NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 2026 – The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces the opening of its spring exhibition program on March 14, 2026. The exhibitions will be on view through July 3, 2026.
Jessi Reaves, process invented the mirror
Jessi Reaves (b. 1986; Portland, OR) makes sculptures that confront the assumptions and values embedded in objects of daily life. The works in this exhibition revolve loosely around objects that reflect our evolving relationship to labor and the handmade.
Josiane M.H. Pozi, In Pursuit of Feeling
Josiane M.H. Pozi (b. 1998; London, UK) attempts to meet experience where it is. In Pursuit of Feeling takes up that practice and presents films and videos Pozi made over the last eight years, remixed and rearranged into an installation. Viewing these impressions, you encounter filmmaking that is as simple and as complex as life is.
Lucy Sante, Knots
Lucy Sante (b. 1954; Verviers, Belgium) has been making collages since her teenage years in New Jersey, a practice she has sustained alongside her prolific writing career. Sante describes her collages as “tightly held knots of ambiguity, like the best poems.” This exhibition in our Library presents collages made over the last five years, plus one early work from the late 1970s.
Articles of Distinction
In 1915, the American Academy of Arts and Letters solicited “articles of distinction” for a new collection. For this exhibition, current Arts and Letters members selected objects from this eclectic mix and wrote accompanying texts. Selections range from Charles Ives’s metronomes to a Jacob Lawrence drawing to plaster casts of hands—all gestures extending themselves toward others, and across time.
Founded in 1898, the American Academy of Arts and Letters represents the highest standards of artistic achievement in this country, and our community of members are among the leading contemporary architects, visual artists, writers, and composers. Arts and Letters honors creative accomplishment through the election of members, the conferment of awards, and presenting public exhibitions and interdisciplinary programs at our historic buildings in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
The exhibitions program at Arts and Letters champions experimentation and the breadth of contemporary art today by giving artists space, time, and resources to realize ambitious projects. The program is led by Chief Curator Jenny Jaskey, in consultation with a committee of Arts and Letters artist members including Mel Chin, Charles Gaines, Ann Hamilton, Joan Jonas, and Amy Sillman.
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