Exhibition Reviews

From Cyprien Galliard’s triumphant homecoming in Paris to Bruno Zhu’s Barcelona debut, these are the best exhibitions of the year

From T. Eliott Mansa's take on the iconic 1970s sunken living room to Didier William's largest exhibition to date at MOCA North Miami, here are the best shows to see during Miami Art Week

At the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, the artist activates the archives of Scotland’s most influential carpet designers, James Templeton & Co Ltd and Stoddard International plc

At Damien & the Love Guru, Zurich, the artist’s new series presents a stylistic mashup of unsettling scenes

At Kavi Gupta, Chicago, the artist debuts meditative paintings that are about their own making

At Studio Voltaire, London, a new film narrated by Ben Whishaw asks why the intelligence services proved such an ideal calling for gay men in the early 20th century

From an exhibition of Zineb Sedira’s maritime works at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, to Anne Imhof’s labyrinthine locker room at Sprüth Magers, London

At Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the artist rebels against the limits of traditional media

The artist’s survey exhibition at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art captures immateriality and the residues of loss

A two-venue homecoming exhibition at Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations explores youthful silliness, romanticism and the pitfalls of restoring the past

At Casey Kaplan, New York, the South African artist transforms everyday materials into colossal tapestries inspired by movements that characterize the dances of his homeland

From a comprehensive survey of Christopher Knowles at the Watermill Center, New York, to Marla Hlady and Christof Migone’s sound installations at Christie Contemporary, Toronto, here are the best shows to see across the US and Canada

'Queering Photography’ at C/O Berlin and ‘Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer’ at Schwules Museum explore representations of identity, gender, disability and sexuality

At Kunsthalle Münster, the artist canonizes contemporary history in his riotous first institutional solo exhibition outside of Poland

At The Shed, New York, figurative paintings on pardo paper lead us to reconsider our own positions in relation to artworks and museum spaces

At Amant, Brooklyn, the women-led group show fluidly reimagines the mythological creature in a media-spanning exhibition

At a retrospective at Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, 40 years of the collective’s work demonstrates their trans-disciplinary explorations of Colombian histories of violence and displacement

An exhibition of the artist’s films at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, examines the relationship between landscapes, archives and memories

An exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, unites the artist’s maritime works, exploring narratives of migration, power and trade  

‘STAND’, at The Watermill Center, New York, is the most comprehensive survey to date at the institution that jumpstarted the artist’s 50-year career