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New York Chelsea
just opened
25 Apr - 20 Jun 2026
173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
53
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
forthcoming
8 May - 13 Jun 2026
361 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
10
New York
forthcoming
8 May - 13 Jun 2026
361 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
10
New York Upper East Side
8 Apr - 29 Aug 2026
152 East 65th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 12-6pm
not open today
123
works by artists including Thomas Beckman, Seymour Boardman, Ernest Briggs, Perez Celis, Herman Cherry, Nassos Daphnis, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Mark Gibian, Stanley Hayter, John Hultberg, Michiko Itatani, Buffie Johnson, Ibram Lassaw, Michael Loew, …
New York Lower East Side
forthcoming
1 May - 3 Jun 2026
37-39 Clinton Street, NY 10002, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
not open today
3
“working fluidly between painting and installation [Song E Yoon] investigates the relationship between material and immaterial, visible, and invisible dimensions”
New York Chelsea
just opened
23 Apr - 30 May 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
a focused exhibition highlighting Silberberg’s porcelain sculptures from the 1980s - “a distinct and powerful body of work that marks a pivotal moment of evolution in her practice and material exploration”
New York Chelsea
just opened
23 Apr - 30 May 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
the gallery’s first exhibition of Chase’s work since announcing its representation of her estate - Chase occupied a distinctive position between the New Image Painting and Neo-Expressionist movements in the New York art scene of the 70s and 80s
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
31 West 54th Street, NY 10019, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
15
New York
3 Apr - 22 May 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
not open today
24
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
3 Apr - 22 May 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
not open today
24
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
13 May - 18 Oct 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
15
New York
forthcoming
14 May - 27 Jun 2026
25 East 73rd Street, NY 10021, New York
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm, Tue by appointment
not open today
16
New York Upper East Side
17 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
744 Madison Avenue, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
46
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 - 6 Jun 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, NY 10022, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
not open today
39
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
just opened
22 Apr - 8 Jun 2026
32 East 57th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
41
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 Lower East Side
last week
20 Mar - 2 May 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
4
new intimately scaled paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist in “a refracted retrospective”
New York Lower East Side
forthcoming
15 May - 18 Jun 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
17
New York Lower East Side
last week
20 Mar - 2 May 2026
54 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
4
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
New York Upper East Side
just opened
24 Apr - 6 Jun 2026
23 East 67th Street, 2nd Flr, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm
not open today
39
in Garaicoa’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s NY viewing room, reliefs combining painting and photography, and sculptural models using nineteenth-century French engravings, reflect his interest in how the city and its architecture reflect society
Guggenheim Museum
New York Upper East Side
New York
last week
6 Mar - 30 Apr 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
2
“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
forthcoming
8 May - 20 Jun 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
10
New York
11 Apr - 17 May 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
not open today
19
“rich, velvety fields of color alongside reflective, sparkling, and metallic surfaces”
New York
11 Apr - 17 May 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
not open today
19
in his first solo exhibition with the gallery Brant draws on old black-and-white photos, vintage postcards, film stills, and album covers in new paintings where a figure or figures appear as part of a landscape narrative
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
12 May - 31 Jul 2026
542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
14
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
12 May - 31 Jul 2026
542 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
14
New York Chelsea
just opened
21 Apr - 10 Jul 2026
443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
73
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
forthcoming
30 Apr - 24 Jul 2026
134 Wooster Street, NY 10012, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
2
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
16 Apr - 9 May 2026
555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm
not open today
11
a celebratory exhibition to honor director George Henoch Shechtman’s sixtieth anniversary as an art dealer and champion of contemporary realism
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
14 May - 6 Jun 2026
555 West 25th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm
not open today
16
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
30 Apr - 5 Jun 2026
41 East 57th Street, Floor 9, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm
2
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
11 Feb - 9 May 2026
47 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
not open today
11
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
just opened
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2026
46 Lafayette Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
94
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
just opened
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2026
513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
94
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
forthcoming
8 May - 13 Jun 2026
5 Lispenard Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 11.30am-6pm
not open today
10
New York Upper East Side
20 Apr - 8 May 2026
22 East 80th Street, NY 10075, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
10
the multimedia artist’s large-scale sculptures of buttons, beads, and crystals reflect Zen Buddhism’s discipline and mindfulness through meticulous, repetitive craftsmanship and themes of change and resilience
New York Chelsea
2 Apr - 9 May 2026
528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
11
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
forthcoming
14 May - 27 Jun 2026
528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
16
New York Chelsea
just opened
23 Apr - 27 Jun 2026
542 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
60
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
not open today
65
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
508 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
15
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
13 May - 25 Jul 2026
504 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
15
New York Chelsea
17 Apr - 20 Jun 2026
531 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
53
major paintings from across Kossoff’s career in this rare and substantial exhibition of the leading figure of postwar British art, presented in partnership with his Estate
New York
11 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
17 White Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
46
new large-scale abstract works which engage with the history of abstract expressionism and color-field painting, in the London-based artist’s first solo show with the gallery and in New York
New York Upper East Side
16 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
19 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
46
the debut of a series of paintings exploring Santos’ personal and pastoral relationship to Puerto Rico, drawing on historical, archival, and ecological inspiration - “the works are reminders of the past but also a way to understand what is happening now”
New York Upper East Side
18 Mar - 23 May 2026
19 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
25
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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Upper East Side
New York Chelsea
18 Apr - 7 Aug 2026
100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
101
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 PS1
New York
MoMA
New York
MoMA
New York
New York Chelsea
last week
25 Mar - 2 May 2026
47 West 28th Street, Floor 2, NY 10001, New York
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
not open today
4
“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
last week
19 Mar - 2 May 2026
511 W 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
4
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
forthcoming
30 Apr - 13 Jun 2026
138 Tenth Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
2
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
last week
9 Apr - 2 May 2026
500A West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
4
an exhibition revisiting Hird’s paintings - “perceptual fields unfolding with rhythmic and subtle variations. Undulating bands of color and translucent veils evoke the simultaneity of oceanic movement and atmospheric drift”
New York Chelsea
new today
28 Apr - 23 May 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
25
Crenshaw’s portraits of immigrants and cigarette stubs, in thrifted picture frames, explore themes of displacement, resilience, value, and disposability
New York Chelsea
new today
28 Apr - 23 May 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
not open today
25
“an intimate series of portrait paintings born from a radical shift in practice and a contemporary experiment in collaboration”
New York
just opened
24 Apr - 30 May 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
a special presentation of new paintings - “through still lifes and portraits set within seascapes and landscapes, Park creates psychological explorations shaped by the transition of day into night”
New York
just opened
24 Apr - 30 May 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
new paintings - labyrinthine architectural settings populated by people, animals, and mannequins - which function like a visual experiment, generating paradoxes rather than answers
New York
just opened
24 Apr - 30 May 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
in an exhibition which explores the relationship between land and technology and progress and destruction, new wall-mounted collages and an immersive installation of a psychic parlor, Doyle’s first experiment with AI
New York
3 Sep 2025 - 2 Aug 2026
Central Park, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 5th Avenue, NY 10019, New York
Dawn to Dusk, daily
96
reimagining the ancient Egyptian god of the rising sun, the Kuwaiti artist presents an iridescent, monumental, androgynous figure of a hybrid human-scarab figure
forthcoming
5 May 2026 - 8 Mar 2027
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, The Vale, NY 11201, New York
All day, every day
7
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
2 Apr - 8 May 2026
19 Pike Street, NY 10002, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
not open today
10
“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
forthcoming
8 May - 2 Jul 2026
390 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY 10013, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
10
New York Chelsea
17 Apr - 30 May 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
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
17 Apr - 30 May 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
32
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
last week
4 Feb - 3 May 2026
310 West Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
not open today
5
curated by Richard Boch, works by twenty photographers who captured the vibrant essence of New York City nightlife during the mid-Seventies and early Eighties
New York
forthcoming
21 May - 13 Sep 2026
310 West Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
not open today
23
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 15 May 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 14 May 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
17
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
44
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 20 May 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 18 May 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
22
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 19 May 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 18 May 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
21
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 2 Jun 2026
Exhibition: 28 May - 1 Jun 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
35
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 14 May 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 13 May 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
16
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
Auction: 14 May 2026
Exhibition: 2 - 13 May 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
16
New York
18 Apr - 7 Jun 2026
Brooklyn, NY 11233, New York
Thu-Sun 12-6pm by appointment
not open today
40
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
20 Jun - 9 Aug 2026
Brooklyn, NY 11233, New York
Thu-Sun 12-6pm by appointment
not open today
53
New York
last day
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master prints by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella in this group exhibition exploring “the materiality of color”
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
30 Apr - 20 Jun 2026
525 West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
2
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
4 Mar - 9 May 2026
4 East 77th Street, NY 10075, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
11
the gallery’s inaugural exhibition is devoted to Polke’s major four-painting cycle and presents a rare opportunity to view one of the German artist’s most seminal series in full
Whitney Museum
New York
New York Chelsea
16 Apr - 22 May 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
24
the Iranian-American artist’s first exhibition with the gallery builds on her ongoing series examining her parents’ experiences of political exile following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and broader systems of geopolitics, displacement, and care
New York Chelsea
16 Apr - 22 May 2026
525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
24
an exhibition focusing on Yamamoto’s photographs of owls - gelatin silver prints printed by the artist reveal his deep respect, depicting not only the owls’ beauty and grace, but also their eccentricity, companionship and individuality
New York Upper East Side
just opened
23 Apr - end of Jun 2026
595 Madison Avenue, 6 Floor, NY 10022, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
not open today
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