Exhibitions

Shanique Emelife

The Village 9 Dec 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 after “Toil & Trouble” bent at boil at burnish at boil then fixed futures or slid and slip past and three is a cadence a cavity leant when hum beckons so verdant follows The figures in the pieces in Shanique Emelife’s The Village are never truly alone. Even when there... Read more

Chris Oh

Landscapes 28 Oct - 5 Dec 2021 Fortnight Institute is pleased to present, Landscapes, the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Appropriation has long been understood as one of the defining practices of modern art. This art of the copy however, is not limited to that which came after the age of reproduction. The conscious duplication... Read more

Katelyn Eichwald

Never 8 Sep - 24 Oct 2021 Fortnight Institute is pleased to present Katelyn Eichwald: Never, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. An artist’s book will be published in a limited edition run of 200 copies, in conjuction with the exhibition. This new body of work foregrounds Katelyn Eichwald’s ability to meditate on pregnant instances,... Read more

Nine Lives

22 Jul - 21 Aug 2021 Nine Lives is a group exhibition that looks to examine the perennial motif of cats within art. Across generations and cultures, felines have been used as a vehicle for symbolism, with their presence pointing to myriad signs – ranging from rebirth, femininity, to the domestic, and most perhaps most ominous... Read more

Trude Viken

Midnight Theater 24 Jun - 17 Jul 2021 The people that are all one person in these paintings don’t seem light, new, handily sketched or birthed in ease. All the paintings are clogged with duration: ochre sours, cobalt leaks and greys. They are like those blotchy, colorful ‘aura’ photographs you can buy, but if the aura was made... Read more

Peter Shear

Recording 22 May - 19 Jun 2021 Text excerpt from Peter Shear’s Determination and Openness by John Yau Working during a time rife with expensive, attention-getting artistic gestures, Shear’s decision to follow a humbler path marked by intimately scaled works without a signature style or brand is radical. He may not display any signs of an overt... Read more

Danielle Mckinney

Saw my Shadow 10 Apr - 15 May 2021 after Easter Sunday It takes every hour to spell What I would not see What I saw in triptych trifold or saw in flight The tourniquet of LLLLL: languid, lavish, luxury, liminal, latent, left It takes every hour to sound out the sequel Sound cuts the sequel, lets in the... Read more

The Lonely Ones

Curated by Katelyn Eichwald 15 Feb - 30 Mar 2021 The lonely ones, the broken-hearted, the estranged, the ones whose mothers loved them wrong, the ones whose fathers loved them weak, the ones whose sisters and brothers died young, whose husbands and wives are out with their lovers, whose neighbors keep the curtains closed, whose dogs are in pain, whose... Read more

Hunters in the Snow

Curated by Fortnight Institute at 303 Gallery, NYC 6 Feb - 7 Mar 2021 Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Month depicts January as a solemn time, one in which the struggle for survival is most acute. The month is captured in his painting, Hunters in the Snow, a work which for so many artists who have proceeded Bruegel, has inimitably captured the romantic, numbing... Read more

Daniel Correa Mejía

Soy hombre: duro poco y es enorme la noche 3 Dec 2020 - 9 Jan 2021 Fortnight Institute is pleased to present Soy Hombre: duro poco y es enorme la noche (I am a man: little do I last and the night is enormous), a collection of night scenes, sunsets and dawns, interwoven by Daniel Correa Mejía into meditations on the fleeting aspects of time and... Read more