Rising Galleries
Witness experimentation, disruption, and the emerging artists on everyone’s lips.
Last updated Apr 23, 2026
The newbies. The up-starters. Maybe even the up-setters.
These are the spaces where the rulebooks are being abandoned and rewritten. The art comes with strong points of view and has plenty to say about the moment we’re in. There’s usually a strong feeling that you’ve caught something the second it’s happening — and that there’s nowhere else to be but right here, right now.
GalleryEast Village
MARCH
East Village vibes meet Southern warmth inside this double-wide storefront on Avenue A, where you can expect a mix of NYC up-and-comers and artists exploring Black craftsmanship.
GalleryEast Village
Half Gallery
This glass-walled gallery shows realist work in which desire and fantasy simmer on the surface.
GalleryLower East Side
Hannah Traore Gallery
Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.
GalleryLittle Italy
Company Gallery
Feminist, queer, theatrical art in a graffiti-covered gallery with a basement speakeasy.
GalleryLittle Italy
Derosia
Self-aware, socially-motivated painting about culture, media, and the moment we’re living in.
GalleryLower East Side
gratin
Walking into gratin is like entering a party lit up by the promise of the night.
GalleryChinatown
Ulrik
Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.
GalleryLower East Side
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and maker culture collide in this DIY gallery on Ludlow Street.
GalleryLower East Side
Blade Study
Where artists ask the same questions humans have always asked, just asked through memes, code, and group chats.
GalleryChinatown
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism and philosophy on the fourth floor of a Chinatown office building.
The newbies. The up-starters. Maybe even the up-setters.
These are the spaces where the rulebooks are being abandoned and rewritten. The art comes with strong points of view and has plenty to say about the moment we’re in. There’s usually a strong feeling that you’ve caught something the second it’s happening — and that there’s nowhere else to be but right here, right now.
GalleryEast Village
MARCH
East Village vibes meet Southern warmth inside this double-wide storefront on Avenue A, where you can expect a mix of NYC up-and-comers and artists exploring Black craftsmanship.
GalleryEast Village
Half Gallery
This glass-walled gallery shows realist work in which desire and fantasy simmer on the surface.
GalleryLower East Side
Hannah Traore Gallery
Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.
GalleryLittle Italy
Company Gallery
Feminist, queer, theatrical art in a graffiti-covered gallery with a basement speakeasy.
GalleryLittle Italy
Derosia
Self-aware, socially-motivated painting about culture, media, and the moment we’re living in.
GalleryLower East Side
gratin
Walking into gratin is like entering a party lit up by the promise of the night.
GalleryChinatown
Ulrik
Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.
GalleryLower East Side
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and maker culture collide in this DIY gallery on Ludlow Street.
GalleryLower East Side
Blade Study
Where artists ask the same questions humans have always asked, just asked through memes, code, and group chats.
GalleryChinatown
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism and philosophy on the fourth floor of a Chinatown office building.
GalleryLower East Side
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.
GalleryLower East Side
King's Leap
A rising generation of artists whose shared Tumblr and techno experiences splinter into dystopian visions, futuristic dreams, and meta commentaries on 21st-century life.
GalleryLower East Side
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this basement gallery, which champions younger local and international artists.
GalleryChinatown
Long Story Short
A big-hearted, storefront gallery where locals linger on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.