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Your guide to every gallery show in New York
Saturday, October 3 · 420 shows on view at 338 galleries
A Gallop list · 10 showsNew to New YorkArtists with their first shows in New York, in the galleries’ own words.See the list
A Gallop list · 10 showsBorn in the NinetiesSolo shows by artists born between 1990 and 1999.See the list
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The exhibition includes collage, sculpture, textiles, performance and participatory ritual.
Lee Krasner (1908–1984) and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) met as emerging artists in New York in the winter of 1941.
Bringing together paintings made over the past year, the exhibition moves between portraiture, scenes of collective experience, and depictions of a recurring cast of marionette-like figures.
The exhibition brings together works from each decade of Slobodkina’s career.
In this exhibition, Eric Aho further explores the meadow subject introduced in his 2024 exhibition, Wild Meadow.
The new paintings include nude figures as a sustained subject. Owls and butterflies appear throughout the paintings, and several works introduce gold leaf.
Tang Shuo draws on memories of his upbringing and family history to make mysterious scenes in which he often appears as the protagonist.
Inspired by Japanese painting, visual culture, and poetry, as well as by cross-cultural exchanges between Japanese and Western artists, Okayasu created a series of works dedicated to the fleeting nature of life and the…
Barnes makes irreverently detailed ceramic sculptures of New York locations, populated by people and stories associated with them.
Referencing Okwui Enwenzor’s Archive Fever, the title of the show calls to his writing and the general sense of informational deluge that often accompanies archival research and work.
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Maude CorriveauBetween FoldsPlato, NolitaBetween Folds explores the unstable threshold where images emerge through the encounter of gravity, light, and material.
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Ákos EzerCall of the WildPlato, NolitaCall of the Wild presents a new body of work by the Hungarian artist in which his signature dreamy youths, with their elongated limbs and expressive forms, venture into nature in search of solace.
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Katia SantibañezAnd Yet AgainDC Moore, ChelseaThe visual impact of Santibañez's abstract paintings is immediate, felt simultaneously in the vibrant color combinations on the canvas and also in the intensity of the repeated forms throughout each work.
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Raphaël DenisFates of WorksBienvenu Steinberg & C, TribecaBringing together works and series from 2018 to the present. An artist-researcher, Denis has spent more than ten years examining the looting of Jewish property during World War II.
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Augusta, with Harold, Per, Julie, & SeanSlip House, East VillageHarold Ancart Per Kirkeby Augusta Lardy Micheli Julie Mehretu Sean Scully As indicated by its title, this exhibition brings together a new suite of Augusta Lardy Micheli’s paintings in dialogue with historical and recent works…
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Anastasya PeñaMood RingFredericks & Freiser, ChelseaThe paintings begin with poured acrylic, followed by oil passages that respond to the pour’s contours. Glossy acrylic medium and occasional thick, undiluted paint add further layers.
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On, In, Off the GridDC Moore, ChelseaThe artists in this exhibition organize their work around constructed generative systems and methodology that explore the grid as a foundational basis for sustained inquiry and artistic expression.
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Mia GoldsteinHandle With CareThe Journal Gallery, TribecaIt’s decent advice, provided you know something interesting.
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Caleb SteinDown by the HudsonPalo Gallery, East VillageThe show brings together fifteen photographs from a thirteen-year project around a swimming hole near Poughkeepsie, documenting its community, people and story.
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Barbara IshikuraAcquired TasteKaliner, ChinatownThe exhibition brings together paintings of women in domestic interiors and decorative spaces. Velvet upholstery, floral wallpaper, pearls, silks and decorative textiles appear alongside cigarettes, sneakers and Solo cups.
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Spotlight: American People, 1932–1944Schoelkopf, ChinatownThe works on view are drawn from an esteemed private collection and are exceptional representations of the regionalist and social realist art movements in the United States.
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No LosersNo Inc., ChinatownLouis Backhouse Donald Baechler Paul Levack Chim Pom John Waters Jenny and Tenko present No Losers.
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420 shows on view
Through Oct 24
Carroll DunhamPaintingsMatthew Brown, ChinatownCarroll Dunham never went to art school. He tried studying philosophy at a university in upstate New York, then transferred to a small liberal arts college in Connecticut, where he switched to visual studies.
Through Oct 24
Lukas QuietzschReduction to the HorizontalRamiken, Lower East SideReduction to the Horizontal is Lukas Quietzsch’s third show at Ramiken in New York. The first, Parallel Warnings in Simple Arrangements, occurred in 2022.
Through Oct 24
Leidy ChurchmanSpace RemembersMatthew Marks, ChelseaThe exhibition includes fifteen new paintings. Churchman is known for their wide-ranging subject matter, which draws variously from nature, contemporary media, and everyday objects, as well as myriad cultural signs and symbols.
Through Oct 24
Nate LowmanHanging OutDavid Zwirner, ChelseaThe exhibition debuts a body of shaped canvases that take the form of keys–objects freighted with associations of access, security, and exclusion–a new motif for the artist.
Through Oct 17
Rita AckermannThe Chemical AlphabetHauser & Wirth, SoHoIn the Chemical Alphabet paintings, Rita Ackermann takes on a new source of vocabulary: letters from a Semitic alphabet.
Through Oct 24
David ReedTerrible IdeaRodder, Upper East SideOver the course of a career spanning more than five decades, the renowned artist’s signature approach to painting has established him as a leading figure among the process-based avant-garde.
Through Oct 24
Matthew RonayCold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in SeasonCasey Kaplan, ChelseaComprising more than thirty individual basswood sculptures displayed across a series of artist-made plinths to form multiple tableaux, the exhibition approaches the cycle of making and exhibiting as a form of digestion…
Through Oct 16
Danh VoWhite Cube, Upper East SideThe exhibition includes sculptures made from fragments of antiques, religious relics and parts of monuments.
Sculpture You Can Walk Around
Shows where the work stands in the room.
Through Oct 24
Matthew RonayCold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in SeasonCasey Kaplan, ChelseaComprising more than thirty individual basswood sculptures displayed across a series of artist-made plinths to form multiple tableaux, the exhibition approaches the cycle of making and exhibiting as a form of digestion…
Through Jan 16
Louise BourgeoisGerminalCraig Starr Gallery, Upper East SideLarge, segmented totemic sculptures in plaster, latex, and bronze are installed on the first floor. Atmospheric, cloud-like Cumul drawings from the 1960s are on the fourth floor.
Through Oct 31
Anthony McCallSolid Light, 1973, 2020, 2026Sean Kelly, Hell's KitchenBringing together three significant works spanning over fifty years of the artist's career, the exhibition traces the remarkable evolution of McCall's pioneering solid light works, from his groundbreaking Line Describing a Cone…
Through Nov 29
Pierre HuygheUUmweltMuseum of Modern Art, MidtownPierre Huyghe’s immersive, otherworldly works have redefined how art can engage with technology, human consciousness, and the natural environment.
Through Aug 31
Isamu NoguchiLever House, MidtownThis extensive public presentation explores Isamu Noguchi's unrealized dream to create a sculptural environment for the courtyard, plaza, and lobby of the Lever House building in New York City.
Through Oct 31
Eddie R. AparicioRubberneckersJeffrey Deitch, SoHoEddie R. Aparicio has spent the past decade tracing how Los Angeles wires its neighborhoods unevenly, leaving some communities more precarious than others.
Through Oct 24
LA StatuetteCherkovski, WilliamsburgOrganized in partnership with Max Levai and The Ranch, the exhibition is conceived as a companion to LA Monumental, The Ranch's outdoor presentation of three monumental works by the same artists…
Through Oct 24
Catherine Telford KeoghFeedILY2, Civic CenterThe exhibition includes volvelles made from one disc pinned over another, with a window cut in the upper disc.
Through Oct 18
Jonah DillonForeign & Domestic, Lower East SideThe exhibition consists of four sculptures, found objects displayed without adornment or modification, combined in minimal assemblages or arranged in series.
Through Oct 24
Melvin EdwardsPeople Make Art: A Tribute to Melvin EdwardsAlexander Gray Associates, ChinatownAlexander Gray Associates presents People Make Art: A Tribute to Melvin Edwards, an exhibition that explores the life and practice of the acclaimed sculptor through the work of fifteen artists who knew him.
Still in the Studio
Artists born before 1950, showing work they are still making.
Born 1930, New York
Susan WeilMoving in Time SpaceSundaram Tagore, ChelseaThe exhibition builds on one of the gallery's longest-standing artist relationships, which began in 2000.
Born 1937, Kōchi
Kiyoshi HamadaGazing Into Stillness - Works 1975-2026Seizan Gallery, ChelseaThe exhibition surveys significant works from 1975 to the present by one of the hidden giants of postwar Japanese art.
Born 1942, New York
Jody PintoBody/Land ExchangeArt Lot, Columbia StThey are connected by a body-land exchange. It is a transfusion of rain through a sluice system.
Born 1943, Chicago
Howard SmithTomorrow Isn't YesterdayJane Lombard Gallery, TribecaSpanning more than five decades, the exhibition examines Smith's sustained investigation into the singular brushstroke, the painted and unpainted ground, and the capacity of color to shape light and perception.
Born 1945, Evanston
John DilgOnce and FuturePeter Freeman, SoHoDrawing from a lexicon of earth tones and stylized iconography, John Dilg creates pared-down landscapes that feel familiar, uncanny, and mystical all at once.
Born 1946, San Diego
David ReedTerrible IdeaRodder, Upper East SideOver the course of a career spanning more than five decades, the renowned artist’s signature approach to painting has established him as a leading figure among the process-based avant-garde.
Born 1948
Hiroshi SugimotoUnnatural HabitatLisson, ChelseaIn Unnatural Habitat, Sugimoto revisits the body of work that first revealed his extraordinary ability to suspend both time and reality.
Born 1949, New Haven
Carroll DunhamPaintingsMatthew Brown, ChinatownCarroll Dunham never went to art school. He tried studying philosophy at a university in upstate New York, then transferred to a small liberal arts college in Connecticut, where he switched to visual studies.
Born 1949, Brooklyn
Ross BlecknerOctopusPetzel, ChelseaThe exhibition brings together paintings in which motifs are repeated, layered, and reconfigured.
Photographs Worth the Trip
Photography on view now.
Through Oct 24
Daniel Buren & Barbara KastenBortolami, TribecaFor the last six decades, Buren has worked in direct relation to the architectural placing of his works, with an interest in the physical conditions that shape how space is experienced.
Through Nov 21
Justine KurlandA RetrospectiveOsmos, East VillageJustine Kurland’s work reflects an idyllic yet wild America through a queer feminist lens.
Through Nov 7
Yuki TawadaAlison Bradley Projects, ChelseaThe exhibition includes analog photographs punctured and scraped, and identical ocean photographic prints burned with an electric light.
Through Mar 14
Taryn SimonFather Country I Do Love YouGuggenheim Museum, Upper East SideOn view during the 250th anniversary of the United States, this presentation will bring together never-before-seen photographs, text, videos, and sculptures into a singular, interactive installation filling the entire rotunda.
Through Oct 24
Hiroshi SugimotoUnnatural HabitatLisson, ChelseaIn Unnatural Habitat, Sugimoto revisits the body of work that first revealed his extraordinary ability to suspend both time and reality.
Through Oct 17
Thomas RuffJPEGs NYDavid Zwirner, ChelseaFeaturing images from jpegs ny, a subset of the artist's larger jpegs series, the twelve works on view are derived from images of the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001.
Through Oct 25
Peter HujarHujar:ContactMorgan Library, Murray HillThe exhibition features more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements from the Morgan's Peter Hujar Collection, which includes over 5,700 contact sheets from throughout the artist's career.
Through Oct 31
Renée CoxTake a Good LookEthan Cohen Gallery, ChelseaBringing together works from the early 1990s through the present, the exhibition traces more than three decades of Cox’s uncompromising approach to photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image.
Through Oct 17
UngleeLe Souvenir du TempsDavid Peter Francis, ChinatownThe exhibition presents ten photographs of Ghislain Mollet-Viéville and ten photographs of Alix Cléo Roubaud. A television plays the video portrait Alix (1981-2024) and Tulipes (1987).
Through Oct 10
Lucy PulsRightingNicelle Beauchene, TribecaThe works use photographs of fragments including corners, walls, thresholds, damaged surfaces, and partial rooms.
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