Upcoming
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Anne Collier: Portraits
May 6 - June 21, 2025 “What do we see when we look at Anne Collier’s photographs? Borrowing from psychoanalytic feminist literary theory, today I see a kind of female jouissance: a pleasure and pain that is at once erotic, mystical, and political. A feminine libidinal drive repressed by the symbolic order. The inner life of... Read more -
Jochen Lempert
May 6 - June 21, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is excited to introduce the work of German artist Jochen Lempert. Trained as a biologist, Lempert photographs plants, animals, and the fleeting traces of natural phenomena with both scientific acumen and a poetic appreciation. His approach unites the questions of a naturalist with reflections on the medium... Read more -
Matthew Monahan: As Above, So Below
May 6 - June 21, 2025 Every art medium is firstly abstract, insofar as it sets a particular boundary against infinitude. This bracketing is its first and founding act of abstraction. Works ignore one set of phenomena in order to highlight another. Before any mark is made, painting flattens the scope of reality into a rectangle,... Read more
Past
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Love Poems: Curated by Chris Martin (Singing In Unison, Part 11)
March 12 - April 26, 2025 Many years ago I was alone in a house lost in thought looking down at a hay field in the Catskill mountains. I could see McCumber Farm, the distant Armstrong fields, and the steep silhouette of Dry Brook Ridge. An autumn breeze came in from the treetops, and as if... Read more -
Leo Mock: "There are kisses left undelivered"
WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street) March 7 - April 27, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present “There are kisses left undelivered” , an exhibition of six new cloud paintings by Leo Mock, at WINDOW (91 Walker Street). This marks the artist's second show with the gallery and opens on Friday, March 7, with a reception from 6–8 pm. In... Read more -
Wilhelm Sasnal: Sad Tropics
January 22 - March 6, 2025 In his exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Polish artist and filmmaker Wilhelm Sasnal presents a body of paintings made during his current stay in Los Angeles. As a keen observer of historical contexts, the works reflect a rapidly changing political and social landscape. His work has most recently been presented... Read more -
Nicole Eisenman: Plastered
January 22 - March 6, 2025 In her sculptural work, New York artist Nicole Eisenman has long favored plaster as a material for its sensual, visceral, and intuitional qualities. The exhibition 'Plastered' at Anton Kern Gallery features ten relief portraits titled 'Understudies,' along with two large wall reliefs, one of which depicting a bather with a... Read more
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David Byrd: Bad jobs can produce very good pictures
October 30, 2024 - January 10, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by David Byrd (1926 – 2013) coinciding with the release of Volume 1 of the late American artist’s catalogue raisonné. Occupying the third floor gallery, this presentation aims to illuminate the interconnections between Byrd’s paintings, drawings, and assemblage sculptures,... Read more -
Yuli Yamagata: Ghosts Don't Wear Watches
October 30, 2024 - January 10, 2025 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce the Brazilian artist Yuli Yamagata’s (b.1989, São Paulo) third solo exhibition in New York. The artist’s latest exhibition, her most ambitious to date, features new fabric paintings, ikebana and mixed media sculptures (including a motorcycle, a mobile, and a fountain), functional chairs and... Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
September 4 - 26, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce a special presentation of new works by Ellen Berkenblit, featuring 10 gouaches with colorful Kozo paper collage elements, and a large-scale oil painting. Berkenblit recently began integrating pieces of Kozo paper into her gouache compositions. The behavior of this paper - made from... Read more -
Hein Koh: Hope Springs Eternal
September 4 - October 19, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present Hope Springs Eternal , Brooklyn-based artist Hein Koh’s first exhibition at Anton Kern spanning the first and second floor galleries. The exhibition will foreground a new series of works depicting cyclopean figures: one-eyed beings who observe but cannot speak. The characters are full... Read more
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Margot Bergman: Rogues Gallery
September 4 - October 19, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Chicago-based painter Margot Bergman’s fourth solo exhibition in New York. This latest exhibition brings together a selection of paintings spanning thirty years of her practice, to examine the misfit energy that imbues her portraits of imaginary subjects. Since the 1950s, Margot Bergman (b.... Read more -
The Campus | Inaugural Exhibition
June 29 - October 27, 2024 Inaugural Exhibition Curated by Timo Kappeler Saturday, June 29th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024 341 NY-217, Hudson, NY 12534 Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto are pleased to present the inaugural exhibition at their new shared space, The Campus, in Claverack, NY. Embracing a collaborative... Read more -
Marepe: Peripheral Vision
May 29 - August 9, 2024 In his first New York solo exhibition in ten years, Brazilian artist Marepe returns to the gallery with a new body of work that celebrates life in the periphery of mainstream culture. Working in the countryside region of Bahia, at a remove from the major art centers of São Paulo... Read more -
Andrew Sim: Two pink birds with a gold nest
May 29 - August 9, 2024 Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Andrew Sim’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s 55th Street location, and to officially welcome them to our artist roster. In Two pink birds with a gold nest , the Scottish artist presents twelve new paintings with motifs ranging from hairless werewolves to... Read more
