11 Must-See Shows During New York Art Week 2026

This May leaves no time for jetlag as the art world comes in hot off the Venice Biennale and cruises straight into a stacked New York Art Week. Get your coffee to go, too, because for the second year in a row, all the fairs—headlined by Frieze, TEFAF, and Independent—are locked into a single week.

And more art is waiting to be discovered beyond the fair circuit. New York galleries are opening their major spring shows while curators and collectors are in town. This season, there’s a mix of discoveries and deep dives, from a primer on the state of contemporary glass with “Glass Class,” a group show downtown at The Hole, to a pitch-perfect pairing of David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis uptown at White Cube.

Here, Artsy highlights 11 of the most noteworthy gallery exhibitions taking place during New York Art Week 2026.

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In her third solo exhibition with Harper’s, Brooklyn-based painter Hyegyeong Choi goes in for the kill—figuratively. Choi is known for her technicolor paintings of avatar-like humanoids, and here she brings these fanciful beings into dialogue with the history of hunting paintings. One new painting, for instance, reimagines Gustave Courbet’s Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare (1857), a scene of snarling dogs fighting over their lifeless prey, but with humanoids cast in the role of dogs. In the painting, Venery (2026), meanwhile, Choi depicts a Diana-like huntress who shoots a paintbrush from her bow rather than an arrow; it sails toward an abstract painting in the background, hinting at the element of pursuit that unites both painter and hunter in their quests—Katie White