Exhibitions
Girlfriend Fund champions artists and ideas that expand how we see, feel, and connect. From museum galleries to public parks, each collaboration reflects a shared belief that art shapes culture—and that generosity fuels creativity. Explore exhibitions by institution, year, or theme, and discover the stories, materials, and voices behind each project.
Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald
Through clay and care, Reverend Joyce McDonald transforms pain into hope — her small sculptures evoke rest, resilience, and repair, breathing tenderness and power into every gesture.
Amy Sherald | Whitney Museum of American Art
Sherald paints Black life with quiet power and perfect poise. Her portraits glow from within—otherworldly yet unmistakably real. You feel the stillness, the grace, and the invitation to really see.
Davina Semo — A Gathering of Bells
Semo turns sound into sculpture—massive bronze bells that you can touch, strike, and hear echo back at you. They ring with memory and presence, transforming the gallery into a shared moment of vibration.
Torkwase Dyson — Akua
Dyson’s monumental steel forms shape how you move and breathe through space. She’s thinking about freedom, geography, and the body—and how abstract art can hold all of that at once.
Renee Green — The Equator Has Moved
In her Dia Beacon solo exhibition, Renée Green weaves archival fragments, multimedia works, and poetic signage into a subtly disorienting narrative about geography, memory, and systems of knowledge.
Christine Sun Kim — All Day All Night
Kim translates sound into something you can see. Her work is funny, sharp, and political in the best way—turning the rules of communication inside out.
Huma Bhabha — Before The End
Bhabha’s towering figures feel ancient and futuristic all at once. Rough, powerful, and oddly tender, they hold the tension of survival—scarred but standing tall.
Leilah Babirye — Exhibition
Babirye’s sculptures are proud, loud, and full of soul. Made from discarded materials, they become royal—queer monumentality at its finest.
Janiva Ellis — Fear Corroded Ape
Janiva Ellis turns myth, ruin, and cartoon into a charged landscape where Western painting collides with cultural collapse. In Fear Corroded Ape, unfinished canvases become alive again, asking what it means for images to resist resolution. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, the show revels in the messy, uncertain space between history and possibility.
Bharti Kerr — Alchemies
Kher’s hybrids—part goddess, part creature—rewire sculpture with bindi dots, cast bodies, and bronze power. Alchemies is a deep dive into transformation, myth, and material.
Billie Zangewa — Thread for a Web Begun
A show that’s all about connection—threads, textures, hands. Intimate works that expand the idea of weaving into something tender and radical.