Artists

WangShui. Photo Jose Peas Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative abstract paintings made with the assistance of AI, positions themself less as a geek than a hermit with a romantic worldview. …

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Dornac (Paul Francois Arnold Cardon), Auguste Rodin seated beside his work in his studio Collection Archives Larousse, Paris. Digital image: Bridgeman Images. Aside from Michelangelo, there’s no artist as synonymous with sculpture as Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). He created an art-historical icon—The Thinker—that rivals Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for pop-cultural fame. But more than this, he set …

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Tishan Hsu. ©2025 Tishan Hsu/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Tishan Hsu saw the future coming as early as the 1980s, when he began producing abstract paintings with sculptural additions that looked variously like warping screens and torqued body parts. Beyond the body horror seen in David Cronenberg’s films, there wasn’t much out there that …

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Installation view of “Black Earth Rising,” Baltimore Museum of Art, May 18—September 21, 2025. Meg Rorison. The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Marshall is lauded as …

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Claudia Alarcón and Silät for “Claudia Alarcón & Silät” at James Cohan, New York April 11–May 10, 2025 For over a decade, Claudia Alarcón has been immortalizing aspects of Wichí lore in the form of weavings, many of them produced collaboratively with an all-women group of weavers called Silät that was formed by curator Andrei …

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“Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” at 80WSE, New YorkCurators: Howie Chen, Jayne Cole Southard, and christina ongSeptember 11–December 20, 2024 “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” was billed as the first institutional show ever to survey artists of Asian descent in its titular city, a distinction that would …

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Jack Whitten for “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” at the Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMarch 23–August 2, 2025Curators: Michelle Kuo, with Helena Klevorn, Dana Liljegren, and David Sledge  Across his six-decade career, Jack Whitten repeatedly found daring, innovative, and new ways of wielding paint, only rarely using the traditional oil-on-canvas method that has long dominated …

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Wafaa Bilal for “Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago February 1–October 19, 2025 For nearly two decades, Wafaa Bilal has put his body on the line for his art-making. “Indulge Me” at the MCA Chicago, the first major survey for the Iraqi American artist, showcased how his work highlights the …

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“Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels” at Parker Gallery, Los AngelesFebruary 1–October 19, 2025 Saying goodbye can be hard. That was the premise of “Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels,” Parker Gallery’s final exhibition at its longtime base in founder Sam Parker’s home in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. Since its founding in 2017, Parker Gallery has gained …

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Ralph Lemon for “Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon” at MoMA PS1, New YorkNovember 14, 2024–March 24, 2025 Never content to work in just one medium, Ralph Lemon spent the past three decades creating works that blur the divisions between dance, drawing, painting, installation, sculpture, and writing. He started out as a dancer and …

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