SoHo Gallery Guide: Shows on View Right Now (May 2026)

SoHo's contemporary gallery scene has thickened in 2025 and 2026, and ten shows on view this May are worth the trip below Houston. The cluster runs from Broadway through Wooster, Crosby, and Cortlandt Alley — most galleries are within a five-minute walk of the Canal Street and Spring Street subway stops. Below: the 10 shows on view in SoHo right now, with dates, addresses, and what to look at.

1. Ghost Stone by Stephen Lichty at Yve Yang

Show

Ghost Stone

Artist

Stephen Lichty

Gallery

Yve Yang

Address

12 Wooster St, SoHo

On view

May 8, 2026 – Jul 4, 2026

Ghost Stone is at Yve Yang, 12 Wooster St, SoHo, on view May 8 – Jul 4, 2026. Stephen Lichty’s engagement with quartz began more than a decade ago when he first encountered an enigmatic boulder while briefly employed as a stone mason’s assistant in the Bay Area. He tracked the quartz boulder to its source, Liberty Hill Diggings, a defunct mine near the historic Gold-Rush-era community of Dutch Flat and surrounded by the Tahoe National Forest in the…

Plan thirty minutes minimum at Yve Yang — the works reward time. The gallery is closed Mondays.

2. Whims of Panspermia by Emily Orta at DIMIN

Whims of Panspermia is at DIMIN, 406 Broadway, Fl. 2, SoHo, on view May 15 – Jun 14, 2026. Living Room "Where does an organism begin and end? The more we learn, the more the boundaries of individuals seem to dissolve." —Merlin Sheldrake Dimin and Brigitte Mulholland are thrilled to collaborate on Emily Orta's first solo exhibition in New York, Whims of Panspermia. The show explores the dissolution of boundaries.

Through June 14, 2026. DIMIN keeps standard NYC gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday.

3. Primal Sound by Brittany Miller at Ruttkowski;68

Primal Sound is at Ruttkowski;68, 46 Cortlandt Alley, SoHo, on view May 15 – Jun 14, 2026. Brittany Miller (b. 1990, US) presents Primal Sound, her first solo exhibition in New York and her first with Ruttkowski;68. In an enigmatic text, Rainer Maria Rilke imagines a phonograph needle tracing the sutures of a human skull to hear what it might contain. A curious proposition: memory embedded in form, the body itself an archive of sound.

Worth combining with the nearby galleries on the same block. Ruttkowski;68 is closed Mondays.

4. Suspending Time by Jess Allen at Nino Mier Gallery

Suspending Time is at Nino Mier Gallery, 62 Crosby St, SoHo, on view May 12 – Jun 14, 2026. Nino Mier Gallery is pleased to present Suspending Time, a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Jess Allen. This marks Allen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, opening on May 12 at our Soho location.

On view through June 14, 2026. Allow at least twenty minutes; the gallery is generally quietest on weekday afternoons.

5. Second Face by Rae Klein at Nicodim

Second Face is at Nicodim, 15 Greene St, SoHo, on view May 12 – Jun 14, 2026. "To hide something is to locate it in some such place, position, or circumstances that it is not generally observed or so to arrange a second thing as to have that effect on the first. For something to be hidden is for it to be in this unobserved state whether or not anyone deliberately placed it so." —A.

Nicodim is most easily reached by subway; check the gallery's hours before walking over, since most NYC galleries are closed Mondays.

6. Men by Larry Kagan at Louis K. Meisel

Men is at Louis K. Meisel, 141 Prince St, SoHo, on view May 9 – Jun 21, 2026. Louis K. Meisel Gallery is pleased to present the work of sculptor Larry Kagan, who is renowned for his innovative use of steel, light, and shadow. Through intricately fabricated assemblages and strategic light distribution, Kagan creates works that extend beyond physical form, challenging and redefining the boundaries of traditional sculpture.

Plan thirty minutes minimum at Louis K. Meisel — the works reward time. The gallery is closed Mondays.

7. Half in Love with Oblivion by Stephen Thorpe at DIMIN

Half in Love with Oblivion is at DIMIN, 406 Broadway, Fl. 2, SoHo, on view May 8 – Jun 14, 2026. "Those who travel to mountain tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion" —Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination Dimin is pleased to present Half in Love with Oblivion, an exhibition of new paintings by British-born, California-based artist Stephen Thorpe.

Through June 14, 2026. DIMIN keeps standard NYC gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday.

8. Let the Music Play by Walter Robinson at Jeffrey Deitch

Let the Music Play is at Jeffrey Deitch, 18 Wooster St, SoHo, on view May 2 – Jun 7, 2026. We may be known for what we do in life, or even for what we do not do, but to measure those things we do, even when we know better not to, is how we truly understand ourselves. That understanding, almost an empathy in Walter Robinson’s (1950-2025) art, is a rare wisdom.

Worth combining with the nearby galleries on the same block. Jeffrey Deitch is closed Mondays.

9. Cell Repair at Tara Downs

Cell Repair is at Tara Downs, 424 Broadway, SoHo, on view May 1 – Jun 14, 2026. Chando Ao Howard Reyes McLaren Justin Nalley Marika Thunder "Have you ever been high enough? a new way to lie like catching a nail with your foot while trying to make formal relations between different things a person would lie on their stomach for half an hour and try to merge with the ground then lie on their back and try to levitate humming for just 10 seconds increased…

On view through June 14, 2026. Allow at least twenty minutes; the gallery is generally quietest on weekday afternoons.

10. Estranhas Luzes no Bosque by Lu Ferreira at Tara Downs

Estranhas Luzes no Bosque is at Tara Downs, 424 Broadway, SoHo, on view May 1 – Jun 14, 2026. "O sertão é do tamanho do mundo. The sertão is the size of the world. —João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas Tara Downs is pleased to present Estranhas Luzes no Bosque, Lu Ferreira’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Lu Ferreira attends to the residues of gesture as a site of historical metabolism.

Tara Downs is most easily reached by subway; check the gallery's hours before walking over, since most NYC galleries are closed Mondays.

How to plan a walk

SoHo is small — all ten galleries on this list fit inside a 12-block grid between Canal and Houston. Start on Broadway, work your way west to Wooster, then north to Crosby. Two hours covers the list with stops for coffee. The C/E to Spring Street, R/W to Prince Street, and 6 to Spring or Canal are all within a five-minute walk of every gallery on this list. Most SoHo galleries are closed Mondays.

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