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Greek artist Chryssa's first exhibition of work in North America is now on view at Dia Chelsea

Chryssa & New York

March 2–July 23, 2023 @Dia Chelsea

Dia Art Foundation and the Houston and Menil Collections present an exhibition of Chryssa's work at Dia Chelsea, a gallery in Chelsea operated by the Dia Art Foundation. The Greek-born artist has been under-recognized for decades and has made radical use of billboards, text, and neon in a practice that connects the ideas of Pop, Conceptual, and Minimalist art-making Chryssa & New York is proud to present the first exhibition of this artist in the United States since 1982. Focusing on Chryssa's New York-based practice from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, the exhibition will feature major loans from museums and collections in the U.S. and Europe. will premiere at the Dia Chelsea in New York in March 2023 and open at the Menil Collection in September 2023. The exhibition will travel to 659 Wrightwood in Chicago in May 2024.

About Chryssa

Chryssa was born in Athens in 1933. She studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, and the California School of Fine Art (now San Francisco Art Institute) before settling in New York in the late 1950s. Following her first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in January 1961, Chryssa was the subject of a one-person show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in November of that same year. Her early work with neon technology remains at the forefront of light art. Chryssa’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1963); Documenta, Kassel, Germany (1968); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1972); the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now Buffalo AKG Art Museum), New York (1982); and Tate Modern, London (2015). She died in Athens in 2013.