“In the dynamic world of contemporary art, a select few talents emerge each year, captivating audiences with their unique perspectives and innovative creations. These five artists: Vanessa Raw, Sylvia Ong, Jason Ho, Amanda Ba, and Eliene Boerma are redefining the boundaries of art with their thought-provoking works. Here’s why they deserve your attention.”

– Tom Smith

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GAHEE PARK: FUN AND GAMES

Perrotin presents “Fun and Games”, an exhibition in New York of new paintings by GaHee Park. The exhibition consists of nine artworks that showcase her hyperstylized romantic scenes, where art history's favorite still life subjects appear to have soured.

February 24 – April 6, 2024

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MAJA DJORDJEVIC: HOPE AND REBIRTH

Carl Kostyál is delighted to present “HOPE AND REBIRTH” by Belgrade-born artist Maja Djordjevic. The exhibition is thus best understood as a whispered battle cry – encased within deceptively bright and seemingly jubilant paintings is a call to drop arms and hold one another’s hands instead.

February 23 – March 16, 2024

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RED, YELLOW AND BLUE: THE LAST PAINTINGS

Pace presents an exhibition of the last paintings of Chuck Close. This show will feature a selection of paintings, photographs, and works on paper that reflect Close’s significant contributions to the history of art.

February 23 – April 13, 2024

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TU HONGTAO: BEYOND BABEL

Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents the artist Tu Hongtao with “Beoynd Babel“. Th exhibition presents sweeping compositions in sumptuous hues that advance the artist’s use of abstraction as a means to engage with memory, landscape, and society, as well as art history, theory, and poetry.

February 22 – March 30, 2024

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VERENA LOEWENS: KIND OF BLUE

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present “Kind of Blue”, the first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to the Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg. In her work, structured oil compositions are animated by wide-ranging color and shape, yielding a precise yet poetic art.

February 21 – April 27, 2024

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EN IWAMURA: YAMA-ASOBI

Ross + Kramer is pleased to announces En Iwamura’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled “Yama-Asobi”. The exhibition includes 40 new ceramic sculptures and 8 works on paper.

February 15 – March 10, 2024

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MICHAEL KAGAN: POLE POSITION

Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to present “Pole Position”, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Michael Kagan. This work represents a significant shift for Kagan, diverging from the depictions of astronauts, spacecrafts, cockpits, and mountaintops which first brought him acclaim.

February 15 – March 9, 2024

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TIME LAPSE

Pace is pleased to present “Time Lapse”, an exhibition of figurative paintings by eight Korean artists. The group of artists in the show includes Jungwook Kim, Jinhee Kim, Noah Ryu, Gwangsoo Park, Suh Yongsun, Woosung Lee, Jaeheon Lee, and Soojung Jung.

February 15 – March 13, 2024

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SERGEJ JENSEN: OLDER WORKS AND SHADOW PAINTINGS

White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition by Sergej Jensen. Wavering between abstraction and legibility Jensen’s highly formal and material-oriented work from the past 20 years is shown here together, providing a reflective narrative on the medium of painting within his practice.

February 14 – March 24, 2024

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TIONA NEKKIA McCLODDEN

McClodden interrogates the critical activation point bridging the conditions of witnessing and intuiting, mercy and subjugation, enlisting metaphorical devices to explore the endurances of being human.

February 14 – March 24, 2024

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CONNER O’LEARY: NOTHING, HERE

Conner O’Leary’s new paintings take us on a road trip from Governors Island to northern New Mexico. Like many who set off in search of the ideal, we arrive to find that there is “Nothing, here.”

February 13 – March 13, 2024

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HA CHONG-HYUN

Almine Rech presents Ha Chong-Hyun’s solo exhibition with the gallery at Gstaad. Ha Chong-Hyun is a founding member of the avant-garde movement Dansaekhwa.

February 12 – March 15, 2024

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BROOKLYN MUSEUM: GIANTS

Brooklyn Museum presents “Giants“, art from the Dean Collection featuring Gordon Parks, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, Kehinde Wiley and Nina Chanel Abney.

February 10 – July 7, 2024

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CAROL BOVE: THE MACHINE AGE

Gagosian announces “The Machine Age”, an exhibition of new sculptures by Carol Bove. Since the early 2000s, Bove has focused on the interdependence of artworks and their contexts.

February 9 – March 24, 2024

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