Spring 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 14 June

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 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

Gallery Exhibitions

Explore exhibitions from international artists at our New York gallery locations in SoHo and Chelsea.

New York, Wooster Street

Thomas J Price
Resilience of Scale

For ‘Resilience of Scale,’ his first major solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, British artist Thomas J Price presents five towering bronze figures and a large-scale photographic work comprising 18 separate framed images in the gallery’s SoHo location. Together, the works amplify traditionally marginalized bodies and redress structures of hierarchy, inviting questions about who we chose to celebrate in art.

New York, 22nd Street & 18th Street

William Kentridge
A Natural History of the Studio

For his inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, William Kentridge presents his acclaimed nine-episode film series ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot’ and more than forty-five drawings integral to its creation alongside a group of sculptural works. This immersive installation occupies two floors of the gallery’s 22nd Street building and is the first time the drawings from the film series will be on view to the public. Kentridge also presents a selection of prints—representing many bodies of work made over the last two decades—at the gallery’s dedicated editions space on 18th Street.

New York, 22nd Street

Francis Picabia
Eternal Beginning

Organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, and co-curated by its President, Beverley Calté, with art historian Arnauld Pierre, ‘Francis Picabia. Eternal Beginning’ is the first major exhibition to focus on the compelling final years of the French avant-garde artist’s prolific career. Traveling to New York from Hauser & Wirth Paris, this presentation features close to 30 paintings created by Picabia between 1945—when he returned to Paris from the South of France—and 1952, the penultimate year of his life.