Exhibitions in Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation

More than 30 mixed-media works by Rochelle Feinstein on abstraction, culture and public life, including 11 large-scale pieces commissioned by the Barnes for the Annenberg Court.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Retells the Lewis and Clark expedition through Indigenous ecological knowledge, pairing the Academy's historic Lewis and Clark Herbarium specimens with contemporary Native voices.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

An outdoor living demonstration garden on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway planted with species native to Northeastern North America, extending the Botany of Nations story outside.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Plaster casts and cast drawings spanning more than 140 years, showing how classical models have underpinned training at America's oldest art school since 1805.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Eight interdisciplinary artists pair finished prints with the working materials behind them, showing the PrintLab residency as an incubator for traditional printmaking and emerging technologies alike.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

Group exhibition on solidarity across Black, African and Chinese diasporic networks, with video, installation, prints and archival works by nine artists.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

ICA's inaugural R+D residency: Wilmer Wilson IV takes the eastern gray squirrel as a lens on American ecologies and colonial history, in installation, sculpture and performance.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

A two-channel video made during a residency at a Philadelphia recycling centre, staging performative vignettes choreographed by discarded materials.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Unfinished paintings, sketches and studies from PAFA's permanent collection, treating incompletion not as failure but as evidence of experiment and material process.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Twenty-two photogravures reproducing the floor outlines of major museums' visitor maps, questioning the museum as a neutral repository and how its architecture shapes what we see.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Prominent American artists who studied or taught at PAFA, from traditional realism to contemporary practice, tracing the visual languages the school has produced since 1805.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The museum's America-250 centrepiece: over 1,000 works tracing three centuries of American art making, drawn from its own collection and the Middleton Family Collection.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Reopening the Historic Landmark Building for PAFA's 220th anniversary: over 1,000 works from the late 18th century to today, including 100+ pieces from the Middleton Family Collection.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

ICA's relaunched biannual platform for moving-image work by Delaware Valley artists, screened on the mezzanine across a fall and a spring season.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

Yurok artist Saif Azzuz fills ICA's Sansom Street windows with abstract graphics drawn from research into Philadelphia's natural history.

Independence Seaport Museum

Around 150 rarely seen objects trace how the young United States, cut off from British trade after the Revolution, turned east to China and built itself into a global economic power.