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** NOW OPEN! GRACE ROSARIO PERKINS: CIRCLES, SPOKES, ZIGZAGS, RIVERS AND KEN OHARA: CONTACTS, AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM
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Now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art—Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=3165d8fe77&e=59415c6e7e) marks the first solo museum exhibition in New York City for Grace Rosario Perkins (Akimel O’odham/Diné, b. 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico). Bringing together approximately ten recent works—primarily large-scale paintings made between 2022 and the present, including two created specifically for this exhibition and a new sculpture—the presentation offers an immersive introduction to Perkins’s practice. The exhibition title evokes imagery tied to the artist’s family and their tribal homelands in the southwestern United States. Perkins’s vibrant, layered works emerge through an intuitive process of addition and removal, incorporating a wide range of materials; found objects, personal belongings, photographs, jewelry, fabric, plastic, plaster, and plant matter. Working with acrylic, spray paint, and collage, she builds dense, textured
surfaces that navigate individual and collective memory. Guided by diaristic encounters, DIY ethos, spirituality, and plant medicine, Perkins draws from pop culture, language, music, and sports, interwoven with intimate reflections on grief, love, and hope.
Ken Ohara: CONTACTS (https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=4056a4994a&e=59415c6e7e) presents artist Ken Ohara’s (b. 1942) first U.S. institutional solo exhibition, featuring twenty-two photographs and four related documents from his groundbreaking series CONTACTS (1974–76). The exhibition highlights Ohara’s radical photographic experiment in which he mailed a preloaded camera to strangers across the United States, asking each recipient to document their life before passing it along. In doing so, Ohara relinquished authorship to facilitate a collective, democratic portrait of Americans during a time of economic and political unrest. The resulting “contact sheets,” a recent acquisition to the Whitney’s collection, are presented in chronological order and offer intimate glimpses into lives across thirty-six states, exploring themes of human connection, synchronicity, and the everyday poetry of analog image-making—resonating powerfully in today’s culture of digital sharing.
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** EXHIBITION SUPPORT
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Generous support for Ken Ohara: Contacts is provided by David Bolger.
Major support for Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers is provided by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation.
Significant support is provided by Sueyun and Gene Locks.
Additional support is provided by the Girlfriend Fund, and Sasha and Charlie Sealy.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
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Image credit:
Installation view of Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–February 8, 2026). From left to right: Lets Go Back To That Magic Place That Only You and I Have Seen (Illuminations), 2023; When I See A Mountain I Want 2B A Stone, When I See Her Hand, I Want 2B A Bone, 2025; Like a Leaf Clings to a Tree, 2023; Disposition 2 Long Orange Finger Nails, 2024; Going Going, 2025. Artwork © Grace Rosario Perkins. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art
Installation view of Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–February 8, 2026). From left to right: I Left Those Stories You Made Up Underneath Some Black Cohosh so I Could Reclaim My Power! Beat it, Magickiller!, 2025; Dishes in the Sink n Roses n AVON n Your Ring, 2025. Artwork © Grace Rosario Perkins. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art
Installation view of Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 18, 2025–February 8, 2026). From left to right: Going Going, 2025; I Left Those Stories You Made Up Underneath Some Black Cohosh so I Could Reclaim My Power! Beat it, Magickiller!, 2025; Dishes in the Sink n Roses n AVON n Your Ring, 2025. Artwork © Grace Rosario Perkins. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art