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Chicago, New York | Est. 1963.

Gray is a leading art gallery with locations in Chicago and New York promoting contemporary artists and presenting modern masters since 1963.

05/25/2026

ON VIEW | Now on view at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, Torkwase Dyson’s Tougaloo operates within a distinct abstract language, which the artist terms “Black Compositional Thought.” The large-scale, immersive installation employs forms refracted from histories of Black self-emancipation to explore the spatial dimensions of freedom.

Presented at the Arsenale, Tougaloo draws on the artist’s experience at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, a campus where nineteenth-century plantation architecture exists alongside Modernist structures.

Curated by Koyo Kouoh, the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is on view through November 22, 2026.   📷: Torkwase Dyson, Tougaloo, 2026.

05/21/2026

ON VIEW | Over the course of four decades, Jaume Plensa’s oeurve has offered a profound meditation on the shared humanity that unites us across cultures, languages, and time. This poignant exploration can be traced through the monumental and intimate-scaled sculptures and two-dimensional works in the artist’s first retrospective, A New Humanism, at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

On view through September 7, the exhibition guides visitors from large-scale outdoor sculptures into the Freyer-Newman Center galleries, where themes of personal introspection and collective harmony unfold across works in glass, steel, bronze, resin, graphite, and ink.

Pictured: 1. Jaume Plensa. Photo by Scott Dressel-Martin, courtesy of Denver Botanic Gardens; 2. Garden to Gallery Tour. Photo by Scott Dressel-Martin, courtesy of Denver Botanic Gardens.

05/20/2026

ON THIS DAY | Today, we celebrate the birthday of pioneering American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996).  “I think that there is no such thing as a dead end except in your mind. We keep going, there is no end… But it is easier to imagine no end to the universe than to imagine an end. If you say there is an end then it means there must be a wall, there must be something then on the other side.” - Leon Polk Smith, 1987

Leon Polk Smith was a known for his hard-edge geometric compositions and bold explorations of color, form, and space. Born outside Chickasha in what would become Oklahoma, Smith developed a distinctive visual language that pushed geometric abstraction toward curved, dynamic forms. Over the course of his career, he became recognized as a foundational figure in postwar American abstraction, with work included in landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

📷: Leon Polk Smith. Photo: Gene Pyle. © Leon Polk Smith Foundation.

05/19/2026

ON VIEW | Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin is open late tonight at GRAY New York (1018 Madison Ave), with extended gallery hours until 7 PM.

A demonstration of Abakanowicz’s breadth and persistent material innovation, the works on view at GRAY New York describe four decades of poignant artistic exploration; While some of her earliest works in fiber evoke feelings of ephemerality, decay, and rebirth, Abakanowicz’s later figurative works in bronze impose a heavier, lingering physicality and sense of permanence.

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin will be on view at GRAY New York through Jun 26, 2026.

📷: Installation views of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin, at GRAY New York. © Fundacja Marty Magdaleny Abakanowicz Kosmowskiej I Jana Kosmowskiego, Warsaw.

05/14/2026

ON VIEW | GRAY is pleased to participate in the annual Madison Avenue Spring Gallery Walk in partnership with ARTnews, on Saturday, May 16, between the hours of 11AM-5 PM.

On view at GRAY New York (1018 Madison Ave), Next is our skin examines four decades of work by the trailblazing Polish artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz. With key examples from the 1960s to 1990s, the exhibition traces the evolution of Abakanowicz’s practice through her continuous inquiry into the human condition.

This free event invites the public to visit participating galleries, view their exhibitions and attend expert talks led by artists and curators on Madison Avenue & side streets from East 57th to East 86th Streets. Link in bio.

Pictured: Installation views of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin, at GRAY New York. Artwork © Fundacja Marty Magdaleny Abakanowicz Kosmowskiej I Jana Kosmowskiego, Warsaw.

05/13/2026

UPCOMING | Join GRAY and moniquemeloche galleries for a cross-gallery program connecting the exhibitions Roger Brown: Weathervane at GRAY and Cheryl Pope: ALL THERE IS at moniquemeloche on Saturday, May 16, 2026.

The afternoon will begin at GRAY with a walkthrough of Roger Brown: Weathervane. Led by artist Cheryl Pope and GRAY Senior Director Anastasia Tinari, the tour will explore how Roger Brown’s distinctive visual language continues to resonate with contemporary artists. Pope will also reflect her interests in Brown’s work, particularly his use of stacked horizons, simplified forms, and rhythmic patterning. The group will then meet at moniquemeloche for a sit-down conversation between Ionit Behar, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Cheryl Pope around her new body of landscape works in ALL THERE IS. Working with needle-punched wool roving on cashmere, Pope’s tactile works translate the language of painting into fiber to explore memory, relationships, and the poetics of everyday life.

2:00 PM @ GRAY (2044 W Carroll Ave)
Roger Brown: Weathervane walkthrough with Cheryl Pope and Anastasia Tinari  
2:45 PM @ moniquemeloche (451 N. Paulina St) Seated conversation between Cheryl Pope and Ionit Behar  RSVP in bio. Space is limited.

📷: 1. Installation view of Roger Brown: Weathervane, at GRAY Chicago; 2. Roger Brown, Couple Progressing Towards Mount Rincon, 1997. © The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brown Family; 3. Cheryl Pope, ALL THERE IS, 2025. Courtesy of moniquemeloche.

05/06/2026

TODAY | With a four-decade survey now on view at GRAY New York, Magdalena Abakanowicz is simultaneously being celebrated in the solo exhibition, Crossing Boundaries, opening today at the Helsinki Art Museum.

Crossing Boundaries, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Finland, spans the museum’s two grand arched halls: The first hall features Abakanowicz’s large woven sculptures, known as Abakans, alongside a selection of her early fiber pieces. The second hall presents her burlap sculptures, a body of work Abakanowicz began in the early 1970s.

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries will be on view at the Helsinki Art Museum from May 6 through August 30, 2026.

📷: 1-2. Installation views from the exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries. HAM Helsinki Art Museum 6.5.–30.8.2026. Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen; 3. Magdalena Abakanowicz: Turquoise Abakan, 1969 (detail). Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries. HAM Helsinki Art Museum 6.5.–30.8.2026. © National Museum in Warsaw. Photo: HAM / Maija Toivanen.

05/05/2026

NEWS | Thank you to Galerie Magazine for naming John Stezaker: Raft among their “8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in May.”

“Employing old film stills, publicity portraits of B-movie actors, and postcards from the 1920s to the 1950s, his work mainly involves manipulating vintage images, often through a single cut or juxtaposition to completely change the meaning of the original material,” Galerie’s Paul Laster describes. “Stezaker often rotates landscape photos 180 degrees, freeing them from their original context and transforming ordinary scenery into ‘otherworldly’ or ‘spectral’.” 
John Stezaker: Raft is on view at GRAY Chicago in the west gallery through June 13, 2026.

Pictured: 1-2. John Stezaker, Judgement, 2025; 3. Installation view of John Stezaker: Raft at GRAY Chicago; 4-5. John Stezaker, Raft, 2025.

05/01/2026

ON VIEW | Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin is now on view at GRAY New York (1018 Madison Ave).

Abakanowicz’s continuous inquiry into the human condition through her use of materials can be traced from her earliest work in burlap, natural sisal, and horse hair, to the bronze figurative sculptures made in the 1980s and ’90s. This lifelong material innovation formed the foundation of Abakanowicz’s poignant visual language, establishing her as a defining artistic voice of the postwar era.

On view through Jun 26, 2026. 
📷: Installation views of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin, at GRAY New York.

04/30/2026

ARTIST NEWS | Artist Theaster Gates and Prada unveil Chawan Cabinet, a project that emerges from a longstanding friendship between Gates and the brand, grounded in a shared sensibility for the intelligence of craft, cultural depth, the interiority of domestic and ceremonial space, and an enduring commitment to experimentation.

Designed by Gates, this project, which introduces the first-ever Prada Home retail environment, brings together a body of editioned works dissolving the boundary between art and object. Gates’ own wares extend an intimate dialogue with those crafted by a curated group of Japanese potters, teachers and friends of his: Taira Kuroki (Kyoto, Japan), Yuichi Hirano (Tokoname, Japan), Shion Tabata (Karuizawa, Japan), and Koichi Ohara (Tokoname, Japan).

Images courtesy of Prada.

Chawan Cabinet at Prada Home is open now at Via Montenapoleone 6 in Milan, Italy.

04/29/2026

TODAY | Today, GRAY New York celebrates the opening day of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin.   Next is our skin examines the evolution of Abakanowicz’s practice from the 1960s to 90s and her continuous inquiry into the human condition. Spending her formative years under N**i occupation and then Soviet control, Abakanowicz developed a perturbing artistic vocabulary outside the modernist binary of abstraction and representation, opting instead for the use of organic shapes and materials. Working first in burlap and later in bronze, Abakanowicz’s art represents the human struggle to maintain individuality against political and social oppression.  On view through Jun 26, 2026. 
Pictured: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Small Figure on Hexahedron, 1993. Burlap, resin and iron. Artwork © Fundacja Marty Magdaleny Abakanowicz Kosmowskiej I Jana Kosmowskiego, Warsaw.

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