Art - Rick Kinsel

The Birdhouse Project with James Leng2023

The Vilcek Foundation took its appreciation of design to new heights with the installation of a birdhouse designed by architect James Leng on the roof of the foundation’s Manhattan headquarters. The project was conceived in early 2020 by Vilcek Foundation...

Nari Ward: Home of the Brave2022 - 2023

The exhibition Nari Ward: Home of the Brave opened at the Vilcek Foundation in May 2022 and remained on view through March 2023. Curated by Rick Kinsel, the exhibition included seven mixed-media sculptures and installations by the artist, spanning from 2006...

The Detweiler House2020

The Detweiler House is a Tropical Modern and Brutalist house in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was designed by architect Walter Booser “Chip” Detweiler in 1973 to be his private residence. Detweiler's work was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright. Detweiler held to...

Many Faces of the AmericasSeptember 2020

Created by Paula Kinsel and Rick Kinsel. Featuring multiple works of Pre-Columbian art from several different cultures in Central and South America. For more information about these works, visit vilcek.org

Ralston Crawford: Torn SignsApril 2019

Featuring works from the Vilcek Foundation’s American Modernism Collection, alongside loans from John Crawford, one of the artist’s sons, Ralston Crawford: Torn Signs presents an important but lesser known aspect of the modernist painter’s oeuvre. The catalogue also features reproductions...

Domesticity RevisitedOctober 2015

Domesticity Revisited (October 8th - December 30th, 2015) curated by Rick Kinsel, marked the opening of Pen + Brush’s new gallery space in the Flatiron District, featuring artists Jee Hee Kang, Michela Martello, Tricia Wright, and Yun Koung Shin. “The...

Brian Doan: hôme hôme hômeSeptember 2013

Vietnamese-born photographer, Brian Doan’s exhibition, hôme hôme hôme, premiered at the Vilcek Foundation on September 14th, 2013. In his first solo show in New York City, Mr. Doan wove together imagery, both personal and political, to navigate his relationship with...

Pivotal Works: The Vilcek Foundation ProjectNovember 2012

The Vilcek Foundation, in collaboration with Joyce SoHo, hosted the winner and finalists of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance, during four nights of performances in November. Representing, literally, a world of dance—from flamenco to modern and experimental—these...

O Zhang: I Am Your MirrorSeptember 2012

Armed with a map and her camera, Chinese-born artist O Zhang set off across the country to photograph blank billboards strewn across the American landscape. These empty canvases, while devoid of content, are anything but silent: they speak loudly of...

Nicole Awai: Almost UndoneSeptember 2011

Almost Undone, an installation by Trinidadian native Nicole Awai premiered at the Vilcek Foundation Gallery in Fall 2011. The exhibition by the mixed-media artist featured drawings from an earlier series of her works, Specimen from Local Ephemera, which served as...

Mari Kimura: String TheaterMay 2011

Acclaimed composer and virtuoso violinist Mari Kimura thrilled the audience at the Bohemian National Hall on May 20, 2011. For this one-night-only concert, hosted by the Vilcek Foundation, Ms. Kimura performed a selection of classical and contemporary works, and introduced...

Toshiko Nishikawa: SenbazuruOctober 2010

On December 10th 2010, 1,000 mirrored orbs, which had been suspended for more than a month from the ceiling of the Vilcek Foundation Gallery, were taken gently down and distributed to guests attending the closing reception of Senbazuru, the interactive...

The Vilcek Foundation Celebrates LOST: A Showcase of International Artists and Filmmakers of ABC’s Hit ShowMay 2010

In May 2010, The Vilcek Foundation gave LOST fans grieving the end of their favorite television program a behind-the-scenes view of the diverse cast and crew, along with many of the iconic props from the show. By focusing on the...

Kai-Duc Luong: CircumplexOctober 2009

Circumplex, an audiovisual installation by independent director/editor Kai-Duc Luong marked The Vilcek Foundation’s inaugural venture into the realm of video art in 2009. Intended to fully engulf the viewer in a world of emotional extremes, Luong peeled back the nuanced...

Peter Breiner: enTANGOedJune 2009

Born from the music and dance of immigrants in the late nineteenth-century suburbs of Buenos Aires, tango has been a metaphor for longing, passion, and the search for identity. Complex and ambiguous, over time, tango bridged different ethnic, social, musical,...

Ryo Toyonaga: MephistopheleanMarch 2009

Between 1995 and 2003, Japanese-born artist Ryo Toyonaga produced some 300 ceramic-based objects in his Redkill Studio, a secluded cabin in the Catskill Mountains. These works, never intended for sale or exhibition, were driven by an energy welling up from...

Il Lee and Pouran JinchiJune 2008

In concert with the opening of its new headquarters on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Vilcek Foundation invited the public to an exhibition curated by Art Projects International featuring the works of two critically acclaimed foreign-born artists, Il...