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Jeffrey Gibson, CAN YOU FEEL IT
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 20 September - 12 December 2019 Kavi Gupta is thrilled to present CAN YOU FEEL IT, a solo show of new work by 2019 MacArthur Genius Grant award winner Jeffrey Gibson. -
Devan Shimoyama, We Named Her Gladys
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington St. Chicago, IL, 60607 23 March - 18 May 2019 Kavi Gupta presents We Named Her Gladys a solo exhibition of new work by Devan Shimoyama. We Named Her Gladys is a bold new body of painting and sculpture inspired by his evolving connections to identity, ancestry, community, and the definition of home. Devan Shimoyama, We Named Her Gladys 03.23.2019 — 05.18.2019 Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition of new work by Devan Shimoyama, whose recent debut museum exhibition, Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, was acclaimed by The New York Times, GQ, Hyperallergic, and many other critical voices. For his inaugural solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Shimoyama presents a bold new body of painting and sculpture inspired by his evolving connections to identity, ancestry, community, and the definition of home. Shimoyama recently became a first time homeowner, purchasing a 1926 Craftsman home in the borough of Brentwood on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Says Shimoyama, “The house is made of a classic, golden yellow brick that was developed in Pittsburgh. It’s a very Pittsburgh house.” Since moving in, tiny moments of discovery both inside and outside of the house have pulled Shimoyama backwards in time, moving him to grapple with the mythos of ownership, the discovery of secrets, and the ways history intertwines and negotiates with the present. Says Shimoyama, “This body of work has grown out of me thinking about how significant and important it is to own where you live; to maintain and tend to it. Many young people, especially young people of color, shy away from home ownership. This is negative in a lot of ways.” -
Inka Essenhigh, Uchronia
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 1 June - 24 August 2019 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Uchronia, a solo exhibition of new works by Inka Essenhigh that envisage a hypothetical, idyllic future for the inhabitants of Earth. -
Firelei Báez, New Work
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art | Rotterdam, Netherlands 27 January - 12 May 2019 In this exhibition, a new body of work is presented featuring three paintings and a immersive installation manifest from the artist’s research on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and its enduring significance. -
Smart To The Core: Embodying The Self
Smart Museum of Art 29 January - 19 May 2019 This exhibition brings together modern and contemporary artists who explore the visual construction of selfhood across a range of gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, and intersectional identities. -
Project: Michael Joo
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 9 February - 16 March 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Project: Michael Joo. -
Jeffrey Gibson, The Anthropophagic Effect
New Museum | NYC 13 February - 9 June 2019 This exhibition is curated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, and Sara O’Keeffe, Associate Curator, with Kate Wiener, Curatorial Assistant. -
Jeffrey Gibson, Like A Hammer
The Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, WA 28 February - 12 May 2019 Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer is a major museum exhibition presenting a significant selection of this contemporary artist’s exuberant artwork created since 2011. -
HOW CHICAGO! IMAGISTS 1960S & 70s
Goldsmiths CCA | St James’ New Cross London 15 March - 26 May 2019 Artists: Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Jim Falconer, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida. -
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
The Broad | Los Angeles, CA 23 March - 1 September 2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists made over two decades, beginning in 1963... -
Idea Sale
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 April - 1 June 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Idea Sale, a group exhibition of original works by Glenn Kaino, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Manish Nai, Scott Reeder, Tony Tasset, José Lerma, Jessica Stockholder, and Angel Otero. -
Beverly FIshman, Future Perfect
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 April - 22 June 2019 For her second solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Beverly Fishman invites viewers to survey the present cultural moment through the lens of three iconic bodies of work: a series of... -
Jessica Stockholder, Stuff Matters
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands 19 April - 1 September 2019 This summer, Centraal Museum presents Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters. Jessica Stockholder (USA, 1959) came to fame in the early 1990s with colourful and picturesque as well as monumental installations. In her work, Stockholder combines all sorts of everyday items – ranging from umbrellas and cushions to furniture and lamps – to form an overwhelming composition. Through her playful manipulation of form and colour, she is able to transform the entire room. -
Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes
Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY 2 May - 15 September 2019 Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes brings together, for the first time, a vast grouping of the artist’s “Virtual Still Life” paintings (1995–97) made near the end of his career. -
Devan Shimoyama, The Barbershop Project: Mighty Mighty
THEARC | Washington, DC 4 May - 24 August 2019 In celebration of CulturalDC’s 20th Anniversary Season, Devan Shimoyama’s Mighty Mighty forms the centerpiece of The Barbershop Project, “a multidisciplinary arts activation inspired by the performance of styling, art of hair and shop culture. -
AFRICOBRA NATION TIME
Venice Biennale 2019 | La Biennale di Venezia 2019 in Venice, Italy. 11 May - 24 November 2019 Kavi Gupta is honored to sponsor AFRICOBRA: Nation Time as an official Collateral Event of La Biennale di Venezia 2019 (May 11th – November 24th 2019), in Venice, Italy. -
Jeffrey Gibson, 2019 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art | NYC 17 May - 22 September 2019 Kavi Gupta congratulates Jeffrey Gibson on the opening of the seventy-ninth Whitney Biennial hosted by The Whitney Museum of American Art. -
Jeffrey Gibson, To Name An Other IDENTIFY Performance
National Portrait Gallery | Smithsonian, Washington D.C. 22 May 2019 The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents a new work by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson for the latest iteration of “IDENTIFY,” the performance-art program created by the museum to recognize individuals who are missing from its historical collections. -
Jeffrey Gibson, Like a Hammer
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | Madison, WI 3 June - 15 September 2019 MMoCA is pleased to announce the 2019 presentation of artist Jeffrey Gibson’s first major museum exhibition. Organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM) , Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer will... -
Firelei Báez, Immersion into Compounded Time
Mennello Museum of Art | Orlando, FL 2 July - 1 September 2019 The Mennello Museum of American Art is pleased to present IMMERSION INTO COMPOUNDED TIME AND THE PAINTINGS OF FIRELEI BÁEZ . The exhibition will be on view at the... -
Wadsworth Jarrell, Come Saturday Punch
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607 13 July - 3 August 2019 Kavi Gupta is proud to present Come Saturday Punch, a career survey of the art of Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929, USA). -
Jeffrey Gibson, THIS IS THE DAY
Blanton Museum of Art | Austin, TX 14 July - 29 September 2019 Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day is a vibrant, celebratory exhibition in which the artist brings together his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage and a range of diverse artistic and cultural... -
Manish Nai, A History Of Gestures
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 14 September - 9 November 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Manish Nai’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, A History of Gestures. -
Kennedy Yanko, HANNAH
Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607 20 September - 21 December 2019 Kavi Gupta is pleased to present HANNAH, a solo exhibition of new work by Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, USA). -
Jeffrey Gibson, TIme Carriers
Esker Foundation | Calgary, Canada 28 September - 20 December 2019 “Garments, not clothes. Their intention is not to cover or hide, but to make manifest the riches of the body, its treasure of signifiers. Like actors’ costumes, they are a... -
Mary Sibande, I Came Apart At The Seams
Somerset House | London, England 3 October 2019 - 5 January 2020 This October, Somerset House and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair are proud to present Mary Sibande: I Came Apart at the Seams, a free exhibition of new and selected works from one of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists, Mary Sibande. -
Glenn Kaino, With Arms Drawn: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith
San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA 1 November 2019 - 5 April 2020 In 1968, at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, San José State University runner Tommie Smith raised a gloved fist during the medal ceremony to protest human rights abuses around the world, and to bring international attention to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. This act of protest, which still reverberates today, is explored in a series of collaborations between Smith and Los Angeles–based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino. The exhibition includes monumental sculpture, print-based projects, and memorabilia from Smith’s personal collection that reflect his time as an athlete and civil rights activist. -
Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
deYoung Museum | San Francisco, CA 9 November 2019 - 15 March 2020 Kavi Gupta congratulates gallery artists Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Gerald Williams on their participation in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which recently opened at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, after traveling from the the Broad Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, London’s Tate Modern, and Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, AR. -
To Reclaim
Kavi Gupta | 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL, 60607 15 November 2019 - 22 February 2020 “To Reclaim” is an exhibition featuring six artists whose work “reclaims” in some form, be it reclamation of material, reclamation of a symbol, reclamation of history, or reclamation of conceptual power. Willie Cole, Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Kass, Mary Sibande, and Stan Squirewell. -
Mickalene Thomas, Better Nights
The Bass Museum of Art | Miami Beach, FL 1 December 2019 - 16 November 2020 Better Nights will present a schedule of programming arranged by the artist, including live performances, concerts, activations, a live bar and appearances by guest DJs. The first chapter, Better Days, took place at the Galerie Volkhaus in Basel, Switzerland during Art Basel 2013. -
Manish Nai, Art Basel Miami Beach: Meridians
Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 4 - 8 December 2019 In the inaugural edition of the Art Basel Miami Beach: Meridians sector, Kavi Gupta is honored to present a large-scale installation by Manish Nai of 100 Burma teak sticks wrapped...
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