Reviews

At Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, the artist presents eight large-format, black and white photographs depicting gay sexuality and scenes from nature

At Friends Indeed Gallery, the artist presents eight large-scale paintings depicting herself, loved ones and life as part of the Asian diaspora

From Heman Chong’s wry humour in Singapore to Lee Bul’s ‘soft sculpture’ performances in Seoul, these are the must-see shows in the region 

At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the artist moves between colourful figuration and abstraction to capture the experiences of trauma, loss and hope

At Museo del Novecento, the artist’s first retrospective since her passing in 2014, reveals her feminist beginnings and continued liberation through abstract art 

At Galeria Municipal do Porto, the artist uses sound, videos and print to investigate ergotism and the right to self-determination in healthcare

From Rebecca Ackroyd's painted lockdown dreams in Berlin to Diana Policarpo's investigations of ergot fungus

At Goodman Gallery, the artist’s first UK solo show presents paintings like memories of a hot day revisited in sleep

At KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, more than 250 works offer dark and eccentric makeovers of psychoanalysis and kitsch

Chris Sharp’s new LA gallery opens with a show of abstract paintings inspired by art-historical movements from impressionism to 1970s performance art

At Arario Gallery, Seoul, the conceptual artist’s effaced periodicals expose the limits of perception and reject dominant value systems 

From PS1’s abolitionist exhibition to Hague Yang’s world of precious objects, these are the best shows in North America

At Peres Projects, Berlin, the artist’s uncanny paintings and sculptures speak to how female sexuality can be used as a weapon 

The artist's first institutional solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores lives of Brown, queer subjects through a scrim of nostalgia

At The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artist's series of stoneware works offer a feminist critique of domestic life under the unmistakable presence of death

At MoMA PS1, New York, Nicole R. Fleetwood curates a show that considers the artistic output of those irrevocably shaped by the conditions of the prison industrial complex

At Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, the artist’s series of dollhouses reference literature and art history to reveal a bygone bourgeois ideal

The Sharjah Art Foundation presents ‘Black Pocket’ a survey of the artist’s work exploring memory and inherited trauma at the hands of imperialism

At Streams, Hong Kong, what was once the region's centre of toy manufacturing becomes a trippy tumble into a world of toxic teddies and sadistic Care Bears 

A group show at The Third Line, Dubai, featuring Sophia Al-Maria and Farah Al Qasimi, explores the nostalgia that comes with temporal dislocation