Palai | Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce, Italy
July 25 – September 15, 2021
Blum & Poe is pleased to participate in Palai, a collaborative group exhibition organized by ten galleries and held in a historic palazzo in Lecce, Italy...
Yoshitomo Nara | Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
July 24 – October 31, 2021
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of works by artist Yoshitomo Nara—the second iteration of the exhibition following a debut at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan earlier this year...
Lynda Benglis | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
June 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022
In the late 1960s, American artist Lynda Benglis expanded the boundaries traditionally assigned to media and gender with her bold, physical, and tactile works. Since then, Benglis's endless innovation has made her a critical figure...
Tomoo Gokita: Get Down | Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
June 12 – August 22, 2021
Dallas Contemporary is pleased to present Get Down, the first North American museum exhibition featuring the work of Tokyo-based artist Tomoo Gokita. This presentation will feature Gokita’s latest large-scale paintings, including a number of never-before-seen works...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
May 29 – October 31, 2021
Following presentations at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, the Sarasota Art Museum is pleased to present Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott...
Sam Durant: Untitled (drone) | High Line Plinth, New York, NY
May 28, 2021 – August 31, 2022
High Line Art is pleased to present the second High Line Plinth commission: Untitled (drone), a large-scale fiberglass sculpture mounted 25 feet high, by artist Sam Durant...
Mohamed Bourouissa: HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!! | Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
May 21 – August 1, 2021
Goldsmiths CCA is pleased to present HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!, a solo exhibition featuring new and existing photography, sound, and installation works by Mohamed Bourouissa. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at a UK public institution...
Sam Durant: Iconoclasm | The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
May 17 – July 11, 2021
The Common Guild is pleased to present Sam Durant’s Iconoclasm—a series of drawings depicting acts of destruction enacted upon public statues and monuments. The works will be installed across multiple outdoor sites in the city of Glasgow, as part of this year’s Glasgow International Festival...
Theodora Allen: Saturnine | Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
May 14 – July 18, 2021
Kunsthal Aarhus is pleased to present Saturnine, the first institutional solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Theodora Allen. Interweaving the artist’s emblematic use of symbols, the exhibition engages with a history of Saturn...
Pia Camil | Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ
April 10 – September 19, 2021
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the southwest United States by the internationally recognized artist Pia Camil...
Yoshitomo Nara | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
April 1 – July 5, 2021
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Yoshitomo Nara, the first international retrospective of artist Yoshitomo Nara. The exhibition surveys more than 30 years of the artist's work...
Yoshitomo Nara: LACMA Exhibition Soundtrack
April 1 – July 5, 2021
On the occasion of the exhibition Yoshitomo Nara currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yoshitomo Nara presents an exhibition soundtrack...
Sonia Gomes | Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
April 1 – May 9, 2021
For her presentation at the Gwangju Biennale, Gomes will present her multi-dimensional sculptural works, created by sewing and tying together found and gifted objects and textiles exploring notions of memory and identity...
Sonia Gomes and Linder | Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
March 20 – June 27, 2021
The 11th edition, The Stomach and the Port, explores notions of the body and ways of connecting with the world through contributions from 50 international artists and two collectives...
Yoshitomo Nara: I Forgot Their Names and Often Can't Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well | Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
March 20 – August 22, 2021
Dallas Contemporary’s career survey of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara will bring together a large selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures from 2006 to the present, many of which are being exhibited for the first time...
Sam Durant: Proposal for Non-Aligned Monuments, Free Movement | Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
March 19 – May 19, 2021
“This project brings forward the concept of free movement at a time when Europe is struggling with migration from its former colonies due to war, economic deprivation and climate change...
Yoshitomo Nara | Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan
March 12 – June 20, 2021
The Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Yoshitomo Nara, the artist's first solo exhibition in Taiwan...
Robert Colescott: The Cairo Years | The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
February 9 – March 31, 2021
The American University in Cairo is proud to present four paintings made by American modernist Robert Colescott during the two years in which he lived and worked in Cairo as a researcher, artist, and the first Visiting Professor of Art at AUC...
Jim Shaw | National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne, Australia
December 19, 2020 – April 18, 2021
The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre...
Mohamed Bourouissa | Manifesta 13 Marseille, France
October 9 – November 29, 2020
For two centuries, The Palace of Arts has been home to many of the city’s educational and cultural institutions: museums, libraries, archives, ballets, and now a music school...
Ha Chong-hyun | Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
September 29 – December 20, 2020
The Daejeon Museum of Art presents the 17th Lee Dong-Hoon Art Prize exhibition, Ha Chong-hyun...
Mohamed Bourouissa: Brutal Family Roots | ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, Italy
September 18 – November 14, 2020
Mohamed Bourouissa's Brutal Family Roots pays homage to the psychiatrist, political philosopher, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon and to his complex relationship with the city of Blida, Algeria, where the artist was born...
Zhu Jinshi: Wood · Character | Fusion Art Center, Beijing China
June 6 – August 6, 2020
The first quarter of 2020 will definitely be unforgettable. We have experienced an abundance of panic, anxiety, loneliness, and solitude. As spring marches on, Fusion Art Center can finally open its doors widely, release any inhibited emotions, and embrace some long-lost happiness with Zhu Jinshi's Wood · Character...
Hammer Museum: Lunchtime Art Talk on Robert Colescott
May 27, 2020
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about works of art from the Hammer's collection. This talk on Robert Colescott's Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future: Waiting for Moses (1986) is led by Erin Christovale, associate curator...
Yukie Ishikawa | Ueno Royal Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
March 12 – 30, 2020
Alongside the 2020 VOCA Award Exhibition, The Ueno Royal Art Museum is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Yukie Ishikawa in celebration of her receipt of the VOCA the Encouragement Award in years past – in 1995 and in 1999...
Linder: Linderism | Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK
February 15 – April 26, 2020
Kettle's Yard is pleased to present an exhibition exploring Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder...
Shio Kusaka | Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles
February 15 – March 7, 2020
The VDL House in Silverlake was the home and studio of modernist architect Richard Neutra. Intervening in the structure's domestic and outdoor spaces, Shio Kusaka's installations engage with the architecture and environment of the historic house...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Portland Art Museum, OR
February 15 – December 13, 2020
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (CAC) on September 20, 2019, and now comes to the Portland Art Museum...
Mohamed Bourouissa: LINK | Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
January 18 – March 15, 2020
Mohamed Bourouissa's multidisciplinary practice is based on intensive collaborations and exchanges with groups and individuals who become both the source and the subject of his work...
Friedrich Kunath: Songs Build Little Rooms in Time | Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
December 7, 2019 – February 7, 2020
In partnership with Drag City, Blum & Poe is pleased to present Friedrich Kunath's Songs Build Little Rooms in Time – an exhibition born of an ongoing collaboration between the artist and the late David Berman.
Carroll Dunham & Albert Oehlen: Bäume / Trees | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
November 30, 2019 – March 1, 2020
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is pleased to present Bäume / Trees, an exhibition of works by painters Carroll Dunham and Albert Oehlen, featured together in an exhibition for the first time...
Kenjirō Okazaki: Retrospective Strata | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
November 23, 2019 – February 24, 2020
Kenjirō Okazaki: Retrospective Strata at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, on view November 2019 – February 2020.
Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses | Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
November 22, 2019 – March 15, 2020
NEON is pleased to present Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens. The exhibition is guest-curated by the writer, critic and art historian, Dr. David Anfam.
Solange Pessoa: Longilonge | Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
November 15, 2019 – May 24, 2020
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. Pessoa has built a significant and internationally recognized body of work over three decades, which spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, and video...
Sam Durant: Iconoclasm | Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
October 31 – November 23, 2019
Library Street Collective is excited to announce an upcoming exhibition and public project with Berlin-based American artist Sam Durant. Durant is an interdisciplinary artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues...
Pia Camil | Queens Museum, Queens, NY
October 6, 2019 – February 16, 2020
Pia Camil's work uses textile, sculpture, and performance to create environments which confront the politics of global consumerism through the language of theater and retail...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
September 20, 2019 – January 12, 2020
The Contemporary Arts Center is proud to open our 2019-2020 exhibition season with Art and Race Matters, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America's most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009)...
Yoshitomo Nara | Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
August 23 – November 22, 2019
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara presents his second solo exhibition in France and his first in over fifteen years. Nara is internationally renowned for his distinctive paintings, sculptures, and drawings of single figures...
Julian Hoeber | Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA
August 3 – September 13, 2019
The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts is pleased to present a major installation of work by Julian Hoeber...
Pia Camil participating in the Aichi Triennale, Japan
August 1 – October 14, 2019
The 2019 Aichi Triennale will feature Pia Camil's Telón de Boca, a large-scale textile work comprised of music band t-shirts and speakers...
Mohamed Bourouissa: Free Trade | Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
July 1 – September 22, 2019
The retail chain superstore Monoprix forms the backdrop for Mohamed Bourouissa's Free Trade, an exhibition encompassing fifteen years of the artist's output combining photography, video, painting, drawing, and sculpture...
Alexander Tovborg: The Deity and its Creators | Rudolph Tegner Museum & Statue Park, Dronningmølle, Denmark
June 22 – October 20, 2019
Alexander Tovborg's The Deity and its Creators at Rudolph Tegner Museum & Statue Park presents paintings created specifically for the exhibition space. Entering into a dialogue with the Danish sculptor Rudolph Tegner's work, Tovborg focuses on one piece in particular that has served as a great source of inspiration...
Yun Hyong-keun: A Retrospective | Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
May 11 – November 24, 2019
Born in 1928 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship...
This Week in Venice
May 11 – November 24, 2019
This Week in Venice: Henry Taylor, Darren Bader, Ryoji Ikeda, Enrico David, and Yun Hyong-keun
Lee Ufan | Dia Beacon, NY
May 5, 2019 – May 5, 2020
A pioneer of the Mono-ha movement in Japan, Lee Ufan developed a sculptural practice in the 1960s that explored the tension between natural and man-made materials and the dialogue between object and space....
Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara | Tramway, Scotland
April 13 – June 23, 2019
Tramway presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. This immersive installation hosts new and existing textile sculptures which visitors are invited to inhabit and activate...
Zhu Jinshi: Wave of Materials | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
March 16 – September 15, 2019
Zhu Jinshi's monumental Wave of Materials installation will be exhibited as part of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, an exhibition curated by art historian and critic Wu Hung that examines contemporary Chinese art through the lens of materiality...
Darren Bader & Henry Taylor Selected for the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy
March 7, 2019
In a speech given in the late 1930s, British MP Sir Austen Chamberlain invoked an ancient Chinese curse that he had learned of from a British diplomat who had served in Asia, and which took the curious form of saying, "May you live in interesting times"...
In Conversation: Alma Allen & JB Blunk | Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
February 23 – June 23, 2019
Like a blind date, In Conversation: Alma Allen & JB Blunk stages an encounter between two people who never met but whose work and lives share a deep affinity...
Pia Camil & Julian Hoeber | Desert X
February 9 – April 21, 2019
Set in two locations across the U.S./Mexico border (Baja, Mexico and the Coachella Valley, CA), Pia Camil's Lover's rainbow presented at Desert X is conceived as an identical set of rainbows made from painted rebar...
Julian Hoeber's two-part project presented at Desert X functions within the rubric of his Going Nowhere project, an attempt to map aspects of human thought via topology and architecture...
Linder: The Bower of Bliss | Southwark Station, London
November 8, 2018 – October 1, 2019
Art on the Underground will present a major public commission by British artist Linder at Southwark Station, launching on November 8, 2018, and on view until October 2019...
Yoshitomo Nara participating in Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand
October 19, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce Yoshitomo Nara's participation in Beyond Bliss, the inaugural edition of the Bangkok Art Biennale. In response to the curatorial prompt, Nara presents recent large-scale sculptural work representative of a mature and introspective artist now seasoned with a career spanning four decades...
Pia Camil: Telón de Boca | Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
August 11 – December 9, 2018
Pia Camil's first institutional solo exhibition in Mexico, Telón de Boca places her story at tianguis cultural del Chopo, a street market in Mexico City...
Yun Hyong-keun Retrospective | MMCA, South Korea
August 3 – December 16, 2018
Born in 1928 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship...
Pia Camil: Split Wall | Nottingham Contemporary, UK
July 14 – October 7, 2018
Working with textile installation, ceramics, and video, Mexican artist Pia Camil highlights the shortcomings of consumerism and globalization through works that are playful, interactive, and participatory...
Victor Man: The Chandler | Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
June 28 – September 30, 2018
Victor Man's work proposes the continuity of seemingly unrelated images, objects, cultures, historical events, and personal memory. Man's influences are both classical and contemporary...
Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
May 20 – August 19, 2018
Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) has made "Butterfly" compositions since 2002, and the latest to come out of his studio is 50 Kitchens (2013-18), exhibited here for the first time...
Anya Gallaccio | Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, UK
May 5 – November 4, 2018
Following an 18 month period of conservation, Lindisfarne Castle will re-open with a new major site-specific installation by internationally acclaimed artist, former Turner-prize nominated artist, Anya Gallaccio...
JB Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life | Oakland Museum of California
April 21 – September 9, 2018
A broad survey of the lifework of JB Blunk (American, 1926-2002), Nature, Art & Everyday Life brings together over 80 objects to inspire museum visitors to see the beauty of nature and art in the everyday...
Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life | Legion of Honor, San Francisco
April 19 – August 5, 2018
Julian Schnabel's first exhibition at a US West Coast institution in over 30 years, Symbols of Actual Life, will feature new, large-scale paintings, occupying the Legion of Honor's open-air courtyard. Inside, the museum's neo-classical galleries will play host to three series of paintings from the past three decades, rarely seen before by the public...
Linder: The House of Fame | Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
March 24 – June 24, 2018
The House of Fame is an ambitious exhibition conceived by Linder. At the heart of the presentation is a retrospective of the influential British artist and musician's work, spanning more than forty years of photomontage, graphics, costume, and performance...
Linder: Her Grace Land | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
March 24 – October 21, 2018
As the estate's first artist-in-residence, Linder immersed herself in the life of Chatsworth House's 500-year history...
Anya Gallaccio | 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia
March 16 – June 11, 2018
Anya Gallaccio is well known for her ephemeral, site-specific installations; temporary works that often comprise materials informed by local industries and economies such as flowers, dirt, chocolate and ice...
Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
March 6 – November 8, 2018
Anthology 2014-2016 is an installation of thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirely, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely source -- Calvin and Hobbes comic books...
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas | Seattle Art Museum, WA
February 15 – May 13, 2018
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas brings together three generations of contemporary American artists, whose work challenges a Western painting tradition that underrepresents people of color...
Pia Camil: Fade into Black | Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
January 25 – July 15, 2018
SCAD Museum of Art presents Fade into Black, an exhibition by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. In her paintings, sculptures, performances and installations, Camil draws inspiration from the urban landscapes of Latin America and engages with the history of modernism...
Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw | MSU Broad, East Lansing, MI
November 18, 2017 – February 25, 2018
New Year's Eve, 1974. Ann Arbor, Michigan. The sounds of a vacuum cleaner, a coffee can, and a violin. It was an unusual version of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" that was being played by the newly formed proto-punk band Destroy All Monsters...
We look forward to joining @object_thing and
@mendeswooddm in presenting “At The Luss House”...
On the occasion of the two-person exhibition “Kazunori Hamana and ooido syoujou”...
“With a glance back at Manet, I was thinking that I wanted a picture to straddle the divide. I want it both ways. I want it multiple ways..."
@a4d_artistsfordemocracy and @swingleft
for a virtual talk with Mimi Lauter, who will discuss her work as an activist...
Blum & Poe Broadcasts presents a preview of a forthcoming exhibition "Sympathetic Magic" organized by Bill Powers...
“Real art doesn’t age, because it’s about connecting with an idea. Art is logical..."
“With an undulating grace and imaginitive approach to narrative identity, Ogawa offers a world that is more than her memory..."
@chinatowntaylor & @beau_band play @owlbureau for Henry’s book signing...
