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Art Exhibitions at New York galleries, May 2022

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Scott Kahn: The Walled City
@ Almine Rech

Otto Piene: Rouge et Noir
@ galerie gmurzynska

Jordan Nassar: To Light The Sky
@ James Cohan, 48 Walker St

Joe Bradley: Bhoga Marga
@ Petzel

Charlotte Park: Works on Paper from the 1950s
@ Berry Campbell Gallery

Valentin Carron: And So America Opened Up
@ Eva Presenhuber

Jackie Ferrara
@ Franklin Parrasch Gallery

Michael Raedecker: now
@ GRIMM

Genesis Tramaine: Break of Day
@ Almine Rech

Jesús Rafael Soto: Materia y Vibración, 1956 - 1974
@ Perrotin New York

Art & Language: Hostage
@ Lisson Gallery W 24th St

Dwellers Part I
@ Perrotin New York

Kara Joslyn: This Is Hardcore
@ Perrotin New York

Channa Horwitz
@ Lisson Gallery

John Boskovich: Mirrors
@ David Lewis

Echo’s in Talavera
@ Franklin Parrasch Gallery

Sarah Cunningham: In Its Daybreak, Rising
@ Almine Rech

Dirk Braeckman: Luster./
@ GRIMM

Saskia Noor van Imhoff: Grafting
@ GRIMM

Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures
@ Sean Kelly Gallery

67 exhibitions to see

International Center of PhotographyNew York Lower East Side, Public

forthcoming:
William Klein: YES; Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013
3 Jun - 12 Sep 2022

79 Essex Street, NY 10002

Daily 11am-7pm , except Tue (closed) and Thu (open until 9pm)
SculptureCenterNew York, Public

In Practice: Literally means collapse
12 May - 1 Aug 2022

44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

Thur-Mon noon-6pm, Tue and Wed closed

new works considering an expanded notion of the ruin, with Marco Barrera, Violet Dennison, Enrique Garcia, Ignacio Gatica, Cherisse Gray, Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Jessica Kairé, Alan Martín Segal, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Stella Zhong, and Monsieur Zohore
SculptureCenterNew York, Public

Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili
12 May - 1 Aug 2022

44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

Thur-Mon noon-6pm, Tue and Wed closed

in an exhibition curated by Deputy Director Kyle Dancewicz, Ourahmane and a group of collaborators present a new moving image work and series of scans from a journey on foot in a largely inaccessible plateau near the border between Algeria and Libya
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

not open today
paintings from both Lozano’s figurative and minimalist periods, alongside accompanying studies and drawings
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

not open today
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 69th StreetNew York Upper East Side

Cindy Sherman. 1977 – 1982
4 May - 29 Jul 2022

32 East 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
over one hundred works from Sherman’s most ground-breaking and influential early series - including the complete set of 70 Untitled Film Stills, Rear Screen Projections and Centerfolds - in her first major solo exhibition with the gallery
Gagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea

just opened
Nam June Paik: Art in Process: Part One
24 May - 22 Jul 2022

555 West 24th St, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
“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
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

not open today
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
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Adam Handler: Hanami Party
12 May - 9 Jul 2022

833 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 11am-5.30pm

not open today
a solo exhibition of figurative painting by the contemporary artist, debuting his most recent body of work
Leon Tovar GalleryNew York

Invisible: A tale of ethereal lines
5 May - 9 Jul 2022

26 East 64th Street, NY 10065

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

not open today
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

just opened
Sandi Haber Fifield
26 May - 8 Jul 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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
Carpenters Workshop GalleryNew York

The Female Voice in Modern Design, 1950-2000
20 Apr - 3 Jul 2022

693 Fifth Avenue, NY 10022

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Barbara Mathes GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Color Field Painting 60 Years: 1958-2018
26 Apr - 1 Jul 2022

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat by appointment

not open today
works by Ed Clark, Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Charles Hinman and Kenneth Noland explore the history of the Color Field movement and its legacy in the 21st century
Berry Campbell GalleryNew York Chelsea

forthcoming:
Walter Darby Bannard: See First. Name Later. (Paintings 1972 - 1976)
2 Jun - 1 Jul 2022

530 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
focusing on works from 1972 to 1976, when Darby Bannard “thought of color as a liquid, flowing over and settling on a roughened surface, changing as it mixed and dried”
Tina Kim GalleryNew York Chelsea

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

525 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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

just opened
Bryan Graf: Telepathic Jungle
26 May - 1 Jul 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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
Art Projects InternationalNew York

Color as Space
28 Apr - 30 Jun 2022

434 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
the third of the gallery’s BACK WALL initiatives includes works by Bahar Behbahani, Mariano Ferrante, Seokmin Ko, Il Lee, Soo Im Lee, Filipe Rocha da Silva, Gwenn Thomas and Richard Tsao
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Takashi Murakami: An Arrow through History
11 May - 25 Jun 2022

976 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
never-before-seen works in three simultaneous presentations across two of the New York galleries - at 976 Madison Av, paintings and sculptures based on a series of NFT avatars - three-dimensional figures bearing his distinctive motifs
Gagosian 980 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Takashi Murakami: An Arrow through History
11 May - 25 Jun 2022

980 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
never-before-seen works in three simultaneous presentations across two of the New York galleries - at 980 Madison Av, Murakami’s newest series of iconic flowers and new paintings on circular canvases inspired by a Qinghua vase fish motif
Gagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea

Richard Prince: Hoods
10 May - 25 Jun 2022

522 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
more than thirty works made over twenty-five years, personally selected by Prince - “I wanted to paint something that was already painted”
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

Anne Imhof: AVATAR
19 May - 25 Jun 2022

17 East 82nd St, NY 10028

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
galerie gmurzynskaNew York Upper East Side

Otto Piene: Rouge et Noir
7 May - 25 Jun 2022

43 E 78th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
works by the founder of Group Zero, lifelong pioneer of modern art, and key avant-garde figure of the second half of the twentieth century
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

not open today
an exhibition constructed in two moments with two major installations - both presented in the US for the first time
LGDR 89 StreetNew York Upper East Side

Marina Adams: What Are You Listening To?
17 May - 25 Jun 2022

3 East 89th Street, NY 10128

Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
“Adams makes rigorous explorations of color and form that situate her squarely in the tradition of New York School painting, with its emphasis on gesture, spontaneity, and improvisation”
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

Cy Twombly | Barry X Ball: A History of Painting and Sculpture
31 Mar - 25 Jun 2022

960 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY 10021

Mon by appointment, Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm

not open today
PetzelNew York Upper East Side

Dana Hoey and Caitlin Cherry: Hello Trouble
19 May - 25 Jun 2022

35 E 67th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
two artists, from different generations, unveil markedly different yet related takes on the problem of how to best represent femininity, in an exhibition addressing the subject of the great American West
PetzelNew York Chelsea

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

456 W 18th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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

forthcoming:
Peter Gallo: Blood & Flowers
1 Jun - 25 Jun 2022

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

Wed-Sat noon-5pm

not open today
a collection of some of the artist’s favorite refrains - short, accumulated impastos laid upon raw linen, lines of nails or staples edging the supports, and evocative words and phrases that sample deeply internalized texts
David Richard Gallery - ChelseaNew York Chelsea

Heather McGill: Invisible Bloom
21 May - 24 Jun 2022

508 W 26th Street, NY 10001

Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
Franklin Parrasch GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Joan Snyder, To Become A Painting
12 May - 24 Jun 2022

19 East 66th Street, NY 10065

Mon-Fri 11am-6pm

not open today
large scale paintings reflecting Snyder’s engagement with the land and acknowledging impulses that access nature as a guide for connecting with the most fundamental human emotions
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

just opened
Audrey Flack: Force of Nature
26 May - 24 Jun 2022

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

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
Abstract Expressionist works by the renowned artist, including early never-before-seen works on paper
Almine RechNew York Upper East Side

Scott Kahn: The Walled City
3 May - 18 Jun 2022

39 East 78th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
Kahn’s second solo exhibition with the gallery features fifteen paintings dated from 1982 to 2022
Eva PresenhuberNew York Lower East Side

Karen Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976 – 1998
30 Apr - 18 Jun 2022

39 Great Jones Street, NY 10012

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
presented with Sprüth Magers, London, an exhibition of the artist’s own rich and varied selection of more than fifty previously unseen early works on paper
Gagosian 541 West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Andreas Gursky
5 May - 18 Jun 2022

541 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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”
HB381New York

Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen: Tentacular Thinking
12 May - 18 Jun 2022

381 Broadway, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
in the inaugural show at the new gallery space, new ceramic sculptures make up the artist’s first solo presentation in the US
James Cohan, 48 Walker StNew York

Naudline Pierre: Enter the Realm
14 May - 18 Jun 2022

48 Walker St, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
an expansive presentation of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Pierre’s first solo exhibition with the gallery - across both spaces, with the physical entry point into her imagined space, a life-size wrought-iron gate
James Cohan, 52 Walker StNew York

Naudline Pierre: Enter the Realm
14 May - 18 Jun 2022

52 Walker St, 2nd Floor, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
an expansive presentation of new paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Pierre’s first solo exhibition with the gallery - with, at no 52, works on paper providing intimate insights into the many worlds she accesses through fantastical figuration
Michael WernerNew York Upper East Side

Francis Picabia – Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950
27 Apr - 18 Jun 2022

4 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
over forty works on paper spanning fifty years of the iconoclastic French artist’s career
David Richard Gallery - UptownNew York

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: Paintings from 2009 to 2022
18 May - 17 Jun 2022

211 East 121st Street, 10035

Wed-Sat noon-5pm

not open today
geometric abstraction and post-minimalist paintings in Gilbert-Rolfe’s first solo exhibition in NYC in a decade, and his debut with the gallery
GRIMMNew York

The Ferryman: William Monk
29 Apr - 11 Jun 2022

54 White Street, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
a three-venue exhibition of Monk’s new paintings and works on paper presented jointly by Pace and GRIMM
Lisson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Bernard Piffaretti: Pick Up
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

508 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
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

not open today
more than twenty artworks ranging from sketches to paintings to historical Estructuras, demonstrating the breadth of Herrera’s achievements during a transformative decade
Marian Goodman GalleryNew York

Lawrence Weiner: Apropos Lawrence Weiner
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

24 West 57th Street, NY 10019

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Marian Goodman GalleryNew York

Tavares Strachan: The Awakening
6 May - 11 Jun 2022

24 West 57th Street, NY 10019

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea

Nancy Grossman: My Body
5 Apr - 11 Jun 2022

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
“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
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
11 Apr - 11 Jun 2022

980 Madison Avenue, Third Floor, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
curated by Basquiat scholar Dr. Dieter Buchhart, the first exhibition dedicated to the role of found objects and unconventional materials in the artist’s oeuvre
Perrotin New YorkNew York

Josh Sperling: Daydream
28 Apr - 11 Jun 2022

130 Orchard Street, NY 10002

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
organized across three floors of the gallery’s NYC space, Sperling’s largest exhibition marks a return to key motifs developed over the last decade and re-articulated by this new body of work
Robilant+Voena, New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Fontana + The Gothic
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

Suite 303, 980 Madison Ave, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
masterworks of Italian Gothic painting paired with Lucio Fontana’s spatial concepts, presenting the old masters through the lens of Fontana’s art and vice versa
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

Francis Bacon: Faces and Figures
4 May - 11 Jun 2022

20 East 79th St, NY 10075

Tue-Fri 9.30am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm

not open today
masterworks spanning the 1950s to the 1970s, featuring some of his most beloved friends, lovers, and muses - Peter Lacy, George Dyer, Muriel Belcher, and Henrietta Moraes - and an intimate self-portrait and a portrait of Pope Pius XII
Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes
21 Apr - 10 Jun 2022

18 East 79th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 10am-5pm

not open today
a group exhibition in both the NYC and Palm Beach locations, curated by Todd Bradway with works by twenty-eight contemporary artists
SchoelkopfNew York Upper East Side

Now Modern
9 May - 10 Jun 2022

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm & by appointment

not open today
David LewisNew York

last week
Lisa Jo: Send me no Flowers
17 May - 4 Jun 2022

47 W 12th St, NY 10011

By Appointment

the Berlin-based American artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery features five new paintings from 2022
David LewisNew York

last week
Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration
26 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

57 Walker Street, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
on the anniversary of her death, an exhibition dedicated to Edelson’s groundbreaking contributions to art history, with a range of media from throughout her career and an emphasis on the breadth and scale of her achievement
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

last week
Alexandria Smith: Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens
28 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

821 Park Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Smith’s first solo exhibition with the gallery - organized by Antwaun Sargent
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

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

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

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
an expansive exhibition of works by Kotin produced between the late 1940s and mid 1960s
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

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

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

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
a focused show of works on paper by West, the Abstract Expressionist painter whom the gallery has championed over the past several years
Lehmann Maupin W 24th StNew York Chelsea

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

501 W 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new sculptures and installations composed from discarded material found and collected in the acclaimed artist’s Harlem neighborhood
Leila Heller GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
Nan Swid: Paint - Wax - Pencil - Ink
3 May - 4 Jun 2022

17 East 76th Street, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
still life drawings, paintings and wall sculptures drawn from the domestic environment - as Swid says, from “what I see in front of me”
LGDR 909 MadisonNew York Upper East Side

last week
Stage Fright
7 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
curated by Rachel Harrison, a group of works that consider modernism’s devotion to that most fundamental of subjects: the human figure
Peter Freeman, Inc.New York

last week
Jan Dibbets: Billions of Universes
21 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

140 Grand Street, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
large-scale color digital prints by the pioneering figure of conceptual art shown for the first time outside Europe
Sean Kelly GalleryNew York

last week
David Claerbout: Dark Optics
27 Apr - 4 Jun 2022

475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018

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

not open today
the US premiere of Claerbout’s two most recent film works, together with a series of works on paper relating to each film
Findlay GalleriesNew York

last week
Ptolemy Mann – Thresholds II
2 May - 31 May 2022

32 East 57th, 2nd Floor, NY 10022

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
large-scale woven works and abstract paintings influenced by Abstract Expressionism and architecture
Halsey McKay GalleryNew York

last week
Bruce Conner & Adam Helms
29 Apr - 30 May 2022

79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937

Thur-Mon 11am-6pm

a two-person exhibition of works on paper by Bruce Conner and Adam Helms inspired by the Rorschach ink blot test
Halsey McKay GalleryNew York

last week
Matt Kenny: World Trade Center Paintings
29 Apr - 30 May 2022

79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937

Thur-Mon 11am-6pm

begun in 2014, these paintings experiment with character and caricature in the context of the artist’s forays into urban realism, recasting the World Trade Center as a grotesque, ambiguous symbol of contemporary New York
Christie’s New YorkNew York

The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Three Auction: 19 May - 02 Jun, 2022
Sotheby’s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Crafting Modernism: Masterpieces from the American Studio Design Movement | Property from the Pinnacle Art Collection Auction: 08 Jun 2022
Exhibition: 3 Jun - 8 Jun 2022

A Collection That We Dreamt Of: Art and Design from the New York Townhouse of Delphine and Reed Krakoff Auction: 08 Jun 2022
Exhibition: 3 Jun - 8 Jun 2022

Important Design Auction: 09 Jun 2022

Contemporary Discoveries Auction: 08 Jul - 19 Jul, 2022

Modern Discoveries Auction: 12 Jul - 20 Jul, 2022
Exhibition: 8 Jul - 19 Jul 2022

Exhibiting Artists

Walter Darby Bannard

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Bahar Behbahani

Louise Bourgeois

Constantin Brâncuși

David Claerbout

Mary Beth Edelson

Nicole Eisenman

Marisol Escobar

Mariano Ferrante

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Sandi Haber Fifield

Takashi Murakami

Lydia Ourahmane

Francis Picabia

Naudline Pierre

Bernard Piffaretti

Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen

Filipe Rocha da Silva

Alexandria Smith

Jesús Rafael Soto

Tavares Strachan

Alina Szapocznikow

Lawrence Weiner

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