Sapar Contemporary - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Sapar Contemporary. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Sola Olulode “Could You be Love”
Curated by Ladi’Sasha Jones Sapar Contemporary presents Could You Be Love, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sola Olulode (UK). Olulode’s first solo show in New York inhabits a space of...More »
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Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu “Moods in the Metaverse”
Essay by Batzorig Mart, Art Historian, Curator Sapar Contemporary presents Moods in the Metaverse, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu’s first solo show in New York. Mongol Zurag painting is a contemporary figurative...More »
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Heeseop Yoon and Sui Park “Immersion in Black and White”
Curated by Barbara Stehle, Ph.D. Sapar Contemporary presents a two-person exhibition of Korean American artists Sui Park and Heeseop Yoon curated by Barbara Stehle, Ph.D. Yoon and Park take over the...More »
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Jorge Otero-Pailos “Distributed Monuments”
I like to think of my work as unintentional art because it is really time that has made this art. It is really the atmosphere that has made this art. I did not go around trying to make it look a certain...More »
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“Home Body” Exhibition
Curated by Nico Wheadon Sapar Contemporary presents Home Body, an exhibition curated by Nico Wheadon. In Home Body, Elia Alba, Baseera Khan, Sola Olulode and Maya Varadaraj offer visions of personhood...More »
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Aida Mahmudova “PASTPRESENTFUTURE”
Sapar Contemporary Incubator presents Aida Mahmudova: PASTPRESENTFUTURE, a new series exploring the fragmentary nature of being through distorted memories across time and landscape. As part of the gallery’s...More »
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Marela Zacarías “Lifted”
Curated by Barbara Stehle, Ph.D SAPAR Contemporary presents new works by Marela Zacarías and the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition, titled “Lifted,” is also the grand finale...More »
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Eunice Golden “Metamorphosis”
Curated by Aliza Edelman, Ph.D. SAPAR Contemporary presents Eunice Golden: Metamorphosis, the gallery’s first exhibition devoted to this renowned artist’s late paintings and prints, and an opportunity...More »
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Yuken Teruya “Backseat Driver”
Piero Atchugarry Gallery presents Backseat Driver, a dual exhibition joining works by Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Yuken Teruya. The exhibition unites two artists employing their personal narratives and...More »
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“New Mythologies of Central Asia” Exhibition
Curated by Salima Sarsenova and Zhanna Guzhavina, Sapar Contemporary Central Asian Incubator Sapar Contemporary presents an exhibition of three leading female artists from the Stans - Central Asian...More »
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Cheuk Wing Nam, Ben Snell and Tom White “Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Curated by Marnie Benney Sapar Contemporary presents Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cheuk Wing Nam (Hong Kong), Ben Snell (US), Tom White (New Zealand), an exhibition curated by Marnie Benney....More »
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Gabriela Albergaria & Jorge Otero-Pailos “Nature’s Afterlives”
Curated by Courtney Skipton Long, Ph.D. Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. SAPAR Contemporary presents Nature’s Afterlives, the first shared exhibition of Gabriela...More »
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Mongol Zurag “The Art of Everyday”
Curated by Uranchimeg Tsultemin Ph.D., Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair of International Studies and Assistant Professor of Asian Art at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University Sapar Contemporary...More »
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Ahmad Zakii Anwar “Lust For Life”
Sapar Contemporary presents Lust for Life, Ahmad Zakii Anwar’s first exhibition in New York City in 15 years. The work of this prominent Malaysian artist hinges on series of figures and still life — art...More »
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Éric Bourret “Walks Alone”
Sapar Contemporary presents Éric Bourret Walks Alone, the artist’s first solo NYC exhibition with the gallery. As an “artist-walker” Éric Bourret climbs summits to produce photographs that he refers to...More »
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Ming Fay “Beyond Nature”
Curated by Alexandra Chang, Curator of Special Projects and Director of Global Arts Programs at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. Sapar Contemporary presents Beyond Nature,...More »
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Shinji Turner-Yamamoto “Microcosm & Macrocosm”
Sapar Contemporary presents the first New York solo exhibition of the Japanese American artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto. Turner-Yamamoto is known for creating paintings, sculptures, and installations that...More »
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“Beyond Fragmentation: Contemporary Collage from Central Asia” Exhibition
Essay by Kris Imants Ercums, Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art, Spencer Museum of Art Sapar Contemporary in collaboration with Aspan Gallery (Almaty) is pleased to present Beyond Fragmentation:...More »
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Wyn-Lyn Tan and Roya Farassat “Abstracting Materiality”
Essay by Beth Citron, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum of Art Roya, Wyn-Lyn, Raushan and Nina Sapar Contemporary is proud to present Abstracting Materiality, a two-person painting...More »
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Marela Zacarias “A Street of Many Corners”
Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud Sapar Contemporary presents a solo show by Marela Zacarias that includes the artist’s signature sculptural wall pieces, a site-specific mural, a free standing sculptural...More »
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“Thinking Through Drawing” Exhibition
Thinking Through Drawing brings together artists Phoebe Boswell (UK/Kenya), Kristoff Kintera (Czech Republic), Alejandro Magdallenes (Mexico), and Uthman Wahaab (Nigeria/Lagos) in an exhibition that highlights...More »
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Phoebe Boswell “Take Me to the Lighthouse”
As I lay in that hospital bed, attached to the machine, in the high dependency cardiac wing, eye bulbous and blurry, the woman in the bed next to me kept calling out to the darkness, “Take me to the lighthouse”,...More »
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Heeseop Yoon and Sara Berman “Solitaire”
In his book Homo Ludens, the cultural historian Johan Huizinga refers to the act of playing as the construction of “temporary worlds within the ordinary world, dedicated to the performance of an act apart.”...More »
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Zsofia Schweger “Cataloguing Time”
Essay by Dominic Molon, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum of Art Early in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire (1989) we encounter the film’s existential angel-protagonist and his...More »
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Uthman Wahaab “Phenomenal Woman”
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size/ But when I start to tell them,/ They think I’m telling lies./ I say,/ It’s in the reach of my arms,/ The...More »
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“Home As An Irrevocable Condition” Exhibition
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ― James Baldwin Where is home? The answer might be three words or three volumes, as the question alludes to very immediate and concrete...More »
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Shinji Turner-Yamamoto and Gabriela Albergaria “Substance and Increase”
Curated by Gregory Volk Essay by Gregory Volk Near the beginning of his great poem “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman ecstatically invokes a burgeoning world and our connection to it. “Urge and urge...More »