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Emil Alzamora: Dulce Compañía (Sweet Company)
225 West 17th Street 14 Nov 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Emil Alzamora: Dulce Compañía (Sweet Company). Presented concurrently with his solo museum exhibition Starship Abundance at MOCA Jacksonville, Alzamora’s New York exhibition features larger than life naturalistic figurative sculptures which recast histories and are both psychologically compelling and thrilling while simultaneously imbued with... Read more -
Paul Paiement: Nexus 2.0.1
251 West 19th Street 10 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is thrilled to present NEXUS 2.0.1: Contemporary Landscape Paintings by Paul Paiement. Paiement’s Nexus series of acrylic on wood panel paintings is his second significant body of work spanning over his 30-year career. As in his Hybrids series of paintings, Nexus explores humanity’s interaction in the natural... Read more -
Ray Smith: Nepantla (Extended)
225 West 17th Street 19 Sep 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 It is with privilege and great honor which Ethan Cohen Gallery announces Ray Smith: Nepantla, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. At a juncture of polarizing identity politics, Smith’s exhibition is particularly poignant not only in its monumentality and virtuosity but also in the sensitivity he brings to... Read more -
Yigal Ozeri: The Truth of a Portrait
211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY 19 Oct 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 BEACON, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Yigal Ozeri: The Truth of a Portrait. This year Americans will head to the polls to cast their vote in one of the most crucial elections to date. The Truth of a Portrait represents elected officials and individuals who have... Read more -
Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments
Beacon, NY 19 Jul 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments, taking place from July 19 – September 28, 2024. Emil Alzamora sculpts the human form, distilling it to its purest elements with an almost refined essence. These emotionally charged works, elongated and lacking identifiable... Read more -
Swimming in October
251 West 19th Street 10 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 NEW YORK – Ethan Cohen Gallery is proud to announce Swimming in October, a dynamic group exhibition that showcases a compelling mix of paintings and sculptures by both emerging and established contemporary artists from around the world. The exhibition features work by Aboudia, Yigal Ozeri, Thomas Deininger, Emil Alzamora, Ray... Read more -
Frank Hyder: An Amazon Tale
211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY 19 Oct 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 BEACON, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Frank Hyder: An Amazon Tale. Painted after living and engaging with art in Venezuela between 1990 and 2000, Frank Hyder’s, An Amazon Tale displays seven acrylic paintings carved into wood depicting Amazonian portraits and landscapes.... Read more -
Deb Lucke: The Year of the Rat
211 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY 19 Oct 2024 - 20 Jan 2025 BEACON, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Deb Lucke: The Year of the Rat. Influenced by Daumier and the eighteenth-century British cartoonists Gillray and Cruikshank, Deb Lucke casts her eye on contemporary US politics. In a series of loosely drawn graphic images... Read more
Past
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Out of Africa: Seminal Works Of Contemporary Africa And Its Diaspora
Beacon, NY 19 Jul - 12 Oct 2024 BEACON, NY – As part of its ongoing mission to promote world-class visual arts programming, Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is proud to present Out of Africa: Seminal Works Of Contemporary Africa And Its Diaspora. The exhibition will be on view in Beacon, New York at The... Read more -
ARTHAUS
Basel, Switzerland 10 - 17 Jun 2024 ARTHAUS is a collaborative exhibition project located in a 14th-century 5-story house in Basel, Switzerland taking place during Art Basel week. The spaces are curated by different galleries and institutions, transforming the house into a dynamic showcase of contemporary art, and offering viewers a multi-story, immersive art experience. Taking place... Read more -
HRH Prince Nikolaos: NOSTOS
New York, 225 W 17th Street 5 Jun - 17 Jul 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present NOSTOS, HRH Prince Nikolaos’s first solo exhibition in New York, curated by Marilena Koutsoukou. NOSTOS showcases a fusion of ethereal photography and luminous marble. The artist embeds abstract and elemental images onto marble, beckoning observers to dwell in the ephemeral realm between the... Read more -
Wang Hou Tang: Kung Fu Ink
Beacon, NY 1 - 30 Jun 2024 BEACON, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Wang Hou Tang: Kung Fu Ink, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The act of creating Chinese calligraphy occupies two dimensions of art, the kinetic and the pictorial. A dance of brushwork releases... Read more -
Aboudia Studio New York
New York, NY – 225 West 17th Street 10 - 25 May 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Aboudia's latest solo exhibition, showcasing artworks created during his residency at Ethan Cohen’s new gallery location at 225 W 17th Street. Stepping into the gallery, visitors will be able to experience Aboudia's studio, gaining an immersive insight into his artistic process. Alongside his... Read more -
Sherry Kerlin: A Small Dog’s Secret Life as an Abstract Expressionist
New York, NY 14 Mar - 4 May 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce A Small Dog’s Secret Life as an Abstract Expressionist, Sherry Kerlin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Read more -
Kine Aw: Secrets de femmes
New York, NY 14 Mar - 4 May 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce Secrets de femmes, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Kine Aw, a celebrated Senegalese artist whose work transcends traditional boundaries, blending the rich cultural heritage of Senegal with contemporary artistic expression. Aw’s paintings and drawings explore themes of identity, community and the power... Read more -
Dialogos: HRH Prince Nikolaos
Palm Beach, FL 24 - 28 Jan 2024 Ethan Cohen is pleased to present Dialogos by HRH Prince Nikolaos , curated by Marilena Koutsoukou & Ethan Cohen, a special exhibition for Art Palm Beach, taking place January 24 – 28 th , 2024. Dialogos showcases a fusion of ethereal photographs and luminous marble. The artist digitally imprints abstract... Read more -
Gerardo Castro: Santo Gerardo
New York, NY 18 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Santo Gerardo, a solo exhibition by Gerardo Castro, an Afro-Caribbean artist whose artwork questions and expands beyond conventional societal and religious structures, creating portraits of both real and imaginary saints to look up to and watch over the marginalized. In re-imagining these structures... Read more -
PUBLIC POOL presents His Cum Tastes Like Caviar
Brooklyn, NY 1 - 16 Dec 2023 Public Pool is excited to announce His Cum Taste Like Caviar, a solo exhibition of Jeffrey Hargrave’s drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks, presenting an intimate visual diary of Hargrave’s inner world. Jeffrey Hargrave’s art practice involves reimagining the canon of art history in the context of sexuality, identity, and today's fraught... Read more -
Back to School Art Festival
Beacon, NY 3 Nov 2023 - 18 May 2024 Artists’ takeover the Old Beacon High School’s KuBe Art Center Imagine the high school experience you wished you’d had. No homework, no grades, no bullies, just art. Acclaimed curator Ethan Cohen and renowned pop artist Ron English have co-curated Back to School at the KuBe Art Center. Explore subjects like... Read more -
Jeffrey Hargrave: Black Olympia
New York, NY 18 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Black Olympia, Jeffrey Hargrave's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. With a profoundly resonant intentionality Jeffrey Hargrave selects one of Western culture's most celebrated art historical images to explore, subvert, and resurrect. His variations on the theme of Manet's 'Olympia' aim to rediscover... Read more -
PUBLIC POOL presents Vinyl Chord: A Revolutionary Record Store
Brooklyn, NY 16 Sep - 1 Oct 2023 Public Pool is pleased to present Vinyl Chord: A Revolutionary Record Store with the Godfather of Street Art, Ron English , in which English remixes and remakes the most iconic album covers of the last fifty years. The reimagined album covers will be presented as 12 x 12 inch prints,... Read more -
Aboudia x Picasso x Paik x Tribal
New York, NY 8 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Aboudia x Picasso x Paik x Tribal, a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the profound dialogue between the works of Aboudia, Pablo Picasso, and Nam June Paik, and sheds light on the impact of traditional African art on each artist’s respective practice. This exhibition... Read more -
Thomas Martinez Pilnik at KuBe Art Center for Upstate Art Weekend
Beacon, NY 22 - 23 Jul 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is excited to present a live clay build performance by Thomas Martinez Pilnik titled (Te) Achei (I Found (You)). Thomas Martinez Pilnik will construct a 400lb terracotta sculpture during a one-day performance for Upstate Art Weekend. Using the iconography of an ashtray,... Read more -
Natalie White: The Last Shot
Beacon, NY 21 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of large format polaroids by Natalie White at The KuBe Art Center. Read more -
Icons: Portraits by Rafael Fuchs
Beacon, NY 21 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Icons, a solo exhibition of large format photographs by Rafael Fuchs. Icons: Portraits by Rafael Fuchs is a presentation of select works from Fuchs’ vast archive of legends and influential figures from the last 30 years. Ranging from... Read more -
Basmat Levin: Colorful Immersions
Beacon, NY 21 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Basmat Levin, with an immersive installation covered from floor to ceiling in Basmat’s beautiful, vibrant pattern and ornamentation. This installation completely immerses the viewer in the vivacious, color-soaked world of Basmat’s consciousness.... Read more -
Anthony Haden-Guest: Drawings and Words
Beacon, NY 21 Jul - 18 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Drawings and Words, a solo exhibition of Anthony Haden–Guest’s whimsical cartoon drawings. This captivating showcase promises to enchant visitors with a kaleidoscope of imagination, humor, and artistic brilliance. Foreword by Anthony Haden Guest Cartoonery and making... Read more -
Margaret Innerhofer: Shadowland
Beacon, NY 13 May - 1 Oct 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to announce Shadowland, a solo exhibition for multi-media artist Margaret Innerhofer. Margaret Innerhofer presents three new series of works in Shadowland titled Sandmen, Heavy Metal, and Deconstr-Activist. Read more -
Aboudia: Under the African Sun | A Retrospective (2006 – 2022)
Beacon, NY 13 May - 16 Jul 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Aboudia. Representing over a decade of Aboudia’s practice as a graffiti artist and painter, the retrospective encompasses large scale paintings, collages, and drawings, from 2006 through 2022. Aboudia first gained acclaim... Read more -
A Fine Line: Graffiti and the Power of Dissent
Beacon, NY 13 May - 27 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center are pleased to present a summer group exhibition, A Fine Line: Graffiti and the Power of Dissent, curated by Joseph Ayers and Ethan Cohen. The exhibition presents artists who use the power of line and gesture in their work to convey messages... Read more -
Sunil Garg | In the Glass House
Beacon, NY 13 May - 27 Aug 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Sunil Garg's light installations in the Glass House and Sculpture Garden. Garg is a contemporary artist who both sculpts and paints with light, reflection, movement and shadows. His large scale installations explore intersections between the natural environment, colonialism... Read more -
Innocent Nkurunziza: From Rwanda with Love
New York 27 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce From Rwanda with Love, Innocent Nkurunziza’s first solo exhibition in New York. Innocent Nkurunziza is a leading African artist who has helped the world reimagine his country of Rwanda evolving away from tragedy to creativity - both through his own artworks and through... Read more -
Turkey–Syria Earthquake Relief: Benefit Auction 2023
On view March 30 – April 1 28 Mar - 11 Apr 2023 Artsy, Ethan Cohen Gallery and Elma (artist-run initiative), are pleased to announce the Turkey + Syria Earthquake Relief Benefit Auction to aid earthquake relief efforts. Over eighty global artists have generously donated artworks to support Turkish Philanthropy Funds and Open Arms to help those in immediate and long-term need. Artsy... Read more -
Anna Navasardian: Cry, Rage, Paint
9 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Cry, Rage, Paint, its first solo exhibition of Anna Navasardian, which will take place February 9 – March 18, 2023. Take the peak moment when the Modernists launched their innovations, before abstraction or examinations of pure form, draw a line to the present... Read more -
Aboudia: Selected Works on Paper
KuBe Art Center (Beacon, NY) 4 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Aboudia's selected works on paper. Aboudia's multi-layered paintings offer a simultaneity of images and meanings that conduct a continuous discourse with each other and with the viewer. In any glance Aboudia takes the viewer's... Read more -
N’Dorah | Braid and Weft: Twisting Codes of Beauty and Desire
18 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Braid and Weft: Twisting Codes of Beauty and Desire, N’Dorah’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Cameroonian of origin and in multiple vectors a veteran of the Parisian creative scene, N'Dorah crafts eloquently mimetic full-size objects out of human and artificial hair.... Read more -
Edwin Schlossberg: Diaries
8 Oct 2022 - 1 Jan 2023 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Diaries, its third solo exhibition of Edwin Schlossberg’s work. Edwin Schlossberg is an artist and poet whose art practice carries the written word into the realm of visual art. This exhibition showcases five works from Schlossberg’s Diaries series that he created in 2020.... Read more -
Mina Cheon: North South Korea Koreas
1 Oct - 31 Dec 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present a solo show by Mina Cheon (aka Kim Il Soon): North South Korea Koreas: AI Intervention. With this series of work, Kim Il Soon uses machine learning and AI to create a sequence of canvases depicting landscapes of... Read more -
The Secret History of Beacon Bigfoot
6 Aug - 1 Dec 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present A Ron English Adventure: The Secret History of Beacon Bigfoot, a solo exhibition at the KuBe Art Center in Beacon, NY. Bigfoot sightings are common in the Hudson Valley, but belief can be elusive. Artist Ron English moved to Beacon, New York, in... Read more -
Armand Boua: Everything's Alright
28 Jun - 15 Oct 2022 Born in 1978, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Armand Boua’s work explores the poignant adversity of the human condition through his primary subject of interest—the children populating the streets of his birthplace and current residence. Abidjan, the country’s urban center and one of Africa’s fastest growing metropoles, is at the forefront... Read more -
Birds of a Feather
A Group Exhibition Curated by Joseph Ayers and Ethan Cohen 4 Jun - 31 Dec 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Birds of a Feather, a group exhibition of over eighty artists that will be on view from June 4th through July 31st, 2022. This exhibition showcases works by artists living and working in Beacon and beyond, alongside works by artists from around the world who are part of Ethan Cohen Gallery’s global program. Read more -
Under the African Sun
4 Jun - 31 Dec 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition showcasing works by over twenty contemporary African and African American artists who are inspired by African artistic traditions with diverse approaches in their individual art practices. Under the African Sun showcases significant voices that are contributing to the global dialogue... Read more -
The Human Body: Dialogue with Nature
Gan Yu & Jim Peters 4 Jun - 31 Jul 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present The Human Body: Dialogue with Nature, a dual exhibition showcasing the works of Gan Yu and Jim Peters, both of whom have created an extensive body of work observing the nude body. While the artists share a common subject matter, Yu and Peters'... Read more -
Mile Saula
4 Jun - 30 Oct 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Mile Saula's first solo exhibition in the United States. Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1970, Saula Mile is a painter with a unique vision and a heightened sensibility for lyricism. Mile expresses his investigation into the unconscious mind through the highly layered abstraction that he gradually builds in his deployment of contours, figures, and mystical phenomena beyond the visible world. Read more -
Emil Alzamora in the Glass house
4 Jun - 31 Dec 2022 Read more -
Volta New York 2022
18 - 22 May 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at Volta New York 2022 featuring Aboudia, Armand Boua, Catheris Mondombo, exonemo, Gonçalo Mabunda, Jeffery Hargrave, and Thomas Deininger. ABOUDIA 1983 born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Aboudia's multi-layered paintings offer simultaneityof images and meanings that conduct a continuous discourse with each... Read more -
Yin Mei: Living Line
6 May - 18 Jun 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Living Line, the first solo exhibition by Yin Mei, the celebrated female Chinese artist based in New York. Yin Mei's years-long practice as a renowned dancer and choreographer, the personification of channeled life-force, informs the expressionist dance of abstraction transmitted to the painting ground. Read more -
Realism Today
29 Apr - 22 May 2022 Read more -
Aleksandr Razin: Sawdust Body / The Zoo
9 Apr - 22 May 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of Aleksandr Razin, entitled Sawdust Body / The Zoo will be on view April 9 – May 22, 2022, Fridays through Sundays 12 – 6 pm, by appointment. Aleksandr Razin is a conceptual artist who creates site-specific installations using... Read more -
Focus: Armand Boua
9 Apr - 29 May 2022 Now Open: Focus: Armand Boua April 9 – May 29, 2022 211 Fishkill Ave, Beacon, NY Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present a focus exhibition of Armand Boua’s works, in anticipation for the Venice Biennale where he will be representing the Ivory Coast in 2022. Armand Boua deals with... Read more -
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: l'artiste expose ses oeuvres
31 Mar - 15 Jul 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the world-renowned African Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923 – 2014). Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA, calls Bouabre “one of the most accomplished African artists of the last century”. Read more -
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré at Ethan Cohen Gallery
1 Mar - 1 Aug 2022 Simultaneously with the Museum of Modern Art, Ethan Cohen Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the world-renowned African Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923 – 2014). Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA, calls Bouabré “one of the most accomplished African artists of the last century” in the introduction to the... Read more -
Jeffrey Hargrave: Afro-Matisse
17 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is proud to present Afro-Matisse, a solo exhibition of Jeffrey Hargrave. The show features 21 paintings and drawings by Hargrave that insert black characters into art history. Read more -
Catheris Mondombo: Faces of Kinshasa
16 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is proud to announce Faces of Kinshasa, Catheris Mondombo’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Faces of Kinshasa features 10 of Mondombo’s artworks that stitch together abstracted portraits of people and life in Kinshasa, Congo. Catheris Mondombo creates haunted, powerful Congolese portraits with the fusion of... Read more -
Ethan Cohen Gallery Los Angeles
16 - 23 Feb 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is delighted to announce its inaugural exhibition in Los Angeles. Our show, Reality Check, features a selection of seven top artists who embody the gallery's commitment to critical global issues. Read more -
The Last Word
18 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 The end is nigh… of 2021. 2021: A year of expansion, contraction, and expansion yet again. Hope, disappointment, mayhem, growth, love, heartbreak, health, death, and new life all coexisting in a vast and unpredictable present. Uncertainty and anxiety continue to be at the forefront of our personal collective experience, though... Read more -
Aboudia: Nouchi Graffiti
259 W 19th St 9 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Aboudia: Nouchi Graffiti, its sixth solo exhibition of Aboudia’s works, which will take place at Ethan Cohen Annex on 259 West 19th Street, from December 9 through January 8. Nouchi Graffiti pairs new large paintings with select masterful works from 2016. Abdoulaye Diarrassouba... Read more -
Contemporary Portrature: Artist as Subject
KuBe Art Center 23 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 BEACON, NY – The KuBe Art Center and Monira Foundation are proud to present Contemporary Portraiture: “Artist As Subject,” a significant exhibition with the participation of a number of prominent collections. On view at the KuBe Art Center October 23 – November 21, 2021, Artist as Subject is an exhibition... Read more -
Edwin Schlossberg: Once Upon a Time When Everyone Was Conscious
251 & 259 W 19th St 14 Oct - 11 Dec 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Once Upon A Time When Everyone Was Conscious , its first solo exhibition of Edwin Schlossberg’s work. Edwin Schlossberg is an artist and poet whose art practice carries the written word into the realm of visual art. This exhibition showcases recent paintings and... Read more -
Claudia Coca: Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion
251 W 19th St 9 Sep - 11 Oct 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion, the first New York solo exhibition of the leading Peruvian artist Claudia Coca . Coca’s work provokes critical reflection on contemporary political and cultural issues surrounding colonialism, race, gender, and citizenship. Claudia Coca is a Peruvian artist whose... Read more -
Some Things Never Grow Back: Raul de Lara in the Glass House
211 Fishkill Ave 27 Aug - 30 Oct 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Some Things Never Grow Back, a solo exhibition by Raul De Lara – on view at the Glass House at the KuBe Art Center from August 27, 2021, to October 30, 2021. Some Things Never Grow Back is an exhibition showcasing six new... Read more -
Edwin Schlossberg: I Looked Out The Window
211 Fishkill Ave 27 Aug - 15 Dec 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present I Looked Out The Window, its first solo exhibition of Edwin Schlossberg’s work. Edwin Schlossberg is an artist and poet whose art practice carries the written word into the realm of visual art. This exhibition showcases five works from Schlossberg’s From Here series... Read more -
Basmat Levin: Total Immersion
211 Fishkill Ave 27 Aug 2021 - 31 Dec 2022 than Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Total Immersion , a solo installation by Basmat Levin on view at the KuBe Art Center from August 27th to December 15th, 2021. Featuring seven original works installed in a room covered from floor to ceiling in Basmat’s beautiful, vibrant pattern and ornamentation,... Read more -
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION: NEW APPROACHES TO REALISM
211 Fishkill Ave 27 Aug - 15 Dec 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present The Doors of Perception: New Approaches to Realism, a group exhibition featuring the works of 29 contemporary artists who excel at translating their perception of the world to the viewer through their art practice. Each artist has a unique approach, technique and chosen... Read more -
Africa on my Mind: Aboudia, The Dinka, and the Gogo
251 W 19th St 26 Jun - 21 Jul 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Africa on my Mind: Aboudia, The Dinka and The Gogo, an exhibition showcasing Aboudia’s new Nouchi Graffiti Grêle paintings in tandem with original tribal sculptures from Tanzania’s Gogo people, and South Sudan's Dinka people dating to the early 20th century. This educative intergrouping... Read more -
Yes Jim Peters
251 W 19th St 22 Apr - 19 Jun 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery presents Yes Jim Peters, a solo show by one of the rare leading painters of our time. In 1985 he was featured by the Guggenheim as a top young artist of the time. Since then he has appeared in numerous museum exhibitions and has been reviewed by... Read more -
Neo-Japonisme: Ukiyo-e, Afro-Ukiyo-e and Action-Ukiyo-e
251 W 19th St 23 Mar - 13 Apr 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Neo-Japonisme | Ukiyo-e, Afro-Ukiyo-e, and Action-Ukiyo-e (1858-2021) . This exhibition presents 19th century ukiyo-e prints, rare hanshita-e (line block drawings) alongside contemporary works on paper inspired by the tradition of ukiyo-e by Japanese action artist Ushio Shinohara and African American artist Jeffrey Hargrave.... Read more -
American Dreams
251 W 19th St 18 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present American Dreams. This exhibition is a visual metaphor for the ideal of the American Dream that we Americans strive to embrace. This idea of unity, liberty, opportunity, equality, belonging, peace, and a better life for all regardless of our backgrounds, is the essence... Read more -
MINA CHEON AKA KIM IL SOON
Dreaming Unification : Protest Peace 10 Dec 2020 - 25 Feb 2021 Ethan Cohen Gallery is honored to present Mina Cheon aka Kim Il Soon’s solo exhibition “Dreaming Unification : Protest Peace.” As we face our challenging times with the coronavirus pandemic and a stressful post-election, our countries remain divided. Today’s resounding words from the US President-elect Joe Biden are “not to... Read more -
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a time of Uncertainty
1 Nov 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 What do Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937), Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project (1994-98), Teresa Serrano’s Amapola (2017), and Yoko Ono’s Dream Together (2020) have in common? They individually focus on traumatic events such as, respectively, the bombing of a Spanish city, genocide in Rwanda, drug wars and femicide in a Mexican city... Read more -
Raul de Lara: I Wake Up In a Foreign Country Every Day
251 W 19th St 3 Sep - 28 Nov 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Raul De Lara: I Wake Up In A Foreign Country Every Day, the first New York solo exhibition of the artist’s work. Read more -
Abstraction, Tradition, Time, and Totems
A Group Exhibition 3 Sep - 28 Nov 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Abstraction, Tradition, Totems, and Time, its first group exhibition of the fall 2020 season. This exhibition features works from variegated artists from diverse backgrounds, brought together by the themes of abstraction, tradition, the passage of time, the spirit of the object, and more... Read more -
Afrique Nouvelle Vague: Bullets, Fetishes, Paintings, Graffiti,...
251 W 19th St 5 Mar - 16 Jun 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Afrique Nouvelle Vague: Bullets, Fetishes, Paintings, Graffiti,..., a group exhibition of works by significant contemporary artists from the African continent. The exhibition weaves together works by Aboudia, Gonçalo Mabunda, Moffat Takadiwa, Òmó Oba Adetomiwa Gbadebo, Soly Cissé, Wycliffe Mundopa, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, Malick... Read more -
VARIATIONS IN LINE: From Baltimore to Beijing, to Abidjan, and Back to New York
251 W 19th St 23 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 ABOUDIA 1983 born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Aboudia's multi-layered paintings offer a simultaneity of images and meanings that conduct a continuous discourse with each other and with the viewer. In any glance, the eye takes in one or another layer which is soon overcome by the next. We are aware... Read more -
Akito Nara: Ikiru wo Egaku
251 W 19th St 23 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Akito Nara’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, entitled Ikiru wo Egaku (Painting is Living/Living is Painting). The show highlights Nara’s body of work made between 2015 and 2020 where the artist weaves together kaleidoscopic images of abstracted portraits and self-portraits that illustrate... Read more -
Tony Shore
Blue-Collar Baltimore: New American Realism 17 Oct - 16 Nov 2019 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Tony Shore’s first major solo exhibition in New York City, titled Blue-Collar Baltimore: New American Realism . The show encompasses the Baltimore-based artist’s body of work created between 2005 and 2019 that documents working-class American life. Tony Shore’s upbringing in a working-class neighborhood... Read more -
Double X
27 Jun - 22 Aug 2019 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Double X , a group exhibition of fourteen female artists with distinct artistic practices. Bringing together female artists from variegated cultural backgrounds and ages, Double X seeks to analyze gendered categorizations and initiate a conversation regarding female representation in art and the world... Read more -
Fears of Art
Virtual Reality Walk-Through via EAZEL 7 Mar - 10 May 2019 Link to Eazel Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Fears of Art that explores the ways in which artists from around the world work through and react to the fears and worries that permeate each of our lives. The exhibition will include artists from various cultural... Read more -
Belkis Balpinar: Weave-Knot
251 W 19th St 17 Jan - 16 Feb 2019 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Belkıs Balpınar , a groundbreaking textile artist and Turkey’s leading authority working in the kilim format. A pioneer in the field, her work draws from the twelve thousand year old tradition of kilim weaving in Turkey while completely... Read more -
Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave: Art History X
6 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce its first New York solo exhibition of Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave , entitled ART HISTORY X . The show highlights Hargrave’s body of work made between 2015 and 2018 where the artist reimagines the canon of art history in the context of sexuality, identity,... Read more -
Talent Show
251 W 19th St 6 Sep 2018 - 21 Feb 2019 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to exhibit TALENT SHOW, a rotating group exhibition of gallery artists and pieces from the gallery collection. Heading into the new year, this exhibition offers a glimpse of things to come. Read more -
From Warhol to Wahlstrom
From 60s Celebrity to Today’s Social Media 30 Aug - 29 Sep 2018 Ethan Cohen Gallery is proud to announce the exhibit From Warhol to Wahlstrom: From 60s Celebrity to Today’s Social Media , in which select works by Andy Warhol conduct a trenchant dialogue with recent works by the New York based Swedish artist, Johan Wahlstrom, from his celebrated series Social Life.... Read more -
The Fuck Off Generation Part II
Chinese Art in the Post Mao Era 25 Apr - 30 Jul 2018 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Fuck Off Generation Part II: Chinese Art in the Post Mao Era . The exhibition takes place in two parts, the second of which opens May 10th, 2018. The opening reception will also feature a site-specific performance piece by visual... Read more -
The Fuck Off Generation Part I
Chinese Art in the Post-Mao Era 31 Jan - 24 Mar 2018 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art in the Post Mao Era The exhibition will take place in the gallery in two parts the first of which is opening January 31st 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The monumental exhibition Art... Read more -
UMMA : MASS GAMES
Motherly Love North Korea 19 Oct 2017 - 11 Jan 2018 Just as the Korean peninsula is split, so is its contemporary artistic consciousness. Mina Cheon is a South Korean artist who collaborates with her North Korean alter-ego KIM IL SOON (a Socialist Realist painter, naval commander, farmer, scholar, teacher, mother, and human being). In this, the latest of Cheon’s grapplings... Read more -
Orphans of Painting
Curated by Raúl Zamudio 17 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Orphans of Painting is an exhibition of international artists who, on the one hand, may identify first and foremost as painters but expand their practice into other formal registers creating hybridized art forms somewhat disparate from their primary medium. Evincing this is the painter German Tagle whose appropriation of Andrew... Read more -
AVELINO SALA
RIOT PAINTINGS 22 Jun - 2 Sep 2017 Avelino Sala (Gijon b. 1972) presents a group of works based on the concept of identity through symbols such as currency or flags, probing the fragility of the state, of the individual before the state and of order itself. His works explore the power of political and populist iconography as... Read more -
DESHAWN DUMAS
HOLOCENE EXTINCTION 22 Jun - 5 Aug 2017 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present Holocene Extinction on view June 22 through July 24 2017. The exhibition takes its title from what scientists call the sixth great mass extinction. Scientists estimate as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century.... Read more
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Tang Hui: One World One Dream
30 Jul - 5 Sep 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Tang Hui | One World One Dream , an online solo exhibition of drawings and preliminary sketches Tang Hui has created between 2007 and the present. These refined drawings allow for an entryway into the inner workings of Tang Hui’s intellectual and creative... Read more -
Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave: I Can't Breathe
4 Jul - 31 Aug 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is proud to present Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave: “I Can’t Breathe”, an online exhibition of a series of drawings Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave created in 2014 reflecting on and reacting against police violence toward African Americans in the United States after the murder of Eric Garner in police custody.... Read more -
Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave
Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream 18 Jan - 14 Feb 2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present I Have A Dream , an online exhibition of Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave’s portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. This exhibition commemorates Martin Luther King’s legacy. In this time of healing of our nation, we think of how Martin Luther King stood for the... Read more
