Past Exhibitions

Punk is An Attitude

September 1st to September 12th, 2026

Atelier Jolie presented Punk is An Attitude, celebrating the photography of Janette Beckman. Beginning on the streets of London, Beckman documented emerging youth subcultures — Punk, Mod, Skins, and 2 Tone — before they were mainstream, moving between the fans, the kids on the street, and bands such as The Clash, photographing these communities from within rather than from a distance. The exhibition framed punk not as a sound or a uniform but as an ethos: resistance, independence, DIY culture, and the belief that you do not need permission to exist on your own terms.

Alchemy

Through August 1st, 2026

Atelier Jolie presented Alchemy, an international group exhibition of Janette Beckman, Andrew Castrucci, Peter Hristoff, Bing Lee and Michael “KAVES” McLeer — artists whose practices are an oracle of culture, where overlooked concepts and traditions are made everlasting. Framing their work through transformation, the exhibition ranged across houselessness, antiquity, sexuality, environmentalism and street culture, revealing how value is often created at the margins before it is recognized at the center.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Atelier Jolie presented Guestroom, inviting multidisciplinary artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Timed with the release of her memoir The Flower Bearers and curated by Catharsis Arts Foundation, the exhibition transformed the main gallery into an intimate room inspired by Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own — inhabited by her own works, pieces by fellow artists, and personal artefacts from her life.

Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer and enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation whose staged, cinematic images center Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation. Drawing on Native oral history and pop-culture references, his work reframes the myths of ownership, conquest, and belonging.

The Strangers

The first in a series of exhibitions conceived by Catharsis Arts Foundation for Atelier Jolie, The Strangers is inspired by Ekow Eshun's book of the same name. Curated by Ekow Eshun and Claude Grunitzky, it explores the psychic landscape of the Black diaspora through works by Derrick Adams, Glenn Ligon, Tavares Strachan, Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, Beauford Delaney, and Sedat Pakay.