Sojourner Truth Parsons
Selected Press
CBC Art
In the humour and heartache of a late Nobel poet, this painter found her muse
01/2026
Galeriemagazine
Next Big Thing: Sojourner Truth Parsons
11/25
artnet
Why Sojourner Truth Parsons Wants You to Have an ‘Honest Experience’ With Her Paintings
01/25
Berlin Art Link
Vibrant Worlds: Sojourner Truth Parsons atEsther Schipper
06/2023
Hauser & Wirth
The Heart Has Its Own Intelligence: Legacies of the Gee’s Bend Quilters
05/22
The Editorial Magazine
Sojourner Truth Parsons’ Sex and love with a psychologist
07/20
The New York Times
Sojourner Truth Parsons at Foxy Production
08/2020
Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984 Vancouver, Canada) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The artist lives and works between the southern Catskill Mountains and Brooklyn, NY.
Her paintings are personal yet fictional moments, driven by a desire to translate the psychological and the affective into visual form. Bodies, flora and fauna, and the city—the touchstones of daily existence—are anchoring forms in her practice; they are images that stand in for the emotional acuities and atmospheric intensities that occupy her time in the studio.
“Known for canvases that are as lucid and immediate as they are fragmentary and unfixed, Sojourner Truth Parsons' practice is driven by an elemental concern with the psychic life of the everyday, delineating the feelings, forms, and fantasies that structure our worlds.
Bodies, flora and fauna, the city around her—these forms recur across Parson's work, indexes for the emotional acuities and atmospheric intensities that occupy her time in the studio. Whether rendering the dark heat of desire or the vacuous pull of despair, Parsons dispenses with distinctions between interior and exterior realms, nudging us instead toward a lexicon of the energetic and affective.
Operating on a perceptual plane that is both brisk and persuasive, these works are executed with a canny palette and knowing economy of perspective, one that privileges truth over fact and feeling over form.”
—Matthew Hyland, "Sojourner Truth Parsons", L'Invitation au voyage, 2021.
Parsons was artist in residence at Denniston Hill (2021), the Santa Fe Art Institute, Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies, Santa Fe (2014), Terra Nova National Park, The Rooms, Newfoundland (2014), and the Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Bay of Fundy (2009).
Solo exhibitions include: Louise, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2025); If nobody wants you you’re free, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2023); My name is not susan., Foxy Production, New York (2022); Milk river, Various Small Fires, Seoul (2020); Sojourner Truth Parsons: Holding Your Dog At Night, Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2017); recent group exhibitions are: Public Life (Drawings), Chris Andrews, Montreal (2023); Downbeat, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2023); Summer ’22, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2022); The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, New York (2022); L’Invitation au voyage, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2021); This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam (2021); This Sacred Vessel (PT. 1), Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2020).
Parsons’ work is included in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenar; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; and Long Museum, Shanghai.
Anicka Yi
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Press
THE BROOKLYN RAIL MAGAZINE
Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One
February 2025, By Min Park
OCULA MAGAZINE
Anicka Yi: ‘Everything, everywhere, all at once’
5 September 2024, By Anna Dickie
ArtAsiaPacific
Anicka Yi: Redefining the Human Project
1 November 2024, By Valentina Buzzi
Anicka Yi was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. She lives and works in New York City, USA.
Known for her multi-sensory approach to art making, Anicka Yi has radically expanded the notion of what an artwork can be and transformed exhibitions into embodied encounters. Drawing on a notion of otherness rooted in scent and taste, atypical sensoria for the visual arts realm, Yi’s works allow her audience to viscerally experience complex issues relating to social and racial prejudice, racism, ecology, climate change, biological extinction, machines and artificial intelligence. Yi’s practice is cross-disciplinary and presents knowledge from art, science and technology in compelling formal articulations.
In 2023, the artist incubated Metaspore, an artist-led nomadic research initiative that aims to generate interdisciplinary “spores” of connection and social trust for 21st century planetary paradigm shifts. The initiative will bring vanguard thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines together in action as new paradigms solidify.
Anicka Yi’s solo exhibitions include: Anicka Yi, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2025); There Exists Another Evolution but in This One, UCCA Beijing (2025), and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2024); Postnatal Egg, Newfields Museum of Art, Indianapolis (2023); Anicka Yi: Metaspore, Pirelli HangarBicoca, Milan (2022); In Love With The World, Hyundai Commission, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2021); Life Is Cheap, The 2016 Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); Jungle Stripe, Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); 7,070,430K of Digital Spit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2015); 6,070,430K of Digital Spit, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2015); You Can Call Me F, The Kitchen, New York (2015); Death, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (2014).
Her work was presented in May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale (2019), The Marvelous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade (2018), Development, the inaugural Okayama Art Summit (2016), The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), among other biennials and triennials.
Yi’s work is held in the collections of various institutions including: Aishti Foundation, Beirut; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Dikeou Collection, Denver; Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf/Berlin; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pinault Collection, Paris and Venice; Rubell Museum, Miami/Washington DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; The Warehouse, Dallas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Williams College, Massachusetts.
