Cauleen Smith

*1967 / United States

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Cauleen Smith

www.cauleensmith.com

News

In Minor Keys

The 61st International Art Exhibition

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2026 – 22 Nov 2026

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Laurie Anderson, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Eric Baudelaire, Beverly Buchanan, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Joy Episalla, Theo Eshetu, Ayrson Heraclito, Sohrab Hura, Alfredo Jaar …

Solo exhibitions

The Volcano Manifesto

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
12 Dec 2025 – 22 Mar 2026
The Deep West Assembly

Astrup Fearnley MoMa, Oslo (NO)
14 Jun 2024 – 15 Sep 2024
Mines to Caves

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
15 Dec 2023 – 7 Apr 2024
The Wanda Coleman Songbook

David Zwirner, New York (US)
19 Jan 2024 – 16 Mar 2024
Lessons in Semaphore

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (US)
15 Jan 2024 – 15 Feb 2024
H-E-L-L-O and Crow Requiem

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
28 Mar 2023 – 7 May 2023
Give It or Leave It

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
1 Apr 2021 – 31 Oct 2021
Mutualities

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
17 Feb 2020 – 31 Jan 2021
Mystical Time and Deceptive Light

Juan Sánchez Cotán and Cauleen Smith

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (US)
14 Mar 2020 – 21 Jun 2020
Crow Requiem

UCR ARTS , Riverside (US)
12 Mar 2016 – 2 Jul 2016

Group

In Minor Keys

The 61st International Art Exhibition

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2026 – 22 Nov 2026

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Laurie Anderson, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Eric Baudelaire, Beverly Buchanan, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Joy Episalla, Theo Eshetu, Ayrson Heraclito, Sohrab Hura, Alfredo Jaar …
Conspiracies, or Flowers for Venus

Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (CH)
19 Sep 2026 – 22 Nov 2026

with Sonia Boyce, Monica de Miranda, Alice Diop, Ilana Harris-Babou, Ramaya Tegegne
MONUMENTS

The Brick, Los Angeles (US)
23 Oct 2025 – 3 May 2026

with Stan Douglas, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jon Henry, Kahlil Robert Irving
Utopia

The Right to Hope / Recht auf Hoffnung

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
27 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026

with AES+F, Pablo Albarenga, Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Ursula Biemann, Melanie Bonajo, Eglė Budvytytė, Anetta Mona Chisa, Chto Delat International, Jasmina Cibic, Jordi Colomer, Thomas Demand …
Believers: Artists and the Shakers

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
13 Feb 2025 – 3 Aug 2025

with Janine Antoni, Wolfgang Tillmans
Musical Thinking

New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (US)
16 Jun 2023 – 29 Jan 2024

with Mariam Ghani, Martine Gutierrez, Arthur Jafa, Liz Magic Laser, Simon Leigh
at dawn

Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin, Berlin (DE)
28 Apr 2022 – 4 Dec 2022

with Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Carol Bove, A.K. Burns, DIS, Barbara Hammer, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Mary Lucier, Anthony McCall, Jacolby Satterwhite, A. I. Steiner …
A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way

Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and the legacy of Afrofuturism

Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
29 Jun 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

with Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Tabita Rezaire, Lina Iris Viktor, Kara Walker
No Master Territories

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
19 Jun 2022 – 28 Aug 2022

with Peggy Ahwesh, Chantal Akerman, Maya Deren, Barbara Hammer, Mona Hatoum, Ketty La Rocca, Maria Lassnig, Nalini Malani, Cecilia Mangini, Tracey Moffatt, Ulrike Ottinger, Leticia Parente …
Future Histories

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
17 Oct 2020 – 23 May 2021

with Theaster Gates
Time is Running Out of Time

Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today

ART + PRACTICE, Los Angeles (US)
2 Feb 2019 – 14 Sep 2019

with Martine Syms
EBSPLOITATION

Martos Gallery, New York (US)
21 Jun 2019 – 2 Aug 2019

with Billy Gerard Frank, Arthur Jafa, Christie Neptune, Kayode Ojo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Leilah Weinraub
Revolution Every Day

The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago (US)
14 Sep 2017 – 28 Jan 2018

with Lene Berg, Olga Chernysheva, Gustav Klutsis, Vitaly Komar, Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina, Anri Sala, Dziga Vertov
Whitney Biennial 2017

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
17 Mar 2017 – 11 Jun 2017

with Basma Alsharif, Jo Baer, Eric Baudelaire, Susan Cianciolo, Mary Helena Clark, John Divola, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Tommy Hartung, Jon Kessler, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, An-My Le …

Events

The 61st International Art Exhibition

In Minor Keys

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2026 – 22 Nov 2026

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Laurie Anderson, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Eric Baudelaire, Beverly Buchanan, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Joy Episalla, Theo Eshetu, Ayrson Heraclito, Sohrab Hura, Alfredo Jaar …
MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image

MOMENTA, Montréal (CA)
5 Sep 2019 – 13 Oct 2019

with Laura Aguilar, Francis Alys, Kader Attia, Jonathas de Andrade, Alinka Echeverria, Fischli & Weiss, Marina Gadonneix, Gauri Gill, Anouk Kruithof, Ana Mendieta, Batia Suter
48th International Film Festival Rotterdam

InternationalFilm Festival Rotterdam IFF, Rotterdam (NL)
23 Jan 2019 – 3 Feb 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Madiha Aijaz, Meriem Bennani, Stan Brakhage, Sara Cwynar, Debora Elgeholm, Kevin Jerome Everson, Luke Fowler, Miriam Gossing, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Mike Hoolboom, James N. Kienitz Wilkins …