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Leslie Shows
Human Quarry is a large work on paper by Leslie Shows made of a combination of acrylic paint and collage. Both through its title and formally—through how the shapes in the composition resemble a mountain or natural formation—the piece relays us to a mineral quarry or a deep mining pit where materials are extracted. Interspersed among the block-like figures and rocky textures, we also see several human silhouettes, either cut-out, or as if they were whited out by a shining light, or lost in the shadows.
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Siavash Naghshbandi
Daily Life of Human is comprised of a fast-paced series of still images selected by the artist from ImageNet, a massive dataset of images (about 14 million) produced by BigGAN. Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short, are AI (machine learning) programs capable of generating (synthesizing, not finding) high-quality images. BigGAN is trained on how to make a certain type of image and then starts producing new images like those it learned from.
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Aline Baiana
Indigenous educator and curator Sandra Benites, of the Guarani-Ñandeva people, narrates the origin myth of the bird Urutau in her native language. This nightjar stands still on a branch all day long and, at dusk, cries a low hoot resembling a human weeping. In 2013, indigenous activist José Urutau Guajajara remained on the top of a tree for 26 hours, deprived of food and water by state forces.
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Chris Johanson
Chris Johanson’s paintings, sculptures, and installations break down everyday scenes and commonplace dramas into colorful forms; the darkest sides of humanity are invoked with humor. The works comment on subjects such as capitalism, consumerism, the art world, and therapy. The triptych I Am a Human, Abstract Foil, No Humans IV (2004) is a meditation on the cosmos.
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Marguerite Humeau
This work forms part of a project that draws upon research into the use of psychoactive substances present in animal brains during the Paleolithic period. Bolstered by research by archaeologist Bethe Hagens, the artist explores the hypothesis that prehistoric shamans consumed the psychoactive parts of animal brains in order to achieve spiritual ecstasy and that the found figurines, reproduced by Marguerite Humeau, are an archival remnant of these experiences. The so-called “Venus figurines” take the form of ambiguous female forms and despite their exaggerated gendered traits, the onus is instead upon the resemblance to the ingested animal brains that led to their production.
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Ellen Lesperance
Somewhere Along the Black Sea in the Distant North-East, or in Libya in the Furthest South, The Amazons – The Woman and the Girls Children – Exist Just Outside of the Range of Normal Human Experience
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Yang Guangnan
In Action no. 1 Yang Guangnan reflects on the interiority and exteriority of human-technological experience with mechanical gestures that are semi-human and semi-machine. A hanged shirt mounted upon the artist’s machine rhythmically bounces and rotates in a way that suggests a skeletal interior.
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Oren Pinhassi
Oren Pinhassi’s work examines the relationship between the human figure and the built environment. His hybrid sculptures, often somewhat emaciated, hover between the figurative and the architectural. In the case of The Crowd , a series of sculptures which evince architectures of control – where humans act and exert power – we find voting booths, segregation cells, institutional desks, places where bureaucratic exchange become spaces of bodily desire, complete with sexual appendages.
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Yang Guangnan
Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands.
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Rometti Costales
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The three cut-outs are made of three aerial photographs coming from the archives of the Ecuadorian Military Geographic Institute. These are views of the Amazon forest. The photographs are cut following an optical illusion pattern called “reversible cubes” or “tumbling blocks”, based on the Necker cube, a multistable object of psychophysics that is constantly switching perspectives.
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Shaun O'Dell
The San Francisco–based artist Shaun O’Dell often uses natural settings as subject matter, lending an artistic complexity to the landscapes he depicts. Stereoscopic images are dual, slightly offset identical pictures that, when seen through a special viewing device, appear three-dimensional. In Temple Creek, a branch of Escalante River, Aquarius Plateau Utah n.d. (Stereoscopic view) (2011) O’Dell has chopped each of the two side-by-side images into 10 vertical strips and mixed them up, to construct a new image.
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Shaun O'Dell
Shaun O’Dell’s paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, and music explore the overlapping realities of human and natural structures. Whether abstract or figurative, they often read like hieroglyphics, in that they piece together a philosophical portrait of reality. Purple Brush 8 is a painting that details a meeting of geometric forms, and the optical play that results.
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
In the hologram “Mano con hojas” (”Hand with Leaves”, 2013), nature is portrayed simultaneously as an interconnected system of processes and the essence of the universe. A change in the understanding of nature challenges the understanding of our own natures. The visual metaphor of the human hand enmeshed and inextricably entangled with leaves suggests that humans cannot be divorced from nature, and moreover that they are always engaging with the problematic of overtaking nature or being overtaken by it.
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Jung Yoonsuk
Tomorrow by Jung Yoonsuk is a two-channel video installation, observing the two different sites of factories, one in the mannequin reform factory in Seoul, Korea, and the other in a sex doll factory in Shenzhen, China. The artist’s research began in 2016 when he encountered articles, and some dystopian images, about a “retired sex doll”, a spooky, deformed dummy with big breasts, that stood in an agricultural field backdrop of a high-rise apartment complex in Chengdu, China. Jung’s work explores the factory scene, the (mostly female) workers and their labor, the doll’s artificiality, and human-like eccentricities.
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Korakrit Arunanondchai
His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form. Made with bleached denim, stock images of flames and gold leaf, these works embody “human cultures as ghosts.” The gold serves as a reminder of religious paintings, and the denim as emblematic of Western capitalist waste. When describing his paintings, the artist states, “The idea of what Painting is or could be became somehow akin to the image of the earth, as seen from above, from the viewpoint of a drone or a spirit.
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Andrew Ekins
Butter Mountain is part of an ongoing series of works that combines a sense of painterly mass and substance with sculptural language to examine the synergy between a topographical landscape and a landscape of the human condition. The work intentionally alludes to the materiality of the human body and of the land. A stool has been consciously repurposed as a “support”, that by its nature and identity provides evidence of human presence.
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Tony Oursler
Continuing Oursler’s broader exploration of the moving image, Absentia is one of three micro-scale installations that incorporate small objects and tiny video projections within a miniature active proscenium. Mounted on platforms suspended in space on metal stands, the video sculpture contemplates human relationships, expressed here by shouts and murmurs, the strange and the familiar.
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Luiz Roque
In Luiz Roque’s short film Zero we follow a dog moving alone onboard an aircraft that flies over a vast desert. The dog seems tranquil as if keeping up with its daily routine in an environment in which the human presence is completely absent. The disturbing image of the animal left adrift — perhaps the only remaining living being in existence — is interspersed with the shiny mirrored surface of high-tech skyscrapers emerging out of the sand, in what might have once been an oasis.
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Yang Zhenzhong
Peasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh – 3 consists of a massage chair fixed to a wall. With its cushions removed to reveal its internal mechanisms, the chair’s programmed rubbing, kneading, patting, and vibrating motions create a strange sight and soundscape. The work explores the relationship between flesh and machine as they come together through technologically simulated social behaviors, challenging normative ideas about human interaction.
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Angela Su
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
From afar, Chimeric Antibodies by Angela Su may look like scientific drawings or botanical illustrations. Yet, upon closer look, sexual organs and imagined human and plant elements start becoming recognizable, and realistic. Each intricate, large-scale drawing indeed mixes human body parts, machines and other organic constructions as they become intertwined and inseparable.
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Rivane Neuenschwander
In this video, a parrot chews on seeds printed with punctuation marks. A radio on the shelf in the background broadcasts the news of an unfolding football match. As the game (and video) progresses, the bird eats all of the remaining punctuation.
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Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies. As in a periodic table, animals and objects are combined with humans (male or female), providing a rational framework for the irrational products of human imagination. A Cartesian matrix such as this must follow certain rules.
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Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s recent drawing of cutout figures on architectural tracing paper takes a statement by Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, as a point of departure for the work. Stating, “migration problems can and should find their solution within the affirmation of ‘freedom of movement’ as the new inalienable right of humans. No human has chosen or chooses the place where they were born.
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Rodney McMillian
In his evocative Landscape Paintings, McMillian uses second-hand bedsheets, sourced from thrift shops, as his starting point. Calling up the unknown intimacies of these objects, McMillian upends their usual orientation, placing them directly on the wall to serve as paintings, rather than covers. Layering over the repurposed textiles with hardware store paint, McMillian transforms the sheets into canvases, creating abstract landscapes on top of the traces of human bodies intact in the fabric.
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Jonas Van and Juno B
Jonas Van and Juno B’s video work Kebranto is anchored by the figure of Boitatá, a snake that is part of the imaginary Guaraní communities that live between the current nation-states of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The mythical figure Boitatá is a protector of jungles and forests. In GuaraníBoitatá is the union of two words: Mbói (snake) and tatá (fire).
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Jiang Zhi
In the video installation Tremble, Jiang projected the life-size images of seven naked men and women onto seven individual screens. Each person displays a different facial expression and body position such as reading a book, arms open for a hug, holding a knife, raising a fist to take an oath. Each gesture reflects some essential social aspect of everyday life: hugging is about caring, taking oath has to do with politics, reading relates to acquiring knowledge, and raising a knife indicates violence.
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Jes Fan
Jes Fan’s video work Xenophoria , as opposed to the term ‘xenophobia’, refers to a love of the foreign and is inspired by the name of a mysterious species of aquatic carrier shell. This creature, Xenophora pallidae, calcifies free-floating objects in the water to its spine, bringing foreign bodies into its own structure. Likewise, Xenophoria stages a delirious search for the melanin pigment – the molecule responsible for skin color – as it manifests in both human and non-human bodies.
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Ad Minoliti
G. S. F. C. #3 (Geometrical Sci-Fi Cyborg) belongs to a series of paintings that build upon the artist’s exploration into feminist speculative fiction and the cyborg as a creature of contemporary reality and fiction. The cyborg painting, as she calls it, is made through a smearing of human and machine in which the composition of color landscape with outlines of anthropomorphized forms is stenciled and airbrushed onto canvas, then photographed an printed onto canvas. Once this is done, Minoliti goes back over the printed canvas with paint.
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Kiran Subbaiah
Flight Rehearsals focuses on Subbaiah’s desire to fly as a means to highlight the relationship between human ambition and limitations of the physical world. The video presents philosophical explorations of the human desire to defy gravity and time. The minimalist set of a table highlights the intention and persistence of the protagonist rather than technological innovation.
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Xiaoyun Chen
In the video work Drag, a man in a dark room pulls on the end of a rope. In midst of sounds of heavy breathing, the camera presents alternating scenes of a man and the shadow of a man wearing a long, pointed hat cast against a wall. Insinuating a sinister mood, the man and the shadow struggle to control the scene through alternating tugs and releases of a rope.
Robert Zhao Renhui
Robert Zhao Renhui’s multimedia practice questions fact-based presentations of ecological conservation and reveals the manner in which documentary, journalistic, and scientific reports sensationalize nature in order to elicit viewer sympathy...
Paul McCarthy
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1945
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Salt Lake City, Utah
Chris Johanson
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: San Jose, California
Du Zhenjun
- location: Paris, France
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1961
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shanghai, China
Yin-Ju Chen
- year born: 2011
- gender: female
- nationality: American & Taiwanese
Adrian Villar Rojas
- year born: 1980
- gender: male
- nationality: Argentinean
Sun Xun
- location: Hangzhou, China
- year born: 1980
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Fuxin, Liaoning Provence, China
Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
Liu Yu
Liu Yu has developed a multifaceted artistic practice that takes field documentation as its point of departure...
Michelle Handelman
Michelle Handelman’s video, installation, live performance, and photography works analyze the human sublime in terms of its excess and dullness, providing a sneak peek into a jewel thief’s therapy sessions or following the life of a famous drag queen who experiences her own narcissistic destruction due to her increasing fame...
Em'kal Eyongakpa
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981...
Angela Su
Angela Su’s practice is derived from her two divergent backgrounds–she received a degree in biochemistry in Canada before pursuing visual arts...
Chia-Wei Hsu
Embarking from myriad audio-visual narratives, Chia-Wei Hsu pursues imaginative interrogations of cultural contact and colonization in Asia, oftentimes amalgamating his primary narratives with non-human actors including technologies, animals, gods, environments, traditions, and material objects...
Liu Yujia
Artist Liu Yujia’s practice revolves mainly around video and photography...
Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman’s practice over the past decade has been marked by in-depth explorations of digital culture...
Prabhakar Pachpute
Prabhakar Pachpute calls attention to issues concerning land politics, industry, and labor through a multimedia practice that includes drawing, painting, sculpture, animation, and murals...
Kiran Subbaiah
Born in Sidpur and living in Bangalore, Kiran Subbaiah works in a variety of media that includes assemblage, video and internet art after initial training as a sculptor...
Alexis Smith
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1949
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Los Angeles, California
Corey McCorkle
Described as a ‘spatial interventionist’, Corey McCorkle is a New York-based artist and trained architect, working in photography, architectural interventions, sculpture, installations, and films...
Jiang Zhi
- location: Beijing
- location: Shenzhen, China
- year born: 1971
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Yuanjiang, China
Oren Pinhassi
Oren Pinhass’s practice integrates architecture and sculpture in the making of fantastical forms, employing found objects as well as replicating such objects in various media...
Fredi Casco
Working with a variety of media such as drawing, painting and photography Fredi Casco frequently incorporates original documents and archives as a medium and support of his work in order to bring to light specific episodes of Paraguayan political history, particularly events that took place during the time of Alfredo Stroessner’s long dictatorship (1954 to 1989)...
Rometti Costales
Rometti Costales is an artistic collaboration between Julia Rometti and Victor Costales that began in 2007...
Jeamin Cha
Jeamin Cha’s questions exist in the gyre between individual and social environment, stepping over conspicuous strands of relation between the two in favor of cultivating characters that dwell in the night, under-noticed or otherwise surplus figures outside of mainstream societal representation...
Tsang Kin-Wah
- location: Hong Kong, China
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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this quarter (02/09/2024)
Artist Spotlight: Katia Lifshin – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS Submit A selection of recent work by artist Katia Lifshin (previously featured here )...
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this quarter (02/09/2024)
From a satellite orbiting Earth for seven years in celebration of Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., the first Black astronaut, to a pulsing neon human skeleton that illuminates Rosalind Franklin’s contributions to the field of science, Tavares Strachan embraces technology and experimental processes to reframe historic narratives...
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this quarter (02/06/2024)
Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future Skip to content Dana Schutz, "Civil Planning" (2004), oil on canvas (all photos Ela Bittencourt/ Hyperallergic ) BERLIN and PARIS — In recent years, impending ecological apocalypse has spurred a number of contemporary artists to visualize fears of an environmental collapse...
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this quarter (02/05/2024)
Illustrator Spotlight: Hoi Chan – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS Submit A selection of recent work by Hong Kong-born illustrator Hoi Chan (previously featured here )...
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this quarter (01/31/2024)
An Interview with Artist Hannah Beerman | Observer A view of the recent Kapp Kapp exhibition...
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about 3 months ago (01/18/2024)
Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin – The Future Without You – AMERICAN SUBURB X Skip to content The introduction of computers in the workplace well prefigures the advent of the internet...
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about 4 months ago (12/18/2023)
Since the 1960s, British artist Antony Gormley has used the language of sculpture to examine relationships between human beings, nature, and the cosmos...
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about 4 months ago (12/17/2023)
Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira supplants heads with bunches of flowers, flocks of birds, and plumes of smoke in fantastical portraits that delve into the inner workings of the human psyche...
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about 4 months ago (12/13/2023)
Protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire stage die-in at Canadian Museum for Human Rights Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news Protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire stage die-in at Canadian Museum for Human Rights The action, staged on International Human Rights Day, lasted 64 minutes in observance of the 64 days since the Israel-Hamas war began Hadani Ditmars 13 December 2023 Share The 10 December protest at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Listen from Queers for Palestine - Winnipeg Palestinian solidarity groups, activists and community members marked International Human Rights Day on Sunday (10 December) by calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and staging a mass “die-in”for 64 minutes at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg...
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about 4 months ago (12/12/2023)
Museum of Natural History to Rectify Collection of 12,000 Human Remains | Art & Object Skip to main content Subscribe to our free e-letter! Webform Your Email Address Role Art Collector/Enthusiast Artist Art World Professional Academic Country USA Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Ascension Island Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Ceuta & Melilla Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Côte d’Ivoire Denmark Diego Garcia Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard & McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong SAR China Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao SAR China Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands North Korea North Macedonia Norway Oman Outlying Oceania Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territories Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Réunion Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St...
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about 4 months ago (12/07/2023)
Josiah McElheny’s Glass Art Reflects the Human Condition Skip to content Josiah McElheny, "From the Library of Future Geometries I" (2023) (all images courtesy James Cohan Gallery) For decades, Josiah McElheny has created formally stunning and technically perfect artworks, mostly of glass, in a modernist style derived from mathematical ordering systems...
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about 4 months ago (12/07/2023)
Artist Transforms Bicycle Chains Into Human Figures With Tethers Home / Art / Sculpture Artist Transforms Bicycle Chains Into Faceless Human Figures Tethered to the Modern World By Margherita Cole on December 7, 2023 Rather than carve sculptures from one material, Young-Deok Seo assembles his art from numerous, even hundreds, of individual pieces...
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about 5 months ago (11/27/2023)
Nalini Malani — The Human Stain — Galerie Lelong & Co...
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about 5 months ago (11/19/2023)
Should human remains be kept in museums? Artist’s work reflects original resting places | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Korean-Colombian artist Gala Porras-Kim’s work examines the relationship between human remains and the museums that house them, and how to better visually reflect the spirits’ original resting places...
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about 5 months ago (11/17/2023)
A la Galerie Durev, Ilion Huit cherche à observer la capacité des hommes à voir la beauté dans les interférences entre humanité et nature...
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about 7 months ago (09/26/2023)
Sarah Lucas | Tate Britain A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery...
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about 7 months ago (09/26/2023)
Tarek Atoui — The Drift — Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Tarek Atoui — The Drift — Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Tarek Atoui — The Drift Exhibition Mixed media Performance de Tarek Atoui lors du vernissage Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11, à la Sharjah Art Foundation © Sharjah Art Foundation Tarek Atoui The Drift Ends in about 2 months: October 13, 2023 → January 28, 2024 Tarek Atoui presents a major monographic exhibition at IAC — Villeurbanne...
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about 7 months ago (09/19/2023)
Paris's Human Rights Wall: A new public art space in French capital - Perspective Skip to main content Paris's Human Rights Wall: A new public art space in French capital Issued on: 19/09/2023 - 12:57 Modified: 19/09/2023 - 12:59 07:17 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 By: Haxie MEYERS-BELKIN Follow This week in Paris, in conjunction with city authorities, Amnesty International is unveiling the Human Rights Wall, a new public art space whose inaugural work pays homage to six modern-day defenders of human rights around the world...
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about 19 months ago (09/23/2022)
Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador Hello Guest | Login Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador Friday, September 23, 2022 Americans for the Arts is thrilled to collaborate with musician India Carney as our 2022 Ambassador for National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)...
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about 52 months ago (01/16/2020)
Carrying a mystical undercurrent, Chie Shimizu’s sculptures are rooted in an exploration of "the significance of human existence.” The artist, born in Japan and based now in Queens, New York, has crafted these riveting figures over the past couple decades, moving between different scales and textural approaches....
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about 52 months ago (01/02/2020)
In the hands of KT Beans, a seashell takes on unsettling qualities...
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about 52 months ago (12/28/2019)
Matthew Grabelsky's oil paintings are at the center of a show currently running at Dorothy Circus Gallery in London...
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about 52 months ago (12/19/2019)
Seiran Tsuno's ghostly dresses rest above the bearer and recontextualize the human body...
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about 53 months ago (12/05/2019)
Embracing A Bigger Human Identity: “PheNoumenon” by T...
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about 66 months ago (11/18/2018)
Marius Sperlich — UNRTD™ Marius Sperlich Marius Sperlich is photographer and art director based in Berlin...
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about 68 months ago (09/17/2018)
Nick Mehedin — UNRTD™ Nick Mehedin Nicholas Mehedin is an artist from Lumberland, New York...
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about 70 months ago (07/19/2018)
Ai Weiwei’s "Human Flow" drips through Singapore’s impermeable borders | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 19, 2018 By Tan Jing Ling (1010 words, six-minute read) There is a sublime beauty to Human Flow in how it depicts space, freedom and movement...
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1980-1989
Paul McCarthy
1983McCarthy’s Mother Pig performance at Shushi Gallery in 1983 was the first time he used a set, a practice which came to characterize his later works...
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1990-1999
Alexis Smith
1990Iron Sorrows (1990) brings together what are for Alexis Smith common motifs and materials such as scavenged and repurposed metal, and street signage...
Stan Douglas
1997Michigan Central Station is part of a larger photographic series, Detroit Photos , which includes images of houses, theaters, stadiums, offices, and other municipal structures...
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2000-2009
Chris Johanson
2000Apartment on Cardboard (2000) is an exterior view of an abstracted apartment building...
Patricia Belli
2000In the mid-1990s, Belli started to create soft sculptures that allowed her to reconnect with manual labor and sewing learned from her seamstress mother...
Kiran Subbaiah
2003Flight Rehearsals focuses on Subbaiah’s desire to fly as a means to highlight the relationship between human ambition and limitations of the physical world...
Johanna Calle
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) Calle’s drawings all inhabit received forms but alter them to call attention to specific qualities...
Alain Séchas
2003A cat, standing like a human being, is looking at us with round and dazed eyes and holds a gun...
Chris Johanson
2004Chris Johanson’s paintings, sculptures, and installations break down everyday scenes and commonplace dramas into colorful forms; the darkest sides of humanity are invoked with humor...
Lu Chunsheng
2004A mesmerizing experience of a vaguely familiar yet remote world, History of Chemistry I follows a group of men as they wander from somewhere beyond the edge of the sea through a vast landscape to an abandoned steel factory...
Daria Martin
2004Soft Materials is a curious, touching but also disturbing sequence of confrontations between two people: a man and a woman, and machines...
Taysir Batniji
2006Fathers #18 and Fathers #27 is part of a series of photographs and videos made in recent years in Gaza...
Hiraki Sawa
2006Hako (2006) depicts a mysterious and dystopic landscape where the world becomes flat: distance between different spaces, depth of field and three-dimensional perceptions are canceled...
Yoan Capote
2007Open Mind is a model created by Capote for a traversable public maze that, when seen from above, resembles the human brain...
Alejandro Marré
2007Typical Weapons is a series of sculptural interventions where Alejandro Marre transforms traditional Guatemalan craft objects usually sold as souvenirs into weapons...
Diana Fonseca Quiñones
2007In Los amantes (The lovers) Diana Fonseca Quiñones uses simple, commonplace objects and experiences that she derives from daily life to develop narratives that mix reality and fiction...
Rivane Neuenschwander
2007Mapa-Mundi BR (postal) is a set of wooden shelves holding postcards that depict locations in Brazil named for foreign countries and cities...
Luke Butler
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) In Captain X , Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, is limply draped over a large boulder in what looks like a hostile alien environment...
Paul McCarthy
2008Memory Mistake of the Eldridge Cleaver Pants was created for the show Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life Part 1 , held at California College of the Arts’s Wattis Institute in 2008 and curated by McCarthy himself...
Jiang Pengyi
2008Unregistered City is a series of eight photographs depicting different scenes of a vacant, apparently post-apocalyptic city: Some are covered by dust and others are submerged by water...
Nicolas Bacal
2008Nicolás Bacal uses everyday materials to evoke systems in his sculptures and installations...
Michelle Handelman
2009In Dorian, a cinematic perfume, video is used as a community gatherer, a tool to speak about particular subcultures, in this case the trans-gender drag queen New York community, past and present...
Audra Knutson
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) Audra Knutson’s work The Oblivion was carved and printed in conjunction with the print The Death ...
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2010-2019
Adrian Villar Rojas
2010The two drawings in the Kadist Collection are part of a larger series entitled Las Mariposas Eternas (The Eternal Butterflies)...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Takahiro Iwasaki
2010Tectonic Model is made from a number of leather bound books piled up in different formations that resemble architecture on top of a sawhorse desk...
Paul McCarthy
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) To make Mickey Mouse (2010), Paul McCarthy altered a found photograph—not of the iconic cartoon, but of a man costumed as Mickey...
Chris Johanson
2010Chris Johanson’s Untitled (Painting of a Man Leaving in Boat) (2010) pictures a canoe drifting toward an off-kilter horizon line, which demarcates the cobalt sea from the cerulean sky...
Chitra Ganesh
2010Rabbithole by Chitra Ganesh is a digital animation that refigures a fundamental plot device in myths and fables...
Yang Guangnan
2011Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....
Shaun O'Dell
2011The San Francisco–based artist Shaun O’Dell often uses natural settings as subject matter, lending an artistic complexity to the landscapes he depicts...
Shaun O'Dell
2011Shaun O’Dell’s paintings, installations, videos, sculptures, and music explore the overlapping realities of human and natural structures...
Angela Su
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) From afar, Chimeric Antibodies by Angela Su may look like scientific drawings or botanical illustrations...
Christopher Badger
2011Drowned Wood Standing Coiled (2011) consists of two sculptures, inextricably linked...
Pablo Rasgado
2011Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...
Renee Rhodes
2011The artist writes about her work: “There is an endless desire to know what we look like from outer space and many of us have evolved into a species that exists across the disorienting spaces and timeframes of virtuality...
William E. Jones
2011In Restaurant, Canton, Ohio (2011), a convenience store offers food, liquor, and Coca Cola to an empty street...
Tony Oursler
2012Continuing Oursler’s broader exploration of the moving image, Absentia is one of three micro-scale installations that incorporate small objects and tiny video projections within a miniature active proscenium...
Yang Zhenzhong
2012Peasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh – 3 consists of a massage chair fixed to a wall...
Pedro Reyes
2012Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2012Expedition #46 is a work from the series “The Glacier Study Group,” which consists of artists, scientists, activists, and enthusiasts of glacial and polar activity in the Artic Circle to conduct scientific investigation, data collection, and glacier sampling...
Adrian Villar Rojas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Based on historical prophecies and fantasy, the artist creates apocalyptic scenarios that posit an enigmatic world plagued by social, political, and environmental upheaval...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2012Changi, Singapore, possibly 1970s is from the series “As We Walked on Water” (2010-2012), which looks into Singapore’s history around the phenomenon of land reclamation...
Futurefarmers
2012In 2011-12 the San Francisco-based collective Futurefarmers staged a 10-part series of conversations and collaborations with scientists, theorist, and philosophers inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’s film, Powers of Ten (1977)...
Dominique Zinkpè
2012Dominique Zinkpè’s works with a wide range of materials, from jute to used cars to “hôhô” figures, which come from the Cult of Twins in southern Benin as a voodoo religion symbole of fertility...
Brody Condon
2012Future Gestalt re-imagines a large-scale sculpture “ Smoke” by Tony Smith as embodying a futuristic intelligence that communicates with a group of communitarians undergoing experimental psychotherapy...
Nicolás Consuegra
2012A residency program in the blazing hot city of Honda, Colombia, inspired artist Nicolás Consuegra to consider the difficulty in understanding the needs of a distant community...
Taus Makhacheva
2012For Taus Makhacheva, the wild, untamed side of human nature is often the foundation of many of her formal investigations...
Rometti Costales
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) The three cut-outs are made of three aerial photographs coming from the archives of the Ecuadorian Military Geographic Institute...
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
2013In the hologram “Mano con hojas” (”Hand with Leaves”, 2013), nature is portrayed simultaneously as an interconnected system of processes and the essence of the universe...
Rodney McMillian
2013In his evocative Landscape Paintings, McMillian uses second-hand bedsheets, sourced from thrift shops, as his starting point...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2014Created during Zhao Renhui’s residency at Kadist SF in 2014, Zhao Renhui began observing and cataloguing insects inspired by the scientific impulse towards exhaustive taxonomy of Sacramento-based Dr...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2014Created during Zhao Renhui’s residency at Kadist SF in 2014, the photographic grid features a selection of some 6,000 members from single family of flies –hoverfly– identified over the last 25 years by Sacramento-based Dr...
Trevor Yeung
2014“We both died at the same moment” is a humorous observation of anthropomorphism, the attribution of human emotions to nature and animals...
Melvin Moti
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Cluster Illusion examines the brain’s tendency to recognize a pattern as something abstract...
Michelle Handelman
2015Michelle Handelman’s video work Irma Vep, The Last Breath takes its inspiration from Musidora, a famous French silent film actress, and a character she played called Irma Vep, from the film Les Vampires (1915), directed by Louis Feuillade...
Adriana Martínez
2015Her work Al final del arcoiris (At the end of the rainbow, 2015) is a bundle of bills from Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, arranged by color to form a tight spiraling rainbow held close with a rubber band...
Zach Reini
2015Particularly shaped by his own youth in the 1990s, his recent works have incorporated things like a marijuana leaf, a dragon-emblazoned chain wallet, metal grommets, and the ubiquitous (in the 90s) Stussy symbol...
Aline Baiana
2016Indigenous educator and curator Sandra Benites, of the Guarani-Ñandeva people, narrates the origin myth of the bird Urutau in her native language...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2016The photograph Proxy II (Beetles) by Robert Zhao Renhui belongs to a series, titled Christmas Island, Naturally, that focuses on the ecology of Christmas Island; a remote volcanic land formation in the Indian Ocean...
Yin-Ju Chen
2016Through a semi-fictional approach, Extrastellar Evaluations envisions a version of history in which alien inhabitants, the Lemurians, lived among humans under the guise of various renowned conceptual and minimal artists in the 1960s (Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, and James Turrell to name a few)...
Himali Singh Soin
2016Developed especially for the KADIST-KHOJ collaborative exhibition, Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger , Radar Level is set in the world’s last geological minutes, in two ancient landscapes...
Corey McCorkle
2016Corey McCorkle’s 2016 installation Pendulum is developed around the Cavendish family and their role in importing bananas to Europe...
Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form...
Alex Da Corte
2017Slow Graffiti was produced for Da Corte’s exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 2017...
Duto Hardono
2017Variation & Improvisation for ‘In Harmonia Progressio’ by Duto Hardono is part of a series of work that focuses on sound loops as a fundamental element of his performance – a metaphor that Hardono employs as he examines the human condition, such as time and temporal spatiality...
Karan Shrestha
2017After the decade-long conflict (1996-2006) that ended with Nepal becoming a Federal Democratic Republic, political unrest and weak governance continued to mark the country’s future as daily life repeatedly witnessed ruptures...
Mika Tajima
2017Mika Tajima’s Pranayama sculptures are built from carved wood and chromed Jacuzzi jets and are presented as artefacts...
Curran Hatleberg
2017Untitled (Man with Bees) is part of Curran Hatleberg’s attempt to make sense of the current state of the “American Dream”, or lack thereof...
Trevor Paglen
2017Trevor Paglen’s ongoing research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine vision, i.e...
Laura Gannon
2017The impressionistic surface of Wild Money (2017) recalls the 1950s paintings of Philip Guston...
Fredi Casco
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...
Marguerite Humeau
2018This work forms part of a project that draws upon research into the use of psychoactive substances present in animal brains during the Paleolithic period...
Andrew Ekins
2018Butter Mountain is part of an ongoing series of works that combines a sense of painterly mass and substance with sculptural language to examine the synergy between a topographical landscape and a landscape of the human condition...
Jon Rafman
Advanced Technology
2018(Advanced Technology) View of Harbor by Jon Rafman mines the latent cultural imaginary surrounding climate change and society’s collective death drive...
Yin-Ju Chen
2018Extrastellar Evaluations is a multimedia installation produced during Yin-Ju Chen’s residency at Kadist San Francisco in the spring of 2016...
Lala Rašcic
2018In Greek mythology, Arachne was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider...
Karrabing Film Collective
2018The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective is a surreal exploration of Western toxic contamination, capitalism, and human and non-human life...
Sergio Rojas Chaves
2018Más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando (A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush) is part of a larger series of pieces developed by Sergio Rojas Chaves in Honduras in 2018 that engages with tourism and in particular amateur-ornithologists that overrun the country in pursuit of the nation’s extreme diversity of bird species...
Zhang Zhenyu
2018In DUST 171217 Zhang Zhenyu uses fragments of dust collected across the city, and then creates dark abstract paintings, repetitively gluing the material to the canvas, applying up to 30 or 100 layers and sanding until he arrives at a smooth surface...
Siavash Naghshbandi
2019Daily Life of Human is comprised of a fast-paced series of still images selected by the artist from ImageNet, a massive dataset of images (about 14 million) produced by BigGAN...
Luiz Roque
2019In Luiz Roque’s short film Zero we follow a dog moving alone onboard an aircraft that flies over a vast desert...
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
2019Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s recent drawing of cutout figures on architectural tracing paper takes a statement by Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, as a point of departure for the work...
Chia-Wei Hsu
2019Stones and Elephants by Chia-Wei Hsu derives from the Malay literary classic The Hikayat Abdullah ...
Leelee Chan
2019Blindfold Receptor (caterpillar-yellow) by Leelee Chan is inspired by the camouflaging nature of the peppered-moth caterpillar...
Noé Martínez
2019As he investigates the forms that slavery took through different events that occurred during the sixteenth century in the Huasteca region of Mexico, Noé Martínez tells, in a non-linear narrative, the history of human trafficking in Relación de tráfico de personas 1525-1533 I (Study of Trafficking of Persons 1525–1533 I) ...
Ayoung Kim
2019In 2019, Ayoung Kim traveled to Mongolia to research its widespread animistic belief system towards land, mother rock, stones, and sacred caves that purify human guilt...
Enrique Ramirez
2019Enrique Ramirez’s La Memoria Verde is a work of poetry, politics, and memory created in response to the curatorial statement for the 13th Havana Biennial in 2019, The Construction of the Possible ...
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2020-2029
Oren Pinhassi
2020Oren Pinhassi’s work examines the relationship between the human figure and the built environment...
Jung Yoonsuk
2020Tomorrow by Jung Yoonsuk is a two-channel video installation, observing the two different sites of factories, one in the mannequin reform factory in Seoul, Korea, and the other in a sex doll factory in Shenzhen, China...
Jeamin Cha
2020Jeamin Cha’s essay-film Ellie’s Eye is an extensive examination of the human mind and the effects of new technology, such as chatbots and virtual avatar therapists on the mental health industry...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2020The absurd condition of human survival under environmental degradation and geonational balkanization is taken as a starting point for WA’AD by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES...
Prabhakar Pachpute
2020Calling attention to campaigns for land rights, survival, and sovereignty, Prabhakar Pachpute’s recent works consider how farmers in India use their bodies in performative ways during acts of protest...
Ashmina Ranjit
2020While most of Ashmina Ranjit’s work has been large-scale installations, often immersive and site-specific, the series Hair Warp – Travel Through Strand of Universe is a brilliant concentration of both her beliefs and aesthetic...
Jonas Van and Juno B
2021Jonas Van and Juno B’s video work Kebranto is anchored by the figure of Boitatá, a snake that is part of the imaginary Guaraní communities that live between the current nation-states of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay...
Phoebe Collings-James
2021The Subtle Rules the Dense is a series of masks/torsos/body plates that Phoebe Collings-James cast from mannequins and then worked by hand...
Rajni Perera
2021Drought Mask by Rajni Perera is a prototype that is suggestive of dire implications for human survival...
arquivo mangue
2022o que diriam as pedras a marte? [What would the stones say to Mars?] is a sculptural work consisting of two parts by arquivo mangue...
Anju Dodiya
2022The Shedding by Anju Dodiya is part of a series of mattress paintings the artist creates using fabric stretched on padded and shaped boards...
Sofia Crespo
2023This short looped-video NFT Invertebrate Interactions by Sofia Crespo aims to capture generated impressions of diatoms...
