We Go Way Back, an exhibition exploring how ancient DNA is revealing new insights into human evolution, migration, culture and disease, will open at the Francis Crick Institute on 16 July 2026.
Ancient DNA is the genetic material from our ancestors long gone. These fragments of DNA are extracted from bones and teeth, before being processed in an ultra-clean laboratory and sequenced to reveal the underlying genetic code.
During April 2026, Gayle Chong Kwan interrogated the history of the scientific canon with a major installation in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh Science Festival. Through a large-scale site-specific sculptural installation, the work reflects on the cultural legacy of science, exploring and rethinking scientific histories through Chong Kwan’s detailed research into scientific artefacts and archives across eight major collections and speaking with communities.
Rutherford Chang’s first institutional solo presentation ‘Hundreds and Thousands’ is at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Rutherford Chang (1979-2025) was a New York-based conceptual artist whose practice revolved around collection, repetition, cultural memory, and value. His work often recontextualized everyday media, transforming their significance to reveal underlying cultural narratives. This marks the first posthumous exhibition for the artist and first solo museum exhibition as well as the worldwide debut of several works.
Mesmerizing, light-infused artworks take over the Bruce Museum’s Sculpture Gallery in “Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth”. Showcasing nine luminescent sculptures, the exhibition offers a powerful introduction to the work of internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, whose radiant forms explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world.
Fulcrum Arts is pleased to present Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat, a collection of works developed in relation to the artist’s August 2025 crossing of the Catalina Channel in a kayak made of mushroom mycelium. The exhibition’s central feature is the mushroom boat itself, which was built by the artist and stands amid the artifacts of its development, including extensive documentation of its fabrication, testing, and eventual use on open water.
Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. He studied Fine Art and Physics before founding The Interalia Centre in 1990. Since then, he has lectured extensively on art and science and written articles on James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy and Susan Derges, among others. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). Co-author of ‘The Art of Science’ (Welbeck Publishers, 2021). In ‘We Contain Multitudes’ he shows some his recent work.
Gayle Chong Kwan is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work is exhibited internationally in galleries and the public realm. Her large-scale photographic works, immersive installations, and sensory ritual events are at the intersection of historical and archival research and fine art practice, and position the viewer as one element in a cosmology of the political, social and ecological. She has created a new installation work, ‘Oneiric Archaeologies’, in VR game design, sound, tactile wearable sculptures, and social dreaming to explore the collective re-shaping, re-use, and understanding of Avebury Neolithic site through dreaming.
Arts MSU at Michigan State University and The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have been collaborating, bringing art and science together with a Power Up Artist-in-Residence program resulting in cutting-edge artworks and exhibitions that push the boundaries of both disciplines.
‘The Art-Science Symbiosis’ book outlines new approaches to understand current scientific practice in general and art-science in particular, showcasing how contemporary art can provide a unique perspective on the meaning and potential of collaboration. The book explores the different scopes of the art- science practice and 22 art-science works from all over the world, including interviews and descriptions by the same art-scientists.
Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. He studied Fine Art and Physics before founding The Interalia Centre in 1990. Since then, he has lectured extensively on art and science and written articles on James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy and Susan Derges, among others. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). Co-author of ‘The Art of Science’ (Welbeck Publishers, 2021). In ‘Forming’, he shows some of his latest work that explores flow and transience.