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September 23 - October 31, 20026
Gazelli Art House, New York, NY
Borrowing a familiar phrase associated with hospitality and gathering, Put the Kettle On reflects the gallery’s conviction that meaningful encounters often begin around a shared table. The exhibition welcomes New York audiences with an invitation to exchange ideas, discover new perspectives and forge connections across cultures, artistic practices and generations. 

September 23 - 27, 2026
Festival de Cinema da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Third World Manager (Empresário do Terceiro Mundo), the thesis film of Mateus Guzzo (MFA '20) developed in the UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts, will have its world premiere at the 8th Festival de Cinema da Amazônia. Shot in Belém do Pará, north of Brazil, the film follows Angelo Madson Tupinambá, who runs the grassroots web radio station Idade Mídia – Comunicação para Cidadania.

Reception: September 25, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
September 26 - November 22, 2026
Tim Moore Gallery, Rome, Italy
Named after the appetizer course in Italian cuisine, this group show does not have a unifying theme, but rather gives a ‘taste’ of what to expect from the gallery’s future programming: eschewing hype for new, substantive dialogues and a fresh, often queer international perspective in the Eternal City.

October 1, 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Salon of Currents is a day-long gathering convened and directed by FAST that brings together oceanographers, marine biologists, architects, designers, artists, historians, philosophers, and voices from MIT and beyond to dissect the planet’s major ocean currents as forces shaping landscapes, climates, cities, cultures, ecosystems and lives.

Reception: October 2, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
October 2 - December 20, 2026
Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Compressed Tenses explores an ancillary and ongoing practice of physical collage in Sepuya’s oeuvre. Starting with a Rauschenberg Residency in 2018, Sepuya deploys constructs previously employed in his studio practice, exploring the history of the homoerotic photograph, complicated by current conversations around queerness and Blackness.

Social Visualities list at Palgrave Macmillan (Fall, 2026)
Welchman connects Cavallo’s research with his pioneering anthology, The Aesthetics of Risk (JRP|Ringier, 2008), discussing the urgencies of how the future of risk and its management can be harnessed to, or at least comprehended by, modes of accommodation and social amelioration.

September 19, 2026 - August 15, 2027
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
As technological imaginaries aimed at surpassing the limitations of human beings intersect with contemporary art's pursuit of abstraction beyond the object, the works selected from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection converge within a field of tension between the uncanny and transcendence, ecstasy and experience, image and trace, absence and presence.

September 12 - October 5, 2026
Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
A concentrated study around the 17th-century era of Dutch flower paintings, Heavy Petal includes a mix of small and large-scale paintings on panel, canvas, and paper, each providing unique surfaces for casein paint to reveal its particular depth of color and vibrance. This selection of works, which the artist has been primarily focused on for the past year, are a characteristic playful but often faithful interpretation of the works of Dutch painters like Ruysch, Seghers, Beert and others.

September 17 - October 24, 2026
Woo!, San Diego, CA
Lines made from tree limbs descend from the ceiling and run through the space. From different locations these linear forms are projected across the walls, like shadows, in two dimensions. The views coincide, reverse and separate, creating moments of clarity and dislocation: a continual play and reversal between dimensions. 

September 19, 2026 - January 17, 2027
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The exhibition examines artworks that explore a variety of physical environments —dance clubs, dive bars, backyards and bathhouses—as critical sites of queer joy, collectivity, and possibility. Presenting an intergenerational group of Latine and Latin American artists working from the 1990s to the present, this exhibition encompasses painting, performance, photography, sculpture, textile, collage, video, and immersive installation.

August 3 - September 25, 2026
The Creative Philadelphia Art Gallery at City Hall
Blaise and Virginia were both CETA artists in NYC, working for the Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project, 1978-79. The exhibit highlights the significance of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the largest federally funded artists employment project since the WPA in the 1930s and demonstrates its relevance in the context of the current cultural sector.

June 12 - September 27, 2026
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Marking over thirty years of collecting, Fragile Beauty celebrates Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for photography, reflecting their personal taste and unique eye as collectors. Across five thematic sections, the exhibition explores themes such as desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage, and affirmation of identity.

June 1 - September 30, 2026
Digital Billboard at The Worl, Los Angeles, CA
The West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) is an exhibition series presenting moving image artworks on multiple digital billboards along Sunset Boulevard. At the top of every hour, MIMA presents "Hand Shapes and Scene Numbers" by Alison O’Daniel, a video of Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim signing scene numbers from O’Daniel’s film The Tuba Thieves.

July 1 - October 4, 2026
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Paul Mpagi Sepuya's first major solo exhibition in Germany offers insight into a body of work that fundamentally questions and expands the photographic portrait. Featuring more than 90 works spanning roughly two decades, the exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Sepuya’s artistic practice.

July 3 - October 5, 2026
ICA Miami, Miami, FL and online
The installation features works that deliberately misuse technology to explore the knowledge it holds. Through acts of repair, error, repurposing, and deliberate misapplication, they ask how technology might become strange again—and therefore newly thinkable.

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