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CollectionDowntown NYC
Women-Led
A mix of established and next-generation galleries where women set the program, the roster, and the room.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026
Women lead these galleries, and it shows on the walls.
Emerging artists hang beside great women of the '80s. Textiles and craft get the seriousness the art world usually saves for steel and grand gestural painting. Fewer than one in five museum exhibitions go to women. These galleries show them like it's normal. And if they had their way, it would be.
GalleryNoHo
The Hole
Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.
GalleryLower East Side
Uffner & Liu Gallery
Abstract, intimate, and sometimes erotic, art that feels like home, with all the secrets that implies.
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
Nathalie Karg Gallery
This elegiac, two-storey Elizabeth Street gallery is a place of worship for refined, sensual art.
GalleryChinatown
Hoffman Donahue
Playful, boundary-merging art reflecting on the rituals of everyday life, set against the backdrop of an old-school loft space on the Bowery.
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Women-Led
A mix of established and next-generation galleries where women set the program, the roster, and the room.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026
Women lead these galleries, and it shows on the walls.
Emerging artists hang beside great women of the '80s. Textiles and craft get the seriousness the art world usually saves for steel and grand gestural painting. Fewer than one in five museum exhibitions go to women. These galleries show them like it's normal. And if they had their way, it would be.
GalleryNoHo
The Hole
Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.
GalleryLower East Side
Uffner & Liu Gallery
Abstract, intimate, and sometimes erotic, art that feels like home, with all the secrets that implies.
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
Nathalie Karg Gallery
This elegiac, two-storey Elizabeth Street gallery is a place of worship for refined, sensual art.
GalleryChinatown
Hoffman Donahue
Playful, boundary-merging art reflecting on the rituals of everyday life, set against the backdrop of an old-school loft space on the Bowery.
Explore the rest of downtown on the Big Map
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