Lisa Melandri

Multimedia works from an artist imagining a radically collective and borderless future This is the first major monograph for Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed (born 1980). Her multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach across collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation.

Ghostly silhouettes and lush, surreal landscapes from a young painter focused on representations of Black leisure and introspection This is the first monograph for American artist Dominic Chambers (born 1993), whose vibrant paintings engage art historical models, such as Color Field painting and gestural abstraction, while simultaneously addressing contemporary concerns around race, identity and the necessity of leisure and reflection.

A multimedia excavation of the many meanings of resistance in art and culture across the globe today Through the perspectives of international artists working across mediums, Stories of Resistance sheds light on the situations from which acts of resistance emerge and identifies themes and motifs that recur across history, cultures and regions. Resistance may be found in the rewriting of history, exposing or filling in the blatant absences of the dominant narrative; resistance emerges from within governmental, corporate or institutional structures and systems of power; resistance takes shape in labor movements and in actions to protect water, land and other natural resources. Artists include: Bani Abidi, Andrea Bowers, Banu Cennetoglu, Torkwase Dyson, Emily Jacir, Glenn Kaino, Bouchra Khalili, Candice Lin, Jen Liu, Guadalupe Maravilla, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Trevor Paglen, PSA: (Jen Everett, Aida Hasanovic, Simiya Sudduth), Wendy Red Star, Dread Scott, Kemang Wa Lehulere and Wide Awakes (Maryam Parwana, Combo, Otherward).

Place Is the Space features new site-specific projects at CAM St. Louis, by artists Carla Arocha and Stephane Schraenen, Jill Downen, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Virginia Overton and Dominique Petitgand. These were commissioned by CAM architect Brad Cloepfil and CAM Chief Curator Dominic Molon.

This retrospective surveys the first five years of the project series The Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. The artists include Claire Fontaine, Kerry James Marshall and Tris Vonna-Michell.

A Decorated Chronology accompanies the first American museum exhibition of Los Angeles–based artist Lari Pittman in more than 15 years. It comprises a range of recent work and a selection of earlier paintings. Over the past three decades, Pittman has developed a body of work that is internationally celebrated for its exuberant use of color and painstakingly rendered detail to address such contentious subjects as sexuality, desire and violence. His multilayered depictions of images and signs--ranging from human figures and body parts to animals, plants, furniture, text and even credit cards--meditate on the overwhelming richness and sadness of everyday life. Embracing the critical potential of figurative painting, Pittman provides incisive commentary on the medium’s ability to intertwine the personal with the political.