Rose Gallery | February 22, 2022 - April 9, 2022

ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present its upcoming exhibition: What Are You Leaving Behind? by visual artist Lebohang Kganye. Kganye often incorporates the archival and performative into a practice that centers storytelling and memory as it plays itself out in the familial experience. Her work explores an archive that is concerned with layered and temporal storytelling. The pieces in the forthcoming show span eight years of Kganye’s career, weaving together three seminal series: Her Story (2013), Reconstruction of a Family (2016), and Tell Tale (2018). In What Are You Leaving Behind? viewers are invited to follow the artist’s conceptual journey as she ruminates on the relationship between history and orature, and memory and fantasy throughout nearly a decade of work.

To read more information about this exhibition visit the Rose Gallery’s website here.

ⒸOscar Muñoz, Cortinas de bano, installation view/ Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art | February 20, 2022 - June 5, 2022

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin will present Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, the first retrospective of renowned Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz presented in the United States. Co-organized by the Blanton Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, the retrospective premiered in Phoenix in September 2021 and will be on view at the Blanton from February 20 to June 5, 2022.

Invisibilia includes approximately 40 evocative artworks in diverse media that Muñoz has created over the last five decades. Disparate works are united by Muñoz’s consistent explorations of themes of memory, time, history, and knowledge. They range from his early charcoal drawings of the late 1970s to videos produced in the present day, and hybrid artworks in which Muñoz combines photographic processes with drawing, printmaking, installation, video, sculpture, and interactive elements. The exhibition will showcase works rarely seen outside of Colombia and will also debut new works created between 2019 and 2021.

To read more information about this exhibition visit the Blanton Museum of Art’s website here.

ⒸVikesh Kapoor_Before Immigration No. 3/ Courtesy Colorado Photographic Arts Center

Colorado Photographic Arts Center | February 18, 2022 - April 12, 2022

Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country. In Experiences of Identity, four artists utilize different photographic approaches to investigate how immigration has shaped who they are today. Using family archives and personal histories as source material, artists explore themes of home, memory, loss, and the myth of the American Dream.

Each artist harnesses the photographic medium in distinct ways.

Priya Suresh Kambli, who came to the U.S. from India at age 18, alters an archive of family photographs using powered pigments, natural light, and vivid colors to explore the fragmentation of family, identity, and culture in her series Buttons for Eyes.

Emily Hanako Momohara’s project Fruits of Labor explores her great-grandparents’ journey from a famine-entrenched Okinawa, Japan to a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, utilizing imagery of agriculture, video, and antique stereographs to unpack her personal and family story.

In Entre Hermanos, Rafael Soldi invites male-identifying queer Latinx immigrants to take self-portraits while considering how their perceptions of life in America have changed over time.

Finally, in his series See You at Home, Vikesh Kapoor juxtaposes photographs of his parents before they immigrated from India with contemporary photographs of their current life in rural Pennsylvania, exploring dichotomies of home and homeland, freedom and isolation, and collectivism and individualism.

Experiences of Identity brings these bodies of work together in a gallery for the first time.

To read more information about this exhibition visit the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s website here.

Photo Editor: Chris Zarcadoolas