American artist Dominic Chambers, hailing from St. Louis and currently based in New Haven, is best known for his vivid paintings that depict scenes of play and contemplation as a means to explore ideas of personal interiority. A writer himself, Chambers draws inspiration from diverse texts and movements, creating paintings dense with literary and historical…
London-based artist Vivien Zhang asks us to rethink the imperfect systems — linguistic, visual, and taxonomic — that shape our understandings of the world. Drawing from personal experiences and intensive research, she incorporates diverse motifs into her abstract compositions. Her canvases become spaces where elements from different cultures and contexts converge, breaking away from their…
London-based multidisciplinary artist Imran Perretta works across moving-image, sound, performance and poetry, probing topics from biopower and marginality to the construction and deconstruction of cultural histories through his practice. The artist’s latest commission, A Riot in Three Acts — on view now and running until 10 November 2024 at Somerset House Studios — reflects on…
Following recent institutional exhibitions at Spike Island, Hessel Museum and CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Olu Ogunnaike’s latest presentation, Is the soil right?, opened at London gallery Rose Easton earlier this month and is on view until 26 October 2024. In the show, the artist explores the parallels between humans and trees, tracing the…
New York-based artist Oren Pinhassi creates sensuous sculptures and large-scale installations that explore the politics of architectural spaces as they relate to the human body. His anthropomorphic works, often standing up to eight feet in height, examine individual vulnerability and fluidity within the built environment, probing new possibilities for coexistence. Mimicking familiar images—such as a…
Open now at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, and on view until 5 January 2025, Bneid Al Gar is the largest solo exhibition to date of the Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist, Alia Farid. Last year, Farid received the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, which alongside significant financial support offers awardees a solo exhibition at the Norwegian arts…
Inaugurating the MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s autumn programme from 18 September 2024, Black Ancient Futures brings together a group of African and diaspora artists to Portugal’s capital for an exhibition that reimagines the past, present, and future of the Black artistic experience on a transcontinental scale. The participating artists have been…
Lahore-based artist Sameen Agha’s work probes definitions of home, examining the concept’s social and physical dimensions as they intersect with gender and identity. Drawing from personal experiences, her work confronts themes of loss, belonging, and remembrance. On display at London’s Indigo+Madder gallery until 21 September 2024, her exhibition Catalyst features new installations, drawings, and sculptures…