NYC art map and recs, 9/2/25 - 9/7/25

Sep 02, 2025

Hi folks! It’s here, art back-to-school week with over 285 exhibitions opening and more being announced every day. I published my big bi-annual seasonal preview last week so many of you have likely already seen a lot of these openings that are being announced, but keeping with the regular schedule for consistency! I’m making new additions every day as more things get announced, so please do keep checking back for most updated info. Hope to see some of you all out and about this week!

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Geography Brief
- Meredith Rosen opens its new space at 327 West 36th Street on Tuesday, September 2nd with Catharine Czudej: God is Good on Tuesday, September 2nd, 6pm - 8pm
- Charmoli Chiarmoli opens its new space at 32 E Broadway in the Lower East Side with Sky Riggs: Murmurs on September 3rd, 6pm - 8pm
- Kutlsea opens at 537 W 23 St with Zoe McGuire: Afterimage on Thursday, September 4th, 6pm - 9pm
- Flow Space Gallery opens at 526 W 26th St #807 with Molly Burt-Westvig: Good Luck Tomorrow, 6pm - 8pm
- Alyssa Davis Gallery opens its new location at 171 Henry Street with Q3 on September 4th, 7pm - 10pm
- Cristin Tierney opens its new location at 49 Walker Street with the group exhibition Fifteen on September 5th, 6pm - 8pm
- LATITUDE opens its new location at 5 Lispenard Street with Birth of the Between
- dddd opens its new location at 79 Leonard Street with Addison Bale: The Decline in Reading on September 5th, opening reception September 10th, 6pm - 8pm
- Emmeline's opens at 5th Ave & 53rd St MTA Station Mezzanine Newsstand with Harun Farocki & Gertrud Vogler: Denkmalpflege on September 8th, 6pm - 8pm

(Keep your eyes peeled for a bigger geography updates post that I’ve been working on coming out soon!)

Tuesday, September 2nd
John Zurier: Pink Dust at Peter Blum *Reception September 25, 6pm - 8pm
PURE GAZE: Tiona Nekkia McClodden at White Cube
Salon Zürcher, 33rd Edition at Zurcher
Rachel Siporin: Bathers at Bowery *Reception Saturday, September 6th, 2pm - 5pm
Mondegreens and New Understandings at Nicodim
Elizabeth Bisbing: Near & Dear at Blue Mountain Gallery *Reception Thursday, September 4th, 6pm - 8pm
Marcy Bernstein at Ceres *Reception September 4th, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Carlyle Upson at Ceres *Reception September 4th, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Cameron Martin: Baseline at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins *Reception September 4th, 6pm - 8pm
Maria Nepomuceno: Cunhó at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins *Reception September 4th, 6pm - 8pm
Sissi Farassat: Revelation at Edwynn Houk *Reception September 18th, 5pm - 7pm
David Alekhuogie: Highlifetime at Yancey Richardson
Catharine Czudej: God is Good at Merdith Rosen Gallery
Heather Stivison: Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water at Pleiades Gallery *Reception September 4th, 6pm - 8pm
Matthew Sepielli: The Strange Bird Whose Nest I Am In at The Painting Center *Reception September 4th, 5pm - 8pm
Louisa Waber: In Every Sense of the Bird at The Painting Center *Reception September 4th, 5pm - 8pm
Sarah Bedford: Fangs and Fruits, and Falling Trees at Mrs. *Reception September 6th, 4pm - 7pm

Thursday, September 4th
Prema Murthy: DEEP TIME I at Kaliner
Nancy Pantirer: Coming Full Circle at 81 Leonard *Reception September 6th, 6pm- 8pm
Louisa Owen: Spires at Fredericks & Freiser
Alix Cléo Roubaud: Correction of perspective in my bedroom at Galerie Buchholz
LJ Roberts: The Queer Mechanix of the Lands Currently Referred to as the U.S. and Canada Before & During the 54th Year of the Stonewall Era at Hales
Sonia Boyce: Improvise With What We Have at Hauser & Wirth
Susan Rothenberg: The Weather at Hauser & Wirth
María Berrío: Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth at Hauser & Wirth
Tom Friedman: Detritus at Lehmann Maupin *Reception September 11th, 6pm - 8pm
Randall Rosenthal at Louis K Miesel
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein: Water Ways at Nancy Hoffman
Leslie Hewitt at Perrotin
Sophie Calle: Behind the curtain at Perrotin
Monira Al Qadiri at Perrotin
Charline Tyberghein at The Hole
Westwood Gallery NYC: 30 Years at Westwood
Bryan Rogers: New work at Monya Rowe
Gabriel Chaile at Marianne Boesky
Celeste Rapone: Some Weather at Marianne Boesky
Austin Martin White: Tracing Delusionships at Petzel
Jonathan Baldock: Friends at Nicelle Beauchene
Peter Brock: The End of the Myth at Nicelle Beauchene
Taking Form: Mark Making as Picture Building at Morgan Presents
June Edmonds: The Sky Remains the Same at Galerie LeLong
Zoe McGuire: Afterimage at Kutlesa
François Halard: Conversation with Claude at Ruttkowski;68
Sydney Cain: The Forest is the Water at Casey Kaplan
Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Saboteur: A Prehistoric Wish at Casey Kaplan
Kathleen Jacobs: Woods of Symbols at Fergus McCaffrey
Surreal America at Michael Rosenfeld
Vinna Begin: Love is a Place at Sears Peyton *5pm - 7pm
Sangram Majumdar: The Sleep of Reason at Nathalie Karg *Reception September 11th, 6pm - 8pm
Dana James: Ink Moon at Hollis Taggart
Deborah Zlotsky: Genealogies at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts *Reception September 11th, 6pm - 8pm
Ken Price: Primal, Physical, Sensual, 50 Years of Sculpture and Drawings at Matthew Marks
Ruby Perkins & Daniel Giordano: Memory in Motion at Picture Theory
Yuan Fang: Spaying at Skarstedt
Shu Hua Xiong: prayers at Island
Margaret Innerhofer: Transmutation: A Visual and Sonic Metamorphosis of the Self, the System and the Shadow at Ethan Cohen
F I B R A T I O N III : Anxiety and Hope at L'Space Gallery
Adebunmi Gbadebo: Watch Out for the Ghosts at Nicola Vassell
Joel Shapiro at Paula Cooper
Kota Ezawa & Julian Brave Noisecat: Alcatraz Is An Idea at Ryan Lee
Shara Hughes: Weather Report at David Kordansky
JoAnne Carson: Cosmic Chatter at DC Moore
Kadar Brock: Coming Home at Miles McEnery
Gabrielle Garland: I’ll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little Dog Too at Miles McEnery
Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism at Miles McEnery
Esteban Vincente at Miles McEnery
Bernardo Pacquing: Causal Loops at Silverlens
Etsuko Nakatsuji: Where are you from? at Silverlens
Leandro Pesantes: LA ETERNA LUZ INDOMABLE at Kates-Ferri Projects
Soojin Choi: A Distance For All, But A Distance For No One at Anna Zorina
David Gerstein: Umbria at AP Space
Guimi You: Breath, Island at Lehmann Maupin
The Bridges of Michael Kenna at Robert Mann Gallery
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Before Lunch at Mrs. *Reception September 6th, 4pm - 7pm
Susan Greenstein: In Light of Everything at 440 Gallery *Reception September 6th, 6pm- 8pm
Daniel Malikyar: Weed Nuns at The Locker Room *7pm
Joan Witek: A Survey of Paintings, 1969-2012 at Hunter Dunbar Projects
Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Peace Core at Gagosian
Molly Burt-Westvig: Good Luck Tomorrow at Flow Space Gallery
Claudia Keep: New York at March
Nicolina Morra & Brock Saunders: Dark Spot with White Dots at RUBY/DAKOTA
Studio Route 29 at 47 Canal
Shigeo Otake: Dim Cozy Room at American Art Catalogues
Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things at Garth Greenan
Iria Leino: In Two Parts—The Suomen Suo and Colorfield Series at Harper's
Laure Mary: Being normal is not really normal at Harper's
Hannah Wilke: Abstract Bodies at Petzel
¡Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation at Printed Matter
Asako Tabata: Waiting for Bones at Seizan
iMANIFEST at Westbeth Gallery
Echoes & Evolutions: Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels at Spruth Magers
Q3 at Alyssa Davis Gallery *7pm - 10pm
Florian Krewer: cold tears released at Michael Werner *Both locations
Leonardo Meoni: I used to be a Mountain at Amanita
Amor Muñoz: Epistemologies of Touch at bitforms *Reception September 6th, 4pm - 6pm
Erez Aharon: Transect at Gordon Gallery New York
Misha Japanwala: Sarsabzi سرسبزی at Hannah Traore
Cammisa Buerhaus: Headshots at OSMOS
Anne Hayden Stevens at Slip House
Alison Blickle: Future Ruins at Kravets Wehby
Mutable Landscapes at Mama Projects
Dahlia Elsayed: Book of Going Forth at Morgan Lehman *Reception September 11th, 6pm - 8pm
James Gold: Infinite Scroll at Morgan Lehman *Reception September 11th, 6pm - 8pm
The World Is Garbage at New Discretions
Wavelengths at SVA Chelsea Gallery
Maud Madsen: Dweller at Half
Angela China: Girl in the Garden at Half
Jameson Green: Crutches, Crosses, Caskets / Caskets, Crosses, Crutches at Derek Elller
Diana Cepleanu: Now at Kaufman Repetto
Bilgé: 1975 at Sapar Contemporary
NYC Watershed Art Project at Equity Gallery
a Cough led us off course, Astray… at Emily Harvey Foundation
James Busby: Swoon Units at Kravets Wehby
Nature-ish at 440 Gallery

Friday, September 5th
One of One at ABRI MARS
Cassi Namoda: Night Always Returns at 303 Gallery
Held by the Same Stars at Amos Eno Gallery *Reception September 12th, 6pm - 8pm
Obsesión! Labor as Pleasure at Apex Art
Monique Mouton IV at Bridget Donahue
Patricia Cronin: Army of Love at CHART
BK Adams: Territorial at Claire Oliver
Ambera Wellmann: One Thousand Emotions at Company
Ambera Wellmann: Darkling at Hauser & Wirth
Ginger Snow Semmelhack: Grapple at Eleventh Hour Art *6pm - 9pm
Yung-wu: Third Spaces at Eleventh Hour Art *6pm - 9pm
Rafał Topolewski: Smoulder at Grimm
Liza Jo Eilers: Starland silver sash at Grimm
Karen Barbour: Brainwaves and Wavestorms at Harkawik
30 x 30 at Jane Lombard
Echoes & Evolutions: Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels at Spruth Magers
Jerónimo Rüedi: Preaesns at Bureau
Now's Your Chance at Bureau
Tom Burckhardt: FRESHF LOWERS at High Noon Gallery
Hank Willis Thomas: I Am Many at Jack Shainman Gallery
Deborah Zlotsky: The light gets in at McKenzie Fine Art
Lily Stockman: Book of Hours at Charles Moffett
Maya Perry: The Moon Takes Shape of an Outsider's Light at Rainrain
Gaku Tsutaja: Pidgingo-no-Inko at Ulterior *5pm - 8pm
Chinemerem ‘Eme’ Omeh: The Strange Beauty of Impermanence at ACA Galleries *7pm - 9pm
Kahlil Robert Irving: EF3+E40 at Canada
Building Models: The Shape of Painting at The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Mindy Shapero : Black Dots at Broadway
Jordan Nassar: REVELATION at James Cohan
Wayne Ngan: Spirit and Form at James Cohan
Spencer Finch: One Hundred Famous Views of New York City (After Hiroshige) at James Cohan
Mara Oláh: Guess what, I’m still here at Margot Samel
Mercedes Matter at Berry Campbell
Alex Sewell: Diorama at Totah
Bettina: NON-WAIVER at Ulrik
Sofia Silva: Spoiled by Freud at Andrew Kreps
Hadi Falapishi: Simple World (Trauma dumps and love bombs) at Andrew Kreps
Kay Sekimachi at Andrew Kreps
Caleb Hahne Quintana: A Boy That Don’t Bleed at Anat Ebgi
Erin Wright: Mapping the Middle at Anat Ebgi
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Los restos at Asya Geisberg
Ken Taylor Reynaga: Golden Hills at Shrine
Michelle Paterok: Summer’s Edge at Shrine
Jen DeNike: Many Moons at Efraín López *Reception September 9th, 6pm - 8pm
A Journey in America at Fleiss-Vallois
Andrej Dubravsky: Laboratorio Mediterraneo at Gaa Gallery
Erin M. Riley: Life Looks Like a House For a Few Hours at PPOW
Elizabeth Glaessner: Running Water at PPOW
Sperone Westwater 50th Anniversary: The Early Years at Sperone Westwater
Assume Vivid Astro Focus: Ablaze Vibrations Amplifying Fluidity at Tibor de Nagy
Ana Claudia Almeida: Over Again at Stephen Friedman Gallery
Rich Aybar: Rubberworks at TIWA Gallery
25th Anniversary Exhibition at Sundaram Tagore
Wanda Koop: Magnetic Field at Arsenal
Deep Jungian Boricua at Astor Weeks
…Aeronauts Aimed for Altitude, Even… at Foreign & Domestic
Naotaka Hiro: Of Two at Bortolami
Xiyadie at Bortolami
Eloise Hess: Picture a Train at Chapter
Rene Matić: BABY at Chapter
Places & Spaces at Friedrichs Pontone
Birth of the Between at LATITUDE
Sophie Calle: On The Hunt at Paula Cooper
Eckart Hahn: Silence at Pablo's Birthday
Sana Musasama: Raised Earth at Eric Firestone
A Shell of the Sea of the Past at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
Jenny Jisun Kim: Verses on Oxherding at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola: Camouflage at Sean Kelly
Harminder Judge: Wherever I went, I went when I was sleeping at Sean Kelly
Yevgeniya Baras: Dreamfeeding at Sargent's Daughters
Brandi Twilley: Recent Flowers at Sargent's Daughters
Wang Ye: Legume Blossoms in Blue at YveYANG Gallery
Logan T. Sibrel: Thought Cage at Auxier Kline *Reception September 13th, 4pm - 6pm
Aurora Pelizzi: Tapetates at Instituto De Vision
Manoela Medeiros at Palo
Stass Shpanin: Forbidden Garden at Plato Gallery
Eleanor Mahin Thorp: Bend of the Southern Cross at Plato Gallery
Anne Buckwalter: Lover's Knot at Uffner & Liu
Nianxin Li: Neon Haze at Uffner & Liu
Dan Alvarado: PANDORA'S SWIPE at Botanica Grove
John McAllister: sun sundry beguiles wild at James Fuentes
Adam Dressner: Hello Stranger 2 at 1969 Gallery
Aliza Stone Howard: Atelier at 1969 Gallery
This Delicious Garden at Frisson Gallery
Colin Knight: Hero’s Wreck at Superhouse
Rosie Harbottle: The Tomatoes Are Ripe! at Scroll
Extended Blooming at Room57Gallery
Olivia van Kuiken: Bastard Rhyme at Matthew Brown
Nihura Montiel: Corporate Goddess at Sebastian Gladstone
Camille Eskell: ONE THOUSAND AND ONE THREADS at Kapow
Domina: Sima Schloss at Temple Gallery
The Other Shore at Underdonk
Jean Degottex: Plis and Déplis (1979-1980) at Bienvenu Steinberg & J
Lin Wang: True Romance at HB381
As beautiful as the chance encounter with a sewing machine at Hesse Flatow
Emma Safir: Uyt Den Gheest at Hesse Flatow
Pixel Theory at IRL
Gift at IRL
Damon Zucconi: Neurofiction at Various Artists *7pm - 9pm
Maud Madsen: Dweller at Half
Angela China: Girl in the Garden at Half
Jameson Green: Crutches, Crosses, Caskets / Caskets, Crosses, Crutches at Derek Elller
Diana Cepleanu: Now at Kaufman Repetto
Bilgé: 1975 at Sapar Contemporary
Pipo Nguyen-duy: AsSimulation at ClampArt
Aaron Krach: Four-Page Books at ClampArt
FLESH IS THE REASON at Lubov *7pm - 9pm
Lucía Vidales: Sedimento at PROXYCO
Emma Kohlmann: Moon Minds at Silke Lindner
Fifteen at Cristin Tierney
Addison Bale: The Decline in Reading at dddd *Reception September 10th, 6pm - 8pm
MYTHOS at Bullet Space
Caroline Monnet: Where the Sky Begins at Nunu Fine Art
Fifteen Years at Cristin Tierney
Yanmei Jiang: A Toe in the Water at Gallery 456 / Chinese American Arts Council
Allan Rand: Transportation at YveYANG Gallery
Jonier Marin: Amazonia Report at Henrique Faria

Saturday, September 6th
Westwood Gallery NYC: 30 Years at Westwood
Derek Franklin at Freight + Volume
Sam McKinniss: Law and Order at Jeffrey Deitch
Still Point at Ortega y Gasset
Angela Burson: Analog Conditions at Hashimoto Contemporary
Rachel Gregor: Acts of Observation at Hashimoto Contemporary
Nick McPhail: Aberration at Massey Klein *Reception September 13th, 6pm - 8pm
Tamara Kostianovsky: Moved by Forces at Slag & RX
Elizabeth Englander at Theta
Vladislav Markov: OBJECTS IN MIRROR MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR at Management *Reception 6pm - 9pm. Time slot registration required.
Matthew Schrader: Subsurface at Kaje
Common Sentience at 601 Artspace
Dew Kim & Filippo Cegani: Ecstacy Protocol at Swivel *6pm - 9pm
Fig Tree at Ki Smith *6pm - 9pm
Elisa Soliven: Hybrid House at McBride / Dillman
Kat Ryals: Showroom Dynasty at 5-50 Gallery *5pm - 8pm
Porpentine Charity Heartscape at Haul Gallery
Emily Janowick: Obsession at Kate Werble
Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity at PS122
Aviva Silverman: THE CURE at SALMA SARRIEDINE *5pm - 8pm
Tim Maul: Super 8 Films, 1973–1977 at the Emily Harvey Foundation
Chromatic Mythologies at Harper's Apartment
Kuei-Hua Lin: Let’s Have a Fight, OK? at Thomas Van Dyke

Sunday, September 7th
Agosto Machado at Gordon Robichaux *12pm - 6pm
DW Fitzpatrick at Gordon Robichaux
Drawing In, Drawing Out at Art Cake *4pm - 8pm
Pass the Aux at Benny's Video *12pm - 4pm
Max Schumann: Flag Show at Starr Suites

Events
Tuesday, September 2nd
Anne Waldman in conversation with Haleh Liza Gafori about Mesopotopia at 192 Books
7pm

Thesis Screening of Video and Related Media works at SVA
5:30pm - 9pm

Wednesday, September 3rd
Hank Feeley Artist Talk at First Street Gallery
4pm - 6pm

Jump Cuts : Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics by Mark Polizzotti book launch and signing at Rizzoli Bookstore
6pm - 8pm

Performance celebrating the launch of Chloe Bass’s sound work If you hear something at Fulton Center
12pm

Documenting Design History: The Role of Professional Archives at the National Academy of Design

6pm - 8pm

TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! Exhibition with DJ Sets and performances hosted by Spielzug
8pm - 2am

Thursday, September 4th
“Three Found Performances In and Out of Time” performance by Marni Kotak at Microscope
6pm - 8pm

Note to Self video showcase at Singers
7pm

Artist talk with Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Joshua Citerella at Gagosian
5:30pm

September 5th - September 7th
Kian McKeown: Cherry presented by 95 Gallon

Saturday, September 6th
Polina Bertou and Matthew Giordano: Salt of the Earth at Project Art Distribution
11am - 6pm

Alana Perino and Ariel Goldberg in conversation at Leica Gallery
11am

Vik Muniz Book Signing at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins
1pm

Jane Dickson in conversation with Lynne Tillman at Karma
4pm - 5pm

A Conversation with Renée Green, Mason Leaver-Yap, and Jordan Carter at Dia Chelsea
4:30pm

June Edmonds in conversation with jill moniz at Galerie Lelong
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3pm

Panel discussion with Kota Ezawa and Julian Brave NoiseCat in conversation with Audra Simpson
4pm -6pm

Pipo Nguyen-duy artist talk at ClampArt
4pm - 6pm

September 7th
A duet performed by Pei Pei Barth Wu and Angelina Hoffman with music by Jack Whitescarver at Triest
7:30pm

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