Kai Matsumiya - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Kai Matsumiya. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Maryam Jafri “Independence Day 1934-1975”
Maryam Jafri’s Independence Day 1934-1975 (2009-2019) features 57 archival photographs culled from more than 30 archives of the first Independence Day ceremonies of various Asian, Middle Eastern, and African...More »
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“Emerald City Blue” Exhibition
organized by Kara Kazanoff The artworks in Emerald City Blue incorporate narrative forms such as folk tales, fables, urban legends, and mythical fragments. The show’s title references L. Frank Baum’s...More »
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Andrew Ross “Bucket of Truth”
Varied states of aliveness permeate the collaged layers of Andrew Ross’s first solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts Gallery, Bucket of Truth. His newest paintings focus on depicting singular objects...More »
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade “The Hard Problem”
Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s third solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Gallery introduces her new body of work, Attempts at Self-Organization following the Crowds series. She continues to expand and explore the...More »
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Craig Kalpakjian “Even a small boat typically casts a wide debris field”
Craig Kalpakjian’s work unsettles the infrastructures that surreptitiously organize our experience and scaffold our perception. He incisively renders the violent banality of contemporary life visible—forging...More »
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“Weathering” Exhibition
Kai Matsumiya Gallery presents Weathering, at its new 264 Canal Street location. A weathered object may appear battered or chafed. A once pristine surface rubbed raw by forces that twist, quake, tear,...More »
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Pedro Wirz “sadnest”
On September 29, we inaugurate Kai Matsumiya’s new gallery space at 264 Canal Street with a solo exhibition by Swiss-Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz. Following Wirz’s presentation at the Kunsthalle Basel in...More »
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“Missing Target” Exhibition
“Missing Target” explores the ruin as a cultural referent, bringing together a group of artworks engaging with themes of obsolescence as found across a span of circumstances from the everyday, digital...More »
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Irina Jasnowski Pascual “Sonic Prolapse”
Kai Matsumiya presents Sonic Prolapse, Irina Jasnowski Pascual’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The title denotes an element, sound, slipping out from the constructed metallic mannequins and scenes...More »
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Robert Sandler “Ha! Ah!”
Kai Matsumiya presents the debut solo exhibition Ha! Ah! by Robert Sandler (b. 1991). The clowns in Ha! Ah! are doing their very best. Arms and heads disappear through one hole only to appear out...More »
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Craig Kalpakjian Exhibition
Craig Kalpakjian’s second solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya expands the artist’s most recently realized works engaging technologies of power, social control, and the abstraction of late capitalist systems,...More »
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Pedro Wirz “Sour Ground”
“We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from nature, which...More »
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“But nobody showed up” Exhibition
curated by Pujan Karambeigi Kai Matsumiya presents ‘But nobody showed up’, a group exhibition featuring eight artists from wide-ranging backgrounds, points of focus and media in their practices. Their...More »
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Craig Kalpakjian and Andrew Ross”Standalone”
In the newly renovated space, Kai Matsumiya opens the fall season with a single sculpture per room; one by Craig Kalpakjian and another by Andrew Ross. More »
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“Butterflies on a Cruise Ship (group exhibition)” Exhibition
organized by Milo Conroy and Caleb Dunham More »
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Steffani Jemison Exhibition
Kai Matsumiya presents Steffani Jemison’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will delve into several aspects of Jemison’s repertoire but with emphasis on her newest body of work inspired...More »
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Bem Morgan-Cleveland “Gallery with Words”
Text by Nora Schultz: My proposal to the gallery with words is called “traveling words,” and in case it can be realized, it will be a traveling show. I’m in the forest of words, finding all these...More »
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“Reset” Exhibition
What kinds of art would survive in the event of an environmental apocalypse? What new kinds of art would emerge? How would our very definition of “art” change if the figurative reset button were pressed...More »
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Tracy Molis “Eclipsing, Your Lips Sing, Incandescent”
Kai Matsumiya presents Tracy Molis’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings that developed out of meticulous observations of light shone through dark transparent slides....More »
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Pedro Wirz “breastfed tadpole”
“In the nights of annihilation of the last war, the frame of mankind was shaken by a feeling that resembled the bliss of the epileptic. And the revolts that followed it were the first attempt of mankind...More »
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Elliot Jamal Robbins “Snow White Clapping”
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and...More »
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade “Shifting Sets”
Kai Matsumiya Gallery presents Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s “Shifting Sets”, the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition features two new large paintings that are continuations of the “Crowd”...More »
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Maryam Jafri “War on Wellness”
Kai Matsumiya welcomes Maryam Jafri’s debut solo exhibition, “War on Wellness.” The centerpiece is “Where We´re At,” a work in which the artist has fabricated an 8 ½ ft by 8 ½ ft functional crossword puzzle...More »
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Craig Kalpakjian Exhibition
For his first solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya gallery Craig Kalpakjian continues and expands upon his long-term investigations into social control, surveillance, architecture, and abstraction. Among the...More »
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Jan Kiefer “JaJaJaJaJaNeinNeinNeinNeinNein”
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Rainer Ganahl “Legacy: Obama, Bush, Trump”
Kai Matsumiya presents a range of work by Rainer Ganahl since 2001 to present exploring the linguistic and visual terms associated with each administration for his show “Legacy: Bush, Obama, Trump”. Such...More »
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“Truth Bistro” Exhibition
Kai Matsumiya continues to invite artists represented by the gallery to curate the first show of the new year. Following Rainer Ganahl’s “Tableau” (2015) and Lucky DeBellevue’s “Fondation Barbin” (2016),...More »
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Hadi Fallahpisheh “EVERYTHING IS TRUE”
Kai Matsumiya presents the debut exhibition of Hadi Fallahpisheh (b. 1987), a recent graduate of the Bard MFA program who currently lives and works in New York. His most recent series explores the world...More »
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Lucky DeBellevue “assignment”
What does an artist choose to make? What is actually realized from the many ideas that float around in someone’s head? Lucky DeBellevue asks this question in his second exhibition titled “assignment” at...More »
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Natascha Sadr Haghighian “Empire of the Senseless II”
Natascha Sadr Haghighian presents her solo debut presentation at Kai Matsumiya with the two-channel video projection, “Empire of the Senseless II”. The title is a reference to Kathy Acker’s 1988 novel...More »
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Pedro Wirz “The Horse Who Drank Beer”
Pedro Wirz presents “The Horse Who Drank Beer” in his US debut at Kai Matsumiya. For the past year, Wirz has focused on decoding oral traditions, mythologies, and legends native to Pindamonhangaba, Brazil,...More »
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Gabriel Lima “life, vest ; coffee, tray”
“It was like this: the country is at 11 a.m. Superficially like the backyard is green, of the most delicate superficiality. Green, green– green is a backyard. Between green and I, the water in the air....More »
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“Don’t Make a Scene” Exhibition
“Don’t Make a Scene” is comprised of 4-day solo presentations, running from February 7 through March 12, at Kai Matsumiya. There will be a total of 11 solo exhibitions in the second and third galleries....More »
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Philip Metten “153. Stanton”
“The project “153. Stanton” by Antwerp-based artist Philip Metten (Genk, Belgium) at Kai Matsumiya reconfigures one of the primary yet least material thresholds of the gallery space: the window vitrine....More »
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Rainer Ganahl “Artists - Recent Photographs from My S/L Series”
Following Rainer Ganahl’s exhibition “El Mundo,” which inaugurated Kai Matsumiya in April 2014, the artist now opens the gallery’s fall season with recent photographs from his Seminar/Lecture (S/L) series....More »
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“TABLEAU” Exhibition
In 1960, the philosopher, critic and curator Pierre Restany presented his “Nouveau Réalisme” manifesto at Yves Klein’s workshop in France. This manifesto consisted of nine signatures and just one sentence:...More »
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Siggi Hofer “My Mother Sold Cigarettes in the Mountains”
Kai Matsumiya presents the US debut of the Vienna-based artist, Siggi Hofer, in a solo exhibition titled “My Mother Sold Cigarettes in the Mountains”. The title references the show’s thematic spirit, one...More »
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade “Crowds”
Kai Matsumiya presents Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s solo exhibition “Crowds” at the space and will represent its first pure painting presentation. The verb “crowd” overwhelms and preoccupies, and as a noun,...More »
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Z Behl “Joker’s Solitaire”
Oversized playing cards of 52 fully-exposed nude men and 2 cards of herself as the joker (15” x 23” each) will be displayed in the front exhibition space on green felt. The cards are comprised of photographs...More »
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Tai Ogawa “Edge of Life”
Kai Matsumiya presents Edge of Life by Tai Ogawa. The show will mark the artist’s US-debut exhibition. It will also be his first time in the United States. Tai Ogawa (b. 1981) constantly reinvents his...More »
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Lucky DeBellevue “Open Concept”
The title comes from the catch phrase often heard on the Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV). Whether invoked for a renovation project, or a couple looking to buy their first home, the words Open...More »
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Markues “Starschnitt”
Following the inaugural exhibition with Rainer Ganahl’s El Mundo project, Kai Matsumiya presents Starschnitt by Markues. The exhibition marks Markues’ debut in the United States. Starschnitt, translated...More »