Valise Community Roundup 01

We take great interest in the work our community members produce, and will occasionally share select updates from them. Here’s the first batch.

Toronto-based artist Steven Beckly, one of the first artists with whom we spoke about Valise, opens “Handy Work,” his third solo exhibition at Daniel Faria Gallery, this week. The show, which “emerges from a collaborative process between Beckly and his father,” is a core exhibition of Toronto’s CONTACT Photography Festival and is on view from May 1 to June 14, 2025.

Los Angeles–based artist Alex Olson, who recently launched a comprehensive new website, presents “Letters,” the final show at the Presidio Heights location of San Francisco gallery Altman Siegel. The solo exhibition includes a series of gouaches on paper, which she “began during her first trimester of pregnancy, when the toxicity of oil painting necessitated a change in medium,” and three new paintings. It will be on view from May 1 to May 24, 2025.

Berkeley-based photographer Lucas Foglia has just published Constant Bloom (Nazraeli Press), a book that follows Painted Lady butterflies on the world’s longest butterfly migration. The series has already been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and the CBC, among other places, and in the next six months solo exhibitions of this work will be on view in Taiwan, New York, The Hague, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Berlin. Visit this page on Lucas’s website for dates and locations.

New Zealand–born, Texas-based artist Kate Newby recently announced that she has been commissioned to create a permanent public artwork for Portland International Airport.

Ontario-based artist Kristine Moran’s work is included in the group exhibition “Sports Sports Sports,” on view at Art Windsor Essex from March 8 to September 21, 2025.

Edmonton-based artist Braxton Garneau is currently ISCP Artist in Residence in Brooklyn and participating in the group exhibition “Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean,” on view at Remai Modern in Saskatoon from April 24 to August 24, 2025.

Portland-based artist Ido Radon has recently leased space in the building that houses Mother Foucault’s Bookshop for her project Society, and will participate in the group exhibition “The Headwaters of the Mississippi Are in the Sky,” opening May 30, 2025 at the Pittsburgh gallery Romance.

Los Angeles–based artist Kim Fisher recently presented “Roots and Tourist,” her fifth solo exhibition at The Modern Institute in Glasgow and is participating, with Alex Olson and others, in the group exhibition “Compression,” on view at Temple Projects in Los Angeles from April 25 to May 18.