the fall of the... -
Inka Essenhigh, A Fine Line
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art | Virginia Beach, VA 17 March - 19 August 2018 Inka Essenhigh creates beautiful paintings through a studio practice that emphasizes experimentation and exploration. Since Essenhigh’s emergence into the art world during the late 1990’s, she has consistently questioned and redefined her relationship with her media. -
Firelei Báez, To See Beyond
Contemporary Art Center | Cincinnati, OH 18 May - 19 August 2018 "There's a fluidity of color, of race, in the Caribbean … In America, you're black.” Caribbean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Firelei Báez navigates a broad spectrum of color, race and identity in her first Ohio exhibition. -
Roger Brown, 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980
Tang Art Museum | Saratoga Springs, NY 8 September 2018 - 6 January 2019 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980 explores the sculptural work and dimensional paintings of a group of Chicago artists collectively known as the Chicago Imagists. -
The Time Is NOW! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980
Smart Museum of Art | Chicago, IL 13 September - 30 December 2018 The Time Is Now! examines this watershed cultural moment—brimming with change and conflict—and the figures who defined it. -
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Brooklyn Museum | NY 14 September 2018 - 3 February 2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance. -
Jessica Stockholder, Relational Aesthetics
The Contemporary Austin | Austin, TX 15 September 2018 - 3 March 2019 This exhibition of the work of Chicago-based artist Jessica Stockholder (American-Canadian, born 1959 in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia) will span both of The Contemporary Austin’s venues. At the entryway to Laguna Gloria, Stockholder has created a new outdoor sculpture commission, Save on select landscape & outdoor lighting: Song to mind uncouples, 2018, which will be on view in late 2018. Bringing painting into three-dimensional space, Stockholder uses everyday objects as building materials, celebrating the potential for color, form, and abstraction to generate meaning in tandem with the environment and surrounding architecture. The artist’s first solo presentation in Texas in over a decade, Relational Aesthetics includes a new, painted architectural installation—which she refers to as a “situation”—that doubles as a viewing platform and pedestal. A selection of new and recent sculptures are also on view, some of which incorporate found electronic elements. Also included are other works Stockholder calls “assists”—sculptures that require support in order to stand upright. -
Manish Nai, Paper City and Ghost Modernity
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke | Mumbai, India 5 December 2018 - 7 March 2019 Rooted in the treatment of materials that come from my immediate surrounding and environment. I began to work with jute clothe material and have continued to explore the material ever...
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