Rainbow Room

Sophie Kovel

Heji Shin

Ronald Sterling

Kianja Strobert

The gallery is pleased to present Rainbow Room, a group exhibition presenting new and recent works by four artists.

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Sophie Kovel (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works between Paris, France and New York, NY).

Kovel’s selected exhibitions include the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Petrine, Paris; Neon Art Foundation, Athens; diez, Amsterdam; Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York; University of California, Los Angeles; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark. Kovel has spoken on panels and symposiums at universities and institutions including Columbia University and the Brooklyn Public Library. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Bomb, Camera Austria, Frieze, Monopol, Jeu de Paume Magazine, and elsewhere. Kovel graduated from Columbia University’s MFA in New Genres, where she was awarded the Agnes Martin and Andrew Fisher Fellowships, and was a 2022 studio fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Kovel’s current solo exhibition Gigantomania is on view at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.

Heji Shin (b. 1976, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in New York, NY)

Shin has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as at KAT_A, Bad Honnef, Germany (2022); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2021); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2018). Shin has had several solo presentations at galleries worldwide, most recently at 52 Walker, New York (2023); Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2018 and 2020); Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2019); Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles (2019); Galerie Bernhard, Zurich (2016); Real Fine Arts, New York (2013 and 2016); and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin (2010). Shin’s work has been featured in significant group exhibitions including To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2022); New Flesh, Forde - Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva (2021); It’s Just a Phase, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim, Norway (2021); No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern (2020); Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands (2020); Time Is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019); and @MINED_OUD, Museo Madre, Naples (2017), among others. Work by the artist has been included in recurring international presentations such as Tallinn Photomonth, Estonia (2019), the Whitney Biennial, New York (2019), and the Athens Biennale (2018). In 2021, Shin was awarded the KAT_A Award.

Ronald Sterling (lives and works in New York, NY). Sterling can be seen across Manhattan, selling his work on street corners and in Subway stations.

Kianja Strobert (b. 1980, New York, NY; lives and works between Hudson, NY and Cambridge, MA).

Strobert’s solo exhibitions include The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; ArtOmi, NY; The Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Campoli Presti, FR; Marinaro Gallery, NY; Zach Feuer, NY and The Tilton Gallery. She has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions including The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, TX; Vox Populi, PA; Gavin Brown Enterprises, NY; Harris Lieberman, NY; and many others. She received her BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Yale University. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Centre National des Arts Plastiques, FR, The US Embassy in Mozambique, and The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach. Strobert is an Assistant Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. In 2026, she was awarded the 2026-27 Rome Prize Fellowship and is currently in residency at the American Academy in Rome.

The gallery would like to thank Petrine and Reena Spaulings for their assistance with this exhibition.