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Summer is the season for emerging art. From group shows packed with up-and-coming names you’ve probably never heard of (but will know very soon) to trial balloon solos by artists freshly added to bigger galleries’ rosters, it’s high time for the art world to take in a fresh crop of talent. Here, we highlight 30 emerging artists hailing from around the globe—from Istanbul to Cape Town, São Paulo to New York—who mark the very best of the class of 2015, three of whom have been profiled in depth.
Since the turn of the 20th century, urban creatives have flocked to the Berkshires—a quiet, mountainous region in Massachusetts—as a fresh air summer retreat. Over the years, these fair-weather tourists have left their mark on the area, establishing a rich assortment of arts institutions and seasonal programs highlighting every conceivable discipline, from theater to sculpture. This year, the schedule is as jam-packed as ever. If you are headed to the hills, here are six stops not to miss.
Penelope Umbrico, 'Moving Mountains: Aperture Spring Party (#62),' 2015, Aperture Spring Party
Jonathan Owen, 'Untitled,' 2013, Ingleby Gallery
Kim Young-Hun, 'Cloud Map p1316,' 2013, Choi&Lager
Björk, 'Vulnicura,' 2015, Museum of Modern Art
Richard Mosse, 'Invasive Exotics,' 2014, Leyendecker
How does one enter the immense body of repetitious work left by the late On Kawara? One might approach it as an effort to document existence: through five solid decades the Japanese artist marked the elemental components of his days on earth—the dates, the locations, the paths he traveled, the times of day he awoke, the sheer fact of his life’s continuation for one more day. “On Kawara – Silence,” the artist’s current retrospective at the Guggenheim, presents Kawara’s work as just this: a record of time, place, and habit as the systems that govern our daily lives. The museum’s unique layout amplifies Kawara’s output, generating significance through the sheer mass of material presented. It’s a befitting pairing, the Guggenheim providing, in a sense, the proper place to view this work, and Kawara’s oeuvre in turn embodying what seems like the proper work to fill this space.
Alfred Steiner, 'Sponge (Spongebob),' 2014, Gallery Poulsen
What do you see when you look in a mirror? Reality? Your own image? The environment around you? In Hannah Perry’s mirrored work, life is reflected, distorted, and messed up in a delightfully engaging way that is full of questions about gender, technology, and the everyday.
Alexander Calder, 'Untitled (LACMA Poster),' 1965, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)
In the era of the selfie, everyone’s trying to capture his or her own image—from the best angle, of course, with flattering filters generously applied. British painter Antony Micallef turns the trend on its head in “Self,” his provocative new series of self-portraits on view now in a solo show at Lazarides in London.
“Liz Luna!”
As you approach the threshold to “Pierre Huyghe,” a gallery guard-cum-town crier asks you for your full name. Name Announcer (2011),the first piece in the retrospective, then loudly proclaims your name into the exhibition’s vast, dim catacombs. Throughout the show, the faint echo of names become a subtle (occasionally cheeky) soundtrack for the theatrical and enigmatic exhibition.
Retna, 'Articulate & harmonic symphonies of the soul,' 2014, Hoerle-Guggenheim Gallery
With all the care and expense that attended the design and 13-year construction of the prismatic One World Trade Center, it’s no surprise the art that hangs in the building—which opened late last year—would be carefully considered. Curated by New York gallery Edelman Arts to complement the building’s light-filled spaces with their high ceilings and white marble, the 13 artworks on display provide a playful and colorful counterbalance to the tower’s stately architecture.
Damien Hirst, 'For the Love of God (3/4) ,' 2011, Kenneth A. Friedman & Co.
Greg Gorman, 'Andy Warhol,' 1986, HOHMANN
