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.
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.
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.
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.
Claudia Wieser — Rehearsal
Wieser builds spaces that feel sacred and playful at once—mirrors, tiles, and gold leaf that make you part of the geometry.
Julie Mehretu — Retrospective
Mehretu’s paintings are storms—fast, dense, and electric. You can feel the motion and the meaning all tangled together, like cities seen from memory.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork — Poems of Electronic Air
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork turns sound into sculpture you can walk through, lean against, and even feel beneath your feet. Poems of Electronic Air transforms the Carpenter Center into a playground of sonic blankets, inflatable architecture, and stone-crunching floors. Supported by Girlfriend Fund, it’s an invitation to listen with your whole body.