MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center today announced highlights from its exhibition program through fall 2026. Among the upcoming openings is the major, collaborative presentation Show & Tell: An Exhibition for Kids, which opens this week and offers a compelling new model for engaging children in the joy and imagination of art. Show & Tell features artworks from the Walker’s renowned collection by artists including Katharina Fritsch, Jeffrey Gibson, Cas Holman, Jasper Johns, Caroline Kent, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Yinka Shonibare that connect with kid-friendly subjects such as animals, alphabets, food, miniature worlds, and imaginary creatures. Presented in a vibrant, specially designed environment, the exhibition emphasizes participatory, hands-on exploration and encourages kids to engage all their senses.
In 2026 the Walker will present two major survey exhibitions: Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night, which the Walker co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, which is co-organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. All Day All Night brings together works created between 2011 and the present, including drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures that foreground the artist’s singular use of sound, language, and the complexities of communication. What Is Love explores Jackson’s dynamic, multi-decade career through more than 80 works of art that reflect her engagement with nature; her experiences as a dancer, poet, and theater designer; and her collaborations with radical artist communities.
Additionally, the Walker will unveil newly commissioned works by transdisciplinary, Twin Cities–based artist Rosy Simas (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron clan), including an in-gallery exhibition and a significant evening performance that she is creating as part of a two-year residency at the museum. The Walker will also present the significant, recently acquired four-channel video installation The Borrowed Lady (2016) by Martine Syms; an immersive environment of new works by architect and artist Olalekan Jeyifous; and will conclude 2026 with the opening of artist Abbas Akhavan’s first US museum survey, capturing his engagement with environmental justice, ecological change, and the preservation of cultural heritage, especially in conflict zones, over the course of 20 years. The exhibition will follow Akhavan’s representation of Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale.
These wide-ranging presentations follow the October 18 opening of Dyani White Hawk: Love Language, a major mid-career survey featuring nearly 100 works from the past 15 years of the artist’s wide-ranging practice. Co-organized with Remai Modern, Love Language freshly reveals the intricacy and singularity of White Hawk’s (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) practice, as she continues to embrace and evolve new aesthetic, conceptual, and technical possibilities across many mediums, including painting, sculpture, and moving image.
