The Hole

We can’t get enough of the scrappy, hyper-saturated, glossy aesthetic on view at The Hole. Here, Surrealism collides with pop and is refracted through the lens of the wacky life-is-stranger-than-fiction media age we’re living in now.

Named after a much-loved early-2000s queer Manhattan nightlife staple, the art here is bold, colorful, and cheeky. Think rainbow-colored, airbrushed abstraction, objects blown to smithereens in a techno explosion, or your best friends coloring in iconic art historical images in the early hours after a night of debauchery.

We like places that show us things we think we know about (fashion, graphic design, music, technology, art) and twist them into something we could never dream up on our own. The mind-blowing, mood-altering shows at The Hole do just that, time and time again.

Kathy Grayson started The Hole in July 2010. Her first gallery was a single wall at Dartmouth College. She segued that into an internship at Deitch Projects, where she worked for eight years before launching her first space at 312 Bowery in NoHo. She added a second location in Tribeca in 2020, in the former studio of painter Peter Doig. In 2022, Grayson opened a West Hollywood branch of The Hole right around the corner from her old boss, Jeffrey Deitch's L.A. digs.