Opening June 27, 2026, Art Omi will present Nayland Blake’s “Haunt”: Being the Folly of One Victorya Spectre (2026), a new commission and the artist’s first outdoor installation. It will be accompanied by performances, activations, and workshops across Art Omi’s park and gallery. “Haunt” draws upon the history of the ornamental hermit, a novelty of
On view from November 15, 2025 through February 1, 2026 in the Newmark Gallery, Iron + Palm Wine is a solo exhibition from artist and musician YATTA which uses video, sound, digital collage, and a series of original interviews to reimagine the pastoral as a site of reckoning, rather than escape. The show is framed
Art Omi presents Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy, the first institutional solo exhibition in New York of Harold Stevenson (1929–2018). The exhibition, on view from June 28 to October 26, 2025, traces forty years of Stevenson’s exploration of the human body as an environment across paintings, drawings, and writing. In the pre-Stonewall era Stevenson’s
SHABOOM: PRESUMED IGNORANT is the first institutional exhibition of the collective SHABOOM—created by artists Silky Shoemaker, Paul Soileau, and Lex Vaughn. On view from October 5, 2024–January 26, 2025, the project takes up the golden era of ’90s court tv with an installation that will be activated by the most juvenile of antics, as well
On view July 6 through September 3, 2024. This summer, Art Omi will premiere a new body of work by Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee) that includes scores and a set of reimagined flags, inspired by the iconography of the Native American Church and symbolism of peyotism, a medicine and sacrament in the church. Central to the
On view November 18, 2023 through February 18, 2024, 3WI is the first institutional solo exhibition of Dion “TYGAPAW” McKenzie, premiering a newly commissioned installation combining video, sound, and performance. 3WI, or Third World immigrant, is a phrase which McKenzie adopted to describe their experience of immigrating from Jamaica to the United States. Informed by
Allana Clarke: A Particular Fantasy marks the first solo institutional exhibition of Allana Clarke’s work, a collaboration between Usdan Gallery at Bennington College and Art Omi, with complementary installations across venues. A Trinidadian-American artist, Clarke is known for her inventive use of materials such as sugar, cocoa butter, and hair-binding glue to confront histories of colonialism and Western
This summer, Art Omi presents Portia Munson: Flood in the Newmark Gallery. For over two decades, Munson has teased out cultural codes latent in the mass-produced items that surround us. Her monochromatic installations underscore the pleasures of looking at a dizzying array of items that are at once seductive and utterly disposable. Munson’s work offers an incisive
The first solo institutional exhibition of Raven Halfmoon (b. 1991, Caddo Nation), Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors features six recent large-scale ceramic sculptures, including several completed this year while in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana. Halfmoon’s monumental ceramic sculptures–some towering more than five-feet high–examine entanglements between past and present, sampling from an
To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth is an exhibition of quilts, garments, drums, prints, and video by Jeffrey Gibson, on view in the Newmark Gallery from September 11, 2021 to January 3, 2022. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Saturday, September 11, from 3 to 6 PM, and features a performance
