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Rivalry exhibits emerging, mid-career and underrepresented artists working in all media, but with an emphasis toward contemporary photography.

Rivalry Projects, or RIVALRY, is an artist-run commercial art gallery located in Buffalo, NY that is committed to connecting local audiences to national and international contemporary art and ideas. Rivalry is founded on the competing motivations of artist and curator, Ryan Arthurs, to create an arts space that can function as both a site of exhibition and production of contemporary art.

06/18/2026

Gabriel Martinez: Sites of Encounter opens next Friday, June 26, 5:00-9:00pm! Including new photographic works of cruising spaces across the US and abroad, Martinez creates fragmented Q***r landscapes that are imbued with anticipation and memorial.

Gabriel will be in attendance for the opening reception and will also give an artist talk and exhibition walk through on Saturday, June 27 at 11:00 AM. Join us!

Image: Gabriel Martinez, Elysian, 2026
Silver gelatin print, 16.5 x 21 inches

06/17/2026

Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth closes this Friday, June 19! The paintings in the exhibition are complemented by hand-built ceramic candlesticks, which vary in color, glaze, and scale. These works appear askew, distorting symmetry into sensual, protruding forms that interrupt order with something more bodily and unruly. The candlesticks are functional and are named after female leaders - both mythical and historical. They are available for $250-$500

Stop by to see the exhibition before Friday at 5pm!

Image: Kyla Kegler, Light Keepers, 2026, Pinched stoneware, glaze. Dimensions vary.

06/13/2026

If you’re exploring the Allentown Art Festival today, stop by Rivalry Projects and see The Last Whole Earth, a solo exhibition by Kyla Kegler, on view through Friday, June 19.

The gallery is open today, Saturday, June 13, from 11:00 AM–5:00 PM.

Please note that Allen Street and College Street are closed to vehicle traffic during the festival, so it’s best to approach on foot.

📍106 College Street, Buffalo, NY

06/11/2026

Final weeks! Stop by to view Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth. The exhibition closes on Friday, June 19.

Kegler utilizes the grid as an organizational structure, freeing her to focus on relationships between material, color, texture, and mark. Finding the grid’s sharp right angles pleasureless, she regards the armature as a container to decorate and disobey. She utilizes interference paint, gouache, beeswax crayon, shellac, chalk, and pastel, along with textural materials like coarse pumice, to create layered surfaces that shift with light and the viewer’s proximity.

Images: Kyla Kegler, Archeology of the Pegaverse, 2026, Mineral paint, acrylic mediums, shellac, pastel, chalk, graphite, gouache, rabbit skin glue on canvas, 60 x 60 inches .kegler

06/06/2026

Wishing everyone a Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Rivalry is a Q***r-led business that champions intergenerational artists with rigorous, research-based practices. Many of our artists are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and our model allows for the platforming of diverse voices on a national level.

Stay tuned for more details on our upcoming exhibitions and events and enjoy this Pride weekend Buffalo!

- Ryan & Olivia

Artwork: Hannah Secord Wade, Shrimp World

06/04/2026

Rivalry Projects is thrilled to announce Sites of Encounter, the gallery’s first exhibition with Philadelphia-based artist Gabriel Martinez. Including new photographic works of cruising spaces across the US and abroad, Martinez creates fragmented Q***r landscapes that are imbued with anticipation and memorial.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, June 26 from 5:00-9:00pm. Gabe will also give an artist talk and exhibition walk through on Saturday, June 27th at 11:00am. The exhibition will be on view until Friday, August 15. Stay tuned for more details as the exhibition approaches!

Image: Gabriel Martinez, Dunes, 2026, Silver gelatin print, 20 x 32 inch print, 22 x 34 inches framed

05/29/2026

On the occasion of her exhibition - The Last Whole Earth - we visited the South Buffalo studio of Kyla Kegler. Watch for an intimate look into her space and practice, and stop by the gallery to see the exhibition in person! The show will be on view through Friday, June 19.

Film produced by Greg McClure

05/27/2026

Thank you to Christina Nafziger for her thoughtful piece in Sixty Inches from Center, “Opening Up the Timeline: Jen Everett on photo albums, sonic memory, and Black interiority.”

Jen Everett speaks beautifully about how nostalgia, archives, and family history shape her work, alongside her recent exhibitions at 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis and The Luminary.

A great conversation—linked in our bio.

05/22/2026

Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth will be on view through Friday, June 19 ✨

“The earthy terracottas, the velvety blue water and sky colors, the slate stone colors, and the almost-invisible-on-raw-canvas fleshy neutrals are sensuous and soothing—I want to drink them in, smell, touch, and be enveloped by them. The drips of gold, neon, and glitter, and the whispers of pastel are little winks, a reminder of the absurd within the reveling. And the stains of shellac and oil, the defacement with crayon and chalk are signs of life.”

Images: Kyla Kegler: The Last Whole Earth, Rivalry Projects, May 1 - June 19, 2026

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05/15/2026

Eben Haines (b.1990) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that use familiar New England architectural forms to examine shelter, vulnerability, and the social systems that shape who is protected and who is exposed. Recent flood imagery in the work speaks both to the climate realities facing coastal cities like Boston and to the broader political violence and instability defining the present moment.

Eben Haines, This is an Announcement, 2025
Graphite on paper, beeswax, wood assemblage, limewash, acrylic, and galvanized steel
30 x 20.75 x 3.75 inches

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106 College Street
Buffalo, NY
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Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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+17162172923

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http://www.rivalryprojects.com/

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