Rodney Graham: Secondary Modern
June 18, 2026 – August 8, 2026
Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2156 W. Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
This is the gallery’s first exhibition of the artist and the artist’s first in Chicago since his untimely death in 2022. With his paintings, Rodney Graham reversed time’s arrow. Convention, amongst conceptual artists, is for their painting practice to come first, to precede their transformation into full-fledged conceptualists. In Graham’s case, paintings came later, as part of his complex of different artistic activities, which included the photographic lightboxes for which he is best known, but also films, books, performances, songwriting, singing, bandleading, record making, sculpture, installation art, bakery ownership, and more.