US Reviews

The photographer's exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York, captures the elemental power of Blackness by intermingling portraits with celestial installations

At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the artist presents a suite of new works that confronts the notion of 'white angst' in western iconography

At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the artist presents a suite of paintings in close dialogue with the architecture of the exhibition space

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a survey of the past two decades of Mexican contemporary art struggles to unite a broad range of artworks within a cohesive structure

At the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, the artist presents a site-responsive project that looks at the fraught history of post-slavery labour practices across the Virginia countryside

From Nina Katchadourian's first survey at Pace Gallery to Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill's probings of the Indigenous economics of tobacco at the Museum of Modern Art, these are the must-see shows in New York

For the artist’s first US institutional solo show, at the Museum of Modern Art, Hill presents a series of works that probes the Indigenous economic life of tobacco

At Pace Gallery, New York, a small survey of the artist’s oeuvre presents new and existing works which re-analyse both mass media iconography and her own family history

In the majority-Black city of Cleveland, La Tanya S. Autry’s ambitious project holds space for unbound expression of Black life by rerouting visitors from moCa to the city’s Black-led cultural centres

At Acquavella Galleries, ‘Erotic Abstraction’, curated by Eleanor Nairne, presents the works of both artists together for the first time

From Hayden Dunham's sculptural tableaux to Albert Oehlen's large-scale abstractions, these are the must-see shows in LA

At Participant Inc, the artist presents photographic and video works that reflect on our increased reliance on digital space 

At Candice Madey, a presentation of the late artist early works, drawings, paintings and photographs reveals Ellis's meticulous process of reconceptualising his family archive

At the Cleveland Museum of Art’s contemporary art outpost, Transformer Station, the artist teams up with a group of teenage curators to present works that celebrate the enthusiasm of childhood artmaking

At the Baltimore Museum of Art, the artist presents three works that challenge the myth of American exceptionalism and reflect on the hard truths of US imperial rule

At Marisa Newman Projects, the artist presents an installation exploring his first experiences of identifying the self through colour

David Hammons’s early work on view at The Drawing Center during Frieze Week

At Bel Ami, Los Angeles, the artist’s paintings take a satirical look at the grisly history of American bigotry against US Asian populations

At David Lewis, New York, a presentation of the artist’s recent paintings and drawings reveals his continued obsession with sexual imagery and socialist Cuba