4x-GRAMMY Winner, singer-songwriter Jewel, is debuting a major art installation at the Salon Verde in Venice, Italy, running concurrently with the Venice Biennale in 2026. While best known for her musical success, Jewel’s passion and training in sculpture, drawing, and painting came long before her songwriting career.
In 2024, Jewel made her official art debut at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, with ‘The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel’, featuring her own painting and sculpture. The exhibition was one of the most visited at the museum in 2024. Throughout her art, Jewel combines her passions for storytelling, experimentation, and democratizing mental health.
Now, in association with the same museum, and curated with Joe Thompson, Jewel’s new exhibition Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost explores themes of motherhood, feminine power, and the consequences of its loss. The exhibition will feature never-before-seen paintings, sculptures, tapestries, installations, and sound works that Jewel has created specifically for this exhibition and the largest presentation of this multi-faceted artist to date.
“At first glance, this exhibition centers on issues of femininity, power, and ecological consciousness, but at its core it is about memory, both profoundly personal and alarmingly global,” says Jewel. “If something of a cautionary tale, my hope is that the show reminds us what it feels like to be in closer harmony, inviting us to unearth ways to reconnect us to ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
Matriclysm: An Archeology of Connections Lost will be on view from May 10 to November 22, 2026.
