Inventive expression continues to hold us by way of turbulence with hope, particularly throughout the bountiful fall season. As joyful pumpkins return to the scene, a number of exhibitions beckon you to take a day journey — or perhaps a weekend getaway? — from town and expertise the harvest of artwork for your self. In Upstate New York, there are two remaining weekends to catch the Timber By no means Finish and Homes By no means Finish Biennial Exhibition at Sky Excessive Farm in Germantown (a should see!), and make your technique to close by Artwork Omi in Ghent to see Kiyan Williams’s installations and different out of doors sculptures. Two exhibitions on the Everson Museum of Artwork in Syracuse have a good time natural floral abundance by way of large-scale ink works. In the meantime, in Connecticut, Human Marks: Tattooing in Modern Artwork on the Joseloff Gallery on the College of Hartford in West Hartford presents work by artists who tattoo. If you’re touring by way of Massachusetts, you should definitely go to MASS MoCA in North Adams to see Jeffrey Gibson’s all-out exhibition, whereas additional north, the Bell at Brown College in Windfall, Rhode Island presents the highly effective monochrome work of Native sculptor Eric-Paul Riege. This fall season, allow us to pursue the sacred in artwork round New York and past!
Timber By no means Finish and Homes By no means Finish Biennial Exhibition
Sky Excessive Farm, 11 Essential Road, Germantown, New YorkThrough September 20
Set up view of Marco Saavedra, “Allée tree series” (2024), dimension variable (picture courtesy The Campus)
Among the many weirdest-slash-coolest-slash-most-unusual reveals to catch in Upstate New York this season — earlier than it closes in 2 weeks! — is the Sky Excessive Farm biennial Timber By no means Finish and Homes By no means Finish. Put in in a former chilly storage warehouse and that includes a maze of commercial water containers on the primary flooring and an immersive mirror reflective flooring on the second, this various present highlights points regarding agriculture, local weather, and artwork. The powerhouse roster of over 50 main artists contains Tschabalala Self, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anne Imhof, and Carroll Dunham, amongst different worldwide stars.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia
Everson Museum of Artwork, 401 Harrison Road, Syracuse, New YorkThrough October 19
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, “Dream Map and Cornucopia with Helicopters” (2022), ink on Tyvek, 135 x 90 inches (~343 x 229 cm) (courtesy the artist)
The title Dream Map and Cornucopia jogs my memory of the autumn season itself — and it additionally describes Colombian-American arist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s work. Overflowing with natural power and the promise of progress, her large-scale ink works and pleasant clay sculptures fill the Everson Museum of Artwork with a mythical-magical power. Painted vases are laden with imaginative and luxurious flowers — “Dream Mao and Cornucopia with Totumo” (2018), with its lovely wrangling limbs in opposition to a black background, is a surprising instance.
All Method of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Trendy Artwork Group
Hessel Museum of Artwork, Bard Faculty | Annandale-on-Hudson, New YorkThrough October 19
Amar Dawod, “Repercussions” (2011) (courtesy the artist and Middle for Curatorial Research, Bard Faculty)
The Hessel Museum of Artwork at Bard Faculty has constructed a status for internet hosting a few of the strongest exhibitions within the area. The group present All Method of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Trendy Artwork Group, curated by Nada Shabout, scholar of recent Iraqi artwork, with help from Tiffany Floyd and Lauren Cornell, is not any exception. That includes over 140 objects — together with work, sculptures, drawings, and archival materials — this wealthy exhibition focuses on a generative interval within the historical past of Arab artwork. Spanning works from 1946 to 2023 and with a particular concentrate on the Baghdad Trendy Artwork Group (established in 1951 and energetic by way of the early Nineteen Seventies), All Method of Experiments presents a robust imaginative and prescient of Iraqi modernism.
2025 Annual Exhibition
The Campus, 341 NY-217, Hudson, New YorkThrough October 26
Marta Minujín, “Rombo A” (2016), hand-painted mattress material, lower and glued, 55 1/8 x 55 1/8 inches (140 x 140 cm)
If in case you have not visited The Campus but, make this a prime precedence in your Upstate vagabonding this season. With their 2025 Annual Exhibition, the establishment as soon as once more presents a compelling set up of top-notch artists in and across the funky environs of this former highschool, together with the gymnasium and different nooks across the constructing. Single school rooms are host to “solo shows” by celebrated worldwide artists comparable to Richard Tuttle, Huma Bhabha, Kiki Smith, Mark Dion, Oscar Murillo, and Ming Fay, amongst others. My favourite second was encountering a fabulously decadent red-hued sculpture by Vanessa German in one of many hallway entrances.
At Play | Artists & Leisure
Nassau County Museum of Artwork, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor, New YorkThrough November 9
Glen Hansen, “Modern Snack Bar” (2025), oil on panel (courtesy the artist)
Take a drive or practice journey out to sunny Lengthy Island to catch At Play | Artists & Leisure on the Nassau County Museum of Artwork. With a concentrate on the range and pleasure of leisure, the present options mixed-media works by legendary artists comparable to Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Raoul Dufy. The exhibition additionally contains play-themed artworks by fashionable and up to date artists, together with Max Beckmann and John Grande, in addition to specifically designed costumes by Marc Chagall and classic vogue gadgets by designer Alfred Shaheen.
Kevin Beasley | PROSCENIUM| Rebirth/Progress: The Watch/Harvest/Dormancy: On Reflection
Storm King Artwork Middle, 20 Outdated Peasant Hill Street, New Windsor, New YorkThrough November 10
Set up view of Kevin Beasley, PROSCENIUM| Rebirth / Progress: The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection (2024–25) (picture by Jeffrey Jenkins; courtesy the artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Regen Tasks, Los Angeles)
Set in opposition to the sensational panorama of New Windsor, Kevin Beasley’s exhibition at Storm King Artwork Middle is an impressive imaginative and prescient of artwork about nature, offered in nature. The museum re-opened this previous spring season with new welcome pavilions and an outside foyer; Beasley is considered one of three artists — together with Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee — included in a set of site-specific non permanent large-scale commissions. His out of doors set up within the Tippet’s Discipline space, “PROSCENIUM,” includes a 100-foot-long collection of resin slabs embedded with clothes, material, crops, and different supplies, leading to a three-dimensional composition that seems like a panorama of its personal.
Keep: The Black Ladies of Nineteenth-Century Newark
Newark Museum of Artwork, 49 Washington Road, Newark, NJThrough November 30
Noelle Lorraine Williams, “Ellen King” (2023), archival picture, lace, and different supplies (© Noelle Lorraine Williams; picture by Richard Goodbody, courtesy Noelle Lorraine Williams)
With a concentrate on three Newark girls descended from neighborhood activists and abolitionists — Sara O’Pretend Evans, Ellen King, and Hannah Mandeville — Noelle Lorraine Williams’s exhibition Keep on the Newark Museum of Artwork celebrates the tireless work of Black girls in America. With mixed-media works, together with the daring “Neon Light of Man Whipping Woman” (2023), which includes a girl in a defiant dance-like pose in opposition to a person who cracks a whip in her route, the present illuminates the continued wrestle for equality within the face of racism and misogyny.
Jean Shin: Our bodies of Information
The Dorsky on the State College of New York New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, New YorkThrough December 7
Jean Shin, “E-Bundle (Black AAM)” (2020), laptops, laborious drives, electrical cords, and ethernet cables (picture by Kevin Candland; courtesy the artist and Reward Shadows Artwork Gallery)
Jean Shin is a inventive insurgent at coronary heart. This season, the Dorsky at SUNY New Paltz presents Jean Shin: Our bodies of Information, together with movies, sculptures, and site-specific installations. With defunct laptop components and cell telephones as her main materials, she highlights the overload of knowledge within the digital period with stoic sculptures that replicate the messiness of expertise. Works comparable to “E-Bundle (Black AAM)” (2020), consisting of discarded laptops, laborious drives, electrical cords, and ethernet cables, bluntly embody the over-consumption and over-use of those objects of communication.
Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́
The Bell, Checklist Artwork Constructing, Brown College | 64 Faculty Road, Windfall, RISeptember 3–December 7
Set up view of Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ólǫ́ (picture by Sarah Meftah; picture courtesy the Bell)
The Bell Gallery at Brown College in collaboration with the Henry Artwork Gallery on the College of Washington in Seattle presents ojo|-|ólǫ́, an exhibition by Diné sculptor Eric-Paul Riege that engages with choose artworks from each establishments’ Navajo artwork collections. Combining combs, textiles, jewellery, dolls, and extra, Riege creates giant weavings and sculptures that invoke Diné myths and histories. His largest solo present up to now, Riege’s charged artworks command your consideration as a lot as they welcome it with their lush materiality.
Human Marks: Tattooing in Modern Artwork
College of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CTSeptember 11–December 13
Lyric Shen, “Secret Grotto” (2023), ink on ceramic (picture courtesy the artist and Silke Lindner, New York)
I’ve been obsessive about tattoos since my first tatting expertise as an adolescent (I’m now virtually 50 and lined in ink). Thus, it’s an utter thrill to be taught that tattoo artists — and artists who tattoo — are lastly being acknowledged for his or her brilliance. Human Marks: Tattooing in Modern Artwork on the College of Hartford’s Joseloff Gallery is a gaggle present of worldwide artists who additionally observe the artwork of tattooing, together with six commissioned works and different mixed-media items that make use of various supplies comparable to silicone and fragrance. The present contains beloved artists comparable to Don Ed Hardy, Duke Riley, and Tamara Santibañez, amongst different legends.
Kiyan Williams: Vertigo
Artwork Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, New YorkThrough Fall 2025
Set up view of Kiyan Williams, “Ruins of Empire ” (2022) (left) and “Vertigo” (2024) (proper) (picture by Bryan Zimmerman, courtesy Artwork Omi)
It’s a pleasure to go to Artwork Omi any time of the yr, however that goes double for the autumn season, throughout which the panorama serves as a blazing backdrop for out of doors sculpture. There, you’ll encounter commanding works put in all through the grounds, together with Kiyan Williams’s “Vertigo” (2024) and “Ruins of Empire” (2022), each made from earth and moss. (You could be acquainted with Williams’s artwork from final yr’s Whitney Biennale.) In the event you go to after October 11, you’ll get an added deal with within the probability to see a brand new sculptural fee by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio — a glass enclosure that medidates on colonialism, which marks the artist’s first out of doors set up on the East Coast.
For Liberation and For Life: The Legacy of Black Dimensions in Artwork
Albany Institute of Historical past and Artwork, 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, New YorkThrough December 31
Roy DeCarava, “Catsup bottles, tables and coat” (1952–1953), silver gelatin print (© Property of Roy DeCarava; courtesy Albany Institute of Historical past and Artwork)
Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Black Dimensions in Artwork, Inc. (BDA), based in 1975 by creatives in Schenectady, New York, For Liberation and For Life: The Legacy of Black Dimensions in Artwork on the Albany Institute of Historical past and Artwork is a sturdy and celebratory present — and kudos to Albany Institute for internet hosting the primary BDA museum present in 1976! The exhibition options various mixed-media artworks by over 60 internationally acknowledged artists, together with Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Roy DeCarava, in addition to up to date artists working within the New York area. Concurrent with For Liberation and For Life is a particular presentation of monographic silkscreen prints by Jacob Lawrence.
Sheila Goloborotko: If Not Now, When?
Hunterdon Artwork Museum, 7 Decrease Middle Road, Clinton, New JerseySeptember 21–January 11, 2026
Element of Sheila Goloborotko, “Sistema” (2018–ongoing), hand-cut screenprint on Mylar, dimensions variable (picture courtesy Hunterdon Artwork Museum)
As considerations about sustainability and the well being of our planet turn into ever extra urgent, artists comparable to Sheila Goloborotko are responding by way of artwork. Her solo exhibition If Not Now, When? on the Hunterdon Artwork Museum presents her prints, digital works, and installations in a delicate, critical, and dynamic set up. Goloborotko’s screenprints on plastic, comparable to “Flora Regium I” (2024), interact with sacred geometries, suggesting that mom nature is the supreme mathematician. In the meantime, “Flora Ingrata” (2024), an set up of hanging screenprints with frail silhouettes of people and enormous, tropical-looking leaves, conjures up a way of much-needed tranquility.
Zak Prekop: Period
The Aldrich Modern Artwork Museum, 258 Essential Road, Ridgefield, ConnecticutThrough January 11, 2026
Zak Prekop, “Reidy” (2025), oil on muslin (courtesy the artist and Maxwell Graham, New York)
Exploding with vibrant power, Zak Prekop’s graphic and summary type is pure elation. Period on the Aldrich is the artist’s first solo museum present, and brings collectively 13 latest work that embody his fascination with “paintings as measures of time,” because the artist places it within the press launch. To me, they embody the collapse of time into the dimension of portray. Prekop’s orchestration of natural shapes and his use of uncooked, shiny colours end in wildly jubilant works which are barely paying homage to Kandinsky, however with a denser depth and a recent aptitude.
Time Uncovered: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes
The Parrish Artwork Museum, 279 Montauk Freeway, Water Mill, New YorkSeptember 13–February 8, 2026
Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat” (1989), photolithograph (© Hiroshi Sugimoto; courtesy the Parrish Artwork Museum)
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s obsession with photographing the ocean is a singular effort within the discipline of worldwide up to date artwork, and every of his pictures is a meditative expertise. Time Uncovered: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes on the Parrish Artwork Museum presents a collection of his indomitable but calming black and white pictures. I used to be totally transfixed by this work from the very first time I noticed it throughout my undergraduate artwork college years, and his affected person pictures of oceans world wide by no means fail to succeed in into my soul.
Piero Manzoni: Whole Area
Magazzino Italian Artwork, 2700 Route 9, Chilly Spring, New YorkThrough March 23, 2026
Piero Manzoni, “Achrome” (1958), kaolin on canvas in artist’s unique wooden body (picture courtesy Magazzino Italian Artwork Basis)
This exhibition options two visionary installations that self-taught Italian sculptor Piero Manzoni conceived in 1961, which remained unrealized on the time of his demise in 1963 at age 29. The 2 room-sized immersive environments exhibit simply how forward of his time he was. Whole Area contains extra Manzoni works on mortgage from non-public collections, enhancing this particular presentation that embodies Arte Povera at its boldest.
Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence
College Artwork Museum at State College of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New YorkThrough April 3, 2026
Noel W Anderson, “But Where?” (2022–23), picked and distressed stretched cotton tapestry (picture courtesy the artist)
Noel W Anderson’s largest solo museum present up to now, spanning 15 years of his observe, packs a visible punch. That includes over 35 artworks, together with mural-size suspended tapestries, video, works on paper, archival supplies, and newly commissioned items, the exhibition is unabashed in its celebration of Black energy and identification. By way of his inventive strategy of analysis, appropriation, erasure, and abstraction, in addition to digital manipulations, Anderson explores advanced themes that relate to Black male exceptionalism and American historical past.
Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT
MASS MoCA, Constructing 5, 1040 Mass MoCA Means, North Adams, New YorkThrough September 7, 2026
Set up view of Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT
A go to to MASS MoCA is all the time an uplifting expertise, and ever extra so with this immersive and newly commissioned set up. The primary Indigenous artist to characterize the US with a solo presentation on the Venice Biennale in 2024, Gibson honors Native traditions by way of a daring visible language that vibrates all through this site-specific set up. That includes hanging clothes that hover over disco-like flooring panels and home windows infused with vigorous colours, it’s a gorgeous imaginative and prescient of up to date artwork.
Jamea Richmond-Edwards: One other World and But the Similar
The Wellin Museum of Artwork at Hamilton Faculty, 198 Faculty Hill Street, Clinton, New YorkSeptember 13–June 14, 2026
Jamea Richmond-Edwards, “Terra Sancta, Terra Sancta” (2025), acrylic, glitter, graphite, ink, marker, oil pastel, and combined media collage on canvas. 96 x 144 x 5 inches (243.8 x 365.7 x 12.7 cm) (picture by John Bentham, courtesy the artist)
Jamea Richmond-Edwards’s vigorous type welcomes us into her vivid work. One other World and But the Similar, curated by Alexander Jarman on the Wellin Museum of Artwork, presents a collection of colourful mixed-media work exploring race and sweetness. In “The Great Return” (2022), two outstretched girls face one another holding palms amid gloriously chaotic environs (snakes and historical temples and all). “Terra Sancta, Terra Sancta” (2025) options glamorous individuals who shimmer with imaginative rhythm, infusing the exhibition with each fabulousness and a way of freedom.
Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978 – 1999
Dia Beacon, 3 Beekman Road, Beacon, New YorkOpens Oct. 4
Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano, “Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984” (Rope Piece made in collaboration with Linda Montano, 1983–84) (© Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano; picture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano, Life Pictures; courtesy Dia Artwork Basis)
I’ve been a faithful fangirl of the endurance-based efficiency works of Tehching Hsieh for greater than 1 / 4 century. His year-long performances are utter legend, and Dia Beacon’s Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978 – 1999 surveys this badass artist in all his glory. A private favourite work is his “Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece made in collaboration with Linda Montano),” through which the 2 remained linked by a rope for twelve months, a implausible feat of persistence and fortitude.
