
At the beginning of the new year it’s a great opportunity to get a fresh calendar out and mark up all the artist opportunities that are upcoming (open call deadlines etc) and make note of which art exhibitions and events to schedule in.
This list is for those that are based in or visiting New York City over the course of the year.
A Space Between Worlds
Until March 15, 2025 at Wassaic ProjectFeaturing: Jamal Ademola, Paolo Arao, Walker Esner, Jazmine Hayes, Regina Durante Jestrow, Mary Tooley Parker, Amira Pualwan, Dana Robinson, and Judy Suh
This exhibition features the work of nine artists who create their own unique universes through innovative techniques and mixed media. Each artist has their own solo presentation of work arranged over seven floors of the dramatic and unusual Maxon Mills art venue which was a former grain-processing tower.

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
Until February 7, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
"I'm not so interested in the expression of something. I'm more interested in what the material can do. So that's why I keep exploring." Ruth Asawa
This retrospective features over 300 works by Asawa and the artist's lifelong journey of experimenting with materials and form. Works include wire sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, bronze casts, and public works that celebrate explorations between abstraction and figuration, and negative and positive space.For Asawa, all acts held a creative potential. As an artist she made art every day and believed that there was no separation between living and creating art.

While Angels Gaze, by Todd Gray
January 23 – March 22, at Lehmann Maupin
While Angels Gaze presents a collection of Todd Gray’s works that combine music photography, earlier work and photographs from his 2023 fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Gray works with photo assemblage which feature themes that include: imperial European gardens, West African landscapes, and portraiture. He examines accepted cultural beliefs such as those around the ideas of colonialism, African diaspora and power dynamics within society.

The Soul of Nature, by Caspar David Friedrich
February 8 – May 11, at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe nineteenth-century
German Romantic movement evolved a new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self. During this period Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) developed landscape paintings that portray nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Many of his more famous works feature contemplative figures silhouetted against morning mists, Gothic ruins and night skies.
The exhibition will showcase around 75 works representing his symbolic landscape motifs conveying personal and existential meaning that he discovered in nature. Expect to find some of his finest works including oil paintings, drawings and sketches across the breadth of his career.

The Ocean of One’s Pause, by Rosa Barba
May 3 – July 6, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
This installation will present 15 years of Rosa Barba's work through film, sound and kinetic sculpture. Barba uses film to explore natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment and believes film 'allows time and space to vibrate, collapse, overlap, and extend. The show will feature a newly commissioned film titled Charge which examines light as a source of scientific innovation and ecological change. The show will culminate with a series of live performances.
Also keep a look out for the opening of Studio Museum in Harlem in Fall 2025 as well as the Frick Collection, and the New Museum, all of which have undergone massive renovations and expansions.
What exhibitions and art events are you looking forward to in 2025? Please add recommendations to the comment sections.
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