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

Aboudia

Diana Fardon, Where Are You? 31 May - 22 Jun 2017 In “Diana Fardon, Where Are You”, Aboudia deploys his familiar style absorbed from the torn wall-posters and decaying fences of urban Africa to show us our own world with the eyes of a new arrival. Aboudia who draws his inspiration from the streets of his hometown of Abidjan is now... Read more

Art Remixed

Group Exhibition 31 May - 22 Jun 2017 A group show of artworks that remix, reuse, and recucle both thematically and materially. Read more

RED ATTACK

Group Show 25 Feb - 21 May 2017 Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the group exhibition RED ATTACK that explores the artistic vision of today's global political climate through the ideological lenses of the Cold War: Consumerism and Collectivism. When both sides woke up from the Cold War, artists realized that, despite apparent... Read more

Armand Boua

Forgotten People 10 Dec 2016 - 28 Jan 2017 The Ivory Coast painter Armand Boua is a leading figure in the new wave of contemporary African artists currently attaining global recognition. Boua was featured prominently at the seminal 2015 Saatchi Gallery group show Pangea 2. Born in Abidjan in 1978, he is still based there. Although his work appears... Read more

As of Now

Group Show 30 Nov 2016 - 28 Jan 2017 'AS OF NOW' is a group show that includes the work of Bailey Bob Bailey, Jeffrey Hargrave, John Aslanidis, Isaac Aden, Zhang Zhaohui, Joan Lebold Cohen, Aboudia, and Lan Zhenghui. Read more

John Aslanidis

Sonic New Wave 29 Sep - 30 Nov 2016 The first solo exhibition of Australian artist John Aslanidis maps out the area of convergence between visual imagery and sonic frequencies. His complex, concentric paintings combine artistic intuition with mathematical precision, depicting networks of oscillating sound waves. The eye follows luminous circular emanations of color as they expand, interpenetrate, merge... Read more

Lan Zhenghui

Re-Think Ink Landscape 9 Sep - 31 Oct 2016 Ethan Cohen Gallery presents the series 'Re-thINK Ink', two solo exhibitions by renowned Chinese contemporary ink artists, Hu Renyi and Lan Zhenghui. In the upstairs gallery, Hu Renyi Re-thINK Ink: Graffiti’, and in the lower gallery Lan Zhenghui. ‘Re-thINK Ink: Landscape’. The show aims to re-contextualize the ancient genre as... Read more

Hu Renyi

Re-thINK Ink Graffiti 9 - 25 Sep 2016 Invoking 2000-year-old traditions of ink painting through its multiple iterations, Hu works with monumental scrolls in serial sequence. His floor-to-ceiling works, each a fusion of Chinese art-historical memory suggesting ancient narratives both pictorial and calligraphic, take the eye along episodic journeys. They might be modeled on room-length scrolls that tell... Read more

Ray Elman and Norma Holt

The Outer Cape Art Colony in Portrait 1 Jun - 31 Aug 2016 Co-curated by Ethan Cohen and Jane Paradise at Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) For the past century, Cape Cod’s Provincetown has been home to a vibrant art colony and cultural scene, hosting famed literary and artistic figures. This summer, in collaboration with the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM),... Read more

Isaac Aden

I Like America 5 May - 20 Aug 2016 Ethan Cohen is pleased to announce Isaac Aden: I Like America, the first solo exhibition of Aden`s work with the gallery. The exhibition features an introduction into Aden’s complex art practice by highlighting his recent body of work, I Like America. He draws its content from the American experience applying... Read more

FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN

WORKS SELECTED BY ISAAC ADEN + JOSEPH AYERS 5 May - 20 Jun 2016 Ethan Cohen is pleased to announce: First We Take Manhattan, a group exhibition of artists selected by Isaac Aden as a continuation of his solo exhibition I Like America. Reflecting the curatorial aspect of Aden’s practice and, concurrent with the exhibition I Like America, Aden organized First We Take Manhattan;... Read more

Aboudia

Talking Heads 25 Feb - 9 Apr 2016 Ethan Cohen is pleased to host Aboudia’s third solo exhibition in New York ABOUDIA: TALKING HEADS featuring African artist Aboudia with his new body of work that he created in his New York residency. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 25th, from 6-8pm. “Aboudia is the most... Read more

FLAUNT

Africa New Wave 19 Nov - 19 Dec 2015 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present FLAUNT: Africa New Wave, a group exhibition featuring Aboudia, Pr.Adetomiwa A.Gbadebo, Armand Boua, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, Soly Cissé, Wycliffe Mundopa. Almost a century ago, African art's interaction with the Western tradition changed the course of art history. From Picasso through Cubists to... Read more

Face to Face

10 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 Ethan Cohen New York is delighted to announce FACE TO FACE, a group exhibition that presents a visual dialogue of the portrait genre. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, September 10, from 6-8pm. The portrait genre, perhaps the most universal form of expression in art, serves as a... Read more

In the Cloud

Group Show 25 Jun - 28 Aug 2015 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present our summer 2015 group show IN THE CLOUD. The exhibition will run from June 25th to August 28th, 2015. IN THE CLOUD invokes two definitions of 'Cloud' which have converged in our time. The first comes down to us from the ancients,... Read more

Taha Heydari

See Something Say Something 16 Apr - 30 May 2015 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present TAHA HEYDARI: See Something Say Something featuring Iranian artist Taha Heydari. The exhibition will run from April 16th to May 30th , 2015. Taha Heydari's works deconstruct the process by which media images, most associated with the Middle East, seduce the unwary... Read more

LAN ZHENGHUI: re-thINK

13 Feb - 11 Apr 2015 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present LAN ZHENGHUI: re-thINK featuring Beijing artist Lan Zhenghui. The exhibition will run from February 13th to April 11th, 2015. Occupying the esthetic confluence between traditional Chinese Ink painting and Western abstract expressionism, Lan Zhenghui’s work reinvents both. He lets the ink follow... Read more

BATIK d’AFRIQUE

13 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 Ethan Cohen New York presents BATIK d’AFRIQUE featuring Aboudia, Gonçalo Mabunda, Malick Sidibé, and Moffat Takadiwa. The exhibition will run from November 13, 2014 to January 10, 2015. Drawing from a distinct group of artists, BATIK d’AFRIQUE showcases the depth and diversity of African contemporary art today. While aggression and... Read more

LI DAIYUN

The Grid 18 Sep - 1 Nov 2014 Ethan Cohen New York presents LI DAIYUN: The Grid featuring Beijing based painter Li Daiyun in her first solo exhibition in the United States. Li Daiyun’s neo-pointilliste work occupies the bleed zone between representation and abstraction where the image blurs and morphs before your eyes: what you’re certain of seeing... Read more

BBBBBREEZE

31 Jul - 6 Sep 2014 Ethan Cohen New York is pleased to present BBBBBREEZE, our summer group exhibition opening Thursday, July 31 and running through September 6, 2014. BBBBBREEZE presents over 30 works by a diverse mix of international talent hailed from cities that start with the letter B. Combining large scale site specific sculpture... Read more

Mind's Mirror | Hans Breder: 1964-2014

8 May - 30 Jun 2014 “Mind’s Mirror | Hans Breder 1964-2014” opens this Thursday May 8 and Friday May 9 at Ethan Cohen New York with performances by the renowned German-American conceptual artist. Opening receptions at the Chelsea gallery will be held on both days from 6pm to 9pm, with Hans Breder conducting a live... Read more

African Dawn | ABOUDIA

10 Apr - 5 May 2014 Ethan Cohen presents “African Dawn | ABOUDIA”, featuring African contemporary artist Aboudia in his highly anticipated first solo exhibition in United States, running from April 10 – May 5 at Ethan Cohen New York. In kinetically painted canvasses redolent of Jean-Michel Basquiat and graffiti art, Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (b. 1983)... Read more

FLOW: Ink Innovators

7 Mar - 6 Apr 2014 Ancient Chinese tradition and global contemporary art converge in 'FLOW: Ink Innovators' at Ethan Cohen New York from March 7th through April 6th, 2014. Dramatic modern innovations mix with traditional techniques in this exhibition, pairing legendary Chinese contemporary artists with international ink painters in a collective exploration of the enduring... Read more

CHOCO·PIE PROPAGANDA | MINA CHEON AKA KIM IL SOON

From North Korea with Love 23 Jan - 28 Feb 2014 Ethan Cohen New York proudly announces the first solo exhibition by artist Mina Cheon (천민정), aka 'KIM IL SOON' in her North Korean artistic persona. Her paintings showcasing polipop (political pop art) and her installation 'EAT CHOCO·PIE TOGETHER' open Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 6 pm at Ethan Cohen New... Read more

IRAN ART NOW

24 Oct - 31 Dec 2013 IRAN ART NOW showcases works by ten internationally recognized and emerging Iranian artists at Ethan Cohen New York from October 24 through December 31, 2013. As the gallery’s first foray into Contemporary Iranian art, the exhibition illuminates the development and breadth of the art form over the last twenty years,... Read more