LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter presents Pat Oleszko’s first solo exhibition in a New York City institution in over 35 years. Rooted in humor, sharp social commentary, and defiance of all forms of authority, Oleszko's sculptures lend themselves to raucous performance, using linguistic wit to address various concerns, including accessible housing, women’s issues, and world politics. Spanning SculptureCenter’s entire building, this survey exhibition is constructed around Oleszko’s singular inflatables and brings together dozens of these airy, monumental works for the first time.

In addition to using air as a sculptural material, Oleszko devised the strategy of exhibiting work on her body, building intricate costumes that “walked out the door,” and, in her words, used “all the world as a stooge”. The exhibition includes key works from her decades-long career, such as costumes, sculptural chapeaux, films, performance documentation, and archival material from the 1970s to the present.

The presentation is accompanied by the artist’s first institutional publication, which will be available later this year, and expands on the performance histories around her sculptures with newly commissioned essays by Columbia University professor and art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson; New York-based cultural worker, writer, and researcher Marie Catalano; Budapest-based curator, writer, and artist Gyula Muskovics; and American chef, food writer—and close friend of Oleszko—Ruth Reichl, along with a biographical timeline by the artist in her own idiosyncratic language. The publication will be designed by Tiffany Malakooti.

Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure is curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Director, and Jovanna Venegas, Curator, with Sharon Liu, Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow. Research assistance by Ray Camp, 2025 Summer Curatorial Fellow.

In Practice: Ana Gzirishvili
On View: Jan 29–Apr 27, 2026

Ana Gzirishvili’s practice spans poetry, film, sculpture, and installation, exploring the liminal spaces between beings, objects, and material and immaterial realms. Her works engage with themes of transitionality, circulation, and displacement, often through disassembling and reassembling contexts and forms. For In Practice, she created a new group of leather sculptures sourced from aged furniture, reshaped into still life arrangements inspired by various architectural contexts that explore the scars and traces left by objects and spaces.

In Practice: Ana Gzirishvili is curated by Jovanna Venegas, Curator and Kyle Dancewicz, Deputy Director.