Aspen Colorado 81611
United States
Glenn Ligon: Break It Down
November 21, 2025–March 15, 2026
Break It Down is an exhibition of works by Glenn Ligon that brings together prints, multiples, and works on paper made by the artist since the early 1990s. A preeminent voice in American art, Ligon (b. 1960, New York) often incorporates language into his work to examine the ways in which identity and culture are constructed against the backdrop of the nation’s complex and insidious past. In discussing his early ventures in printmaking, Ligon remarked, “I am interested in the border between what is mechanical, repetitive, impersonal, and what is autobiographical.” This exhibition inhabits and troubles that border to reveal a chimeric self-portrait of the artist, one comprising photographs, reports, annotations, and stories that resist understanding. Read More.
Jacqueline Humphries
December 12, 2025–April 5, 2026
The paintings of Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960, New Orleans) integrate modes of expression and communication. In dense, layered compositions that often conceal the process of their making, symbols, logos, emojis, and code mingle with brush marks, paint splatters, and drips, forging links between traditions of abstract painting and life cycles of technology. In her largest presentation of new and unseen work to date, Humphries aligns paintings with machines and emphasizes their unyielding capacity to reflect the drives and doubts of humans. Read More.
Shahryar Nashat: Raw Is the Red
November 21, 2025–April 26, 2026
Raw Is the Red by Shahryar Nashat transforms the roof terrace of Aspen Art Museum into a sculptural confrontation framed by the commanding presence of Aspen Mountain. At its center stands a vitrine encasing a “meat object,” an image of raw flesh on powder-coated steel, covered in a translucent layer of acrylic gel. Behind it rises a pink marble obelisk whose scale is that of the artist’s own height. Together, they evoke the body as both physical presence and mental projection, as a carrier of both empathy and distance. This is the second presentation of Raw Is the Red, which was first shown on the Bluhm Family Terrace at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Read More.
Victoria Colmegna: Play Technique
December 12, 2025–March 15, 2026
Victoria Colmegna (b. 1986, Argentina) explores artifice, kitsch, fraught psyches, and the materiality of memory through an art practice unbounded by any single medium. Influenced by histories, psychoanalysis, and astrology, she approaches artmaking as a process of classification and analysis—examining how traits, behaviors, and roles are constructed and repeated. Colmegna weaves together watercolors, readymades, textiles, and tools of intervention, both clinical and chemical, which act like miniature psychoanalytic chambers, exposing unconscious urges. Colmegna’s exhibition navigates the intermediary space between childlike, psychic recesses and the structures of adult reality, maintaining a dreamlike ambivalence that never resolves into either realm. Read More.
