CAMi April 2026 Exhibitions featuring Tony Cokes and Cory Robinson

The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) opens two new exhibitions on April 3, 2026 to be on view through September 13, 2026: Tony Cokes: untitled (m.j. the symptom) in the Tube Video Gallery and Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets: Open Code in the CAMi Tube Gallery.

Tony Cokes: untitled (m.j. the symptom) Tube Video Gallery | April 3 – September 13, 2026

Borrowing its text from assorted excerpts from the Mark Fisher-edited essay collection The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (2009), Untitled (m.j. the symptom) examines the King of Pop as a complex set of contradictory signifiers, a funhouse reflection that is as distinct, spectacular, and compromised as the culture that produced him. So say Kraftwerk in their haunting 1977 song “Hall of Mirrors”: “Even the greatest stars / find themselves in the looking glass.”

Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets: Open Code CAMi Tube Gallery | April 3 – September 13, 2026

Indianapolis-based designer and multidisciplinary artist Cory Robinson builds on his CODEX series — a system of form typologies used to generate unique compositions across two- and three-dimensional works. Kept Secrets: Open Code uses this design language to explore layered personal histories through recontextualized objects, organizing the gallery around three distinct spatial environments: the Church, the Court, and the Garten.

The Church features five large, tufted rugs installed in a curved sequence evoking the apse of a cathedral, translating Robinson's graphic CODEX language into softened, contemplative textile compositions. The Court presents two exaggerated throne-like chairs rooted in the artist's complicated relationship with the American justice system, incorporating references ranging from 18th-century Philadelphia furniture to the golden throne of Tutankhamun. The armrests are engraved with the phrases Open Eyes and Slow Burn — meditations on surveillance culture and collective desensitization to crisis. The Garten, the most intimate of the three environments, features sculptural lighting objects made from salvaged redwood, rooted in Robinson's lifelong affinity for plants and biomimetic design. 

This exhibit is a full commission made possible in part by the Efroymson Family Fund.

The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is operated by Big Car Collaborative and is located at 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN.  he museum expansion opens May 1, 2026 with nine galleries across a five-acre campus. Exhibitions are curated around the themes of kinship, place, memory, and mythology.

For more information, visit camindy.org.

Image: Cory Robinson, Church #2, digital print, 11”x17,” limited series, 2025