US Reviews

At Gagosian, New York, paintings that blend surrealism and social realism depict the disaffection of modern workers

Portland’s arts biennial, Converge 45, adopts an idealist vision of what it means to be a citizen of the world

At MOCA GA, the artist's sculptures adapt Kente cloth as a framework for pan-Africanism

At Night Gallery, Los Angeles, claustrophobic paintings of horse races meditate on risk, desire and control

An untitled exhibition at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, explores the friction between the artworld’s emphasis on in-person experience and its dependence on mediation 

At his studio in Long Island City, New York, the artist presents a multi-channel film that unspools surreally out of a 1978 NFL disaster

A survey at The Broad, Los Angeles, balances the artist’s claims of universality with an acknowledgement of his freewheeling appropriation

From a group show of funky ceramics at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, to Richard Mosse at Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco

At Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, the artist shows a colour-shifted feature-length film and photographs that use controversial Geographic Information Systems technology

At anonymous, New York, the downtown artist shows paintings and prints made of roses and hair that pay homage to those lost in the AIDS era of the 1990s and beyond

At Hauser & Wirth, New York, Mark Bradford shows new paintings alongside video work and sculpture that probes histories of race, land and migration

Justin Bieber meets Pierre Bonnard in the artist’s new erotic, collage-inflected paintings at Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles

At The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, a group show of ceramics explores the influence of the 1960s San Francisco funk movement on artists today

From solo shows at PROXYCO and the Whitney Museum to a group show at CARA, here are the best exhibitions in New York

By focussing on the artist’s serial drawings, the exhibition goes to great lengths to unburden O’Keeffe of her sensual associations

At Templon, New York, the artist presents caricatures that illustrate the ever-present violence in contemporary society

At The Drawing Center, New York, the artist presents papercut scenes of homoerotic couplings inflected with conventions of the Chinese craft

From Eiko Otake’s installation at Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, to a group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows

At the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the two South African artists present multi-media works that memorialize anti-Apartheid resistance

A group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, explores how queer strategies have undergirded art and technology in the past five decades