HAMPTONS ART GUIDE
The Hamptons—best known as a world-class summer escape thanks to its glorious beaches and charming villages—is also a destination for excellent art exhibitions at its museums, art centers, artist studios and galleries.
Here are our recommendations for art lovers seeking engaging outings in the Hamptons this summer.
SOUTHAMPTON
Southampton Art Center
We are excited to announce that Artmuse founder Natasha Schlesinger co-curated Beyond the Present: Collecting for the Future, The Christine Mack Collection, opening July 26 at the Southampton Arts Center.
This exhibition presents works from Christine Mack’s bold art collection comprised of today and tomorrow’s leading voices in contemporary art—a collection Mack has built by seeking out, meeting with, collecting, and supporting the young artistic visionaries of our time.
Following in the footsteps of her mother-in-law Phyllis Mack, whose collection includes icons of modern and contemporary art such as Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Jean Michel Basquiat, Mack forged a path as a collector spotlighting young American and international talents as well as highlighting Scandinavian artists, reflecting her own childhood growing up in Sweden.
Mack’s commitment to art extends beyond collecting: she is dedicated to nurturing these talents through mentorship, financial support, and the Mack Art Foundation Artist Residency.
July 26-September 27
25 Jobs Lane, Southampton
Austin Lee, Ode, 2025 & Rashid Johnson, Escape Painting, 2019
Peter Marino Art Foundation
Southampton’s Peter Marino Art Foundation celebrates its fifth season with a special exhibition—expertly designed by Marino himself—of 90 works by the superstar German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.
The museum also presents Vienna 1900 Art & Decorating, featuring works by Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Leopold Bauer, Gustav Klimt and Franz von Stuck, and Andy Warhol—15 Minutes of Collecting, which features thirty works by Warhol demonstrating Marino’s connection to both art collecting and Warhol himself, who hired Marino in the 1970s to renovate The Factory and his Upper East Side townhouse.
May 23-September 27
11 Jobs Lane, Southampton
WATER MILL
Parrish Art Museum
This summer, the Parrish—a wonderful institution whose permanent collection is composed of over 4,500 artworks that are all connected to the East End—presents the must-see show Shirin Neshat: Born of Fire, the amazing Iranian photographer’s first museum exhibition in the New York area in over 20 years presenting Neshat’s most important works alongside works from her personal collection by artists such as Robert Longo and Marina Abramović.
Additionally, the museum presents Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk, exploring Scully’s connection to Long Island; a large-scale sculpture presented in collaboration with the FLAG Art Foundation by Raven Halfmoon; and a new public artwork by Rafael Loazano-Hemmer.
Through September 1
279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill
EASTHAMPTON
LongHouse Reserve
LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre sanctuary that integrates art, nature, and wellness. Its sculpture garden features over 60 outdoor works by artists such as Yoko Ono, Willem de Kooning, Ai Wei Wei, Maren Hassinger, and Daniel Arsham.
This year, the garden features works by Toshiko Takaezu and Isamu Noguchi as part of the exhibition Full Circle: Toshiko Takaezu and Friends, Monica Banks’ “Bird Happenings” of miniature porcelain vignettes nestled throughout the property, as well as new additions to the collection by artists Agathe Snow, Bill King, and Robert Lobe.
133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton
Pollock-Krasner House
The colorful works of Rosalyn Drexler—a pro-wrestler who later would become an artist and key figure in the Pop Art movement—have received renewed attention in recent years by the art market.
At Home with Rosalyn Drexler presents a body of Drexler’s work that examines the domestic space—and all the strife, love, struggle, and drama that occurs in the home. The themes of this exhibition run parallel to the Pollock-Krasner house itself as a site where historic works of art were made while a complicated relationship took place.
Through July 12
830 Spring Fireplace Road, East Hampton
Harper’s Gallery
Independence Day, an exhibition of fanciful new works by the Irish artist Genvieve Figgis, draws inspiration from eighteenth-century art historical traditions to play with themes of luxury and leisure. Evoking the decadence of the Rococo period with her whimsical palette and marks-making, Figgis injects dark humor and playfulness into familiar scenes.
July 5-August 13
87 Newton Lane, East Hampton
Genieve Figgis, Lady with a Parasol via Harper’s
Eric Firestone Gallery
My My, Hey Hey is a group exhibition that unites the high and low, domestic and formal, cultures from around the world, and disparate art forms ranging from collage, sculpture, and paintings.
This colorful and uplifting show features artists Johnny Abrahams, Elise Asher, John de Fazio, Francesca DiMattio, Michelle Flores, Susan Fortgang, Hervé Garcia, Pam Glick, James Harrison, Valerie Hegarty, Gustav Hjelmgren, Justin Hoffman, Sophie Larrimore, Jason Middlebrook, Jackie Milad, Jeanne Reynal, Miriam Schapiro, Tony Tasset, Paul Waters, Cameron Welch, and Rob Wynne.
June 28-July 30
4 Newton Lane, East Hampton
Jackie Milad, To Be Held and Cared For (A Stand-In for Something Precious)
The Arts Center at Duck Creek
In a series of intimate portraits, the artist and filmmaker Carol Saft presents a deeply personal look into her relationship with My Wife, Masked and Unmasked. Capturing her wife in life’s most private and vulnerable moments, Saft’s beautiful body of work explores themes of intimacy, love, and aging through the adoring lens of a partner.
June 14-July 20
127 Squaw Road, East Hampton
Onna House
Founded in 2023 by fashion designer and art collector Lisa Perry, Onna (the Japanese word for woman) House presents a meticulously-crafted private collection housed in a restored 1960s modernist home that Perry opens to the public for three exhibitions per year.
Honoring her own mother who passed away recently, Perry presents Unbreakable, a ceramics show highlighting the bond between mothers and daughters as Onna' House’s inaugural exhibition of the year.
This show presents beautiful ceramics in dialogue with one another, by mother-daughter pairs Ann Agee and Lucia Pompetti, Christina Jensen Vicente and Esther Jorgen Jensen, Isabel Rower and Maria Robledo, Nettie Sumner and Mercy Sumner, Amy Dov and Lori Goodman, as well as the work of ceramic artists Carey Lowell, Conie Vallese, Helena Hafemann, Heyja Do, Jaclyn Mednicov, Jaye Kim, Jialing Lee, Lena Harms, Marina Todres, Toni Ross, and Yoona Hur.
Through July 13 (by appointment)
123 Georgica Road, East Hampton
SAG HARBOR
The Church
The Church Sag Harbor, an East End arts center whose mission is to foster and celebrate Sag Harbor’s thriving creative community, presents The Ark as its summer exhibition, curated by Eric Fischl. A dynamic group show composed entirely of animal sculptures ranging in scale, style, and form, The Ark features iconic and enthralling works by 40 artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Jim Dine, William Kentridge, Sherrie Levine, Sarah Lucas, Mentawai people, Bruce Nauman, Charles Ray, Susan Rothenberg, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith,Rosemarie Trockel, Patrick Villas, and many more.
June 22-September 1
48 Madison Street, Sag Harbor
Installation image via The Church
AMAGANSETT
Hesse Flatow East
With Veronica Veronica, Hesse Flatow brings together 33 artists from around the world at its Amangansett space, a former potato barn transformed into an airy gallery. This exhibition celebrates the titular patron saint of the image, photographers, linen weavers, and laundry workers and features dynamic, spiritual, and beautiful works that channel the spirit of Saint Veronica.
June 14-July 26
68 Schellinger Road, Amagansett
Jennifer Carvalho, Study of beauty (Fouquet) via Hesse Flatow