Aicon Contemporary

Aicon Contemporary Aicon Contemporary is located in the heart of NoHo, Manhattan and specializes in South Asian art.

Join us at Aicon Contemporary on Friday, May 29th, for an artist walkthrough of Shape of Attention, followed by a conver...
05/23/2026

Join us at Aicon Contemporary on Friday, May 29th, for an artist walkthrough of Shape of Attention, followed by a conversation between artist Ashna Malik, curator Manya Kochhar, and collector Ahilya Mehta.

Bringing together three young women in the art ecosystem with distinct positionalities, yet deeply connected perspectives, the evening opens up a dialogue on attention, creating, collecting, exhibition-making, and the evolving relationships between artists, institutions, and audiences.

We are very excited to welcome Ashna and Ahilya to the gallery!

RSVP on link in bio.

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⏰ 6:30 pm

Edgeless Memory, Ahsan Memon’s second solo show is currently on view at Aicon Contemporary on 35 Great Jones Street.In t...
05/19/2026

Edgeless Memory, Ahsan Memon’s second solo show is currently on view at Aicon Contemporary on 35 Great Jones Street.

In this show, Memon extends the psychological terrain established in his earlier exhibition Shab, while shifting its emphasis from interiority as a closed condition toward something more porous, unstable, and continuously reforming. Where Shab held the viewer at a distance—its figures withdrawn, eyes closed, absorbed in private states— this new body of work loosens that enclosure. Memory, here, is not introspection alone; it is leakage.

Memon’s practice has long been rooted in figuration, but one that resists clarity. His portraits emerge through soft-focus handling and tonal diffusion, blurring the boundary between subject and ground. His figures often dissolve into their surroundings, producing a tension between recognition and obscurity. In Edgeless Memory, that dissolution becomes the central condition of the work. Faces no longer sit securely within the frame; they appear suspended, partially formed, or in the process of fading. Edges—of bodies, of features, of the pictorial field itself—refuse to hold.

On view: May 14th — June 13th, 2026
Tuesday — Saturday, 10:00 — 6:00

[Ahsan Memon, Aicon Contemporary, Contemporary Art, New York Gallery]

Happy Birthday to our artist Noor Alsuwaidi! We wish her an incredible year ahead, which is already on wheels. In the pa...
05/18/2026

Happy Birthday to our artist Noor Alsuwaidi! We wish her an incredible year ahead, which is already on wheels.

In the past month, Noor opened an institutional show at the Maraya Art Center entitled, "The Sky Forgets, the Heart Remembers" following which she showcased a completely new body of work at Art Dubai Special Edition 2026. This coming fall Noor will start her MFA in the U.S.

We are so excited for Noor, the journey ahead, and that we get to be a part of it.

Don't miss the last day of where our artist has an exceptional solo presentation on view!
05/17/2026

Don't miss the last day of where our artist has an exceptional solo presentation on view!

Thank you everyone for coming to the opening of Edgeless Memory by Ahsan Memon and Shape of Attention curated by Manya K...
05/15/2026

Thank you everyone for coming to the opening of Edgeless Memory by Ahsan Memon and Shape of Attention curated by Manya Kochhar!

The shows are now open and on view through June 13.

We are so excited to welcome you all to the gallery!

Aicon Contemporary is pleased to present a solo booth by Noor Al Suwaidi at Art Dubai’s Special Edition 2026. Noor Al Su...
05/13/2026

Aicon Contemporary is pleased to present a solo booth by Noor Al Suwaidi at Art Dubai’s Special Edition 2026.

Noor Al Suwaidi’s solo presentation with Aicon Contemporary at Art Dubai marks a decisive new chapter in the artist’s evolving visual language. Created specifically for the fair, the booth brings together two monumental canvases and a suite of twelve intimate works on paper, revealing a striking shift in both palette and emotional register.

This presentation arrives on the heels of Al Suwaidi’s acclaimed recent solo exhibition at Maraya Art Centre, a significant moment in her artistic trajectory that reaffirmed her position as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Emirati art.

Join us for the VIP opening May 14th 2026 at Madinat Jumeirah.

Booth A14.

Next week we invite you to attend the opening reception for Edgeless Memory, Ahsan Memon’s second solo exhibition at the...
05/09/2026

Next week we invite you to attend the opening reception for Edgeless Memory, Ahsan Memon’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Ahsan Memon’s (b. 1989, Lahore) moody portraits capture the emotional atmosphere surrounding his subjects, allowing the rich use of color to blur the boundary between figure and background. Finding both a sense of depth and ambiguity in the soft focus of his figures, Memon’s work reflects both spiritual and psychological biography through a refusal of certainty. His paintings are not concerned with the material world or one conceptual goal, but rather depict an abundance of interiority and psychological depth.

He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2016, and went on to complete his Master of Arts from the same institution in 2019. Notable exhibitions featuring his art include Witness, a prominent display as part of Karachi Biennale 01 in 2017; Cross Borders at the Swiss Ambassador’s Residence in Islamabad in 2018; and A Site for Sight, an event of the Lahore Biennale 02 in 2019. He has also participated in several art residencies including the ISL Art Residency and the Pioneer Art Residency, both curated by the renowned Canvas Gallery in Karachi in 2017. Memon was featured by Aicon Contemporary at India Art Fair 2024.

He lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan.

May 14th, 2026, 6-8pm.
Aicon Contemporary
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY, 10012

The last artist we would like to introduce as part of Shape of Attention is Smitha Shajith (b. 1981, Kerala). Her presen...
05/09/2026

The last artist we would like to introduce as part of Shape of Attention is Smitha Shajith (b. 1981, Kerala). Her presentation at Aspinwall, at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2025-26 was a stand out one. The strong reception to her works was followed by a solo show at Vadehra Art Gallery. Shape of Attention at Aicon Contemporary marks Shajith’s first ever exhibition in the United States. 

Shajith’s paintings treat space not as backdrop but as a breathing, sentient presence — a stage on which memory and lived experience take up residence. Returning repeatedly to the terrains of her past, her canvases become vessels for reviving early memories and quietly reassembling the fragments of a life. Within these landscapes, objects and figures emerge as performers: moving across the surface in response to one another through rhythm, gesture, and poise, bound by an enduring sense of kinship and communal joy. Nature no longer remains a backdrop but is an actor and fluid performer in Shajith’s dance of life.

The geography of her homeland — its lush greenery, the weight of labor, childhood nostalgia all coexist on a single plane.

She studied painting at the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Her work has been presented in a range of exhibitions and contexts, including her solo project Pakkalam at the Durbar Hall Art Gallery in Kochi, which combined painting and performance, as well as presentations at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2026). 

Shape of Attention, curated by Manya Kochhar features 10 artists: Maithili Chaturvedi, Abhimanue Govindan, Chaturika Jayani, Shivangi Kalra, Smita M. Babu, Ashna Malik, Harsh Nambiar, Gayan Prageeth, Aditya Puthur, Arinjoy Sen.

Please join us for the opening reception on 14th May, 2026, 6-8 pm at:
Aicon Contemporary
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY, 10012

We are so pleased to announce Arinjoy Sen's (b. 1996, Kolkata, India) participation in our upcoming show. Sen's celebrat...
05/07/2026

We are so pleased to announce Arinjoy Sen's (b. 1996, Kolkata, India) participation in our upcoming show.

Sen's celebrated work,”Bengali Song” has been shown across international institutions and further collected. He will make his USA gallery debut in Shape of Attention at Aicon Contemporary.

His piece 'Tale of Manasa’ which features in the show, extends beyond myth into a meditation on migration and displacement, where the narrative of the serpent goddess becomes entangled with contemporary experiences of movement across geographies. He digitally draws the stories which are then printed on silk and kantha embroidered by SHE Kantha, a women’s led NGO focused towards the revival of kantha. 

Figures, motifs, and gestures appear to emerge and recede, resisting linear narration and instead inviting a cyclical, attentive mode of viewing. In his work, attention moves between detail and totality, mirroring the way oral and visual traditions carry and transform stories over time.

His digitally driven drawings that take inspiration from Bengali scroll paintings, act as interventions into the genre of painting and push the boundaries of what it can comprise of. 

Sen’s work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where it was acquired for the permanent collection (2024–25); the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2025); La Biennale di Venezia (2023); the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2023); the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (2024); and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2023), among others. 

His work has been covered by the Guardian, the Observer, Dezeen, e-flux, and Wallpaper*, and his writing has appeared in the Architectural Review, the Funambulist, and the RIBA Journal.

Sen is based in London, United Kingdom.

Shape of Attention, curated by Manya Kochhar features 10 artists: Maithili Chaturvedi, Abhimanue Govindan, Chaturika Jayani, Shivangi Kalra, Smita M. Babu, Ashna Malik, Harsh Nambiar, Gayan Prageeth, Aditya Puthur, Arinjoy Sen.

Please join us for the opening reception on 14th May, 2026 at
Aicon Contemporary
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY, 10012

We are so pleased to announce the participation of Aditya Puthur (b. 1991, Ambernath, India) in Shape of Attention whic...
05/05/2026

We are so pleased to announce the participation of Aditya Puthur (b. 1991, Ambernath, India) in Shape of Attention which opens on May 14th, 2026.

Puthur was most recently part of the 6th edition of the prestigious Kochi Muziris Biennale (2025–26). He will make his debut in the United States with Shape of Attention. 

Aditya Puthur’s paintings occupy a charged space between beauty and unease, where haunting, almost spectral imagery emerges through layers of richly worked paint. His compositions often suggest distorted figures, shadowy presences, or ambiguous forms that feel on the verge of recognition, creating a quiet but persistent tension. Executed with a virtuoso command of the medium, his surfaces shift between precise control and expressive freedom, revealing a deep sensitivity to texture, light, and atmosphere. The result is work that is both technically masterful and psychologically resonant, drawing viewers into scenes that feel at once unsettling and strangely compelling.

He completed his Government Diploma in Art from the L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai (2014), and his Post Diploma in Painting from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2016). His practice has been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the Art Incept Grant (2024), the Experimenter Generator Grant (2021), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2017), the Young Artist Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture (2017), and the Nasreen Mohamedi Award (2016). His solo exhibitions include The Place Called Body at Anant Art Gallery, Noida (2023), and Unweaving the Rainbow at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara (2020).

Shape of Attention, curated by Manya Kochhar features 10 artists: Maithili Chaturvedi, Abhimanue Govindan, Chaturika Jayani, Shivangi Kalra, Smita M. Babu, Ashna Malik, Harsh Nambiar, Gayan Prageeth, Aditya Puthur, Arinjoy Sen.

Please join us for the opening reception on 14th May, 2026, 6 pm at:
Aicon Contemporary
35 Great Jones Street
New York, NY, 10012

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