Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)

Invaded by a spectrum of shimmering and eery greens, Nsenene by Michele Sibiloni follows the nocturnal harvest of grasshoppers in Uganda. These insects are a sought-after commodity, a local delicacy, and they migrate en masse only twice a year, which is why anyone hoping to catch them needs to be prepared. (more…)

Ormston House proudly presents Particles, the first exhibition ­­by internationally renowned Danish video artists Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen in Ireland. For more than three decades, Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen have focused on the powerful influence of media images in society. (more…)

What do a departure from binary thinking, the search for an atomic secret, and a decaying work of art have in common? All three take contradictory demands and desires propagated by society as starting points to rethink the relationship between the human body and its environment (more…)

With Civic Floor, the MIT List Visual Arts Center will present the US debut of recently co-commissioned works by German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu. Tieu employs sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation to examine a wide range of subjects in which social or political power is articulated through sensory and psychological realms. (more…)

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents a sweeping exhibition of the internationally celebrated American artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950). Since the 1970s, Holzer has been renowned for her thought-provoking use of text in various media (more…)

British artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977, London) is celebrated for her paintings of timeless subjects in everyday moments of happiness, comradery, and solitude. Her lush oils on canvas or coarse linen portray fictitious characters rendered in loose brushwork set against dramatic backgrounds. (more…)

The Sunny Art Prize is sponsored by the Art Council England and has established itself as one of the UK’s most prestigious international art competitions. The scope of this contemporary art prize is about sourcing the most talented artists from all over the world, both established and emerging ones, who produce ground-breaking and innovative artworks. (more…)

Mathilde Rosier has been painting since she was seventeen. She has long placed environmental concerns and what she calls “plants’ perspective” at the heart of her pictorial practice and artistic thinking. (more…)