Tobias Pils paints passionately. His exhibition, which inaugurates the gallery’s New York space, is made up of mixed media works on canvas that shift between the loosely representational, the fantastic and the utterly abstract—often in a single work.

In our age of contradictions—with globalization on one end, yet swelling xenophobia on the other—transnational art challenges long-held cultural stereotypes. Nairobi born and raised, Wangechi Mutu is one of the most vital artists of her generation.