Month of Video, moon immersions, and hittin' the bricks . . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to this month.

Marcel Dzama, The sleep of reason produces monsters, 2025, pearlescent acrylic ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper, 70 x 51 3/4 inches. Courtesy Marcel Dzama / David Zwirner

Marcel Dzama’s solo exhibition, “Empress of Night,” is on view at David Zwirner Los Angeles through August 8.

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2024, Epson UltraChrome HDX inkjet in linen, 213.4 x 175 cm. Courtesy of the artist
© Wade Guyton

An expansive, multi-part installation of work by Wade Guyton is currently on view at Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, through August 31.

Anicka Yi, Each Branch Of Coral Holds Up The Light Of The Moon, 2024, film still, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment. © 2025 Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.

Anicka Yi’s solo exhibition “Karmic Debt” is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, though September 7.

Simon Periton, Installation view 'National Geographic,' The Modern Institute, Bricks Space, 2025

Simon Periton’s solo exhibition, “National Geographic,” is on view at The Modern Institute’s Bricks Space in Glasgow through August 27.

839 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Joshua Smith will show some new work alongside eleven artists at 839 Gallery in Los Angeles though August 16.

Clockwise from top: Momoyo Torimitsu, Miyata Jiro: Business in New York, 1994; Serge Onnen, Break, 2004; Dan Asher, Creature, 1999; Devon Dikeou, The News Too, 2019 Ongoing

Work by Dan Asher, Serge Onnen, Momoyo Torimitsu, and Devon Dikeou (+ friends) will be on view in “Moving Still: Video Art Highlights from the Dikeou Collection” for special exhibition at Dikeou Collection for Denver Month of Video through August 1.

Margaret Lee in her studio. photo and pictured artwork by Lee

Margaret Lee, longtime studio manager for Cindy Sherman, spoke to The Art Newspaper about the newly launched Cindy Sherman Legacy Project. Lee also stopped to chat with Cultured Magazine about her fav things about the Upper East Side.

@joshuaableow / @dorpprojects / @freddybiz

Joshua Abelow’s solo exhibition, “Self-Portraits (2009-2024),” opens at Dorp Projects, Bath, UK, on July 7. Artwork by Abelow will be featured in Deerskin’s Spring/Summer 2025 handmade clothing line. And if you are in Osaka, you can see more of this collab at Single Double through July 3. 

Sarah Staton, Cloud Dust, Air-ink drawing, @__sarah__staton__

Work by Sarah Staton is part of Platform Earth’s portfolio shown on Self Similar and open now at Paul Smith in London. Staton also exhibited her work at Liste Art Fair in Basel by Galerina.

Ester Partegàs had her work featured at Art Basel by Prats Nagueras Blanchard in June.

Devon Dikeou, Julia Rose Katz, zingmagazine books, Permanent Accident, 2025

Devon Dikeou released “Permanent Accident,” a zingmagazine books publication, with fellow resident and scholar Julia Rose Katz at the American Academy in Rome.

Joe Brainard, author of I Remember Credit: Christopher Felver

Is Joe Brainard the greatest memoirist of the century? Read more from The Telegraph . . .

Upside Down Zebra at The Watermill Center

Work by Misaki Kawai is on view in “Upside Down Zebra” at The Watermill Art Center through February 2026.

Olav Westphalen, writing from Palliative Turn, printed in Permanent 041/100, 2025

Olav Westphalen’s text for his Palliative Turn project and exhibition was published in the most recent edition of “Permanent.”

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Let Freedom Ring, 2023. Steel, bronze, 32 automated bells, participant-activated bell, and patriotic song, installation view. Photo: Steve Weinik

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ 2023 installation “Let Freedom Ring” placed on the Washington D.C. Mall received mention in a Sculpture Magazine article.

Life's a beach, lion tamers, and audio in couture. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to this month.

Tod Papageorge: At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence curated by Lisa Kereszi at MoCA CT

Lisa Kereszi organized a pair of companion photography exhibitions, “Tod Papageorge: At the Beach” and “In the Pool” opening at MoCA CT June 26, 6-8pm.

@apt13gallery

Work by Lawrence Seward is currently on view in a two-person show with Drew Kahu’Aina Broderick titled “You can take the boy from the island, but not the island from the boy” at Apartment 13 Gallery in Providence, RI.

Artwork by Sebastiaan Bremer / @bascalyer

Work by Sebastiaan Bremer is on view in “We Are Nature” at Het Signer Museum in Laren, Netherlands, through August 25.

Lizzi Bougatsos at Maison Valentino / @baby_seal777

Last month Lizzi Bougatsos helped launch Maison Valentino’s new Madison Avenue boutique listening room with a vinyl set pulled from her personal archive. She shared a Q&A and playlist with Interview Magazine a few days later.  

@skyhighfarmhudsonvalley

Work by Bougatsos and Wade Guyton will be on view in Sky High Farm’s Fundraising Biennial Exhibition, curated by Dan Colen, opening June 28.

Mark Bolton, Elsa the lionness of Born Free fame lying on the roof of the Adamson’s Series 1 LandRover, Kenya; January 1, 2018; 26.4 x 34.5 cm; © Mark Boulton / Alamy Stock Photo

When in Rome. . . Devon Dikeou will debut new work in her exhibition “From Fulfilment to Adaptation” at Second Vue, on view June 3-6. 

American Academy in Rome, Open Studios 205

Additionally, Dikeou's 10-month residency at the American Academy in Rome will culminate during Open Studios 2025 at the academy’s McKim, Mead & White Building on June 5.

Vik Muniz, Oleanders, after Vincent van Gogh (Brushstrokes), 2025, Archival inkjet print, 127 x 156.2 cm. (50 x 61 1/2 in.), Edition of 6 + 4 AP

Vik Muniz: Brushstrokes opens at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, June 5 through July 25.

Städtische Galerie Bremen, Ja leck mich am Arsch

Work by Olav Westphalen is currently on view in “Ja leck mich am Arsch” (translate if you dare) at Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany, through July 20.

@__sarah__staton__ / @rcasculpture / @xavierlaurentleopold /

Last month Sarah Staton joined conversation with artist Xavier Leopold at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Anicka Yi, Öñ0†ñ†KL§£0†, 2023. Acrylic, UV print, and aluminum artist’s frame, 67 1/4 x 55 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. Courtesy the artist and the Warehouse.

Anicka Yi’s work was explored in a Brooklyn Rail review of “Double Vision: The Rachofsky Collection and the Hartland & Mackie/Labora Collection” at the newly opened Warehouse in Dallas, TX.

The McSweeney's Store

Marcel Dzama’s “Free High Fives” T-shirt is now available for pre-order from McSweeneys’.

Patricia Cronin, Memorial to a Marriage, bronze, over life size, 27 x 47 x 84 inches, 2004, at The Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy Bronx, NY

Patricia Cronin’s “Memorial to a Marriage” inspired a contemporary opera titled “Styx & Stones,” and is also the subject of a recent art historical masters thesis. 

Art for auction, apparel and curatorial collabs, and a prize that packs a punch. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

The Guggenheim Foundation / @ester_partegas

Big congratulations to Ester Partegàs who has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts - Cheers!!

Misaki Kawai, Are For You, Acrylic on Canvas, 11 4/5" x 15 7/10"

Work by Misaki Kawai is available for Printed Matter’s Spring Benefit Auction 2025, through May 2.

Kill Uncle x I.U.D.

Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska’s band I.U.D. has new merch available from Kill Uncle. They perform at Pioneer Works on May 2.

NADA New York 2025 / 839 Gallery

Joshua Smith’s 839 Gallery will exhibit the work of Olivia Gibian and Adrés Janacua at NADA New York 2025, May 7-11.

Artwork: Sebastiaan Bremer, Sous Bois, 2023. Relief/screenprint; 21-1/2 x 27-3/4 inches. Edition: 55 / @graphicstudiofl

Prints by Sebastiaan Bremer will be available at University of South Florida’s GraphicStudio Open House + Benefit Sale on May 10.

The New York Times / @craigstarrgallery

Joe Brainard: Love Nancy at Craig Starr Gallery was selected by The New York Times as a “must-see” for April.

@klasse_westphalen

Olav Westphalen was recently appointed as Professor for the Class for Image and Space – Drawing, Graphics, Painting at HfBK Dresden.

Lisa Kereszi chimes in on recent curatorial projects executed by her Yale photography students, one in collaboration with Peabody Museum and another exploring analog photo methods.

Marcel Dzama & Raymond Pettibon, An Entrance to a Flower of Evil, 2016, Graphite, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper, 74.9 x 97.2 cm. Courtesy of the Artists and David Zwirner

Marcel Dzama’s exhibition “Dancing in the Moonlight” at Pera Museum received a glowing write up in Art Dog Istanbul.

Helen and Newton Harrison, Shrimp Farm, Survival Piece #2, 1971. Image courtesy of the artists and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

Anicka Yi cited Helen and Newton Harrison’s 1971 “Shrimp Farm, Survival Piece #2” as her pick for Most Influential Environmental Art of the Past Century, as reported by Cultured Mag.

The curators Wade Guyton and Beatrix Ruf with the Collector Michael Ringier (from left to right). Photo: Susanne Diesner.

Wade Guyton, in collaboration with Beatrix Run, curated “Ringer Collection 1995-2025,” on view at Langen Foundation through October 5. Additionally, work by Guyton/Walker was recently added to The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection.

Celestial monoliths, puppets on film, and basement shows. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Lisa Kereszi

Lisa Kereszi serves as Visiting Critic at Anderson Ranch Arts Center April 1-4, and will do a public lecture on April 2.

One of the sculptures will be a four-metre (13ft) tall stone megalith carved in the shape of an oak leaf; bbc.com

Celestial alignment sculptures by Simon Periton will be installed as part of an urban planned community development in Wiltshire, UK.

Ester Partegàs, Two Moons (laundry baskets), 2024. FastMaché, cardboard, fabric, wood, and disco balls, 125 x 80 x 64 in. Photo: Phillip Maisel

Ester Partegàs’ exhibition with Michelle Lopez, Steady, was recently reviewed by Sculpture Magazine. The exhibition is on view at Ballroom Marfa through April 12.

@mattituck.mushrooms / @therise_wellness

Agathe Snow will participate in a Savor & Sustain Panel in the North Fork on April 5.

@i.u.d._band_we_dont_give_a_fuck / @abasement_nyc

Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska’s band I.U.D perform at Artists Space in New York on April 7.

@nilsfolkeanderson / @unnameablebooks

Nils Folke Anderson will participate in a reading/artist talk at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn on April 11.

Work by Anya Kielar is on view in Paper Room at Halsey McKay Gallery in Brooklyn through April 27.

Chris Johanson, I Did Not Yet Know/Technology, 2015, Acrylic on found wood, double-sided, 14½ x 13¾ inches

Work by Chris Johanson is currently on view in INDEX at Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, through April 26.

Joe Brainard (1942-1994), Untitled (Nancy Leaning on a Table), 1973, pencil on paper, 28 x 22 inches

Joe Brainard: Love Nancy is on view at Craig Starr Gallery in New York through June 28.

@joshuaabelow / @genes_dispensary / @art.viewer

Gene’s Gold by Joshua Abelow is on view sat Gene’s Dispensary in Los Angeles through April 5.

www.hallartfoundation.org

Work by Jonathan Horowitz will be on view in The Passion at Hall Art Foundation in Derneburg, Germany, opening April 19.

@__sarah__staton__

Sarah Staton’s Heron Sculptures, a public art project for Carnwath Road, launched on March 31.

Vik Muniz, A BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE, AFTER EDOUARD MANET (PICTURES OF MAGAZINES 2), 2012, Digital C-print, 101.6 x 140.4 cm; (40 x 55 1/4 in.), edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs / www.benbrownfinearts.com

Work by Vik Muniz was recently featured at Art Basel Hong Kong by Ben Brown Fine Arts.

Patricia Cronin, The Clasped Hands of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2025, Archival Pigmented Inkjet Prints on Innova Soft Texture Paper, 22.00 x 30.00 in, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, Edition of 25

Patricia Cronin was interviewed by Artspace about Harriet Hosmer, the inspiration behind her new series of prints.

Momoyo Torimitsu, Somehow I Don’t Feel Comfortable, 2000, 2 Rubber Inflatable Balloons, Ventilators, 16′ x 10′ in diameter each

A traveling edition of Momoyo Torimitsu’s “Somehow I Don’t Feel Comfortable” is currently on view in EmotionAir at The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, through September 7.

Installation view of Each Branch of Coral Holds Up The Light Of The Moon, 2024, Anicka Yi Image: Andrea Rossetti; Courtesy of Anicka Yi, Leeum Museum of Art and Gladstone Gallery

Anicka Yi spoke with Manu Sharma from Stir World about her exhibition There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One at UCCA in Beijing. A series of images from the exhibition has been recently shared from China Daily.  

@839gallery / @galleryplatform.la

Joshua Smith’s 839 Gallery has been included in the 2025 Gallery Platform Los Angeles community map guide.

Serge Onnen, Worthless money & famous painters, Still. Concept, story, drawings & design; Serge Onnen, Puppeteer & advisor ; Tim Hammer, Sounds; Pak Yan Lau

Watch Serge Onnen’s PuPaFiTa; James, Eugene, Frans & Frieda recent video project on Vimeo.

Wade Guyton, Untitled, (2021), Epson UltraChrome HDX inkjet on linen Untitled, (2024) Cast Aluminium ©Wade Guyton, Courtesy of the artist and AMA Collection Installation view by Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Work by Wade Guyton is currently on view in the newly opened private collection space of Laurent Asscher in Venice. Walker Art Center has also recently announced the acquisition of more of Guyton’s work to their permanent collection.

Illustration by Marcel Dzama; Vancouver Magazine

Work by Marcel Dzama was highlighted in Vancouver Magazine’s collector profile of Danielle and Wade Papin.

Chris Gilmour, Autotaxi, cardboard, 2006

Chris Gilmour’s Auto Taxi (2006) was highlighted Artsier Magazine’s “Cardboard and Its Many Forms” article.

Walter Robinson, Born 1950, USA. Candles, 2018, Acrylic on Canvas, 72” x 60”

In 2006, artist-slash-art critic Walter Robinson wrote “Rocky Mountain High,” an extensive piece for Artnet about the city of Denver’s growing contemporary art scene. Flying nearly cross-country from New York to what was still known as a “cow town,” Robinson showed a lot of love and generosity toward the community’s flourishing museums, art districts, and experimental energy. In his notes about Dikeou Collection, he stated that the artwork is “pleasantly underground,” and nearly two decades later Walter’s paintings of spa candles has joined the ranks of our pleasantly underground crew forever. 

Walter Robinson, Born 1950, USA. Spa Candles, 2018, Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 36”

Walter’s candle paintings in Dikeou Collection radiate tranquility, but their true meaning is more sensual and worldly. In a 2022 zingchat interview he revealed, “All my work is about desire. My candles are carnal, not spiritual. They’re stock images that Asian massage parlors use to set the tone in their ads. They’re about the senses, about touch.” Other subjects commonly portrayed in his work - money, women, fast food, cigarettes, alcohol - offer more apparent depictions of the kind of carnal desire he describes, while the candles are desire’s smokescreen. The viewer wants to assume the candles are aspirational; that they are devotional, spiritual, and evoke purity and wellness. But they’re secretly the least innocent players at the party. The candles provide the atmosphere while indulging in a late-night binge, or a heady studio session. Because, after all, “Painting in the dark gives the best art effects.” (Walter Robinson, 1950-2025).

- Hayley Richardson