Museum Exhibitions

Sherrie Levine: 1977–1988 is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the early years of the influential American artist’s career. Featuring photography, painting, collage, and sculpture, the exhibition traces Levine’s pioneering use of appropriation to challenge ideas of authorship, originality, and agency. Through acts of doubling, replication, and framing, Levine invites viewers to reconsider the ways in which meaning and identity are shaped by inherited images and cultural narratives.

Curated by Scott Portnoy, this focused survey marks Levine’s first significant museum presentation since 2011. Highlights include her iconic President Collages (1979), plywood Knot Paintings (1985–87), and bold geometric compositions that challenge the history of modernist painting. Together, these works reveal Levine’s incisive approach to art-making—one that unsettles the boundaries between past and present, artist and artwork.

Sherrie Levine: 1977–1988 will be on view at the Aspen Art Museum from June 6 to September 29, 2025.

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Carol Rama: THE TONGUE, THE EYE, THE FOOT offers a focused look at the radical, visceral work of Italian artist Carol Rama (1918–2015). Spanning five decades of her career, the exhibition explores Rama’s fragmented, fetishized depictions of the human body—figures that are at once personal and political, erotic, and unsettling. Through provocative images of limbs, eyes, and tongues, Rama challenged social and sexual taboos, crafting a world in which desire and disobedience coexist.

This exhibition marks Rama’s first significant American museum presentation in nearly a decade. Featuring rarely seen works from the 1930s through the 1970s, the show traces how Rama’s singular approach—bridging painting, assemblage, and sculpture—responded to the upheavals of her time. In these haunting, hallucinatory forms, viewers encounter the artist’s fierce interrogation of madness, oppression, and the unruly power of the body.

Carol Rama: THE TONGUE, THE EYE, THE FOOT will be on view at the Aspen Art Museum from June 6 to September 7, 2025.

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Solange Pessoa: Pegar o sol com a mão (Catch the sun with your hand) is a new exhibition by the celebrated Brazilian artist known for her lyrical explorations of nature, the body, and the elemental forces that shape existence. Rooted in the lush landscapes of Minas Gerais, Pessoa’s work entwines organic materials—such as earth, stone, and hair—with deeply personal and ancestral memory, revealing hidden layers of life and matter.

For her exhibition in Aspen, Pessoa brings together four major bodies of sculptural work created over the past five years, installed across the museum’s rooftop and lower level. Dreamlike and grounded, these works offer a meditation on transformation, memory, and the unconscious connections between the human and the geological worlds.

Curated by Claude Adjil, Curator-at-Large, Solange Pessoa: Pegar o sol com a mão (Catch the sun with your hand) will be on view at the Aspen Art Museum from July 2 to October 29, 2025.

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In July 2025, the Aspen Art Museum will present a newly commissioned outdoor sculpture by artist Anthea Hamilton (b. 1978, London) outside of the museum’s entrance. Building on some of Hamilton’s most iconic projects, such as her 2018 immersive architectural performance The Squash in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries and her Giant Pumpkins series (2022) in collaboration with LOEWE, the newly commissioned work takes the form of a larger-than-life cauliflower sculpture. The artist’s humorous approach infuses a sense of theatricality into this mundane, perishable object, whose formal and textural qualities may recall a human brain, and indirectly cultural consumption. Long fascinated by pop aesthetics, Hamilton skillfully brings different styles, influences and visual registers to cohabit and contaminate one another in her works.

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