The Walker Art Center today announced highlights from its 2025 exhibition program. This includes major solo presentations of artists Kandis Williams and Dyani White Hawk; first-time museum exhibitions for Pan Daijing and Jessi Reaves; and thematic and collections-focused installations, including the group exhibition Ways of Knowing. These exhibitions follow the significant openings of Sophie Calle: Overshare and Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon this fall.
Kandis Williams: A Surface, opening in April 2025, will mark Williams’s first museum survey and offer an incisive examination of the artist’s multifaced practice, while Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, opening in October 2025, represents the most comprehensive assessment of the artist’s achievements to date, with nearly 100 works, produced over the past 15 years and into today. In addition to these expansive presentations, the Walker will open Jessi Reaves’s first solo museum exhibition, featuring a new installation alongside select works from across the past decade, and Pan Daijing’s first US-based museum exhibition, which will feature a dark and poetic abstract landscape created especially for the institution as well as several new works.
The Walker also continues to build on its history of thematic exhibitions that provide insight into how today’s artists are thinking about and approaching their work. The latest of these presentations is Ways of Knowing, opening in March 2025. The exhibition captures ways that artists from across the globe engage with research and resist conventional assumptions about how information should be gathered, documented, and shared. Among the 11 featured artists are Petrit Halilaj, Gala Porras-Kim, Eduardo Navarro, and Rose Salane. The exhibition program is further completed with several installations examining the Walker’s recent acquisitions, including a presentation centered on a selection of Robert Rauschenberg’s collaborative work with renowned choreographer Trisha Brown.
Further details about these exhibitions and other current and upcoming presentations follow below.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon
November 14, 2024–March 16, 2025
Collection in Focus: Banu Cennetoğlu
December 12, 2024–May 25, 2025
Pan Daijing: Sudden Places
January 16–July 6, 2025
Ways of Knowing
March 8–September 7, 2025
Kandis Williams: A Surface
April 24–August 24, 2025
Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg: Glacial Decoy
June 26, 2025–May 24, 2026
Jessi Reaves: process invented the mirror
August 7, 2025−January 4, 2026
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language
October 18, 2025−February 15, 2026
CURRENTLY OPEN:
Walter Price: Pearl Lines
Through December 8, 2024
Sophie Calle: Overshare
Through January 26, 2025
This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection
Through April 29, 2029
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon
November 14, 2024–March 16, 2025
How High the Moon is the 50-year career retrospective of work by artist Stanley Whitney (US, b. 1946), whose practice is recognized for its powerful engagement with painterly abstraction. The exhibition charts the trajectory of Whitney’s career, from his early experimentations with palette, form, and rhythm in the 1970s and 1980s to later decades when his work was transformed by his extensive travels, and into his current, ongoing explorations of color as experienced within the framework of the grid. The presentation features major paintings, improvisatory small paintings, and drawings and prints, which constitute an important but frequently overlooked aspect of his practice, offering audiences a deep understanding of the richness and singularity of Whitney’s vision. Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
Curators: Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Walker Coordinating Curators: Pavel Pyś, Curator, Visual Arts and Collections Strategy; with Laurel Rand-Lewis, Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts
Collection in Focus: Banu Cennetoğlu
December 12, 2024–May 25, 2025
Collection in Focus: Banu Cennetoğlu features a major video work by Banu Cennetoğlu (Turkey, b. 1970), which encompasses media pulled from the artist’s cellphones, computers, and hard drives from 2006 to 2018. With more than 127 hours of video and still photographs that unfold chronologically, the piece reflects 12 years of the artist’s life as well as the shifting global landscape. The conflation of her professional and personal life creates a dynamic dialogue about politics, privilege, and lived experience. Presented for the first time since its acquisition, the video is accompanied by a binder of the metadata that serves as a map of the installation.
Curator: Laurel Rand-Lewis, Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts
Pan Daijing: Sudden Places
January 16–July 6, 2025
The presentation marks the first US museum solo exhibition of work by interdisciplinary Berlin-based artist Pan Daijing (China, b. 1991). Daijing is recognized for creating immersive environments that embrace sound, moving images, sculpture, eroding materials, architectural interventions, and choreography. For the upcoming exhibition, the artist will transform the Walker’s Burnet Gallery into a dark landscape through a range of sensory materials and physical alterations. This landscape exists as an artwork onto itself and will also feature four major works, including two new paintings. Seen together, the environment offers the first significant opportunity for North American audiences to connect with Daijing’s visionary practice.
Curator: Pavel Pyś, Curator, Visual Arts and Collections Strategy; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts
Ways of Knowing
March 8–September 7, 2025
Ways of Knowing highlights how some of today’s most compelling artists engage with research and knowledge, resisting conventional assumptions about how information should be gathered, documented, and shared. Taking playful, rebellious, and unexpected approaches, the featured artists reveal new narratives and possibilities within cultural and social histories. Their works deal with subject matter ranging from the lives and afterlives of ordinary objects to the connections between culture, place, and language to the formation of gender identity. Ways of Knowing includes a new commission by Eduardo Navarro (Argentina, b. 1979), which embraces both installation and performance, as well as a rich array of works by Iosu Aramburu (Peru, b. 1986), Sammy Baloji (Democratic Republic of the Congo, b. 1978), Anna Boghiguian (Egypt, b. 1946), Cabello/Carceller (France, b. 1963/Spain, b. 1964), Chang Yuchen (China, b. 1989), Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo, b. 1986), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, b. 1984), Christine Howard Sandoval (US, b. 1975), Gala Porras-Kim (Colombia, b. 1984), and Rose Salane (US, b. 1992).
Curators: Rosario Güiraldes, Curator, Visual Arts; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts
Kandis Williams: A Surface
April 24–August 24, 2025
A Surface is the first museum survey on the work of multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams (US, b. 1985), whose incisive practice spans collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, pedagogy, and publishing. Known for her powerful engagement with the politics of representation, labor, and the body, Williams positions collage as a connective tissue throughout her work, where it functions as both technique and framework for ideas. In her works, the notion of the surface—as a physical and conceptual space—acts a site for unraveling systems and histories of dominance, subordination, oppression, dispossession, and displacement. A Surface features examples of both well-known and lesser studied works from the past 10 years of the artist’s career, offering audiences the most in-depth experience of her critical vision and practice to date.
Curators: Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator, Visual Arts; with Laurel Rand-Lewis, Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts
Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg: Glacial Decoy
June 26, 2025–May 24, 2026
In 1979 the Walker premiered Trisha Brown’s (US, 1936–2017) Glacial Decoy, the choreographer and dancer’s first performance for a proscenium stage and thus the first with a set design. The groundbreaking piece included collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg (US, 1925–2008), who designed the costumes and set. The exhibition offers an opportunity to experience this performance through materials recently acquired by the Walker as well as a chance to explore Rauschenberg’s engagement with set design—a less considered aspect of his practice. The presentation will be anchored by the immersive projection of 159 unique photographs taken by Rauschenberg, which served as décor and shifted across the stage in dialogue with Brown’s choreography. It will also include performance footage of Glacial Decoy, two sets of Rauschenberg-designed costumes, and related archival materials.
Curator: Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts
Jessi Reaves: process invented the mirror
August 7, 2025−January 4, 2026
Jessi Reaves’s (US, b. 1986) practice engages with the labor of creation, the making and unmaking of objects, and the interplay between functionality and absurdity. She often begins her works with found furniture, which she dismantles, reimagines, and reassembles into sculptural objects. The resulting works reflect the process of their production and capture the banality of consumerism with humor, nostalgia, and glimmers of optimism. The exhibition marks Reaves’s first museum solo exhibition and will include a new suite of works that span a range of media, including sculpture and video. The new installation is informed by the artist’s research into murals made during the WPA (Works Progress Administration) of the 1930s and 1940s and will feature a large-scale mural and an artist-designed curtain that engages with notions of visibility and concealment.
Curators: Mary Ceruti, Executive Director; with Laurel Rand-Lewis, Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language
October 18, 2025−February 15, 2026
Co-organized by the Walker and Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada), Dyani White Hawk: Love Language represents the most comprehensive assessment of the artist’s achievements to date. White Hawk’s (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) multidisciplinary practice is distinctive for its dynamic visual motifs and approach to image making from a contemporary, feminist Indigenous perspective. Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, her work celebrates Native cultural production and amplifies its influence on modern and contemporary art while challenging dominant narratives and histories of abstraction. The exhibition includes nearly 100 works, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, works combining painting with porcupine quillwork and/or lane stitch beadwork, glass mosaics, and video installations. Together, these works represent 15 years of artistic innovation. The exhibition will travel to the Remai Modern (April 25–September 27, 2026) following the Walker run.
Curators: Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, and Tarah Hogue (Métis), Adjunct Curator of Indigenous Art, Remai Modern; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center
CURRENTLY OPEN:
Walter Price: Pearl Lines
Through December 8, 2024
Walter Price’s (US, b. 1989) paintings blur the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, immersing everyday objects and bodies in bold, vivid color and tangles of marks. In his works, interior landscapes and daily experiences are transformed into surreal dreamscapes weighted with personal and communal meaning. Pearl Lines represents the most in-depth museum exploration of the artist’s practice to date, and features selections from significant bodies of work produced between 2017 and 2023, including never-before-seen canvases and a painting acquired by the Walker in 2020 that is on public display for the first time.
Curators: Rosario Güiraldes, Curator, Visual Arts; with Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts
Sophie Calle: Overshare
Through January 26, 2025
Overshare is the first North American exhibition to explore the full range of artist Sophie Calle’s (France, b. 1953) practice across the past five decades. Through examples of major bodies of work as well as lesser-known pieces, the exhibition captures ways that Calle’s early work anticipated the rise of social media as a space to shape and present lived experience. The exhibition features photography, text-based works, video, and installations, highlighting the artist’s efforts to probe the boundaries between public and private, truth and fiction, control and chance. Overshare is the first large-scale exhibition to engage North American audiences with the significance of Calle’s recurring themes, and to capture their ongoing relevance to contemporary experiences and dialogues about our digitally mediated world.
Curators: Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs; with Erin McNeil, Program Manager, Curatorial Affairs; and Brandon Eng, Curatorial Assistant, Visual Arts
This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection
Through April 29, 2029
This Must Be the Place is a complete reinstallation of the Walker’s collection, offering new insights into the vision and development of the institution’s holdings through dynamic juxtapositions across media of iconic works, lesser-known objects, and recent acquisitions. The presentation is grounded in the many meanings and permutations of “home” and unfolds over three large galleries, with spotlight sections that give emphasis to beloved works and core ideas. The reinstallation incorporates visitor feedback gathered from a prior collection exhibition, Make Sense of This (2023), with special considerations to how works are presented and described to encourage public understanding and engagement.
Curators: Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs; with Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director, Visual Arts; Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator, Visual Arts; and Laurel Rand-Lewis, Curatorial Fellow, Visual Arts
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