Reviews

At Vleeshal, Middelburg, the artist’s darkened spaces shed light on both the city's colonial burden and the invisibility of Black bodies

The Spanish Harlem museum presents a survey of the influential artist collective Taller Boricua

At CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, the artist presents a series of vanitas-inspired paintings about Bay Area slang

At Cubitt, London, the artist reenacts Caribbean rituals and pastimes to preserve the legacy of his loved ones

At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the artist’s trio of short films explore the boundaries of language 

Conceptual artist Patrick Jackson presents a series of photographs and glass shelves that riff on modernism and minimalism

At Project Native Informant, London, the artist asks how one person’s labour is exploited to facilitate another person’s leisure 

The LA gallery partners with TRII to present an online show on the ‘counterhistories’ of Black experience, but should we ask more of galleries in their antiracist efforts?

In a generous survey at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the artist reminds us that, even in times of adversity, art has the power to bring people together

At von ammon co., Washington, D.C., the artist presents a series of new-media works that further his ‘New Peace’ polemics against the West’s exploitation of the natural world 

The artist’s portraits of Chinese expats at London’s Massimo De Carlo make for dissonant viewing 

At Gallery 1957, Accra, the artist’s use of both Ghanaian Kente and Malian textile traditions ‘offers new possibilities for the exchange of cultural knowledge’

At The Box, Los Angeles, the artist presents a series of paintings that reflect on the last four years and sees President Trump being devoured by a troupe of vagina-dentata figures

A group exhibition at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger draws attention to the unique positionality of Caribbean artists

At Soft Opening, London, the artist’s new sculptures explore the psychic terrain of domestic space in the age of surveillance capitalism

Commsisioned in partnership with Chisenhale Gallery, Okon’s latest exhibition at Void Derry captured creative labour in complicated states of flow and arrest

A group exhibition at the MCA Denver challenges our conceptions of what it means to be a US citizen 

 

At Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, the artist awakens novel patterns of figuration in her large-scale canvases

At Richard Gray Warehouse, Chicago, the artist explores the concrete and unconscious markers of his identity 

At Galerie Max Mayer, a series of LED ‘paintings’ reflects on the value of performative practices