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The Joan Mitchell Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowships: 15 US-based artists working in the evolving fields of painting and sculpture. Suchitra Mattai, based in Los Angeles and a multidisciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent whose work preserves ancestral stories through the exploration of memory and myth. She often combines processes and materials once associated with the domestic sphere, such as embroidery, beading, and sewing, to honor the labor of women.

By Victoria Valentine

WITH HER CENTENNIAL ON THE HORIZON, Betye Saar formed a scholarly committee charged with “preserving, interpreting, and advancing” her artistic legacy, stewarding her vast body of work, and supporting access to her extensive archive for future generations. The Betye Saar Legacy Group includes nine international curators whose longstanding engagement with the artist has yielded exhibitions, publications, and expert insight into her practice and process.

A newly established curatorial group—initiated by Betye Saar in collaboration with Roberts Projects—will serve as a scholarly committee dedicated to preserving, interpreting and advancing Saar’s profound artistic legacy. Working closely with the artist, her studio and her longtime gallery, the Betye Saar Legacy Group will provide expert guidance on Saar’s decades-long practice and her impact on contemporary art history.

The Wooyang Art Museum presents I Have Been Here Before, the first institutional solo exhibition in Asia by artist Amoako Boafo. Through a selection of recent and iconic paintings across four thematic spaces, the exhibition invites viewers to explore the nuances of identity, visibility, and self-representation through a body of work that is both deeply personal and powerfully resonant. For this landmark occasion, Boafo unveils a series of new works presented within a site-specific structure designed by Glenn DeRoche of inspired by Korea’s traditional hanok courtyards.