Whitney Museum to Host First New York Solo Exhibition for Grace Rosario Perkins
The Whitney Museum is presenting Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers, the first solo museum exhibition in New York City for the artist. The presentation brings together approximately ten recent works, primarily large-scale paintings made between 2022 and the present, including two created specially for the exhibition, as well as a new sculpture. Perkins, Akimel O'odham/Diné and born in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, incorporates found objects and personal belongings such as photographs, jewelry, fabric, and plant materials into her acrylic, spray paint, and collage works.
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The exhibition, organized by Adrienne Edwards with Rose Pallone, positions Perkins’s intuitive abstraction as a form of storytelling that merges ancestral knowledge with contemporary urgencies around grief, love, and hope. For collectors and curators, it signals institutional support for expansive Indigenous perspectives that avoid reductive identity tropes and integrate diaristic, spiritual, and material culture references. This approach offers insight into how mixed-media processes can convey both individual and collective memory in current American art.
- Artists: Grace Rosario Perkins
- People: Adrienne Edwards, Rose Pallone
- Museums: Whitney Museum
- Locations: New York
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