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.
Katherine Bradford — Flying Woman
In Flying Woman, Katherine Bradford presents a body of paintings centered on figures in motion—floating, leaping, and suspended against fields of luminous color. The exhibition highlights Bradford’s distinctive ability to balance vulnerability and strength, using simplified forms and saturated palettes to explore freedom, risk, and emotional resilience.
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.
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.
Tomashi Jackson — Across the Universe
In Across the Universe, Tomashi Jackson brings together abstraction, history, and political urgency, layering color, text, and material to explore how power circulates through public space, education, and collective memory.
Jack Whitten — The Greek Alphabet Paintings
Dia Beacon stages the first full survey of Whitten’s landmark Greek Alphabet series—abstract, layered, rhythmic—bringing renewed attention to a pivotal body of work that navigated structure, ink, and gesture.
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.
Jacqueline Humphries — jHΩ1:)
Jacqueline Humphries transforms the language of abstract painting into a field of encoded gestures and digital symbology. jHΩ1:) expands her exploration of light, code, and mark-making, merging painterly instinct with algorithmic rhythm.
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint’s visionary paintings reveal abstraction as a spiritual and philosophical pursuit. Created decades before her contemporaries, the works challenge linear art histories and foreground intuition, symbolism, and unseen forces.
Laura Owens — Exhibition
Owens paints like she’s in on the joke—and maybe writing the punchline. Every canvas is part chaos, part genius, and completely alive.
Maureen Gallace — Clear Day
Clear Day brings together Maureen Gallace’s quietly radiant paintings, where spare compositions and luminous color distill everyday scenes into moments of stillness and clarity. Small in scale but expansive in feeling, the works invite close looking and slow attention, rewarding viewers with subtle shifts of light, space, and mood.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby — Predecessors
Njideka Akunyili Crosby layers Nigeria and America in the same image—collage and transfer meet painting to map diasporic identity with intimacy and complexity.