The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents "Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers," an exhibition featuring nine recent paintings and a large-scale sculpture by Grace Rosario Perkins (b. 1986; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Akimel O’odham/Diné). The show runs from October 18, 2025, to February 8, 2026, and is organized by Adrienne Edwards and Rose Pallone. Perkins’s densely layered works incorporate acrylic, spray paint, found materials, and personal belongings, drawing on petroglyphs, symbols like flowers and spider webs, and themes of grief, love, and hope, while resisting reductive representations of Indigenous identity.
This exhibition matters because it amplifies the voice of a contemporary Indigenous artist working in abstraction, connecting ancestral knowledge with present-day urgencies. By featuring Perkins’s symbol-rich, diaristic practice at a major institution like the Whitney, the show challenges narrow stereotypes and highlights the vitality of Indigenous perspectives in the broader art world. The support from foundations and collectors underscores growing institutional commitment to diverse artistic narratives.