Weaving a Web to Catch Memories, a two-person exhibition curated by Yiliu Teng, will be installed in the Climate Control galleries alongside Even the wind is cautious, the exhibition by Felisa Nguyen & Ching-Wei Wang (Way). These two exhibitions will be presented in conversation, while still keeping Ishan Clemenco’s exhibition calipers in our memory. As we weave these exhibitions together, we are interested in how these voices can share space—and, perhaps more importantly, how they can hold space for one another.
These three exhibitions, which make up our Fall/Winter program—each a unique artistic statement—will be reflected on together in a forthcoming publication to be released in January 2026.
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Léonie Guyer makes paintings, drawings, site-based work, prints, and artist books. Her work is characterized by idiosyncratic shapes that are deployed in a variety of spaces. The shapes conflate geometric and organic structures; while specific and individuated, they resist being named. The intimately scaled forms reside in expansive chromatic fields.
Her exacting work is realized on antique and salvaged paper, marble remnants, panels, walls and windows. The use of particular materials and contexts extends the dialogue in her practice between the ancient and contemporary.
Guyer’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; staircase gallery, San Francisco; odium fati, San Francisco; 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco; Bibeau Krueger, NYC; Feature Inc., NYC; Peter Blum Gallery, NYC; Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA; Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR; lumber room, Portland, OR; The Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, NY; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; PLUSkunst, Düsseldorf, Germany and other venues.
Việt Lê’s creative and critical practice as a queer, disabled artist focuses on sexualities, spiritualities–the physical and the metaphysical. Focused on global south indigenous shamanisms and knowledge traditions, Dr. Lê’s non-profit foundation SEA sạ seeks to share resources and wisdom among artists, researchers and healers. Việt Lê is the author of Return Engagements: (Duke University Press, 2021, which received the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies), and collaborated with Latipa on the art book White Gaze (Sming Sming Books | Candor Art, 2019, second edition). Việt Lê is Professor Emeritus/a at California College of the Arts. A 2022-24 Headlands Bay Area Fellow and ‘22 Stanford CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow, Lê’s recent solo shows include đến đền đến (Sàn Art | Sài Gòn 2025),thương (w/ artist and poet Ly Hoàng Ly: Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech; UVA Chapel, University of Virginia, 2025), Việt Namaste (Headlands Center for the Arts, 2024) among others.
A 2022 Stanford CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow, he has also received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Việt Nam), William Joiner Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), Fine Arts Work Center(USA), Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia), Art Matters Foundation, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and PEN Center USA.
Lê has presented his work at The Banff Centre, Bangkok Art & Cultural Center, Shanghai Biennale, Rio Gay Film Festival, the Smithsonian, the Barbican, among other venues. Lê curated Charlie Don’t Surf!(Centre A, Vancouver, BC, 2005); and cocurated humor us (with Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA, 2008), transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix (with Yong Soon Min: ARKO, Seoul; Galerie Quynh, Sài Gòn; UC Irvine Gallery; YBCA, San Francisco, 2008-09) and the 2012 Kuandu Biennale (Taipei).