Featured Events in New York in July, 2025 (July Updated)

This June, The Gallery at Soho Grand unveils a rare and intimate look into the creative world of iconic American designer Bob Mackie. Bob Mackie: From Sketches to Spotlight showcases a collection of original sketches, some of which have never been seen outside the designer’s private archive.

Jack Shainman Gallery presents Genesis, an exhibition of new work by Claudette Schreuders, the artist’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. Bringing together figurative sculptures made in both wood and bronze, Genesis reimagines scenes and characters from the suburban landscape of Cape Town that Schreuders calls home. Using the raw material of her own life as the foundation to create portraits that are equally archetypal and idiosyncratic, Schreuders explores how specific forms can convey universal truths and how personal history remains fundamentally connected to social reality.

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary (HM&C) presents Landed, an exhibition of works by Dominican-born, New York-based sisters iliana emilia García and Scherezade García.Landed is the first exhibition of iliana emilia and Scherezade at HM&C. The show features sculptures and works on paper, ranging from 1999-2025, as well as a new installation La salita (2025)—the first artwork that they collaboratively produced—drawing from memories of a cherished creative space that they shared in childhood.

Melissa Joseph has risen to prominence in recent years. Since being featured in Artsy Vanguard last year, her work has been shown at Charles Moffett Gallery’s booth at Art Basel Miami and at Public Gallery in London, and she recently won the Brooklyn Museum’s UOVO Award, a prize for Brooklyn artists. This summer, Joseph will exhibit a site-specific installation inspired by Renaissance imagery outside the Brooklyn Museum. Throughout the summer, reproductions of Joseph’s soft, needle-felt portraits will be on display in the museum’s outdoor plaza. Depicting heartwarming moments between friends and family, these works highlight the important role public art plays in fostering human connection. Blow-up photographs capture details of the blurred fibers in the portraits and the materials they are made of—wool, recycled sari, and industrial felt. The vinyl drawings will wrap around the piazza steps in a hexagonal pattern inspired by the floor patterns Joseph saw while visiting Santa Maria Assunta in Siena, Italy, as a student.

Summer in the City opens June 7 at ACA Galleries, and it’s a love letter to New York in all its maddening, magnificent glory. The show spans a century of artists obsessed with the city—not just the skyline, but the hum of the streets, the geometry of the fire escapes, the poetry of pigeons, the solitude in a crowd.

Gabriel Rico is known as one of "the most talented artists in Latin America". He is good at combining natural objects and man-made civilization in an interdisciplinary way to present a unique humorous poetry. Through the combination of neon lights, specimens, ceramics, stones, branches, formulas and other elements, he created a series of "wall installations", chiseling out the meaning hidden behind the objects and expanding the concept of "discovering objects".

Perrotin New York presents Power Line, an exhibition of works by the Yale School of Art Painting and Printmaking Graduate Class of 2025. Through painting, sculpture, or installation, these artists share a deep engagement with materiality, memory, identity, and transformation.

Perrotin New York presents Imaginary Country, an exhibition by Chilean-born, Paris-based artist Christiane Pooley, marking her first show in the United States. In her new body of paintings, Pooley draws inspiration from the landscapes of South America in ethereal terrains on canvas and copper plate. Imaginary Country invites viewers to reflect on the elusive and evolving nature of identity and belonging.

Drawing on the language of minimalist painting from the 1960s and 1970s, Josh Sperling’s work is often saturated and even discordant in color. Whether it is a large-scale composite wall installation or a single shape, Sperling is able to inject a sense of vitality into these static works simply through color and outline itself.

CARVALHO presents the 3rd edition of its acclaimed performance series, with a commissioned, architecturally scaled installation by gallery artist, Rosalind Tallmadge, in collaboration with globally renowned Principal dancer and activist, Ingrid Silva, with Elias Re and Vinícius Freire. Tallmadge’s ten-panel tapestry installation of mirrored mica on silk, titled Pareidolia, coalesces to a faceted luminarium, refracting light and the dancers’ forms off its glimmering surfaces.

Friedrichs Pontone presents Under the Sun, a summer group exhibition featuring works by eight different artists. The exhibition represents a collection of artworks dedicated to exploring the ways in which humanity interacts with the environment, both in a physical and mental reality.

The proliferation of experiences and emotions that comprise each individual’s personal history might be remembered by a few stories, all the more vivid in their retelling, and a handful of intense images. By virtue of it being selective, and beholden to the conventions of narrative, memory is creative. Not only that, but memories pass from one generation to another, acquiring new meanings and echoes. If memory is an art, how might an artist reflect the richness of its styles and mechanisms in their own practice? Robert Lowell, in his poem ‘Epilogue’, proposes ‘plot and rhyme’ as ways to order and digest the past. Beau Gabriel’s new series of paintings offer alternative formal solutions for transforming memory into a work of art: echoes, allusions and borrowings that all fall under the umbrella of intertextuality. These paintings offer episodes from Gabriel’s family history in Marin County in Northern California, but consistently and inventively channel these private myths through imagery drawn from Italian Renaissance art. Chains of associations wind around well-known scenes and stories in mutually transformative relationships. The paintings accommodate a loose narrative of becoming — a young woman’s bildung in charged, pastel marshlands and pastures — but don’t insist upon being read sequentially.

Friedrichs Pontone presents Second Shadow, a group exhibition featuring works by seven artists. Second Shadow explores the concept of a second shadow, or the partial light shadow cast by a summer solstice. The artworks obscure their natural representations either by existing among multiple layers or by the contrast between light and shadow, creating an obscure deeper truth about the subjects.

New Yorkers will finally be getting back the gorgeous Frick Collection at its original historic buildings at 1 East 70th Street this year. The buildings have been closed to the public for renovations since 2020, and it’s been a long five years not being able to walk those glamorous Gilded Age halls. Some of the museum’s collection was relocated to the Met Breuer Building on Madison Avenue for a couple of years, but that iteration closed in March 2024. In April, we’ll be invited back to its restored spaces on the first floor and a new roster of galleries on the mansion’s second floor, open to the public for the very first time. Even better, to celebrate the reopening, the Frick will throw a weeklong music festival and present an installation of paintings by Vermeer that will inaugurate its new special exhibition galleries.

‘Nordic Surrealism’ is a landmark exhibition tracing the emergence and evolution of Surrealist ideology in Sweden and Denmark from the 1930s through the 1960s. Featuring works by Stellan Mörner, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Lambert Werner, Max Walter Svanberg, and Eric Cederberg, the exhibition re-examines a critical yet overlooked chapter in modern art history.

Upsilon Gallery presents Mark Making / Time Marking, a compelling exhibition featuring Ryoko Endo (b. 1951), Hannah Lim (b. 1995), and Park Seo-Bo (1931–2023), three visionary artists whose practices traverse East and West, past and present, structure and spontaneity.

Gagosian presents Ever So Present II: Between Home and Elsewhere, a group exhibition at Park & 75, New York, featuring work by Luke Agada, Amoako Boafo, Josèfa Ntjam, and Emma Prempeh. It forms the second part of Ever So Present, which opened last December at dot.ateliers, the artists’ residency program in Accra founded by Boafo in 2022. Ever So Present II is curated by Brice Arsène Yonkeu—the first curator invited to dot.ateliers’s new residency program for curators, filmmakers, and writers—and brings together four artists of African descent who engage with the formation of the contemporary diasporic self.

Almine Rech New York, Tribeca presents 'If a bird’s nest is nature, what is a house?', Dustin Yellin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Almine Rech New York, Tribeca presents 'Skin of a Storm', Inès Longevial's third solo exhibition with the gallery.Skin cells are among the most rapidly renewed in the human body, only to be outpaced by varied gastrointestinal organs, elements of blood, and the cervix. Skin is the peel of our human body, a protective layer that encapsulates every other sensitive and squishy slice. Even as we decorate, bruise, and rejuvenate skin, it absorbs time, transforming for all to see. Skin can be a map, a projection—a mole or a scar, soft hands, a knobby knee, and a sweat-laden upper lip can rustle memories awake, occupying a space between seeing and feeling.

“German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” features highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of German art from the period 1890 to 1940.

Robilant+Voena presents an exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist James Seward, entitled In Between. The twelve works in the exhibition are taken from Seward’s acclaimed series Embrace, that offers a visual distillation of famous embraces taken from the world of cinema. Blending the artist’s impressive technical skill with painterly sensitivity and emotional reflection, the paintings are a contemplation on human relationships, and the polarities of recognition and anonymity, movement and stasis. This exhibition expands upon the artist’s landmark solo show at the Hudson River Museum, New York, in 2024.

GRIMM presents a group exhibition in New York this summer inspired by the iconic painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 - 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch.

White Cube New York presents an exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe. Focusing on the human condition, these expressive works delve into themes of philosophy and spirituality, seeking to connect with our most powerful emotions and deep-seated psychological fears.

Born and raised in Oakland, Sadie Barnett explores black life, personal history, and politics through painting, photography, and large-scale installations.

HB381 presents Hostler Burrows x HB381, a group show of works from Hostler Burrows' contemporary program. Featured artists include Taher Asad-Bakhtiari, Zimra Beiner, Anne Brandhøj, Frida Fjellman, and Sigve Knutson.

Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present The Calling of Home, a group exhibition on view from July 2 through September 6, 2025. Co-presented with The Institutum, Singapore, the exhibition is organized by London-based curators Wells Fray-Smith and Clara Che Wei Peh. The exhibition brings together four artists: Cheong See Min (b. 1994, Malaysia), Marcos Kueh (b. 1995, Malaysia), Jennifer Tee (b. 1973, Netherlands), and Khairulddin Wahab (b. 1990, Singapore).

Tina Kim Gallery presents The Calling of Home. Co-presented with The Institutum, Singapore, the exhibition is organized by London-based curators Wells Fray-Smith and Clara Che Wei Peh. The exhibition brings together four artists: Cheong See Min (b. 1994, Malaysia), Marcos Kueh (b. 1995, Malaysia), Jennifer Tee (b. 1973, Netherlands), and Khairulddin Wahab (b. 1990, Singapore).

Berry Campbell Gallery presents its fourth exhibition of paintings by contemporary artist Eric Dever. Eric Dever: Points of Interest is an exploration into the temporal dimensions of plant life and the ecological impact of climate change. Dever lives and works in Water Mill, New York, and often looks to his studio garden for inspiration. His “points of interest” further extend to Water Mill’s surrounding watershed, regional travel to arboretums and botanical gardens, nature reserves, and notable historic vistas, reflecting a sustained engagement with natural and cultivated environments.

This Summer at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, Pat Steir will present ‘Mirage 1975,’ a site-specific installation that reconstructs the artist’s first installation from 1975. Installation has been an integral facet of Steir’s practice since this work, when she began painting and drawing directly onto the walls, defining spaces through color and line so that the viewer could stand in the very middle of her work. ‘Mirage 1975’ builds on and adapts formal elements from Steir’s early installation which explored the foundations of visual and verbal consciousness. Steir has made more than 50 installations for public spaces and institutions including the New Museum, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, documenta IX, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA PS1.

Paul Anthony Smith (b. 1988, Jamaica) is known for works that trace the movements and memories of the Caribbean diaspora. Smith punctures the surfaces of his photographs with a handmade tool to add texture and pattern. This signature technique, which he calls picotage, is a meticulous process he derived from his early training in ceramics. The use of picotage serves as an exploration of photography’s creative potential, transforming each image into a layered, textured object. Presented on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York City, Boston, and Chicago, Melodies from a running spring features nine new grayscale works. From early colonial drawings to contemporary tourist marketing campaigns, popular imagery has often sensationalized and romanticized Jamaica and the Caribbean, erasing its natives and depicting vibrant natural settings. By exhibiting grayscale images on spaces typically used for colorful advertising, Smith rejects these tropical fantasies, reimagining Jamaica from his own perspective.