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New York Chelsea
17 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
15
an exhibition of one of the leading figures of the Washington Color Field School
New York
13 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
361 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
“there is a gap of three generations between Karel Appel and Gerasimos Floratos, but … both their artistic idioms are ostensibly non-modernist. They gather inspiration from popular culture, without however transferring it one to one” - Franz W. Kaiser
New York
13 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
361 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
“time, like water, flows without discrimination or recognition of those categories. And it is from that knowledge that Joung’s work derives its strength, dignity, and unwavering spirit” - Diana SeoHyung
New York Upper East Side
New York Lower East Side
forthcoming
28
New York Chelsea
19 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
over twenty paintings and works on paper from the late 1970s to the 1990s, highlighting the Abstract Expressionist’s physically charged style, informed by her passion for modern dance and engagement with the natural environment
New York Upper East Side
11 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
31 West 54th Street, NY 10019, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
the inaugural exhibition at the gallery's new space on 54th Street focuses on Genzken’s projects for outdoor sculptures
New York Upper East Side
New York
new today
3 Apr - 22 May 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
49
the exhibition presents “immersive orchid paintings that explore becoming, sensory perception, and materiality using hand-foraged pigments, evoking transformation, eroticism, and the entanglement of human and non-human worlds”
New York
new today
3 Apr - 22 May 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
49
in Howard’s inaugural show with the gallery - “Howard’s sculptures make exaggeratedly external what is often oppressively confined to the internal, conveying the richness and complexity of how feelings are felt, embodied, and remembered” - Rebecca Birrell
New York
forthcoming
41
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
17 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
744 Madison Avenue, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
14
New York
New York
forthcoming
16 Apr - 6 Jun 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, NY 10022, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
13
New York
just opened
27 Mar - 26 Apr 2026
273 Church Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
23
“Horton attempts to engage with the chaotic order of perception as she painstakingly describes her introspection through an employment of contemplative narratives by way of rhythmic techniques”
New York
20 Feb - 26 Apr 2026
273 Church Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
23
“painting is not the mere representation of the object, but it is color and light: the right relationships between the two things give shape in space. The subject should not be seen as such but abstractly” - Ventrone
New York Lower East Side
20 Mar - 2 May 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
29
new intimately scaled paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist in “a refracted retrospective”
New York Lower East Side
20 Mar - 2 May 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
29
new works see the New York-based artist explore the gallery architecture as both subject and structural partner, expanding her investigation into the relationship between photography, sculpture, and the built environment
Guggenheim Museum
New York Upper East Side
Guggenheim Museum
New York Upper East Side
New York
6 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
“conceived as a relational environment rather than a sequence of discrete objects, the interplay between the two artists’ works positions sculpture and tapestry in relation to one another through proximity, scale, and surface”
New York
last week
7 Feb - 5 Apr 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
2
“small oil paintings that come out of taking a moment to make more intimate observations of nature; of gardens, of flowers, of the changing seasons” - Hoang
New York
last week
7 Feb - 5 Apr 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
2
Porter’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents intimate still lifes drawn from her apartment - personal mementos, everyday objects, and quiet traces of loss
New York Chelsea
12 Feb - 18 Apr 2026
542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
“one of the most significant works by an artist whose career spanned less than a decade yet continues to shape conversations about participation, intimacy and public space”
New York Chelsea
15 Jan - 11 Apr 2026
443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
8
a two-part exhibition of new and historic works on paper by Ligon presenting “richly layered compositions that meditate on the color blue and its emotional, historical and cultural inflections”
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
21 Apr - 10 Jul 2026
443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
18
New York Chelsea
6 Nov 2025 - 18 Apr 2026
542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
late sculptures, reliefs, and works on paper explore Bourgeois’ relationship to abstraction and her development of a symbolic abstract language
New York Chelsea
12 Feb - 18 Apr 2026
542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
“oil paintings and works on paper, inspired by the discovery of previously unknown family photographs following his father’s passing … through vivid, dreamlike imagery, experiences of loss and remembrance are distilled into a universal theater of life”
New York
New York Chelsea
19 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm
8
narrative figure paintings inspired by early Renaissance art and classical sculpture, using compositional restraint and a unique palette to explore human relationships and psychological play through gesture and space
New York Upper East Side
19 Mar - 24 Apr 2026
41 East 57th Street, Floor 9, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.15pm
21
multi-media works on paper reflecting Widener’s volunteer experiences in Ukraine, combining symbols, words, and numbers to depict the conflict’s chaos and emotional intensity with abstracted maps and personal narrative
New York
11 Feb - 9 May 2026
47 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
36
painting, works on paper, and glass sculpture from throughout her career, in an exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late Argentine-born New York artist
New York Chelsea
5 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
new large-scale works on lead, with gemstones and Renaissance-style frames, as Vega explores the transhistorical nature of spirituality
New York
last week
20 Feb - 4 Apr 2026
46 Lafayette Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
1
new paintings and works on paper - including the debut of a group of monochromatic pieces - in Neel’s first solo presentation with the gallery
New York
forthcoming
21
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2026
513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
21
New York Upper East Side
24 Feb - 17 Apr 2026
22 East 80th Street, NY 10075, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
14
Khosravi’s first solo exhibition in the US is inspired by the Pasolini film Salò - and his own archival images - and explores memory, beauty, and violence through layered paintings
New York Chelsea
just opened
2 Apr - 9 May 2026
528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
36
an exhibition dedicated to the work of the late artist highlighting his handling of vibrant color in often abstract compositions, including photographs and notebooks from recent discoveries in the artist’s archive by his son
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
11 Feb - 25 Apr 2026
508 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
the US premiere of this critically acclaimed work, a multi-channel film tracing pivotal moments in the histories of colonised nations and independence movements in Africa and Asia from the 1940s to the 1970s
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
508 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
40
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
14
New York
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
13
New York Upper East Side
18 Mar - 23 May 2026
19 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
50
an exhibition of paintings, drawings, etchings, notebooks, and letters - “with inexhaustible patience Gnoli wove and reinvented a new fabric to life, pursuing its essence behind the appearances of reality” - Yannick Vu
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
just opened
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
29 Mar - 28 Jun 2026
1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028, New York
Sun-Tue, Thu 10am-5pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
86
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
New York Chelsea
last week
7 Feb - 4 Apr 2026
100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
1
paintings and works on paper made between 1954 and 1968 - “I learned about light from Beauford Delaney” - James Baldwin
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
15
New York Chelsea
last week
7 Feb - 4 Apr 2026
100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
1
accompanied by a playlist of the songs that Williams listened while working, the debut presentation of his newest body of paintings
MoMA PS1
New York
forthcoming
Greater New York 2026
16 Apr - 17 Aug 2026
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, New York
Thu-Mon 12-6pm, Sat to 8pm
13
MoMA
New York
MoMA
New York
MoMA
New York
New York Chelsea
25 Mar - 2 May 2026
47 West 28th Street, Floor 2, NY 10001, New York
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
29
“dense pictorial fields built through the accumulation of figures, signs, fragments of text, and symbolic forms … compositions populated by animals, hybrid figures, and totemic structures”
New York Chelsea
19 Mar - 2 May 2026
511 W 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
29
using “a curatorial logic of figural counterpoints”, an exhibition exploring the resonance, and even figural coincidences, between the works of the two artists
New Museum
New York
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
last week
9 Mar - 4 Apr 2026
500A West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
1
new paintings by Bastidas which reflect on the social, historical, and psychological conditions present around us yet not fully understood
New York Upper East Side
19 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
827 Madison Avenue, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
8
fifteen Asian artists whose practices reflect a shared sensibility shaped by time, memory and a spiritual journey suggesting that time is not linear, but cyclical - gestures return, symbols reappear, memory resurfaces through material form
New York Chelsea
just opened
31 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
22
Henriquez’s latest work imaginatively re-stages inherited family mythologies and stories set within the lush landscape of Jamaica
New York Chelsea
just opened
31 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
22
recent work continuing Berding’s decades-long exploration of painting as a space for “re-ambiguating the world through collapsing histories and categorical understandings”
New York
5 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
8
new sculptures, paintings, and drawings by the artist - “Arsham imagines how the future of the material world will appear after it ages out” - Linda Yablonsky
New York
5 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
8
“situated between monochrome and geometric abstraction, between image and object, these series invite us to consider the image from a perspective that moves beyond traditional debates around color, abstraction, or representation” - Eric Nava Muñoz
New York
New York
3 Sep 2025 - 2 Aug 2026
Central Park, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 5th Avenue, NY 10019, New York
Dawn to Dusk, daily
121
reimagining the ancient Egyptian god of the rising sun, the Kuwaiti artist presents an iridescent, monumental, androgynous figure of a hybrid human-scarab figure
New York
last week
2
on three hundred bus shelters across New York City, Chicago, and Boston, works by six photographers – Kennedi Carter, Lougè Delcy, Camila Falquez, Ruby Okoro, Dana Scruggs and Juan Veloz – who “move fluidly between commercial and fine art practices”
New York
just opened
2 Apr - 8 May 2026
19 Pike Street, NY 10002, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
35
“ink, charcoal, and video works exploring bodily memory, gesture, and the fragile relationship between image and surface through porous, atmospheric drawings and a looping video of fleeting landscapes”
New York
6 Mar - 24 Apr 2026
390 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY 10013, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
21
exceptional paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by George C. Ault, Milton Avery, George Bellows, Oscar Bluemner, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler
New York Chelsea
27 Feb - 11 Apr 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
8
conceived as a metaphorical river, RÍO flows through cascades, forests, and tropical jungles - employing textiles, painting, porcelain, and video, the exhibition conjures memory, emotion, and material transformation
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
17 Apr - 30 May 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
14
New York Chelsea
27 Feb - 11 Apr 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
8
Chan’s first solo exhibition in New York presents new paintings and drawings that meditate on movement, longing, and the quiet intensity of everyday experience
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
17 Apr - 30 May 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
14
New York
New York Upper East Side
Auction: 8 - 16 Apr 2026
Exhibition: 1 - 13 Apr 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
13
New York Upper East Side
Auction: 14 Apr 2026
Exhibition: 1 - 13 Apr 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
10
New York Upper East Side
Auction: 8 - 15 Apr 2026
Exhibition: 1 - 13 Apr 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
12
New York
last week
7 Feb - 5 Apr 2026
Brooklyn, NY 11233, New York
Thu-Sun 12-6pm by appointment
2
domestically-scaled paintings, prints, and artist books from across Sallick’s career - “an exploration of the self as an entity constructed from myriad parts across time and space”
New York
forthcoming
18 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
Brooklyn, NY 11233, New York
Thu-Sun 12-6pm by appointment
15
New York
New York Chelsea
26 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
293 Tenth Avenue, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
new paintings on wood panels in Smalling’s first exhibition with the gallery, exploring how cultural hierarchies and taboos shape identity, through the visual language of the Old Masters
New York
13 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
74 Leonard Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
15
new “luminous canvases that meditate on the poetics of reflection” by the Thai-born, London-based artist in his first exhibition with the gallery, and first solo presentation in the US
New York Chelsea
12 Mar - 25 Apr 2026
525 West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
significant sculptural and two-dimensional works from the last decade of Kang’s life - including the New York debut of some of her most influential pieces - in a memorial and celebration of the late Korean artist’s singular vision
New York Upper East Side
Whitney Museum
New York
New York Chelsea
5 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
8
Umaña’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents new and recent glazed ceramics with painted canvas - “hybrid paintings” - that explore psychology, nature and memory through the ever-changing lens of abstraction
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
16 Apr - 22 May 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
13
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
16 Apr - 22 May 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
13
New York Upper East Side
12 Feb - 15 Apr 2026
595 Madison Avenue, 6 Floor, NY 10022, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
12
the first major retrospective of the work of the “mercurial, enigmatic, and captivating figure” who was deeply involved in the avant-garde Manhattan artworld of the 1960s