{"title": "HEIDI LAU OUROBOROS", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sikkema Jenkins & Co.", "address": "West 22nd Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/ceramics", "history/mythology"], "description": "The exhibition \"HEIDI LAU OUROBOROS\" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents an installation of ceramic sculptural work, with a public opening attended by the artist. It is by Heidi Lau, an artist born in 1987 who grew up in Macau and lives and works in New York. The show takes its title from the ancient totem of a snake or dragon swallowing its own tail, a symbol of the cyclical nature of life, death and rebirth. Through hand-built, textured ceramics that draw on the Shanhaijing text and its fantastical creatures, Lau creates ritual objects, funerary monuments, fossilized creatures and miniature universes that blur the mythical and the earthly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/heidi-lau-ouroboros-55888/", "official_url": "https://www.smjny.com/ex20261030heidilau", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a34d4c1f6404809c1240254f84222f8e2975def098e5187d57aa35dc98f3ccc4-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sikkema Jenkins & Co.", "address": "West 22nd Street 530, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Message from the Mud", "start": "2026-05-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "Anicka Yi: Message from the Mud is an exhibition running from May 17 to November 9, 2026, presenting the artist's first large-scale outdoor installation. Anicka Yi, an American artist born in South Korea in 1971, arranges the work like an archaeological dig, inviting viewers to engage with deep geological time and evolutionary history through what she calls \"prehistoric biofiction.\" Rising from a shallow pool at the center of the excavated site are acrylic columns filled with soil-and-water cultures, made using a technique invented by ecologist Sergei Winogradsky, in which algae, cyanobacteria, and microbial colonies emerge in colorful layers visible through the clear surfaces. The installation is organized by Nora Lawrence and Adela Goldsmith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/message-from-the-mud-52826/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e4a1d18d63269ae91b13f59f6130d5e625a4e59a85948f82b3787dd9d1dd1df-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "\"Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes\" is an exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist's recent ceramic sculptures and prints, shown in the museum's Cheng Gallery. It inaugurates Solo Artist Projects (SAP), a MOCA initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work by artists of Chinese descent living and working in New York City. Shen's practice is marked by an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, undergoing construction and decay. Her details and motifs open up conversations cutting across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hilda-shen-their-landscapes-54046/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aed91fbf6df010c700d9d8fe8be0220be86865d046df4f0468de728928cc5d61-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Younghee Choi Martin: Orpheus: Recent Work", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bowery Gallery", "address": "West 27th Street 547, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "literature/mythology"], "description": "An exhibition of recent paintings by Younghee Choi Martin at Bowery Gallery. Under the title \"Orpheus: Recent Paintings\", the show gathers her large oil works, including \"Agamemnon's Return\", \"Electra's Offering\", \"Clytaemestra's Memory\" and \"Orpheus and Euridice\". Her subjects draw on myth, with paintings such as \"Orestes' Trial\", \"Recognition Scene\" and \"Agamemnon's Landing\" alongside works in charcoal over oil wash.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/younghee-choi-martin-orpheus-recent-work-66196/", "official_url": "https://bowerygallery.org/martin2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Voyage", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "HB381", "address": "Broadway 381", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "\"Voyage\" is a solo exhibition of new works by the Finnish artist Marianne Huotari. She sculpts hundreds of ceramic beads, medallions, and petals by hand and affixes them to metal armatures with wire, reimagining the traditional Finnish rya long-pile textile technique in ceramics. Her wall works and sculptures draw on gardens, Finnish folklore, and retro, psychedelia-infused imagery, echoing the Pattern and Decoration movement. The beaded pieces emit soft percussive sounds and offer lush, dream-like visions rendered with an haute couture level of handwork.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/voyage-76964/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/238251787c281eb3bfd111da57da961db3cbd3ac1ca6d693cff6480fe978ff7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Adam Putnam: Deity", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "PPOW", "address": "Broadway 392", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Deity is Adam Putnam's fifth solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, an arrangement of sculptures and other improbable objects. At its center stands a mysterious octagonal reservoir of water set in a hexagonal tile floor made from earth surrounding the artist's Maine studio, referencing ancient Greek oracles. Discarded tree branches, washed ashore along coastlines from around the world, are carved into the forms of human limbs, alongside newly printed photographs and small-scale structures. Through photography, drawing, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, Putnam explores the shifting boundaries between architecture and nature, and the mundane and the transcendent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adam-putnam-deity-54924/", "official_url": "https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/adam-putnam5", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c4782d53864c3a54e374b2951effe21b21481c4799d11c0b98dd6b0bf8348b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tools of Worship", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "\"Tools of Worship\" is a solo exhibition by artist Tschabalala Self at Petzel Gallery, her first with the gallery and her first New York gallery show since 2020. It brings together new paintings and her first sculptural works in concrete, continuing her investigation of the human figure as both object and site of exchange through which meaning, desire, memory, and belief circulate. Her figures are built from found and repurposed textiles and conceived as characters in a theatrical world, with identity treated as a mutable material rather than a fixed fact. The exhibition proposes that both art and the human body are conduits of reverence and projection, asking what it means to encounter an artwork as something alive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tools-of-worship-54873/", "official_url": "https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/tschabalala-self2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec7976b783d16ef6dc012788b61e39618872e838fca6043fbddf8ac064673dac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Yining Fei: Feral Sediment", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sculpture Center", "address": "Purves Street 44-19, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.sculpture-center.org/shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Yining Fei: Feral Sediment is the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, on view at SculptureCenter in Long Island City. Yining Fei, who was born in Harbin, China, and works across sculpture, moving image, and installation, centers the show on the milu (Père David's deer), a species that lived in semi-captivity in China, went locally extinct there in the early 20th century, and survived only through a small number taken to European zoos. Prompted by the question of whether a drive towards the unruly exists after centuries of captivity, the exhibition reimagines a deer's body and invents an interiority shaped by the species' histories of domestication. Ceramic sculptures in the form of deer viscera with a biomimetic glaze, found fabric, and light trace feral relations negotiating care and release, containment and transgression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yining-fei-feral-sediment-55743/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af327540860204934bc2ff7c12cd2587e66364e60e42383a4e6cf64261373d76-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meeson Pae: Seed Memory", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Anat Egbi", "address": "Broadway 372, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Seed Memory\" is an exhibition of new oil paintings and sculptures by Meeson Pae, on view at 372 Broadway, with an opening reception from 6-8 pm. The Korean American artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, paints invented organisms that suggest flowers, fungi, and seedpods in dark landscapes recalling nineteenth-century Romantic and Symbolist painting. Works were inspired partly by her visits to Jeju, South Korea, where her family traces its origins, and sculptures in ceramic, cast metal, and plaster sit on lily-pad-shaped steel platforms like miniature islands. This is Pae's second solo exhibition at the gallery and her first presentation in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meeson-pae-seed-memory-51009/", "official_url": "https://anatebgi.com/exhibitions/meeson-pae-seed-memory/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Shuling Guo: Temple II", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hollis Taggart Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 521, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "Temple II is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Shuling Guo, with an opening reception on the evening of October 15. The Philadelphia-based artist brings together the female body, botanical forms, and devotional imagery in work shaped by motherhood, memory, and loss. Created after the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother, the paintings return to the temple imagery and folk traditions of her childhood in Chaoshan, China, and the show debuts her first mural, conceived as part of the gallery's transformation into a sacred space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shuling-guo-temple-ii-53037/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab84b066ff08b5ea0584f7d20121e2425e1e4fa4c50bbc96d4cced47d4ecc7d8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Liu Wei: Speculation", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-08T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of four large-scale sculptures created by Beijing-based artist Liu Wei for The Genesis Facade Commission, shown on The Met's Fifth Avenue exterior. A key figure of a generation of Chinese artists who sought to define conceptual art on their own terms, Liu remixes fragments from the urban environment, historical sources, and bodily forms, inviting contemplation, surprise, and revelation to pierce through our perceptions of reality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/liu-wei-speculation-53544/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b905184f31ba406f71a0c6faa8fc83bb29034ac3da2cccee4759db3c8ccb62c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unearthed (a work in progress)", "start": "2026-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-26T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "nature"], "description": "Unearthed (a work in progress) presents Jim Hodges' monumental bronze cast of an uprooted tree stump, a form that evokes majesty while mourning humankind's impact on the natural world. The suspended, truncated sculpture suggests the branches and life that once reached toward the sun, inviting reflection on fragility, ephemerality, and the sacredness of life. The work-in-becoming began with a 2019 residency in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral and continues to gather experiences through community participation before its roots are ultimately reunited with the ground through burial. Hodges, an internationally renowned artist who lives and works between New York City and Milan, has explored themes of fragility, temporality, love, and death since the late 1980s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/unearthed-a-work-in-progress-66540/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d77f8a80055ebb6a38ce4859f6a28ba33a54f46a7e56a5b59f2c21e88cbb2e53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Aspen)", "start": "2026-05-20T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture/contemporary-sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of sculpture by Kerstin Brätsch, presented as a site-specific rooftop commission centered on a new series of four mosaic benches. The benches, built from glass, concrete, marble and stones, continue her Fossil Psychics works in which painterly gestures become fossilized fragments like remnants of geological phenomena or ancient creatures. Visitors may sit on the benches, which accommodate living plants within them, forming a landscape of native flowers and shrubs that changes with the seasons, framed by a vinyl mural from her MƎTA series of enlarged oil paintings. Curated by Stella Bottai, Daniel Merritt, and Nicola Lees.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fossil-psychic-stone-mimicry-aspen-66552/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e73a2d6d4a92871a4a25bf81de55952bc737a6a6e7070ef83920b0ef7676229-1200.webp"}]}