125 Newbury · An exploration of unique chair sculptures by Lucas Samaras, blending art and utility, complemented by a republished interview with Arne Glimcher.

303 Gallery · This exhibition by Sam Falls explores the natural processes of decomposition and uses environmental elements to create site-specific artworks that reflect nature's cycles. It includes paintings and sculptures influenced by the environment and time.

303 Gallery · 303 Gallery presents 'What does the dog say?', an exhibition of new paintings by Tanya Merrill. The paintings feature narratives that examine the complex relationship between humanity and nature, using motifs from art history to address contemporary issues.

5-50 Gallery · 5-50 Gallery is pleased to present Pillow Princess, a group exhibition featuring the work of Debra Pearlman, Alexandria Deters, and Kristin O'Connor. The exhibition challenges reductive narratives, instead reclaiming and reframing self-prioritization as a form of agency. The artists examine womanhood through multimedia practices, exploring themes of desire and autonomy within cultural contexts that often marginalize women's self-determination. Pearlman presents silkscreen prints with glitter and contemporary photographic works; Deters contributes embroidered textiles and self-portrait photography with layered cultural references; O'Connor displays oil paintings exploring figurative subjects.

56 Henry · 56 HENRY is pleased to present Speed Stick, an exhibition of new work by Jo Messer, on view from March 19th through May 17th at 56 and 105 Henry Street.

56 Henry · 'Speed Stick' spreads new paintings by Jo Messer across both 56 Henry storefronts — the Yale-trained painter folds fish into her vocabulary of mouths, limbs, and cropped figures, doubling forms across panels until still life, body, and gesture collapse into the same slippery picture plane.

601Artspace · A group exhibition considering artists, writers, and cultural workers whose practices connect creative freedom with political and social constraint.

601Artspace · 'Under, Cover' presents new work by Brooklyn-based Colombian artist Diana Sofía Lozano (b. 1992, Cali; Yale MFA 2021) at 601Artspace — her botanical hybrids, real and invented, used as a vocabulary for hybrid identity at the seams of gender, taxonomy, and colonial inheritance.

A.I.R. Gallery · A.I.R.'s annual spring benefit doubles in 2026 as a farewell to the gallery's longtime Plymouth Street home before its move to Manhattan. The benefit exhibition pairs an in-person preview (May 13, 6–8pm) with an online auction featuring works donated by over twenty-five A.I.R. members, and culminates in a May 27 Moving Party with a performance by Asia Stewart. Proceeds fund the renovation of A.I.R.'s new Manhattan space, which will double the square footage devoted to programs.

ACA Galleries · ACA Galleries is proud to present Doowon Arrives in New York with Too Many Animals, Doowon Lee's second solo exhibition at the gallery, introducing a new body of work that is unabashedly exuberant, materially rich, and teeming with life. The self-taught South Korean artist works as an itinerant creator, establishing temporary studios across Pakistan, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and beyond. There is intentionally no quiet negative space in Lee's paintings. The compositions are dense, noisy, and intentionally unruly, the works densely packed with tigers, leopards, frogs, birds, and fish. Lee has received recognition including a 2023 solo exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery and selection as a representative artist for the 2024 Busan Biennale.

Acquavella Galleries · Acquavella Galleries presents more than fifty paintings, works on paper, and sculptures tracing Henri Matisse's investigations of color, form, and harmony across five decades.

Alexander Berggruen · Alexander Berggruen presents the gallery's first solo show with Tahnee Lonsdale. The exhibition envisions a spiritual ecosystem of abstracted feminine beings who are interconnected, sentient, and watchful of their fragile human acolytes — clustered figures that recall sacred geometry while evoking forms ranging from cells and atoms to trees, planets, and constellations. Paintings feature painted, frame-like borders that suggest the historical format of scrolls and papyrus.

Alexander Gray Associates · Joan Semmel's exhibition explores her long-standing focus on the body's representation as experienced rather than objectified, highlighting her feminist approach across five decades of work.

Alexander Gray Associates · 'Continuities' is recent self-portraiture by Joan Semmel (b. 1932) — now in her nineties, still painting her own nude body in saturated washes and doubled figures — staged simultaneously across Alexander Gray in New York and Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, on the heels of her 2025 Jewish Museum survey.

ALEXANDRE · A two-part presentation across ALEXANDRE and CANDICE MADEY

Alisan Fine Arts · The exhibition features the work of three Macau-born artists whose practices span printmaking, photography, and ceramic sculpture, sharing a quiet sensibility that whispers rather than declares.

Almine Rech · Vaughn Spann's sixth solo exhibition with Almine Rech reworks the American flag as a charged material and political symbol through mixed-media paintings.

Almine Rech · Alejandro Cardenas returns to drawing as the generative core of a new body of paintings, extending his surreal, post-human visual language across Almine Rech's Tribeca space.

Almine Rech · 'ARACHNE' is Chilean painter Alejandro Cardenas's seventh solo with Almine Rech, conceived and made in Madrid — new oils on linen of faceless figures dancing and embracing inside a millennia-old abandoned city, surrounded by an ephemeral pencil grid drawn directly on the gallery walls.

Amant · Solo presentation by the French-Caribbean artist and DJ working across sound, sculpture, and moving image. Ritual, diaspora, and pop iconography circle each other.

Amant · Survey of Gordon's visual practice from 2007 to the present — film, drawing, ceramics, painting, readymades. The first major institutional show of her work in NYC.

Amant · Folded Group presents a set of artistic practices that have shared moments on stage and in the studio. The exhibition gathers nineteen artist-musicians from Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and Western Massachusetts, highlighting aesthetics of experimentation, immediacy, and the handmade. Works include paintings, woven tapestries, drawings, lathe-cut records, and sculptural noise instruments. Curated by Bill Nace and Kim Gordon.

Amant · CFGNY creates an artificial landscape with a bridge and ceramic tiles from collaborators that together suggest an abstracted pond. The installation features five water clocks marking different temporal rhythms operating alongside and against standardized clock time. A pop-up shop in the lobby showcases garments as a social interface where collective identities are negotiated. The exhibition examines how collectivity persists under regimes that seek to measure, monetize, and regulate time, bodies, and expression.

American Academy of Arts and Letters · Moving-image and installation work by the British-French artist, mining the texture of intimacy in late-platform culture.

American Folk Art Museum · Survey of self-taught artists across the 20th and 21st centuries — over 90 works examining the construction of the 'outsider' category.

American Folk Art Museum · Mounted during the celebration of the United States semiquincentennial, Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States draws from the American Folk Art Museum's rich collections to explore links between vernacular art and the construction of an American sense of self. The show features works across various media that express love of country while also revealing the complexities and contradictions embedded in such expressions.

Americas Society · First New York survey of Mexican abstractionist Lilia Carrillo (1930–1974) — the most prominent woman of Mexico's postwar Generación de la Ruptura — with around two dozen paintings from 1961 to her death in 1974, alongside archival material; curated by Tate's Tobias Ostrander.

Anat Ebgi · Anat Ebgi presents Janet Werner's inaugural New York exhibition, continuing her investigation into female portraiture through fashion and art history. Werner collages magazine images spanning twenty-five years, creating compositional breaks that inspire her painting process. She incorporates landscapes referencing Munch, Friedrich, and Watteau, establishing environments that feel staged and romanticized. The exhibition title subverts traditional art historical naming conventions, giving figure and ground equal importance and suggesting a moveable landscape that could get up and walk away. Her subjects derive from popular media but aren't necessarily famous individuals. Werner emphasizes layered surfaces showing hesitation and revision, allowing figures to emerge through accumulated marks. She combines the exterior world and the inner world of the psyche into unified compositions that resist singular interpretation.

Anat Ebgi · Anat Ebgi is pleased to present Tech Duinn, Ryan Driscoll's second solo exhibition with the gallery and debut in New York, which will include new oil paintings and watercolors. The exhibition explores themes of death and the afterlife through figurative paintings and watercolors drawing on Irish mythology, classical sculpture, and symbolist traditions. Driscoll's work features idealized frontal figures alongside dense symbolic imagery rendered with precise control and minimal visible brushwork.

Andrew Edlin Gallery · Andrew Edlin Gallery presents Orbit, the fourth solo exhibition for Karla Knight. Knight's art evokes a sense that the shapes, signs, letters, and glyphs embedded in her paintings, drawings, and tapestries contain a hidden structure or language, rendered with clarity in neatly ordered arrangements like a code or relic from an archaeological dig conducted somewhere between the future and the distant past. The exhibition features Knight's signature visual vocabulary including floating otherworldly orbs, diagrammatic constellations, and a script of characters that appear simultaneously insistently meaningful and stubbornly opaque. Orbit also includes a laboratory-like room offering a glimpse into the artist's mind with objects like rocks and books, as well as drawings and studies for her paintings.

Andrew Edlin Gallery · Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Orbit, our fourth solo exhibition for Karla Knight. Featuring otherworldly orbs, diagrammatic constellations, and a script of characters, Knight's work insists on the value of the unknowable.

Andrew Kreps Gallery · Andrew Kreps presents Eileen Agar's surrealist works across painting, collage, and assemblage, tracing her lyrical approach to form and material.

Andrew Kreps Gallery · A companion Andrew Kreps exhibition of works that stretch the image of the head across surreal, comic, bodily, and psychological registers.

Andrew Kreps Gallery · Survey of seven decades of work by Eileen Agar (1899–1991), the Buenos Aires-born British Surrealist who was one of the few women in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries — staged at Andrew Kreps in parallel with a companion presentation at Alison Jacques in London.

Anonymous Gallery · Anonymous Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Peter Brock, on view from April 24 through May 30. In this body of work, Brock continues his sustained exploration of pictorial space and atmosphere through painting.

Anonymous Gallery · A solo exhibition of new paintings by Peter Brock, on view from April 24 through May 30. In this body of work, Brock continues his sustained exploration of the horizon as a spatial device and ontological proposition.

Anton Kern Gallery · Anton Kern Gallery presents Nobuyoshi Araki and Roe Ethridge, a photography exhibition selected and sequenced by Ethridge that brings together two series from Araki's archive alongside works by Ethridge, both new and revisited. For the exhibition, Ethridge has created new prints for his series Floral Arrangements (1995–1997/2026): pinhole photographs of carnations, daisies, and other flowers bought in bulk and arranged in thrift store vases that he painted, against floral textile fabrics. The result, in keeping with Ethridge's career-spanning approach, is what he has described as Pop Pictorialism: a synthesis of the flat affect of pop with the dreamy impressionistic intentions. From Araki's archive, the exhibition includes works from Flower Cemetery (2017)—cut flower bouquets arranged with plastic figurines like dinosaurs and action figures, and other uncanny objects—and Tokyo Nude (1989), in which Tokyo's backstreets are set against the naked female body, collapsing private and public experiences.

Anton Kern Gallery · Anton Kern Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Lin May Saeed, featuring bronzes and foam sculptures exploring themes of animal liberation and interspecies solidarity. The presentation gathers sculptural reliefs, stage-like compositions, and three-dimensional bronzes that challenge human hubris through dark humor and artistic freedom, including the artist's Ghazal Relief (2022).

Apexart · This exhibition brings together eleven Brazilian artists addressing reproductive rights and bodily autonomy through diverse media including textiles, ceramics, performance, painting, and drawing. The curators note that abortion and reproductive rights are not very present in Brazilian art due to legal restrictions and institutional resistance. The show draws inspiration from a poem by Angélica Freitas, emphasizing the ambivalences that permeate the experience of femininity still tied to the anatomical dimension.

Arsenal Contemporary NY · A dynamic group exhibition inspired by Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, exploring the mysterious terrain between the rational and the unknown through sculpture, photography, and painting.

Art Cake · This milestone exhibition marks the 90th Anniversary of American Abstract Artists, featuring work representing the organization's founding members and early participants.

Artists Space · Artists Space presents David Armstrong's intimate portraits, foregrounding the photographer's friendships and the downtown communities around him.

Artists Space · 'Portraits' is the first US survey of David Armstrong (1954–2014) — over 90 photographs spanning the 1990s through the 2010s, including the reconstructed 27-foot wall installation first staged at Matthew Marks in 2004 — co-organized by Jay Sanders and Kelly Taxter with the Armstrong estate.

Asya Geisberg Gallery · 'Kings and Conquerors' assembles new fabric-dye monoprints on stretched cotton by Tehran-born, Chicago-based painter Orkideh Torabi — caricatures of male authority whose patrician self-importance she's been deflating since her first US solo in 2017, borrowing Persian-miniature composition to skewer patriarchal power.

ATRA Form Gallery · An immersive installation presented by ATRA and Métaphores during New York Design Week, featuring a curated selection of works by Alain Jacquet inspired by celestial landscapes and imagined worlds. Opens with a cocktail reception on Tuesday, May 13 (6–9pm) and remains on view through May 20.

BAXTER ST · 'On Broken Ground' presents Hannah Smith Allen — BAXTER ST's 2025 Mid Career Recipient — with photographs, screen prints, collages, and a video installation tracing the U.S.–Mexico border as it appears both in person and as glitched, splintered footage scraped from Google Earth.

Berry Campbell Gallery · Louisa Chase: The Eighties explores Chase's position between New Image Painting and Neo-Expressionism, highlighting her gestural abstraction and use of symbolic imagery. This exhibition is Berry Campbell's first featuring Chase's work since representing her estate.

Berry Campbell Gallery · "Sally Silberberg: Shifting Ground" is a focused exhibition of porcelain sculptures marking a pivotal moment in Silberberg’s practice, curated by Glenn Adamson.

bitforms gallery · bitforms gallery presents Code Chronicles V.2, a group exhibition examining the intersection of code, AI, and contemporary digital practice during NYC art week.

Bookstein Projects · Bookstein Projects presents an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Resika — the artist's sixteenth solo show with the gallery — comprising eight recent paintings finished over the last year. The works depict simplified coastal scenes arranged in three horizontal bands that stretch the length of the canvas: the sky, the sea, and the sand. Two paintings titled The Sea and The Sea #2 replace the sand with crashing surf. Resika (b. 1928), who studied under Hans Hofmann before moving to Italy to study classical masters, employs vigorous brushwork and paint applied directly from the tube.

Bookstein Projects · Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of eight new paintings by Paul Resika. This is the artist's sixteenth solo show with the gallery.

Bortolami · Bortolami is pleased to present Suspended Landscapes, an exhibition of new paintings by Seung Ah Paik. Paik expands upon her exploration of the physical and emotional geographies of the human form through contemporary compositions that highlight the body's natural state.

Bortolami · Violet Dennison’s first solo exhibition with Bortolami features new paintings that utilize floral forms derived from Jacob’s Ladder, exploring mutable forms as part of an artificial, generative ornamental system.

Bortolami · Renée Green's exhibition gathers works that treat language, architecture, memory, and image circulation as interdependent systems of meaning.

Bortolami · 'Secret' returns Renée Green's 1993/2006/2010 work — black-and-white photographs, a three-channel video device, and multilingual soundtracks documenting her clandestine residency in a Le Corbusier housing block in Firminy — to New York, the city where it first showed, augmented by a new two-dimensional piece made for 55 Walker.

Bortolami · 'Suspended Landscapes' brings new pigment-and-charcoal paintings on calico by Seoul-born, Pittsburgh-based painter Seung Ah Paik to Bortolami's 39 Walker space — extending the body-as-cartography project she revived after years away from professional practice with last year's New York debut at Gratin.

BRIC · ULTRAVIOLET is a visual art exhibition curated by the 2026 Youth Curatorial Fellows exploring the question: What does unseen beauty look like? The exhibition features a poetic meditation on invisible and ethereal beauty, describing it as something mysterious like the planting of an uncommon seed and a color hard to define, so divine. Concrete Stories is a film festival created by the 2026 Youth Media Fellows that aims to promote creativity from the youth and showcase their power and potential. The festival presents authentic, entertaining, and diverse works across all genres by New York City youth filmmakers with awards given across multiple categories.

Broadway Gallery · Broadway Gallery presents 'Primary', the second solo exhibition by Detroit artist James Benjamin Franklin, featuring non-conforming paintings with cast-resin substrates and found textiles.

Bronx Documentary Center · A comprehensive survey of Martha Cooper's six-decade career documenting urban spaces, community life, and creative expression. The exhibition reflects the broader scope of her practice, including featured series of casitas — informal community-built structures in Puerto Rican neighborhoods — alongside photographs of street racing, BMX riding, graffiti, breaking and street art by artists including Banksy and TATS Cru, as well as scenes connected to Fashion Moda. The exhibition also presents photographs made in the Sowebo neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, and selections from Tokyo Tattoo 1970, documenting Japan's underground tattoo culture.

Bronx River Art Center · The exhibition showcases three Latinx women artists using a decolonial and feminist approach to archiving, foregrounding memory work, an ongoing history of overlooked labor and knowledge across the Americas. Working in textile, print, and sculpture, the artists explore archival fragments through ceramic water installations, embroidered figures, and herbal medicine documentation. C.J. Chueca contributes ceramic pools exploring water and loss; Cinthya Santos Briones presents a collaborative herbal remedy dictionary; and Blanka Amezkua creates embroideries reclaiming historically dismissed labor forms. The show frames memory work as both a political and aesthetic intervention, centering Latinx women as archivists who reclaim overlooked knowledge transmission and propose archiving not only as preservation, but as creation.

BronxArtSpace · In Our Hands centers the boundless possibility of agency in tandem with imagination. In a formal sense, these artists' practices are underpinned by their relationship to unorthodox media and a mutual recognition that the primary difference between 'object' and 'artwork' is contextualization. The show features artists working with unconventional materials including mirrors, bedsheets, cotton, and kanekalon.

Brooklyn Museum · Couture-as-sculpture survey of the Dutch designer's collaborations across architecture, biology, and engineering.

Brooklyn Museum · A survey of Seydou Keïta's studio portraiture, emphasizing the tactile surfaces, fabrics, poses, and social identities that shaped his images in Bamako.

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Canal Projects · Bangkok-based textile artist Jakkai Siributr's first US solo, anchored by 'There's no Place' (2020–present), a collaborative embroidery begun in the Koung Jor Shan refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border — accompanied by works built from tourism-industry uniforms left obsolete by the COVID shutdown, curated by Amy George of the Whitworth.

CANDICE MADEY · Tessa Greene O’Brien’s first solo exhibition in New York, presented as a unified two-gallery project across Candice Madey (1 Rivington Street, through May 23) and Alexandre Gallery (25 East 73rd Street, through June 12). Expansive paintings draw on multiple art movements and reflect the artist’s close connections to people and places, blending atmospheric and grounded compositions to explore the interconnectedness of life.

CANDICE MADEY · A two-part presentation across CANDICE MADEY and ALEXANDRE

Carvalho · Mineral Meridian is Australian artist Heath Wae's inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery and first in New York. Working with distilled, hand-foraged materials, Wae constructs his paintings from compounds whose origins remain active within them, giving rise to surfaces that register both physical density and temporal charge. Rather than resolving into fixed image, these works remain in a state of material transition, carrying forward the conditions of their origin into the present of the work. The works feature magnified orchid imagery characterized by soft tonal gradations and warm pastels; Wae's practice incorporates hand-foraged and processed materials including seaweed emulsions, myrrh resin binders, frankincense tinctures, and acacia gum extractions.

Carvalho · Kat Howard's inaugural show with Carvalho, In Place of No, My Mouth Leaks Honey, opens in the gallery's 110 Waterbury St. space.

Carvalho · Working with distilled, hand-foraged materials, Wae constructs his paintings from compounds whose origins remain active within them, giving rise to surfaces that register both physical density and temporal charge. Mineral Meridian is Wae's NY solo debut.

Casey Kaplan · Casey Kaplan presents All I thought / I loved, Kevin Beasley's fifth show at the gallery. The press release describes the exhibition as an exploration where "landscape is not rendered so much as it is built to surface—an accumulation of atmosphere and lived experience, slipping between physicality and illegibility." The exhibition features resin paintings, videos, cotton-based sculptures, and cast resin works. Beasley employs a Sharpie transfer process that binds drawing with casting, and works with materials sourced from his family property in Valentines, Virginia.

Center for Architecture · In 2018 Dutch photographer Arjan Bronkhorst published the photographic volume Wealth of Sobriety based on a several-years-long project of photographing the lesser-known, and sometimes all but unknown, houses by the renowned architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). The exhibition presents photos of 15 houses constructed between 1924 and 1963, including Rietveld's sole detached house built outside the Netherlands — commissioned by Professor Parkhurst in Oberlin, Ohio in 1961. The curated display creates a visual narrative, juxtaposing details from different houses and inviting visitors into Rietveld's world through salient aesthetic attributes and patterns.

Chapter NY · Chapter NY presents Big Dance, a solo exhibition by Mary Stephenson on view at 60 Walker Street from April 24 through May 30, 2026. Stephenson, born in 1989 in London, graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2023 and the Glasgow School of Art in 2011. The exhibition features new oil-on-linen paintings including the title work Big Dance (2026), All of Our Walls (2026), and New House (Pink) (2026).

Chapter NY · Arcadia Missa is pleased to present INDEX, Nnena Kalu's first solo presentation in the US, hosted by Chapter NY. Comprising selected works on paper from 2018, the exhibition highlights Kalu's early Vortex Drawings and traces the development of her practice. Here, colour emerges as kinetic and intuitive, amplifying the sense of motion across her works. INDEX becomes a catalogue of movement, gesture as language and marks as a record of time, as well as a mapping of Kalu's extensive body of work. Kalu is the winner of the Turner Prize 2025.

Chapter NY · 'Big Dance' fills Chapter NY with new small-scale oils on linen by London painter Mary Stephenson — sparsely populated interiors built from thin, seeping washes of saturated color where threads, slits, and slivers of light serve as the only way in.

Charles Moffett · Charles Moffett is pleased to present Lost on a Two Way Street, a solo exhibition of new works by Kim Dacres, a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who lives in Harlem and works in the Bronx. An expansion upon Dacres' 2025 body of work, Crossroads Like This, this exhibition marks the artist's second solo show with the gallery. Maximizing the conceptual and formal possibilities of her signature material of reclaimed tires, Dacres' new busts and wall-mounted sculptures probe the extreme range of emotions experienced over the last 18 months in the United States, an evocation of what it feels like to live through, and to strive for a state of peace amid, the relentless assault on universal rights to life and liberty.

Charles Moffett · Second Charles Moffett solo by Harlem-based sculptor Kim Dacres, expanding her 'Crossroads Like This' body of work — busts and wall reliefs assembled from reclaimed bicycle and auto tires, with braided and bunned hairstyles foregrounding the labor of self-presentation under the political pressures of the last eighteen months.

CHART · Whitney Oldenburg’s new sculptures and drawings examine material accumulation through the lens of survival, reflecting on cycles of consumption, preservation, and the instability beneath systems built to sustain us.

Christie's Rockefeller Center · Free public viewing of works heading to Christie's spring 20th and 21st Century evening sales at the auction house's Rockefeller Center galleries. The 2026 season is anchored by major estates including the S.I. Newhouse collection (led by Pollock's Number 7A and a Brancusi Danaïde) and works from the late arts patron Agnes Gund (Rothko, Twombly, Cornell), alongside a multi-owner evening auction of 20th-century art.

CLEA RSKY · Ranee presents collected ephemeral materials assembled without her typical protective layer of paint. She describes the work as a composite of my timeline — shreds and scraps of ephemera pieced together to tell a story. Inspired by the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, the exhibition embraces Kintsugi philosophy — the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold. Rather than accepting irreversible damage, Ranee celebrates transformation through reassembly, finding beauty in imperfection and creating enhanced iterations of fragmented materials.

Company Gallery · Hayden Dunham's third solo exhibition at Company Gallery, NEVER IS OVER, stages a cosmological tendency towards reconnection through recent explorations in video, sculpture, and sound. The exhibition explores themes of reconnection, rupture, and redemption, suggesting that separation is temporary and inevitable reconnection is a natural trajectory.

Company Gallery · 'Before days break' is Stefania Batoeva's first solo at Company Gallery — new oil paintings by the Sofia-born, Paris-based artist (b. 1981) in which figures and fractured cityscapes pull apart and reassemble, insisting on the presence of love even as the self collapses.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · The exhibition showcases over 70 large-format photographs documenting American manufacturing. "My photographs are a celebration of the making of things, of the transformation of raw materials into useful objects," featuring everything from musical instruments to aerospace components, highlighting both traditional craftsmanship and advanced technology in contemporary factories.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · This installation features a large-scale, handmade audio system by multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull (known professionally as OJAS). Upon entering, visitors experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull's sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply with sound. The listening room operates with daily programming including live operators on select days and rotating genre-specific playlists.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Art of Noise shows how design shapes the way we experience music — how and where we listen to it, how it's communicated visually, and what we choose to hear.

Craig Starr Gallery · Craig Starr Gallery presents a comprehensive exploration of Jasper Johns's flag motif through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, with loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the artist's collection, and private holdings. Johns famously recalled: 'One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it.' That dream inspired Flag (1954–55), launching his decades-long engagement with the subject. The exhibition examines how Johns transforms a universally recognized symbol through unconventional treatments — double and triple flags, complementary color palettes, monochromes, and varied compositional arrangements — converting the flag 'from a stable symbol into a site where cultural attitudes…surface.' A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with a new essay by Richard Shiff.

Craig Starr Gallery · Craig Starr Gallery is pleased to present Don Nice: Early Works, 1963-68 on view May–August 21, 2026. Organized in collaboration with the artist's estate, the exhibition brings together a selection of early work in both painting and sculpture. The presentation chiefly unites two distinct bodies of work — Nice's larger than-life American motifs based on labels and ads, originally shown as a group at the Feigen + Herbert Gallery in 1963, and his meticulously detailed renderings of everyday objects and iconic consumer products. It will also include Nice's Object Boxes, 1964, first shown in 'The Box Show' at the Byron Gallery in 1965.

Craig Starr Gallery · First focused exhibition of Tom Otterness's 'Battle of the Sexes' — the seventeen-relief plaster cycle, also known as 'The Frieze,' he made in 1982–83 and first showed at Brooke Alexander — since its original presentation, with twelve reliefs newly cast from the original clay molds and hung individually at eye level.

D'Lan Contemporary New York · D'Lan Galleries' annual flagship presentation of Australian First Nations art returns for its second international edition. The 2026 edition assembles nearly 60 cross-period works spanning early Papunya board paintings from 1971–72 to major contemporary practices — anchored by the Carey Lyon and Jo Crosby Collection of ten rare foundational Papunya paintings. Headline works include Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa's Honey Ant Travelling Dreaming (1971), Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi's Man Dreaming (1972), and Yumpululu Tjungurrayi's rarely-seen Special Ceremony (1972). Presented in collaboration with Pace Gallery's concurrent Emily Kam Kngwarray survey across Chelsea.

Dashwood Projects · First New York solo by Franco-Vietnamese photographer Maï Lucas, forty years after she first arrived in the city in 1986 — two decades of photographs from Harlem, East New York, Jamaica Queens and Washington Heights tracing hip-hop's emergence on stoops and street corners, organized with Speciwomen and curated by Philo Cohen.

David Nolan Gallery · Tilt showcases new and recent work by Mel Kendrick, featuring painted wood sculptures and cast paper works. The exhibition highlights Kendrick's innovation within his own visual language, emphasizing abstraction and a timeline of creation.

David Zwirner · David Zwirner brings together Gerhard Richter's landscape works, spanning painting and image-making modes that blur observation, memory, and abstraction.

David Zwirner · A focused presentation of Jasper Johns's works on paper, showing how signs, marks, and serial motifs shift through drawing and printmaking.

David Zwirner · A group exhibition at 52 Walker organized around the egg as form, symbol, and unstable object across sculpture, painting, and assemblage.

David Zwirner · David Zwirner's Upper East Side exhibition examines stone as a sculptural, architectural, and symbolic material across modern and contemporary work.

David Zwirner · Lisa Yuskavage's exhibition presents new paintings whose glowing palettes and staged figures continue her charged approach to narrative and portraiture.

David Zwirner · A collection exhibition highlighting postwar and contemporary works from Joel and Carole Bernstein, with an emphasis on canonical artists seen through private collecting.

David Zwirner · David Zwirner presents an exhibition of works by American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) conceived by independent curator Jeffrey Weiss. The exhibition focuses on related approaches to process in the artist's practice, together signified by the terms copy and trace, featuring drawings and prints spanning the 1960s through the 2010s that demonstrate the various ways Johns has deployed methods of copying and tracing as means of representation—by copying one of his own paintings, by leaving an imprint, or trace, of the body, or by tracing an existing image through a translucent support. The exhibition is specifically focused on three direct forms of replication: two designated by the term trace (the trace of the body through direct imprint, and tracing using ink and water-based media onto translucent Mylar), and the third form of replication being the copy or variant. The exhibition includes works on paper from the 1960s and early 1970s, including a suite of four major drawings on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago, Study for Skin I–IV (1962), which Johns produced by coating his face and hands with oil and pressing them into paper before covering these imprints with broad strokes of charcoal.

David Zwirner · Curated by Martin Germann around Fujiko Nakaya's 1973 film of the same name, 'Statics of an Egg' threads a generation of younger Japanese-born artists — Yu Nishimura, Kenji Ide, Miho Dohi and others — through postwar precedents including Koji Enokura, Yutaka Matsuzawa, and Isamu Wakabayashi, with gravity as connective theme.

David Zwirner · 'Landschaften' pairs Gerhard Richter's photorealist landscape paintings from the 1960s through the 2000s with selected 'Abstrakte Bilder' (1976–2017) — curated by David Zwirner and David Leiber with the 94-year-old artist, including loans from the 2025–26 Fondation Louis Vuitton retrospective and Richter's own collection.

Derek Eller Gallery · 'Deep Field' shows new laser-cut, plated-steel wall reliefs by Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller — the Brooklyn-based sculptor extending her decades-long preoccupation with light, perception, and the physics of space into pierced metal panels that borrow their title from Hubble's faintest sky.

Derosia · Derosia hosts Gallery Vacancy (Shanghai) for a group presentation featuring CFGNY, Alice Gong Xiaowen, Gu Xingzi, Han Xinyu, Michael Ho, Fu Nagasawa, Sydney Shen, and Sun Woo. The exhibition runs May 14 through June 13, 2026.

Di Donna Galleries · A landmark exhibition devoted to the most radical and transformative decade of Salvador Dalí’s career, showcasing paintings, works on paper, and sculpture from major private and public collections. The exhibition highlights Dalí's artistic evolution and his impact on the art world between 1929 and 1939.

Dia Beacon · Dia opens a new presentation of 8 paintings and 3 sculptures from the 1960s, marking a recent gift of Lee Ufan works to the foundation.

Dia Beacon · Dia Beacon presents Jack Whitten's paintings as technological, material, and spiritual investigations into abstraction's capacity to carry memory.

Dia Chelsea · First comprehensive New York survey of the Argentine conceptualist, spanning sculpture, film, and time-based installation.

Dia Chelsea · 'The Machine' is the first major New York solo for Argentine conceptualist David Lamelas (b. 1946) — a six-decade survey at Dia Chelsea including the newly commissioned 'Situación de tiempo II' (2025), a parallel film program, and a monthly performance series including 1968's 'Office of Information About the Vietnam War,' first staged at the Venice Biennale.

DIMIN · DIMIN presents Stephen Thorpe's Half in Love with Oblivion, a solo exhibition opening during New York art week in the Tribeca gallery corridor.

Dracula's Revenge · 'Demeter' is Swiss painter Guillaume Dénervaud's solo at Dracula's Revenge — new tempera-on-linen ecosystems built with architectural drafting stencils and pigments crushed from minerals and plants, by the Fribourg-born, Paris-based artist whose 2023 Swiss Institute show first introduced the work to New York.

Duane Thomas Gallery · Shirley Pettibone: Cloth Objects 1968–1973 presents a focused selection of the artist’s soft sculptural works, developed through her experimentation with stained, cut, and sewn fabric.

Duckworth Gallery · The exhibition explores how past, present, and future are not discrete categories but overlapping states of consciousness. Each artist contributes a distinct temporal perspective — Magi anchors the show in memory, Sheer engages with immediate experience, and Skaya creates work in an intuitive future present space.

Edwynn Houk Gallery · Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce 'Super Modern Things', an exhibition of new works by Sebastiaan Bremer. The artworks combine photography and painting to explore flowers and the layered histories and concerns embedded in still lifes, addressing questions of beauty, mortality, value, ecology, and global exchange.

El Museo del Barrio · Survey of the Bronx-born Puerto Rican photographer (1938–2021) whose street and studio portraits remap Nuyorican identity in the 1970s and 1980s.

El Museo del Barrio · Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025 debuts recently accessioned works to El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection. The Spanglish title means hanging out with your friends and plays on multiple definitions including socializing and installing artworks in a gallery setting. The exhibition showcases 39 newly acquired works by 36 artists that reflect the Museum's ongoing commitment to representing the cultural vibrancy and complexity of Latinx and Latin American communities, featuring nearly 40 works across diverse media — painting, photography, sculpture, and video — and cultural perspectives, organized into thematic clusters. Select groupings build on the museum's historical strengths, such as Puerto Rican and Nuyorican portraiture, Latinx photography, and printmaking. The exhibition also highlights the evolution of the museum's collecting strategy, with renewed focus on queer artists and those of Indigenous descent.

Eleventh Hour Art · Multidisciplinary work from 18 trans artists exploring how queer bodies, lives, and desires interact with and transform the natural world. Artists employ organic materials including clay, metal, water, bone, and fiber to create work that reveals trans artists and their subjects as alchemists, taking the natural materials given to them and transforming them into a holy sublime. Curated by Carter Shocket as part of Trans Art Fest.

Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza · Sara Ouhaddou's public artwork transforms Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza through letterforms and patterning rooted in histories of writing, craft, and exchange.

Emmelines · First New York solo by Cypriot artist Marietta Mavrokordatou (b. 1996, Nicosia), whose macro photographs of paired glass marbles — refracting one inside the other — treat the photographic lens itself as the subject, building a still-life vocabulary out of distortion, alignment, and ambient light.

Entrance | Lower East Side · 'Entrance' splits the gallery in two — Jackson Maximo Armstrong debuts new silkscreened textile prints in the lower level, scanned from his fabric archive and burned onto prepared ground, while his father Zachary Armstrong takes the upstairs with an installation of new work.

Eric Firestone Gallery · Eric Firestone Gallery presents Women Across America: 1945-1979, a historical group exhibition foregrounding women artists and postwar American art across regions.

Fergus McCaffrey · Fergus McCaffrey, New York, is pleased to present Birgit Jürgenssen: Drawings and Photographs, an exhibition of twenty-four works bringing together the Austrian artist's most inventive works on paper alongside her pioneering photo-based practice.

Foreign & Domestic · The exhibition title changes every day to reflect the day’s date. Before the exhibition opens, its title is April 3, 2026; after the exhibition closes, it will be referred to as May 17, 2026. 45 days, 45 dates, 45 titles.

Fort Gansevoort · Fort Gansevoort presents the first New York solo of Oototol (d. 2009) — born Dewa Raram near Ubud, Bali, the self-taught painter worked alongside Murni and Mokoh in Chinese ink on raw canvas, his bamboo-pen soldiers and quotidian scenes carrying the creases of being painted on the studio floor.

François Ghebaly · François Ghebaly New York is pleased to present Paintings, a solo exhibition by Salim Green. The exhibition brings together new small-format paintings made between 2025 and 2026. Painting functions as a primary site within Green's expanded practice, where (il)legibility operates as both strategy and constraint.

Fridman Gallery · Fridman Gallery is honored to present Laurena Finéus's first solo exhibition, Cautionary Tales: A Symphony of Anger/Kòlè. The Haitian-Canadian painter explores displacement, environmental collapse, and transformation through layered mixed-media works on canvas incorporating oil, ink, pigment, and acrylic. The exhibition engages with literary references including Marie Vieux Chauvet's Amour and Édouard Glissant's Chaos-Monde. An opening reception is held Wednesday, May 13, 6-8pm, with an artist talk on Saturday, May 16 at noon.

Gagosian · Gagosian presents Helen Frankenthaler's paintings, emphasizing the balance between immediate poured color and expansive pictorial distance.

Gagosian · Giuseppe Penone's exhibition stages bronze as a reflective, organic, and bodily material within his long investigation of trees, touch, and time.

Gagosian · Eliza Douglas's paintings at Gagosian's Park & 75 space push figure, gesture, and surface into a spectral register of repeated marks and bodies.

Gagosian · Gagosian presents Anselm Kiefer: Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You Still, an exhibition of a new group of paintings that advance Kiefer's ongoing exploration of feminine archetypes and landscape as symbolic form. The paintings weave literary, historical and allegorical references into richly layered surfaces, drawing on sources including Rainer Maria Rilke (specifically The Book of Hours, written between 1899 and 1903), Caspar David Friedrich and figures from classical mythology. A face emerges from the rough surface of a boulder; inscriptions appear across the works. The new paintings employ a complex material vocabulary, incorporating oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, gold leaf, and verdigris sediment of electrolysis.

Galerie Buchholz · Galerie Buchholz New York is proud to announce a new exhibition of Paul Thek, its second solo exhibition since co-representing the artist's estate. The presentation focuses on newspaper paintings, drawings, and a sculptural installation spanning 1969 to 1987, alongside a 1977 quilted flag. The exhibition runs concurrent with presentations of Thek's work at Pace Gallery and Ortuzar Projects, making it the most concentrated Paul Thek moment in New York since his Whitney retrospective in 2010. The opening will include a conversation between Andrew Durbin, author of the new Hujar–Thek biography, and artists Moyra Davey and Rebecca Quaytman.

Galerie Gmurzynska · Galerie Gmurzynska's New York location presents Wifredo Lam & Pablo Picasso, an exhibition of approximately 50 works spanning 1918–1978 that explores the artistic relationship between these two modernist masters. The presentation brings together paintings, frescoes, drawings, collage, and ceramics, including Lam's Femme-Cheval (1948), Picasso's Poissons autour d'un citron (1957) ceramic, Picasso's Danseuse avec la corne d'abondance (1918), and Lam's Poissons sur le gril (1975, terracotta and enamel).

Galerie Gmurzynska · Approximately 50 works trace the lifelong friendship between Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) and Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — first exclusive two-person show of the pair since their 1939 Perls Gallery debut — staged in the Fuller Building space the duo once shared at Pierre Matisse, following Lam's MoMA retrospective.

Galerie Gmurzynska · Luxembourg + Co., New York, presents Useless Machines, focusing on the pivotal role of motorized technologies within 20th century art.

Galerie Lelong & Co. · Galerie Lelong & Co., New York presents Lucia Laguna: Apenas meus cabelos são brancos... [Only my hair is white...], the Brazilian artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, organized in collaboration with Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition presents new paintings from two of the artist's ongoing bodies of work, "Pequenos formatos" [Small formats] and "Paisagem" [Landscape], exemplifying Laguna's vibrant palette and the juxtaposition between architecture and natural forms that defines her practice, reflecting her relocation within Rio de Janeiro and subsequent compositional shifts.

Gallery Henoch · Gallery Henoch presents Carin/Rebecca, a two-person show pairing still life painter Carin Gerard with landscapist Rebecca Stenn. Gerard creates larger-than-life flowers and butterflies using Old Masters techniques combined with Munsell color theory. Stenn, trained as a professional dancer, brings movement-inspired abstraction to landscape paintings, often depicting scenes from the Columbia Gorge and Italian countryside. The exhibition unites both artists' focus on color, form, and technique.

GHOSTMACHINE Gallery · The space is transformed into a kinetic tableau bridging the intimate domestic sphere and the relentless hum of industrial production. This exhibition reconsiders the boundaries of the animate, finding emotional resonance in the mechanical.

Gladstone Gallery · An exhibition of new paintings by Celia Paul, marking her inaugural exhibition at Gladstone.

Gladstone Gallery · 'Ten to Get Ready, and Ten to Go' is the first solo exhibition in more than thirty years for American abstract painter Ce Roser (b. 1924) — nine canvases from the late 1970s into the 1980s, made in her Upper West Side studio overlooking the Hudson, where, at 101, she continues to work.

GOCA by Garde · GOCA by Garde presents Mitsumasa Kadota: Dissolving Horizons: A New Figure-Ground Proposition. The show presents Kadota's work as a vital continuation of American Abstract Expressionism, while simultaneously redefining its underlying Eastern spirituality. The artist explores a new proposition regarding the figure-ground relationship that merges Western abstract traditions with Eastern philosophical perspectives on non-dualistic worldviews.

Goodman Gallery · Carlos Garaicoa's first solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery, New York, presenting a series of reliefs that combine painting and photography with sculptural models. The exhibition explores urbanism and how architecture influences social life.

Gordon Robichaux · Gordon Robichaux is pleased to present Deondre Davis's Ark, the Los Angeles-based artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery, following his 2024 debut, and his recent show at Castle, Los Angeles. In conjunction with the exhibition, Gordon Robichaux will mount a solo booth of Davis's work at Frieze New York from May 13 to 17. The gallery and fair presentations feature a new series of paintings and assemblage sculptures created during the artist's residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, earlier this year. At Gordon Robichaux, Davis's Ark is anchored by five new paintings incorporating graphite, gouache, and oil on unprimed canvas, each no larger than 30 by 40 inches. The exhibition includes a series of related colored pencil drawings on paper, as well as a site-responsive installation of sculptures.

Gordon Robichaux · Gordon Robichaux presents Renewal, Reverend Joyce McDonald's third solo exhibition at the gallery and her first since a retrospective at the Bronx Museum. The show features ten figurative clay sculptures spanning four decades, several never before displayed. McDonald describes these works as 'testimonial sculptures' that memorialize people and experiences through humble materials including paper towels, costume pearls, and fabric scraps. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a garden space with six clay figures among living plants and flowers. The artist's spiritual practice guides her process: 'When I make art, I touch the clay and my hands move. I don't know what I'm going to make — the Spirit guides me.'

GR gallery · GR gallery presents My Screen Tests, Kohei Yamada's inaugural New York City solo exhibition. The show examines the enduring value of the authentic relationship between artist and artwork, engaging themes of irony, introspection, and visual metaphor. Yamada reveals his admiration for Andy Warhol in particular through motifs referencing the Silver Factory era and its entourage. Over half the pieces reference Warhol's practice, emphasizing repetition and humor within contemporary art history, while critiquing capitalistic greed and bridging American and Japanese artistic traditions.

Gratin · 'Despite the Teacher's Threats, and the Jeers of Child Prodigies' is Elise Nguyen Quoc's solo at Gratin — the Trappes-born, New York–based painter enlarges photographed remnants of daily life until they dissolve, then rebuilds the colors as hand-mixed pigments in slow, velvety washes at monumental scale.

GRAY New York · GRAY presents a survey spanning four decades of work by Polish sculptor and fiber artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), showcasing her evolution from abstract weavings to figurative bronzes. The exhibition examines the human struggle to maintain individuality against political and social oppression through materials ranging from sisal and burlap to cast bronze. Recurring motifs like headless figures symbolize anonymity under totalitarian regimes. The exhibition opens during the twentieth anniversary of her iconic public installation Agora (2006) in Chicago's Grant Park.

GRAY New York · GRAY presents <i>Next is our skin</i>, an exhibition of work by the trailblazing Polish sculptor and fiber artist Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Greene Naftali · Greene Naftali presents Gedi Sibony: The Invisible Point on the 8th floor of 508 West 26th Street. The exhibition features new works including The Amplifying Element (2025), composed of steel rod, metal wire and electrical wire; In the Quadrant of Primary Characteristics (2023) in wood, paint, glue and nails; alongside multiple oil and pencil on linen paintings from 2026.

Greene Naftali · Greene Naftali presents Sophie von Hellermann: After a Dream on the ground floor at 508 West 26th Street. As curator Anne Pontegnie notes, "No topics are more serious than others for von Hellermann," describing how the artist treats "contamination and simultaneous construction of the individual and the collective, reality and fiction." The exhibition features paintings including Tschabalala's Wedding, Silence, Wuthering Heights, Bloomsbury, Juliet's Wedding, and Academia.

Greene Naftali · Eighth Greene Naftali solo for Sophie von Hellermann — thinned paint on unprimed canvas, this time staging couples from literature and the artist's own life: Wordsworth and Coleridge, von Hellermann walking beside Turner — a meditation on alignment, mutual influence, and the figure of the pair.

Greene Naftali · Brooklyn-based sculptor Gedi Sibony (b. 1973) returns to Greene Naftali — his austere reconstructions from cardboard, doors, drop cloths, and the reversed backs of carpets and framed prints continue an inquiry into latency, displacement, and the assumptions viewers bring to what they cannot see.

GRIMM · GRIMM presents Buried shadow, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Francesca Mollett. Mollett (b. 1991, Bristol, UK) makes abstract paintings that react to space and context. The new works pulsate with life and energy and explore the tension between observed phenomena and abstraction, with agitated planes of colour emphasizing material conditions and the contrast of shadow and light. The artist engages with phenomenological concepts and temporality, drawing on literary sources including Mercè Rodoreda's Death in Spring and H.D.'s poetry. One painting, Arrow to arrow, depicts a shadow on Burgess Park stairs in South London—a site of post-Blitz reconstruction and buried infrastructure. The exhibition reflects Mollett's interest in Gertrude Stein's 'continuous present,' emphasizing transformation over linear narrative.

Hales Gallery · Hales is delighted to announce Mesas/Mountains/Sky, a solo exhibition of new and recent landscape paintings by Kay WalkingStick at the New York gallery. The exhibition focuses on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world, featuring works depicting Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, and Rhode Island. WalkingStick, a Cherokee Nation citizen born in 1935, layers her signature overlays onto the painted surface, in a symbolic gesture of reclamation and protection, using traditional Indigenous patterning researched through Smithsonian archives. This is WalkingStick's third exhibition with Hales, following her presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale and her ongoing touring exhibition originating at The New York Historical Society.

Hales Gallery · 'Mesas/Mountains/Sky' gathers new landscape paintings by Cherokee Nation citizen Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935) — Western vistas from Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and beyond overlaid with Indigenous patterning drawn from Southern Ute, Navajo, and other archival designs — her third with Hales, following her 2024 Venice Biennale presentation.

Half Gallery · Half Gallery presents Time Pass, an exhibition curated by Los Angeles gallerist Rajiv Menon. The exhibition explores 'time-pass,' a South Asian term describing moments that seem unworthy of reflection yet contain meaningful intimacies and self-reflection. The works reveal significance in the insignificant and permanence in the fleeting, featuring artists including Aiza Ahmed, Ricky Vasan, Mustafa Mohsin, and Sajeela Siddiq, who transform everyday moments into art that captures emotion, memory, and personal experience.

Hannah Traore Gallery · Hannah Traore Gallery presents Dreamkeeper, the gallery's first solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Arlina Cai. This new series of paintings features compositions of flowing, vibrant planes of color and mesmerizing, swirling brushstrokes — a body of work through which Cai hopes to communicate personal emotions and experiences, which she feels are expressed more authentically through abstraction than with words. Working with water-diluted acrylics on unstretched canvases laid across her studio floor, Cai emphasizes a somatic practice and instinctive color selection. She titles works as if observing and naming a tarot card, creating symbolic compositions that incorporate eyes as portals for viewer connection. The exhibition represents the culmination of the artist's daydreams, the result of following her thoughts as they wander and sink into the great depths of her imagination.

Hannah Traore Gallery · 'Dreamkeeper' is Hannah Traore's first solo with Brooklyn painter Arlina Cai — gestural floor-painted compositions on unstretched canvas, washed with water-diluted acrylic and titled like tarot cards, each picture named for the state it holds the moment Cai puts it down.

Harkawik · 'Hollowell Heaven' returns David Hollowell (b. 1951, Hornell, NY) to Harkawik four years after a brain injury silenced his practice — a Yale-trained painter and longtime UC Davis teacher whose hyper-illusionistic Americana, baseball, and family scenes built one of the more singular careers of his generation.

Harper's Chelsea 512 · Harper's Chelsea 512 presents Tethered, Untethered, a Chelsea exhibition opening during the New York art-week gallery calendar.

Hauser & Wirth · An exhibition centered on Philip Guston's late paintings and drawings, pairing the artist's cartoon-like figuration with the private vocabulary of his studio life.

Hauser & Wirth · Allison Katz's exhibition brings together painting, recurring symbols, and sly shifts in persona to make image-making feel both staged and unstable.

Hauser & Wirth · Firelei Báez presents new paintings and installations that layer diasporic history, myth, and landscape into dense fields of ornament and transformation.

Hauser & Wirth · Hauser & Wirth presents Carol Rama's radical works, foregrounding her charged bodies, material experimentation, and refusal of tidy art-historical categories.

Hauser & Wirth · 'Life with P.' focuses on the rarely seen domestic register of Philip Guston (1913–1980) — paintings and 'Poem Pictures' drawings made in Woodstock between 1964 and 1978 in dialogue with the poetry of his wife Musa McKim, including three large figurative canvases shown for the first time.

Hauser & Wirth · Across the exhibition, Katz extends her inquiry into the capaciousness of painting — what it can record, absorb and transmit.

HB381 · HB381 presents Marit Tingleff's large-scale ceramic works, whose gestural slips, oxides, and plate forms turn clay surfaces into abstract constructed landscapes.

HESSE FLATOW | Tribeca · HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Dead Channel, a solo exhibition of paintings by Kirsten Deirup, marking her third solo presentation with the gallery.

High Line Art — 18th Street Billboard · A vivid still life staged on the High Line's billboard, depicting a packed kitchen counter overflowing with cleaning supplies, fresh produce, flowers, and consumer goods rendered in Bernhardt's signature saturated palette and loose, assertive brushwork unified by a bright pink spray-painted outline. The work hovers between order and chaos, utility and excess — evoking seasonal renewal while reflecting the challenges of maintaining domestic order within a consumption-driven culture.

High Line Art — 22nd Street Mural · The mural depicts two Black marching band drum majors performing the drum major backbend, an acrobatic salute where performers bend backward until their shako nearly touches the ground. Fordjour explores themes of pride in historically Black college traditions while examining the tension between performative glamour and backbreaking labor. The vibrant composition with matching red and white uniforms conveys jubilation while also highlighting the physical form and psychological strain of expectation and hypervisibility.

High Line Art — 23rd Street · A nine-foot bronze sculpture of a corn cob configured as a working water fountain, with water dyed neon yellow as a reference to glyphosate runoff polluting waterways used for drinking, fishing, and recreation. Corn — central to pre-Columbian mythology and considered the origin of humanity by the Aztec and Maya — is reframed here as a site where Indigenous heritage collides with industrial agriculture, GMO monoculture, and chemical contamination.

High Line Art — The Plinth at 30th Street · A 27-foot sandstone sculpture honoring the Bamiyan Buddhas, two 6th-century colossal statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. This towering, 27-foot sandstone sculpture pays homage to the Bamiyan Buddhas and serves as a monument to cultural loss and enduring spirit. The work features hands cast from melted brass artillery shells positioned in mudras symbolizing fearlessness and compassion, addressing themes of memory, healing, and resistance to cultural erasure.

Hill Art Foundation · The exhibition centers on N. Dash's practice of working fabric until it frays, photographing these sculptural objects, and silkscreening their images onto earthen surfaces. Resulting from interrelations of the body, technology, and the land, these paintings ask of the nature of relationships between subject and environment — questions necessarily material, but also ethical and political. The works incorporate diverse materials including earth, acrylic, oil paint, string, graphite, nitrile gloves, cardboard, and Styrofoam.

Hirschl & Adler Modern · Julie Heffernan's second solo exhibition with the gallery features six new paintings that engage the tradition of Old Masters while addressing contemporary concerns about the body and ecological anxiety.

Hispanic Society Museum and Library · The exhibition showcases work created on handmade amate bark paper with natural pigment, grounded in Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions. References to pandemic-era grief, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, migrant detention centers, and California wildfires appear alongside ancestral symbols, medicinal plants, and scenes of hip-hop dance. The artist's practice challenges the notion that mapping and visualizing space are neutral acts, positioning the land as an active force where earth functions as witness and participant in rebellion.

Historic Chapel of Green-Wood Cemetery · Bony Ramirez's site-responsive cemetery project uses sculptural and painterly forms to connect Caribbean histories, funerary symbolism, and the sea.

Hoffman Donahue · Hoffman Donahue presents Things in the Air, a solo exhibition by Greg Parma Smith at the gallery's New York location, on view April 11 through May 23, 2026. The exhibition follows the artist joining the Bridget Donahue / Hoffman Donahue roster.

Hoffman Donahue · Greg Parma Smith's 'Things in the Air' continues a series begun in 2017 — entirely analogue oil paintings built from repeated geometric units that hover between flatness and depth, with rhythmic motifs evoking musical structure and a central canvas keyed to Juliet's lark-or-nightingale uncertainty.

Howard Greenberg Gallery · Howard Greenberg Gallery presents The Girls, an exhibition of portraits by legendary American photographer Mary Ellen Mark alongside acclaimed Turkish self-taught artist Sabiha Çimen, celebrating the timeless activities of girlhood. This show marks Çimen's inaugural U.S. gallery presentation. The photographers' careers intersected in 2015 when Çimen was asked to locate a Turkish girl Mark had photographed in 1965, titled 'Beautiful Emine Posing, Trabzon, Turkey'; Çimen successfully found the now-adult subject. Mark's selections include her Streetwise series documenting homeless youth in Seattle (1983), Ward 81 documenting female psychiatric patients (1976), and Prom capturing American prom culture (2006–2009). Çimen's pastel-rich imagery documents girls in Qur'an schools through her award-winning Hafiz series (2021), exploring strict routine yet unexpectedly playful environments while revealing interior lives, daily rituals, friendships, and dreams.

Hyacinth Gallery · Air-brushed and encaustic, Kyler Garrison pairs a delicate, precise approach to landscape painting framed within a woodland, mythical concept that resonates with visual complexity and sensitivity.

International Center of Photography · The exhibition documents Japanese American incarceration during WWII through portraits, landscape photography, personal testimony, and historical documents. It features the ten camps as they stand today and the families who journey back to them, with each participant handwriting a letter reflecting on their experience or commemorating an incarceree.

International Center of Photography · The exhibition brings together work from three ICP education programs: the One-Year Certificate Programs in Creative Practices and Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, plus the Teen Academy Imagemakers program. The exhibition features projects that turn attention toward what is often overlooked or out of reach, while exploring how photography can give form to the unseen.

Interrobang 11232 · Alchemist, filmmaker and Khepri Press founder Brian Cotnoir presents 'in a dark wood' at Interrobang 11232 — an artist-run third-floor walk-up off the 25th Street R in Brooklyn — drawing on four decades of practice translating Alexandrian alchemical texts into book-objects, talismans, and image.

Jack Shainman Gallery (Chelsea) · Lynette Yiadom-Boakye presents new paintings of imagined figures, extending her practice of portraiture untethered to named sitters or fixed narratives.

Jack Shainman Gallery (Chelsea) · Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Many A Moonlit Caveat, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye spanning both New York City locations.

James Cohan · James Cohan presents Fred Tomaselli's Blooms Disrupted at 48 Walker Street, opening during New York art week and continuing through late June.

James Cohan · James Cohan presents an exhibition devoted to Mary Sully at its 52 Walker Street space, adding a historical Indigenous modernist focus to the art-week Tribeca route.

James Fuentes · 'Holding Back' gathers paintings from the 1980s onward by Juanita McNeely (1936–2023) — figurative pioneer whose nine-panel 'Is It Real? Yes, It Is!' entered the Whitney's collection in 2022 — anchored by cobalt and ultramarine fields, tilted ladders and windowpanes that fracture the body across the canvas.

Jeffrey Deitch | 18 Wooster Street · 'Let the Music Play' is the first posthumous show for Walter Robinson (1950–2025), the painter-critic and Art-Rite founder whose paperback covers, kitten paintings, hamburgers, and final AI-prompted canvases are gathered at Deitch's Wooster Street space — including works he outsourced to overseas labor as a last conceptual move.

Kai Matsumiya · 'Teachers Bouquets' is Timmy Simonds's solo at Kai Matsumiya — the Pratt-based artist (b. 1989) extends his long-running inquiry into teaching as form, with sculptures, broadcasts, and live demos of Not I, a tool he uses to convene small groups of teachers inside the gallery.

Kate Werble Gallery · 'Anecdote' is new work by David Humphrey (b. 1955) — the New York painter whose zany figurative tableaux of pets, lovers, and absurd domestic scenarios collide cartoon clarity with passages of loose abstraction, mining what he calls the 'normotic' edge between pathological normalcy and unbidden strangeness.

KB NY · 'Hedge' is Travis Morehead's first solo at KB NY in Brooklyn — the interdisciplinary artist, raised on Coast Salish territory and trained at RISD and Northwestern, uses time, attention, and slow process to erode the inscribed logics of dominion in sculpture and installation.

Kiang Malingue · A solo exhibition by Trương Công Tùng, featuring lacquer paintings, drawings, and a sculptural installation. The exhibition explores themes of interrelation, impermanence, and the cyclical nature of life through various mediums.

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery · Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Stationery, an exhibition of new photographs by David Gilbert. The exhibition features Gilbert's paper castles photographed in natural light. Gilbert's rendering of these fortresses in drooping paper and scrappy cardboard defangs their power; stone heft and weight are made gossamer. The show coincides with the publication of Lilies, Gilbert's first monograph published by Zolo Press.

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery · Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents John Hyen Lee's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist's work explores repeated mark-making and layered gestures drawn from Korean Hangul writing structure. Lee handcrafts wooden panels for his paintings, incorporating the wooden frames as compositional elements. His practice examines both remembering and forgetting, and blurring the line between seeing and understanding. The exhibition features works where letters dissolve into abstraction through cycles of application and erasure.

kurimanzutto · kurimanzutto New York brings Dr. Lakra and Miguel Covarrubias into dialogue in an exhibition opening during New York art week.

LATITUDE Gallery New York · Curated by Sean Zhang, What Holds, What Lingers brings together Elizabeth Dimitroff, Alice Ningci Jiang, Paulina Moncada, and Yutong Yin around liminality, memory, identity, and place.

Lehmann Maupin · Marking Erwin Wurm's first New York solo show in five years, Double Dream features an array of innovative sculptures and runs concurrently with his exhibition Dreamers at Museo Fortuny.

Lehmann Maupin · For this exhibition in our lower level gallery, the collaborative brothers debut five new paintings featuring their signature yellow figures and vibrant dreamscapes.

Lévy Gorvy Dayan · Lévy Gorvy Dayan is hosting its first solo exhibition 'Baladas' featuring Puerto Rican artist Armig Santos. The exhibition showcases canvases that explore the artist's connection to Puerto Rico, inspired by historical, archival, and ecological sources.

Lévy Gorvy Dayan · Lévy Gorvy Dayan is delighted to announce The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli, the largest exhibition of works by the artist in the United States in more than five decades, following his celebrated 1969 solo presentation at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Featuring paintings, drawings, etchings, notebooks, and letters, the survey represents a critical continuation of Gnoli's legacy in America, subsequent to his major 2021–22 retrospective at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. The gallery organized this exhibition in collaboration with Gnoli's widow, Yannick Vu, and the artist's estate—as well as presenting works from the artist's sister, Mimì Gnoli, and major private collections. In his brief yet prolific life, Domenico Gnoli (1933–1970) established himself as a master of perception, creating a body of paintings unparalleled in their composition and meticulous detail. Born in Rome, he began his career as an illustrator and set and costume designer, working and traveling across the world while arriving to his mature style as a painter in 1964. His late paintings picture everyday objects—including clothing, hair, beds, and sofas—enlarged, fragmented, and suspended. The canvases are at once absorbing and uncanny, revealing secrets of contemporary life yet unconsidered.

Lincoln Glenn | Chelsea · Tribute to dealer André Emmerich (1924–2007), credited with championing Color Field painting and women artists including Frankenthaler, Truitt, and Sherron Francis — over thirty works by more than twenty artists from his gallery roster, including Hans Hofmann, Al Held, Jules Olitski, Sam Francis, and Jack Tworkov, in a dense maximalist hang with catalogue by Alex Grimley.

Lisson Gallery · Lisson Gallery presents Kelly Akashi: Heirloom, the artist's first New York exhibition with the gallery. Akashi approaches sculpture as a site where loss can be registered without resolution, using materials including bronze, Corten steel, flame-worked glass, and carved stone. The exhibition features bronze casts of plants taken directly from her garden, an enlarged stone ring (inherited jewelry scaled to monumental dimensions), Corten steel panels cut from lace doily patterns traced from her grandmother's handmade tablecloth, and glass botanical forms with exposed root systems. As the gallery describes, "the works operate as accumulations of time, where loss is not an isolated event but a condition that unfolds, settles, and alters." The exhibition coincides with Akashi's 2026 Whitney Biennial participation and a public commission for JFK Airport's New Terminal One.

Lisson Gallery · Lisson Gallery presents Huguette Caland: My Home, surveying the artist's five-decade career across three continents. As curator Tarini Malik notes, the artist developed "a practice that attempted to undo the rootlessness of both her diaspora and her own body." Beginning with abstract color-field paintings in 1960s Beirut, Caland shifted toward embodied work after moving to Paris in 1970, creating the erotically charged Bribes de corps series exploring the body as lived experience rather than representation.

LOMEX · 'Time and Light' presents new and recent works on paper by Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952, Shizuoka) — the Japanese illustrator whose ethereal warriors and goddesses, drawn from a half-century of manga, anime, and Final Fantasy character design, are rendered in his signature acrylic and ink on paper.

Louis K. Meisel Gallery · Louis K. Meisel Gallery presents Larry Kagan: Men, sculptural work where bent steel rods cast figurative shadows that read as men in repose, conversation, and motion.

Lubov · 'Where we become each other' assembles new paintings by Italian-Bosnian artist Adelisa Selimbašić (b. 1996, Karlsruhe; Venice Academy, 2021), whose female-figure compositions push color toward an almost sculptural tactility — organized at Lubov by Delfina Pattacini and Gaddo Amunni.

Luhring Augustine Chelsea · Luhring Augustine Chelsea presents an exhibition devoted to Leon Kossoff, adding a historical painting anchor to the Chelsea art-week route.

Luhring Augustine Tribeca · Emily Kraus's first solo exhibition with Luhring Augustine and first in New York presents new paintings engaging abstraction, early photography, film, printing, and musical composition.

Luhring Augustine Tribeca · Emily Kraus's first solo with Luhring Augustine and first show in New York — the London-based painter (b. 1995, New York) makes her vertical-striated abstractions by hand-applying paint inside a steel cube-apparatus she designed, pulling raw canvas through it from within.

Luhring Augustine Tribeca · A career-spanning gathering of paintings by Leon Kossoff (1926–2019) — one of the principal School of London painters alongside Bacon, Freud, and Auerbach — including 'Demolition of YMCA Building No. 2, Spring' (1971), 'Self-portrait No. 5' (1981), and 'Portrait of Father No. 3' (1972), with a catalogue essay by Hilton Als.

Lyles & King · Lyles & King presents a three-artist exhibition of new paintings and video by Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galvão, and Ren Light Pan — three artists united by a shared interest in instability.

Magenta Plains · Magenta Plains presents Ken Lum: The Yellow Man as part of the gallery's 10-year anniversary program during New York Art Week (May 11–17, 2026). The exhibition is a return to painting, reflecting on Lum's renowned series of Language Paintings from the 1980s. It is one of three solo shows opening simultaneously across three floors of the gallery alongside Jane Swavely and the Stan VanDerBeek Archive.

Magenta Plains · Magenta Plains presents Jane Swavely: Strawberry Fields, featuring new paintings and pastels on paper, following the artist's recent exhibitions at Kaufmann Repetto in Milan and at the Currier Museum in New Hampshire. The show opens alongside Ken Lum and Stan VanDerBeek Archive presentations to mark the gallery's 10-year anniversary during New York Art Week.

Magenta Plains · Magenta Plains presents Stan VanDerBeek: Micro Kosmos, featuring newly restored film by VanDerBeek screened alongside silkscreens from the 1970s. The exhibition opens with companion solo shows by Ken Lum and Jane Swavely to mark the gallery's 10-year anniversary during New York Art Week (May 11–17, 2026).

Magenta Plains · New paintings by Jane Swavely (b. 1959, Allentown) — the Bowery-based abstractionist who assisted Brice Marden through 1985 and showed at CDS and A.I.R. before joining Magenta Plains — built from wiped silver tones and saturated pigment, with the diptych title work spanning 90 by 90 inches.

Management · The first solo exhibition of Amorelle Jacox in New York.

MARC STRAUS · MARC STRAUS is pleased to present Moving Day, a solo exhibition of new wall and floor sculptures by Lucia Hierro. Through a series of sculptural boxes, containers, and enclosures, Hierro examines displacement, memory, and the fragile stability of home within the shifting economic realities of contemporary New York. The exhibition takes its title from a historical New York tradition dating back to the colonial era. For more than two centuries, nearly all residential leases in the city expired simultaneously on May 1st at 9 a.m., forcing thousands of residents to relocate at once. Streets filled with carts, wagons, and furniture as families hurriedly transported their belongings across the city in a moment of collective upheaval. Known as 'Moving Day,' the event transformed the city into a scene of chaos and renewal each year until the practice faded during World War II. Hierro draws a parallel between this historical phenomenon and the present-day realities of New York's cultural landscape. Rising rents, shifting economic pressures, and the steady disappearance of small businesses and artist spaces have made long-term stability increasingly difficult to sustain.

Margot Samel · Margot Samel is presenting Dwelling Place, a solo exhibition of new works by Sasha Brodsky (b. 1995, Moscow). Based in Brooklyn, NY, this is Brodsky's first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in New York. Working in pastel on raw linen, Brodsky approaches painting as an extension of printmaking, particularly etching, where line, pressure, and gesture accumulate into a sense of spatial depth. These fantastical, colorful scapes are not literal or 'real' places, and Brodsky is interested in a mood and disposition that walks the line between an imagined ideal city and the city as it exists now, where desires, dreams, and creations exist in continuous tension. Searching for the spirit of a place, the elements Brodsky incorporates, from figures to notation-like markings of numbers and symbols, operate as ways of seeing that move beyond the immediately visible, which the artist describes as a form of placemaking through what appears forgotten.

Marian Goodman Gallery · Marian Goodman Gallery presents its seventh solo show by Julie Mehretu, featuring new work from 2024–2026. The exhibition explores themes of transience and spiritual seeking through abstract paintings and collaborative sculptures; the show's title augurs life as a series of fleeting and transitory experiences through references to biblical and Buddhist concepts of impermanence. The exhibition includes collaborative TRANSpaintings with sculptor Nairy Baghramian using translucent materials, alongside a new series of Black Paintings on dark grounds that shift chromatic intensity based on viewer perspective. Choreographer John Jasperse stages live performances called Wandering (May 20–23) with seven dancers responding to the artworks across three gallery floors.

Marianne Boesky Gallery · Marianne Boesky Gallery presents Forest for the Trees, a solo exhibition of new paintings and watercolors by Danielle Mckinney. The exhibition features solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite within dreamlike domestic settings. The artist employs looser brushwork in this series, allowing bodies to melt into surroundings, limbs to dissolve into abstraction, while simultaneously realizing the environments more fully. The work reflects creation during a period of particular turmoil, both personally and collectively, with the title referencing a 16th-century proverb about being unable to see the forest for the trees—metaphorically addressing our inability to perceive larger patterns amid close-up details.

Matthew Marks Gallery · Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Katharina Fritsch, the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes five new large-scale sculptures. Three of the works on view—Auto und Wohnwagen / Car and Caravan (1979/2026), Tunnel / Tunnel (1979/2025), and Schornstein / Chimney (1979/2026)—are based on models that Fritsch originally made in 1979 while still a student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Alongside the three early motifs are Vase (2006/2024) and Muschel (2026), both revisitations of recurring forms from the artist's earlier work. Installed together, the five sculptures loosely resemble a human face when viewed from above: Schornstein and Vase serve as eyes, while Muschel forms a mouth.

Matthew Marks Gallery · Matthew Marks Gallery presents Joan Brown: The Golden Age. The exhibition includes 14 paintings and sculptures made between 1981 and 1988. The Golden Age centers on Brown's late work, made in the ten years prior to her untimely death in 1990, at the age of fifty-two.

Matthew Marks Gallery · Matthew Marks Gallery presents Vija Celmins: Prints 1983 to 1985 at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition features prints employing techniques such as engraving, drypoint, woodcut, mezzotint, and aquatint. Celmins's output from this period includes her characteristic renderings of ocean surfaces, night skies, and airplanes, along with interpretations of a Marcel Duchamp sculpture.

Matthew Marks Gallery · 'The Golden Age' is a focused look at Joan Brown's (1937–1990) late 1980s symbolic animal paintings and copper-and-marble sculptures — 'The Lion and the Lamb,' 'The Peacock and the Snake,' and the elegiac 'Rescue of Evan' — made in the years before her death in a construction accident in India.

Matthew Marks Gallery · 'Prints 1983 to 1985' isolates a tight two-year stretch in Vija Celmins's printmaking — the years she made the 'Ocean Surface' drypoints — when the Riga-born painter translated her famously patient pencil renderings of waves into deeply incised, glassy black-and-white editions.

Mendes Wood DM · Mendes Wood DM presents an exhibition by Kishio Suga, one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at Tama Art University, from 1968 Suga began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. His artistic investigation alongside artists like Nobuo Sekine and Lee Ufan was retrospectively associated with Mono-ha, or the 'School of Things' (1968–1973). The exhibition presents two directions in Suga's work — two-dimensional pieces and installations — and includes Contorted Positioning (1982–2026), which does not replicate its original configuration but instead responds to the specific conditions of the New York exhibition space. Suga's practice investigates the intrinsic possibilities of matter once it is no longer regarded as inert or passive, but as an interlocutor.

Meredith Rosen Gallery · Meredith Rosen pairs New York-based artist Aura Rosenberg with works by Egon Schiele (1890–1918), a century-spanning two-hander that puts her body-focused photographic and sculptural projects in conversation with Schiele's preoccupation with figure, intimacy, and exposure.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery · Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present “Benny Andrews: Migrants,” the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition celebrating the work of Benny Andrews (1930–2006).

MIGNONI · Career survey of paintings from 1973 to 2012 by Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) — one of the founding American Minimalists alongside his MoMA-era circle of Ryman, LeWitt and Flavin — tracking his sustained negotiation of line, shape, and the shaped canvas as something neither window nor object.

Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation · A group exhibition organized around Asian and Asian American artistic identities, questioning how style, history, and reception attach cultural labels to artworks.

mimo · emanates from the intuitive call to materials, stories and happenings during the artists’ walks through public spaces.

Mister Fahrenheit · 'Pooler Room' is Jill Magid's project at Mister Fahrenheit, the West Village space on West 10th — Magid's performance-based practice has long courted institutions of authority (Liverpool CCTV, the Dutch secret service, Luis Barragán's archive) and turned bureaucratic protocol into love story.

MoMA PS1 · Sixth edition of MoMA PS1's quinquennial survey, marking the institution's 50th anniversary. 53 artists/collectives. Themes: surveillance, economic precarity, shifting technologies, NYC infrastructures.

Mrs. · The exhibition centers on artist Chris Bogia's relationship with Fire Island, exploring its landscape, architecture, and cultural history through a material language that brings together both familiar and newly developed techniques. Works include a six-foot mandala in yarn and lacquered wood, a portrait of the Belvedere Guest House, and abstract boardwalk compositions constructed from reclaimed planks sourced from Cherry Grove.

Mrs. · The show presents paintings that explore layered materiality through cycles of painting, cutting, sewing, and reconstruction. Works feature stitched surfaces, fragmented compositions, and accumulated marks that reflect the artist's engagement with cycles of grief, resilience, and transformation. The pieces function as relational portraits that privilege sensation over precision, drawing from expressionist traditions while maintaining contemporary form.

Museum of Arts and Design · The Haas Brothers turn the Museum of Arts and Design into a speculative environment of creaturely design objects, craft techniques, and theatrical installation.

Museum of Arts and Design · Fragile, luminous, and enduring, porcelain becomes a medium for rethinking plant life in the modern city through large-scale wall murals inspired by botanical imagery from medieval and Renaissance sources. The exhibition represents the artist's first major U.S. museum presentation.

Museum of Arts and Design · The 2025 winner of MAD's biannual Burke Prize, Hai-Wen Lin explores the attunement of the body to the environment through fashion, sculpture, and kite making.

Museum of Modern Art · First US Duchamp retrospective in over 50 years. ~300 works tracing his interrogation of art's terms — readymades, optical experiments, the unfinished Étant donnés.

Museum of Modern Art · Timed to the Met Opera's *El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego* (May 14 – Jun 5), with set design by Jon Bausor. Pairs Kahlo and Rivera in dialogue with the opera's staging.

Museum of Modern Art · MoMA examines how artists across Africa and the diaspora use portraiture to shape political imagination, identity, and representation.

Museum of Modern Art · A focused presentation of David Wojnarowicz's work, linking his New York practice to the political violence and longing embedded in American imagery.

Museum of Modern Art · Over her five-decade career, Elizabeth Murray incorporated dimension and movement into painting through fragmented, layered canvases. In the 1980s, she experienced a breakthrough by fragmenting her compositions across multiple canvases, adding dynamism and depth. The exhibition spans over 20 years of her work, featuring pieces like the 1981 title work — one of her earliest shattered-shapes paintings depicting distorted everyday objects as organic forms.

Museum of Modern Art · This exhibition presents two digital video works visualizing Earth's climatic and geological histories. "88 Cores" descends through 110,000 years of Greenland's ice sheet, while "18 Cores" reveals subterranean rock layers from California's Salton Sea. Artist Peggy Weil uses these Extended Landscapes to make invisible climate processes perceptible and undeniable by transforming scientific data into visual form.

Museum of Sex · A photography exhibition drawn from the Amparo and Manuel Collection, focused on intimate portraiture and the charged presence of bodies before the camera.

Museum of the City of New York · Museum of the City of New York looks at Robert Rauschenberg's relationship to the city through photographs, prints, and works rooted in everyday urban imagery.

Nagas · Nagas presents Louise Janin: Cosmogrammes 1953-1965. Following World War II, Janin merged her passion for Oriental art, musicalism, and symbolism to create "cosmogrammes"—works exploring science and spirituality. The pieces employ experimental mixed-media techniques where pigments mixed with various substances create flowing color effects on small-scale paper works, depicting metamorphic shapes evoking nature and cosmic transformation.

Nara Roesler · Nara Roesler New York presents Amelia Toledo and Cristina Canale: On the Nature of Figures, part of a series of exhibitions throughout 2026 conceived as encounters between artists from different generations, marking the gallery's 50th anniversary. The exhibition explores how these two artists converge in their investigation of form in relation to nature and to the structures that organize the visual field. Toledo's work reconfigures abstraction as a sensorial experience, marked by the presence of matter, the action of time. Canale's paintings feature figures that emerge or dissolve within surfaces that evoke magmatic and oceanic atmospheres.

New Discretions · Curated by Tamar Dredsner

New Museum · Inaugural reopening of the New Museum's OMA / Shigematsu / Koolhaas $82M expansion. Over 700 objects, 200+ artists across contemporary commissions and 20th-century anchors. Plaza commission *VENUS VICTORIA* by Sarah Lucas; façade by Tschabalala Self; atrium by Klára Hosnedlová.

New York Historical Society · 17th-century Dutch art reframed against early New York — colonial trade, portraiture, and the visual culture of New Amsterdam.

New York Life Gallery · Florentine painter Giulio Noccesi (b. 1996) makes his New York debut with 'Fermo per sempre' — small figurative oils that fold pre-Renaissance Italian composition into the deadpan vocabulary of children's-book illustration, suspending intimate domestic scenes in a flat, melancholy stillness.

Nicola Vassell Gallery · Nicola Vassell presents Virginia Chihota's first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring works on paper and large-scale canvases that synthesize screen printing, drawing, and painting techniques. The exhibition explores themes of being, belonging, and the mutability of self.

Nicola Vassell Gallery · 'Kutera Mutsara / Hearing Inner Lives' is Zimbabwean artist Virginia Chihota's first solo with Nicola Vassell — large-scale works built from layered silkscreen, drawing, and paint, where figures emerge and dissolve through what the printmaker-turned-painter calls a sustained act of listening to the line.

Nohra Haime Gallery · Nohra Haime Gallery presents ¿How Are the Children? by Colombian artist Ruby Rumié. The title draws from the Maasai expression "Kasserian Ingera," which measures the wellbeing of an entire community through the condition of its youngest members—if the children are well, the society is functioning; if they are not, everything else is called into question. The exhibition examines dignity, memory and the politics of the body through installation and portrait photography in Rumié's socially engaged practice. The work is anchored in the Totumo Mud Volcano, located between Cartagena and Barranquilla on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Using portrait photography staged on the sandy slopes surrounding Totumo, Rumié transforms her young subjects with volcanic mud so they appear sculptural and elemental—figures suspended between portrait and artifact, between childhood and myth.

Nunu Fine Art · Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire brings together the works of Hans Bellmer, Bruce Nauman, and Rona Pondick to explore the human body as material and subject, and as a tool for experimentation and exploration of the implications of the psychic self.

Off Paradise · Off Paradise presents Remain, a solo exhibition of new works by Mitchell Charbonneau. The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, May 7 from 4-8pm and remains on view through July 7, 2026, at the gallery's 120 Walker Street space in Tribeca.

Off Paradise · Third Off Paradise solo for Mitchell Charbonneau (b. 1994, Bedford, NH; Pratt 2016), whose hyperreal cast-resin and lead sculptures replicate folding chairs, stepladders and sections of his childhood home — utilitarian objects reissued as portrait, ruin, and refuge.

Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer · Bruce Nauman: No Mistakes is the next exhibition at Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer's New York space, the recently opened New York outpost of the storied Düsseldorf and Berlin gallery, which gave Nauman his first European exhibition in 1968 and has shown him in nearly twenty exhibitions since. The show extends that decades-long relationship across the Atlantic with new line drawings, sculptural installations, mobiles, and a video produced in the past three years.

Ortega y Gasset Projects · A group exhibition featuring work from 2026 Cornell MFA candidates in Creative Visual Arts, showcasing practices across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, writing, and expanded material practices. The artists explore themes including identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, and memory. The exhibition title suggests contingency and endurance; something accidental and elemental, arrived at and borne through.

Ortuzar Projects · A group exhibition exploring themes of life, death, and urbanity through the works of artists who were contemporaries of Peter Hujar, showcasing their shared dialogue and influence.

Ortuzar Projects · This exhibition restages Peter Hujar's legendary 1986 exhibition at Gracie Mansion Gallery, displaying seventy photographs in a non-hierarchical arrangement to evoke the artist's original vision.

P·P·O·W · P·P·O·W presents the sixth solo exhibition of Martin Wong, examining his focus on artistic subcultures with motifs from comic book illustration and early tattoo imagery, bringing together works from three decades of his career.

P·P·O·W · Co-curated by Mark Dean Johnson and Anneliis Beadnell

Pace Gallery · Julian Schnabel presents large-scale paintings that use Italian trees as a charged image of place, memory, and painterly surface.

Pace Gallery · Pace presents works by Emily Kam Kngwarray that foreground seasonal knowledge, country, and the painterly force of her late-career abstraction.

Pace Gallery · David Hockney's exhibition at Pace centers on moonlit views and immersive image-making, extending his recent experiments with space, light, and time.

Pace Gallery · Pace presents Paul Thek's fragile, poetic works through the lens of disappearance, transformation, and the devotional charge of materials.

Pace Prints · Alex Israel presents new print-based works that fold Los Angeles iconography, pop imagery, and the conventions of editioned objects into one project.

PAGE (NYC) · It might be more accurate to classify Dénervaud’s works as batteries, being objects which draw from the transfer of energy. It is the same energy required to mine Malachite, process and distribute it, before it is made into pigment in Dénervaud’s studio.

Palo Gallery · Palo Gallery is pleased to present I Love It When You Beg, the second solo exhibition by Liberian painter Lewinale Havette at Palo Gallery. Featuring a body of work across painting, work on paper, and sculpture, the exhibition uses the female body as its gravitational center, exploring how history and devotion shape presence, and how memory is held and transmitted across generations. Havette employs an intuitive technique using oil sticks, diluted paint, and unconventional tools like razor blades to create dense, gestural compositions. As she describes it, 'the female body remains a living archive where power, transcendence, rupture, love, death, war, and sex meet.' The exhibition marks a significant shift toward abstraction and emotional immediacy in Havette's work, with figurative elements increasingly melding into abstract fields. She also introduces sculptural pieces combining West African ritual wood with European stone, creating dialogue between distinct spiritual traditions and challenging inherited aesthetic systems.

Park Avenue Armory · TEFAF New York returns to the Park Avenue Armory with over 90 international galleries presenting modern and contemporary art, design, jewelry, and ancient art — the only fair to activate all 16 of the Armory's historic period rooms across the first and second floors with transformative exhibitor presentations. A preview day on May 14 precedes public opening.

Paula Cooper Gallery · Paula Cooper Gallery presents Meg Webster: Thicket, featuring new sculptures and drawings by Meg Webster, including a new installation made from natural materials. The centerpiece, Thicket (2026), gathers plant cuttings into a dense, spiraling structure of leafy branches, berries, and flowering buds that viewers can enter, creating an immersive experience. Webster's practice, spanning since the 1980s, engages the formal vocabulary of Minimalism while foregrounding human scale and sensorial experience.

Paula Cooper Gallery · Paula Cooper Gallery presents Mark di Suvero: Avanti!, an exhibition of large-scale sculptures and drawings by the artist. The centerpiece is Avanti! (c. late 1990s), a human-intervention sculpture that incorporates a twenty-three-foot-long horizontal beam suspended within a vertical steel circle. Additional works include Nelly (1986) and Tables Turn'd (2004), plus works executed in ink, acrylic, marker, and pencil, including sliding drawings that invite viewer interaction.

Paula Cooper Gallery · 'Avanti!' debuts a kinetic Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) sculpture from the late 1990s — a 23-foot beam suspended within a steel ring that viewers rock with their body weight — alongside the 1986 work 'Nelly,' the stainless-steel 'Tables Turn'd' (2004), and a group of his lesser-seen drawings.

Paula Cooper Gallery · New sculptures, drawings, and an installation in natural materials by Meg Webster (b. 1944) — the Land Art-trained Minimalist whose ecological practice has spanned earthworks, beehives, and gardens — following her 2024–26 Dia Beacon exhibition and her inclusion in Pinault's 'Minimal' at the Bourse de Commerce.

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Perrotin New York · Perrotin presents Collective Hallucinations, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Nick Doyle. The show features a suite of wall-mounted collages and an immersive installation of a psychic parlor that marks Doyle's first experiment with artificial intelligence. The artist mines the fraught relationship between land and technology, progress and destruction, while furthering his ongoing interrogation of denim — a material that simultaneously evokes associations of Americana, capitalism, and masculinity. Doyle tailors his signature denim fabric into larger-than-life metonyms of the wild American West — aviators, bricks, car keys, cacti — symbols that conjure the sights of some long, desultory drive toward the setting sun. The centerpiece is a denim-clad installation called Mirror, Mirror, which resembles low-rent brick buildings of strip malls and car parks, with a sign on the facade touting 'Psychic Readings $10 Special.' Inside is Ava, an AI avatar who self-describes as a 'diva oracle with a twist.'

Peter Blum Gallery · Marina Adams's works on paper translate her chromatic, rhythmic abstractions into a more intimate scale of line, color, and touch.

Peter Blum Gallery · 'Works on Paper: A Survey' is the first survey of Marina Adams's drawings and paintings on paper, spanning 1994 to 2025 — over three decades for the New York– and Parma-based artist known for her sinuous color abstractions, organized with curators Raymond Foye and Claire Gilman and accompanied by a 108-page hardcover.

Peter Freeman, Inc. · Curated group show pairing Walter De Maria's serial drawings with sculpture by Jasper Marsalis, Park McArthur, and Sung Tieu — its title counting odd numbers as a key to how each artist uses repetition and system to register conditions of control.

Petzel Gallery · Drawing on her background in theatre design, Emma Webster's exhibition features digitally rendered maquettes choreographed with illusionistic effects, creating fantastical and otherworldly painted scenes. Visitors can experience an interactive digital exploration of her artwork that blurs the lines between reality and imagination.

Petzel Gallery · Petzel is pleased to present the seventh installment of The Viewing Room, a series that spotlights specially curated works across media and genre by gallery artists, open to the public for a limited time. This presentation continues the artist's ongoing investigation into the emotional, physical, and psychological states that animate the human figure.

Petzel Gallery · Petzel is pleased to present Seth Price, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist, on view from May 13 through June 20, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street.

Picture Theory · 'Hotter than the Sun' brings the artist duo LoVid — Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, working together since 2001 — to Picture Theory with new pieces from their handmade-technology practice, where DIY electronics, textiles, and noise meet across signal and surface.

Pier 36 · Independent's 2026 edition relocates to Pier 36 — a 70,000 sq ft light-filled waterfront venue more than double the size of its former Spring Studios home, redesigned by Brooklyn architects SO-IL with exhibition design by Berlin's D_P_S. 76 exhibitors participate, 42% based internationally and nearly half showing at the fair for the first time. The fair leans heavily on solo presentations through its Independent Debuts initiative, formalizing its identity as the most curatorially adventurous of New York's May fairs.

Pioneer Works · An immersive installation by Karachi-based archive and publishing platform Khajistan, founded by filmmaker Saad Khan, that reimagines the machinery of American wartime messaging as an office in decay. Printers continuously produce reproductions of US military propaganda leaflets dropped over Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya between 1990 and 2022, while computer terminals invite visitors into a digital archive of the leaflets and their translations. The show extends Khajistan's mission of preserving censored and underrepresented print media across a cultural geography from North Africa to South Asia.

Post Times · Margaret Curtis is a feminist artist whose multi-layered narrative paintings address power dynamics on both the individual and societal level, exploring ideas around environmental collapse and the facades of American identity.

Public Art Fund — Brooklyn Bridge Park · For his first solo outdoor exhibition in New York City, Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami, Florida) presents Guardian Spirit, comprising four recent large-scale bronzes and three new totemic redwood sculptures. This exhibition highlights the artist's ongoing exploration of nkisi — ritual objects from Western and Central Africa that embody spiritual presences and channel protective or healing forces. The exhibition features seven sculptural works exploring themes of communication and emotion through everyday objects transformed into ceremonial forms, with symbolic hand-carved totems incorporating imagery of hands, kneeling figures, ears, and birds.

Public Art Fund — Doris C. Freedman Plaza · First Sun is a majestic painted aluminum sculpture of a hybrid human-scarab figure. The work reimagines the ancient Egyptian deity Khepri as a contemporary monument, presenting an iridescent, monumental, androgynous figure. Al Qadiri created the sculpture following a visit to the Tomb of Pharaoh Ramses I in Egypt. The piece addresses the modern separation between humans and nature while celebrating ancient cultures that revered animals. Displayed in urban spaces designed to reconnect people with the natural world, the work suggests a future where humans and other animals live in greater balance.

Queens Museum · This exhibition explores three interpretations of American identity through photography. It examines what is American about American Art by featuring photographers from within and outside the United States. The collection spans from the mid-nineteenth century to 1979, predominantly showcasing albumen and vintage silver gelatin prints. The curators explore themes including family lore and nostalgia, contradiction, visibility, migration, fame, intimacy, conflict, and roots.

Queens Museum · The exhibition explores how communities persist amid environmental and extractive crises through extensive West Virginia field research. Backström engages the region's photographic history, government records, and community embroidery through photography, video, language, and textiles. The work addresses collective trauma following the 1972 Buffalo Creek mining disaster while referencing the 1921 Blair Mountain labor uprising. Notable pieces include a photographic series documenting mine safety signage and Sacrifice Zone, a large-scale installation featuring layered, hand-manipulated prints on transparent film. The artist also facilitated an embroidery circle with community members as witness-bearing.

Ramiken · Solo presentation by Shane Rossi (b. 1995, Boston) at Ramiken's Grand Street space — the New York artist's pictorial language tends to land somewhere between Flashe-painted landscape ciphers and meticulously fabricated oak objects that mimic everyday things until they read as pure form.

Rodder · Karla Black transforms Rodder's expanded Upper East Side space with pale, ephemeral materials, painted mirrors, and delicate but monumental sculpture in her first New York exhibition since 2016.

Rosenberg & Co. · 'The Artist and his Dealer' is Giacomo Manzù's first New York outing since 1985 — sculptures, works on paper, and archival correspondence assembled with the Fondazione Manzù to revisit the Bergamo-born sculptor's three-decade working relationship with dealer Alexandre Rosenberg, whose Paul Rosenberg & Co. mounted six Manzù shows between 1965 and 1985.

Rumpelstiltskin · 'Race with the other side' pairs Los Angeles underground filmmaker Damon Packard — director of the cult Reflections of Evil (2002) and a prolific maker of AI-generated shorts since 2022 — with Kevin Kemter at Rumpelstiltskin, the small Chelsea project space.

Ryan Lee Gallery · A group exhibition at Ryan Lee Gallery exploring waves as both physical phenomenon and metaphor across artistic practice.

Schoelkopf Gallery · Schoelkopf Gallery brings together paintings and works on paper from Robert A. Ellison, Jr.'s collection, highlighting a pivotal postwar downtown Manhattan art scene circa 1960.

Sean Kelly · This exhibition showcases Jose Dávila's exploration of sculpture through the elemental act of positioning materials in relation to one another. Dávila uses materials like stones, concrete, and industrial elements to create configurations that illustrate the themes of weight, gravity, and balance.

Sean Kelly · This exhibition marks Lindsay Adams’s second showing at Sean Kelly Gallery and her solo debut in New York, exploring her investigation into how paintings can emerge from a black ground to create psychological landscapes that redefine space with color as a living material.

Silke Lindner · Nina Hartmann's solo exhibition explores themes of mind control, mysticism, and parapsychological phenomena through shaped encaustic panels, resin sculptures, and lightboxes. It reflects on U.S. research into telepathy and other phenomena during the Cold War era.

Silverlens New York · Silverlens New York presents Excavations from the land of not so plenty, a solo exhibition by Kawayan de Guia. Born and based in Baguio, in the former American military base and heart of the Philippines' troubled American occupation, de Guia was raised in the Cordilleras, surrounded by artists, makers, secular leaders, and ancestral knowledge systems attuned to interdependence. The exhibition transforms the gallery into a theatrical space featuring large-scale assemblage paintings in which iconic characters and advertising mementos exist beside images of authoritarian leaders; a tiger grapples with a snake while a brain-like organ sits exposed nearby; a discombobulated cowboy aimlessly endeavors to capture an unspecific prey; schematic renderings of the senses, ears, tongues, nerves are surrounded by suggestive charts of spices, plants, and trade routes.

SITUATIONS · SITUATIONS is pleased to present From What I Gathered, a new body of work by Renelle White Buffalo.

Skarstedt Gallery · Skarstedt presents Hans Josephsohn: Early Sculpture (1947–1956), focusing on the Swiss sculptor's formative early period. Josephsohn (1920–2012) remained unwaveringly dedicated to the human figure across a career that spanned over six decades — its contours, its spatial depth, and its very essence. He drew on ancient influences from Greek, Egyptian, and Assyrian sculpture, as well as Medieval art, Romanesque churches, and Indian temple reliefs, working through reclining figures, half-figures, and heads.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · 25-year rotunda survey, ~100 works. Includes the new monumental 'collage sculpture' *Sweet Charity* and the outdoor glyph *Victoria*.

Sotheby's at the Breuer Building · Free public exhibition of works headed to Sotheby's spring marquee evening sales, installed inside Marcel Breuer's 1966 Brutalist landmark — newly reopened as Sotheby's global headquarters following a Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW renovation that preserved Breuer's cantilevered granite, trapezoidal windows, and bush-hammered concrete walls. Visitors can see works headed to The Now & Contemporary, Modern, and marquee single-owner evening sales across multiple gallery floors. Free with timed-entry reservation.

Southern Guild · Southern Guild's New York inaugural program continues with Ballad of the Peacock, the US solo debut of Cape Town–based painter Mmangaliso Nzuza. The exhibition presents a series of psychologically charged paintings imagined across a series of scenes that recall canonical moments in Western art, nod to contemporary Black practices and fashion histories, or gesture homeward to the stillness of Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal. Recurring figures characterized by a calm, self-possessed presence engage with art historical traditions while centering Black perspectives and contemporary aesthetics.

Southern Guild · Used is Usha Seejarim's second solo exhibition with Southern Guild and inaugurates the gallery's New York location. The show features a new body of sculptural and wall-based works that examine 'use' as bodily, effortful, and repetitive labor. The artist reconfigures domestic objects—clothespins, iron soleplates, serving trays—into accumulated sculptural fields that foreground the material and affective traces left by continual use. The exhibition explores how domestic labor, historically invisible and feminized, becomes both subject and structural framework within broader economies of gender and power.

SPIELZEUG · Group show at Spielzeug, the nomadic curatorial project's brick-and-mortar stint at 131 Chrystie organized with 1 Day at a Time — its title borrowing the cosmetic-surgery slang for the smoothed, filler-heavy, perma-tanned look proliferating across Trump's political circle, a body of work treating that aesthetic as material rather than punchline.

Sprüth Magers · Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present a duo exhibition with works by Richard Artschwager and Gary Hume, marking the first time their work has been brought into dialogue. The exhibition explores how Hume's paintings and Artschwager’s objects insist on their own surface and ambiguity, respectively, complicating the act of seeing.

Starrett-Lehigh Building · The 12th edition of NADA New York returns to the Starrett-Lehigh Building in West Chelsea with 121 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations from 15 countries and 46 cities — including 45 NADA Members and 53 first-time exhibitors. The fair remains the most discovery-oriented stop on New York's May art-week circuit, with programming that includes the TD Curated Spotlight, artist presentations, and NADA Presents conversations and performances.

Storefront for Art and Architecture · This exhibition explores connections between race and extraterrestrial imagination, tracing the figure of the alien through meticulously indexed and archived sighting histories. The artist examines how UFO mythology relates to colonial history and Indigenous cosmologies, drawing from Swedish and Zimbabwean archives plus publications by African UFOlogist Cynthia Hind. The immersive installation uses projection and shadow, archival recontextualizing, and sonic reimagining to present witness drawings and accounts across red-lit spaces.

Stump Gallery · Mariel Montes presents Absence Fantasia at Stump Gallery.

Susan Inglett Gallery · Susan Inglett Gallery presents Martha Jackson Jarvis: Elsewhere. The exhibition continues Jarvis' "Fire and Ice" series, examining polarity and the tension between opposing natural forces. The artist emphasizes that she is "especially interested in the act of making itself: movement, the exploration of materials, and their innate properties."

Susan Inglett Gallery · Martha Jackson Jarvis presents abstract works, framed and large-scale, continuing her exploration of polarity and the tension between opposing natural forces - extremes of energy, transformation, and elemental power.

Swiss Institute · Swiss Institute presents the inaugural New York institutional solo show by SoiL Thornton. The exhibition explores identity, systems of order, and regulative apparatuses through multiple media. Key works include a large-scale video installation using digital YouTube excerpts, documents from the artist's eviction proceedings displayed alongside institutional agreements, dried lavender distributed across the gallery floor, a transparent inflatable structure containing the artist's bedding, and a two-channel video featuring colonoscopy footage paired with financial records. The artist notes that production funds for the exhibition were, in part, directed toward eviction relief, merging artistic creation with material survival. A chroma-key green wall suggests potential alternatives. Curated by Alison Coplan.

Swiss Institute · Swiss Institute presents the artist's inaugural institutional solo exhibition in the United States. Centered on a newly commissioned five-channel video installation, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a rounded mirror chamber that stages a prismatic view of contemporary Shanghai. The work explores how spectacle, infrastructure, and everyday life move through the urban systems that sustain the contemporary metropolis through video, sound, and architectural interventions. The cylindrical lower-level gallery features synchronized screens positioned to resemble a rotating restaurant or traffic system, while a prismatic billboard in the stairway displays floral arrangements referencing covert wartime signaling.

Swiss Institute · First New York institutional solo by SoiL Thornton (b. 1990) — a video that slows 79 artist lectures to match every utterance of 'work' in a 2016 pop refrain; a framed assembly of the artist's actual eviction-proceeding paperwork, curator correspondence, and a kitchen towel from their apartment; production funds redirected toward eviction relief.

Talwar Gallery · Talwar, New York is delighted to present, Promised Land, an exhibition of Kerala based N.N. Rimzon. On view are new sculptures, a seminal work from 1987 alongside his paintings.

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery · For his sixth solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Mark Manders presents new work ranging from monumental bronze busts to abstract sculptural landscapes and more intimate paintings and works on paper.

The Brant Foundation · The exhibition revisits the artist's formative years from 1980 to 1983, tracing his meteoric rise from the subways of New York to international fame. It features landmark masterworks including pieces from his 1982 Tony Shafrazi Gallery exhibition and the 1983 FUN Gallery show, showcasing Haring's iconic symbols and socially engaged work addressing issues like the AIDS crisis. Curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart and Dr. Anna Karina Hofbauer.

The Bronx Museum · This exhibition showcases student artwork created through the Museum's School Partnerships Program. Students visited an exhibition on artist Reverend Joyce McDonald, learned about her clay-based sculptural approach, and created their own pieces that depict notions of home, family, self-identity, and friendship. Using air-dry clay on tiles, students narrated a personal testimony expressing who they are.

The Bronx Museum · This exhibition presents artwork from 28 artists across two recent AIM Fellowship cohorts. The show explores connection and disconnection: to one's heritage, invoking memory, time, culture, and geography; to society and its norms, practices, and structures; and to other individuals or groups, expressed through ideas of identity, intimacy, and distance. The museum functions as a connective space where communities form and belonging is fostered.

The Drawing Center · The Drawing Center traces the full arc of Roma artist, activist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka's visual production through more than sixty works, sketchbooks, archival material, and films.

The Frick Collection · The exhibition examines how Gainsborough's portrait paintings intersected with eighteenth-century fashion. Like the cut and cloth of a jacket, the shape, size, and facture of a painted portrait could be avant-garde or passé. The Frick presents over two dozen of Gainsborough's portraits spanning his four-decade career, complemented by technical investigations exploring connections between his artistic practice and materials used in the fashion industry — from dyes and pigments to textiles and jewelry. This marks the museum's first special exhibition dedicated to the artist and the inaugural show devoted to Gainsborough's portraiture in New York.

The Frick Collection · This Cabinet installation showcases twenty-four hand-colored engravings that depict French fashion in the late eighteenth century, drawn from Gallerie des modes et costumes français (1778–87). The exhibition presents fashion plates selected from what was the largest and most influential series of such plates at the time, featuring over four hundred images created by Parisian designers and engravers. The work displays a wide range of poufs, headwear, jewelry and ensembles worn by French people from various walks of life, presented as accurate representations of fashions during Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's reign.

The Gallery · This five-week exhibition activates a former 4,000 sq ft office space, with the building's original infrastructure — partitions, lighting, circulation paths — serving as an active framework for artistic interventions. Rather than treating the venue as neutral, artists engage directly with the office's architectural conditions to create a single spatial composition across rooms. The platform also hosts temporary gatherings including dinners, performances, and talks that reshape the space's former corporate social rhythms.

The Jewish Museum · The Jewish Museum presents Paul Klee as an artist of unstable worlds, tracing fantasy, exile, and modernist experiment through his paintings and works on paper.