Cevdet Erek: Americas

Opening reception: Sat, Sep 19, 2026, 2–4pm

SculptureCenter presents the first solo exhibition in New York of artist and musician Cevdet Erek. Americas arranges five of Erek’s site-specific sonic works, developed in the last decade for Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, São Paulo, and the former US embassy in The Hague, alongside a new commission for SculptureCenter. Together, they shape a distributed system of sound, rhythm, and architecture.

Connecting to a specific geography’s material, social, and historical pulses to trace its ripple effects is a throughline in Erek’s practice, perceptible in the projects revisited for Americas. Some of his key methods of working with sculpture expand the medium’s static form. Immersive sonic installations distribute multiple frequencies that hold fragmentary chords, custom-built speakers amplify architectural features, and refashioned measuring rulers quantify and make physical beats of time.

This intuitive sensibility will expand with his site-specific commission, which considers two possibly overlapping histories rooted in New York City: the emergence of heavy underground music in the 1980s and Sound/Art, a 1984 exhibition at SculptureCenter that contributed to the definition of sound art as a genre, curated by composer and sculptor William Hellermann.