{"id":733153,"date":"2026-06-13T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733153\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:06:16","slug":"9-photography-exhibitions-to-see-this-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733153\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Photography Exhibitions to See This Summer \u2014 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Camille Vivier, Horse (I), 2002
\u00a9 the artist<\/p>\n

Camille Vivier \u2014 Paris<\/p>\n

For over two decades, Camille Vivier has shrouded the pages of i-D, Dazed, and Purple in an air of fantasy and myth, working in a loose tradition of surrealist fashion photography stretching back to Man Ray. Now, an exhibition in Paris brings her work to museum walls for the first time. Whether on assignment for Cartier, collaborating with female body-builders, or dabbling in equestrian portraiture, the French photographer imbues her subjects with an alien beauty and a dreamy eroticism that is bracingly bereft of convention.<\/p>\n

Camille Vivier<\/a> at Maison Europ\u00e9enne de la Photographie, Paris, through September 20, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Many Reasons to Live Again, 2022
Courtesy the artist and Galer\u00eda Alta<\/p>\n

Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles 2026 \u2014 France<\/p>\n

The annual Rencontres d\u2019Arles, now in its fifty-seventh edition, opens in the sultry days of early July and offers an array of exhibitions spread across venues in the ancient town dotted with Roman ruins and beloved by Van Gogh. This year\u2019s edition features the exhibition Ghana! Dreaming Independence, 1957\u20131976, with images by James Barnor and Paul Strand, who documented an independent Ghana (on the invitation of its newly minted leader Kwame Nkrumah), and Carlos Idun-Tawiah, a contemporary maker of stylish, at times retro-inflected imagery. Other standouts include meditations on the natural world by the likes of Edward Steichen and Lisa Oppenheim, a thematic show dedicated to animals, and an exhibition by the under-the-radar Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo shedding light on his innovative photo-romans.<\/p>\n

Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles 2026<\/a>, at various sites across Arles, France, July 6\u2013October 4, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Helmut Newton, Rue Aubriot, Pantsuit worn by Vibeke Knudsen, Fall\/Winter 1975 Haute Couture Collection. Published in Vogue Paris, September 1975
\u00a9 Helmut Newton Foundation and courtesy Fondation Pierre Berg\u00e9\u2014Yves Saint Laurent<\/p>\n

Yves Saint Laurent \u2014 New York<\/p>\n

Yves Saint Laurent always understood photography as not only a marketing tool, but also a daring extension of his art. As Yves Saint Laurent and Photography argues, the couturier was a driving force behind some of the twentieth century\u2019s most ingenious and experimental image-makers, from William Klein and Horst P. Horst to Guy Bourdin and Juergen Teller. His commissions yielded iconic images like Richard Avedon\u2019s Dovima with Elephants from 1955 and Helmut Newton\u2019s noirish 1975 shots of Le Smoking, but also hidden gems such as Bert Stern\u2019s 1967 photograph of Twiggy in an evening dress, leaning against a television monitor broadcasting her own close-up\u2014photographs that grab you by the satin lapels.<\/p>\n

Yves Saint Laurent and Photography<\/a> at the International Center of Photography, New York, through September 28, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Widline Cadet, Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1), 2019
Courtesy the artist<\/p>\n

Widline Cadet \u2014\u00a0Milwaukee<\/p>\n

Working across photography, video, and installation, Widline Cadet\u2019s ongoing series Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) contends with Black diasporic life and survival. Since 2017, as travel to her home country in Haiti became increasingly limited, she turned her camera toward herself to create what she\u2019s called a \u201cliving archive.\u201d Currents 40 at Milwaukee Art Museum marks Cadet\u2019s first solo museum exhibition in the US, and presents meticulously staged scenes: a framed archival picture sits atop a moody scene of a backyard; washed-out photographs are strapped to a C-stand in the water, a figure with their back turned stoically observing the installation. Across the exhibition, Cadet resists the boundaries of fixed narratives by leaning into more open-ended tableaux that bridge past and present.<\/p>\n

Currents 40: Widline Cadet<\/a> at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through August 9, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucas Samaras, Split, 1973
\u00a9 The Art Institute of Chicago<\/p>\n

Lucas Samaras \u2014 Chicago<\/p>\n

Lucas Samaras\u2019s great subject was Lucas Samaras. Though a staple of New York\u2019s art scene beginning in the 1960s, the Greek-born artist never committed to a single school or style, instead forming a one-man movement\u2014sprung from the confines of his apartment\u2014that expanded the boundaries of self-depiction through paintings, installations, performances, and a dizzying array of other media. An exhibition in Chicago focuses on his photography, including the famous Photo-Transformations series (1973\u201376), in which he manipulated the wet emulsions of Polaroid film to create psychedelic selfies avant la lettre.<\/p>\n

Lucas Samaras: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking<\/a> at the Art Institute of Chicago, through July 20, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Devlin Claro, blades of glory, 2026
Courtesy the artist and Donald Ryan Gallery, New York<\/p>\n

Greater New York 2026 \u2014 Queens<\/p>\n

Greater New York\u00a0returns to MoMA PS1 for the museum\u2019s fiftieth anniversary, surveying fifty-three artists and collectives living and working across the city\u2019s five boroughs and beyond, with an emphasis on early and mid-career voices. Photography is particularly well represented, and Devlin Claro\u2019s lush C-prints of Queens are a highlight.\u00a0In one photograph,\u00a0blades of glory\u00a0(2026), a man sits on a woman\u2019s lap outside a storefront, their arms and legs crisscrossed, the red of his rollerblades echoing the color of her hair. The precision of gesture, dress, and color against the everyday backdrop lets the image linger memorably between observation and stagecraft.<\/p>\n

Greater New York 2026<\/a> at MoMA PS1, New York, through August 17, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Harold Edgerton, Bobby Jones\u2019 Driver, 1938
\u00a9 and courtesy MIT Museum<\/p>\n

Harold Edgerton \u2014\u00a0Cambridge<\/p>\n

A bullet piercing an apple, a drop of milk splashing onto a red pan, every phase of Bobby Jones\u2019s golf swing: When the engineer and researcher Harold \u201cDoc\u201d Edgerton first applied the stroboscopic flash to high-speed photography, it allowed him to reveal things previously invisible to the naked eye. A retrospective at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Edgerton pioneered his technique in the 1930s, delights in such microsecond spectacles, exploring how his influence rippled beyond science and into the realms of art, war, and Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Freezing Time: Edgerton and the Beauty of the Machine Age<\/a> at the MIT Museum, through October 8, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"F. C. Gundlach, Uschi Obermaier, 1970
\u00a9 Stiftung F. C. Gundlach<\/p>\n

Triennial of Photography Hamburg<\/p>\n

\u201cTo open our hearts more fully to love\u2019s power and grace we must dare to acknowledge how little we know of love in both theory and practice,\u201d wrote bell hooks, a lodestar of the ninth Triennial of Photography Hamburg. At a time of deeply fractured global politics, the artistic director Mark Sealy has convened a transnational group of photographers who offer a love letter to the medium that doubles as a blazing polemic. The citywide festival includes themed exhibitions, solo shows for young artists including Melike Kara, Abdulhamid Kircher, and Nina Porter, and an exhibition celebrating the centennial of the triennial\u2019s late founder, F. C. Gundlach, whose exuberant fashion pictures reflect the shifting tides of style and society.<\/p>\n

Alliance, Infinity, Love\u2014in the Face of the Other<\/a> at various venues in Hamburg, through September 22, 2026<\/p>\n

\"\"Paolo Roversi, Doubts, Paris, 2026
Courtesy the artist<\/p>\n

Paolo Roversi \u2014 Spain<\/p>\n

Known for his painterly photographs, Paolo Roversi began his career in the 1970s with assignments for the Associated Press, garnering the attention of legendary art director Peter Knapp of\u00a0Elle\u00a0magazine. At the heart of those images are close relationships with Christian Dior, Romeo Gigli, Rei Kawakubo, and most famously, Yohji Yamamoto\u2014collaborations that have allowed Roversi to continually challenge and renew his practice. Roversi chose Doubts\u00a0as the title for his career survey at the MOP Foundation in the Spanish port city of A Coru\u00f1a as a gesture to uncertainty\u2014an \u201copen door to creativity and imagination.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paolo Roversi: Doubts<\/a> at the MOP Foundation, A Coru\u00f1a, Spain, June 20\u2013September 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Camille Vivier, Horse (I), 2002\u00a9 the artist Camille Vivier \u2014 Paris For over two decades, Camille Vivier has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-733153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}