Exhibition Reviews

From a posthumous Martin Wong retrospective in Camden to Matthew Arthur Williams’s sensitive debut in Dundee 

Environmental politics loom large in this year’s Anthropocene-themed edition of the Icelandic biennale

At Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, sculptures and collages reference modesty screens, BDSM and gay porn mags to index the trans experience

Utopian sculptures and drawings unexhibited since their making are on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles

At Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, a new body of work by the Swedish artist explores exhaustion and systemic failure

The artist’s personal and artistic roots are intertwined within a primordial landscape at MASSIMODECARLO in London

At the Fine Arts Museum, the greatest delights of ‘Small World’ are artworks that play with an absence of body or sound

Across two Chelsea galleries, ‘Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon’ transcends earlier feminist interpretations of the artist’s work to delve into cosmic ecosystems of vegetal delights

‘Cosmos Cinema’, the 14th Shanghai Biennale at Power Station of Art, explores economic exploitation and escapism during our current Cold War

The artist visits a once-in-a-generation retrospective in Paris, contemplating Rothko’s pursuit of the sublime and his lasting influence

At Maureen Paley, London, the artist’s enticing micro-landscapes examine the results of humanity’s interference with ecology

At The Treehouse, Lagos, the artist evokes the Yoruba concept of àse into visions of men enacting rituals in dialogue with unseen gods

At Tina Kim, New York, the artist welds together the pursuit of liberation in the symbolic, psychic and lived realms

From Richard Prince’s nightmarish appropriations at Gagosian to Lisetta Carmi’s recently rediscovered photographs at Estorick Collection

At Amant, New York, a survey of the artist's work commemorates the verse of poets censured by governments through sculpture and installations

The artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico, celebrates a three-decade career that mines the complexities of Mexican culture

At Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, an exhibition dedicated to a little-known Romanian artist uses re-creation to comprehend those whose life stories are lost to history

At Museum Tinguely, Basel, the artist’s interactive exhibition highlights the importance of food as a carrier of cultural identity

The artist’s smoky painted world at Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris opens an a-historic space for female pleasure

From Moki Cherry's feminist reimagining of family life to a captivating retrospective of the self-declared mystic James Lee Byars