Sept 26, 2025 - Jan 30, 2026
Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
GROUP EXHIBITION - OPEN-HEARTED
Open Hearted examines the history, meaning, and contemporary realities of health care and well-being. Moving beyond the individualistic framework of “self-care,” the exhibition reframes wellness as a collective project—one that necessitates advocacy across many levels of society and emphasizes, as writer Corrine Fitzpatrick suggests, that “health is always in relation to power.” While the title evokes a sensibility, and the ideal capacities of health care to be preventative, diagnostic, and/or palliative, it also suggests an invasive medical procedure, thereby drawing a connection to the risk and vulnerability inherent in both.
Featuring works made by US-based artists between 1981 to 2024—a period framed by two significant epidemics, AIDS and COVID-19—the show features a variety of media, including design, weaving, sculpture, video, and installation, that explore our medical system’s forms, objects, spaces, and communication systems.
Open Hearted is curated by Katja Rivera in collaboration with the exhibiting artists. Support for the exhibition is generously provided by The Anschutz Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries.
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May 22, 2025 -Aug 23, 2025
SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - SERVICE TENSION
Elena Gross and Leila Weefur curate a group exhibition titled Service Tension. The exhibition’s title, an interpolation of “surface tension,’ addresses the resistant relationship between two surfaces, a playful interrogation of sex and power.
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March 2025
Queercircle, London, UK
GROUP SCREENING - OTHERNESS ARCHIVE
More on this trans-masculine showcase of film and video curated by Otherness Archive soon!
By having a digital archive, Otherness Archive hopes to make the discoverability of trans work more accessible. Through our recent grant, we chose to focus on building an accessible archive, with the first category being dedicated towards the trans masculine experience*. Through research, a call out and programed events this archive so far, is the result of two years' research.
When Otherness Archive uses the term ‘trans masculine’, we are referring to all the nuances of the trans masc experience in moving image work, and to the various expressions of masculinity found across the trans community including, but not limited to, trans men, non-binary people, dykes, butches, bull daggers, crowdaggers, studs, t-fags, and gender non-conforming people. We really want to deconstruct heteropatriarchal barriers to access, such as age restrictions and mislabelling that further obscures trans works of art.
As Ellis Kroese states, our (un)official archive, “creates a playground for research and representation that lives outside the bounds of traditional cataloguing and binary systems. It empowers those who collect, those who donate. It allows limits to be pushed in a way that perhaps institutions wouldn’t fund; allows freedom from those in power, who have a stake in prolonging the heteronormative binaries system that we currently live within and around. It is a lawless land, it is ours for the taking.”
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Hannah Wilke, Untitled (Gum on Palm Fronds, Los Angeles), 1976. © Scharlatt / HWCALA / ARS N.Y.
Jan 26, 2025 - Mar 9, 2025
Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - FOLDS
Folds emerges from the work of three late, iconic feminist artists (Laura Aguilar, Ana Mendieta, and Hannah Wilke) whose connection to the landscape and the body has deeply inspired an intergenerational scope of artists active today. Traversing a range of disciplines including photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and performance, this expansive cohort builds upon their predecessors’ legacies through the varied lenses of physical and environmental health, illness, disability, gender oppression, cultural hybridity, and spirituality. The visceral, emotional, and undeniably sensual qualities of many of the works are amplified through a shared embrace of the paradoxical; they are at once vulnerable and resilient; serious and humorous; devastating and celebratory; present and absent; seen and unseen. Collectively, and across time, these artists suggest that perhaps their true power lies within the folds of what they choose not to reveal to us.
Opening Reception Sunday January 26, 2025 from 2-5pm.
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Oct 5, 2024 - Mar 2, 2025
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - SCIENTIA SEXUALIS
Scientia Sexualis centers research-driven interventions into raced and gendered assumptions that structure scientific disciplines governing our sense of the sexual body. The artists in this exhibition bring attention to the material, conceptual, and psychic forms of the lab and the clinic as aesthetics that operate across scientific and artistic discourses. The exhibition catalogue will feature new writing by leading interdisciplinary scholars who will map key concepts (sex, race, Indigeneity), materials (instruments, specimens, biomatter), and disciplines (psychiatry, anthropology, reproductive medicine) that the artists engage through their work. Together with the catalogue and related programming, Scientia Sexualis aims to examine and reconfigure the relationship between art and science and, in turn, to create an alternative access point to the history of science where sex, gender, and pleasure are concerned.
Featured artists include: Panteha Abareshi, Dotty Attie, Louise Bourgeois, Nao Bustamante, Andrea Carlson, Demian DinéYazhi’, Nicole Eisenman, El Palomar, dean erdmann, Jes Fan, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, Xandra Ibarra, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Carlos Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Young Joon Kwak & Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, Joey Terrill, Chris E. Vargas, Millie Wilson, and Geo Wyex.
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Sept 21, 2024 - Feb 2, 2025
Chet Holifield Federal Building, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION - PURGATORIO
Curated by April Baca, PURGATORIO visualizes the Holifield's architectural and political contradictions and its role in political violence, technological mediation, and communal displacement, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border. The exhibition takes its title from an unfinished poem by American poet Hart Crane, whose ambivalence and fascination with Mexico and its varied landscapes conceived of exile from a rampant U.S. technological ethos as a type of purgatory. Purgatorio's hybrid presentation will feature intergenerational and regionally dispersed artists whose artworks will be represented in a virtual remodeling of the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Nigel, CA
Los Angeles-based artist Peter Wu will design the show's online presentation, Purgatorio, which will be staged as both an installation in the larger physical exhibition (Digital Capture) and as its own independent online exhibition hosted through Wu+'s online gallery EPOCH.