Happenings

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing, 2025. Photo by Amelia Golden.
Discover a selection of exhibitions, performances, films, talks, news, and other Creative Capital community events happening across disciplines and across the nation.
Visual Arts
- Karthik Pandian | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Surrendur | Midway Contemporary Art | Minneapolis, MN | March 15–June 10, 2025
- Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025
- Caleb Duarte | EDELO | UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA | Through April 20, 2025
- Patty Chang | Touch Archive | BANK NYC, New York, NY | March 20–April 26, 2025
- Sheryl Oring | Secretary to the People | Parkway Central Library, Philaldelphia, PA | Through April 30, 2025
- Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble | 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through October 19, 2025
- Damon Locks | We Are Our People/Listen to This | Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL | Through May 3, 2025

Installation view, A.K. Burns: What is Perverse is Liquid, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2024. Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit.
- A.K. Burns | What is Perverse is Liquid | The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA | Through May 4, 2025
- Jeffrey Gibson | POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA | Through May 2026
- Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
- Cannupa Hanska Luger | Speechless | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | February 13–July 6, 2025
- Tanya Aguiñiga | Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height | BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | Through July 13, 2025
- Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
- Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
- Jennie C. Jones | Year of Construction | Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada | Through August 3, 2025
- Sandy Rodriguez | Currents of Resistance | The Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota, FL | April 5—August 10, 2025
- Carlos Motta | Pleas of Resistance | Museu d’Art Contemporarni de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Through October 26, 2025
- Dyani White Hawk | Love Language | Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN | October 18, 2025–February 15, 2026

Ethan Lipton, We Are Your Robots, 2024. Photo: HanJie Chow.
Performance
- Aaron Landsman | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Night Keeper | The Chocolate Factory Theater & Collapsable Hole, New York, NY | April 13 & April 27, 2025
- Joan Osato and Sunhui Chang | Creative Capital Project Premiere | the boiling | The Magic Theater, San Francisco, CA | April 2– 20, 2025
- Pioneer Winter | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Apollo | Miami Light Project, Miami, FL | April 25– 26 2025
- Rennie Harris | Losing My Religion | The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL | April 4 & 5, 2025
- Reggie Watts | Livenation Presents:Reggie Watts | Spirit, Pittsburgh, PA | April 5, 2025
- Kristina Wong | #FoodBankInfluencer | ASU Gammage, Tempe, AZ | April 5, 2025
- Will Rawls | [siccer] | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 10,11,12, 2025
- Moor Mother, Black Quantum Futurism | Black Quantum Futurism presents Moor Mother | Performance Space New York, New York, NY | April 15, 2025
- Srikanth Reddy |International Poetry Forum Presents: Srikanth Reddy | Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA | April 15, 2025
- Neal Medlyn | Neal Medlyn Has A Job | Joe’s Pub, The Public Theater, New York, NY | April 15, 2025
- Kaneza Schaal | KLII | MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL | April 17–19, 2025
- Kyle Abraham | A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham Performances | The Joyce Theater, New York, NY | April 22–April 27, 2025
- Mariana Valencia | Jacklean (in rehearsal) | REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA | April 24 & April 25, 2025
- Terry Jenoure | Flame | Chicago Jazz String Summit, Chicago, IL | April 25, 2025
- Suzanne Lacy| Uncertain Futures | n.b.k. Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Through May 4, 2025
- Miguel Gutierrez | Super Nothing | On the Boards, Seattle | May 1–3, 2025, 8PM PT
- Joseph Keckler | A Good Night in the Trauma Garden | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | May 9 & 10, 2025, 7:30PM ET
- Ethan Lipton | Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra | The Public Theater, New York, NY | May 14, 2025

Shola Lynch at the New York premiere screening of Apple TV+’s Number One on the Call Sheet.
Film
- Shola Lynch | Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood | Streaming on Apple TV
- Ramona S. Diaz | And So It Begins | National broadcast premiere on Independent Lens (PBS) | May 12, 2025
- Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
- Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
- Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Creative Capital project | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
- Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother: Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi
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