The early-blooming daffodils could bow their trumpets in defeat amid the frosty trickery following Idiot’s Spring, however no quantity of rain and dreary climate can thwart the annual blossoming of New York Metropolis’s spring artwork honest season. Over the subsequent few weeks, over a dozen artwork gala’s will concurrently sprout throughout NYC, every consisting of their very own ecosystem of thematic shows and desired audiences.
So with out additional ado, we current Hyperallergic‘s annual spring artwork honest subject information for 2025 — a fast and simple lowdown on what to anticipate at every present, plus a couple of occasions and packages coinciding with the honest frenzy.
FairsThe Pictures Present (AIPAD)
April 23–27 | aipad.comPark Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, Higher East Aspect, Manhattan
Tania Franco Klein, “Eggs, fork, and flies (self-portrait)” (2022) (© Tania Franco Klein, picture courtesy Rose Gallery)
Hosted by the Affiliation of Worldwide Pictures Artwork Sellers (AIPAD), the Pictures Present options shows from long-time affiliation members alongside visitor exhibitors — particularly younger galleries and rising or experimental photographers who will likely be in dialog with the canonized greats and legacy establishments within the subject. This yr, the honest debuts a revamped flooring format that emphasizes publishers’ essential position in modern images, along with a brand new Discovery Sector for solo and thematic shows. Maintain an eye fixed out for pictures of Indigenous persistence from Shelley Niro and Zig Jackson (Rising Buffalo) at Andrew Smith Gallery, in addition to Tania Franco Klein’s cinematic self-portraits by way of Rose Gallery.
Clio Artwork Truthful
Could 1–4, 8–11 | clioartfair.com456 West Broadway, Soho, Manhattan
Danae Nunez, “Everyday Luchadora: La Muchacha (The Maid)”, (2024) (picture courtesy the artist and Clio Artwork Truthful)
In its eleventh yr of uplifting unbiased artists, Clio Artwork Truthful has chosen to double up on its honest time with programming for 2 consecutive weekends. Clio shrugs off the established honest tradition of exclusivity and market-watching, as an alternative handing the reins over to the exhibiting artists who curate their very own sections and work together straight with collectors and artwork fans onsite. On this counter-fair, guests can anticipate finding work priced between $250 to $40,000, in addition to a loyal efficiency artwork block ruminating on humanity within the age of synthetic intelligence and spiritual morality.
Esther II
Could 6–10 | esther.eeNew York Estonian Home, 243 E thirty fourth Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
Liz Craft, “Mermaid (cameo by Monkkonen)” (2008–2015) (picture courtesy the artist and Neue Alte Brücke | Frankfurt am Fundamental)
After its first-year success, Esther comes again for its second iteration that includes a decent however various choice of worldwide galleries hailing from the Baltic States, Germany, Vietnam, Italy, and Japan, displaying alongside New York’s personal Sargent’s Daughters, Sara’s, and Margot Samel, amongst others. This free-access different artwork honest will take over the historic Estonian Home in Murray Hill with paintings shows, site-specific installations, and performances, activating beforehand unused areas within the Beaux Arts-style constructing to attach guests to its essential historical past as a bunch for the working class, immigrant-based civic membership.
Spring Break Artwork Present
Could 6–12 | springbreakartshow.com75 Varick Avenue, Hudson Sq., Manhattan
Eri King, “Scripted Spaces” (2025) (picture courtesy the artist and Spring Break Artwork Present)
After years of the checkered flooring and laminate workplace fixtures of the previous Ralph Lauren headquarters, Spring Break seems to be settling into its new digs on Varick Avenue. With this yr’s curatorial theme of “Paradise Lost + Found,” over 120 initiatives will contemplate the notion of conquest, escapism, warfare, and goals. Different highlights that make up the 2025 version of Spring Break embrace a whole part dedicated to Los Angeles artists and curators whose initiatives had been upended through the January wildfires, an artist highlight part for self-curated salon or sales space shows, and a lot of free working studios for choose artists to make work onsite. Count on to see arbitrarily coloured compositions snatched out of the zaniest of vivid goals, paintings that breaks out of rectangular confines, and a DIY flare that retains the expertise very approachable.
Future Artwork Truthful
Could 7–10 | futurefairs.comChelsea Industrial, 538 West twenty eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
Matthew Rosenquist, “Brawny Man TV” (2023) (picture courtesy the artist and smoke the moon, Santa Fe, NM)
One of many brisker faces on the block, Future Artwork Truthful celebrates its fifth yr with 69 native, home, and worldwide exhibitors at Chelsea Industrial. This yr, Future will start placing 15% of its earnings towards the Pay-It-Ahead fund to be allotted to rising sellers who take part. Particular alternatives from Much less Than Half and Loft Tasks in New York and Duran Contemporain in Montreal will likely be featured within the 2025 version. Take a look at Raina Lee’s sgraffito and glazed ceramic postcards capturing the highlights of her travels in Europe on the Boston-based gallery Laisun Keane’s sales space, in addition to Matthew Rosenquist’s carved wooden sculptures by way of Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe.
Frieze New York
Could 7–11 | frieze.comThe Shed, 545 West thirtieth Avenue, Hudson Yards, Manhattan
Yehwan Track, ‘The Barnacles 가가가가” (2025) (© Yehwan Song and G Gallery)
Frieze New York is regarded as the main event of the spring fairs, annually taking over the entirety of The Shed at Hudson Yards. Known for intertwining blue-chip giants, New York City staples, and smaller, more experimental galleries on the same floors, Frieze also boasts a compelling Focus section devoted to adolescent galleries (10 years old or younger). Newcomers to this year’s Focus part embrace French gallery Champ Lacombe in Biarritz; G Gallery, King’s Leap, and Administration in New York; Public in East London; Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv and Miami; and Yeo Workshop in Singapore.
Fridge Artwork Truthful
Could 7–11 | fridgeartfair.comHotel Alameda Excessive Line, 518 W twenty seventh Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
David Craig Ellis, “Turntable” (2015) (picture courtesy the artist and Fridge Artwork Truthful)
Initially a play on “Frieze Week,” the Fridge Artwork Truthful debuted within the Decrease East Aspect in 2013 as an creative, low-cost, and community-centric possibility for rising artists, collectives, galleries, and nonprofits. Hosted in various venues between New York and Miami, the premise of this occasion is that everybody can match within the Fridge. This yr’s version is an ode to Paul Reubens’s portrayal of Pee-Wee Herman, so count on the sudden and take a spin in Fridge’s personal Playhouse. Oh, and produce your canine, too!
NADA New York
Could 7–11 | newartdealers.orgStarrett-Lehigh Constructing, 601 W twenty sixth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
Julia García, “Stage Light” (2025) (picture courtesy the artist and HAIR + NAILS, Minneapolis | New York)
Along with New Artwork Vendor Alliance’s (NADA’s) signature group of small to mid-sized galleries, the honest is thought for its Curated Highlight part that highlights up-and-coming areas. This yr’s Curated Highlight part is organized by Asia Society Texas’s Exhibition Curator and Director Owen Duffy, who has chosen 9 galleries between Texas and Mexico to current solo exhibitions. I’m excited to see Julia García’s evocative and experimental dealing with of sunshine, reflection, and saturation in her memory-based solo presentation on the Minneapolis-based Hair + Nails Artwork sales space.
Impartial Artwork Truthful
Could 8–11 | independenthq.comSpring Studios, 50 Varick Avenue, Tribeca, Manhattan
Bambou Gili, “Avian Arc” (2024) (picture courtesy Night time Gallery and Impartial)
Impartial Artwork Truthful celebrates its Candy 16 with over 130 artists throughout 83 worldwide and home galleries. This yr’s highlights embrace a posthumous solo presentation of unseen works by late efficiency artist Pope.L by way of Mitchell-Innes and Nash, a brand new physique of Michelle Grabner’s work nodding to unsung custodial labor by way of Abattoir Gallery, and established curation on themes of ecology, Indigenous id, and humor.
1-54 Up to date African Artwork Truthful
Could 8–11 | 1-54.orgHalo, 28 Liberty Avenue, Monetary District, Manhattan
Ousmane Dia, “Réaction négative 2” (2023) (picture courtesy Filafriques | Geneva, Switzerland)
As the one artwork honest devoted completely to African and diasporic African modern artwork, 1-54 christens its new FiDi location with 70 artists showcased via 30 galleries. Eighteen exhibitors will make their 1-54 New York debut this yr, and the honest welcomes TERN Gallery, based mostly within the Bahamas, in addition to KUB’ART Gallery from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Maintain your eyes peeled for the Artwork Comes First collective’s “Textile Language” undertaking centering the theme of Black Cotton in its evaluation and exploration of African textile histories, and the Afro-Caribbean Useful resource Library developed by the Caribbean nonprofit artwork group Forgotten Lands.
The Different Artwork Truthful
Could 8–11 | theotherartfair.comZeroSpace Brooklyn, 337–345 Butler Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
A detailed-up element from the 2024 iteration of the Different Artwork Truthful (picture courtesy the Different Artwork Truthful)
Offered by Saatchi Artwork, the Different Artwork Truthful celebrates its fifteenth birthday with over 120 primarily unbiased exhibitors — in different phrases, gallerists and curators are guests reasonably than individuals. Placing emphasis on the honest a part of artwork gala’s, this occasion is infused with interactive occasions that promote connectivity, starting from artist-led workshops, scavenger hunts, tattoo pop-ups, liquor tastings, reside music, and extra. The Different Artwork Truthful’s featured visitor is artist and creator Anna Marie Tendler, who will likely be photographing customer portraits in a lush tableau rooted in her not too long ago revealed memoir Males Have Known as Her Loopy (2024).
TEFAF New York
Could 9–13 | tefaf.comPark Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, Higher East Aspect, Manhattan
Robert Cottingham, “Meat counter” (1966) (picture courtesy La Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois | Paris)
Luxe, lavish, and legacy are the phrases that come to thoughts when contemplating The European High quality Artwork Basis (TEFAF)’s choices of vintage furnishings, design, and jewellery, however there’s a wealth of recent and modern artwork to admire as properly. For 2025, 91 sellers will assemble on the Armory for this swanky occasion, boasting impressed work by Alexander Calder and Robert Cottingham, Historic Roman marble busts, a priceless Hemmerle bangle, and Zaha Hadid’s “Liquid Glacial” (2012) espresso desk.
Focus Artwork Truthful
Could 15 to 18 | focusartfair.netChelsea Industrial, 538 West twenty eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
Jay Chung, “Goryeo Celadon ceramics” (2025) (picture courtesy the artist and Focus Artwork Truthful)
In its third iteration in New York, Focus Artwork Truthful closes out the season and maintains its mission of selling paintings born from collaborations with know-how. As conversations concerning the ethical, moral, monetary, and environmental impacts of synthetic intelligence proliferate within the artistic sector, Focus contributes to the dialogue by incorporating artists whose practices are enhanced by AI, robotics, and different assistive know-how. This honest is cut up up into 4 sections that emphasize worldwide and Asian modern artists in addition to a more in-depth look into the creation of sure tech-driven artworks from replicas of latest media artists’ studios to reside demonstrations of robots at work.
EventsAn Homage Efficiency to Keith Haring
Could 4, 5pm | nycaidsmemorial.orgNew York Metropolis AIDS Memorial, 76 Greenwich Avenue, West Village, Manhattan
Molissa Fenley Photographed by Mark Seliger (1993) (picture courtesy NYC AIDS Memorial)
For the primary time in 30 years, American choreographer and efficiency artist Molissa Fenley, who was Keith Haring’s pal and creative collaborator, revives a delicate efficiency that she developed as an homage to the artist for his memorial service in 1990. Restaging “Bardo” (1990), named after the time period for the esoteric transitional state between loss of life and reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism, Fenley’s modern troupe embodies the choreographer’s grief on what would have been Haring’s 67th birthday. It is a free and public efficiency.
Tender Launch of 2026 Conductor Truthful
Could 8–11 | powerhousearts.orgPowerhouse Arts, 322 third Ave, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Pedro Maná (Huni Kuin), “Nai Mãpu Yubekã” (2024) (picture courtesy Movimento do Artistas Huni Kuin, Carmo Johnson Tasks, and Powerhouse Arts)
In anticipation of its official 2026 debut, Powerhouse Arts presents a sneak peek into its forthcoming artwork honest. In search of to take away obstacles of entry for exhibiting in New York, Conductor will work with younger galleries and particular person artists by preserving exhibition prices low, and decreasing delivery and manufacturing charges by enabling exhibitors to create their work via entry to all of Powerhouse Arts’s fabrication retailers. Whereas it gained’t launch formally till subsequent yr, this four-day occasion will give us a glimpse of what’s to return. Maintain an eye fixed out for work by Khaled Jarrar, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Suchrita Mattai, and the artists of the Indigenous Brazilian collective Movimento do Artistas Huni Kuin (MAHKU), amongst others.
Tribeca Gallery Night time
Could 9, 6–8pm | hesseflatow.com70+ artwork galleries in Tribeca, Manhattan
Timed across the peak honest runtime, Hesse Flatow and round 70 different artwork galleries in and round Tribeca will preserve their doorways open till 8pm on Friday, Could 9, for the seasonal and well timed Gallery Night time. In case you don’t wish to pay out large bucks to see your frenemy’s show at any of the above gala’s, cap off the second week of Could and get your cash’s value (see: $0.00) with this late night crawl via one of many metropolis’s most art-aligned neighborhoods. Bear in mind, the most effective issues in life are free! ;~)
Earth and Cosmos Dialog and Video Screening
Could 6, 6–8pm | as-coa.orgAmericas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Higher East Aspect, Manhattan
rafa esparza, “Hyperspace: -100km + ∞” (2024) (picture courtesy Americas Society)
Surrounding the continuing Earth and Cosmos exhibition spotlighting Los Angeles-based artists Beatriz Cortez and rafa esparza on the Americas Society, this dialogue will present further insights into their artwork practices, centering the survival of historic Indigenous cosmologies and relationships with the bodily and non secular world. The artists will likely be in dialog with Vera Listing Middle for Artwork and Politics Director and Chief Curator Carin Kuoni and Museum of Trendy Artwork Curatorial Assistant Rachel Remick. This system additionally features a premiere screening of two movies the artists created adopted by a reception.
