Exhibitions in New York's Chelsea

Use the favouriting heart to save and favourite exhibitions.

Image for Taking up Space: New Works by Kandy G Lopez, at ACA Galleries
Taking up Space: New Works by Kandy G Lopez

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today

Afro-Caribbean American multidisciplinary portrait artist Lopez works with communities historically rendered invisible - people she has met and engaged with whose presence carries cultural memory, resilience, vulnerability, and unmistakable swag

Image for Elaine de Kooning, at Berry Campbell
Elaine de Kooning

Thu 29 Oct - Sat 19 Dec 2026

forthcoming

524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

including rarely seen works, this exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the Abstract Expressionist and portraitist highlights the breadth of de Kooning’s practice across abstraction, representation, and portraiture

Image for In Focus: Susan Vecsey, at Berry Campbell
In Focus: Susan Vecsey

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

“Vecsey arrives at her minimal compositions through an elaborate series of actions that begins with direct observation and ends with improvisation [she] describes her distinctive process as ‘working like a watercolorist with liquefied oil paint’”

Image for Perle Fine: Ninth Street Woman, at Berry Campbell
Perle Fine: Ninth Street Woman

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

an exhibition of rare, important, and coveted paintings and works on paper from the pioneering Abstract Expressionist’s most celebrated period

Image for Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America, 1987, at Galerie Lelong
Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America, 1987

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

examining the enduring impact of Jaar’s foundational public installation, a newly digitized version, the original storyboard drawings, photographic suites, lightboxes, and videos showing how it remains a poignant emblem of American identity

Image for Eric Zener, at Gallery Henoch
Eric Zener

Thu 12 Nov - Sat 5 Dec 2026

forthcoming

555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm

not open today

Image for John Evans: The Shape of Stillness, at Gallery Henoch
John Evans: The Shape of Stillness

Thu 15 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026

forthcoming

555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm

not open today

new paintings by Evans, landscapes, waterways, moonlit scenes, and botanical paintings - “Evans has increasingly reduced and abstracted the natural world, distilling familiar subjects into arrangements of color, shape, line, and pattern”

Image for Masaaki Noda: FROM FORM TO FORCE, at GOCA by Garde
Masaaki Noda: FROM FORM TO FORCE

Thu 8 Oct - Thu 5 Nov 2026

just opened

515 W 23rd St, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sun 10am-6pm

“centered on new cast stainless steel sculptures and paintings made for this occasion, the exhibition surveys a career of nearly half a century that began with printmaking in the 1970s”

Image for Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA—And the infinite line, at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street
Anna Maria Maiolino. ANNA—And the infinite line

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026

443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

an exhibition celebrating the acclaimed Brazilian artist’s enduring practice - spanning sixty years with early prints and works on paper from the 1960s and 70s, photography from the late 70s through the 80s, and sculpture from 1990 to the present

Image for Arp. Heads or Tails, at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street
Arp. Heads or Tails

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 17 Oct 2026

last week

542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

organized by Curatorial Senior Director Alexis Lowry, this is the first New York exhibition in nearly fifteen years dedicated to the seminal German-French modernist

Image for George Rouy. REPRISE, at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street
George Rouy. REPRISE

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 17 Oct 2026

last week

542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

the latest body of work by the London-based artist spotlights his ongoing, helictical exploration of the human body in states of transformation, reconstruction and becoming

Image for Lee Bul. The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun, at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street
Lee Bul. The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

guest curated by Dr. Jiyoon Lee, an exhibition of major new sculptures and recent work in the gallery’s first exhibition with one of the most influential artists of her generation

Image for Becky Suss: Night House, at Jack Shainman Gallery
Becky Suss: Night House

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026

513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

with these new paintings of imagined spaces and intimate vignettes, Suss continues her exploration of interiority, domesticity, and memory

Image for Sherron Francis: Beyond the Stain, at Lincoln Glenn
Sherron Francis: Beyond the Stain

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

542 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

a remarkable group of nine paintings created between 1977 and 1983, a pivotal period for the acclaimed Color Field and Lyrical Abstraction painter

Image for Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat, at Lisson Gallery
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Unnatural Habitat

Tue 15 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

504 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

photographs from Sugimoto’s ongoing Diorama series, including rediscovered negatives enlarged for the first time and new washi paper screens that transform his images into luminous byōbu

Image for Leonilson, at Lisson Gallery
Leonilson

Tue 15 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

508 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

an exhibition spanning the short and prodigious career of the Brazilian artist - from the mid-1970s mixed-media assemblages to the stylistic plurality of his 1980s drawings and paintings, and the small embroidery works that followed his 1991 HIV diagnosis

Image for Yu Hong, at Lisson Gallery
Yu Hong

Wed 4 Nov 2026 - Sat 9 Jan 2027

forthcoming

504 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

Image for settle for a good fantasy, at Luhring Augustine Chelsea
settle for a good fantasy

Fri 11 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

531 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

an exhibition of Janice Guy, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Shaun Pierson, and David Seidner - four photographers “sharing an approach to portraiture that rejects notions of idealization”

Image for Norman Lewis: Jumping Jive, at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Norman Lewis: Jumping Jive

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 14 Nov 2026

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

paintings and drawings from throughout Lewis’ career - with musical accompaniment from his extensive record collection - in an exhibition highlighting the vital role that jazz, blues, classical, pop, and reggae played in his life and practice

Image for Surrealism (on paper), at Nagas
Surrealism (on paper)

Wed 2 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

47 West 28th Street, Floor 2, NY 10001, New York

Wed-Sat 12-6pm

not open today

works spanning six decades by Victor Brauner, Toyen, Leonor Fini, Max Walter Svanberg, Bona de Mandiargues, Myriam Bat-Yosef, Suzanne Van Damme, Reuben Mednikoff, and Grace Pailthorpe

Image for Tomie Ohtake: The Ultimate Works, at Nara Roesler
Tomie Ohtake: The Ultimate Works

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

511 W 21st Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, an exhibition which brings together a series of white works produced during the later years of Ohtake’s life with works from her “blind paintings\" series

Image for Na Kim: Blue, at Nicola Vassell Gallery
Na Kim: Blue

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

138 Tenth Avenue, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

“bringing together a new body of work spanning three distinct series, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between traditional landscape and portraiture”

Image for Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING, at Pace
Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING

Fri 11 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

540 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

spanning more than five decades, and illuminating her use of diverse methods and materials, glazed ceramic, bronze, pleated, and paper works by Benglis, shown alongside rarely exhibited glass sculptures

Image for Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue, at Pace
Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue

Fri 11 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

540 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

new paintings by Dyson - “offering personal reflections on what the artist calls the ‘boundless state change of water’, the works on view strive toward the mindful presence needed to witness its beauty and devastation”

Image for Anthony McCall: Solid Light, 1973, 2020, 2026, at Sean Kelly Gallery
Anthony McCall: Solid Light, 1973, 2020, 2026

Fri 11 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026

475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York

Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm

not open today

including the gallery’s first presentation of his iconic “Line Describing a Cone” - and the debut of his newest work - significant pieces spanning over fifty years of McCall’s pioneering solid light works

Image for Luke Agada: When the Center Holds, at Sean Kelly Gallery
Luke Agada: When the Center Holds

Fri 11 Sep - Sat 31 Oct 2026

475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York

Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm

not open today

the Nigerian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents new paintings and drawings exploring how meaning and belonging persist during periods of profound historical and cultural transformation

Image for Ellen Starr Lyon: Nesting Rituals, at The Painting Center
Ellen Starr Lyon: Nesting Rituals

Tue 29 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York

Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today

“this exhibition continues Lyon’s exploration of life transitions … this body of work speaks to her current overlapping transitions of relocation to New York State from the Midwest and to what is known colloquially as an empty nester”

Image for Kathleen Beausoleil: Meet at the Ferris Wheel, at The Painting Center
Kathleen Beausoleil: Meet at the Ferris Wheel

Tue 29 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York

Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today

these new oil paintings by Beausoleil are centered on the American town fair, exploring how crowds form, how people connect through repeated encounters, and how shared rituals create a sense of belonging

Image for Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision, at Tina Kim Gallery
Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 24 Oct 2026

525 West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

new paintings from the ongoing Bondage Baggage series alongside the debut of new sculptural and video works in an exhibition which examines migration as a condition of simultaneous perceptions, where multiple histories, and systems of knowledge coexist

Image for Manuel Álvarez Bravo, at Yancey Richardson Gallery
Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 17 Oct 2026

last week

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

iconic photographs by the legendary Mexican artist, considered one of the most important photographers in the history of the medium,

Image for Tania Franco Klein: RAGE™, at Yancey Richardson Gallery
Tania Franco Klein: RAGE™

Thu 10 Sep - Sat 17 Oct 2026

last week

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today

in Franco Klein’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, new work which continues her examination of the anxieties, stresses and types of psychological response that present-day history elicits

By using GalleriesNow.net you agree to our use of cookies to enhance your experience. Close