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Installation Will Debut Three New Sculpture Alongside Artworks From Leighs U.S. Representation at 2022 Venice Biennale; On View Nov. 3March 3, 2024 WEBWIRE – Wednesday, September 27, 2023 The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present Simone Leigh, bringing the first museum survey of the acclaimed artists artworks before a national audience in Washington, D.C. Leigh represented the United States at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia through a commission by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA). Curated in tandem to that landmark presentation, the exhibition Simone Leigh will showcase works from Leighs Venice exhibition ... Read more

This fall, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present “A Countervailing Theory,” a major exhibition of work by Toyin Ojih Odutola (born Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1985), Nov. 19–April 3, 2022. The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist. The installation will span the entirety of the museum’s circular inner galleries on its second floor, nearly 400 linear feet. Ojih Odutola is known for investigating the relationship between drawing and storytelling, using materials such as pastel, charcoal and chalk to communicate ... Read more