Installation view, Frank Gehry, Gagosian, Beverly Hills.
PHOTO: JOSH WHITE. ARTWORK: © FRANK O. GEHRY. COURTESY OF GAGOSIAN.

Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie journeyed from the East Coast and the Midwest to the West Coast to highlight the top solo shows for June. From Lisa Yuskavage’s provocative figurative oil paintings and collages that challenge traditional depictions of the female form at David Zwirner in New York and Jennifer Bartlett’s monumental installation pairing large canvases of ocean scenes with related three-dimensional objects at Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery to Frank Gehry’s dynamically crafted animal lamps and sculptures at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, these are the not-to-be-missed shows this month.

Nour Malas, L’ame de L’ame, (2026).
PHOTO: IAN VECCHIOTTI. COURTESY OF PATRON

6. Nour Malas | Patron, Chicago

Nour Malas, a Syrian-Canadian artist, creates large, expressive paintings and mixed-media installations that explore personal identity, cultural hybridity, and political history. Born in France, the New York-based artist grew up in the United Arab Emirates and has lived in Dubai, London, and Chicago. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Goldsmiths University in London and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her art is highly physical and intuitive, moving between abstraction and delicate figurative forms. It features layered compositions with energetic, gestural brushstrokes and earthy colors. Named after a 1971 song by Max Roach and The J.C. White Singers, the paintings in her “Garden of Prayer” exhibition capture jazz’s improvisational approach to form and gospel’s spiritual fervor, featuring a series of large-scale works in oil and pastel on linen, paper, and silk. Guided by her grandmother’s spirit, she sees her paintings as portals into spiritual worlds.

Through June 13