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Installation view of “Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light” at Seattle Asian Art Museum, 2025. (Photo: Chloe Collyer)

Laser-Cut Cube Immerses Visitors in Light and Pattern at the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Artist Anila Quayyum Agha is making her debut in the Pacific Northwest. Her illuminated, large-scale installations are currently on display at the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM), cloaking its galleries in intricate projections that immerse the viewer in patterned worlds. The exhibition, titled Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light, marks the first solo exhibition of a Pakistani-American artist in the Seattle Art Museum’s 90-year history.

A Beautiful Despair (Blue), 2021, Anila Quayyum Agha, Pakistani-American, b. 1965, lacquered steel and halogen bulb, 60 x 60 x 60 inches, 

A Beautiful Despair (Blue), 2021, Anila Quayyum Agha, Pakistani-American, b. 1965, lacquered steel and halogen bulb, 60 x 60 x 60 inches,

This is Not a refuge! (2) (detail), 2019, Anila Quayyum Agha, Pakistani-American, b. 1965, laser-cut, resin coated aluminum, light bulb, 93 x 58 x 72 in.,

This is Not a refuge! (2), 2019, Anila Quayyum Agha, Pakistani-American, b. 1965, laser-cut, resin coated aluminum, light bulb, 93 x 58 x 72 in.

Shaping Spaces with Light: Meagan Streader’s Immersive Works

Australian artist Meagan Streader transforms environments with light and color, creating immersive installations that reframe how we perceive form and space. Working with electroluminescent wire, neon and custom lighting systems, her pieces bend lines of light into geometric patterns, glowing structures and illusions that alter depth and dimension.

Messages in Light

The question “what is light?” followed Vienna-born artist Brigitte Kowanz (1957-2022) throughout her career.  Her answer – “light is what we see” – is the basis of a new retrospective at Albertina Museum. The show, which is the first major solo exhibition to be staged since she passed away, features almost 90 luminous artworks that employ mirrors, tubes and black light. 

Light as Language, Sound as Sculpture

Cerith Wyn Evans has spent decades bending light into language and sound into sculpture.

Philipp Frank, Nature Light Art

Evolving Technology

Maja Petrić, Specimens of Time, Mykonos, 2025, Generative Light Sculpture. 

8,000 Iridescent Acrylic Pixels Mimic the Beauty of Sunlight Reflecting on Water

On Maengbang Beach in Samcheok, South Korea, shines the Art Dome Pavilion by Hyunje Joo, a luminous installation designed to mimic the reflection of sunlight on the water. Commissioned by the Samcheok Tourism & Culture Foundation, the project is constructed from 8,000 iridescent acrylic pixels that shimmer and shift in the breeze.

Photo: Min, Jaeho Jeon

Said Dokins Turns a Former Temple into a Luminous Script Laboratory

Mexican artist Said Dokins has transformed Mexico City’s Art Alameda Laboratory into a glowing space of text, light and living organisms with his latest exhibition, Inscriptions. Running through October 26, 2025, the show explores writing not just as language, but as a physical and biological act that redefines space.

Steve McQueen’s Bass: Stories in Light and Sound

Bass is Steve McQueen’s (b. 1969) most abstract work to date. Over the past two decades, the British artist has become synonymous with powerful cinema – think Hunger (2008), Shame (2011) and the Academy Award-winning 12 Years a Slave (2013).

Carved Pillars of Light Radiate Intricate Luminescent Patterns

Nestled in northern Iowa, Mason City is, perhaps unexpectedly, a beacon of cultural heritage. It’s home to the Historic Park Inn, the world’s last remaining hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It boasts an indelible collection of Prairie School architecture, and it was the inspiration behind Meredith Willson’s iconic stage musical The Music Man, whose characters were based on people he grew up with in the city. For artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, the duo behind the Los Angeles-based studio HYBYCOZO, this rich legacy was essential to their newest project in Mason City.

teamLab, “Morphing Continuum,” 2025.

Remarkable Museum Exploring Materiality and Immersion Will Open in Kyoto This Fall

In January 2025, teamLab unveiled a significant expansion to its Tokyo museum, nearly doubling its area in order to accommodate even more immersive experiences. Now, only a few months later, the art collective has already announced its newest venture, which is slated to open this fall in Minami-ku, Kyoto, as part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project.

teamLab, “Massless Amorphous Sculpture,” 2020.

teamLab, “Traces of Life,” 2025, from the series “Trails of Life: Transcending Space in All Directions

A new lens on grief: Bade Fuwa is constructing soft and surreal scenes to process his past

First turning to photography as a way to “live and express”, image making has never been a hobby or a career for the photographer. Instead, it’s a vital unfolding of his innermost feelings of loss and despair.

Unscripted Street Photos That Show The World The Way It Is By Joseph Cheung

Unscripted Street Photos That Show The World The Way It Is By Joseph Cheung

Copenhagen-based photographer Bobby Anwar brings a bold, expressive voice to the world of street and portrait photography. The son of Pakistani immigrants, Bobby’s creative path has spanned dance, design, and videography—eventually leading him to photography, where he found his visual language.

Stella Hotel, San Francisco, 1960-62

Contorted bodies and bare bottoms: Ralph Gibson’s all-seeing eye

The photographer has spent six decades photographing Hollywood, New York … and lots of women. He talks us through his favourite images

Transition, New York, 1969-1976

Contorted bodies and bare bottoms: Ralph Gibson’s all-seeing eye

The photographer has spent six decades photographing Hollywood, New York … and lots of women. He talks us through his favourite images

Black Trilogy, The Somnambulist, 1970

Déjà-Vu, 1972

Days at Sea, 1974

Contorted bodies and bare bottoms: Ralph Gibson’s all-seeing eye

The photographer has spent six decades photographing Hollywood, New York … and lots of women. He talks us through his favourite images