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.
Carol Bove
Carol Bove bends industrial steel until it looks weightless. Her sculptures fold, crush, and balance metal into forms that feel almost soft, set against bursts of color and polished surfaces. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, the Guggenheim exhibition shows just how playful heavy material can be.
Dyani White Hawk — Love Language
Dyani White Hawk paints where two lineages meet, Lakota aesthetics and modern abstraction, until the line between them dissolves. In Love Language, bands of color, glass beads, and quill-like marks carry both heritage and geometry at once. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, her work asks whose traditions abstraction has always belonged to.
Jennie Jieun Lee | Luteal Elements and Grooves
Jennie Jieun Lee treats clay like something alive, cracked, glazed, and caught mid-motion. Luteal Elements and Grooves fills The Aldrich with fragmented masks and vessels where color pools, drips, and splits along the surface. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, it turns the fragility of ceramic into a language for the body and its cycles.
Amy Sherald — American Sublime
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.
Pat Oleszko — Fool Disclosure
Pat Oleszko has spent decades turning costume, inflatables, and outright silliness into sharp cultural critique. Fool Disclosure lets the puns loose at SculptureCenter, where humor is the delivery system for something pointed. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, it proves the fool has always been the one telling the truth.
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.
Rose B. Simpson — Journeys of Clay
Simpson’s figures are soulful, grounded, and strong. Each piece feels like a person who’s seen something—made of earth, but full of spirit.
Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years
Girlfriend Fund is proud to support Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum — a landmark exhibition tracing a decade of the artist’s exploration of abstraction, form, and the body. Through luminous color and sculptural depth, Hollowell transforms intimate experience into radiant geometry, inviting viewers to step into the space where emotion and material meet.
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.
Arlene Shechet — Exhibition
Shechet’s sculptures are all personality—leaning, twisting, almost breathing. She lets imperfection take the lead, and the result is pure joy.
Kara Walker — Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Walker’s imagination is razor-sharp and devastating. She unspools American myth through paper, metal, and motion—beauty as a weapon, history as a haunting.
Nicholas Galanin — In every language there is Land
Galanin’s work is about reclamation—of story, place, and voice. Every piece dismantles the colonial gaze with precision and quiet fire.
Tania Pérez Córdova — Generalization
Tania Pérez Córdova’s Generalization intertwines absence and presence through objects that carry traces of time, touch, and narrative. Each sculpture suggests a story—what was once there and what remains.
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
Fifty-two voices, five decades, one throughline: power. This exhibition looks at where feminist art has been—and where it’s still boldly going.
Dozie Kanu; Hugh Hayden; Kiyan Williams; Leilah Babirye; Tau Lewis — Black Atlantic
Black Atlantic brings together five artists whose works speak to the histories, migrations, and material cultures shaped by the African diaspora. Installed along Brooklyn Bridge Park’s waterfront, the exhibition reimagines public space as a site of resilience and reclamation—where sculpture, form, and narrative move fluidly between land and sea, past and present.
Liz Larner — Don’t Put It Back Like It Was
Liz Larner’s Don’t Put It Back Like It Was reconsiders sculptural form through gesture, gravity, and time. Known for reimagining materials from clay to stainless steel, Larner transforms the familiar into meditations on tension and repair.
Tauba Auerbach — S v Z
Pattern meets physics. Language meets form. Auerbach builds worlds where everything vibrates just slightly out of sync—and that’s the point.