Thomas Demand

TORONTO Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto In his first major Canadian exhibition, spanning over a decade of work, a lightness infuses this memory, more introspective than retrospective, telling less of where Demand has been than foreshadowing where he is going. 

Read More


Amy Hauft 

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA There’s a certain logic to Hauft becoming a sculptor who works with themes of space and the landscape. Her father was an aerospace engineer, and she credits his engineering abilities for the development of her practical skills.

Read More


Rona Pondick

NEW YORK Marc Straus Gallery The drawings clearly swayed the production of the sculptures, which are pervaded by the same underlying sense of disquiet. Pulsating with subdued energy, each work features two or more figures and has its own presence and implied narrative.

Read More


Theaster Gates

NEW YORK New Museum Gates’s highly individual clay forms—some spiked and tall, some squat and shiny, bulbous, cylindrical, or drawn upward as narrow tubes—are an assembly of voices, each with its own sensual concentration of material density and un-mattered spirit.

Read More


Mary Ann Unger

WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS Williams College Museum of Art Unger’s intertwined roles as mother, activist, and curator, as well as artist, foreshadowed those of today’s cultural workers, who often juggle organizing, administration, and educational work in addition to art-making.

Read More


Kim Morgan

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA Dalhousie Art Gallery The body evoked in Morgan’s work is porous and ephemeral, dispersed and unbounded. It’s a way of seeing ourselves that was impossible for most of human history, needing a specific set of scientific and technological lenses.

Read More


Rashaad Newsome

NEW YORK Park Avenue Armory Questioning Modernism as a Eurocentric appropriation of African culture, Newsome presents an alternative formation in which the expressive dynamic of ballroom vogue and Black femme/trans performance serves as both a model and critique.

Read More