Parrish Art Museum, Dan Flavin Art Institute, and Tripoli Gallery Although celebrated in Europe, Sonnier has not had a major American museum exhibition before last year’s “Until Today” at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. This retrospective, organized by Terrie Sultan, director of the Parrish, and guest curator Jeffrey Grove, showcased 39 pieces from 1967 through the present, providing a broad context for works displayed concurrently at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton and Southhampton’s Tripoli Gallery.

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BOSTON ICA Watershed The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston launched its new exhibition space, the Watershed, last year with a large-scale exhibition of Diana Thater’s installations.

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NEW YORK Assembly Room Fawn Krieger’s “Soft Power” inaugurated the new Assembly Room, a gallery run by curators Natasha Becker, Paola Gallio, and Yulia Topchiy with the mission to celebrate and empower independent women curators. “Soft power” typically describes a technique of using cultural and economic persuasion, rather than military coercion, to achieve political ends.

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WASHINGTON, DC Hamiltonian Gallery Isolation and estrangement, tinged with a dark humor, haunt a long, narrow gallery where sculptures lie about like remnants of a forgotten journey or stage props awaiting human agents. Magali Hébert-Huot has cloaked them in white for the most part, pops of acid green and pink disrupting the palette of oblivion and challenging gender conventions.

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VANCOUVER Vancouver Aquarium Composed of debris retrieved from the once pristine shores of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii, “Vortex” tackles the complex contextualizing of the nebulous Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest of several floating plastic garbage gyres around the world and a sprawling, slimy mass of filth.

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ROCHESTER, VERMONT Big Town Gallery A child of two West Coast artists, Bruce Edelstein grew up with a pencil in his hand, and his facility for imaginative form animates the clay sculptures shown in his recent exhibition “Oaxaca.”

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NEW YORK Fort Tryon Park Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir, a highly regarded Icelandic-born artist, is best known for her androgynous figures, which sidestep gender and sexual identity issues in favor of ambiguity.

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