This March, Ray opened a series of solo and collaborative projects from New Delhi and New York to Tucson and Palm Springs, exploring speculative cosmologies, feminist abstraction, and queer spiritualities.
Cosmopoiesis (or The World In Many Verses)
Nature Morte, New Delhi
On view through April 12, “Cosmopoiesis (or The World in Many Verses)” proposes the cosmos not as a distant abstraction, but as an intimate, living grammar through which bodies, desires, politics, and matter continuously inform one another. Across painting and animation, Professor Sharmistha Ray‘s solo exhibition at Nature Morte advances a vision of world-making as a plural, ongoing act. The exhibition culminates in Emergent Realities, a three-channel animation that collapses ecological, cosmic, and psychological scales into an immersive, simultaneous experience, accompanied by a newly composed musical score by Arooj Aftab.
Hilma’s Ghost: Light as Resistance
MOCA Tucson
“Light as Resistance” marks the first museum solo exhibition for Hilma’s Ghost, Ray’s artist collective with Dannielle Tegeder. On view through September 27, the exhibition of painting, drawing, video, and a site-specific wall painting propose alternative strategies for meaning-making and offer abstraction as a tool for resistance, healing, and collective transformation. This exhibition is organized by Alexis Wilkinson, Curator and Gabriela Rangel, Executive Director.
SPECTALiA
Every Woman Biennial at Pen + Brush, NYC
As part of the 2026 edition of Every Woman Biennial — the world’s largest female and non-binary art biennial — Hilma’s Ghost is participating in SPECTALiA through April 11. The show is presented at Pen + Brush, a 132-year-old nonprofit dedicated to showcasing the work of women and gender-expansive artists and writers. Drawing inspiration from Cabaret, Dada, and Surrealism, SPECTALiA builds on a lineage of social and political unrest to position joy as a subversive act.
A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit
Palm Springs Art Museum
Curated by David Evan Frantz, “A Queer Arcana” brings together an intergenerational group of artists who explore how magic, spirituality, and esoteric knowledge have shaped queer art and culture. Featuring Hilma’s Ghost, the exhibition considers how queer artists have turned to obscure spiritual practices as sources of connection and transformation, engaging magic as a way to envision worlds beyond repressive systems and reclaim sexuality as a sacred power. The exhibition is on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum through October 18.