2025 FALL ART SEASON: Chelsea Art Guide

With summer quickly reaching its end, we are in great anticipation of the fall art season. Each year, September serves as a warm welcome to art lovers with gallery shows across town that set the tone for the coming year in art.

We are pleased to share Artmuse’s Chelsea neighborhood guide with our initial selection of the exhibitions to see this fall. Art guides for other NYC neighborhoods will come soon!

 

Sikkema Malloy Jenkins

Maria Nepomuceno: Cunhó

Maria Nepomuceno creates vivid, sculptural works that meld traditional Brazilian craftsmanship and contemporary materials with the artist’s personal techniques of sewing, weaving, beading, and ceramics. Endlessly interesting to look at, Nepomuceno’s sprawling works are enmeshed with colorful objects and materials, often employing spiral motifs to reflect the endless flow of time, energy, and nature.

September 2–October 11

530 West 22nd Street

Image courtesy of Sikkema Malloy and Jenkins

Hauser & Wirth

María Berrío: Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth

For her landmark debut with Hauser & Wirth, Colombia-born, Brooklyn-based artist María Berrío will present large-scale tableaus that weave together folklore and myths with contemporary experiences of human determination. These bold, architectural scenes oftentimes feature female characters in imaginary environments, created with the artist’s hallmark combination of watercolor and Japanese paper collage.

September 4-October 18

542 West 22nd Street

María Berrío, Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth, 2025 © María Berrío. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Victoria Miro. Photo: Bruce White

Gagosian

Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage)

Running Arcs is a special historic show that brings together three identical conical steel segments, inverted relative to each other, installed in a staggered formation. Exhibited once before, thirty years to-date in Düsseldorf, Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage) gives life to an awe-inspiring work by a giant of art history once again, in New York.

September 12-December 20

522 West 21st Street

Book cover of Running Arcs by Richard Serra pictured

Skarstedt

Yuan Fang: Spaying

A deeply-personal exhibition of large-scale canvases and smaller paintings, Yuan Fang’s Spaying will present beautifully-complex, architecturally-intricate works that grapple with womanhood, the body, and the idea of eternity. Work created when Fang was diagnosed with breast cancer, these emtional paintings feature exquisite, layered entities created by cycles of modification, layering, and erasure until organic entities form on her canvas.

September 4-October 25

547 West 25th Street

Courtesy of the artist and Skartedt

Yancey Richardson

David Alekhougie: highlifetime

An exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles-born and based artist David Alekhougie, highlifetime will survey the artist’s Reprise series, which critically examines ideas of narrative and authorship, and how Black aesthetics are circulated, accessed, and valued. These layered wall-mounted works combine photography, collage and sculpture to pose questions regarding our relationship to history and how we present these histories.

September 2-October 18

525 West 22nd Street

David Alekhuogie, Pan-American Gothic 1, 2025, courtesy of Yancey Richardson

Lehmann Maupin

Tom Friedman: Detritus

With Tom Friedman’s first New York show in nearly ten years, the artist tackles an all-but-new format for him—traditional paintings on canvas—as he continues to explore and investigate materials and mediums. For his new paintings, Friedman assembles and photographs still-life arrangements, manipulates these images on his computer, and then painstakingly renders these images on his canvas. The result are works unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

September 4-October 18

501 West 24th Street

Tom Friedman, Detritus, 2025. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin

Hill Art Foundation

Igshaan Adams: I’ve been here all along, I’ve been waiting

Born in Apartheid-era Cape Town, Igshaan Adams draws on his lived experience and complex identity as a gay, practicing Muslim South African to create wonderfully-intricate, stunningly-beautiful tapestries and textile-based sculptures. Bringing together over fifteen years of work from the artist’s oeuvre, this amazing show illustrates the artist’s profound exploration of spirituality and self.

September 16-December 20

239 Tenth Avenue

Igshaan Adams, Al-Hayy (detail), 2023. Cotton twine, polypropylene rope, cotton braid, glass, wood, plastic, bone, shell and semi precious beads, memory wire, polyester fabric strips and mohair, 80 × 57 inches (203.2 × 177.8 cm). © Igshaan Adams. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo: Jason Wyche

Lisson Gallery

Pedro Reyes

With a solo exhibition of works by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, Lisson Gallery will present an evolution in the acclaimed artist’s sculpture practice: wall-mounted mosaics. This layered exhibition is not to be missed as Reyes transforms Lisson’s gallery space into a sculptural forrest informed by references to Mexica traditions, Olmec carvings, Art Deco, and basic abstraction.

September 11-October 18

504 West 24th Street

Marianne Boesky Gallery

Celeste Rapone: Some Weather

One of the season’s most anticipated shows is a solo exhibition of works by the painter Celeste Rapone (b. 1985, New Jersey). Known for her figurative paintings that embody the millennial generation’s wants, desires, fears, and nostalgias, Rapone paints as a chronicler of her time, crafting canvases imbued with autobiography, art history, and daily life.

September 4-October 18

509 West 24th Street

Celeste Rapone, Drifters, 2025, courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery

Pace Gallery

Robert Longo: The Weight of Hope

For the 72-year-old Robert Longo, 2025 represents a major year in his career, with competing retrospectives across the world, at Vienna’s Albertina Museum, which traveled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (near Copenhagen), and at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

One of this season’s landmark exhibitions, Robert Longo: A Weight of Hopewill take over Pace Gallery with 26 drawings, three films, three sculptures, and 33 studies, serving as a sequel to the exhibition in Milwaukee.

A member of the “Pictures Generation” of artists composed of Longo’s friends and colleagues Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, and David Salle (named after an exhibition curated by the great Douglas Crimp), Longo pulls from semiotics and structuralist theory to investigate and make sense of our times. He is most celebrated for his “Men in Cities” charcoal drawings of photorealistic men and women, extracted from their backgrounds and contorted, and the exhibition at Pace will stir delight in art history buffs and novices alike.

September 11-October 25

540 West 25th Street

Robert Longo, Untitled (Eric), from the series "Men in the Cities," 1979–83, Charcoal and graphite on paper, 96 x 60 inches (243.8 x 152.4 cm), Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York © Robert Longo

albertz benda

Ten: An Anniversary

Celebrating the gallery’s milestone tenth anniversary, albertz benda presents a group show that reflects on the evolution of its program. Bringing together the work of Del Kathryn Barton, Sharif Bey, Christopher Le Brun, Larissa De Souza, Devon DeJardin, Rugiyatou Jallow, Tony Marsh, Felipe Pantone, Robert Peterson, Patrick Quarm, Kelly Reemsten, and Brie Ruais, the celebratory exhibition reflects on the gallery’s past ten years and all that is to come.

September 11-October 18

515 West 26th Street

Rugiyatou Jallow, And she would rise, through prayer and pine, 2025, courtesy of albertz benda

Galerie Lelong:

June Edmonds: The Sky Remains the Same

The Los Angeles born and based painter June Edmonds creates vividly-beautiful, thickly textured, patterned abstract paintings grounded in Edmonds’ research of important events and traditions in Black American art and history, which are then re-contextualized as sacred geometric abstractions. With her new body of paintings, Edmonds presents works that derive inspiration from the ebe-amẹn, or river leaf, continuing her practice of creating vibrant works informed by deep-rooted histories and tradition.

September 4-October 25

528 West 26th Street

June Edmonds, Seeking Face, 2025. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong.

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