Past
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Pigment Spells
Solo exhibition by Lucy Kim 15 May - 27 Jun 2025 Kim’s sculptural paintings are created by applying oil paint onto resin casts of surfaces, objects, and people. This work layers different ways that visual information presents itself – from sculptural relief to painted illusion – to create a calibrated dissonance... Read more -
Reincarnations of Painting: Susan Weil & José Betancourt, Tomashi Jackson, and Eleanor Conover
Group Exhibition 5 Apr - 3 May 2025 This group exhibition features artists Susan Weil & José Betancourt, Tomashi Jackson, and Eleanor Conover. The works in this exhibition pay homage to the history of painting while deviating from conventional materials and structural frameworks. Read more -
After Image
Solo exhibition by John Shen 22 Feb - 29 Mar 2025 Praise Shadows is pleased to announce After Image by the New Haven-based John Shen in his first solo debut at the gallery. Featuring time-based media, photography, and installation, the show is an exploration of memory, subjectivity, and the enduring presence of loved ones, created over three transformative years—from the precipice of the global pandemic to the close of 2023. Read more -
Pulp Memories
Two Person Exhibition by Melissa Joseph and Julia Norton 11 Jan - 15 Feb 2025 Pulp Memories features works by Melissa Joseph and Julia Norton on handmade paper, marking the first time the two New York City-based artists are presented together. Inspired by their idiosyncratic takes on papermaking, pulp, and painting, the bodies of work selected demonstrate explorations of material, techniques, and modes of storytelling. Read more -
Mirrors
Solo exhibition by Yuri Shimojo 16 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Praise Shadows is deeply honored to share the newest body of work by Yuri Shimojo in the upcoming exhibition, Mirrors, her second solo at the gallery. This collection of ink paintings were made in the aftermath of her cancer treatment and diagnosis, the passing of her beloved dog and companion Rudy, and a long-delayed visit to Japan to parse through the archives of her deceased family and her samurai ancestors. Read more -
Re/Generation
Solo exhibition by Yu-Wen Wu 5 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 Opening Reception: October 5 from 5 - 7pm. Rooted in the artist’s long standing observation of the natural world and its transformative power in storytelling, this body of work is both a tribute and a pivot from Yu-Wen Wu's recent celebrated exhibitions, including the Foster Prize at the ICA/Boston. Premiering... Read more -
National Debt Project
Solo exhibition by Nicole Wilson 16 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Fifteen years ago, in August of 2009, Obama was President of the United States, the world was reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, and the national debt was $13,561,623,030,891.79. Nicole Wilson was a 21 year-old art student in Philadelphia living off a summer research grant, having recently had the opportunity to vote in her first presidential election. The growing national deficit was at the top of the news cycle, with pundits claiming that a portion of the U.S. deficit belonged to every citizen of the country... Read more -
Shaping Fragments
Group Exhibition 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 Prints and multiples by Chloe Alexander, Polly Apfelbaum, Jeffrey Gibson, Yaron Michael Hakim, Crystalle Lacouture, Louise Nevelson, Yuri Shimojo, Frank Stella, Yu-Wen Wu.
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The Repatriation of King Skellig Mör
Solo exhibition by Duke Riley 23 May - 30 Jun 2024 Boston native Duke Riley's second solo exhibition at Praise Shadows, and a follow-up to his recent solo at the Brooklyn Museum. Featuring the debut of new work, including "ruby glass" and "scrimshaw" cassette tapes, all made from single-use plastic fished out of the waterways of the eastern seaboard. Read more -
Tossed
Solo exhibition by Pelle Cass 11 Apr - 17 May 2024 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is honored to present Tossed by Pelle Cass, the Boston-based artist’s debut exhibition at the gallery. Cass is celebrated for his still time-lapse images that condense hours of movement and visual minutiae into a single frame. The photographs present objects in a confused levitation, sometimes defying... Read more -
See and Be Seen II
Group exhibition 1 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is thrilled to announce See and Be Seen II , a follow-up to our first-ever group exhibition from January 2021 about portraiture under a new lens. An intergenerational group of artists from Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Vermont have been selected for the 2024 iteration:... Read more -
#dutchfakes
Solo exhibition by Brett Angell 19 Jan - 25 Feb 2024 For Praise Shadow’s first show of 2024, the gallery is thrilled to announce #dutchfakes , an exhibition of small-scale sculptural collage by Boston-based Brett Angell. Featuring more than 70 Surrealist-inspired works contained within cigar boxes created over the last three years, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the... Read more -
The Store of Sturtevant's The Store of Claes Oldenburg
Solo exhibition by Reniel Del Rosario 1 Dec 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 On December 1, 2023, exactly 62 years from the day that Claes Oldenburg opened The Store at a storefront space on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Praise Shadows will open at our storefront gallery The Store of Sturtevant's The Store of Claes Oldenburg by Bay Area artist Reniel Del Rosario. The... Read more -
Evening's Evening
Solo exhibition by Crystalle Lacouture 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2023 Evening's Evening by Crystalle Lacouture presents an entirely new body of work comprising unique block prints, oil on canvas paintings, and a new set of her highly praised MAMA Drawings made on target practice sheets. The exhibition will also feature the debut of the installation House Jewelry , a towering... Read more -
Freeze Tag Hustlers Gang
Solo exhibition by Jamal Thorne 14 Sep - 15 Oct 2023 Freeze Tag Hustlers Gang by Boston-based artist Jamal Thorne is an exhibition nearly three years in development, conceived during Praise Shadows Art Gallery's earliest days. The gallery is honored to present a new group of nine collages created specifically for this exhibition, coinciding with and inspired by a pivotal recent... Read more -
yesterday's gesture
Group Exhibition curated by Yutong Shi 27 Jul - 25 Aug 2023 We are living in a world where we barely survive to get through life. The land is where we come from, where we go back to. We are breathing, we are waiting, as if something is about to happen. Or perhaps something has already happened, and now it is just... Read more -
Second Skin
Solo Exhibition by Jean Shin 16 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 Widely recognized for her large-scale installations and sculptures, Jean Shin's artist practice is rooted in the rethinking of materials, specifically those that have been discarded at mass scale. As she told the New York Times in a 2009 interview, her criteria for materials is often something that is “cast off... Read more -
Ovation
Solo Exhibition by Eva Lundsager 5 May - 11 Jun 2023 Ovation is Eva Lundsager's first solo exhibition in Boston. A painter who has exhibited internationally since her first show at the legendary Gracie Mansion Gallery in 1989, this body of work focuses on ten medium to large size oil on canvas paintings that celebrate atmosphere over representation, and the act... Read more -
I’m Usually Pretty Good At Naming Things
Solo Exhibition by Mac Premo 25 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 Brooklyn-based artist Mac Premo presents mixed media collage work in solo exhibition I'm Usually Pretty Good at Naming Things . 'A few years ago, I noticed that my art and commercial practices were beginning to converge. The process by which I was creating art began to take on some of... Read more -
Snapshots
Solo exhibition by Helena Wurzel 17 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is thrilled to present Snapshots , a solo exhibition by Cambridge-based artist Helena Wurzel. A painter with a virtuosic talent for patterns and color, this presentation evokes her love for family, community, and female camaraderie. An artist based in the Boston area for nearly 20 years,... Read more -
Let Love Quiet Fear
Group Exhibition 12 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 Artwork by Paul Briggs, Erin Genia, Eric Gottesman, Ekua Holmes, DA Mekonnen, Helina Metaferia, Jo Nanajian, Kiyomi Quinn Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Yu-Wen Wu. Organized by For Freedoms. In conversation with The Embrace , a new monument on the Boston Common by Hank Willis Thomas, this exhibition commemorates the legacy... Read more -
Return-Eternal-Return
Solo Exhibition by Juan José Barboza-Gubo 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Return-Eternal-Return features new sculptures, paintings, and installation that draw inspiration and assembled natural materials from the Peruvian rainforest. Paiche scales from the common freshwater fish native to the Amazon basin, wood, and extracted liquid rubber are some of the materials featured in exquisitely assembled forms. The experience brings to mind... Read more -
The Great Camouflage
Solo Exhibition by Joiri Minaya 5 Oct - 13 Nov 2022 The Great Camouflage by Joiri Minaya features three new large-scale photographic collages; never before exhibited paintings, photographs, and wallpaper; and the video Sábila / Leche. In this exhibition, Minaya explores her relationship to changing landscapes as a migrant, a diasporic subject, all while grappling with the contested and intertwined colonial... Read more -
Little Windows
Group Exhibition 7 - 30 Sep 2022 Featuring artwork by Marta Abbott, Brett Angell, Ana Jelenković, and Kevin Umaña The artworks in Little Windows, though relatively diminutive in size, ask the viewer to expand on the relationship between our interior lives and the world or times beyond the here and now. The exhibition features four artists in... Read more -
Chromatic Visions
Group Exhibition 7 - 30 Sep 2022 Featuring artwork by Rashida Abuwala, Clint Baclawski, Cicely Carew, and Daniela Rivera. Curated by teen curators Ana Hernández and Michael Sun with curatorial advisor Jen Mergel through the 2022 Praise Shadows Mentorship Program. The capacity to perceive color is a scientific phenomenon known as chromatic vision. But it is also... Read more -
shape_shifting_support_systems
Group Exhibition 14 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 Featuring artwork by Bhen Alan, Emily Auchincloss, Jeffrey Nowlin, Loretta Park, Denise Treizman, Courtney Stock, and Natiana Alexandra Fonseca. Co-organized by guest curators Leah Triplett Harrington and Mallory Ruymann. shape_shifting_support_systems highlights the ways in which contemporary and historical craft practices offer novel ways of merging material and political expressions. For... Read more -
Punchline
Group Exhibition 7 Jul - 12 Aug 2022 Presented by Jane Lombard Gallery, New York and curated by Praise Shadows Art Gallery. Featuring artwork by Jon Burgerman, Reniel Del Rosario, Madeline Donahue, Divya Gadangi, Guerrilla Girls, Garrett Gould, Oliver Jeffers, Nina Katchadourian, Kalup Linzy, Duke Riley, and Ben Sloat. Presenting works of various media from ceramics to video... Read more -
Ötzi at Three Kings, London
Solo Exhibition by Nicole Wilson 11 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 After exhibitions in three U.S. cities, Nicole Wilson's Ötzi , the highly praised and groundbreaking body of work, travels to its final stop in London. Co-presented by Praise Shadows and Three Kings Tattoo, with technical partner Fairchain, the project is based on more than a decade of research and time-based... Read more -
The Night in Bloom
Solo exhibition by Oliver Jeffers 3 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 The Night in Bloom is the Boston exhibition debut of Oliver Jeffers, the internationally renowned artist and picture book author based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Brooklyn, New York. T he exhibition features a suite of new paintings, with one work more than seven feet wide, that explode the night... Read more -
Encounter/Exchange
Two-Person Exhibition by Tiffany Calvert and Naomi Reis 22 Apr - 26 May 2022 Organized by guest curators Amethyst Rey Beaver and Sarah Burney. Encounter / Exchange is a two-person exhibition featuring the works of artists Tiffany Calvert and Naomi Reis. Showing together for the first time, in Boston and with one another, both artists use technology to re-examine still life art forms from... Read more -
All Put Together
Solo Exhibition by Helina Metaferia 18 Mar - 17 Apr 2022 All Put Together by Helina Metaferia is a multifaceted presentation pulled from the artist's interdisciplinary practice to emphasize narratives centered on social engagement. Her process, rooted in the archives and history of activism in the United States, is simultaneously focused on contemporary BIPOC women, all of whom are directly involved... Read more -
i’ll believe in anything for a while
Solo Exhibition by Katherine Mitchell DiRico 11 Feb - 13 Mar 2022 Boston-based artist Katherine Mitchell DiRico presents i’ll believe in anything for a while . The gallery will house a site-specific multi-media installation that brings together objects, photographs, sounds, video, and light collected and made by the artist during the last two years of the pandemic. Presented in varying degrees of... Read more -
Ötzi at Three Kings, LA
Solo Exhibition by Nicole Wilson 11 - 31 Jan 2022 Following two successful presentations of Nicole Wilson’s Ötzi in Boston and New York in 2021, the highly praised and groundbreaking exhibition premieres on the west coast at Three Kings Tattoo in Los Angeles. Co-presented by Praise Shadows Art Gallery and Three Kings Tattoo, Ötzi is based on more than a... Read more -
A New Devotional
Two-Person by Crystalle Lacouture and Kevin Umaña 7 Jan - 6 Feb 2022 Boston-based Crystalle Lacouture and Kansas City-based Kevin Umaña maintain artistic practices that are rooted in abstraction, color, and memory. The exhibition features a series of Lacouture’s MAMA paintings: gouache and colored pencil works that are part of a diaristic practice. Umaña presents ceramic paintings akin to tablets that record memory... Read more -
Frontier Romance
Solo Exhibition by Yowshien Kuo 19 - 24 Dec 2021 Frontier Romance is Yowshien Kuo’s first solo exhibition in Boston and his first solo exhibition located outside of the Midwest. Featuring six new paintings, this body of work represents a new direction for the artist in terms of scale and composition. Transitioning to larger canvas sizes, his figures loom larger... Read more -
Ötzi at Three Kings, Brooklyn
Solo Exhibition by Nicole Wilson 23 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 This presentation is a continuation of Nicole Wilson’s Ötzi , an exhibition and durational performance based on 10 years of research and time-based documentation. The premiere of Ötzi at Praise Shadows in Boston in June 2021 was praised by The Boston Globe as a “heartening exhibition [that] sweeps from 3300... Read more -
Space Folding
Solo Exhibition by James Clar 15 Oct - 14 Nov 2021 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is pleased to present Space Folding , the Manila-based American artist James Clar’s debut in Boston. Recognized internationally for his diverse art practice that spans digital media, light sculptures, and new technologies, the exhibition highlights his global reach by bringing to Boston artworks created at his... Read more -
Internal Navigation
Solo Exhibition by Yu-Wen Wu 9 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 How do we internally navigate the world, the times, and within ourselves? For interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu, this question provides the basis for her solo exhibition Internal Navigation . The Boston-based and Taipei-born artist has long explored migration vis-a-vis art, science, politics, social and cultural constructs, and natural phenomena. In... Read more -
Alchemized Dimensions
Group Exhibition 12 Aug - 3 Sep 2021 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is pleased to present Alchemized Dimensions , the first exhibition in the Praise Shadows Mentorship Program. Organized by 2021 mentees Sahara Curry and Liana Rice, with Curatorial Advisor Leah Triplett Harrington, the artists in the group exhibition include Caleb Brown, Samantha Fields, Brian Christopher Glaser, Garrett... Read more -
Eye Candy
Solo Exhibition by Jon Burgerman 8 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Praise Shadows Art Gallery is thrilled to present the first solo exhibition in Boston by the New York-based artist Jon Burgerman. Internationally recognized for his vibrant, intuitive style, Eye Candy embodies the world of Burgerman’s characters through works in various media from drawing, painting, to three-dimensional collectible items and books.... Read more -
Ötzi at Praise Shadows
Solo Exhibition by Nicole Wilson 27 May - 27 Jun 2021 In the 1990s, a body was discovered in the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy. This glacier mummy is now known as Ötzi, a Copper Age male (scientists date him to 3300 BCE) whose body is preserved, cared for, and researched at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology... Read more -
Fun House
Solo Exhibition by Madeline Donahue 22 Apr - 23 May 2021 How did a working artist mother of a newborn and a pre-schooler manage her studio practice in the year of the Covid pandemic? In Fun House , Madeline Donahue’s first solo exhibition outside of New York, and the first solo exhibition to concurrently feature her ceramics and painting practices, motherhood... Read more -
Memento Mori
Solo Exhibition by Yuri Shimojo 11 Mar - 18 Apr 2021 Not long after March 11, 2011, the day of the earthquake and tsunami, Shimojo was in New York City, far from her ancestral homeland. She heard reports on the news of Sakura (Japanese cherry trees) blossoming amid the debris in Tōhoku, the epicenter of the earthquake. The disaster caused the... Read more -
Lovers, Muggers, and Thieves
Solo Exhibition by Duke Riley 4 Feb - 7 Mar 2021 After a career spanning decades with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions around the world, Boston-born and raised Duke Riley had his first solo exhibition in his hometown with Lovers, Muggers, and Thieves. Presenting drawings, mosaics, and video by Riley, who is now based in Brooklyn, NY, the show also featured... Read more -
See and Be Seen
Group Exhibition 7 - 31 Jan 2021 Artists: Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Madeline Donahue, Modupeola Fadugba, Barbara Ishikura, Yowshien Kuo, Suchitra Mattai, and Miguel Angel Payano Jr. The first exhibition of 2021, as well as the first group exhibition at Praise Shadows Art Gallery, See and Be Seen embraces the genre of portraiture but under a new lens.... Read more -
Chosen Family
Solo Exhibition by Jarrett Key 9 Dec 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 A continuation of their Leaving the City series, Chosen Family is a unique body of work that depicts members of Key’s chosen family in relationship to the natural splendor of landscapes that define the figure, lushly painted on wet cement. Taking on a fresco-like appearance, the use of cement conjures... Read more
