New York Art Guide

Curated gallery guide for world-class contemporary art exhibitions at New Yorks's leading galleries and museums. Browse or filter our listings to find artists, exhibition openings and events happening now across the city. Use NearMe to see what's on near you in the art world today.

303 GalleryNew York Chelsea
Eva Rothschild: A Material Enlightenment 15 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
47 CanalNew York Lower East Side

no current exhibition
Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side
Three Dimensions: Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture 25 Sep - 17 Nov 2017 sculptural works by seminal international artists including Degas, Laurens, Melotti, Picasso, Miró, Calder, Bourgeois, Oldenburg, van Bruggen, Hesse and Anatsui
Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side
Jacob El Hanani Linescape: Four Decades 2 Oct - 17 Nov 2017 twelve works on canvas and fifteen works on paper reflecting on El Hanani’s interpretation of the theme of landscape
Alexander Gray AssociatesNew York Chelsea
last week
Polly Apfelbaum: The Potential of Women 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Almine Rech Gallery New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go 30 Oct - 16 Dec 2017 a Group Show curated by Dieter Buchhart
Anders Wahlstedt Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side
Works on Paper 1960’s - 80’s 4 Oct - 27 Oct 2017
Anton Kern GalleryNew York
just opened
Alessandro Pessoli: Against Me 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2017
Boers-Li GalleryNew York
Unchartered Waters 30 Sep - 11 Nov 2017
BortolamiNew York
last week
Barbara Kasten: PARTI PRIS 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Broadway 1602 HarlemNew York
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Rosemarie Castoro: Forest of Threes 14 Nov - 2 Dec 2017
Brooklyn MuseumNew York, Public
Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo 8 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
not open today
BureauNew York Lower East Side
Ellie Ga 10 Sep - 27 Oct 2017
Casey KaplanNew York
Jordan Casteel: Nights in Harlem 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Cheim & ReadNew York Chelsea
Louise Fishman 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Christie's New YorkNew York

no current exhibition
David Nolan GalleryNew York Chelsea
Louis I. Kahn: Architectural Drawings. New York and other East Coast Projects 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
David Nolan GalleryNew York Chelsea
Mel Kendrick: Woodblock Drawings 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
David Zwirner 19th StNew York Chelsea
last week
Chris Ofili: Paradise Lost 14 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
David Zwirner 20th StNew York Chelsea
last week
Ruth Asawa 13 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
David Zwirner 20th StNew York Chelsea
last week
Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings 12 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Derek Eller GalleryNew York Lower East Side
just opened
Whiting Tennis 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2017
Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950–1965 27 Oct 2017 - 26 Jan 2018 20 works by Nuvolo, most of which have never been seen outside of Italy, contextualized by important works of Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Cy Twombly and others
Elizabeth Dee GalleryNew York
John Giorno: Perfect Flowers 20 Sep - 4 Nov 2017
Eva Presenhuber, New YorkNew York
Sam Falls 9 Sep - 29 Oct 2017 concerned with the intimacy of time and place, Falls’ work explores the core precepts of photography - time and exposure, intertwined with nature and the elements
Fergus McCaffrey, ChelseaNew York Chelsea
last week
Tatsuo Ikeda 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Foxy ProductionNew York Lower East Side
just opened
Michael Wang 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2017
Fredericks & FreiserNew York Chelsea
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Cary Smith 19 Oct - 18 Nov 2017
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Gagosian Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side
John Chamberlain: Masks 19 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 a series of steel masks created in the 1990s, alongside abstract wall sculptures made between the 1970s and 2000s
Gagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition
Gagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition
Galeria Nara Roesler New YorkNew York
Daniel Senise: Printed Matter 20 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 a showcase of fifteen works in which Senise re-appropriates pages of vintage books - curated by Dr Isobel Whitelegg
Galerie Lelong & Co.New York Chelsea
last week
Lin Tianmiao: Protruding Patterns 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Gavin Brown's enterpriseNew York Lower East Side
Rirkrit Tiravanija 24 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Gladstone Gallery 21st StNew York
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Thomas Hirschhorn: DE-PIXELATION 28 Oct - 22 Dec 2017
Gladstone Gallery 24th StNew York
Walter Swennen: bewtie 15 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East Side
last week
Peter Halley 15 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East Side
last week
Allen Ruppersberg: The Novel That Writes Itself 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Guggenheim MuseumNew York, Public
Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi 17 Mar 2017 - 3 Jan 2018
Guggenheim MuseumNew York, Public
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World 6 Oct 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side
last week
Mira Schendel: Sarrafos and Black and White Works 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Henrique Faria Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
International Center of Photography (ICP) MuseumNew York, Public
GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield 20 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
Jack Hanley GalleryNew York Lower East Side
just opened
Heidi Hahn: The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart) 12 Oct - 12 Nov 2017
Jack Shainman Gallery, West 20th StNew York Chelsea
Andres Serrano: Torture 28 Sep - 4 Nov 2017
Jack Shainman Gallery, West 24th StNew York Chelsea
last week
Leslie Wayne: Free Experience 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Jack Shainman Gallery: The SchoolNew York
The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness 24 Jun 2017 - 6 Jan 2018
not open today
James Cohan GalleryNew York Chelsea
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Lee Mullican: The 1960s 19 Oct - 21 Dec 2017
James FuentesNew York Lower East Side

no current exhibition
Jane Lombard GalleryNew York
last week
Mounir Fatmi: Survival Signs 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
JTTNew York Lower East Side
last week
Dominick Di Meo 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2017
Lehmann Maupin 22nd StNew York Chelsea
just opened
Gilbert & George, THE BEARD PICTURES 12 Oct - 22 Dec 2017
Lehmann Maupin Chrystie StNew York Lower East Side
just opened
Gilbert & George, THE BEARD PICTURES 12 Oct - 22 Dec 2017
Lévy Gorvy New YorkNew York Upper East Side
last week
Adrian Piper 14 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 the gallery's first solo exhibition with the acclaimed conceptual artist and philosopher, including the first realisation of the site-specific installation 'Here'
Lévy Gorvy New YorkNew York Upper East Side
last week
Pat Steir: Kairos 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 lush and sweeping oil paintings which revisit the dialogue between intuition and accident that has defined Steir’s work since the 1970s
Lisson Gallery, New YorkNew York Chelsea
last week
Leon Polk Smith 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 a selection of paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s, most of which have never before been displayed, by one of the founders of hard-edged minimalist art
Lisson Gallery, New York 10th AvNew York
last week
Stanley Whitney: Drawings 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 in the first major presentation of Whitney’s drawings, important works from 1989 to the present exploring the formal possibilities of colour within shifting grids
Luhring Augustine GalleryNew York Chelsea
Tom Friedman: Ghosts and UFOs: Projections for Well-Lit Spaces 8 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Luxembourg & Dayan New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Contingencies: Arte Povera and After 23 Oct - 16 Dec 2017 contemporary works are presented in dialogue with significant Arte Povera works from the 1960s and 1970s
Maccarone, Greenwich StNew York

no current exhibition
Maccarone, Morton StNew York

no current exhibition
Marian Goodman Gallery, New YorkNew York

no current exhibition
Marianne Boesky Gallery 24th StNew York
last week
Diana al-Hadid: Falcon's Fortress 16 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Marianne Boesky Gallery 24th StNew York
last week
Sanford Biggers: Selah 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Matthew Marks Gallery 522 W. 22nd StNew York Chelsea
Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Nan Goldin, Martin Honert, Michel Majerus, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren 8 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Matthew Marks Gallery W. 24th StNew York Chelsea
last week
Robert Adams: Trees 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Metro PicturesNew York Chelsea
last week
Trevor Paglen: A Study of Invisible Images 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Malcolm X: Complete 9 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 a series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that Chase-Riboud created over the last fifty years in honor of the slain human rights leader
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side
Peter Doig 16 Sep - 18 Nov 2017 new paintings and works on paper
Miguel Abreu GalleryNew York

no current exhibition
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 26th StNew York Chelsea
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Mary Kelly: The Practical Past 19 Oct - 22 Nov 2017
MoMA PS1New York, Public
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting 22 Oct 2017 - 11 Mar 2018
not open today
MoMA PS1New York, Public
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Cathy Wilkes 22 Oct 2017 - 11 Mar 2018
not open today
MoMA, New YorkNew York, Public
Max Ernst: Beyond Painting 23 Sep 2017 - 1 Jan 2018
MoMA, New YorkNew York, Public
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait 24 Sep 2017 - 28 Jan 2018
Nancy Hoffman GalleryNew York
last week
Ilan Averbuch: The Lily Pond 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Neue GalerieNew York, Public

no current exhibition
New MuseumNew York Lower East Side, Public
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 27 Sep 2017 - 21 Jan 2018
New MuseumNew York Lower East Side, Public
Kahlil Joseph: Shadow Play 27 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
New MuseumNew York Lower East Side, Public
Petrit Halilaj 27 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
P.P.O.WNew York Chelsea
just opened
Robin F. Williams: Your Good Taste Is Showing 12 Oct - 11 Nov 2017
Pace, 32 East 57th StNew York
last week
John Hoyland: Stain Paintings 1964 – 1966 15 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Pace, 510 West 25th StreetNew York Chelsea
last week
Lucas Samaras: New York City, No-Name, Re-Do, Seductions 15 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Pace/MacGill GalleryNew York
Emmet Gowin: Here on Earth Now – Notes from the Field 28 Sep 2017 - 6 Jan 2018
Participant IncNew York Lower East Side, Public
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
G.B. Jones and Paul P.: Born Yesterday 12 Nov - 17 Dec 2017
not open today
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 10th AvNew York Chelsea
The Enormity of the Possible 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 10th AvNew York Chelsea
Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 27th StNew York Chelsea
Caro & Olitski: 1965 – 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays 7 Sep - 25 Oct 2017
Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W. 21st StNew York Chelsea
just opened
Douglas Huebler 14 Oct - 22 Nov 2017
Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W. 21st StNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition
Perrotin, New YorkNew York Lower East Side
Wim Delvoye 9 Sep - 29 Oct 2017
not open today
with a lucid and amused glance at society, Delvoye's aerodynamic, mathematically perfect, intricate sculptures take both art and design to new levels of invention
Peter Blum GalleryNew York
John Zurier: Stars Without Distance 27 Sep - 11 Nov 2017
Peter Freeman, IncNew York
Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle 12 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Salon 94New York
Lucas Samaras: Gold 19 Sep - 3 Nov 2017
Salon 94 BoweryNew York Lower East Side
Lisa Brice: Boundary Girl 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Salon 94 FreemansNew York

no current exhibition
SculptureCenterNew York, Public
Kelly Akashi: Long Exposure 18 Sep - 18 Dec 2017
not open today
SculptureCenterNew York, Public
Nicola L.: Works, 1968 to the Present 18 Sep - 18 Dec 2017
not open today
Sean Kelly GalleryNew York Chelsea
last week
Iran do Espírito Santo: SHIFT 8 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
Sikkema Jenkins & CoNew York Chelsea
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Josephine Halvorson: As I Went Walking 19 Oct - 22 Nov 2017
Simon Lee New YorkNew York
Ryuji Tanaka 13 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 spanning work made between the 1960s and 1990s, this survey traces the evolution of Tanaka’s style from his dark and intense early paintings to the refinement of his later works
Simon Preston GalleryNew York Lower East Side
last week
Victoria Fu: Televoix 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2017
not open today
Simone Subal GalleryNew York Lower East Side
Emily Mae Smith 10 Sep - 29 Oct 2017
SkarstedtNew York Upper East Side
David Salle: Ham and Cheese and Other Paintings 14 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 new works by the celebrated master of postmodern painting who, for the past 40 years, has deconstructed the image by embracing the performative and the cinematic aspects of his medium
Skarstedt, ChelseaNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition
Sotheby's New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Auction: 14 Nov 2017
Exhibition: 3 Nov - 14 Nov 2017
Sotheby's New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Auction: 15 Nov 2017
Exhibition: 3 Nov - 14 Nov 2017
Sotheby's New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Contemporary Art Evening Auction Auction: 16 Nov 2017
Exhibition: 3 Nov - 16 Nov 2017
Sotheby's New YorkNew York Upper East Side
no current exhibition, forthcoming:
Contemporary Art Day Auction Auction: 17 Nov 2017
Exhibition: 3 Nov - 16 Nov 2017
Storm King Art CenterNew York, Public
Outlooks: Heather Hart 13 May - 26 Nov 2017
not open today
Storm King Art CenterNew York, Public
David Smith: The White Sculptures 13 May - 12 Nov 2017
not open today
Studio Museum in HarlemNew York, Public
Their Own Harlems 20 Jul 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
not open today
Studio Museum in HarlemNew York, Public
Fictions 14 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
not open today
Studio Museum in HarlemNew York, Public
We Go as They: Artists in Residence 2016–17 14 Sep 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
not open today
Swiss InstituteNew York, Public

no current exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar GalleryNew York Chelsea
last week
Lisa Oppenheim: A Durable Web 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2017
team (gallery, inc.) Grand StNew York
Ry Rocklen: Food Group 5 Oct - 4 Nov 2017
The Drawing CenterNew York, Public
just opened
Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors 13 Oct 2017 - 4 Feb 2018
not open today
The FLAG Art FoundationNew York Upper East Side, Public
Ashley Bickerton 23 Sep - 16 Dec 2017
not open today
The Jewish MuseumNew York, Public
last week
Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Vivian Suter 5 May - 22 Oct 2017
The Jewish MuseumNew York, Public
Modigliani Unmasked 15 Sep 2017 - 4 Feb 2018
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980 13 Sep 2017 - 14 Jan 2018
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public
just opened
Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs 11 Oct 2017 - 2 Jan 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public
World War I and the Visual Arts 31 Jul 2017 - 7 Jan 2018
not open today
Timothy Taylor 16x34New York
Ding Yi: Appearance of Crosses 29 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
Tina Kim GalleryNew York Chelsea
Wook-Kyung Choi 21 Sep - 28 Oct 2017
WhiteBoxNew York Lower East Side, Public

no current exhibition
Whitney MuseumNew York, Public
last week
Calder: Hypermobility 9 Jun - 23 Oct 2017
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York
last week
Anthony Hernandez 15 Sep - 21 Oct 2017