Juliana Huxtable

Pretty Canary
6 June – 14 September 2025

American performance and media artist, writer and musician Juliana Huxtable explores the intersections of race, gender, queerness, and identity. She uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media.

Turku Art Museum features Pretty Canary (2023), a music video created by Huxtable in collaboration with her band Tongue in the Mind.

Juliana Huxtable is a writer, artist and musician living and working Between New York and Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Reena Spaulings, New York, Project Native Informant, in London, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her work has been exhibited and collected The Guggenheim, The New Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The ICA London. Her forthcoming poetry collection will be published with Wonder Press in 2025. Her first collection of texts, Mucus In my Pineal Gland, was co-published by Wonder Press and Capricious in 2017, and she co-wrote Life: A Novel with Hannah Black, which was published in 2018 with Buchhandlung Walther König.

The exhibition is supported by the Finnish Heritage Agency.