Connecticut’s Aldrich Museum Plans a Recurring Survey of Native Artists

The Aldrich Up to date Artwork Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut will launch a brand new recurring survey, known as the Aldrich Decennial, and true to its title will happen each 10 years.

In its function as “the state’s solely establishment solely devoted to up to date artwork,” per a launch, the Aldrich has determined to focus its decennial on artists dwelling and dealing in Connecticut. Moreover, chosen artists won’t have exhibited in Connecticut beforehand, and the work on view could have been made inside the final decade.

Working June 27, 2026, to January 10, 2027, the primary iteration of the decennial will take the title “I’m what’s round me” and is organized by chief curator Amy Smith-Stewart and publications supervisor Caitlin Monachino, who performed over 100 studio visits as a part of their analysis.

The curators have pared that all the way down to a global group of 40 artists, together with some high-profile names like Dominic Chambers, Tammy Nguyen, Em Rooney, Aki Sasamoto, and Julia Wachtel. The oldest artist within the exhibition is Lucy Sallick, who was born in 1937, whereas the present’s youngest is Remy Sosa, who is sort of six many years youthful than Sallick, having been born in 1995.

The primary decennial will span the whole lot of the Aldrich’s campus, from its 8,000 sq. ft of galleries to its not too long ago renovated three-acre grounds, which features a sculpture backyard. The exhibition, which might be accompanied by a catalog, goals to “discover the numerous creative expressions of generations of artists who’ve chosen to stay and work exterior main artwork facilities,” per a launch.

“Whereas The Aldrich’s expansive mission highlights the work of dwelling artists from round the US and the world, over the previous 60 years the Museum has additionally had a permanent curiosity in artists dwelling and dealing in Connecticut,” government director Cybele Maylone stated in a press release. “With the debut of this inaugural sequence we’re so proud to highlight the immense expertise in our small however mighty state.”

The pacing of the Aldrich Decennial is uncommon inside the artwork world. The one different main exhibition to comply with this mannequin is Sculpture Tasks Münster in Germany, which can maintain its sixth version in 2027. Most recurring exhibitions happen each two years (biennials) or each three years (triennials). The Carnegie Worldwide now takes place each 4 years and the Getty Basis’s PST ART not too long ago switched to a quinquennial mannequin. Documenta in Kassel, Germany, has occurred each 5 years for the reason that hole between its fifth and sixth editions within the Seventies.

“Connecticut has all the time been a web site for visionary artists and daring concepts,” Smith-Stewart stated in a press release, which famous that artists like Anni and Josef Albers, Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Barkley Hendricks, and Sol LeWitt as soon as known as the state house. “This survey spotlights artists who name this place house—artists whose work is deeply rooted within the Museum’s group but resonates far past it. It’s an honor to share their highly effective voices with the world via this new exhibition sequence.”

The complete artist checklist for the 2026 version follows under.

Faustin Adeniran (b. 1988)

Ellen Altfest (b. 1970)

Scott Carrillo Azevedo (b. 1983)

Jen Bervin (b. 1972)

Carlos Bautista Biernnay (b. 1969)

Lula Mae Blocton (b. 1947)

Gary Burnley (b. 1950)

Dominic Chambers (b. 1993)

Carl D’Alvia (b. 1965)

Chris Domenick (b. 1982)

Anindita Dutta (b. 1973)

Azza El Siddique (b. 1984)

Anoka Faruqee (b. 1972) & David Driscoll (b. 1964)

Enrique Figueredo (b. 1980)

Lizzie Gill (b. 1989)

Renee Gladman (b. 1971)

Dan Gunn (b. 1980)

Edward Henderson (b. 1951)

Huê Thi Hoffmaster (b. 1982)

Kristy Hughes (b. 1987)

Jilaine Jones (b. 1959)

Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984)

Sonja Langford (b. 1994)

Emily Larned (b. 1977)

Jihyun Lee (b. 1979) 

Beck Lowry (b. 1980)

Danica Lundy (b. 1991)

Tammy Nguyen (b. 1984)

Grace O’Connor (b. 1974)

Em Rooney (b. 1983)

Lucy Sallick (b. 1937)

Kern Samuel (b. 1990)

Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980)

John Shen (b. 1990)

Remy Sosa (b. 1995)

Philip Taaffe (b. 1955)

Felandus Thames (b. 1974)

Amanda Russhell Wallace (b. 1986)

Julia Wachtel (b. 1956)