Sophie Su Art Advisory will be on the ground — attending previews, auctions, and fairs — offering firsthand insights into key market movements, exceptional artworks, and discreet trends shaping collector interest. Whether you’re building a collection, advising clients, or simply seeking inspiration, this guide provides essential highlights of New York Art Week 2025.
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Spring Auctions 2025: What to Watch
Phillips
Exhibition: May 3–12
Location: 432 Park Ave, New York
Auctions:
Evening Sale: May 13, 5 PM
Day Sale: May 14, 2 PM
Phillips will present a series of Modern and Contemporary Art auctions in May 2025, highlighting works by both rising and established Brazilian artists on the international market. Among the four Brazilian artists featured are:
OSGEMEOS‘s O dia em que a Andorinha não voou, 2005 is a striking mixed media on panel, estimated at $60.000 – $80.000. The piece exemplifies the Brazilian duo’s mastery in crafting a profound visual dialogue between the viewer and the cultural symbolism embedded in their art, conveying a powerful, contemporary narrative. In 2024, the artists presented Endless Story, their largest U.S. exhibition to date, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
OSGEMEOS
O dia em que a Andorinha não voou, 2005
Mixed media on panel with digital audio player, USB, headphones and remote, in artist’s wooden box
179 x 139 cm
Estimate: $80.000 – $120.000
Marina Perez Simão combines painting, watercolor, drawing, and textiles in her practice, distinguished by a rich color palette. This oil on canvas, presented in this auction, was previously showcased in the exhibition Marina Perez Simão: Observatory at the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing (November 5, 2021 – February 27, 2022), and is now estimated to be worth $40.000 – $60.000.
Marina Perez Simão
Untitled, 2021
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Estimate: $40.000 – $60.000
Sotheby’s
Exhibition: May 2–13
Location: 1334 York Ave, New York
Auctions:
Modern Evening: May 13, 7 PM
Modern Day: May 14, 10 AM
Contemporary Evening (“The Now”): May 15, 7:30 PM
Contemporary Day: May 16, 9 AM
Elegance & Wonder: Masterpieces from the Collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III: May 21, 10 AM
Just like Phillips, Sotheby’s will also highlight Brazilian artists in its Modern and Contemporary Art auctions in May 2025, including works by OSGEMEOS and Marina Perez Simão. In addition, Sotheby’s will present pieces by established masters, reinforcing the presence of Brazilian art in the international market as:
Frans Post was the first European-trained artist to paint the landscapes of the Americas, producing 160 works divided into four phases. His early paintings, created during his stay in Brazil (1637–1644), reflect his firsthand experience with the region’s vibrant nature. After returning to Holland, he began selling accurate depictions of Brazilian scenes to Dutch officials who had been there. By the 1660s, Post’s focus shifted to idealized, exotic visions of Brazil for a broader European audience. This period marked the height of his career, with 71 works created to meet new market demands.
Frans Post
View of Olinda, Brazil, with the Ruins of the Jesuit Church, 1966
Oil on western European oak panel
58 x 88 cm
Estimate: $6.000.000 – $8.000.000
Candido Portinari, one of the most significant Brazilian artists of the 20th century, reaffirms his legacy with Mulata de Vestido Branco, a work that poignantly captures Brazilian social realities through both sensitivity and refined technique. Available for bidding, it carries an estimated value between $800.000 – $1.2M.
Cândido Portinari
Mulata de vestido branco, 1936
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
Estimate: $800.000 – $1.200.000
Lygia Clark reasserts her role in the Neo-Concrete movement with her first retrospective in Germany, opening in May 23 at the Neue Nationalgalerie. At the auction, Sotheby’s features a work from her Bicho series—articulated sculptures that invite viewer interaction.
Lygia Clark
Bicho desfolhado, 1960
Aluminum
Approximately: 27 x 31 cm
Estimate: $400.000 – $600.000
Antônio Bandeira, a pioneer of gestural abstraction, is also a highlight of the auction with two oil on canvas works — Le Flamboyant and Ville — both executed in 1956. The paintings carry estimates of $100.000 – $150.000 and $120.000 – $180.000, respectively.
Antônio Bandeira
Le flamboyant, 1956
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
Estimate: $120.000 – $180.000
Antonio Obá’s striking 2017 painting, executed in oil and gold leaf on canvas, will be offered at auction by Sotheby’s. Known for his exploration of identity, spirituality, the body, and Afro-Brazilian history, Obá creates powerful compositions that invite contemplation and challenge deeply rooted cultural structures through symbolic and spiritual imagery.
Antonio Obá
Untitled, 2017
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
140 x 90 cm
Estimate: $80.000 – $120.000
Almir da Silva Mavignier, a key figure in concrete art, recently had a work sold at the Sotheby’s Paris auction, part of the Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt collection, on April 10 for €95.250—well above its estimate of €35.000. This has sparked curiosity about the final price of his 1966 acrylic on canvas avaiable at this auction.
Almir da Silva Mavignier
Untitled, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
73 x 100 cm
Estimate: $60.000 – $80.000
Christie’s
Exhibition: May 3–12
Location: 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
Auctions:
20th Century Evening Sale: May 12, 7:30 PM
Impressionist & Modern Day: May 13, 2 PM
21st Century Evening: May 14, 7 PM
Post-War & Contemporary Day: May 15, 10 AM
Christie’s will bring the largest number of Brazilian artists to its contemporary art auction in New York, with high-profile names such as OSGEMEOS, Marina Perez Simão, Lygia Clark and Lucas Arruda, as well as other icons of Brazilian art such as Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel, Cildo Meireles and Lygia Pape.
Lygia Clark’s iconic Bicho series marks a pivotal turning point in her artistic journey, breaking away from the two-dimensionality of painting to explore sensory and tactile interactivity. Created between 1960 and 1966, the series comprises approximately seventy pieces. A rare work from this groundbreaking series is now set to be auctioned at Christie’s, with an estimated value between $400.000 – $600.000.
Lygia Clark
Bicho, 1960
Aluminum
40 x 40 x 40 cm
Estimate: $400.000 – $600.000
Lucas Arruda‘s From the Deserto-Modelo series, 2014 is an oil painting on canvas that gradually reveals dreamlike landscapes, carrying an estimated value between $200.000 – $300.000. Represented by Mendes Wood DM and David Zwirner galleries, the artist made history as the first Brazilian to hold a solo contemporary art exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris—a show currently on view through July 20, 2025.
Lucas Arruda
Untitled (from the Deserto-Modelo series), 2014
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
Estimate: $200.000 – $300.000
Lygia Pape, one of the key figures of both Concrete and Neoconcrete art in Brazil, presents O Olho do Guará No. 13, 1984. This masterpiece at auction transcends geometry, exploring the relationship between the observer and the object.
Lygia Pape
O olho do guará n° 13, 1984
Synthetic fur, gesso and neon light fixture mounted on panel
59 x 59 cm
Estimate: $150.000 – $250.000
Mira Schendel, a master of abstract art, will have three emblematic creations at auction. Graphic Object, 1967, a work reflecting her exploration of visual and poetic languages, is estimated at $200.000 to $300.000. In addition, two other pieces, Two Works, 1971, and an oil on panel from 1974, are available with estimates ranging from $40.000 – $60.000.
Mira Schendel
Graphic Object, 1967
Oil and graphite on rice paper, metal hardware and acrylic sheets
49 x 49 cm
Estimate: $200.000 – $300.000
Hélio Oiticica, one of the greatest icons of the Neoconcretist movement, presents his work Metaesquema, 1958. With an estimated value of $80.000 – $120.000, this piece captures the essence of his research on the interaction between the spectator and the artwork, as well as the revolutionary use of color and form. Also featured, Metaesquema No. 229, 1956-1958 offers a unique sensory experience.
Hélio Oiticica
Metaesquema, 1958
Gouache on board
31 x 33 cm
Estimate: $80.000 – $120.000
International Art Fairs: A Vibrant Circuit
Frieze New York
VIP Days: May 7 – 8
Public Opening: May 8 – 11
Location: The Shed
At Frieze New York 2025 Brazil will be represented by seven galleries: Mitre Galeria, A Gentil Carioca, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Nara Roesler, Central Galeria, Mendes Wood DM and Vermelho.
Nara Roesler – Access the Preview
Featuring works by Carlos Bunga, Maria Klabin, Lucia Koch, Karin Lambrecht, Vik Muniz, and Amelia Toledo, the exhibition reflects on space, materiality, and resilience. The proposal celebrates art’s ability to inspire hope and connection in challenging times.
A Gentil Carioca – Access the Preview
Featuring works by Denilson Baniwa, Kelton Campos Fausto, and Maria Nepomuceno, the curatorship envisions Brazil as land — memory, origin, and future. Using materials such as clay, seeds, and feathers, the works explore spirituality, ecology, and cultural diversity.
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel – Access the Preview
Presents works by Beatriz Milhazes in dialogue with Antonio Tarsis and Tadáskía. Milhazes is also the focus of the exhibition Rigor and Beauty at the Guggenheim, which highlights the environmental dimension of her practice, deeply connected to Brazilian nature and abstraction.
Central Galeria – Access the Preview
With the solo project dddecay by C. L. Salvaro, the gallery joins the Focus sector with an installation that stretches resin, sand, and cement under nylon nets, evoking fragments of ruins from a world without nature. A poetic reflection on climate catastrophes and the everyday.
Mendes Wood – Access the Preview
Founded in São Paulo in 2010, Mendes Wood DM promotes Brazilian and international artists through critical dialogue and a focus on conceptualism and political engagement. With locations in Brussels, New York, and Paris, the gallery fosters global exchange while highlighting regional perspectives.
Vermelho – Access the Preview
Features works by Edgard de Souza, Dora Longo Bahia, Iván Argote, and Rosângela Rennó, bringing together embroidery, silk painting, photography, and sculpture in a narrative that explores memory, identity, and social space. A critical selection that evokes both political history and human fragility.
Mitre – Access the Preview
Presents a solo project by Luana Vitra, an artist whose works explore the physical, chemical, and spiritual dimensions of minerals. Through sculptures, ceramics, and drawings, Vitra reflects on material transformation, spirituality, and the political issues related to landscapes and the impact of mining.
TEFAF New York
VIP Days: May 8
Public Opening: May 9 – 13
Location: Park Avenue Armory
Three Brazilian galleries bring the diversity, sophistication, and creative force of Brazilian art to TEFAF New York. With distinct curatorial approaches, they present works that engage in dialogue with the past, the present, and the experimental legacy of modern and contemporary art.
Luciana Brito Galeria – Access the Preview
In celebration of the centenary of Waldemar Cordeiro, a founding figure of the Concrete Art movement in Brazil, the gallery — in collaboration with The Mayor Gallery (London) — presents a rare selection of works spanning the key phases of the artist’s career from 1949 to 1973. This is a historic tribute to one of the central figures of Latin American modern art.
Gomide&Co – Access the Preview
The gallery showcases a thoughtful selection of works by Mira Schendel and Amelia Toledo, two of the most influential Brazilian artists of the 20th century. The presentation celebrates their enduring friendship and creative dialogue, with a critical essay by curator and art critic Galciani Neves. It invites viewers to contemplate the poetic and experimental processes that shaped their work.
Nara Roesler – Access the Preview
Galeria Nara Roesler presents Maria and Mondrian, an exhibition that brings together emblematic sculptures by Maria Martins, the most important Brazilian surrealist sculptor, with works that dialog with the geometric legacy of Piet Mondrian. The show revisits a milestone that took place 80 years ago in New York, when the two artists exhibited simultaneously at the Valentine Gallery, and proposes a poetic encounter between the organic and the rational, the ancestral and the modern – highlighting the complexities and contradictions of 20th century art.
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
VIP Days: May 8
Public Opening: May 9 – 11
Location: Halo, 28 Liberty Street
1-54 is a global contemporary African art fair founded by Touria El Glaoui in 2013. It takes place annually in London, New York, Paris and Marrakech, showcasing leading galleries and artists from Africa and its diaspora. The fair promotes diverse perspectives on contemporary African art through exhibitions, discussions, and special projects. Its name refers to the 54 countries of Africa, emphasizing the continent’s cultural richness.
Karla Osorio – Access the Preview
Founded in 2016, Karla Osorio Gallery is dedicated to the integration of contemporary artists into the market and institutional scene. Focused on innovative artistic productions, it offers a program of temporary exhibitions that explore diverse languages and techniques. Representing both Brazilian and international artists, the gallery participates in art fairs around the world, often being the only gallery from Brasília at prestigious events.
Independent
VIP Days: May 8
Public Opening: May 9 – 11
Location: Spring Studios
Independent New York will feature over 80 international galleries and organizations, showcasing more than 100 artists. The fair will spotlight 25 emerging talents in the “Independent Debuts” sector and present a special section with solo exhibitions by renowned artists like Pope.L and Michelle Grabner. Curated by Elizabeth Dee, with support from Matthew Higgs, Alexandra Alexopoulou, and David Ulrichs, the fair promises an exciting mix of established and up-and-coming voices in contemporary art.
NADA New York
VIP Days: May 7
Public Opening: May 7 – 11
Location: 548 West 22nd Street
With 120 exhibitors from 19 countries, NADA New York returns in 2025 as one of the most vibrant events in the contemporary art scene. Among the highly anticipated debuts are Eugster || Belgrade and Gallery Common, which promise to surprise the audience with bold proposals. A highlight of this edition is the Curated Spotlight, focusing on galleries and artists from Texas and Mexico, curated by Owen Duffy — a vibrant snapshot of cross-border cultural production. Live performances and thought-provoking talks complete the NADA Presents program, reaffirming the fair’s role as a space for discovery, experimentation, and exchange among emerging global art figures.
Not-to-Miss Exhibitions
Museums
Beatriz Milahzes: Rigor and Beauty 🇧🇷
From March 07 to September 07
Guggenheim Museum
The exhibition by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, represented nationally by Galeria Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and internationally by Pace, highlights her vibrant abstract paintings created using the “monotransfer” technique. Inspired by Tarsila do Amaral, Matisse, Mondrian and Burle Marx, Milhazes combines organic shapes, geometric patterns and references to folklore, popular culture and nature. Curated by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, the show includes works from the Guggenheim and important loans.
Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form 🇧🇷
From March 13 to July 13, 2025
El Museo Del Barrio
Bringing together more than 30 sculptures by the artist, writer and spiritual leader Mestre Didi, the exhibition covers his production from the 1960s to the 2010s. His works reinterpret Candomblé ritual objects, creating a modern sculptural language. The artist’s first major exhibition in the USA in 25 years also includes works by contemporary Afro-Brazilian artists. Curated by Rodrigo Moura, chief curator, and guest curator Ayrson Heráclito, with the participation of Chloë Courtney, assistant curator.
Adriana Varejão: Don’t Forget, We Come From the Tropics 🇧🇷
From March 27 to June 22, 2025
The Hispanic Museum and Library
This exhibition unveils new paintings and sculptures by Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, focusing on the Amazonian rainforest as a cultural and ecological nexus. Highlights include Varejão’s Plate series—large-scale fiberglass tondos merging Amazonian flora and fauna with global ceramic traditions—and a site-specific outdoor sculpture that reimagines the museum’s El Cid statue, enveloping it in a painted Amazonian anaconda as a critique of imperialism and gender. Historic ceramic plates from the Hispanic Society’s collection further challenge the hierarchies between craft and fine art. The title honors Brazil’s cultural richness and its ties to artist Maria Martins.
Luana Vitra: Amulets
From May 01 to July 28, 2025
SculptureCenter
The exhibition Amulets by Luana Vitra explores the spiritual and symbolic dimensions of minerals, rooted in her home state of Minas Gerais and Afro-Brazilian traditions. Using materials like iron, clay, sand, and pigments, she creates sculptures and installations that reflect transformation and energy. Inspired by sacred nkisi nkonde objects, her works incorporate nails, knots, and fabric to seal intentions and embody protective forces. Her abstract forms connect natural, industrial, and spiritual realms. Vitra invites viewers to see minerals as mediators between material and spiritual worlds.
Sonia Gomes: Ó Abre Alas! 🇧🇷
From May 07 to November 10, 2025
Storm King Art Center
The exhibition showcases Sonia Gomes tactile sculptures made from textiles, found objects, and natural materials, exploring memory, identity, and cultural heritage. Curated by Nora Lawrence, Larry Ossei-Mensah, and Adela Goldsmith, it features intimate fabric works and Ó Abre Alas!, her first-ever outdoor installation in the U.S. This vibrant piece, made with ropes and fishing nets, engages with nature and evokes the celebratory spirit of Carnival. Gomes transforms discarded materials into narratives of resilience and beauty. The exhibition is supported by key institutions and galleries, including Mendes Wood DM and Pace Gallery.
Conductor 🇧🇷
May 08 to May 11, 2025
Powerhouse Arts
The new Conductor art fair, organized by Powerhouse Arts, will officially debut in 2026 in New York, with a focus on talent from the Global South and the appreciation of young galleries. From May 8 to 11, 2025, a preview will take place at the organization’s space in Gowanus. One of the highlights is the Brazilian collective MAHKU, represented by Carmo Johnson Projects. Their paintings translate Huni Meka chants linked to ayahuasca rituals, connecting indigenous knowledge and the non-indigenous world.
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
April 09 to August 10, 2025
Whitney Museum of American Art
This exhibition traces how American artists—from the 19th century to today—have reimagined the sublime as a blend of beauty, awe, and emotion. Featuring works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, it expands the notion of the sublime beyond nature to include urban, technological, and spiritual experiences, reflecting shifts in U.S. culture, politics, and the environment.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
From April 18 to January 18, 2026
Guggenheim Museum
Following acclaimed shows at Hauser & Wirth, conceptual artist Rashid Johnson will have a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, filling the rotunda with over 90 works. A highlight is a new installation featuring a piano at the top of the ramp, doubling as a stage for live performances during the show.
The Frick Collection Reopening
Opens April 2025
Frick Collection
The reopening of the Frick Collection marks a new phase for the museum, with the unprecedented opening of the second floor to the public. Ten new galleries have been created to present the collection from new perspectives, while respecting the original architecture of the mansion. One of the highlights is the installation of ceramic floral arrangements, inspired by the bouquets displayed during the museum’s historic opening, connecting past and present through delicate gestures of memory and art.
A Rose Is
From February 27 to June 21, 2025
The FLAG Art Foundation
A Rose Is at FLAG Art Foundation explores the symbolic complexity of the rose across sculpture, painting, video, and text. Drawing from artists like Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois, and Robert Mapplethorpe, the exhibition examines the rose’s dual roles in beauty, desire, death, and consumerism. Works include James Lee Byars’s Rose Table of Perfect, Sara Cwynar’s Rose Gold video, and Gabriella Hirst’s How to Make A Bomb, which challenge traditional views of the rose, highlighting its contradictions and cultural significance.
Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved
From March 07, 2025 to August 31, 2026
Dia Beacon
This major solo show at Dia Beacon marks the first comprehensive museum presentation of artist Green’s work in New York. Blending Minimalism with Conceptual strategies, Green explores the space between fact and fiction through archival materials, personal ephemera, and new creations. Highlights include her Color series, Space Poems, and the modular Bichos, integrating moving images and sound. The show also reunites Green’s iconic multimedia installations, making their first U.S. appearance in over 30 years.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
From April 20 to September 13, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
Woven Histories delves into the rich intersections of weaving and abstraction, featuring over 150 works in textiles, basketry, painting, drawing, sculpture, and media. Challenging traditional views of weaving as mere craft, it explores its relationship with abstract art and fashion over the past century. Following successful tours at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the National Gallery of Canada, the exhibition concludes its journey at MoMA, with new pieces making their debut.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
From April 20 to September 13, 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in the United States, this landmark exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the visionary German Romantic painter who transformed landscape into a deeply spiritual and psychological realm. With approximately 75 works—including oil paintings, drawings, and studies—The Soul of Nature reveals how Friedrich developed a symbolic visual language rooted in nature to explore existential themes.
Galleries
Upper East Side
Thalita Hamaoui: Nascer da Terra 🇧🇷
From May 01 to June 14, 2025
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Nascer da Terra, the debut U.S. solo show by Thalita Hamaoui, who is represented in Brazil by Galeria Simões de Assis, presents imagined landscapes infused with generational memory and the lush abundance of the tropics. Drawing from Impressionist, East Asian, and Tropicália influences, Hamaoui layers oil on linen and cotton to evoke dense, shifting jungles. Inspired by stories from her Romanian grandmother and the natural beauty of Brazil, her works blur the line between memory and fantasy. Her process-based practice embraces transformation and cultural hybridity. The title, meaning “born of the earth,” reflects the paintings’ deep connection to nature and their dreamlike sense of continual becoming.
Marina Rheingantz: Iris 🇧🇷
From May 06 to May 31, 2025
Bortolami Gallery
The gallery presents Íris, a new exhibition by Marina Rheingantz, featuring previously unseen paintings that explore landscapes in dissolution, suspended between memory and abstraction. Through textured surfaces and subtle chromatic shifts, the artist evokes natural vastness and ethereal atmospheres. Represented in Brazil by Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rheingantz also has a concurrent solo exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, curated by Barbara Gouget, on view from April 30 to October 5, 2025, as part of the France-Brazil cultural season.
Picasso: Tête-à-tête
From April 18 to July 03, 2025
Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian announces Picasso: Tête-à-Tête, in collaboration with the artist’s daughter, Paloma Picasso, opening on April 18. The exhibition brings together more than fifty rarely seen paintings, sculptures, and drawings, spanning the entire career of the artist (1896-1972), including works that have never been shown publicly and others that have not been seen in decades. The show, which will be the last at Gagosian’s iconic Madison Avenue space, is primarily composed of works from Picasso’s own collection.
Miquel Barceló
From April 24 to May 30, 2025
Acquavella Galleries
Acquavella Galleries presents the fourth solo exhibition of Miquel Barceló, featuring over two dozen new paintings and recent ceramics. The show highlights his layered materiality, vivid colors, and densely textured surfaces. Among the highlights are works from the Corrida series, which explore the circular arena as a symbolic space for experimentation. In Reloj parado, solitary figures emerge surrounded by intense colors, reflecting contrasts between life and death, light and shadow.
Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb
From May 03 to July 25, 2025
125 Newbury Gallery
125 Newbury presents Gottlieb/Rothko: The Realist Years, featuring over 30 works that highlight the friendship and parallel paths of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb during the 1920s and 1930s. Before becoming icons of Abstract Expressionism, the artists explored figuration, influenced by the School of Paris, German Expressionism, and Milton Avery. The exhibition reveals how this figurative phase was crucial to the development of their visual languages. This focus is especially relevant in light of the current resurgence of figuration in contemporary art. The show concludes with transitional works between figuration and surrealism, foreshadowing their shift toward abstraction.
The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet
From April 25 to June 27, 2025
Di Donna Gallery
Di Donna Galleries presents The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet, in collaboration with expert Timothy Baum, the exhibition brings together collages by leading figures of Surrealism, including Breton, Duchamp, Magritte, Ernst, Miró, and Oppenheim. Celebrating collage as an expressive medium, the show reveals how artists used image fragments to create dreamlike compositions that dissolve the boundaries between dream and reality.
Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi
From April 17 to May 31, 2025
Jack Shainman Gallery
Jack Shainman Gallery presents Regardez-moi, a photography exhibition by Malick Sidibé, showcasing vibrant images from post-colonial Mali. Sidibé’s work captures the energetic social life in Bamako during the country’s early years of independence. The exhibition includes never-before-seen photographs and a special focus on his painted frame series, where Sidibé collaborated with local artists to combine his photography with reverse-glass painting. This exhibition highlights Sidibé’s role in shaping African photography as a tool for memory and cultural identity.
The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh
From April 10 to June 21, 2025
Lévy Gorvy Dayan Gallery
The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh at Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents the first focused exhibition on these three influential artists who worked in New York City during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Curated by Saara Pritchard, the exhibition highlights their shared involvement in artistic circles, mutual sitters, and collective exhibitions. The portraits they created are known for their distinct forms and styles, yet all capture the emotional depth of their subjects. Sylvia Sleigh’s quote, “The human situation adds a certain poignancy to portraits,” encapsulates the exhibition’s exploration of the human spirit through art.
Carmen Herrera: The Paris Years, 1948 –1953
From May 01 to August 01, 2025
Lisson Gallery
Carmen Herrera: The Paris Years, 1948-1953 at Lisson New York presents the most comprehensive exhibition of her work from this transformative period. During her time in Paris, Herrera moved away from biomorphic forms and gestural compositions, embracing geometric abstraction—a style that would define her career for the next seven decades. The exhibition explores her experimentation with various midcentury art movements and her development of a unique painting language. It offers an in-depth look at the crucial years that shaped her artistic vision.
René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape
From May 07 to July 12, 2025
Luxembourg & Co Gallery
René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape will examine Magritte’s unique engagement with landscape painting. The exhibition brings together key works by the Belgian master, alongside a site-specific response from contemporary artist Laure Prouvost. It will focus on three main groups: ‘Frames of Reference’, which includes landscapes within landscapes, ‘The Sky is the Limit’, focusing on sky and clouds, and ‘Human Landscapes’, where the body integrates with nature. A new publication will feature responses from artists Laure Prouvost, Allison Katz, and Linder Sterling.
Chromatic Landscapes: Álvaro Marín
From May 08 to August 22, 2025
Leon Tovar Gallery
Álvaro Marín: Cromatismos invites viewers into a sensory experience of landscape through chromatic abstraction. On view in New York (venue not specified), the exhibition presents compositions built through layering and geometry, where the Spanish artist explores the shifts of light and color throughout the day. Drawing inspiration from Antonio Barrera and William Turner, Marín transforms natural scenery into a meditative journey—from the soft ochres of dawn to the deep blues of night. The show offers a contemplative pause, inviting reflection on the emotional and rational interplay of light and color.
SoHo
Thomas J Price: Resilience of Scale
From April 24 to June 14, 2025
Hauser & Wirth Gallery
In his first major solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, Resilience of Scale, British artist Thomas J. Price presents five imposing bronze figures that amplify traditionally marginalized bodies and challenge hierarchical structures, prompting reflections on who we choose to celebrate in art. The exhibition offers an immersive environment, allowing visitors to interact directly with the works from all angles, positioning themselves within the artist’s narrative rather than observing it from a distance.
Takako Yamaguchi: Innocent Bystander
From April 11 to May 31, 2025
Ortuzar Projects
Takako Yamaguchi: Innocent Bystander, on view at Ortuzar Projects, showcases five works from the artist’s 1987–1989 series alongside an earlier related landscape. In these large gessoed paper paintings, Yamaguchi blends allegorical female figures—borrowed from Lucas Cranach the Elder—with lush fantasy landscapes. Drawing on Art Nouveau and Japanese decorative traditions, she deliberately revives and reimagines “lost” aesthetics, embracing beauty and anachronism as resistance to modernist conventions. This exhibition builds on her 2024 Whitney Biennial participation and precedes her major solo show at MOCA Los Angeles.
Tribeca
Rosana Paulino: Diálogos do Dia e Da Noite 🇧🇷
From May 02 to June 14, 2025
Mendes Wood
In her new exhibition, the artist presents previously unseen paintings set against the backdrop of the night, challenging historical representations of Black women. Inspired by the mysteries of darkness and dreams, Paulino conjures hybrid female figures — with roots in place of limbs and hair that blossoms — derived from the Senhora das Plantas series. These mythological presences emerge from the shadows, confronting the viewer with a beauty that is both enchanting and unsettling.
Iván Argote: Breathings
From April 23 to May 31, 2025
Perrotin Gallery
Perrotin New York presents Breathings, a solo exhibition by Iván Argote celebrating nearly two decades of artistic production and over fifteen years of collaboration with the gallery. Following landmark projects at the Venice Biennale, the High Line, and the Centre Pompidou, Argote reaffirms his critical gaze on monuments as symbols of power. In Breathings, he dismantles and subverts these structures through humor and fiction, proposing new readings of the past. At the same time, he offers poetic gestures of care and affection—love letters to public space and to the possibility of alternative futures.
Heinz Mack: From ZERO until Today
From May 09 to June 14, 2025
Almine Rech Gallery
Almine Rech New York presents Heinz Mack | From ZERO until Today, the first solo exhibition of German artist Heinz Mack at the gallery, on view from May 9 to June 14, 2025. A co-founder of the ZERO movement in 1957, Mack is renowned for his exploration of light as artistic material and for his experimental works created in extreme landscapes such as the Sahara Desert and the Arctic. The exhibition highlights his multifaceted practice — including monumental sculptures, luminous reliefs, paintings, public installations, and utopian projects — drawing a line between his postwar legacy and his continued contemporary relevance.
Chelsea
From the Circle to the Star – Access the Preview
From May 01 to June 05, 2025
Nara Roesler Gallery
Marco A. Castillo’s first solo exhibition in New York Castillo in New York marks an important moment in the artist’s career and introduces his work to the American public. The exhibition pays homage to a forgotten generation of Cuban architects and designers – such as Gonzalo Córdoba and María Victoria Caignet – and reflects on the political dualism that marks the island’s history.
Martha Diamond: After Image
From May 01 to June 14, 2025
David Kordansky Gallery
David Kordansky Gallery will present its second exhibition dedicated to Diamond in New York, opening on May 1,the show is a retrospective that explores the artist’s relationship with time and landscape featuring paintings from the 1980s and 1990s. A panel discussion with Min Sun Jeon, Chris Martin, and Eileen Myles on Diamond’s work and legacy will take place at the gallery on Thursday, May 8, at 6 PM. Additionally, Deep Time will be on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from November 17, 2024, to May 18, 2025.
Michael Armitage: Crucible
From May 08 to June 27, 2025
David Zwirner Gallery
David Zwirner inaugurates its new space in Chelsea, at 533 West 19th Street, with a solo exhibition by Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage. This is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery since joining in 2022, and marks his return to New York with a solo presentation following his 2019 exhibition at MoMA, held in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibition features a new body of paintings.
William Kentridge: A Natural History of the Studio
From May 01 to August 01, 2025
Hauser & Wirth Gallery
With A Natural History of the Studio, his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, renowned South African artist William Kentridge presents the film series Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, accompanied by more than seventy drawings that comprise the work, as well as a selection of sculptures. The show marks the first time all the drawings from this acclaimed body of work are exhibited together, celebrated for its poetic synthesis of the personal and political, the individual and the universal.
Robert Rauschenberg: Sympathy for Abandoned Objects
From May 01 to June 14, 2025
Gladstone Gallery
In celebration of Robert Rauschenberg’s centennial, Gladstone Gallery, in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, presents the first major exhibition of the artist’s sculptural work in 30 years. Featuring over 30 pieces created between the 1950s and 1990s, the show highlights the relationship between sculpture and the human body. The works are composed of found materials — everyday objects and industrial remnants — which Rauschenberg transforms into art through improvisational gestures. The exhibition underscores his ongoing experimentation and formal invention.
Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting
From April 15 to June 14, 2025
Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian presents Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting, curated by Cecilia Alemani. The exhibition brings together paintings from 1944 to 1986, along with two sculptures, including Clamdigger, 1972 and Standing Figure, 1969-84. The show highlights recurring motifs in the artist’s career, with an emphasis on human forms that appear in his works from the 1930s and 1940s through the 1980s. The arrangement of the works reflects de Kooning’s ongoing exploration of the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. This is the first presentation in the newly renovated Chelsea gallery.
Ilana Savdie: Glottal Stop
From May 02 to June 14, 2025
White Cube Gallery
White Cube New York presents Glottal Stop, Ilana Savdie’s new exhibition exploring themes of performance, excess, resistance, and transgression. The show features ten large canvases that investigate what the artist describes as “a frantic paralysis,” where urgency and inaction coexist in constant friction. With mutant forms revealing orifices, entrails, and body fragments, the works reflect the concept of a fluid and permeable self. The combination of abstraction and trompe l’oeil elements challenges the pursuit of visual order, creating a proliferation of contradictory realities, identities, and narratives. Her paintings refuse stability, mimicking, mocking, and staging the act of staying alive.
Claudia Alarcón & Silät
From April 11 to May 10, 2025
James Cohan Gallery
James Cohan presents the first New York solo exhibition of Claudia Alarcón & Silät, a collective from the Wichí communities of northern Salta, Argentina. The exhibition highlights their contribution to South American geometric abstraction and the influence of Wichí art on global modernism, including the work of Anni and Josef Albers. The installation A chorus of yicas, 2024-2025 features 100 woven yicas, traditional Wichí bags, representing the collective’s women and their shared narratives. These bags, crafted with the classic yica stitch, serve both practical and metaphorical purposes within the Wichí culture.
Miguel Calderón: Neurotics Anonymous
From May 01 to June 07, 2025
Kurimanzutto Gallery
Miguel Calderón’s solo exhibition Neurotics Anonymous at kurimanzutto New York presents a diverse body of work, including sculptures, drawings, photographs, and a film. The exhibition explores themes of vulnerability, anxiety, and social rituals through personal and cultural lenses. Key pieces include a marble sculpture reinterpreting the “Neurotics Anonymous” program, the film Cocteleitors critiquing the art world’s performative nature, and Social Climber, a sculptural series addressing social ascent. Calderón also presents deeply personal works, including Revisited Ex-Voto, blending memory and fiction.
Wall Hangings
From May 06 to June 20, 2025
Richard Saltoun Gallery
Wall Hangings at Richard Saltoun Gallery revisits the legacy of MoMA’s 1969 exhibition by presenting groundbreaking works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Olga de Amaral, Jagoda Buić, and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska—pioneers who transformed textile into sculptural form. In dialogue with these historical figures are Bonolo Kavula, Erin Manning, and Anna Perach, who bring fibre art into contemporary discourse. From Abakanowicz’s visceral sisal reliefs to Perach’s mythic tufted hybrids, the exhibition honors fibre art’s political potency, material intimacy, and evolving radicality across generations.
Francis Picabia: Eternal Beginning
From May 01 to July 25, 2025
Hauser & Wirth Gallery
The first major exhibition dedicated to the artist’s evocative late period (1945–1952), following its debut in Paris. Co-curated by Beverley Calté and Arnauld Pierre, the show reveals Picabia’s vital contributions to postwar abstraction, placing him within the context of the emergent art informel movement. Nearly 30 paintings reflect the artist’s return to Paris and a renewed engagement with gestural abstraction, highlighting a lesser-known yet pivotal chapter in his radical career. A new bilingual catalogue accompanies the show, offering fresh perspectives and archival insight.
Bowery
QUÉESCULTURA? | Group Show
From April 03 to May 30, 2025
Henrique Faria Gallery
The exhibition QUESCULTURA at Henrique Faria explores the interaction between sculpture and culture, questioning the boundaries of the artistic field. Through works like those by Diana López, which blend video and photography, the exhibition investigates cultural creation in everyday spaces like beauty salons. The show also covers geometric abstraction and biomorphism, featuring works by Latin American artists such as Mathias Goeritz and Harry Abend, emphasizing the relationship between body, form, and space. The concept of the aesthetic field, proposed by Alexander Alberro, guides the reflection on the collaboration between artist, viewer, and environment.
Views from the Street: Edward Hopper Drawings of New York and Cape Cod
From May 05 to May 30, 2025
Jill Newhuse Gallery
Edward Hopper, known for his cinematic and voyeuristic realism, created iconic American art, with drawing playing a crucial role in his creative process. Constantly drawing, Hopper used sketches to document observed reality, linking it to the scenes depicted on canvas. This exhibition, featuring ten works from private collections, showcases the breadth of his drawings throughout his career, offering insight into his artistic evolution and method.
NoHo
RicanVisions: Global Ancestralities and Embodied Futures
From January 31 to May 03, 2025
Latinx Project
RicanVisions: Global Ancestralities and Embodied Futures celebrates the diversity and innovation of contemporary Diasporican art. Featuring nineteen artists from the 1980s to the present, the exhibition explores themes such as migration, identity, race, gender, and memory. The works challenge traditional Puerto Rican narratives and envision alternative futures. By highlighting marginalized voices, RicanVisions pushes the boundaries of artistic expression, connecting historical narratives with forward-thinking visions. The exhibition underscores the vibrancy and relevance of living artists in shaping the future of Puerto Rican art.
Join Us at New York Spring Season 2025
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