South African artist Cinga Samson’s exhibition of new paintings is titled ‘Ukuphuthelwa’, an isiXhosa word in the artist’s native language that translates as ‘unable to sleep’. Unlike the English word ‘insomnia’, the isiXhosa term carries no negative connotation and accordingly, for Samson, sleeplessness is not a condition to be cured but a state of spiritual alertness, a sensitivity that deepens in the dark. Rendered in the artist’s signature occluded palette of near-blacks, carbon and deep Prussian blues, Samson’s scenes depict men-like figures, dogs in overgrown fields and portraits of plant life native to South Africa. Encouraging slow, contemplative looking, a sense of existential gravity pervades Samson’s new series of oil paintings, attempting to depict a vast reality that is continuously…

Welcome to the latest edition of Nuart Aberdeen. As far as we can ascertain, this will be the first street art festival in the world with a focus primarily on poetry and text-based works. Over the years, for better or worse, the large scale colourful figurative mural has come to dominate the culture we work with, and although it’s an aspect of the culture we support, due to the resources required to produce murals, they’re perhaps also the least democratic form of art on the streets. As curators, researchers and producers working in “festival” culture, we have a responsibility to not only showcase and celebrate the most interesting and technically competent works of our time, but to also ensure the…

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of new tennis court paintings by Jonas Wood. The gallery’s tenth exhibition of Wood’s work, and its first based in Los Angeles, will be on view through April 25, 2026. 

Perrotin is pleased to present Borrowed Chord, Danielle Orchard’s second exhibition in Paris and her seventh with the gallery. The exhibition brings together new works that deepen her engagement with figuration, intimacy, and the history of painting. Borrowing its title from a musical term describing a harmony drawn from a parallel key, the exhibition reflects Orchard’s longstanding practice of working within established pictorial traditions—modernist fragmentation, classical composition, and the reclining figure—while subtly shifting their emotional register. The show is on view through April 18, 2026.

GRIMM is pleased to present Vignettes & Mutations, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles–based artist Eric White on view through May 2, 2026. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with GRIMM and his third solo exhibition at the New York gallery.

Alicia McCarthy’s abstract and colourful compositions instantly capture the viewer’s attention. From afar, the use of repeated geometric patterns recalls the Op Art of the 1960s. A closer look yet reveals that these optical effects aren’t engineered and calculated by machines with mathematical precision, but the result of a spontaneous gesture. McCarthy’s modular blocks of colours are rather improvised and embodied. By incorporating drips and splashes of colour, she lets her hand run free in her work, boldly embracing vibrant imperfection. Her works are built up from the centre, line by line, with a strong sense of presence.

“What I paint is something that no longer exists,” Francisco Rodríguez says. “Like how the stars we’re looking at are already dead—their light reaches us after they’ve turned to dust.” He describes his practice simply: “I’m painting dust—memories of places that no longer exist.”

Casey Bolding’s paintings make memory material. Using plaster and industrial paint in concert with oil, acrylic, and Flashe, the artist builds up densely layered surfaces which he then scrapes and reworks, excavating embedded imagery drawn from mementos, photographs, and art history. As personal as they are process-based, Bolding’s paintings of landscapes and interiors are particularly informed by his childhood in the plains of Colorado, his longtime practice of graffiti writing in abandoned buildings and trains, and commercial faux-finishing techniques learned from his uncle. For Bloodstream, Bolding has created a suite of works that he describes as “mirages or scenes captured from the perspective of someone floating down the Colorado River,” from the Rocky Mountains to the Mexico-California border. This traveler…

Josh Lilley is proud to present No Swans, an exhibition of new work by Providence based painter Timothy Lai (b. 1987, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia). The landscape around Lai’s home has been the chief source of inspiration for this series of paintings executed across the past autumn and winter. Salter Grove Memorial Park conjoins the bluntly named Marsh Island and Rock Island there, two crescent jetties cradling small coves along the Providence River. Each island’s banks rise low out of the water, bordered by boulders and reeds, ensnaring dawn cobwebs and framing views of local waterfowl. Beyond the arcing boundary of the jetties, freight ships chug by on their daily deliveries beneath a low sky. You can see the weather coming…

Public Gallery is pleased to present Sill, a solo exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Berlin-based artist Cathrin Hoffmann, whose subjects embody the physical intensity and psychological fatigue engendered by an age of information overload. No longer performing exaggerated gestures of desire or grotesque theatricality, Hoffmann’s figures inhabit states of sustained tension and accumulating pressure, sedimented in the threshold between endurance and action.

Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field. The fifty-eight artists in the exhibition—and those in the Latinx field more broadly—encourage us to interrogate the continued relevance of boundaries, from political borders to disciplinary confines. This exhibition therefore celebrates artists whose expressions are first and foremost personal and subjective, but whose heterogeneous and culturally specific interventions enrich one another and the history of American and contemporary art, two fields from which such artists have been historically excluded. Inspired by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem “[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way],” the…

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present No Coward Soul, a solo exhibition by Kansas City-based artist Rachel Gregor. Inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1846 poem No Coward Soul Is Mine, Rachel Gregor’s latest body of work explores faith without religion, resilience without certainty, and the fragile boundary between dread and hope.