81 Leonard Gallery

81 Leonard Gallery An artist-run space, exhibiting emerging to established artist. The awareness towards under-represented and marginalized artist is the predominant focus.

Projects will incorporate paintings, sculpture, drawings, installation art, and interactive art.

Heading to Philly tomorrow for .fair! We will be exhibiting paintings on plexiglass and a site-specific sculptural insta...
06/02/2026

Heading to Philly tomorrow for .fair! We will be exhibiting paintings on plexiglass and a site-specific sculptural installation by

đź”— link in bio for fair info & passes!

(Clockwise) Tile D, C, B, A
Acrylic on plexiglass
24 x 24 in each

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Please join us next Thursday, June 11th for the opening of Multiple Fiefdoms, curated by ! To claim a fiefdom is to cont...
06/01/2026

Please join us next Thursday, June 11th for the opening of Multiple Fiefdoms, curated by !

To claim a fiefdom is to control or hold power over something. In modern times, the word extends beyond its traditional medieval roots of land and property and takes on a more abstracted connotation. Your fiefdom is whatever you are the lord of, whatever you hold sway over. Multiple Fiefdoms draws together the work of six visual artists, working across many mediums, whose practices claim many domains, and refuse to sit in a single category. 

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Last few days of come closer! Open today and tomorrow 12-6 Muscle, 2026Oil on quilted canvas, stainless steel20 x 16 in📸...
05/29/2026

Last few days of come closer! Open today and tomorrow 12-6


Muscle, 2026
Oil on quilted canvas, stainless steel
20 x 16 in

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05/28/2026

discusses their work in come closer, on view through this Saturday the 30th!

Touch Me Tenderly, 2021
Acrylic, wool, cotton on poly-cotton cloth
24 x 48 in

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’s sculptures and textiles highlight the specificity and personality embedded in everyday acts of adornment, gathering t...
05/26/2026

’s sculptures and textiles highlight the specificity and personality embedded in everyday acts of adornment, gathering these forms into a collective constellation. Together, they evoke the salon as both workplace and gathering space, a hub of immigrant labor where intimacy, creativity, and mutual care unfold in small, tactile gestures. 

Urideul, 2025
Fabric, embellishments
Dimensions variable

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’ mixed media work looks to the infrastructures of care in the realm of medical experience. Using hard-edge geometric ab...
05/20/2026

’ mixed media work looks to the infrastructures of care in the realm of medical experience. Using hard-edge geometric abstraction, a palette drawn from the colors of their daily medications, and metal plaques that evoke institutional language and doctor’s office nameplates, Benus considers how medical systems structure intimacy, dependency, and the expectations placed on the “good patient.” By slowing down the visual rhythms of routine care, their work dwells on the complex boundary between imposed structures and chosen forms of closeness.

The Four: The Wise One, The Contrarian, The Simple One, The One Who Does Not Know How to Ask, 2026
Acrylic on canvas and metal wall plaques
24 x 72 in

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’s oil paintings portray the South Florida Swap Shop at daybreak, capturing a community in the charged moment of a new d...
05/18/2026

’s oil paintings portray the South Florida Swap Shop at daybreak, capturing a community in the charged moment of a new day’s beginning. Bathed in sunrise, the portraits and scenes carry a quiet exuberance, an atmosphere shaped by the rhythms of immigrant labor and the rituals that anchor the Swap Shop’s social world. Franco’s luminous palette and attentive regard for her subjects transform the market into a site of shared vitality and possibility. 

Tienda Familiar, 2025
Oil on canvas
48 x 35.5 in

With oil painting on quilted canvas, turns her attention inward, exploring the body as a site of reflection and porous ...
05/15/2026

With oil painting on quilted canvas, turns her attention inward, exploring the body as a site of reflection and porous exchange. Isolated vignettes and drawings behind doors surface like fleeting impressions calling for further inspection or thought. Her work reveals an interior register of relation, one that mirrors the exhibition’s broader attention to how experience is held, shared, and cared for.

On view in come closer through May 30th

Bring Your Attention, 2026
Oil on quilted canvas, stainless steel, polystyrene, cotton paper, graphite, glue
39.5 x 19.5 in

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is in full swing! Find us in booth R2 ft. , , , & Open today 12-8Friday 12-7Saturday 12-6đź”— link in bio for 25% off tic...
05/14/2026

is in full swing!

Find us in booth R2 ft. , , , &

Open today 12-8
Friday 12-7
Saturday 12-6

đź”— link in bio for 25% off tickets

Introducing !Woomin Kim is a South Korean artist currently based in Queens, NY. Through her textile and sculptural proje...
05/12/2026

Introducing !

Woomin Kim is a South Korean artist currently based in Queens, NY. Through her textile and sculptural projects, she examines the active materiality of daily objects and urban landscapes. Kim has participated in exhibitions and residencies at the Queens Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Art Omi and Boston Children’s Museum. Kim has received fellowships and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Noguchi Museum and Korean Cultural Foundation. Her works have been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz and BOMB Magazine. Kim holds a B.F.A from Seoul National University and received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sohn, 2026
Wood, acrylic paint, press-on nail tips, gel nail polish
Dimensions variable

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81 Leonard Street
New York, NY
10013

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Monday 12pm - 6pm
Tuesday 12pm - 6pm
Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm

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