Valise Community Roundup 02

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

The New York–based artist Sam Contis presently has an exhibition in the city where she lives and an exhibition on the other side of the world. “Phases,” is on view at Arts & Letters in upper Manhattan through February 8, 2026. It includes a three-channel film installation, her first major film, and a related series of portrait photographs. Meanwhile, her exhibition “Moving Landscape,” which includes three bodies of photographic work, remains on view at the Art Gallery of Western Australia through November 9.

Ruoxi Jin, born in China but now living in Paris, opens her first solo exhibition at Paris’s Mennour this week. The show, the first in Mennour’s new “Emergence” program, is titled “Microclimats” and includes sculptures of varying scales, including one composed of an airplane’s nose and one involving an egg and a nesting doll.

Next week, Toronto-based painter Dorian FitzGerald opens his first solo exhibition in this city in three years at Clint Roenisch Gallery. Titled “Epoch,” the show features all-new paintings.

Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis, who collaborate under the name Future Retrieval, have an exhibition of biometric textiles, handmade paper, and ceramics on view at Form and Concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show, titled “Underground World Experience,” emerged from a residency the artists completed at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West and remains on view through January 24, 2026.

Los Angeles–based artist Pamela Jorden opens a solo exhibition of new paintings at San Francisco’s Romer Young Gallery on November 6. The exhibition, titled “Holds,” will remain on view through December 20.

Kieran Brennan Hinton, a painter based in Toronto, opens “Change of Scenery,” his third solo exhibition at Charles Moffett Gallery in New York, this week. Hinton paints from life, and the canvases in this exhibition emerge from extended periods of observation in such places across the US as Corsicana, Texas, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Fishers Island, New York.

Mark Stebbins, an artist based in London, Ontario, has a solo exhibition on view at at Galerie Simon Blais in Montreal through October 25. Titled “Echo Choir,” the show consists of paintings and works on paper that use dots of acrylic paint to evoke embroideries, miniature mosaics, digital images, and Canadian folk art.

Artist Nancy Lupo, who divides her time between Los Angeles and Berlin, has a solo exhibition titled “Disko” at Kevin, a kunstverein in Vienna, through November 15. The show’s title refers to Greenland’s Disko Bay; the works included contrast the “longing for infinite fields of ice” with “the reality of [the ice’s] disappearance.” Lupo’s next exhibition, “Final Closet,” opens November 1 at Chiaromonte in Turin.