HOUSTON Asia Society Texas Umico Niwa’s current exhibition, “Memory Palace” (on view through October 12, 2025), doubles as an exhilarating scavenger hunt through the Asia Society Center’s two floors, revealing something charming and playful about the capacity of architectural adornment to intimate and structure selfhood.
Olafur Eliasson
LOS ANGELES The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA In “OPEN,” Eliasson encouraged careful looking as a means to “sense our way into” larger systems. That he mostly missed these goals didn’t dampen the possibility for enjoyment of his often spectacular installations, or his commendable ambition.
Olga de Amaral
PARIS Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Olga de Amaral’s long overdue survey exhibition (on view at ICA Miami through October 12, 2025) reflects a recent wave of renewed interest in fiber art, as U.S. and European museums re-evaluate the ties between abstraction and woven textiles.
Kazuo Kadonaga
LOS ANGELES Blum Gallery Kazuo Kadonaga’s work seduces almost instantly. There’s a palpable glow coming off the waxy surface of wood, the matte sheen of washi paper, the tonal gradations of scorched bamboo, and the glossy finish of melted glass.
Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes
SEATTLE Koplin Del Rio The satire and sharp wit of the “Pelts” are welcome, though they forsake the resonant power of the “Terra Nada” sculptures, with their aura of generative potential.
Monika Zarzeczna
KINGSTON, NY 68 Prince Street Gallery Zarzeczna explores the “trans-state” of objects—items that have lost their original function but persist as memories, embodying an in-between realm where meaning shifts and systems evolve.
Chiharu Shiota
BOSTON Institute of Contemporary Art Watershed Ilan Natan Magat of Israel College has said that home “can be a structure, a feeling, a metaphor, and a symbol,” and one senses the truth of that statement in Shiota’s work.
Carlie Trosclair
ROCKLAND, MAINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art Carlie Trosclair, the 2024 recipient of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s Visual Arts Fellowship, perceives nature as all-encompassing and regenerative, offering a lens through which to counteract our fears of annihilation and feel connected to each other.
Tobias Bradford
HELSINKI Sinne “Health and Safety” demonstrates Bradford’s ability to scope out oxymoronic circumstances and construct scenarios that expose their shortcomings. In that regard, the blandness of the title is strategically deceptive.
Olivia Erlanger
NEW YORK Luhring Augustine In Olivia Erlanger’s recent exhibition, “Spinoff,” a disruptive volley of arrows piercing the upper wall of Luhring Augustine Tribeca’s entry hall and main space lent a mythic spin to intriguing simulacra of a not-quite-natural world.
