The Rising Stars
The newbies. The up-starters. Maybe even the up-settors. Witness experimentation, disruption, and where art is headed next.
Last updated Jul 25, 2025
There’s something intoxicating about the Lower East Side.
New York is a city that is perpetually ‘becoming’. But on the Lower East Side, people come to become. It might be hard to imagine when you’re looking at people sipping cocktails outside dive bars, parties spilling into the street, and endless lines for the latest fashion capsule drop, but this used to be a vast Dutch farmland.
Their churches from the 1840s are still here. And NYC’s iconic Tenement buildings, where throngs of Jewish, Italian, and Irish came to live, fresh from Ellis Island. So are the Gilded Age banks from its turn-of-the-20th century heyday, before everyone moved up town.
The Rising Stars
10 Venues
Hannah Traore
A spectrum of artists of color push boundaries, subvert labels, and start conversations at this welcoming, womb-like subterranean space on Orchard Street.
150 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
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.
175 Canal Street, Floor 3
New York, NY 10013
Below Grand
In a display window and closet in a Chinese kitchen supply store on Orchard Street and a storefront on Allen Street, artist-and-curator rebels stage experimental shows that stretch art world rules.
53 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and DIY maker-culture collides with exquisite taste in this sunny storefront gallery with basement on Ludlow Street.
48 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
Blade Study
Internet explorers, anime theorists, and memetic mythmakers are looking to escape the algorithm inside this tiny, but mighty, storefront gallery.
17 Pike Street
New York, NY 10002
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism, philosophy, and science on the fourth-floor of a Chinatown office building.
39 East Broadway, Suite 404
New York, NY 10002
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
Highly covetable, high aesthetics art in a two-room Henry Street gallery named for a fictional gay art dealer. You’re going to want to move in.
105 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
King's Leap
Plug into meta commentaries on 21st-century life with a rising generation of artists whose shared experiences splinter into dystopian visions and futuristic dreams.
105 Henry Street Street, Store 5
New York, NY 10002
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this bunker-like basement gallery, which champions local and international artists and the immigrant-powered spirit of the LES.
24 Rutgers Street
New York, NY 10002
Long Story Short NYC
Two neighboring storefronts make up this big-hearted gallery where locals gather on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.
52 / 54E Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
There’s something intoxicating about the Lower East Side.
New York is a city that is perpetually ‘becoming’. But on the Lower East Side, people come to become. It might be hard to imagine when you’re looking at people sipping cocktails outside dive bars, parties spilling into the street, and endless lines for the latest fashion capsule drop, but this used to be a vast Dutch farmland.
Their churches from the 1840s are still here. And NYC’s iconic Tenement buildings, where throngs of Jewish, Italian, and Irish came to live, fresh from Ellis Island. So are the Gilded Age banks from its turn-of-the-20th century heyday, before everyone moved up town.
The Rising Stars
10 VenuesHannah Traore
A spectrum of artists of color push boundaries, subvert labels, and start conversations at this welcoming, womb-like subterranean space on Orchard Street.
150 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
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.
175 Canal Street, Floor 3
New York, NY 10013
Below Grand
In a display window and closet in a Chinese kitchen supply store on Orchard Street and a storefront on Allen Street, artist-and-curator rebels stage experimental shows that stretch art world rules.
53 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and DIY maker-culture collides with exquisite taste in this sunny storefront gallery with basement on Ludlow Street.
48 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
Blade Study
Internet explorers, anime theorists, and memetic mythmakers are looking to escape the algorithm inside this tiny, but mighty, storefront gallery.
17 Pike Street
New York, NY 10002
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism, philosophy, and science on the fourth-floor of a Chinatown office building.
39 East Broadway, Suite 404
New York, NY 10002
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
Highly covetable, high aesthetics art in a two-room Henry Street gallery named for a fictional gay art dealer. You’re going to want to move in.
105 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
King's Leap
Plug into meta commentaries on 21st-century life with a rising generation of artists whose shared experiences splinter into dystopian visions and futuristic dreams.
105 Henry Street Street, Store 5
New York, NY 10002
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this bunker-like basement gallery, which champions local and international artists and the immigrant-powered spirit of the LES.
24 Rutgers Street
New York, NY 10002
Long Story Short NYC
Two neighboring storefronts make up this big-hearted gallery where locals gather on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.
52 / 54E Henry Street
New York, NY 10002