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UPCOMING Exhibitions ◼ Opening Fri. Jan 30 ▶ Now Winter/Spring 2024 Opening Feb 2 Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage + more Project 04 Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve + more Project 05 Ariel Vergez + more Now Ohio Now: State of Nature +more KING COBRA: When You are Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea +more Sky Hopinka: The Myth is Now +more Homing Instinct: Letting Go of the Shore +more ▶ Upcoming Exhibitions ◀ Past Exhibitions ▶ Upcoming Exhibitions ◀ Past Exhibitions Maggie Menghan Chen: Body Building Exercise + more Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Beverly Semmes: The Dresses + more Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Kelli Connell: Double Life + more Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Erykah Townsend: "Happy" Holidays + more Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Clotilde Jiménez: Shapeshift + more Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Birthing Beautiful Communities: Dear + more Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Harminder Judge: Bootstrap Paradox + more Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature + more Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Message from Our Planet + more Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh + more Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 A PLACE meant: co-organized with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry + more Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage + more Feb 2-May 26, 2024 Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve + more Feb 2-May 26, 2024 BlackBrain: SCRD GRDN + more Feb 2-May 26, 2024 A soft place to land + more Jul 7-Jan 7, 2024 Nina Chanel Abney: Cafeteria 2 + more Jan 27, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 Don't mind if I do + more Jul 7, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 ¡Juntos! (Together) + more Jul 7, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy + more Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow + more Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 Amber N. Ford: Someone, Somewhere, Something + more Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 Bruno Casiano: Pieces of Me + more Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 Renée Green: Contact + more Jul 16-Dec 31, 2022 Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) + more Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Jerome AB: At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing + more Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 J.J. Adams: Flowers in Temporary Hands + more Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Honey Pierre: Bloodline + more Mar 18-Apr 17, 2022 Aram Han Sifuentes: Who Was This Built to Protect? + more Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Ryan Harris: Sincerely, Us + more Jan 29-Mar 6, 2022 Dana Oldfather: Flyfall + more Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 Robert Banks and Dexter Davis: Color Me Boneface + more Mar 18-Jun 5, 2022 Where We Overlap + more Apr 29-Jun 5, 2022 Joyce Morrow Jones: Black Butterfly + more Nov 19, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. + more Jul 16, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 The National AIDS Memorial Quilt + more Oct 8, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 Terry Joshua: The Pinkest Hue + more Nov 19, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 Lawrence Baker: Taking Another Look + more Oct 8-Nov 7, 2021 Stina Aleah: "Helping" Hands + more Aug 27-Sep 26, 2021 Aawful Aaron by Aaron D. Williams + more Jul 16-Aug 15, 2021 Imagine Otherwise + more Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 Martin Creed: Work No. 3398 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT + more Jul 1, 2020-Jun 5, 2021 Naeem Mohaiemen: Monday, Day 3753 + more Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom + more Jan 31, 2020-Jan 2, 2021 Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is. + more Jan 31, 2020-Jan 2, 2021 Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected + more Oct 22-Nov 29, 2020 Paul Ramírez Jonas: Public Trust + more Oct 8-Nov 7, 2020

moCa's building garners various reactions from those in our city. 11400 Euclid Avenue, often used as a personal mirror by passers-by, was designed to inspire dialog centered on creativity. It does so while reflecting a cosmopolitan area of Cleveland and those who bring it to life. The Building The Building About moCa mission The Building Staff & Jobs Board News Contact Us Farshid Moussavi moCa's building garners various reactions from those in our city. 11400 Euclid Avenue, often used as a personal mirror by passers-by, was designed to inspire dialog centered on creativity. It does so while reflecting a cosmopolitan area of Cleveland and those who bring it to life. moCa's physical structure is nearly 34,000-square-foot, 44 percent larger than moCa's former rented space. A museum expansion need not be large in scale to be ambitious. Both environmental and fiscal sustainability were key considerations within the design. Resulting in a landmark that is at once technically inventive and highly practical. Iranian-born, London-based Farshid Moussavi designed the dynamic structure, formerly with Foreign Office Architects (FOA) and now principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA). moCa remains her first U.S. commission and her first museum. In addition to FMA, the design team included executive architects Westlake Reed Leskosky , headquartered in Cleveland, and designers of more than 50 cultural buildings throughout the United States. According to Moussavi, "museums today are not just homes for art, but serve multiple functions and host a variety of activities. Our design for moCa Cleveland aimed to provide an ideal environment for artists and visitors to foster creativity in a variety of exhibitions and programs." The four-story building, which anchors the Uptown district, rises 60 feet from a hexagonal base to a square top, where the primary exhibition space is situated. All four floors contain areas for either exhibitions or public programs. The exterior is primarily a mirror-finish of black Rimex stainless steel. Three of the building's six facets, one of them clad in transparent glass, flank a public plaza designed by James Corner Field Operations , a New York-based landscape architecture and urban design firm. The plaza serves as a public gathering place and links moCa to Uptown attractions and amenities. Upon entering the building, visitors find themselves in an atrium where they can experience the dynamic shape and structure of the building as it rises. This space leads to moCa's lobby and a double-height multi-purpose room for public programs and events. From there, visitors may take moCa's monumental staircase, a dominant architectural feature of the building, to the upper floors. On the top floor, the 6,000-square-foot gallery space has no fixed dividing walls, allowing for various configurations. This floor also contains a gallery designed for new media work and the Dick and Doreen Cahoon Lounge, which overlooks Toby's Plaza and Uptown.

▶ Now Winter/Spring 2024 Opening Feb 2 Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage + more Project 04 Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve + more Project 05 Ariel Vergez + more Now ◀ Past Exhibitions Maggie Menghan Chen: Body Building Exercise Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 + more Beverly Semmes: The Dresses Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 + more Kelli Connell: Double Life Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 + more Erykah Townsend: "Happy" Holidays Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 + more Clotilde Jiménez: Shapeshift Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 + more Birthing Beautiful Communities: Dear Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 + more Harminder Judge: Bootstrap Paradox Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 + more Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 + more Message from Our Planet Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 + more Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 + more A PLACE meant: co-organized with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Jun 28-Dec 29, 2024 + more Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage Feb 2-May 26, 2024 + more Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish, Evolve Feb 2-May 26, 2024 + more BlackBrain: SCRD GRDN Feb 2-May 26, 2024 + more A soft place to land Jul 7-Jan 7, 2024 + more Nina Chanel Abney: Cafeteria 2 Jan 27, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 + more Don't mind if I do Jul 7, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 + more ¡Juntos! (Together) Jul 7, 2023-Jan 7, 2024 + more Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 + more Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 + more Amber N. Ford: Someone, Somewhere, Something Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 + more Bruno Casiano: Pieces of Me Jan 27-Jun 11, 2023 + more Renée Green: Contact Jul 16-Dec 31, 2022 + more Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 + more Jerome AB: At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 + more J.J. Adams: Flowers in Temporary Hands Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 + more Honey Pierre: Bloodline Mar 18-Apr 17, 2022 + more Aram Han Sifuentes: Who Was This Built to Protect? Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 + more Ryan Harris: Sincerely, Us Jan 29-Mar 6, 2022 + more Dana Oldfather: Flyfall Jan 28-Jun 5, 2022 + more Robert Banks and Dexter Davis: Color Me Boneface Mar 18-Jun 5, 2022 + more Where We Overlap Apr 29-Jun 5, 2022 + more Joyce Morrow Jones: Black Butterfly Nov 19, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 + more Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Jul 16, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 + more The National AIDS Memorial Quilt Oct 8, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 + more Terry Joshua: The Pinkest Hue Nov 19, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 + more Lawrence Baker: Taking Another Look Oct 8-Nov 7, 2021 + more Stina Aleah: "Helping" Hands Aug 27-Sep 26, 2021 + more Aawful Aaron by Aaron D. Williams Jul 16-Aug 15, 2021 + more Imagine Otherwise Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 + more Martin Creed: Work No. 3398 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT Jul 1, 2020-Jun 5, 2021 + more Naeem Mohaiemen: Monday, Day 3753 Feb 18-Jun 5, 2021 + more Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom Jan 31, 2020-Jan 2, 2021 + more Margaret Kilgallen: that’s where the beauty is. Jan 31, 2020-Jan 2, 2021 + more Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected Oct 22-Nov 29, 2020 + more Paul Ramírez Jonas: Public Trust Oct 8-Nov 7, 2020 + more

Explore art and yourself at moCa events. New art, new perspectives, and new connections: find the right fit for you. Free activities in Cleveland, art talks, and parties to explore your creative side. Events Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Explore art and yourself at moCa events: find the right fit for you. January 29, 2026 2026 Exhibition Preview Party moCa NOW Donor Event: Invitation Only + more Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more moCa NOW ↓ All Events moCa NOW moCa Saturday Talks Parties

Explore art and yourself at moCa events. New art, new perspectives, and new connections: find the right fit for you. Free activities in Cleveland, art talks, and parties to explore your creative side. Events Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Explore art and yourself at moCa events: find the right fit for you. January 29, 2026 2026 Exhibition Preview Party moCa NOW Donor Event: Invitation Only + more January 30, 2026 2026 Opening Night Celebration Celebrate a new season of art at moCa! + more February 28, 2026 Silent Disco: Red Light Special A silent disco where art, sound, and style collide. + more Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more All Events ↓ All Events moCa NOW moCa Saturday Parties Talks

Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 KING COBRA When You are Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 KING COBRA, When You Are Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea , 2022. Silicone, urethane foam, pearls, hair weave, epoxy resin, beads, razor blades, fluorescent lights, steel, 67 x 156 x 42 inches. KING COBRA’s When You Are Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is her most significant and monumental work to date. Suspended within a 13-foot cage of fluorescent tubes, a bisected male Great White shark—constructed from silicone, beads, synthetic hair, and ink applied with a tattoo machine—appears to hover between life and decay. With razor blade teeth, its diseased skin glistens with wounds but is also studded with sparkling gems, a fusion of the grotesque and the beautiful. COBRA further transforms the environment with audio and red lighting, creating a strangely charged space that harkens more to blood than to blue water. This artwork reflects on Black lives lost during the Middle Passage, when enslaved Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to North and South America. Ship captains would threaten to throw slaves overboard into shark-infested waters as a way to enforce fear, ensure submission, and limit revolts. Caught, caged, and dissected, COBRA’s diseased shark has a body in its bowels, reminding us of this traumatic history. It serves as a terrifying memorial to those who made the impossible choice of sea over shackles, along with those forced into slavery and those who carry their stories and memories forward. Lead support provided by Dick & Doreen Cahoon About the Artist KING COBRA KING COBRA KING COBRA, known online as the silicon don, lives and works in Philadelphia. COBRA has created corporeal sculptures—that utilize glass alongside silicone, beads, crystals, rubber, synthetic hair, mysterious goo, and other materials—to explore the frequently suppressed and traumatic histories of medical exploitation of the Black body, as well as diseases spread by White Europeans during the transatlantic slave trade. Her most recent solo exhibitions include WHITE MEAT at JTT Gallery NY(2023), REVOLTED at the New Museum NY(2022), Pale in Comparison at The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2022) and Steal Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm -HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (2021) In addition to her sculptural practice, she is a body modifier and filmmaker. Tattoo is an extension of her explorations in flesh, mark making, and the relationship between image physical pain.

Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 Homing Instinct Letting Go of the Shore Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 Homing Instinct: Letting Go of The Shore is a 26-minute multi-screen film installation by New York-based filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher. It is based on a short story of the same name by Cincinnati-based author Dani McClain, published in the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements . Presented on a continuous loop, this immersive story focuses on human resilience in the face of climate crises. Set in a near-future world of rising sea levels, it follows two friends, Raven and Paloma, as they decide how to respond to a federal order to evacuate coastal regions within 30 days and permanently relocate elsewhere. For Pilcher and McClain, confronting fossil-fuel dependence and resource depletion requires not just policy change, but new narrative approaches to inspire connection and transformation. Weaving together reality, dreams, and the metaphysical, Homing Instinct draws upon science fiction and Afrofuturist concepts and integrates dance, poetry, and striking visual design (shaped by art director Syou Nam Thai) to convey the emotional weight of facing change and trusting the unknown. It also reminds us that we are not part of nature, but nature itself. Lead support provided by Dick & Doreen Cahoon Community partner: ThirdSpace Reading Room About the Artists Dani McClain DANI McCLAIN McClain reports on race, parenting and reproductive health. Her writing has appeared in outlets including "The New York Times," "TIME," "The Atlantic" and "Harper's Bazaar." Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and she has received a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. McClain is a contributing writer at "The Nation." She was a staff reporter at the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" and has worked as a strategist with organizations including Color of Change and the Drug Policy Alliance. Her book, "We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood," was published in 2019 by Bold Type Books and was shortlisted in 2020 for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She was the Cincinnati Public Library's writer-in-residence in 2020 and 2021. Lydia Dean Pilcher LYDIA DEAN PILCHER Pilcher is a two-time Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer. She is founder of the New York-based production company Cine Mosaic, working in the international landscape of cinema and multicultural storytelling. Before transitioning to writing and directing, she produced more than 40 feature films and series working with directors including Mira Nair, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Wes Anderson, Barry Levinson, George C. Wolfe and Kathryn Bigelow. Her director credits include the World War II female spy thriller "A Call to Spy" and the climate narratives "Radium Girls" and "Homing Instinct." She works with the UNFCCC initiative Entertainment and Culture for Climate Action and is a leader in the film and television industry promoting climate storytelling in entertainment and media. Pilcher teaches Climatic Change: Storytelling Arts, Zeitgeist and Our Future as an interdisciplinary course at the Columbia University Climate School in collaboration with the School of the Arts.

Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Beverly Semmes The Dresses Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Beverly Semmes, Rhonda Lavonda Yolanda Chiffonda , 1995. Organza and crushed velvet, 32 feet long (each). This installation by Beverly Semmes features four monumental dresses crafted from velvet and organza. Suspended on a white wall with a pronounced architectural scale, the sensuous, floating forms evoke both intimacy and grandeur. A formal exploration of pattern, texture, and color, the exaggerated proportions—what Semmes describes as a “perfect size 6,000”—disrupt conventional scales, connecting the viewer's body with the surrounding architecture. At once whimsical and unsettling, the dresses stand in for absent bodies, inviting reflection on the people who might inhabit them and traditional ideals of femininity, identity, and beauty. Since the late 1980s, Beverly Semmes has created work that centers on the tactile and transformative power of materials. While she often works with fabric and clay, her art also includes glass, video, painting, and performance. Semmes combines references to craft, domestic life, and fine art to build a visual language that is both alluring and sharply critical. Her sculptures and installations explore ideas about gender, power, and how women are seen and represented. By playing with scale, texture, and form, she challenges traditional expectations of women’s bodies. Influenced by expressionism, minimalism, and feminist thought, Semmes creates work that is at once abstract and physical, playful and provocative. This installation was originally commissioned by The Progressive Corporation, the Mayfield Village-based corporation. Co-presented with The Progressive Corporation About the Artist Beverly Semmes. Photo: Ross Collab. Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Beverly Semmes Beverly Semmes (b. 1958) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates sculpture, painting, drawing, film, photography, and performance. These complementary elements adhere in surprising ways, probing the paradoxes and complexities of the female body and its representation. Based in New York, Semmes has been honored with many solo museum exhibitions, including presentations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the ICA Philadelphia; the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In fall 2025, her alma mater, Tufts University, will present a major solo exhibition at the University Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include Always In Relation: 50 Years of the Gallery at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown; The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC as well as Witch Hunt at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the 57th Carnegie International, at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Semmes’ work can be found in the permanent collections of the Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, the Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, among others. The artist is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 Sky Hopinka The Myth is Now Jan 30-Aug 2, 2026 Sky Hopinka, Hihižąkicųšgųnįeja , 2024. Unique inkjet with hand-scratched text and UV treatment, 52 1/4 x 124 3/4 inches. Courtesy of Broadway Gallery, LLC. Sky Hopinka: The Myth Is Now is a poetic and deeply personal exploration of Indigenous culture, history, and language using film, photography, and text. Hopinka uses both experimental and documentary artforms to reclaim and center Indigenous perspectives often left out of art and film. His artworks and installations that consider the relationship of identity, memory, and myth, interrogating how different stories persist and transform across generations. This exhibition presents three projects that explore how place informs belonging. In the series, Unforgiven Souls Sing Hymns , Hopinka examines faith and survival through photographs that re-present oral traditions as living, breathing narratives. “Situated at the East End of Devils Lake” reimagines language as landscape in both printed and digital form, its text expanding spatially across the gallery wall in the shape of a flying goose. The video “He Who Wears Faces on His Ears” focuses on the Ho-Chunk story of Red Horn–one of five central spirits in Siouan oral traditions who moves between worlds, embodying both death and renewal. Here, Hopinka considers how ancestral stories reverberate within contemporary landscapes, echoing through clouded horizons and interior terrains. Across the exhibition, Hopinka invokes poet Yves Bonnefoy’s idea of the “arrière-pays”—unreachable remote areas—as a metaphor for searching for our spiritual homelands. His works map journeys toward places that exist between languages and across worlds, where the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the remembered, converge. Additional support provided by the Anselm Talalay Photography Endowment About the Artist Sky Hopinka SKY HOPINKA Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media.

Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Maggie Menghan Chen Body Building Exercise Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Maggie Menghan Chen, Body Building Exercise, 2020 (still). Video, sound; 4 minutes 36 seconds. With a 2020 social media release in response to global quarantine, Maggie Menghan Chen’s Body Building Exercise offered a playful response to her depression and sedentary lifestyle during COVID-19. After a week in bed during lockdown, Chen began this project to create a message of optimism, solidarity, and joy. Body Building Exercise combines performance, spirituality, and the broadcast power of digital culture. It features Chen and Vivian Yao dancing to the soundtrack created by Shanghai-based producer and PC Music-affiliate, felicita. Liu Cunjun‘s videography references the user interface of an arcade dance machine, and Chen and Yao wear costumes designed by Yu Wei, styled by Morrissey Yang and S/ash. The tutorial incorporates dance and music elements from Zumba, hip hop, krump, vogue, and ultimately metal to offer an outlet for the pent-up energy of an international community in isolation. Now, five years after the start of the pandemic, moCa Cleveland presents this artwork for the first time to give museum visitors a chance to release energy and emotion by moving together in public. About the Artist Maggie Menghan Chen Maggie Menghan Chen Maggie Menghan Chen (b. 1998, Beijing) lives and works in Beijing and London. She obtained her MA degree in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts following her BA degree in Art History at New York University.

Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Kelli Connell Double Life Jun 27, 2025-Jan 4, 2026 Kelli Connell, Negotiation , 2025. Begun in 2002, Kelli Connell’s Double Life is an ongoing and complex body of work that studies our relationship with ourselves. The series appears to portray a close relationship between two women; however, closer looking reveals that these images are digitally creations of a single model, Kiba Jacobson who portrays both characters in each photograph. As such, Double Life is a poetic study of our interior life, one filled with contrasting desires, struggles, insecurities, and achievements. It also captures the expansive, complex, and emotionally significant moments of our lives, embodying the true nature of empathy: using how we care for, argue with, forgive, and love ourselves to guide how we engage with and care for others. Each year, the Mayfield Village-based insurance company The Progressive Corporation commissions an artist or group of artists to create artworks that interpret their annual report theme. This theme and its unique visual presentation embody a companywide focus for the coming year. Progressive commissioned Connell to continue her Double Life series for the 2024 annual report based on the theme “Empathy.” These photographs, presented at moCa June 28, 2025-January 4, 2026, join Progressive’s globally recognized contemporary art collection. Co-organized with The Progressive Corporation . Additional support provided by the Anselm Talalay Photography Endowment. About the Artist Kelli Connell Kelli Connell Kelli Connell’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture and Center for Creative Photography, March 2024 ), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work and The Center for Creative Photography. Connell is a professor at Columbia College Chicago.

Jan 30–Aug 2, 2026 Ohio Now: State of Nature Jan 30–Aug 2, 2026 John Sabraw, A Spell , 2025. Acrylic and oil with AMD pigments and bituminous coal on canvas, 72 x 144 x 1.5 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. Ohio Now: State of Nature brings together artists across Ohio who focus on sustainability, agriculture, food justice, and natural ecologies. Through diverse materials and perspectives, these artists reflect on humanity’s relationship with the environment. Some incorporate found elements like waterway pollutants, plant-based dyes, and grass clippings, while others investigate topics ranging from climate change conspiracies to natural history and arthropods. Many draw directly from personal experiences as farmers, grocery workers, or environmental observers. Spanning painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and community-based practice, the works in this exhibition highlight the urgency of environmental issues while inviting dialogue and response. Ohio Now is a new, ongoing exhibition series showcasing newly commissioned and recent work by contemporary artists. This collaboration between CAC and moCa Cleveland connects outstanding artists living and working across the state and engages audiences with the evolving landscape of creative practices in their communities. Following its presentation in Cincinnati, Ohio Now: State of Nature will be on display at moCa Cleveland January 30–May 31, 2026. Participating artists are Catherine Clements (Bowling Green), Avery Mags Duff (Akron), Myles Dunigan (Oberlin), Tina Gutierrez (Cincinnati), Brian Harnetty (Columbus), Desert Kitchen Collective: Glenna Jennings, Jalisa Robinson & Friends (Dayton), Keith Lemley (Ravenna), Celeste Malvar-Stewart (Columbus), Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber (Cleveland), Elena Osterwalder (Columbus), Praxis Fiber Workshop (Cleveland), John Sabraw (Athens), Charmaine Spencer (Cleveland), Supermrin (Cincinnati), and Amy Youngs (Columbus). Ohio Now : State of Nature is co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH. The exhibition is curated by Theresa Bembnister, DJ Hellerman, Megan Lykins Reich, and Christina Vassallo. Lead support provided by Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly