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Must-see Milwaukee exhibits on view in May 2026 | The Shortlist

The article highlights several art exhibitions on view in Milwaukee in May 2026, curated around themes of graduation and motherhood. Featured shows include Ahmari Benton's solo exhibition 'No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear' at Mitchell Street Arts, Cameron Clayborn's solo show 'That's When Love Swallows You Whole, Right. Now' at Experimental Sculpture Room, the group exhibition 'Mom & Art' at Milwaukee Makers Market, and a youth art exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Many of the shows honor resilience, identity, memory, and the complexities of motherhood, with some featuring works by artists who have passed away.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 22 link 6 artists

The Bronx Museum of the Arts hosts Seventh AIM Biennial open house

The Bronx Museum of the Arts hosted its Seventh AIM Biennial Open House on April 18, a free family day that combined hands-on art-making activities with the ongoing biennial exhibition. Visitors participated in button-making, print-making, screen printing, and memory box creation, led by AIM artists including Skip Brea, Hedwig Brouckaert, Ricki Dwyer, Leekyung Kang, Juyon Lee, lauren mcavoy, Piero Penizzotto, Motohiro Takeda, and V Yeh. The day also featured a critique session with artist V Yeh and a panel discussion titled “Tender Monuments,” moderated by co-curator Nell Klugman, exploring themes of personal, communal, and environmental grief.

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Review: “Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try” at the Holocaust Museum Houston

The Holocaust Museum Houston is currently hosting "Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try," an exhibition focusing on the early works of the Holocaust survivor and NO!art movement founder. Organized by the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the show highlights Lurie’s "War Series," featuring paintings, drawings, and never-before-seen ephemera created as a means of processing the trauma of his imprisonment in camps like Buchenwald. The works, ranging from the immediate post-war period to decades later, serve as a visceral record of memory and loss, including tributes to his family members murdered in the Rumbula Forest massacre.

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article local schedule Apr 14, 2026 visibility 21 link 5 artists

BmoreArt’s Picks: April 14-20

Baltimore’s art scene is hosting a dense schedule of events from April 14–20, 2026, featuring major lectures, exhibition openings, and multimedia performances. Highlights include a talk by Dr. Denise Murrell at the Baltimore Museum of Art regarding Matisse’s time in Martinique, a lecture on Afrofuturism by Dr. Myers Perry at Goucher College, and the opening of Douriean Fletcher’s jewelry exhibition at the Walters Art Museum. Other notable events include the "More Than Trust" group show at Design Distillery and the Baker Artist Award Finalist Showcase at Current Space.

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person people schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 18 link 43 artists

Meaningful projects

Detroit-based artist Elonte Davis and Hungarian curator Kriszti Sarusi are among several creatives reflecting on the personal and social impact of their recent projects. Davis highlighted his 2026 community-centered initiatives, including his solo exhibition 'Homeroom: Detroit Taught Me First' and workshops at the Detroit Institute of Arts, while Sarusi discussed 'Floating Reality,' an exhibition series designed to provide space for underrepresented artists through a collaborative collective.

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article local schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Chicago Artist Brian Sykes draws huge crowd for emotional exhibit debut

Chicago-based artist Brian Sykes returned to the Beverly Arts Center for the opening of his multimedia exhibition, “I Heard the City Breathe.” The event drew a significant crowd and featured a unique blend of visual art, film, and live vocal performances, including a set by Sykes himself. The project explores the emotional and cultural realities of Chicago’s Black experience, utilizing an intergenerational approach to discuss identity and memory.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 10, 2026 visibility 10 link 1 artist

Where the Sky Remembers: Ashish Kushwaha’s Solo Exhibition to Open at Palette Art Gallery

Artist Ashish Kushwaha is set to debut a solo exhibition titled 'Where the Sky Remembers' at Palette Art Gallery in New Delhi. Running from April 23 to May 23, 2026, the showcase features a collection of watercolours and acrylic paintings that depict expansive, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the artist's travels through the Himalayan regions. Kushwaha’s work emphasizes the grandeur of nature while minimizing human presence, using a vivid color palette to explore themes of environmental change and ecological memory.

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article local schedule Apr 8, 2026 visibility 13 link 4 artists

Three exhibitions opening April 18 at Annapolis Royal gallery

Artsplace Gallery in Annapolis Royal is set to launch three new exhibitions on April 18, headlined by a community-focused project titled "AfterBurn: Stories from a Season of Fire." This central exhibition features a diverse range of media—including visual art, photography, and film—created by artists from across Nova Scotia in response to the devastating 2025 wildfire season. The initiative also incorporates personal reflections and archives from local residents, particularly those from West Dalhousie who were directly impacted by the fires.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 11 link 3 artists

Intuit Solo Show A Dream Come True For Self-Taught Morgan Park Artist Marvin Young

Self-taught artist Marvin Young, 64, who has an intellectual and developmental disability, will have his first solo exhibition, “Impressions of a City,” at the Intuit Art Museum in Chicago from April 9 to August 23, 2026. Curated by Christina Stavros, the show features Young’s vivid drawings of Chicago cityscapes, architecture, and portraits, created from memory using graphite, colored pencils, crayons, and markers. Young, who works at Envision Unlimited and Arts of Life—nonprofits supporting people with disabilities—has long dreamed of selling his art, and this exhibition marks a major milestone in that goal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 31, 2026 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

‘Under the Red Tent’ weaves memory, labor, and community at The CAMP Gallery

The CAMP Gallery in North Miami is hosting "Under the Red Tent," an immersive fiber art exhibition presented in collaboration with Red Thread Art Studio Miami. Featuring over 20 women artists, the show transforms the gallery into a monochromatic red environment where threads are suspended, woven, and draped to create a tactile sanctuary. The exhibition launched on International Women’s Day and functions as an evolving space that integrates a living oral history archive alongside physical textile works.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 11, 2026 visibility 15 link 1 artist

Whitney Biennial 2026 | Art & Artists

The 2026 Whitney Biennial has opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, featuring a video and sound installation by artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Their work, titled 'Until we became fire and fire us,' explores collective feelings of love, longing, and haunting in the context of Palestinian erasure, weaving together traditional songs, contemporary footage of indigenous plants, and personal ephemera like drawings by Abou-Rahme's father.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 10, 2026 visibility 10 link 2 artists

The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University Presents Silent Witness, a Solo Exhibition Featuring the Work of Krista Svalbonas

The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University has opened a solo exhibition titled 'Silent Witness' by artist Krista Svalbonas. The exhibition, curated by Savannah Hood, features a multi-disciplinary installation exploring themes of displacement, memory, and resistance, inspired by Svalbonas's family history as refugees from the Soviet-occupied Baltic states. It includes four thematic sections and incorporates photography, archival research, and audio recordings.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 6, 2026 visibility 13 link 1 artist

Press Release: Pace University Art Gallery Presents Siobhan McBride’s Summer Remembers Winter

Pace University Art Gallery presents *Summer Remembers Winter*, a solo exhibition by painter Siobhan McBride, opening February 14, 2026. The show features new works exploring disjointed spaces, memory, and identity shaped by dislocation, reflecting McBride's experience as a Korean-born, U.S.-raised adoptee. The exhibition includes a free public reception on February 19 and an artist talk on March 5, running through March 21, 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 5, 2026 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Yoonshin Park Opens up the Books for Participation at Hyde Park Art Center

Yoonshin Park's solo exhibition "Prompt and Prompted" is on view at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, featuring artists' books, video, and paper-based works that explore reading, memory, and materiality. The show includes pieces from Park's "How (Not) to Read" series, such as the unfurled scroll "I can no longer see. Whose story remains?" (2022), alongside works like "Partial Reading," "Night," and "Neither Flat Nor Fixed," accompanied by a video of the artist manipulating materials that generates a white-noise soundtrack.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 30, 2026 visibility 8 link 3 artists

URI professor presents ‘Spirit of the Place and People’ art exhibit – Rhody Today

University of Rhode Island professor and artist Hongbing Tang is presenting her solo exhibition, 'Spirit of the Place and People,' at URI's Green Hall. The show features her watercolor paintings, which explore themes of memory, cultural heritage, and the layered histories of specific locations, and will be on view through April 30.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 19, 2026 visibility 13 link 7 artists

Alfa Art Gallery presents "Reflections of the Living World"

Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey, presents "Reflections of the Living World," its Winter 2026 Photography Exhibition running from January 20 to March 21, 2026. The free exhibition features thirteen artists—including Alan Chimacoff, Arik Gorban, Barry Rosenthal, and Jeremy Dennis—whose works explore perception, memory, and storytelling through contemporary photography. The show is available both in-person and virtually, with opening receptions on January 30 and February 6.

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Humid Traces

Humid Traces, curated by Federico Pérez Villoro, is an exhibition at an unnamed New York venue that examines how bodies of water are weaponized as borders amid climate change and extreme weather. The show features international artists—including Dele Adeyemo, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Zishaan A Latif, Caio Reisewitz, Susan Schuppli, Marisa Srijunpleang, Studio Folder, and Leonel Vásquez—whose works in installation, sound, photography, video, and data visualization reveal the violent effects of migration-control technologies and water's material memory.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 19, 2025 visibility 18 link 1 artist

Opening reception at UWAG for "i look to the skies" an installation by Jude Abu Zaineh.

The University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) opened an exhibition titled "i look to the skies," a solo installation by Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist Jude Abu Zaineh. The work centers on Maqlouba, a traditional Palestinian dish, as a metaphor for diaspora, memory, and cultural preservation. The installation incorporates bioart, video, sculpture, textiles, and petri dishes cultivated from food remnants and foraged materials, creating a contemplative sanctuary that explores themes of exile, migration, and identity under colonial violence.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 6, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Long Overdue, First Museum Retrospective of Mavis Pusey Explores Artist's Geometric Abstraction Over Five Decades

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania is hosting "Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images," the first museum retrospective of Jamaican-American artist Mavis Pusey (1928-2019). Curated by Hallie Ringle and Kiki Teshome, the exhibition spans five decades and features over 60 works, including seven paintings shown publicly for the first time. Pusey, who studied at the Art Students League and worked at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, was known for her geometric abstraction at a time when many Black artists focused on figuration. The show will travel to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Will Present Landmark Josefina Auslender Retrospective and Hung Liu’s "Happy and Gay"

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will present two exhibitions this winter: "Josefina Auslender: Drawing Myself Free" (December 11, 2025–May 31, 2026), the first museum retrospective of Argentine-born, Maine-based artist Josefina Auslender, featuring over 90 drawings from the 1970s to the present; and "Hung Liu: Happy and Gay" (January 22–May 31, 2026), which examines how Hung Liu reinterpreted Chinese propaganda from her childhood during the Cultural Revolution through ten paintings, prints, archival materials, and a video. Both shows explore themes of immigration, history, memory, and personal experience.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 10, 2025 visibility 14 link 7 artists

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

Artist Issam Kourbaj is curating and mentoring three emerging UAE-based artists—Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum, and Alla Abdunabi—for the Beyond Emerging Artists programme at Abu Dhabi Art, which runs November 19–23 at Manarat al-Saadiyat. The artists are creating new works for the fair and separate outdoor installations in Al Ain, including at historical sites like Al Ain Oasis and Jebel Hafeet Tombs, with the outdoor pieces on view for six months. Kourbaj, a Syrian-born artist based in Cambridge, selected the trio for their diverse materials and shared focus on place and memory.

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article local schedule Oct 12, 2025 visibility 9 link 5 artists

The more, the merrier: DPR Gallery newest creative space in area’s thriving art scene

DPR Gallery, a new contemporary art space, opened in downtown Lake Charles, Louisiana, with an inaugural exhibition titled "Rebirth" featuring works by internationally renowned artist Peregrine Honig. The gallery is owned by Paul Picheloup, alongside friends Derrick Guidry and Ryan Jett, and is named after their shared initials. Honig's exhibition explores femininity, identity, and cultural memory through classic fairy tales and folklore.

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Review: “Mark Me, Too: Five Artists” at Hyde Park Art Center

The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago presents “Mark Me, Too: Five Artists,” a group exhibition curated by Dr. Rikki Byrd, the center’s inaugural Radicle Curatorial Resident. The show features works by Lisa DeAbreu, Lex Marie, Natasha Moustache, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Ciarra K. Walters, each exploring mark-making as a conceptual and material practice. Highlights include Walters’ video “Eileen’s Daughters,” which uses fragile eggshell-covered suits to evoke familial intimacy and vulnerability; DeAbreu’s textile works that transform household items into visual heirlooms; Ogbara’s sculptural piece “Hopscotch (A Safe Space to Land),” combining bronze and soil to address Black beauty and West African heritage; and Marie’s reimagined American flags made from hospital blankets and beads, critiquing the nation’s relationship with Black maternity and childhood.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Art gallery exhibition of works by Alberto Rey through Nov. 21

An exhibition titled “ATLAS: Historical Works and Recent Journeys of Alberto Rey” is on view at the Marion Art Gallery through November 21. The show features 133 paintings, drawings, and ceramics by Alberto Rey, a SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus who taught at Fredonia from 1989 to 2022. The works were created during and after a five-month expedition to 14 countries and 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2024, alongside pivotal pieces from past series such as “Binary Forms,” “Extinct Birds,” and “Critically Endangered Palms of Cuba.” The exhibition also includes journal entries, sketchbooks, and art supplies from the voyage.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 16, 2025 visibility 14 link 5 artists

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth highlights Oak Cliff artist with ‘David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time'

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting 'David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time,' a solo exhibition featuring the Oak Cliff-based multidisciplinary conceptual artist David-Jeremiah. The show, on view from August 16 to November 2, includes new polychromatic paintings from his EE (Emma Esse) series and works from his I Drive Thee tondo series, which explore themes of transcendence, ritual, and the dichotomy of beauty and violence through the motif of fire and the Lamborghini automobile. The exhibition is guest-curated by Christopher Blay, a Liberian-born American artist and curator who serves as Director of Public Programs at the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 12, 2025 visibility 14 link 6 artists

'Through the Veil' exhibition at Sarasota Art Museum an immersive labyrinth of mixed media hanging assemblages

Nassau-born, Atlanta-based artist Lillian Blades presents 'Through the Veil,' her first solo museum exhibition, at the Sarasota Art Museum. The show features suspended mixed-media assemblages called 'veils,' made from Plexiglas, wood, family photographs, and found objects, stitched together with a metallic knotting technique. Inspired by her mother, who was a quilter and died in childbirth, Blades creates immersive, tapestry-like works that envelop viewers and cast intricate shadows on the museum's walls and floors. The exhibition also includes earlier wall assemblages encrusted with three-dimensional materials like antique mirrors and empty picture frames.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 5, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

A tome accompanying the Lahore Biennale is a celebration of authenticity

The second Lahore Biennale took place in early 2020 across Lahore, Pakistan, with installations at historic sites such as the Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Fort, Tollinton Market, and Bradlaugh Hall. Artists like Barbara Walker and the Pak Khawateen Painting Club presented works addressing colonial erasure, sexuality in an Islamic Republic, and water scarcity. Skira has published the "Lahore Biennale 02 Reader," edited by Sheikha Hoor al Qasimi and Iftikhar Dadi, which compiles essays and reflections from the biennial's academic forum, including contributions from the Ajam Media Collective and anthropologist Seema Golestaneh on Sufism and state power in Iran and Pakistan.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 10, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists

Richard Hunt’s life is on exhibit in Chicago — and it’s a walk through Civil Rights history

A new exhibition titled “Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt” opens at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, exploring the 70-year career of the late sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in 2023 at age 88. The show includes his tools, workbench, personal books and photos, alongside key works such as “Hero’s Head” (1956), a welded bust created in response to the murder of Emmett Till, who was Hunt’s neighbor. The exhibition originated at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Museum in Springfield and was conceived in 2019, with curator Ross Stanton Jordan and director Lance Tawzer aiming to present Hunt as a young artist deeply engaged with Civil Rights history.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 10 link 1 artist

A Journey to Distant Memories, a solo-exhibition of works by Pennsylvania- based painter O’Neil Scott.

The Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine in Bangor announces a new solo exhibition, "A Journey to Distant Memories," featuring works by Pennsylvania-based painter O'Neil Scott. Running from May 16 to September 6, 2025, the show includes never-before-seen paintings and some of the artist's largest compositions. Scott, born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, draws inspiration from memories of his youth, exploring themes of community, migration, and the passage of time through works such as "In Case of Emergency" and "Fading Promises." Admission to the museum is free in 2025 thanks to sponsor Birchbrook.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition Transforms the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery

On April 26, 2025, the School of the Arts held its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, featuring twenty-nine emerging and established artists. Curated by Amal Issa, the show spans a wide range of mediums including installations, videos, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, with many works exploring themes of memory, ancestry, and identity. Notable pieces include Maya Dixon's immersive installation using gourds and found objects, Daniel Castro's surreal cityscapes, and Ridwana Rahman's interactive carpet piece that invites reflection on direction and prayer.

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