The New Museum began as an idea in the mind of founding Director Marcia Tucker. As a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1967 through 1976, Tucker observed firsthand that new work by living artists was not easily assimilated into the conventional exhibition and collection structure of the traditional art museum.
The New Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), which will bring together over one hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career. Representing the full breadth of her practice, the…
Read More »The New Museum will present the first American solo museum exhibition of the work of Mire Lee (b. 1988, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works between Seoul and Amsterdam, Netherlands). Installed in the New Museum’s Fourth Floor gallery, this…
Read More »“My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente” will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date by Pepón Osorio (b. 1955, San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA), featuring works from the 1990s to today.…
Read More »Wynnie Mynerva (b. 1992, Lima, Peru; lives and works in Lima) debuts a newly commissioned body of work in their first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Mynerva’s newly commissioned installation in the New Museum’s Lobby…
Read More »Nguyen’s New Museum presentation will be his first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., showcasing a new film and two recent video projects alongside works from his sculptural and object-based practice. Developing projects through…
Read More »Theaster Gates’s work in the areas of sculpture, social practice, collaborative performance, and archiving has made him one of the most compelling artists active today. Gates emerged in the early 2000s with a sculptural practice characterized…
Read More »Artists Miles Greenberg (b. 1997, Montreal, Canada) and Vivian Caccuri (b. 1986, São Paulo, Brazil) will collaborate for the first time on an exhibition designed exclusively for the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery. “The Shadow of…
Read More »This exhibition continues the New Museum’s Screens Series, a platform for the presentation of new video works by emerging contemporary artists. Zahy Guajajara (b. 1989, Cana Brava, Maranhão, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist,…
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