UK theatre company Punchdrunk makes their US debut at A.R.T. with Sleep No More, an immersive event inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller. In a sprawling, spooky labyrinth, audiences are free to wander and explore a haunting theatrical experience that’s “part art installation, part performance art, part adventure playground.”

October 8 – February 7, 2010
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Supported by Grants to Artists, British artist Gordon Cheung presents his first U.S. solo exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Cheung’s paintings combine a unique array of techniques, from photographic transfers to Japanese ink brushwork to paper collage, creating imaginative landscapes with references to ecological catastrophe and consumer capitalism.

January 9 – April 10, 2010
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona

Supported by Grants to Artists, UK artist Ewan Gibbs exhibits a new commission from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  In San Francisco, Gibbs creates urban images of the city through small slashes and dots with a sharp pencil in arrays commonly used for knitting patterns, creating images which are recognizable from a distance but become more abstract at closer range.

January 16 – June 27, 2010
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California

Supported by Grants to Artists, Rachel Whiteread exhibits her work at the Hammer Museum at UCLA.  Widely known for her contemporary sculpture, in this exhibition the Hammer presents the first museum retrospective of Whiteread’s drawings. Using variegated textures over colored graph paper, Whiteread evokes similar notions of presence and absence visible in her sculptural work. The artist’s drawings will be joined by examples of her sculpture as well as everyday objects that juxtapose her artwork with travel memories.

January 31 – April 25, 2010
Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Supported by Grants to Artists, Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes exhibits her work in the group exhibition Abstract Resistance at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibition brings together many generations of artists making work that is aesthetically inventive, ethically engaged and politically defiant.

February 27, 2010 – May 23, 2010
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota