The Aldrich Announces 2023 Exhibitions and Programs

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce its exhibitions and programming for the upcoming year. In keeping with the Museum’s rich history as a groundbreaking contemporary arts institution, 2023 at The Aldrich will include a roster of exhibitions and projects by daring artists who push the boundaries of artistic expression.

Executive Director Cybele Maylone says, “2023 will, as always, be a year of firsts at The Aldrich, with first museum exhibitions and first publications for a number of artists as well as first presentations of new bodies of work. But the year will also include a last: thirty years after his debut curatorial project for the Museum, Richard Klein will conclude his incredible tenure at The Aldrich with the sweeping group exhibition Prima Materia.”

52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone On view through January 8, 2023 

52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone revisits and celebrates the landmark exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971. 52 Artists showcases work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades. 52 Artists encompasses the entirety of the Museum—the first exhibition to do so in The Aldrich’s new building which was inaugurated in 2004. 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone is organized by The Aldrich’s Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart, who selected the emerging twenty-six artists, and independent curator Alexandra Schwartz, with Caitlin Monachino, Curatorial and Publications Manager.

Related events and programming

Performance Choreographed by Phoebe Berglund | Music by Celia Hollander
Saturday, October 22 from 5 pm to Dusk
Rain date: Sunday, October 23

Virtual Panel Conversation: Global Feminism
Wednesday, November 2 from 4 to 5:30 pm

Book Release: 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone 
Saturday, November 19 from 3:30 to 5 pm

David Shaw: Last Steps
On view through April 23, 2023

Related events and programming

Outdoor Artist Talk: David Shaw with Curator Richard Klein
Saturday, September 24 from 4 to 5 pm

Kathleen Ryan
January 12 to May 14, 2023

Kathleen Ryan is the fourth installment of Aldrich Projects, a single artist series that features a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist every four months on the Museum’s campus. 

Aldrich Box
February 2023 to February 2024

The Aldrich Box is a yearlong traveling exhibition series unbound to a physical space. This edition is the second in an annual series inaugurated in 2021 during the pandemic. 

Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art
February 5 to August 27, 2023

Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art is a group exhibition presenting significant and diverse works of art, which incorporate or reference thirty-five of the 118 elements on the periodic table by artists Matthew Barney, Edward Burtynsky, Rachel Berwick, Dove Bradshaw, Julian Charrière, Compound Interest, The Dufala Brothers, Ashley Epps*, Philip Grausman, Tom Lehrer, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Jeffrey Meris, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Simon Patterson, Beverly Pepper, Winston Roeth*, Allison Smith*, Edward Steed, Carlos Vega, Eleanor White*, and Robert Williams.

Hangama Amiri
February 5 to June 11, 2023

Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri combines painting and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories based on memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. 

Raven Halfmoon
June 25, 2023 to January 2, 2024

Sculptor Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation) interrogates the intersection of tradition, history, gender, and personal experience. 

Yvette Mayorga
September 10, 2023 to March 3, 2024

Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and video, Yvette Mayorga’s work flaunts a maximalist aesthetic rooted in personal narrative and familial histories to examine the Mexican American or Latinx experience in the United States.

Chiffon Thomas
September 10, 2023 to March 3, 2024

Spanning embroidery, collage, sculpture, drawing, and installation, Chiffon Thomas examines the ruptures that exist where race, gender expression, and biography interconnect.

For additional information, please visit www.thealdrich.org

Performance Choreographed by Phoebe Berglund | Music by Celia Hollander Saturday, October 22 from 5 pm to Dusk Rain date: Sunday, October 23   October is an abstract dance built on repetitive formal structures inspired by to work 4 Into 3 by Cecile Abish, included in 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone exhibition. Choreographed and performed by Phoebe Berglund, who has work in 52 Artists, in collaboration with dancers Elanor Bock, Emily Kessler, and Jade Manns to music by Celia Hollander. October will be performed live in the Museum's Sculpture Garden. The performance is organized by Director of Education Namulen Bayarsaihan and Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart.

Virtual Panel Conversation: Global Feminism Wednesday, November 2 from 4 to 5:30 pm A panel discussion with artists Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, Kiyan Williams, and Lizania Cruz, moderated by curator and writer Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism and Executive Director of The Kitchen in New York City.

Book Release: 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone  Saturday, November 19 from 3:30 to 5 pm Celebrate the launch of the book 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, a 192-page hardcover publication, co-published with Gregory R. Miller & Co. This significant catalogue includes essays by curators Amy Smith-Stewart and Alexandra Schwartz, an introductory text by Lucy R. Lippard, individual artist spreads, a complete exhibition checklist, and installation photography from both the original 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists and the current exhibition, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. An intergenerational group of artists from both the 1971 and 2022 exhibitions will join us for a series of short talks in the galleries, including Cynthia Carlson, Dona Nelson, Loie Hollowell, LJ Roberts, Mary Miss, and Rachel Eulena Williams.