Museum Exhibitions in New York City
Discover exhibitions by gallery artists on view in New York City, including Jack Whitten at The Museum of Modern Art, Amy Sherald at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim and Lorna Simpson at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Museum of Modern Art
Jack Whitten
The Messenger
Experience the first comprehensive retrospective of Jack Whitten’s visionary work, tracing nearly six decades of his career. Featuring more than 175 works from the 1960s to the 2010s, including paintings, sculptures, rarely shown works on paper and archival materials, this exhibition offers an in depth look at Whitten’s visionary practice.
On view through 2 August
Whitney Museum of American Art
Amy Sherald
American Sublime
‘American Sublime’ brings together some fifty paintings by renowned American artist Amy Sherald, tracing the artist’s practice from 2007 to today and highlighting her profound influence on contemporary portraiture. This travelling exhibition marks Sherald’s first major museum survey in New York.
On view through 10 August
Whitney Museum of American Art
Mary Heilmann
Long Line
Mary Heilmann invites visitors to engage in social connection and look out into the surrounding cityscape in her exhibition ‘Long Line,’ which comprises an immersive environment of sculptural chairs as well as a hand-painted enlargement of Heilmann’s 2020 painting Long Line.
On view through 19 January 2026
Guggenheim
Rashid Johnson
A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Rashid Johnson’s mid-career survey at the Guggenheim fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda with nearly 90 works spanning painting, sculpture, film and performance. This solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a mediator of Black popular culture and as a creative force in contemporary art.
On view through 18 January 2026
Times Square Arts
Thomas J Price
Grounded in the Stars & Man Series
As part of a two-part takeover of Times Square, British artist Thomas J Price will present a monumental scale bronze sculpture titled Grounded in the Stars on the plaza alongside a Midnight Moment that will play the artist’s stop-motion animation Man Series daily on the iconic digital displays for the spectators below.
On view through 31 May
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lorna Simpson
Source Notes
Opening 19 May, ‘Source Notes’ presents New-York based artist Lorna Simpson’s paintings that advance her incisive explorations of gender, race, identity, representation and history. This exhibition presents a selection of Simpson’s major paintings, including examples from her acclaimed Venice Biennale debut in 2015 and her celebrated series Special Characters, along with recent sculptures and related collages.
On view through 19 May – 2 November
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Bul
Long Tail Halo
South Korean artist Lee Bul has transformed the iconic niches of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue facade with four new works that challenge what sculptures can reveal about our times. A site-specific response to the museum's facade, Lee’s towering sculptures are at once classical and contemporary, forthcoming and elusive. The Genesis Facade Commission is part of The Met’s series of contemporary commissions in which the Museum invites artists to create new works of art.
On view through 10 June
