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Matter at Hand: Ten Artists in Denmark
@ HOSTLER | BURROWS

Genieve Figgis: Immortal Reflection
@ Almine Rech

Condition Humaine
@ GRIMM

Richard Fishman: Break, Blow, Burn
@ Leila Heller Gallery

Christo: Nature | Environments
@ galerie gmurzynska

Mariano Ferrante: Monocromo
@ Art Projects International

Mickalene Thomas: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
@ Lévy Gorvy

Per Kirkeby: Overpaintings
@ Michael Werner, Upper East Side

Alice Attie: Take Care of Yourself
@ Mignoni

Edith Baumann
@ Franklin Parrasch Gallery

Avery Singer: Reality Ender
@ Hauser & Wirth West 22nd Street

Philip Guston, 1969-1979
@ Hauser & Wirth West 22nd Street

Gilbert & George: NEW NORMAL PICTURES
@ Lehmann Maupin W 22nd St

Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise
@ James Cohan, 48 Walker St

Dawoud Bey: In This Here Place
@ Sean Kelly Gallery

McArthur Binion: Modern:Ancient:Brown
@ Lehmann Maupin W 24th St

Louise Giovanelli: Auto-da-fé
@ GRIMM

Amy Feldman: Mothercolor
@ Eva Presenhuber

Zanele Muholi: Awe Maaah!
@ Yancey Richardson Gallery

Jorge Pardo: All bets are off
@ Petzel

Art Exhibitions in New York, December 2021

The curated guide to the best art exhibitions at leading New York art galleries – updated daily.

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62 exhibitions to see

Art Projects InternationalNew York

just opened
Paper and Process 3
4 Dec 2021 - 26 Feb 2022

434 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
three separate presentations of works on paper - beginning with never-before-exhibited drawings by Il Lee, followed by works from Soo Im Lee, and Richard Tsao
ColnaghiNew York Upper East Side

Renaissance
5 Nov 2021 - 25 Feb 2022

38 E 70th Street, NY 10021

By Appointment
Whitney MuseumNew York, Public

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
29 Sep 2021 - 13 Feb 2022

99 Gansevoort Street, NY 10014

Mon 10.30am-5pm, Tue-Wed closed, Thu 10.30am-6pm, Fri 10.30am-10pm, Sat 11.30am-7pm, Sun 11.30am-6pm
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Lutz Bacher: The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview
9 Dec 2021 - 5 Feb 2022

17 East 82nd St, NY 10028

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Galerie Lefebvre New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Jungle Boogie
4 Nov 2021 - 2 Feb 2022

47 East 64th St, NY 10065

Tue-Fri 1pm-6pm, Sat noon-6pm

not open today
featuring Eugene Printz, Paul-Etienne Sain, Line Vautrin, Michel Roux-Spitz, Jean Royere, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Claude Lalanne, Jean Besnard and Alexandre Noll
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Surrealism Beyond Borders
11 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Werner Berges
22 Oct 2021 - 26 Jan 2022

833 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Thu & Sat 12-6pm, Fri by appointment

not open today
in the first solo show of the German Pop Art pioneer in New York, works on paper and large-scale canvases created during a crucial period in his career
Findlay GalleriesNew York

just opened
Noah Landfield
2 Dec -

32 East 57th, 2nd Floor, NY 10022

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
GRIMMNew York

forthcoming:
Arturo Kameya: En esa pulga se mezcla nuestra sangre / In that flea, our blood mixes
10 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022

54 White Street, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
GRIMMNew York

forthcoming:
Rosalind Nashashibi: Darkness and Rest
10 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022

54 White Street, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
gathering together works created over the last year following Nashashibi’s 2020 residency at the National Gallery in London, the exhibition is the largest ever dedicated exclusively to the artist’s painting practice
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

BRAQUE | PICASSO
5 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022

980 Madison Avenue, Third Floor, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
featuring two masterworks by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, each created at the height of their careers in the 1930s, this presentation illuminates the endurance of their artistic symbiosis even after their iconic friendship and collaboration dissolved
International Center of PhotographyNew York Lower East Side, Public

Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
24 Sep 2021 - 10 Jan 2022

79 Essex Street, NY 10002

Daily 11am-7pm , except Tue (closed) and Thu (open until 9pm)
International Center of PhotographyNew York Lower East Side, Public

Gillian Laub: Family Matters
24 Sep 2021 - 10 Jan 2022

79 Essex Street, NY 10002

Daily 11am-7pm , except Tue (closed) and Thu (open until 9pm)
International Center of PhotographyNew York Lower East Side, Public

INWARD: Reflections on Interiority
24 Sep 2021 - 10 Jan 2022

79 Essex Street, NY 10002

Daily 11am-7pm , except Tue (closed) and Thu (open until 9pm)
Lehmann Maupin W 24th StNew York Chelsea

Helen Pashgian: Spheres and Lenses
4 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022

501 W 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new lens and sphere sculptures in Pashgian’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1971 and her first with the gallery in the US
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side

Eugène Leroy: About Marina
11 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022

4 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
works by the French artist who drew inspiration from the history of painting, particularly masters such as Rembrandt, and Hugo van der Goes, building up layers of paint until the subjects are only recognizable through painted glints of light
Halsey McKay GalleryNew York

Matt Rich: and and and
6 Nov 2021 - 1 Jan 2022

79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937

Thur-Mon 11am-6pm

continuing Rich’s play with the ideas of supports and surfaces, objecthood and observation, flatness and relief, abstraction and recognizability
Halsey McKay GalleryNew York

Victoria Fu
6 Nov 2021 - 1 Jan 2022

79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937

Thur-Mon 11am-6pm

Fu’s first exhibition with the gallery pairs a large printed silk curtain, part of an ongoing body of work by the artist, with a suite of new photographs
galerie gmurzynskaNew York Upper East Side

Christo: Nature | Environments
10 Sep - 31 Dec 2021

43 E 78th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 11am-5pm and by appointment

not open today
a selection of works by Christo (1935-2020) in celebration of the city of New York and the late artist’s relationship to it, as well as other significant sites in the United States during the half-century that Christo lived and worked in America
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art
18 Nov - 30 Dec 2021

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

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
the first major exhibition in New York City about the trailblazing collector and gallerist
David Richard GalleryNew York

Ellen Kozak: Vigil: New Paintings
27 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

211 East 121st Street, 10035

Wed-Sat noon-5pm

not open today
Kozak’s paintings are rooted in color, specifically the interaction between reflected color and the surface of water
David Richard GalleryNew York

Joe Ramiro Garcia: Keep Off the Grass
20 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

211 East 121st Street, 10035

Wed-Sat noon-5pm

not open today
Fergus McCaffreyNew York Chelsea

Anna Conway
11 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

514 West 26th St, NY 10018

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
a solo exhibition of paintings by the American artist
Gagosian 541 West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Brice Marden: These paintings are of themselves
13 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

541 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new paintings and works on paper in Marden’s first exhibition at the Chelsea space
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

Dan Flavin
9 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

821 Park Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
saturating the gallery with ambient colored light while masking other areas in darkness, two sculptures by Flavin reshape the interior space as our perception of it
Gagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961
10 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

555 West 24th St, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
“I think the origin of my work does lie in painting. My work doesn’t arise from sculpture; it comes out of the paintings of Pollock, Newman, Rothko” - Judd
Hauser & Wirth West 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Arshile Gorky. Beyond The Limit
16 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
a newly discovered and never before exhibited Gorky painting - uncovered in 2020 during conservation and research for his catalogue raisonné
Hauser & Wirth West 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Glenn Ligon. It’s Always a Little Bit Not Yet
16 Nov - 23 Dec 2021

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
the renowned American conceptual artist debuts all new works in an exhibition spanning two floors of the gallery’s 22nd Street building
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time
30 Sep - 23 Dec 2021

32 East 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
the first solo exhibition outside Poland of an artist whose wartime survival, commitment to Surrealism, and lifelong adherence to leftist ideologies course through a remarkable array of paintings, drawings, assemblages, poems and children’s stories
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea

Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney
8 Sep - 23 Dec 2021

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
an exhibition of paintings by Delaney that contextualizes his highly personal portraiture practice in relation to his compelling body of non-objective abstractions
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Ori Gersht: Altered States
30 Oct - 23 Dec 2021

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
photographs by the London-based Israeli artist from his new series using simulations of historical paintings and high-powered digital photography to expand his ongoing interest in the metaphysics of time
Eva PresenhuberNew York Lower East Side

Athi-Patra Ruga: Act One …In Travesti .
6 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

39 Great Jones Street, NY 10012

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
new and recent works in the gallery’s first presentation by the South African artist, continuing his interrogation of the post-apartheid ideal of a unified South Africa
Findlay GalleriesNew York

Zvonimir Mihanovic - The Croatian Hyperrealist
16 Nov -

32 East 57th, 2nd Floor, NY 10022

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

Mihanović’s paintings draw inspiration from the picturesque harbors, marine vistas and small villages along the beautiful Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Neil Jenney: American Realism Today
9 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

976 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Jenney continues to challenge familiar models of taste and subject matter while pursuing a meticulous and highly idiosyncratic approach to the representation of culture and place
Gagosian 980 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Mark Tansey: Recent Paintings and Graphite Drawings
12 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

980 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
“I think of the painted picture as an embodiment of the very problem we face with the notion of ‘reality’. The problem or question is, which reality?” - Tansey
James Cohan, 48 Walker StNew York

Emeka Ogboh: Notes on Exile
28 Oct - 18 Dec 2021

48 Walker St, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Ogboh’s first US gallery exhibition and the US premiere of the multimedia artist’s internationally acclaimed work from documenta 14
James Cohan, 52 Walker StNew York

Grace Weaver: 11 Women
18 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

52 Walker St, 2nd Floor, NY 10013

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new paintings by Weaver of monumentally-scaled women, arrested mid-stride in the city streets
Jane Lombard GalleryNew York

Drawn Together
12 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

58 White Street, NY 10013

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

not open today
Lisson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Olga de Amaral: The Elements
2 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

508 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
best known as a textile artist, this exhibition positions de Amaral as a vital force in sculpture, installation art and painting - using her foundational materials of fiber, thread, wool, gesso and metallic leaf
Lisson Gallery W 24th StNew York Chelsea

Stanley Whitney: TwentyTwenty
2 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

504 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new paintings by Whitney, advancing his exploration of color and featuring a return to a horizontal format
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

Robert Mangold: The Space In Between
16 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

960 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
“Mangold’s paintings explore and inhabit a mysterious and imaginary area that exists halfway between real and representational space”
Sean Kelly GalleryNew York

Wu Chi-Tsung: jing-atmospheres
5 Nov - 18 Dec 2021

475 Tenth Avenue, NY 10018

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

not open today
Chi-Tsung’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, and in the US, is an innovative body of work encompassing a broad range of media including photography, video, installation, and painting
Franklin Parrasch GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Sylvia Snowden: The M Street Series
18 Nov - 17 Dec 2021

19 East 66th Street, NY 10065

Mon-Sat 11am-6pm by appointment

not open today
the gallery’s first show with Snowden provides an overview of this iconic body of work which spans from the mid-1970s through the late 1980s
Menconi + SchoelkopfNew York Upper East Side

Bluemner and the Critics
9 Nov - 17 Dec 2021

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm & by appointment

not open today
the exhibition shares the artist’s career and accomplishments through his works of art, writings, theories, and also through the words of America’s leading critics over the broad sweep of the twentieth century
PetzelNew York Upper East Side

Ross Bleckner: Heart in the corner of the room
3 Nov - 17 Dec 2021

35 E 67th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
a body of work never exhibited before, which provides a revealing debut look at Bleckner’s earliest years as a painter
PetzelNew York Chelsea

Maria Lassnig: The Paris Years, 1960–68
4 Nov - 17 Dec 2021

456 W 18th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
an exhibition of important paintings by the Austrian artist that have rarely been seen in the USA
SculptureCenterNew York, Public

Diane Severin Nguyen
16 Sep - 13 Dec 2021

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

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

Nguyen’s first solo institutional exhibition is built around a newly commissioned moving image work set in Warsaw, loosely following an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to be absorbed into a South Korean pop-inspired dance group
SculptureCenterNew York, Public

Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry
14 Oct - 13 Dec 2021

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

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

Knobkerry was a store founded by artist and designer Sara Penn in NYC from the 60s through the 90s - this exhibition presents new work curated by Interim Director Kyle Dancewicz as a collaborative research between curator, oral historian, and the artists
Almine RechNew York Upper East Side

last week
Genieve Figgis: Immortal Reflection
4 Nov - 11 Dec 2021

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

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

not open today
Figgis’s subversive paintings are innately libertine, exuding pleasure and satire, sensitivity and subversion in equal measure
Gagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea

last week
John Chamberlain: Stance, Rhythm, and Tilt
28 Sep - 11 Dec 2021

522 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
“the stance, and the rhythm, and the tilt are all in there. . . . But I went at the materials the way the materials evidently told me to. You squeeze one and you wad another, and you melt another” - Chamberlain
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

last week
KAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON
5 Nov - 11 Dec 2021

20 East 79th St, NY 10075

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

not open today
new paintings and sculptures by KAWS
Sotheby’s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Modern Art Sale Auction: 03 Dec - 10 Dec, 2021
Exhibition: 3 Dec - 10 Dec 2021

BERTOIA: The Sonambient Barn Collection Auction: 07 Dec 2021
Exhibition: 3 Dec - 7 Dec 2021

PROUVÉ x BASQUIAT: Art and Design from the Collection of Peter M. Brant and Stephanie Seymour Auction: 08 Dec 2021
Exhibition: 3 Dec - 7 Dec 2021

Important Design Auction: 08 Dec 2021
Exhibition: 3 Dec - 7 Dec 2021

The Collection of Douglas S. Cramer Auction: 09 Dec - 16 Dec, 2021
Exhibition: 9 Dec - 15 Dec 2021

The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman Auction: 09 Dec - 16 Dec, 2021
Exhibition: 11 Dec - 15 Dec 2021

Contemporary Art Auction: 09 Dec - 17 Dec, 2021
Exhibition: 9 Dec - 15 Dec 2021
HOSTLER | BURROWSNew York

last week
Matter at Hand: Ten Artists in Denmark
28 Oct - 9 Dec 2021

35 East 10th Street, NY 10003

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
work by Stine Bidstrup, Anne Brandhøj, Yuki Ferdinandsen, Bjørn Friborg, Hanne G, Jakob Jørgensen, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, Astrid Krogh, Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen, and Maria Sparre-Petersen
BonhamsNew York

The Gift of Photographs Auction: 24 Nov - 08 Dec, 2021

Post-War & Contemporary Art, Featuring a Selection of Modern & Contemporary African Art Auction: 29 Nov - 10 Dec, 2021

Deck the Walls. Prints & Multiples Auction: 01 Dec - 09 Dec, 2021

The Collection of Amalia de Schulthess Auction: 07 Dec 2021
Exhibition: 2 Dec - 6 Dec 2021

Modern Decorative Art + Design Auction: 14 Dec 2021
Exhibition: 8 Dec - 13 Dec 2021
Leila Heller GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
Richard Fishman: Break, Blow, Burn
14 Sep - 6 Dec 2021

17 East 76th Street, NY 10021

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
a series of seventy small and medium-sized sculptures by Fishman in his first solo exhibition at the gallery
Mark BorghiNew York Upper East Side

last week
Mark Borghi at Art Miami 2021
30 Nov - 5 Dec 2021

52 East 76th Street, NY 10021

not open today

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