Title Round Fred Tomaselli Untitled , 2004 Archival digital print; edition 29/100 15 x 10 inches From the Collection of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Estimated Retail Value: $450 Starting Bid: $200 Fred Tomaselli is recognized for his unusual materials and hallucinatory style. He is best known for his highly detailed, multi-layered works on wood panels using a mix of organic matter (leaves, flowers) and synthetic items (aspirin, pills, magazine cutouts), all encapsulated in a clear, glass-like epoxy resin. Tomaselli’s art explores human perception, the natural world, and the tension between beauty and the darker aspects of contemporary life. +sign up to proxy bid return to auction menu More: Fred Tomaselli Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956, Santa Monica, CA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received his BFA from California State University, Fullerton. He has presented solo exhibitions at major institutions including the Aspen Art Museum; the Rose Art Museum; SITE Santa Fe; and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. His work has also been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, among others. Tomaselli’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Patrons Kohl Atrium Send an Inquiry First name Last name Email* Phone Company name Type of Event: Proposed Date Number of People Message* Submit Maximum capacity for a dinner: 200 Maximum capacity for a reception: 400 Host an unforgettable celebration in moCa Cleveland's striking Kohl Atrium, where contemporary architecture creates a dramatic backdrop for cocktail receptions, milestone birthdays, anniversaries, and private parties. Filled with natural light and bold design, this versatile space offers a one-of-a-kind setting that transforms every gathering into a memorable experience. Take a Virtual Tour Floorplan

Title Round Judith Salomon White Vase with Colors Porcelain 18 x 8 ½ x 6 ½ inches Courtesy of the artist Estimated Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $1,000 Working primarily in porcelain, Judith Salomon creates delicately constructed pieces with subtly shifting surfaces—often incised, layered, or patterned—that reward close, sustained looking. Leveraging clay’s history, tactility, and utilitarian value, Salomon borrows and appropriates imagery and forms from various sources, ranging from art and design history to pieces of rust on the street. In her daily life, Salomon collects visuals that get processed into her artwork and become key aesthetic moments composed intuitively to create works with incredible elegance, restraint, and craftsmanship. White Vase with Colors suggests a stacked skyscraper in form, with colors and shapes that harken to 20th century movements like Minimalism and Pop art. +sign up to proxy bid return to auction menu More: Judith Salomon Judith Salomon is Professor Emeritus at the Cleveland Institute of Art who received her BFA from the School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA from Alfred University’s New York State College of Ceramics. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and is represented in collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Manchester City Art Galleries, and the National Museum of History in Taiwan. Salomon received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships, and was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1990.

News + Read more at cleveland.com . Wednesday, January 28, 2026 by Peter Chakerian CLEVELAND, Ohio — This has been the kind of month that contemporary art is built for. On Friday, Jan. 30 from 6 - 9 p.m., MOCA Cleveland rises to the occasion with its “2026 Opening Night Celebration” which doubles as a four-exhibition kickoff. The art museum is certainly offering a thesis statement for the times: this is what contemporary art looks like when our world’s stories, wounds and lands are met and stirred with toward an uncertain future. The evening brings together four unique artistic expressions: “Ohio Now: State of Nature,” “Sky Hopinka: The Myth Is Now,” “KING COBRA: When You Are Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” and “Homing Instinct: Letting Go of the Shore.” On paper, they may sound like disparate pieces. And they are. In practice, however, they manage to form a single, bracing conversation about survival — cultural, environmental, spiritual and bodily. Start with “Ohio Now: State of Nature,” a statewide survey of artists grappling with sustainability, food systems and ecological fragility. +Read the full story at cleveland.com. Previous Next

Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anders Ruhwald Unit 1: 3583 Dubois Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. ∆ Anders Ruhwald, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, 2016 . Site-specific installation. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Volume Gallery, Chicago. Photos: Jerry Birchfield. Sep 23-Dec 31, 2016 Anders Ruhwald Unit 1: 3583 Dubois 3583 Dubois Street, in Detroit, Michigan, no longer exists. While the dilapidated 7,000 square-foot brick apartment building at this location still stands, the city has reassigned its address as 2170 Mack Avenue. It is a subtle change, but one that underscores a metaphoric loss of this place’s history. Like so many in Detroit and cities like it, this abandoned building holds memories waiting to be erased or revived. In his installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, Anders Ruhwald repositions the building’s identity, intertwining its past, present, and future. The exhibition presents several life-sized rooms and corridors based on a permanent installation that Ruhwald is creating in one apartment of this building, which the artist purchased in 2014 and is actively restoring. Ruhwald is converting the rooms in Unit 1 into abstracted spaces using materials from the building and neighborhood along with his signature ceramic works. Across the installation, fire is a key element that serves as material, process, and subject matter. Something that both consumes and transforms, fire is an ideal vehicle for Ruhwald’s exploration of destruction and renewal. Using charred wood, ash, molten glass, found objects, and black-glazed ceramics, Ruhwald meticulously composes an immersive, richly sensorial experience that is at once dramatic, nostalgic, and uncanny. Like the permanent installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois at MOCA Cleveland is both a memorial and a proposal in which materials and forms coalesce to retell (and thus reclaim) the past, animate the present, and suggest a shifted future. Organized by Megan Lykins Reich, Deputy Director Generous support for Anders Ruhwald: Unit 1: 3583 Dubois is provided by The Danish Arts Foundation. All 2016-2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle Jeschelnig-Shan and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum's Board of Directors, patrons and members. Opening night celebration supported by BakerHostetler. About the Artist Anders Ruhwald Anders Ruhwald (1974, Randers, Denmark) lives in Detroit. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. In the past decade, Ruhwald has had more than 20 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (United Kingdom), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), the Saarinen House (Detroit). His work has been featured in more than 80 group exhibitions at venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Fondation d’entreprise Richard (Paris), Pinakotek der Moderne (Munich), Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen). His work is represented in over 20 public museum collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), The National Museum (Sweden), The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), and Taipei Yingge Museum (Taiwan). In 2011, he was awarded the Gold Prize at the Icheon International Biennial in South Korea. He also received a Danish Art Foundation three-year work-stipend in 2010 and the Sotheby’s Prize (UK) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2007. For his permanent project at 3583 Dubois, Ruhwald has earned grants from the Knight Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the Danish Art Foundation. Ruhwald has lectured and taught at universities and colleges around Europe and North-America since 2006, he was an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently he is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA. Installation Images

Date Title One sentence desciption + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Add a Title Add a Title Title + more Thu. February 18, 2027 In Response w/ Art Therapy Studio 6-7:30PM at moCa Cleveland Free w/ Registration SIGN UP Slow down, reconnect, and discover the restorative power of making. Inspired by works on view in moCa Cleveland's galleries, this guided, hands-on workshop invites you to explore creativity as a tool for reflection, mindfulness, and well-being—no artistic experience required. Through simple materials and thoughtful prompts, you'll create in a welcoming, judgment-free environment designed to reduce stress and spark curiosity. Space is limited; advance registration is recommended.

Oct 19, 2018-Jan 27, 2019 Alexis Rockman The Great Lakes Cycle Oct 19, 2018-Jan 27, 2019 ∆ Alexis Rockman, Pioneers , 2017, oil and acrylic on wood panel. 72 x 144 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. ∆ Alexis Rockman, Pioneers , 2017, oil and acrylic on wood panel. 72 x 144 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. ∆ Alexis Rockman, Pioneers , 2017, oil and acrylic on wood panel. 72 x 144 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York. Oct 19, 2018-Jan 27, 2019 Alexis Rockman The Great Lakes Cycle moCa Cleveland hosts the exhibition, Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle . Organized by Grand Rapids Art Museum, the exhibition is Rockman’s most ambitious body of work to date. Rockman, an acclaimed painter and environmental activist, creates ecologically-focused works that seduce and provoke with equal verve. Blending extensive research, diverse techniques, and site-specific materials like sand or soil, Rockman’s paintings document history while also imagining future environments. The exhibition includes five new, mural-sized paintings; a constellation of flora and fauna “field drawings”; and a suite of watercolors that all portray the evolution of the Great Lakes—which are among the world’s most beautiful, economically significant, and ecologically complex regions on the planet. Rockman’s new series celebrates the natural majesty and global importance of the Great Lakes while exploring how they are threatened by factors such as climate change, globalization, invasive species, mass agriculture, and urban sprawl. The exhibition affords MOCA an opportunity to connect relevant contemporary art practice with urgent environmental issues in ways that expand awareness, engagement, and community partnerships. Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle is organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, with support generously provided by the Wege Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Frey Foundation, and LaFontsee Galleries and Framing. With major support provided by an anonymous donor. Additional support provided by Angela Westwater, Sperone Westwater. Coordinated at moCa Cleveland by Megan Lykins Reich, Deputy Director. All current exhibitions are funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Leadership Circle gifts from anonymous donors, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Jan Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All moCa Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. Sherwin-Williams is the official paint of moCa Cleveland. Installation Images

Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Birthing Beautiful Communities Dear Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 ∆ Photo: shark&minnow ∆ Photo: shark&minnow ∆ Photo: shark&minnow Jan 24-Jun 1, 2025 Birthing Beautiful Communities Dear Dear is a tribute to the strength, resilience, and beauty of Black motherhood and the community that supports it. This exhibition focuses on the Cleveland non-profit Birthing Beautiful Communities, highlighting the significance of care and affirmation in their work. Dear is an ode to the power of community and the enduring bond of motherhood. Presented in partnership with Birthing Beautiful Communities & moCa Cleveland. Generous support provided by The George Gund Foundation. Exhibition creation & design: shark&minnow Photography: Dana McKinney, shark&minnow Videography: Ashwin Gokhale, shark&minnow A special thanks to: Tonya, Myesha, Deyonni, Heather, Sylest, and Nautica for their courage, resilience, and openness in sharing their stories and villages to inspire and uplift others. We are honored to celebrate your journey and the joy they each have brought to this exhibit. The doulas at Birthing Beautiful Communities for their continued work in supporting mothers, babies, and families in the journey of parenthood. Installation Images

Title Round Doug Sanderson Arcane Image , 2022 Acrylic, hand-painted enhanced silk screen 18 ½ x 12 inches Courtesy of the artist Estimated Retail Value: $3,000 Doug Sanderson has long explored the “Flower of Life” motif—an ancient symbol tied to sacred geometry and the underlying structures of space and time. Drawn to its mysterious, esoteric resonance, he pairs this imagery with a refined command of color and abstraction, creating works that are both visually striking and emotionally charged. Influenced by the precision and richness of Mughal miniatures, Sanderson builds layered compositions that reveal increasing depth and complexity over time. His surfaces reward sustained looking, unfolding subtle rhythms and nuances with each encounter. Critic Douglas Max Utter points to the layered complexity of Sanderson’s work: “As subtle rhythms and nuances of application come into focus, so too does the artist’s poetic and intuitive strength, creating an overall impression of intense, significance-laden activity [that] generates an almost audible aesthetic ‘hum,’ like a metaphysical machine shop.” Sanderson’s recent work also incorporates the butah (boteh) motif—an early precursor to paisley—extending his interest in enduring symbols connected to life, continuity, and transformation. +sign up to proxy bid return to auction menu More: Doug Sanderson Douglas Sanderson (b. 1942) is a painter whose career includes early exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery (New York, NY) and John Weber Gallery, as well as a 1985 exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. More recent solo presentations have included William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH) and Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (Oberlin, OH). Sanderson’s long career in abstraction has also been recognized through honors including the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jun 2-Sep 17, 2017 Lu Yang Delusional Mandala Jun 2-Sep 17, 2017 ∆ Lu Yang, Lu Yang Delusional Mandala , 2015, single-channel video, 16 minutes and 27 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune. ∆ Lu Yang, Lu Yang Delusional Mandala , 2015, single-channel video, 16 minutes and 27 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune. ∆ Lu Yang, Lu Yang Delusional Mandala , 2015, single-channel video, 16 minutes and 27 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune. Jun 2-Sep 17, 2017 Lu Yang Delusional Mandala One of Lu’s central concerns is exploring the ways neuroscience and medical technologies can be used to capture and document the emotional, religious, and philosophical phenomena we all experience. In Krafttremor (2011), she considers Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), a treatment for the tremors caused by Parkinson’s disease. Lu visualizes this therapy in relation to sound and movement in her depictions of DBS patients holding percussive musical instruments in a jarring music video. UterusMan (2013) charts an animated superhero modelled after the female reproductive system, questioning gender stereotypes often expressed in videogames and popular culture. UterusMan’s abilities, costume, and tools are all modelled after parts of the female reproductive system: the hero rides a pelvic-bone shaped chariot, shoots blood to fly, and alters enemy DNA. Lu turns her attention to religion in Wrathful King Kong Core (2014), which focuses on the wrathful Tibetan Buddhist deity, Yamantaka, explaining his rage and connecting it to human neurological pathways. As a robotic narrator explains the function of the deity’s many arms and weapons, Lu overlays a neurological map of the pathways associated with anger in humans. Lu charts how specific emotions move from brain to body, creating a visual anatomy of rage. Like Krafttremor , Wrathful King Kong Core explores our biological functions and their relationship to how religious and philosophical constructions emerge from human consciousness. Lu’s most well-known work and the title of this exhibition, Lu Yang Delusional Mandala (2015), presents the artist as a genderless, digitally-rendered humanoid as she undergoes a rapid aging process. The video explores the potential of neuroscience and technology to alter human consciousness, especially during death, suggesting the potential of digital immortality. The exhibition’s four works, Krafttremor (2011), Uterusman (2013), Wrathful King Kong Core (2014), and Lu Yang Delusional Mandala (2015) offer an overview of this emerging Chinese artist’s distinctive practice, which consistently interweaves a broad range of motifs and references into disorienting and striking compositions. Generous support for Lu Yang: Delusional Mandala is provided by Michelle Shan-Jeschelnig and Richard Jeschelnig. All 2017 exhibitions are funded by Leadership Circle gifts from an anonymous donor, Yuval Brisker, Joanne Cohen and Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen and Kevin Rahilly, Becky Dunn, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Michelle Shan-Jeschelnig and Richard Jeschelnig, Donna and Stewart Kohl, Toby Devan Lewis, and Scott Mueller. All MOCA Cleveland exhibitions are supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Cleveland Foundation, theGeorge Gund Foundation, and the continuing support of the Museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. About the Artist Lu Yang Lu Yang (b. 1984, Shanghai) creates provocative and imaginative work that interrogates what it means to be human in the 21st century. Lu’s videos, sculptures, and installations investigate how neuroscience, medical and digital technology, and the Internet are changing society. Through her exploration of digital culture and technology, Lu goes so far as to purport to “live” on the Internet. This presentation of selected recent video works, Lu’s first in a museum in the United States, offers an overview of the strategies and motifs that she employs in her complex, digitally-based practice. Select Images Installation Images

Feb 2-May 26, 2024 BlackBrain SCRD GRDN Feb 2-May 26, 2024 ∆ BlackBrain, Diamond Heart , mural in process, 2024. ∆ BlackBrain, Diamond Heart , mural in process, 2024. ∆ BlackBrain, Diamond Heart , mural in process, 2024. Feb 2-May 26, 2024 BlackBrain SCRD GRDN SCRD GRDN is a new project by BlackBrain and guest artists from Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center, Unidos por el Arte. Representing a metamorphosis from lone artist into collective creative force and guided by the mantra "go fast, go alone; go far, go together," BlackBrain Group transforms solitary endeavors into dynamic collaborations grounded in a shared passion for storytelling through art. SCRD GRDN is an immersive painting installation about the resolute human spirit and its existential journey through oppression, justice, prosperity, and divine understanding. Fusing artistic styles and techniques, the series meditates on the interplay and influence between the inner self and the external forces that shape our existence. Each work includes symbolic, complex images floating within black voids, suggesting fertile seeds of existence that hold and balance tensions such as joy and melancholy, control and chaos, movement and stillness. Drawing inspiration from the awe and grandeur of Renaissance frescoes and monumental stained glass windows, the installation seeks to embody and express sacred meaning today. Comprehensively, SCRD GRDN creates a visual sanctuary where the diverse voices and experiences of the artists–and also, importantly, audience members–converge, intermingle, and resonate. As the artists’ encourage, “Join us on this visual odyssey—a journey that surpasses the conventional, ushering in a new era of shared experiences and inner growth.” SCRD GRDN is a project of moCa’s institutional and early career artist residency with the Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDBCAC) from January 2023-May 2024. Situated within the heart of Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, JDBCAC is an organization committed to the transformational power of preserving, educating, and promoting Latino heritage through history, culture, and the arts. JDBCAC occupies and engages spaces on moCa’s first and third floors in relation to its mission and work, and co-designs programming with moCa aimed at nurturing the next generation of artistic voices, providing a platform for Cuyahoga County-based residency artists to present their creations in a group exhibition at moCa Cleveland last season. advance the work of Latino/a/x artists and artists of color and provide new professional development opportunities. In 2023, BlackBrain artist Ariel Vergez took on the role of mentor artist to a new generation of artist voices involved in the moCa/JDBCAC early career artist residency, providing a platform for Cuyahoga County-based residency artists to present their creations in the group exhibition ¡Juntos! last year. Vergez, with his experience and innovative spirit, guided these emerging artists, illustrating the reciprocal relationship between mentor and mentee. Generous support provided by Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly, The Cleveland Foundation, and the Callahan Foundation About the Artist BlackBrain Ariel Vergez, aka BlackBrain, is a seasoned artist with a rich heritage and a passion for storytelling through art. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Florida, BlackBrain is the child of two immigrants who came to the United States in search of opportunity and met each other while working in the service industry. Growing up in a household where art was a daily presence, BlackBrain pursued his passion for art at the collegiate level, studying Industrial Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art. With a background in product and graphic design, BlackBrain has worked with world-class brands and has a keen understanding of the importance of storytelling in design. He has fused that experience towards his first love art. This experience is evident in BlackBrain’s art series, which feature unique narratives, a cross-wiring of pop culture icons, and a vuja dé feeling of nostalgia. BlackBrain layers allegory, pop culture, and history to create new and at times, bizarre stories that inflect on the ‘remembered.’ Over the past decade, BlackBrain has been featured in a plethora of shows and has created a range of concentration of subject matter. He has completed a slew of murals worldwide, many of them focused in Los Angeles and Miami, his previous homes. BlackBrain is particularly known for his ability to tell stories through his art, which is a reflection of his pursuit to expound parody and symbolism as key tools to his method of creating rich visual stories. With a portfolio that spans across different mediums and styles, BlackBrain continues to push the boundaries of what art can be and challenge our perceptions of the world around us. His art is a dissection of ancient and pop cultural story telling. It work has a diversity that makes his art so unique and relate-able while maintaing mystery and depth. Installation Images BlackBrain, SCRD GRDN. Installation views at moCa Cleveland, 2024. Photos: Jacob Koestler

Press Release DOWNLOAD PDF VIEW PRESS IMAGES Thursday, July 9, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts Tom Poole Sr. Operations Officer tpoole@mocacleveland.org Tel: 440.364.8805 Matthew Dennis Marketing & Communications Manager mdennis@moCacleveland.org Tel: 216.399.0077 ◼CLEVELAND, OHIO (July 9, 2026)—moCa Cleveland has received a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support artist commissions and exhibitions over the next two years. The award strengthens the museum’s mission to support the ambitious visions of exceptional contemporary artists and to connect Northeast Ohio audiences with boundary-pushing art and ideas from around the world. Under the curatorial vision of Deputy Director & Senior Curator DJ Hellerman, the museum continues to be a risk-taking commissioning agent, working with artists whose practices expand contemporary discourse and introduce new models of expression and exchange. “moCa is championing artists whose work is critically valuable yet often underrecognized,” said moCa Cleveland Kohl Executive Director Megan Lykins Reich. “Most of the artists supported by this award have never exhibited work in our region, and several will have their first museum exhibition with moCa. These projects offer new, incisive perspectives on our world, inviting audiences to engage with urgent questions and expansive possibilities.” Opening Friday, August 28, 2026, moCa’s next season is anchored by Jody Pinto: Body/Land , the first retrospective and first solo museum exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking and underrecognized artist whose work bridges Land art, feminist activism, public sculpture, and environmental design. Body/Land spans new and historic works at the exhibition at moCa’s Cleveland as well as a newly commissioned outdoor sculpture presented in partnership with Art Lot in Brooklyn, New York. "The exhibition is a conversation, a collaboration, an experiment recognizing the Body/Land again and again." –Jody Pinto Additional exhibitions feature pioneering artist Tishan Hsu, whose work anticipated today’s conversations around technology and the body, internationally acclaimed filmmaker Rachel Rose, and emerging painter Faye Wei Wei. ◼Jody Pinto: Body/Land 2026 Toby’s Prize Recipient Opening: August 28, 2026 Jody Pinto: Body/Land is the first retrospective and first solo museum exhibition devoted to the artist’s groundbreaking five-decade practice. Co-curated by Hellerman and independent curator Marie Catalano, the exhibition surveys Pinto’s work from her leadership in rape crisis activism and early outdoor sculptures to major public art commissions, landscape interventions, and urban design projects. "Since the late 1960s, Jody has developed a distinctive visual language to explore her enduring interest in people and places. The majority of her work was created without centering the expectations of the gallery, the market, or the museum. Long before questions of embodiment, ecology, power, and our relationship to place became defining concerns of our time, Jody had already been engaging the complexity of these issues with incisive clarity, depth, and wonder. Only now (finally) is a broader audience developing the sensibility to fully recognize and engage the significance of Jody’s work." –DJ Hellerman, Deputy Director & Sr. Curator The exhibition will restage several significant installations and bring together drawings, unrealized proposals, archival materials, and a newly commissioned outdoor sculpture presented in partnership with Art Lot in Brooklyn, New York. A major publication, the artist’s first monograph, will accompany the exhibition. Emerging within the Land art movement of the 1970s, Pinto developed what she described as “living structures,” site-responsive works shaped by weather, participation, and natural processes. As founder of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) in 1973, she links feminist activism with a lifelong commitment to public space. Her concept of “body/land” connects bodily and environmental systems, revealing parallels between cycles of injury and healing. Since the 1990s, Pinto has completed more than 50 public commissions internationally, exploring civic space as a site for transformative encounters. "For decades, Jody Pinto has pursued a sustained exploration of the relationships between bodies and landscapes, and structures that inflict harm or make healing possible. By bringing together her work across Land art, activism, education and civic design for the first time, this exhibition reveals the continuity of that inquiry across her singular practice." –Marie Catalano, Independent Curator Body/land is a Toby’s Prize presentation, a biennial award by philanthropist and longtime moCa trustee Toby Devan Lewis that supports new commissions by underrecognized artists. The award includes an unrestricted artist honorarium, funding for new work, a solo exhibition, and an accompanying publication. Previous recipients include Sondra Perry (2018); Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo (Puppies Puppies) (2022); and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (2024). Lead support for Jody Pinto: Body/Land is provided by Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly and the John P. Murphy Foundation. Also opening at moCa Cleveland on Friday, August 28: ◼Tishan Hsu: permeable surface For more than four decades, Tishan Hsu has explored the evolving relationship between the human body and technology. A prescient voice in contemporary art, Hsu began examining the psychological and physical effects of digital systems long before the rise of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence. permeable surface presents a career-spanning selection of works that trace Hsu’s ongoing investigation into perception, embodiment, and technological mediation. Bringing together sculpture, painting, and video—including his first and most recent moving-image works, Folds of Oil (2005) and emergent mesh (2025)—the exhibition reveals how Hsu anticipated many of the questions that define contemporary life today. Through biomorphic forms, industrial materials, and digitally inflected imagery, Hsu’s work offers a compelling vision of humanity’s increasing entanglement with technological systems. ◼Rachel Rose: Lake Valley Lake Valley is an eight-minute animated film by Rachel Rose that explores loneliness, imagination, and the search for connection. Drawing on imagery sourced from nineteenth- and twentieth-century children’s books, Rose combines collage, found materials, and experimental sound to create a dreamlike narrative. The film follows a solitary rabbit-like creature that leaves its suburban home in search of friendship in a nearby forest. Through its distinctive visual language and unexpected soundscape, Lake Valley transforms familiar storybook imagery into a poignant meditation on belonging, adventure, and the universal desire for companionship. Support for Rachel Rose: Lake Valley is provided by Art Bridges. ◼Faye Wei Wei: Draw in your head and sleep the long way home. Faye Wei Wei is among the most closely watched emerging painters of her generation. Drawing inspiration from poetry, mythology, literature, and memory, she creates luminous figurative paintings that move between dream and reality. Characterized by expressive brushwork, unexpected color relationships, and fluid compositions, Wei Wei’s paintings evoke themes of love, longing, transformation, and emotional vulnerability. Her distinctive visual language has earned growing international attention and established her as an important new voice in contemporary painting. These exhibitions will be at moCa Cleveland from August 28, 2026 through March 7, 2027.■ +more on Jody Pinto Jody Pinto (b. 1942, New York, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. Her work was recently featured in Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX (2023) and in the exhibition Underground at MoMA (2022-2023). Pinto’s work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and in exhibitions at Artpark, Lewiston, NY; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia; the New Museum, and the Queens Museum (both in NY). From 1971-74 she founded and directed Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), the longest operating rape crisis center in Philadelphia, PA. She has collaborated on over 50 public works including for bridges, gardens, parks, and transit systems. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for her work, including the NEA Federal Design Achievement Award, A.I.A. Honor Award: National Design for Transportation Award, Art in Public Spaces and two National ASLA Design Honor Awards. Her public works include Fingerspan Bridge (1987) in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia PA, Tree of Life/ City Boundary (1992) at Papago Park, Phoenix, the redesign of Santa Monica State Beach and Palisade Park in Los Angeles (2001), the Fort Lauderdale International Airport (2002), and Land Buoy (2014) in Philadelphia, PA. Pinto received her BFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and taught there for four decades. +more on Tishan Hsu Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Tishan Hsu at MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (2024); Secession , Vienna, Austria (2023–24); and Liquid Circuit at SculptureCenter, New York, NY (2020), which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2021). Hsu’s work has been featured in major international exhibitions including The Milk of Dreams, the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the Carnegie International (2022), and the Gwangju Biennale (2021), and it is included in the New Museum’s large group exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future that inaugurated their expanded building in 2026. Hsu’s work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, UK; M+, Hong Kong; and numerous other international institutions. Hsu received a B.S. in Architecture and Environmental Design (1973) and a Master of Architecture (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also studied film at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Pratt Institute, and Harvard University. +more on Rachel Rose Rachel Rose (b.1986, New York, NY) works in film, painting, sculpture and drawing. Her practice explores how landscape shapes storytelling and belief systems, and investigates from different vantages how the everyday holds the sublime. She has held numerous solo exhibitions throughout the world and her work is held in major public collections including the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; LUMA Foundation, Arles; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Ishikawa Foundation, Tokyo; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, among many others. She was the recipient of the Frieze Artist Award in 2015 and the Illy Present Future Prize in 2014. She participated in the 57th Venice Biennale, 57th Carnegie International, 32nd São Paulo Biennial, and 3rd Jeju Biennale. Rose lives and works in New York, and is represented in New York, Brussels, and Seoul by Gladstone Gallery and in London by Pilar Corrias Gallery. +more on Faye Wei Wei Faye Wei Wei (b. 1994, London, UK) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Tiny Melody Chamber at SITUATIONS, New York, NY (2024); The Moon Balloon of New York City at Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria (2022); and Moon at Galerie Kandlhofer (2021). Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been recognized as an “artist to watch” by journals including British Vogue and It’s Nice That. The Sunday Times also listed Wei Wei as one of the notable emerging artists of her generation. She is a guest judge for the 2026 Jackson’s Art Prize. WeiWei received a B.A. (Hons) from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, in 2016 and her MFA from Yale University in 2026. +more on moCa Cleveland For nearly 60 years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) has served as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. moCa is a conduit and catalyst for creative thinking, generating original programming that pursues the whys of our shared world, pushes the boundaries of artistic expression, and propels Cleveland’s cosmopolitan character. Since its founding in 1968 by Marjorie Talalay, Nina Sundell, and Agnes Gund as The New Gallery, moCa has presented the works of more than 3,000 thousand artists, often through artists’ first solo shows. Soon after its founding, moCa was the first in the region to exhibit the works of many vanguard artists such as Laurie Anderson, Christo, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Adrian Piper, and Andy Warhol. Recent artist commissions and solo exhibitions include work by Tauba Auerbach, Aleksandra Domanović, Michelle Grabner, Byron Kim, Ragnar Kjartansson, Tony Lewis, Catherine Opie, Adam Pendleton, Sondra Perry, Joyce J. Scott, Do Ho Suh, Liu Wei, Renée Green, Nina Chanel Abney, Finnegan Shannon, Manabu Ikeda, and Clotilde Jiménez, among many others. +Museum Hours Thursday & Friday: 1-8PM Saturday & Sunday: 11AM-5PM Holiday hours available at moCacleveland.org +more on The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Following Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages an innovative and dynamic grants program while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given $350 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations around the country and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide. +more on Art Lot Art Lot is a not-for-profit outdoor contemporary art space located in Brooklyn, NY that offers a conceptually rigorous exhibition program in a unique, free, and public context. By supporting ambitious and experimental artist projects, Art Lot seeks to broaden accessibility and engagement with contemporary art and expand notions of public art, monuments, and public space. Since 2022, co-directors Jacob Jackmauh and Lina McGinn have led the program with a particular focus on site-responsive artworks and on creating opportunities for artists to extend their practices into the public realm for the first time. In doing so, they seek to challenge prevailing exhibition and presentation models through work that engages with materials and subjects that can only exist outside of conventional gallery frameworks. Contact: info@artlotbrooklyn.com +more on Art Bridges Foundation Art Bridges Foundation, the vision of philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton, creates and supports projects that share works of American art with communities across the United States and its territories. Since 2017, Art Bridges has partnered with a growing network of nearly 400 museums of many sizes—impacting 25 million people nationwide—to provide financial and strategic support for exhibitions, collection loans, and programs designed to educate, inspire, and deepen engagement with local communities. The Art Bridges Collection represents an expanding vision of American art from the 19th century to present day and encompasses multiple media and voices. For more information, visit artbridgesfoundation.org . +2026 Institutional Supporters Leadership donors supporting moCa’s mission include gifts to Art Now: Anonymous, Art Bridges Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, Doreen & Dick Cahoon, Joanne Cohen & Morris Wheeler, Margaret Cohen & Kevin Rahilly, Dealer Tire, Becky Dunn, the George Gund Foundation and Kim & Steve Myers; Connecting Audiences: Art Bridges, Grosvie and Charlie Cooley, Harriet Goldberg, Agnes Gund+, John P. Murphy Foundation, PNC, The Callahan Foundation, The Leonard Krieger Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, and The Nord Family Foundation; and Sustaining Pathways: David Barquist and Doug Schaller, Joan Tomkins & William Busta, Leslie DiNovi & Beatty McDonald, Char & Chuck Fowler, Nadya Haider, Stewart Kohl, David C. Lamb, Claire & Sandy McMillan, Roy Minoff, Casey & Garrett Monda, Nicholas & Erin Reif, Marian & Boake Sells, Stephen G. Sokany & Matthew Katz, Kelsey & Alex Wolf, David and Inez Myers Foundation, Drummond Road Capital, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, and Kulas Foundation. All exhibitions are supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. moCa Cleveland also receives lead institutional support in part from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the Ohio Arts Council, and the continuing support of the museum’s Board of Directors, patrons, and members. ### Previous Next