From an exhibition celebrating the life and career of filmmaker Bill Gunn at Artists Space to Wade Guyton’s latest solo outing at Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows in the US this month
For his latest solo outing at Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, the artist presents a series of paintings inspired from the news lines during the pandemic and the minutia inside his studio
At the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the late artist, who died tragically during 9/11, is remembered for his trenchant works that reflect on the transcendence and vulnerability of the Black male body
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, presents the late artist’s 1960s screen-print series ‘heroes and sheroes’ which stands as a rebellion against the status quo and the Catholic Church
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'Give It or Leave It' sees the Watts Towers and Alice Coltrane's Sai Anantam Ashram as visionary sites for worldbuilding
From Deana Lawson's cosmic portraiture at the Guggenheim to Christina Quarles splayed out figures at MCA Chicago, these are the must-see shows in America right now
At The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, the group show, focusing on intersectional artists, situates artmaking as a crucial salve to feminist cultural work
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 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
