Read Artnet's sneak peek into Gallery Wendi Norris' forthcoming exhibition, Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon: Worlds Gone and to Come.
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Architects of Absence: Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos, Marcel Jean, and Remedios Varo
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Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon | Worlds Gone and to Come
September 10 - October 24, 2026Image of Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon | Worlds Gone and to Come -
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Remedios Varo: Painting Magic
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark September 18, 202618 September 2026 – 10 January 2027 On 18 September, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, opens the first European museum exhibition of the Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963),... -
Rohini Devasher: Solar Poetics
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT August 22, 2026The Bruce Museum Presents Rohini Devasher’s First U.S. Institutional Exhibition ‘Solar Poetics’ traces the evolution of solar observation with a four-channel film and embellished works on copper Art and science... -
Cultured | Not Even a Chainsaw Accident Can Stop Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya
August 7, 2026By Isabella Bernstein Enrique Martínez Celaya’ s new Los Angeles exhibition is caked in nearly 6,500 pounds of sugar—but it isn’t always meant to be sweet. “The Sextant ” centers... -
ArtAsiaPacific | Up Close: Chitra Ganesh’s “Journey to the Great Below”
August 1, 2026By Chloe Chu Stepping into Chitra Ganesh’s solo exhibition at the Baltic was like being condemned to hell. Immediately upon entering the cavernous, dimly lit space, visitors are invited to... -
Colossal | Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’
By Kate Mothes “Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being,” philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre posited in Being and Nothingness , published in 1943. It’s in this book that... -
Art Bae | A Roving Perspective: Mukherjee at Wendi Norris, Hoeber and Osborne at Silverman
July 8, 2026By Ted Barrow Because we encounter so much of our visual culture through increasingly hopeless digital images, we may assume that most art presumes a screen. In your hand or... -
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY June 26, 2026On view June 26 – October 4, 2026 The Morgan Library & Museum presents Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions , an exhibition in two parts that explores the origins of... -
María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
May 5, 2026María Magdalena Campos-Pons is among the 110 participants in In Minor Keys , the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Described by Grace Aneiza Ali as a... -
Local News Matters | San Francisco artist Ranu Mukherjee’s multimedia paintings meditate on change
June 23, 2026by Caroline Picard 23 June 2026 Instead of evoking the illusionistic depths of representational painting, San Francisco artist Ranu Mukherjee’s latest show “The Long Middle” at Gallery Wendi Norris in... -
Artnet | The Stories Behind the Obama Presidential Center’s Major New Artworks
Six artists weigh in on how they approached their monumental commissions. June 18, 2026by Vittoria Benzine 18 June 2026 The OPC museum explores the Obamas’ lives, the Obama campaign and presidency, and democracy at large. Before the full-sized replica of President Obama’s Oval... -
KQED | The 10 Best Museum and Gallery Shows to See in the Bay Area This Summer
Ranu Mukherjee: The Long Middle May 11, 2026By Sarah Hotchkiss RANU MUKHERJEE, 'THE LONG MIDDLE' May 20–July 3, 2026 Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco Ranu Mukherjee , a longtime Bay Area artist and educator who recently decamped... -
María Magdalena Campos-Pons Announced as Medalist at the 2026 Art Basel Awards
April 16, 2026The medalists for the Art Basel Awards have just been announced. The initiative is entering its sophomore year with a list of artists, patrons, thinkers, and creatives that is more... -
A Closer Look: Ambreen Butt's "I Bear Witness" at Gallery Wendi Norris
Ambreen Butt: I Bear Witness April 3, 2026By Max Blue Ambreen Butt is chronically online — but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her artwork. The Pakistani American artist’s latest solo show, “ I Bear Witness... -
Artnet | Rare Leonora Carrington Sketches of Her Inner Turmoil Resurface in London Show
"Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal" at the Freud Museum March 30, 2026by Jo Lawson-Tancred 30 March 2026 Rarely seen sketches created by the celebrated Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington during her stay at a psychiatric hospital have gone on display in London.... -
San Francisco Chronicle | Marie Wilson’s first San Francisco solo show in 40 years reclaims a surrealist pioneer
March 4, 2026By Tony Bravo If you don’t know the work of artist Marie Wilson, you’re not alone. But with the California-born artist now on the verge of long overdue mainstream rediscovery,... -
Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal
Freud Museum, London, UK March 26, 2026On view March 25 – August 10, 2026 The Symptomatic Surreal is the first institutional exhibition dedicated to Leonora Carrington’s drawings from her Santander sketchbooks, offering a unique vantage point... -
The Art Newspaper | ‘Painting continues to be viable’: Enrique Martínez Celaya on his sugar-coated show at the Wende Museum
February 26, 2026By Scarlet Cheng The Los Angeles-based artist’s new show is inspired by his Cold War-era childhood in Cuba, and the final entry in a trilogy of exhibitions The past is... -
Artforum | Boom or Bust in the Bay
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors February 2, 2026By Bryan Barcena “Boom or Bust in the Bay” ' Despite the gloom and doom, the folks at Gallery Wendi Norris suggested to me that it had been a good... -
Cultured | 14 Must-See Art Shows to Catch While You’re in San Francisco for FOG
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors January 19, 2026By Karly Quadros “Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors” Where : Gallery Wendi Norris When : January 20 – March 14 Why It’s Worth a Look : Mentored... -
ARTnews | How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids
December 19, 2025By Tara Anne Dalbow Julio César Morales, The Border (Los Pollos vs. La Migra), 2025 In a new multi-channel video installation, The Border (Los Pollos vs. La Migra) , Julio... -
Observer | Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up
The dealer’s collaborations with artists, scholars and institutions have been central to elevating Carrington, Varo, Tanning and their peers into a broader cultural spotlight. December 2, 2025Elisa Carollo 2 December 2025 A recent report by ArtTactic with Sotheby’s found that in 2024, Surrealism achieved annual growth of 8.8 percent, with auction sales rising to $439.7 million—a... -
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant
The Wende Museum, Culver City, CA November 8, 2025On view November 8, 2025 - October 11, 2026 Between 1957 and 1963, the artist’s father built a modernist house in a small coastal village in Cuba. The time period... -
The New York Times | In London, a California Gallery Shows Expat Mexican Surrealists
For two decades, Gallery Wendi Norris has broadened and complicated ideas about Surrealism. Now she is bringing major Mexican-influenced works to Frieze Masters.By Will Higginbotham On a Friday morning in July, in the Jackson Square neighborhood of San Francisco, just a stone’s throw from the Transamerica Pyramid, the cafes and galleries were... -
San Francisco Chronicle | Julio César Morales returns to S.F. with ‘My America,’ confronting immigration crisis
Julio César Morales: My America September 30, 2025By Tony Bravo Bay Area artist Julio César Morales is known for works that explore migration, labor and underground economies. Now, after a dozen years in Arizona, he returns to...
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