Elias Sime: Tightrope
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Aug. 11, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2021
4420 Warwick Blvd
Kansas City, 64111
The first major museum exhibition to focus on the work of contemporary artist Elias Sime (Ethiopian, born 1968), “Tightrope” features more than two dozen works of art in varying scales and showcases brightly-colored tableaux and sculptural assemblages rooted in both the figurative and abstract modes of modern Ethiopian art.