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New York Upper East Side
just opened
22 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
980 Madison Avenue, NY 10075, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
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in partnership with Castelli Gallery, an exhibition of the historic crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated Johns’ practice from 1973 to 1983, including works that have rarely been seen before
New York Chelsea
15 Jan - 4 Apr 2026
443 West 18th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
66
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”
6 May 2025 - 8 Mar 2026
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1, Bridge View Lawn, NY 11201, New York
All day, every day
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a large, open pavilion with an immersive multi-channel soundscape using conversations from Black archives, nature field recordings, and electronic sounds to explore “breath as geography”
New York
3 Sep 2025 - 2 Aug 2026
Central Park, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, 5th Avenue, NY 10019, New York
Dawn to Dusk, daily
186
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 Chelsea
13 Nov 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
541 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
31
recent sculptures and paintings - “the Porcelain series is in dialogue with art from ancient times through history to this moment; the belief in humanity and civilization through our possibility to transcend is embedded within” - Koons
New York Chelsea
6 Nov 2025 - 18 Apr 2026
542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
80
late sculptures, reliefs, and works on paper explore Bourgeois’ relationship to abstraction and her development of a symbolic abstract language
New York Chelsea
9 Jan - 21 Feb 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
24
with a title which translates as “Of Soil and Whispers”, new paintings and sculptural reliefs which explore “a metaphoric and visual language rooted in Latin American folklore and ecofeminist thought”
New York Chelsea
9 Jan - 21 Feb 2026
475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018, New York
Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm
24
curated by Joey Lico, twelve artists whose practices consider how the earth is held, shaped, remembered, and reimagined
New York
New York
event today
15 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
74 Leonard Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
31
curated by Molly Warnock and titled after his 1973 National Endowment of the Arts Grant Application, paintings and works on paper by the self-proclaimed “Abstract Expressionist of the quieter branch”
New York
New York Upper East Side
8 Jan - 6 Feb 2026
41 East 57th Street, Floor 9, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.15pm
9
spanning 150 years of art history, an exhibition highlighting the richly varied and substantial artistic contributions of creative women
New York
16 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
361 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
31
Cherri’s first solo exhibition at the gallery “unfolds as a meditation on fragile bodies caught within immovable systems - where … history reveals itself not as past tense, but as an unrelenting present” - Terence Trouillot
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
15 Jan - 21 Feb 2026
138 Tenth Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
24
in Robarts’ first solo exhibition with the gallery, sculptures made “from the cast offs of society”
New York Chelsea
New York Lower East Side
just opened
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curated by Ian Hartshorne, this exhibition “celebrates the intergenerational impact of teaching painting and reveals engaging and dynamic relationships between those participating”
New York Chelsea
8 Jan - 7 Feb 2026
524 W 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
10
paintings and works on paper from the 1960s through the 1990s by one of Canada’s foremost Color Field painters
New York Upper East Side
15 Jan - 19 Feb 2026
23 East 67th Street, 2nd Flr, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
22
this new exhibition sees the South African artist revisit his 2010 presentation at the gallery’s Johannesburg space - of works marking the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s landmark album “Kind of Blue”
New York
16 Jan - 15 Feb 2026
273 Church Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
18
the Estonian and South Korean artists “explore the same desires of capturing spatial experiences as they slowly disperse from their memories”
New York Chelsea
New York Upper East Side
just opened
22 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
39 East 78th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10075, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
45
“in this body of work, there is a small canvas depicting a bird, perched on an outstretched branch, against a night sky. Two lines signal the bird’s breakdown into form … the painting, like all of Kraus’s work, games natural vision”
New York
13 Jan - 3 Mar 2026
146 Greene Street, NY 10012, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
34
master prints by Vija Celmins, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol in an exhibition exploring figuration in post-war printmaking
New York Chelsea
last week
14 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
100 11th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
3
an exhibition exploring Bauermeister’s use of rocks - including in progressions, spirals, and lens boxes - and examining the themes central to her practice
New York Upper East Side
12 Sep 2025 - 9 Jun 2026
14 Sep 2025 - 1 Feb 2026
20 Sep 2025 - 8 Feb 2026
19 Jan - 6 Aug 2026
29 Mar - 28 Jun 2026
1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028, New York
Sun-Tue, Thu 10am-5pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
not open today
New York
19 Oct 2025 - 7 Feb 2026
31 Oct 2025 - 16 Feb 2026
10 Nov 2025 - 11 Apr 2026
18 Nov 2025 - 8 Feb 2026
14 Dec 2025 - 25 Jul 2026
14 Dec 2025 - 25 Jul 2026
11 West 53 Street, NY 10019, New York
Daily 10.30am-5.30pm, Fri to 7pm
New York
9 Oct 2025 - 23 Feb 2026
9 Oct 2025 - 2 Mar 2026
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, New York
Thu-Mon 12-6pm, Sat to 8pm
not open today
New York
13 Nov 2025 - 14 Feb 2026
693 Fifth Avenue, NY 10022, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
17
“an immersive art installation that explores the interplay between materiality, light, and nature inspired by Claude Monet’s late water lily landscapes, in which vision dissolves into abstraction”
New York Upper East Side
last week
7 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
4 East 77th Street, NY 10075, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
3
new paintings and works on paper -“images of lush, abundant vegetation” - in the eminent British painter’s first in New York in nearly a decade
New York Upper East Side
7 Nov 2025 - 26 Apr 2026
5 Mar - 2 Aug 2026
1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128, New York
Thu-Mon 11am-6pm with advance booking
not open today
New York
last week
11 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
134 Wooster Street, NY 10012, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
3
curated by Dr. Tobia Bezzola, eight monumental works spanning Gertsch’s career, and “elucidating the ways in which he transformed photographic imagery into hyperrealist paintings and woodcuts”
New York
last week
12 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
47 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
3
new paintings by the Argentine-born Madrid-based artist, drawing thematically on Shelley’s poem - “eerie, evocative landscapes embedded with fragments from the present industrial age”
New York Lower East Side
last week
14 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026
54 Franklin Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm
3
the first New York solo exhibition of the clan advocate and leading figure in contemporary Indigenous art presents works painted on bark cloth that he harvests and prepares by hand
New York Upper East Side
4 Dec 2025 -
152 East 65th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 12-6pm
Ilya Bolotowsky, Ernest Briggs, Seymour Boardman, Peter Busa, Peter Bonner, Mario Bencomo, James Brooks, Lina Binkele - “united by a shared initial … their works form an intriguing dialogue across decades, styles, and modes of expression”
New York
last week
11 Dec 2025 - 1 Feb 2026
19 Pike Street, NY 10002, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
4
in his first solo US exhibition, Şehitoğlu explores Machiavelli’s “whoever possesses knowledge possesses power” - constructing an allegory that takes his own field as a reference point to “reflect on what the current age has brought”
New York Upper East Side
12 Dec 2025 - 19 Feb 2026
19 East 66th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
22
an exhibition bringing together twelve new paintings by the Irish artist, together with four small works on panel presenting “a microcosmic snippet of his world … a tiny window onto the limitless eternity of time”
New York Chelsea
8 Jan - 14 Feb 2026
528 West 26th Street, NY 10001, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
17
Cerrato’s first solo exhibition in New York presents paintings from a critical period, both in her art and her life
New York
16 Jan - 18 Feb 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
21
“enveloping the room entirely in vinyl tiles, the installation creates an environment that is both immersive and reflective—an echo of sacred architecture transposed into a contemporary context” - Laura Helena Wurth
New York
New York Chelsea
15 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
513 West 20th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
31
Rockman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents new and recent paintings and works on paper in dialogue with two of his now classic works
New York Chelsea
8 Jan - 21 Feb 2026
542 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
24
a solo exhibition which examines Zutrau’s evolution through the critical period when he worked between Tokyo and New York
New York
18 Oct 2025 - 9 Mar 2026
99 Gansevoort Street, NY 10014, New York
Wed-Mon 10.30am-6pm, Fri to 10pm
New York Chelsea
last week
7 - 31 Jan 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
3
curated by Shazzi Thomas, an exhibition of artists who “navigate the shifting boundaries between clarity and obscurity, the material and the ephemeral, the revealed and the concealed … across abstraction, landscape, figuration, and experimental surface”
New York
9 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
31
a two-person exhibition of new ceramic works “Together, [Scott and Slotte] show how art can open up an apparently inconsequential domain of material culture, showing it to be far more expansive than one could have imagined”
New York
9 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
381 Broadway, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
31
“ink and photo emulsion-based works on paper which foreground the traces of their production. The works’ compositions are sliced and segmented by creases, perforated to reveal the act of making as much as they might conjure familiar textures and imagery”
New York
16 Jan - 28 Feb 2026
390 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY 10013, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
31
the first installment of a two-part survey exhibition tracing the evolution and achievements of American art across the 19th and 20th centuries - in celebration of the gallery’s 25th anniversary and the 250th of America’s founding
New York Upper East Side
just opened
21 Jan - 14 Feb 2026
23 East 67th Street, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
17
New York Upper East Side
just opened
Auction: 23 Jan - 6 Feb 2026
Exhibition: 30 Jan - 4 Feb 2026
Auction: 4 Feb 2026
Exhibition: 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2026
Auction: 5 Feb 2026
Exhibition: 30 Jan - 4 Feb 2026
Auction: 6 Feb 2026
Exhibition: 30 Jan - 4 Feb 2026
945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm
New York Upper East Side
New York Lower East Side
forthcoming
16 Feb - 3 Mar 2026
37-39 Clinton Street, NY 10002, New York
Wed-Sun 12-6pm
19
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
15
New York
forthcoming
7 Feb - 29 Mar 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
10
New York
forthcoming
7 Feb - 29 Mar 2026
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937, New York
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm
10
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
50
New York
forthcoming
36
New York
forthcoming
5 Mar - 11 Apr 2026
130 Orchard Street, NY 10002, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
36
New York
forthcoming
36
New York Upper East Side
OG
forthcoming
12 Feb - 7 Mar 2026
827 Madison Avenue, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
15
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
30 Jan - 7 Feb 2026
17 East 67th Street, No. 1A, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 11am-5pm
2
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
29 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
47 West 28th Street, Floor 2, NY 10001, New York
Wed-Sat 12-6pm
1
paintings by Nessi drawn from her work on landscape and urban motifs in an exhibition organized around place rather than chronology
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
30 Jan - 21 Mar 2026
531 West 24th Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
2
new and exemplary works by Morimura spanning his over four-decade career, and a new 30-minute program of portraits by Atlas focussing on drag and gender
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
31 Jan - 7 Mar 2026
173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
3
works by over a dozen artists in an exhibition that celebrates the styles and content in paintings, drawings and sculptures by African American artists from the 19th century to the present
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
14 Mar - 18 Apr 2026
173 10th Avenue, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
45
New York
forthcoming
30 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
not open today
2
painting in dialogue with an imposing sculptural installation as the Paris-based artist’s exhibition takes over both gallery spaces - “Linard Osorio’s singular body of work is born out of a fortuitous command of his chance operations”
New York
forthcoming
30 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
112 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206, New York
Thu-Sat 12-6pm & by appointment
not open today
2
the fourth edition of the gallery’s acclaimed performance series presents a collaboration between Linard Osorio’s site-responsive installation and Etay Axelroad’s choreography
New York
New York
forthcoming
10 Feb - 20 Mar 2026
25 East 73rd Street, NY 10021, New York
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
13
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
12 Feb - 18 Apr 2026
542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
15
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
14
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
5 Feb - 7 Mar 2026
525 West 21st Street, NY 10011, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
8
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
15
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
3 - 28 Feb 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
6
oil paintings and works on paper by Wixon - “vibrant, layered abstract compositions that range from contemplative to surprising”
New York Chelsea
forthcoming
3 - 28 Feb 2026
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, NY 10001, New York
Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
6
large ceramic sculptures, wood-fired in a Japanese style Anagama kiln, in an exhibition “not about Brice Marden … but because of him”
New York
forthcoming
21 Mar -
235 Bowery, NY 10002, New York
temporary closure
not open today
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
30 Jan - 7 Feb 2026
23 East 67th Street, Fourth Floor, NY 10065, New York
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm by appointment
2
Colnaghi and Colnaghi Elliott Master Drawings present rare works on paper and paintings from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries exploring how artists respond to cross-border encounters
New York
New York
forthcoming
20 Feb - 4 Apr 2026
46 Lafayette Street, NY 10013, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
23
New York
New York Upper East Side
forthcoming
12 Mar - 23 May 2026
19 East 64th Street, NY 10065, New York
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
43
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Chelsea
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
New York Upper East Side
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