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New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
25 Apr - 20 Jun 2026
173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
16
a new body of work that is unabashedly exuberant, materially rich, and teeming with life - “the title of this exhibition isn’t a metaphor. It’s a literal description of what I brought to New York” - Lee
New York
New York
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Chelsea
new today
4 Jun - 10 Jul 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
36
an exhibition focusing on Purcell’s works between 1975 and 1979 - a formative moment in her career
New York Chelsea
new today
4 Jun - 10 Jul 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
36
an exhibition focusing on Mark’s “collage paintings” from the 1960s where she combined gestural abstraction with layered surfaces of crumpled paper, pigment, and impasto
New York
New York
New York
12 May - 18 Oct 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
136
shown for the first time in New York, works by the acclaimed British designer in dialogue with the pioneering engineer - “a refined study in balance, where structural innovation meets sculptural clarity”
New York
New York Upper East Side
13 May - 26 Jun 2026
23 East 67th Street, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm by appointment
22
thirty of Fini’s graphic works “in a trans-temporal dialogue with Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and African ritual objects”
New York
New York
14 May - 27 Jun 2026
25 East 73rd Street, NY 10021, New York
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm, Tue by appointment
23
taking place across all three of the gallery’s international spaces, the second edition of its annual presentation of the finest Australian First Nations works of art
New York Chelsea
New York Upper East Side
17 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
744 Madison Avenue, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
9
paintings, works on paper, and sculpture from important private and public collections in a major exhibition tracing the pivotal decade when Dalí established his mature artistic language and enduring public persona
New York
16 Apr - 12 Jun 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 11am-5pm
8
recent works centered on questions of history, beauty, mortality, and perception, continue Bremer’s long-standing exploration of photography, painting, memory, and time
New York
New York Chelsea
New York
last week
22 Apr - 8 Jun 2026
32 East 57th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
4
in Cassigneul’s first solo US exhibition for 40 years - “luminous harmonies of color and expressive linearity coalesce into compositions of emotional clarity and understated restraint”
New York
just opened
3 Jun - 15 Jul 2026
32 East 57th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
41
New York Upper East Side
New York
last week
5
a group exhibition which examines how eleven contemporary artists reduce figurative forms - embracing design and line to create non-objective work, communicating an essence that reaches beyond the surface of the canvas
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
23 Apr - 30 Jun 2026
595 Madison Avenue, 6 Floor, NY 10022, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
26
paintings, frescos, works on paper, collage, and ceramics - “Picasso found in Lam the only kind of confirmation he could care about - that of a man who had realized himself [and] had attained the highest point of consciousness” - André Breton
New York Chelsea
14 May - 27 Jun 2026
528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
23
“poignant, exuberant distillations of how it feels to be human in a rapidly changing world” - organized in collaboration with Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, new paintings in the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in the US
New York Chelsea
last week
2
a two-person exhibition of still life artist Carin Gerard and landscapist Rebecca Stenn - “the exhibition plays on the juxtapositions, while uniting themes of color, form, and technique”
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
11 Jun - 18 Jul 2026
555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm
7
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
23 Jul - 29 Aug 2026
555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm
49
New York Chelsea
7 May - 18 Jun 2026
515 W 23rd St, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
14
an ambitious exhibition positioning the esteemed Japanese contemporary artist as a vital continuation of American Abstract Expressionism who simultaneously redefines its underlying Eastern spirituality within the broader context of global art history
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Lower East Side
15 May - 18 Jun 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
14
new paintings by Mollett - “these are works much concerned with grasping the intangible … she is an artist whose work argues for her medium’s necessity, for painting’s unique ability to illuminate” - Tom Morton
Guggenheim Museum
New York Upper East Side
New York
23 May - 15 Jun 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
11
New York
just opened
39
an exhibition with works by over thirty artists
New York
30 Apr - 24 Jul 2026
134 Wooster Street, NY 10012, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
50
the Montreal-born, London-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York “proposes painting as a medium uniquely capable of holding disparate registers within a single, shifting field of vision”
New York Chelsea
12 May - 31 Jul 2026
542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
57
organized by Carlo Knoell, the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian artist brings new focus to her wildly original experimentations in paint, textile, sculpture, and bricolage
New York Chelsea
12 May - 31 Jul 2026
542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
57
Báez first NYC exhibition with the gallery presents “an ambitious, enveloping constellation of radiant new paintings and works on paper” shown alongside new large-scale bronze sculptures
New York Chelsea
21 Apr - 10 Jul 2026
443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
36
this exhibition presents an intimate and rarely observed facet of Guston’s art, showcasing intimate paintings and works on paper in which he ruminates on his marriage to poet Musa McKim and their lives together in Woodstock
New York
New York
8 May - 20 Jun 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
16
Tingleff, one of Scandinavia’s leading ceramic artists, gives an “impression of the natural world beyond human-made walls, made powerfully and palpably present … all normal sense of scale is suspended” - Glenn Adamson
New York Upper East Side
last week
30 Apr - 5 Jun 2026
41 East 57th Street, Floor 9, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm
1
new paintings - dramatically scaled roses, peonies, daisies, tulips, and poppies erupt beyond the canvas - engaging the Old Masters to address contemporary preoccupations with the self, the body, and ecological anxiety about the fate of the natural world
New York
13 May - 12 Sep 2026
47 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
100
works on paper, paintings, neon sculpture, and installation celebrating Dominican players in US Major League Baseball, in the first posthumous exhibition of the Dominican-born New York-based artist
New York
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2026
46 Lafayette Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
57
spanning both New York City locations, new paintings and works on paper by Yiadom-Boakye - “The Nightingale’s song drifts from dusk to daylight, / To Mesmerise Jinns with high notes and hums, / As Nightly They Contemplate Whence It Comes”
New York Chelsea
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2026
513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
57
spanning both New York City locations, new paintings and works on paper by Yiadom-Boakye - “The Nightingale’s song drifts from dusk to daylight, / To Mesmerise Jinns with high notes and hums, / As Nightly They Contemplate Whence It Comes”
Kinderhook
just opened
30 May - 28 Nov 2026
25 Broad Street, NY 12106, Kinderhook
Sat 11am-6pm or by appointment
not open today
177
historically significant work by nearly twenty artists across painting, sculpture, textile, photography and video, in an exhibition which considers method not simply as process but as a way of thinking
New York
8 May - 13 Jun 2026
5 Lispenard Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11.30am-6pm
9
Sean Zhang curates an exhibition that brings together Elizabeth Dimitroff, Alice Ningci Jiang, Paulina Moncada, and Yutong Yin, who explore how identity is formed through transition, environment, encounters, and the traces we carry forward
New York Upper East Side
12 May - 20 Jun 2026
22 East 80th Street, NY 10075, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
16
“Boutros-Ghali’s paintings demonstrate a refined balance between architectural precision and painterly sensitivity, transforming geometry into a contemplative language marked by constant visual flux”
New York
New York Upper East Side
New York Chelsea
23 Apr - 27 Jun 2026
542 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
23
over thirty works by more than twenty artists in an exhibition honoring the man widely regarded as the first mega-dealer of the modern era, who is one of the gallery’s greatest inspirations and a defining figure in the modern art world
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
2 Jul - 29 Aug 2026
542 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
28
New York Chelsea
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
504 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
51
organized by Tarini Malik, an exhibition which charts Caland’s groundbreaking career across five decades and three continents - “imagination was probably my only homeland” - Caland
New York Chelsea
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
508 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
51
Akashi’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York reflects on heirlooms, not as tokens of nostalgia but as material conditions in which matter itself carries history forward
New York
New York
forthcoming
22
New York Chelsea
New York
New York Chelsea
18 Apr - 7 Aug 2026
100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm & by appointment
64
Andrews’ Migrant Series traces Black, White, and Cherokee migration routes through ink drawings and collage paintings using textile fragments and painted canvas to depict hardship, resilience, and hope in human migration experiences
MoMA
New York
MoMA PS1
New York
MoMA
New York
New York Chelsea
13 May - 20 Jun 2026
47 West 28th Street, NY 10001, New York
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
16
“cosmogrammes offered [Janin] a way to explore both science and spirituality through art … within these compositions, metamorphic shapes suggest plants, landscapes, and flowers - forms more imagined than real”
New York Upper East Side
New York Chelsea
12 May - 3 Jul 2026
511 W 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
29
as part of the series marking the gallery’s 50th anniversary “two artists whose practices … converge in their investigation of form in relation to nature and to the structures that organize the visual field”
New Museum
New York
New York Chelsea
30 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
138 Tenth Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
9
new works on paper and large-scale canvases in Chihota's first solo presentation with the gallery - “a fluid exchange between media … to explore profound questions of being, belonging, and the mutability of self”
New York Chelsea
7 May - 27 Jun 2026
500A West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
23
“I do not intend for this work to rest on answers or certainties, on fixed or dogmatic conclusions. It situates itself in listening, in looking, in staying with a reality that strikes us in silence” - Rumié
New York Upper East Side
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
just opened
2 Jun - 15 Nov 2026
City Hall Park, NY 10038, New York
Daily 6am-midnight
164
curated by Melanie Kress, a transformation of City Hall Park into a stage for artworks that play with commonplace park features like planted gardens, fountains, and public statuary
New York
3 Sep 2025 - 2 Aug 2026
Central Park, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 5th Avenue, NY 10019, New York
Dawn to Dusk, daily
59
reimagining the ancient Egyptian god of the rising sun, the Kuwaiti artist presents an iridescent, monumental, androgynous figure of a hybrid human-scarab figure
5 May 2026 - 8 Mar 2027
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, The Vale, NY 11201, New York
All day, every day
277
curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Othello’s first solo outdoor exhibition in the city presents large-scale bronzes and new totemic redwood sculptures exploring ritual, spiritual, and healing objects from Western and Central Africa
New York
8 May - 2 Jul 2026
390 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
28
paintings and works on paper created by a network of fifteen artists in the years surrounding 1960 - a pivotal moment of expansion in post-war American art
New York Chelsea
last week
17 Apr - 6 Jun 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
2
new sculptures continuing Dávila’s exploration of the fundamental act of placing one thing in relation to another, working through deliberate acts of positioning and arrangement so that relationships, tensions, and meanings emerge
New York Chelsea
last week
17 Apr - 6 Jun 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
2
new works in Adam’s debut solo exhibition in New York examining “how paintings can emerge from a black ground, using darkness, not as absence, but as a generative foundation from which color, gesture, and form unfold”
New York Upper East Side
last week
Auction: 9 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 7 Jun 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
3
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 11 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 5 - 11 Jun 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
7
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 10 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 5 - 9 Jun 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
6
New York
last week
18 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
Brooklyn, NY 11233, New York
Thu-Sun 12-6pm by appointment
3
organized by Megan N. Liberty - “from the stitching required to bind a book, to machine-stitched drawings added to collages of photographs and photocopies, Colby and Smith … [manifest] desires for themselves and their family”
New York
forthcoming
16
New York
20 May - 7 Jul 2026
146 Greene Street, NY 10012, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
33
master prints by David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, and Cy Twombly
New York Lower East Side
New York
21 May - 13 Sep 2026
310 West Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
101
a rare and immersive presentation of more than forty of Baskin’s hand-tinted photographs in the first comprehensive exhibition of work by one of the greatest pop culture witnesses of our time
The Met Cloisters
New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
last week
The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am
12 Sep 2025 - 9 Jun 2026
1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028, New York
Sun-Tue, Thu 10am-5pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
5
New York Chelsea
26 May - 20 Jun 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
16
fifteen paintings exploring structural abstraction through drawing and mark-making, depicting spaces where architectural and organic forms overlap, revealing fragility or the moments after disaster in a delicate equilibrium
New York Chelsea
26 May - 20 Jun 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
16
recent paintings that respond to the discord between the beauty and tedium of daily routines - shifting light, patterned wallpaper, how textiles soften a room’s hard edges
New York
New York Chelsea
30 Apr - 20 Jun 2026
525 West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
16
including the debut of the artist’s double-sided ‘qamariya’ paintings - referencing the traditional stained glass windows of Sanaa - the exhibition brings together multiple bodies of work that comprise the holistic ‘Door to Life’ series for the first time
New York Upper East Side
7 May - 18 Jun 2026
23 East 67th Street, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
14
New York Upper East Side
13 May - 27 Jun 2026
4 East 77th Street, NY 10075, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
23
the first exhibition dedicated solely to David’s works on paper - “I have come to think of drawing as something that emerges from God knows where … something that requires so little to exist, and yet has the capacity to bring me so much hope” - David
Whitney Museum
New York
New York Chelsea
just opened
29 May - 2 Jul 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
28
Bartley’s photographs evoke classic still-life, color field painting and minimalism while examining the formal and poetic qualities of the book as an object itself rather than as simply a conveyor of information
New York Chelsea
just opened
29 May - 2 Jul 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
28
new large-scale “topographic portraits” by Sambunaris - highly detailed and dramatically composed photographs examining changes to the landscape of the American West resulting from human intervention