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Art Exhibitions in the Chelsea, May 2022

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23 exhibitions to see

ACA GalleriesNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition listed
Berry Campbell GalleryNew York Chelsea

last week
Nanette Carter: Shape Shifting
28 Apr - 27 May 2022

530 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

collages, constructions, and installations recalling the lineage of African American quilt-making - and drawing on jazz, Japanese prints, Russian Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism and other sources
David Richard Gallery - ChelseaNew York Chelsea

just opened
Heather McGill: Invisible Bloom
21 May - 24 Jun 2022

508 W 26th Street, NY 10001

Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
Fergus McCaffreyNew York Chelsea

Richard Nonas: As Light Through Fog
28 Apr - 15 Jul 2022

514 West 26th St, NY 10018

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

the first exhibition of Nonas’ work since his passing in May 2021 - “I place my sculpture, I mean to say, to shape our shifting pasts” - Nonas
Gagosian 541 West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Andreas Gursky
5 May - 18 Jun 2022

541 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Gursky’s first exhibition at the gallery in New York since 2016 - “every tense can appear in my pictures. The present is always captured in them”
Gagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea

Richard Prince: Hoods
10 May - 25 Jun 2022

522 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

more than thirty works made over twenty-five years, personally selected by Prince - “I wanted to paint something that was already painted”
Gagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea

new today
Nam June Paik: Art in Process: Part One
24 May - 22 Jul 2022

555 West 24th St, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

“there is no way to know in advance, because life has no “fast-forward” or “rewind” buttons. So, you go step by step, and if you make a mistake you try to correct it with another” - Paik
Hauser & Wirth 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Nicole Eisenman. Untitled (Show)
5 May - 29 Jul 2022

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Eisenman’s first major solo exhibition with the gallery features recent paintings and sculptures that speak to contemporary socio-political issues with openness and candid ambivalence
Hauser & Wirth 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Lee Lozano. ALL VERBS
5 May - 29 Jul 2022

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

paintings from both Lozano’s figurative and minimalist periods, alongside accompanying studies and drawings
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

last week
Bold Marks: The Drawings of Michael West
4 May - 27 May 2022

521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

a focused show of works on paper by West, the Abstract Expressionist painter whom the gallery has championed over the past several years
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

last week
Albert Kotin: Space Interwoven
4 May - 27 May 2022

521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

an expansive exhibition of works by Kotin produced between the late 1940s and mid 1960s
Lehmann Maupin W 22nd StNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition listed
Lehmann Maupin W 24th StNew York Chelsea

Nari Ward: I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation
28 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

501 W 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new sculptures and installations composed from discarded material found and collected in the acclaimed artist’s Harlem neighborhood
Galerie Lelong & Co.New York Chelsea

Alfredo Jaar: THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST
13 May - 25 Jun 2022

528 West 26th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

an exhibition constructed in two moments with two major installations - both presented in the US for the first time
Lisson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Bernard Piffaretti: Pick Up
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

508 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new works and a revisitation of paintings from his past - central to Piffaretti’s method, whether immediately with his mirrored, two-canvas foundations, or historically, with references to past artists and his own bodies of work
Lisson Gallery W 24th StNew York Chelsea

Carmen Herrera, The 1970s: Part 1
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

504 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

more than twenty artworks ranging from sketches to paintings to historical Estructuras, demonstrating the breadth of Herrera’s achievements during a transformative decade
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea

Nancy Grossman: My Body
5 Apr - 11 Jun 2022

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

“Grossman’s pieces come much closer to armor and prosthetic than to restraint and fetish…Her horns, harnesses, zippers, straps, reins, and skins mark us as beasts but not animals” - Nayland Blake
PetzelNew York Chelsea

Xie Nanxing: Adverb High Command
6 May - 25 Jun 2022

456 W 18th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Nanxing’s first exhibition with the gallery and his first solo show in New York introduces an expansive and demanding practice constantly evolved since his work was first presented internationally at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999
Sean Horton (Presents)New York Chelsea

last week
Corydon Cowansage: Seed
28 Apr - 28 May 2022

515 West 20th Street, Suite 3N, NY 10011

Wed-Sat noon-5pm

not open today
a solo exhibition of new paintings that showcases the artist’s vibrant and dynamic meditations on organic and biomorphic forms
Timothy TaylorNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition listed
Tina Kim GalleryNew York Chelsea

just opened
Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Noon
19 May - 1 Jul 2022

525 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Lim’s approach to media is psychic, her works “track down the disappeared and the invisible” through a state of being “fluid, disappearing, and invisible” - Namsee Kim
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

forthcoming:
Bryan Graf: Telepathic Jungle
26 May - 1 Jul 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

characteristically experimental photographs by Graf using a myriad of predominantly analog processes to explore representation, experience, and sensory perception as filtered through a phenomenology of photography
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

forthcoming:
Sandi Haber Fifield
26 May - 8 Jul 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

mixed media works by Haber Fifield, challenging the photograph’s privilege as a record of the seen by manipulating images and combining them with drawings to expand their formal and expressive possibilities

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