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.
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.
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.
Tacita Dean — Landscape
Tacita Dean’s Landscape is a meditation on place, time, and observation, bringing together film and drawing to slow the act of looking and reframe the natural world as something quietly monumental.
Muriel Hasbún — Tracing Terruño
Tracing Terruño presents Muriel Hasbún’s deeply personal photographic exploration of memory, displacement, and belonging. Through layered images that move between archive and lived experience, Hasbún traces the emotional and political terrain of exile, family history, and Central American identity.
Sarah Sze — Timelapse
In Timelapse, Sarah Sze constructs a world in motion—where images, objects, and sound collide in constantly shifting relationships. The exhibition captures time as fragmented and layered, reflecting how meaning is built through accumulation and attention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leslie Hewitt — Collective Stance
Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Stills, 2016, installation view, Collective Stance, SculptureCenter, 2016. Three synchronized video projections
Zoe Leonard — Exhibition
Leonard looks slowly and asks us to do the same. Her photographs linger on the edges of things—borders, seams, the places where one story touches another.