Mattress Factory Announces 2026 Artistic Programming

 

VIEW IN BROWSER Mattress Factory Announces 2026 Artistic Programming Thank you for your overwhelming love and support for Mattress Factory this past year. Your support as members, donors, partners, and friends have championed artists from around the world and around the corner as they make remarkable works of art in our community. You ensure artists have the freedom they need and help sustain a community built on risk, trust, and the joy of discovery.  We are excited to announce Mattress Factory's 2026 Artistic Programming. Artists hail from Detroit to Peru to Argentina, bringing with them entire worlds for us to explore. We invite you to learn more about the 2026 artists and exhibitions below. Mattress Factory members are invited to join us for exclusive exhibition opening member previews. Not a member? Learn more about member benefits and join us in supporting artists by being a member here. LOLO Y LAUTI EXHIBITION ON VIEW: SAT, MARCH 7, 2026 | 500 SAMPSONIA MEMBER PREVEW: FRI, MARCH 6, 2026 Lolo y Lauti is a duo of contemporary Argentine artists who have been working together since 2011. Their work includes video, performance, sculpture, installations and photography presented in formats ranging from exhibition to opera, through social networks and virtual reality. They claim humor as an autonomous experience and a tool to address topics such as sexuality, drugs, death and fine arts. They have shown their work in museums, galleries and festivals in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Spain, United States, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United Kingdom and Uruguay.  They held residencies at Villa Lena and SEA in Greece, and at ISCP in New York, among others. They recently obtained the 2022 Buenos Aires Art Week Award and the 2023 Amigos del Bellas Artes + ArtHaus Performing Arts Prize, as well as the Williams Foundation and Argentine Mozarteum Research Scholarship at the Cité Internationaledes Arts in Paris. They also have a career as curators, having organized PERFUCH (Argentina’s first performance arts festival) in all its editions, as well as curating many individual and group shows in Buenos Aires.  📸 Tom Little CLAUDIA MARTÍNEZ GARAY + ARTURO KAMEYA EXHIBITION ON VIEW: SAT, MAY 2, 2026 | 516 SAMPSONIA SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL CELEBRATION: SAT, MAY 2, 2026 This upcoming project is presented as part of the 59th Carnegie International in collaboration with Carnegie Museum of Art, and opens May 2, 2026 at Mattress Factory. Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, Peru) + Arturo Kameya (b. 1984, Peru) are a collaborative Peruvian-born artist duo working between Lima, Amsterdam, and beyond. Together, the duo interrogate Peruvian identity under colonial legacy, exploring how state power, cultural extraction, and historical narratives continue to shape collective memory. Their work has been shown in immersive exhibitions such as Opaque Spirits at Marres, where they transformed the venue into a haunted metaphor for state failure and spiritual afterlife. 📸 Tom Little AMANDA ROSS-HO EXHIBITION ON VIEW: SAT, AUGUST 8, 2026 | 500 SAMPSONIA MEMBER PREVIEW: FRI, AUGUST 7, 2026   Amanda Ross-Ho’s work takes the form of sculptural installations and material environments that propose dynamic and imagined ecologies of labor, time and the building of speculative archives. She builds formal syntax comprised of objects, images, and performative gestures mined from personal and collective phenomena, which aim to inscribe meaning through poetic systems of circuitry and taxonomy. Utilizing conflicting sensibilities of the forensic, hyperbolic, and theatrical, her work aims to function as a sensitive instrument: tuned to carefully observe, record, transcribe and translate the landscapes of our made and lived in surroundings.  Amanda Ross-Ho was born in Chicago in 1975.  She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Ross-Ho has exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2019) Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2017); Vleeshal, Middleburg (2016); Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2015); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); among many other institutions. 📸 Tom Little AKEA BRIONNE EXHIBITION ON VIEW: SAT, OCTOBER 17, 2026 | 1414 MONTEREY MEMBER PREVIEW: FRI, OCTOBER 16, 2026 Mattress Factory presents Akea Brionne in partnership with Pedantic Arts Residency. Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist, working at the intersection of lens and fiber based media. Her practice explores the relationship between colonial and imperialist history and their impact on identity politics, cultural storytelling, memory, and assimilation. Her work analyzes this primarily through the observation within the African Diaspora, with a particular emphasis on Creole culture. Brionne received a dual BA/BFA in Photography and Humanistic Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received an MFA in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. 📸 Courtesy of Akea Brionne GREER LANKTON: COULD IT BE LOVE EXHIBITION ON VIEW: SAT, NOVEMBER 14, 2026 | 500 Sampsonia MEMBER PREVIEW: FRI, NOVEMBER 13, 2026   Greer Lankton (1958 – 1996) was one of the most significant artists to have taken part in the revolutionary art scene of New York City’s East Village during the 1980s. Lankton grew up in Park Forest, IL, where she graduated a year early from high school to attend the Art Institute of Chicago from 1975 to1978. That year she moved to New York City and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1981. By then Lankton had secured her reputation as a leading figure in the social ferment of NYC in the 1980s through her visceral doll sculpture, and now lesser-known performances and minimalist soft sculpture. Could It Be Love presents an intimate and powerful photographic survey of Greer Lankton (1958–1996), the legendary East Village artist known for her uncannily lifelike dolls and fearless exploration of gender, beauty, and the body. Presented in partnership with Magic Hour Press, Could It Be Love follows the release of the first major monograph on Lankton’s photographic work. Edited by Nan Goldin, Francis Schichtel, and Jordan Weitzman, the book draws deeply from the Greer Lankton Archive, housed at Mattress Factory, to present over 100 of Lankton’s rarely seen photographs. Exhibition curated by Francis Shichtel and Jordan Weitzman. 📸 Greer Lankton Facility Rentals Tours Membership MF Shop   Events Calendar Exhibitions On View Yasmine El Meleegy   Red Gold On View Ting Tong Chang   The Hidden Shift Did You Recently Visit Mattress Factory? Tell us how we did. 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