New Museum Exhibitionshttps://www.newmuseum.org/Upcoming exhibitions at the New Museum.en-usScreens Series: Seba Calfuqueohttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screen-series-seba-calfuqueo-1https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screen-series-seba-calfuqueo-1<p>Across her work in performance, video, installation, and ceramics, Mapuche artist <strong>Seba Calfuqueo</strong> takes her heritage as a starting point to critically reflect on the social, cultural, and political status of Indigenous subjects in contemporary Chile and Latin America. Narrated in Mapudungun and rendered in 3D animation, Calfuqueo&#8217;s videos untether the complexity of Mapuche cultural history from ...</p>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500Camilo Godoy: <em>renacemos a cada instante</em>https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/camilo-godoy-em-renacemos-a-cada-instante-emhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/camilo-godoy-em-renacemos-a-cada-instante-em<p>As the New Museum’s 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence, <strong>Camilo Godoy</strong> will create a performance exploring movement, breathing, and mourning practices. The title of his residency is borrowed from an embroidered work made by the queer Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión in 1995, the year before he died of AIDS-related complications. Godoy adjusts Centurión’s title <em>Renazco a cada instante </em> to “<em>renacemos...</em></p>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500Judy Chicago: Herstoryhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstoryhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory<p><strong>“Judy Chicago: Herstory”</strong> will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago&#8217;s work in dialogue with work by other women a...</p>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing Newhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-nothing-new-1https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-nothing-new-1<p><strong>Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo</strong> , widely known by the moniker <strong>Puppies Puppies</strong>, expands ideas around the readymade by imbuing ubiquitous and everyday objects, signifiers, and actions with a personal and political charge. She has, for example, reconfigured antibacterial gel dispensers, toilet bowl liquid, the color green, as well as the acts of sleeping, peeing, and taking a pill in installations and p...</p>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400Screens Series: EcoRove (Jumanah Abbas, Iyad Abou Gaida, and Em Joseph)https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screens-series-ecorove-jumanah-abbas-iyad-abou-gaida-and-em-josephhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screens-series-ecorove-jumanah-abbas-iyad-abou-gaida-and-em-joseph<div dir="rtl"><h4>العربية</h4></div><p><em>Where Can We Be Found?</em> is a research project and film that focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees today, exploring the various ecologies that the tree inhabits and co-inhabits. Shown in two parts and accompanied by a pair of animated drawings, the film re-tells transhistorical narratives of the Cedar, which has been used since ancient times as a symbol of eternity and immortality. ...</p>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ <em>Mi corazón latiente</em>https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pepon-osorio-my-beating-heart-em-mi-corazon-latiente-emhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pepon-osorio-my-beating-heart-em-mi-corazon-latiente-em<p>Informed by his background in theater and performance as well as his experiences as a child services case worker and professor, Osorio’s richly textured sculptures and installations are deeply invested in political, social, and cultural issues affecting Latinx and working class communities in the United States. Installed in the New Museum’s Second Floor galleries, the exhibition will focus on t...</p>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrancehttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/tuan-andrew-nguyen-radiant-remembrancehttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/tuan-andrew-nguyen-radiant-remembrance<p>Developing projects through collaborative community engagement and extensive archival research, Tuan Andrew Nguyen utilizes strategies of remembrance to highlight unofficial and suppressed histories. Interweaving the factual and the speculative and often employing mythologies of otherworldly realms, Nguyen&#8217;s films re-work dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of healing t...</p>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400Mire Lee: Black Sunhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/mire-lee-black-sunhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/mire-lee-black-sun<p>Installed in the New Museum’s Fourth Floor gallery, “Mire Lee: Black Sun” will debut a new site-specific installation featuring an architectural environment, kinetic sculpture and fabric works. Composed of materials that include low-tech motors, pumping systems, steel rods, and <span class="caps">PVC</span> hoses filled with grease, glycerin, silicone, slip, and oil, Lee’s animatronic sculptures operate both like living...</p>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400Wynnie Mynerva: The Original Riothttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wynnie-mynerva-the-original-riothttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wynnie-mynerva-the-original-riot<p>For their first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Wynnie Mynerva will develop a site-specific installation for the Lobby Gallery. Through a gallery-spanning painting—the largest ever exhibited at the New Museum—alongside a sculptural element created from the artist&#8217;s own body, Mynerva will reimagine the Biblical origin story of Eve to envision and inspire gender expansive futures. </p><p>Bo...</p>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400Screens Series: Jamie Crewehttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screen-series-jamie-crewehttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screen-series-jamie-crewe<p>Combining video with drawing, text, and music, <strong>Jamie Crewe</strong> produces dreamlike vignettes that weave together poetic retellings of Ancient Greek myths, Victorian literature, British horror stories, and queer histories. Rendered with intricate drawings bathed in saturated colored lights, or set in the craggy Scottish countryside, Crewe’s experiments with established narratives create new allegoric...</p>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400Wangechi Mutu: Intertwinedhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wangechi-mutu-intertwined-1https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wangechi-mutu-intertwined-1<p>Representing the full breadth of her practice, the presentation will encompass painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance. Mutu first gained acclaim for her collage-based practice exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation. She extends these strategies to her work across various media, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives wit...</p>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traceshttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/theaster-gates-young-lords-and-their-traceshttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/theaster-gates-young-lords-and-their-traces<p>Theaster Gates’s work in the areas of sculpture, social practice, collaborative performance, and archiving has made him one of the most compelling artists active today. Gates emerged in the early 2000s with a sculptural practice characterized by the use of salvaged materials and deeply researched interdisciplinary histories. The elegiac formalism of Gates’s large-scale tar paintings, experiment...</p>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg: The Shadow of Springhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/vivian-caccuri-and-miles-greenberg-the-shadow-of-spring-1https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/vivian-caccuri-and-miles-greenberg-the-shadow-of-spring-1<p>“The Shadow of Spring” investigates the phenomenon of vibration and how it is capable of generating collective transformative experiences. Featuring newly commissioned sculptures, installations, embroidery pieces, and sound works developed separately and in collaboration, this installation will form an encompassing environment created to provoke alternative ways to experience the sonic dimensio...</p>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500Screens Series: Zahy Guajajarahttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screens-series-zahy-guajajarahttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screens-series-zahy-guajajara<p><strong>Zahy Guajajara</strong> is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, actor, and activist from the Tentehar-Guajajara people. Interweaving dialogue in her first language, Ze’eng Eté—a dialect of the Tupi-Guarani trunk—and Portuguese, Guajajara’s video works examine contemporary indigenous identities and experiences amidst ongoing struggles for land rights and against ecological exploitation in the aftermath...</p>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500First Look: "Mezzanine"https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/first-look-mezzaninehttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/first-look-mezzanine<p>Presented as part of <strong>First Look</strong>, an ongoing series of digital projects co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum, <em><strong>Mezzanine</strong></em> is a psychotronic multimedia office adventure set on the eve of the new millennium. In the game, developed and published by <strong>Inpatient Interactive</strong>, users play as the company&#8217;s HR administrator working on mundane clerical tasks late into the night. While dropping off report...</p>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400First Look: "The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)"https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/first-look-the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-farhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/first-look-the-longest-whistlegraph-ever-so-far<p>Commissioned by the New Museum’s digital art affiliate Rhizome, the new composition was performed at the museum in May. For <em>First Look</em>, the artists made video documentation of a subsequent performance in their studio, displayed alongside materials from their composition process including manuscripts, ephemera, and a final score for <em>The Longest Whistlegraph Ever </em>. Whistlegraphs are audio-visual ...</p>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Gridhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/kapwani-kiwanga-off-gridhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/kapwani-kiwanga-off-grid<p>Over the past decade, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures, and films that consider myriad subjects including marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga’s rigorously researched projects often take the form of installations that stage new spatial enviro...</p>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescotthttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/art-and-race-matters-the-career-of-robert-colescotthttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/art-and-race-matters-the-career-of-robert-colescott<p>The bold and richly rendered works of Robert Colescott traverse art history to offer a satirical take on issues of race, beauty, and American culture. Often ahead of his time, Colescott explored the ways in which personal and cultural identities are constructed and enacted through the language and history of painting. This presentation offers a long overdue celebration of Colescott as one of th...</p>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca: Five Times Brazilhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/barbara-wagner-benjamin-de-burca-five-times-brazilhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/barbara-wagner-benjamin-de-burca-five-times-brazil<p>Working together for a decade, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produce films and video installations that feature protagonists engaged in cultural production. The duo typically collaborates with non-actors to make their films, from writing scripts to staging performances on camera. The resulting works are marked by economic conditions and social tensions present in the contexts in which th...</p>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTEDhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/doreen-lynette-garner-revoltedhttps://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/doreen-lynette-garner-revolted<p>Doreen Lynette Garner’s practice exposes the histories and enduring effects of racial violence in the United States through the frameworks of medicine and pathology by examining past and present examples of experimentation, malpractice, and exploitation enacted upon Black people. Drawing parallels to contemporary forms of displacement and neo-imperialism, her latest projects survey the forced s...</p>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400