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We will kick off our summer season in Southampton with a special exhibition celebrating our diverse and extraordinary family of artists.

Following a successful first year of collaboration in 2022, raising £325,000 with the ‘Like There Is Hope’ exhibition and auction, the gallery has raised over £430,000 in the second year of collaboration with the ‘Holding Space’ exhibition and auction, in partnership with Hospital Rooms and Bonhams, to support three ambitious new projects in NHS mental health hospitals across the UK.

Long-time faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and celebrated artist Charles Gaines has made a donation to establish a fellowship that will provide critical scholarship support for Black students in the MFA Art program at the Institute. This follows the recent news of philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton’s $5 million gift to CalArts to establish the Charles Gaines Faculty Chair.

Eileen Harris Norton is honoring CalArts faculty member and celebrated artist Charles Gaines with a $5 million gift that will create the ‘Charles Gaines Faculty Chair.’

The gift will also facilitate the further development of Black and other underrepresented faculty members in the School of Art through its support of research, creative activities, and curriculum innovation.

The 60th Edward MacDowell Medal will be presented to American artist Charles Gaines in August 2019 during a public event at The MacDowell Colony’s grounds in New Hampshire. The prestigious medal has been awarded annually since 1960 to artists who have made an outstanding contribution to American culture. Gaines joins a long list of previous MacDowell Medal recipients, which include the significant artists and writers Robert Frost, Georgia O’Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois and Toni Morrison.

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to announce worldwide representation of Charles Gaines, the Los Angeles-based artist and educator lauded for his contributions to the evolution of conceptual art and the emergence of the LA art scene. Gaines holds a unique place in the narrative of modern and contemporary art: A pioneer of Conceptual Art, he has since the 1970s been one of the few African-American artists to eschew overt political expressionism in favor of abstraction, aesthetics, and philosophy as tools to explore perception, objectivity, identity, and relationships as political issues. His exquisitely original and diverse practice spans photography, drawing, installation, and music in a rigorous investigation of systems, cognition, and language that has unfolded over more than five decades.