Diane Severin Nguyen, installation view, If Revolution Is A Sickness, 2022.
Premiering September 21, 2022 at 12pm ET, Diane Severin Nguyen’s Transfigurations from the Art21 digital series “New York Close Up” features IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS.
A co-commission with the Sculpture Center, New York, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS was on view at the Renaissance Society from May 14 to June 19, 2022.
Watch the film to learn more about Nguyen’s practice, and to see...
Meriem Bennani, Life on the CAPS, installation view at the Renaissance Society, 2022. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
Meriem Bennani’s Life on the CAPS debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival, on view at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery from September 9 through 18, and presented by the Vega Foundation.
Co-commissioned by the Renaissance Society with Nottingham Contemporary, UK, Life on the CAPS, the final chapter in this film trilogy of the same name, was presented at the Renaissance...
The Renaissance Society is pleased to announce a new partnership with Milan-based global brand development platform 247, centered around the two organizations’ shared commitment to artists and creatives by giving them the resources, networks, and platforms required to expand their visions and grow their practices.
247 is the lead partner in making the 2022-23 season of ambitious programming...
Still from RenBen 2022, Conceived by Piero Golia. Photograph by Adriana Glaviano.
The Renaissance Society is currently closed to the public. Please check back soon for information regarding our fall exhibitions and programs.
In the meantime, view recent artist talks, lectures, and performances available for online viewing, and explore recent books, editions, and merch.
We look forward to welcoming visitors when our 2022-23 season commences this September. Thank you.
Please note that the Renaissance Society will be closed for visiting hours on SAT, JUN 4 due to University of Chicago convocation events. Regular hours will then resume through SUN, JUN 19. Thank you for your understanding.
The Renaissance Society will participate in EXPO CHICAGO from April 7–10. Join us for a special presentation both honoring the history of our longstanding editions program and celebrating renewed experimentation with editions (and merch) by artists animating the Ren today.
This selection brings together editions by Ren...
As part of EXPO Art Week’s South Side events, the Renaissance Society be open April 5 from 6-8PM for extended viewing of Meriem Bennani’s Life on the CAPS. Curatorial remarks about the exhibition will take place at 7PM in the gallery. No RSVP necessary.
We will also be open for the following extended hours:
Friday, April 8: 10AM–7PM
Saturday, April 9: 10AM–8PM
Sunday, April 10: 10AM–7PM...
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s monograph, The Last Cruze, featuring her 2019 solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society, was featured among top photobooks for the past year by TIME and MoMA Magazine.
Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art writes:
In The Last Cruze, LaToya Ruby Frazier documents the ripple effects caused by General Motors’ decision in...
For his project, All of the Lights, an immersive installation made up of a trio of works presented by The Renaissance Society in 2021, Haig Aivazian is featured in MOUSSE Magazine #78, Winter 2022. Animated by research and more casual discoveries, his works track apparatuses of control and the effects of power as they are manifested in extractivism, technology, and subjectivity.
Read the...
For her recent animated work, conceived in the early days of the pandemic, Myriam Bennani was featured in the New York Times Style Magazine.
Read the full article, “What Comes Next for an Artist Whose Work Goes Viral?,” here.
Bennani will debut her most ambitious film to date, Life on the CAPS (2021) at the Renaissance Society beginning February 26, 2022. The exhibition is curated by Myriam...
