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Suffolk exhibit celebrates Boston-based women artists

The Suffolk University Gallery recently concluded "The Long View," a three-part exhibition series dedicated to celebrating the enduring careers of Boston-based women artists. The final installation, which closed on April 3, featured abstract works by Sharon Kaitz, Alyson Schultz, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Maggi Brown. The showcase highlighted the evolution of their studio practices, ranging from Schultz’s urban-inspired "Fracture" series to Brown’s material-focused oil paintings that explore the intersection of beauty and disturbance.

The Hands That Feed: New Art Exhibit at Museum Highlights Farm Workers - The Source Weekly

The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, has unveiled a new solo exhibition titled "Miguel Almeida: Las Manos que dan de Comer" (The Hands That Feed). Featuring large-scale murals, hand-painted animations, and a ten-foot-tall cutout figure surrounded by actual soil, the installation explores the daily lives and human stories of farm workers in the American West. Almeida, a first-generation Mexican American artist based in Boise, draws from his own family history of agricultural labor to create vibrant, contemporary works influenced by skateboarding culture and Mexican folk traditions.

Tokyo yokai immersive exhibition brings old legends alive

The "Yokai Immersive Experience Exhibition Tokyo" has opened at Warehouse Terrada, utilizing projection mapping and 3D technology to bring over 300 supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore to life. The exhibition features digital recreations of historical emaki scrolls and ukiyo-e prints by masters such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Katsushika Hokusai, alongside contemporary works from the Yokai Art Museum in Shodoshima.

Community Exhibition Explores Death, Grief and Rituals at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has launched a community-led exhibition exploring the universal themes of death, grief, and mourning rituals. Part of the annual "A Matter of Life and Death Festival 2026," the showcase combines historical artworks from the museum’s permanent collection with contemporary perspectives, including the role of artificial intelligence in grief management. The program features interactive workshops led by artists Bianca Beneduzi and Jemma Mellor, as well as a comedy night designed to spark open dialogue about mortality.

Gold by Serakai Studio’s ‘Certainly’ exhibition leans into unpredictability

Serakai Studio has launched its inaugural exhibition, "Certainly," at its new Wong Chuk Hang space, Gold, in Hong Kong. Curated by Tobias Berger, the show features 50 works by 11 international artists and takes its conceptual cue from La Monte Young’s 1960 Fluxus score, "Draw a straight line and follow it." The exhibition explores the impossibility of perfection and the necessity of embracing unpredictability and experimentation in a volatile global climate.

Gold by Serakai Studio’s ‘Certainly’ exhibition leans into unpredictability

Gold by Serakai Studio has launched its inaugural exhibition, "Certainly," in Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang district. Curated by Tobias Berger, the former head of art at Tai Kwun, the show features 50 works by 11 diverse artists that explore themes of unpredictability and experimentation. The exhibition takes its conceptual cue from La Monte Young’s 1960 Fluxus score, "Draw a straight line and follow it," using the impossibility of that task as a metaphor for navigating global instability.

Sculpture of John Rhoden opens at Memorial Art Gallery

The Memorial Art Gallery has officially opened a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the late American sculptor John Rhoden. The opening reception, held on March 28, 2026, welcomed patrons and community members to explore a collection that highlights Rhoden’s unique ability to blend modernist sculpture with rhythmic, global influences.

EXPANDED METAMORPHOSIS To Open At Art House Gallery In Jersey City

Art House Productions is set to debut "EXPANDED METAMORPHOSIS: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO PROCESS," a group exhibition curated by Andrea McKenna at the Art House Gallery in Jersey City. Running from April 4 to April 26, 2026, the show features ten artists—including Jan Huling, Valerie Huhn, and Dan Payton—who utilize industrial, organic, and repurposed materials to explore themes of transformation and experimentation.

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.

One of London’s greatest art institutions will be transformed by a vast immersive exhibition this summer

The Barbican Centre in London has announced a massive immersive exhibition titled 'In Other Worlds,' set to open in May 2026. Led by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and 'speculative futurist' Liam Young, the exhibition marks his first major solo show in the UK and will feature collaborations with creators from major productions like Westworld, Fallout, and Lord of the Rings. The installation will span three locations within the institution, including the Curve gallery and a car park, utilizing film, soundscapes, and costumes to explore imagined futures.

Art Center Sarasota's 'Rooted in Community' headlines 28 exhibitions at local art centers in March

Art Center Sarasota is launching a major suite of exhibitions this March, headlined by 'Rooted in Community,' a group show celebrating the artistic contributions of Sarasota’s historically Black neighborhoods, Newtown and Overtown. The center will also host solo presentations by Herion Park, whose fiber sculptures explore familial grief and resilience, and Kendra Frorup, a Fulbright Scholar whose work investigates cultural memory and the concept of home.

See What’s on View in NOLA This March

New Orleans is set to host several major art exhibitions this March, highlighting the city's diverse cultural landscape. Key openings include Alexis McGrigg’s "In the Beloved" at the Ogden Museum, which explores Blackness and spirituality through fluid abstraction, and an augmented reality exhibition on the American Revolution at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Additionally, the New Orleans Museum of Art will debut a significant collection of 18th-century French Sèvres porcelain.

Creativity through adversity: Kansas exhibition explores Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani's life and work

The Spencer Museum of Art in Kansas is presenting the largest exhibition to date of work by Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, an artist who faced incarceration and homelessness. The show, titled 'Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani,' features drawings, collages, and mixed media works that explore themes of displacement, trauma, and resilience.

Henrike Naumann—selected for this year's Germany pavilion at the Venice Biennale—has died

Artist Henrike Naumann, who was selected alongside Sung Tieu to represent Germany at the 2024 Venice Biennale, has died at age 39. She passed away on February 14 in Berlin after a short, serious illness, which her website specified was a late cancer diagnosis. The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Ifa), which oversees the German Pavilion, confirmed her death and stated that her planned work for the Biennale will be realized posthumously according to her completed vision.

A Homegrown Guide to India Art Fair 2026: What to See, Experience & Explore

The 2026 India Art Fair, the 17th edition of South Asia's leading contemporary art event, is taking place from February 5 to 8 at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. It features 135 exhibitors presenting modern and contemporary art, performance, film, craft, design, and outdoor installations, alongside a program of talks, workshops, and citywide collaborations.

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.

Gaudí’s fantastical house in Barcelona is now home to a new art space

Casa Batlló, Antoni Gaudí's iconic Art Nouveau house in Barcelona, has opened a new contemporary art gallery called Casa Batlló Contemporary. The 230-square-meter space, designed by local studio Mesura, occupies previously inaccessible rooms on the building's second floor and will host two exhibitions annually, aiming to explore Gaudí's vision through contemporary creativity.

Art Museum Announces Spring 2026 Exhibitions

The Syracuse University Art Museum has announced three new exhibitions for spring 2026: “Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards,” “Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment,” and “Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800.” These shows will join the permanent collection exhibition “Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art” and an Art Wall Project by artist Bhen Alan. The exhibitions explore themes of disability, race, and the human body, with curator talks and programming scheduled throughout the semester.

British art museum exhibit offers glimpse into East India Company

The Yale Center for British Art has opened a new exhibition, “Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850,” on January 8. Curated by Laurel Peterson and Holly Shaffer, the show features over a hundred works—including watercolors, portraits, and a 37-foot-long scroll of Lucknow—drawn from the museum’s collection and beyond. It explores the artistic networks and innovations that emerged around the British East India Company’s colonial and economic activities in India and China.

Gallery Time & Space brings a vast exhibition to Venkatappa Art Gallery

Gallery Time & Space has unveiled 'Continuum: Artists Across Time and Space' at Venkatappa Art Gallery in Bengaluru, a large-scale exhibition featuring over 50 artists in a group show alongside solo presentations by SG Vasudev and Asit Poddar. The group exhibition explores metaphysical themes of consciousness, light, and love, bridging past and present through diverse mediums including cyanotypes, stoneware ceramics, and oil on canvas. Curator Renu George selected artists from the gallery's roster, highlighting both established and emerging talents.

This art exhibit has traveled from coast to coast. Now it’s opening in Utah

An art exhibition titled "Instrumentos de silencio" ("Instruments of Silence") created by Argentine Latter-day Saint artists Susana Silva and Gonzalo Silva is opening at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City on January 16. The exhibition, which explores how memory and music were used to capture and codify the changes of colonization in Argentina, was awarded the 2023 Ariel Bybee Endowment prize by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. It has previously traveled from Sargent’s Daughters art gallery in New York City to the Graduate Theological Union Library in Berkeley, California, before arriving in Utah.

‘Colourful Dialogues’: An art exhibition by Gwarniċ

Gwarniċ presents 'Colourful Dialogues', a collective exhibition opening on 7 January 2026 at Bizzilla Art Space in Floriana, Malta, running through 27 January. The show brings together local and international artists—including Kevin Sciberras, Antje Flauss, Chris Saliba, Teo Burki, Rosette Bonello, Irakli Chikovani, and Sopho Simonishvili—to explore colour as a universal visual language that connects cultures and artistic approaches. The exhibition marks Gwarniċ's transition from digital and site-specific curation to a fully realized physical exhibition.

MACLA, Montalvo Arts Center partner on new exhibition in San Jose

A new exhibition titled “From Their Hands to Ours” has opened at MACLA’s downtown San Jose gallery, running from December 5 through March 8. The show is a collaboration between MACLA and the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, co-curated by Alyssarhaye Graciano and Olivia Esparza. It features works by artists rafa esparza, Estefania Ajcip, Miguel Arzabe, Edra Soto, and Arleene Correa Valencia, with a notable installation by rafa esparza that includes an adobe floor made from mud, straw, and manure, incorporating the artist’s own shoes. Each piece explores themes of identity, place, and ancestral heritage, drawing on traditions such as Chicano adobe-making, Puerto Rican fences, and Bolivian textile art.

Signs of Life: Kunel Gaur’s Immersive Solo Exhibition at Method Delhi

Artist Kunel Gaur presents his solo exhibition "Signs of Life" at Method Delhi, running from December 11, 2025 to January 25, 2026. The show features immersive works that explore contemporary life through architectural materials like wood, concrete, metal, and acrylic, with series including "Colour Field Studies," "Interface Portraits," "KUMI," and "Tile Assemblies." Gaur's practice draws on graphic design, architecture, and brutalist influences to examine how identity, memory, and emotion are filtered through technology and industrial systems.

December Exhibitions

Les Yeux du Monde presents 'GROUNDING,' the final show of 2025 featuring new oil paintings by Annie Harris Massie that explore light, memory, and place through landscapes and botanical studies of her Lynchburg, Virginia surroundings. Other December exhibitions include Randall Stoltzfus's 'To Hold The Light' at Angelo Jewelry, Judith Ely's paintings at Botanical Fare, and 'All That Glitters' by Natalie Darling at C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery. The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA hosts three shows: 'Haiti’s Time' from the Sullivan collection, 'In Feeling: Empathy and Tension Through Disability,' and 'The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa.' The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection features works from the Spinifex Arts Project and Robert Fielding, while the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents 'Finally Remembered: The Black Patriots of Central Virginia.'

Mario Ayala Unveils Life Sized Van Portraits at CAM Houston

Mario Ayala's first U.S. solo museum exhibition, 'Seven Vans,' has opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). The show, on view from November 14, 2025, through June 21, 2026, features seven life-size van paintings that use the vehicle's rear body as a shaped canvas. Ayala removes wheels and functional markers, turning the vans into motionless 'pseudo-portraits' that convey owners' personalities through details like faded stickers, patchy repairs, and custom airbrush work inspired by auto body painting. The artist describes his process as 'Research While Driving,' documenting rear vehicle perspectives over six years.

Looking Beyond the Conflict: What's driving contemporary artists from Sri Lanka?

Contemporary artists from Sri Lanka are gaining visibility across South Asia through gallery exhibitions, institutional shows, and art fairs. At Experimenter in Colaba, Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah's solo show 'No Race, No Colour' features installations like 'Charred Hyphal Mat' that explore organic communication and wounded ecologies rooted in the country's three-decade civil war. At the Art Mumbai fair, Hema Shironi uses fabric and green mesh to address post-war reconciliation, while earlier in Delhi, the twin exhibitions 'Homes Wrapped in Cloth, Borders Raised in Flags' and 'After Aphantasias' by Shrine Empire showcased similar themes. Artists such as Anoli Perera, Kingsley Gunatillake, Pala Pothupitye, and others are collectively presenting nuanced perspectives on memory, ecology, and joy beyond the conflict.

INTERSTATE art exhibition set to open this week

Central Washington University's Sara Spurgeon Gallery is hosting a national juried exhibition titled “INTERSTATE: Where I-90 meets I-82,” opening November 6 in Ellensburg. Juror Alexis L. Silvia, Curatorial Assistant at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, selected works by 46 artists from across the United States, including Brandin Barón, Neil Berkowitz, Shivani Bhalla, and others. The exhibition runs through December 6, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. following a 4 p.m. presentation.

‘Shifting Grounds’ Opens at EOU’s Nightingale Gallery; Artist Talk Nov. 5

Eastern Oregon University’s Nightingale Gallery presents “Shifting Grounds,” a solo exhibition by Spokane-based artist and architect Andrew Parker. The show explores how place shapes identity through abstract mixed-media works that blend collage, India ink, colored pencil, and repurposed materials like personal photographs, grocery bags, and maps. An opening reception takes place November 7, and the artist will give a public talk on November 5. The exhibition runs through December 4.

Long-running Azores art festival blossoms into a biennial

The Walk&Talk arts festival on São Miguel, the largest island in the Azores archipelago, has formally transitioned from an annual summer street art celebration into a biennial, running until 30 November with over 80 artists. Founded in 2011 by curator Jesse James, the event now features exhibitions, performances, excursions, talks, and educational programming across nine venues, including historic and architecturally significant sites such as Museu Carlos Machado and a former distillery turned contemporary art museum. The shift to autumn allows local school groups to participate, and the inaugural biennial is co-curated by Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy, Liliana Coutinho, and Claire Shea under the theme "Gestures of Abundance."