Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley comes alive as spring turns to summer. The warmer months are full of openings, performances, and other special events both indoors and outside. In Beacon, Soon is Now, a climate and eco focused arts organization presents a month-long exhibition of the artist Koyoltzintli’s handmade ceramic instruments along with a video and sound installation. Performances on May 31 and June 1 will feature Koyoltzintli and others playing the instruments, including replicas of pre-Columbian artifacts. It’s the season for large-scale group exhibitions including “GENERAL CONDITIONS” at The School in Kinderhook, “So It Goes, 2025 Summer Exhibition” at the Wassaic Project, and “The Unknown and Its Poetics” at KinoSaito in Verplanck. On June 28, The Campus, an upstate outpost for Manhattan galleries Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto opens for the season with a sprawling exhibition in an abandoned school outside of Hudson.
New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)
Albany Center Gallery / 488 Broadway, Suite 107, Albany, NY / Memories in Motion: Kathy Greenwood, Susan Myers, and Linda Stillman / May 2 – Jun 6 / Remix, Match, & Wear, featuring the works local and regional designers/artists: BOOGIEREZ, D. Colin, Wendy Costa, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, Kema, Aniyah Kouture, Shane Kyiretwie, Lil Thrift Ma, Maura Marcks, Mariahfied, Raè Frasier of ART MON3Y, Megan Mosca, Eugene O’Neill, SAFETY PIN, 5ifth Place, Dha’Sean “SKILLZ” Serrano, and So’Radical / Jun 20 – Jul 26 / Opening reception Jun 20, 5-8 pm
Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Sight Specific: Michael Bach, Seth Butler, Matt Chinian, Sean Hemmerle, Susan Hoffer, Maeve McCool, Rob O’Neil, Andrew Pellettieri, Laura Von Rosk / Jun 6 – Nov 8 / Opening reception Jun 6, 6-7:30pm
Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / Closed for the summer
Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Material Girl, Curated by Lisa Corinne Davis / Jun 6 – Jul 20 / Opening reception Jun 6, 5-7 pm
Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY / A Familiar Type of Magic: Daniella Dooling, Matthew Gilbert, Phil Knoll, Gabriel Martinez, Susan Ottaviano, Rafael Santiago, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens / May 24 – Jul 6
SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Nicole Cherubini: THE MOTHERLODE / Jun 7 – Aug 3 / Reception Jun 28, 6-8pm
The School | Jack Shainman Gallery / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / GENERAL CONDITIONS / May 17 – Nov 29
Chatham Soccer / 337 NY-295 Chatham, NY / Burkhard Beschow, Elevation and Elevation Drawing / Jun 6 – Jul 12 / Opening Jun 6, 6-8 pm
The Green Lodge / 80 Center Street, Chatham NY / AGITATION: Alison Debritz, Tara Holmes, Owen Barensfeld / Through Jun 21 / By appointment
Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts, Erin Besler / Mar 15 – Jun 7 / Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy / Jun 28 – Oct 26 / Opening Jun 28, 2–5 pm
The Campus / 341 NY-217 Hudson, NY / 2025 Exhibition / Opens Jun 28
Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Uncanny Perceptions: Ann Getsinger, Carl Grauer, India Sachi, and Dai Ban / Apr 11 – Jun 1 / The Summer Show: Clark Derbes, Samantha French, Andrea Moreau, Margaret G. Still, Susan Stover and Joy Taylor / Jun 6 – Jul 27 / Artists’ reception Jun 7, 5-7 pm
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Doug Holst, Electric Trees / Jun 7 – Jul 12 / Opening reception Jun 7, 4-6 pm
Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Linda Ganjian / May 24 – Jun 15 / Thomas Broadbent, Rewilding / Jun 21 – Jul 13 / Opening Reception June 21, 4-6 pm
Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / The Art of Happiness, Camphill Hudson / Curated by Jody Brookes and Jojo Dzielski / May 23 – Jun 8
Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY / Gerard Wagner / May – Aug
Pamela Salisbury Gallery / 362 ½ Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Lisa Corinne Davis: Adjustments; Lisa Hoke: upENDed; Mark Milroy: A Colorful Universe; Mary Temple: Rough in the Distant Glitter; Shari Mendelson: Ancient Rhymes / May 17 – Jun 15 / Daisy Craddock, Home Grown; Michael Meehan, Crossings; Nisha Bansil & Bryan Whitney, Inflorescence; Rachel Rickert, Ash and Cinders; Ron Milewicz, Visitation; Scott Brodie, maybe later / Jun 21 – Jul 20
Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Lucio Pozzi, New Work: The Overlap Paintings / May 2 – Jun 1 / David Becker, The Americans / Jun 6 – Jul 13 / Opening reception Jun 7, 3-5 pm
Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Michael David: The Navigator / May 31 – Jun 29
Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / springburst: New Abstractions by Friederike Oeser & John Vitale / May 1 – Jun 8 / QUOTIDIANA: Rituals and Passages, Francie Hester / Jun 12 – Jul 27 / Opening Reception Jun 14
tANJA gRUNERT Princess Beatrix House / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / INSTRUMENTS, Michelle Rosenberg, Lucas Yasunaga, Pohan, Elisa Lendvay and Bohyun Yoon, Curated by Nicole Hayes / May 24 – Jun 15 / Odette Steinert + Janis Stemmermann / Jun 21 – Jul 21, Opening reception Jun 21, 3-7 pm
Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Frank Tartaglione: At a Glance / May 24 – Jun 22
Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Dana Piazza: Elaborations; Mack Sikora: Hope Chest / May 24 – Jul 12
CREATE Council on the Arts / 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Comfort in Numbers: Angela Gaffney Smith, Bryan Zimmerman, Irja Bodén, Linda Stillman, Margot Becker, Ruby Silvious, Sarah Mijares Fick, Victoria van der Laan/ Co-Curated by Monika Zarzeczna and Stella Yoon / Unseen Light: Spotlighting Stories Beyond Stigmas, Curated by Lizbette Martinez / Apr 18 – Jun 1 / Member Show: Seen Scenes / Jun 6 – Jul 27
Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Ellon Gibbs: The Color Blue is Warm / May 3 – Jun 28
RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / The River That Flows Both Ways: Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson / May 2 – Jun 29
LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Susan Meyer: Group Chat; Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty / May 3 – Jun 29
Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / William Corwin, Things: Wheels, Ladders, Teeth, Alps, Gods, Boats, Etc. / Apr 5 – Jun 8 / Dana Sherwood / Jun 21 – Aug 10
The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Brigitta Varadi and Amy Podmore; Irrigation, curated by Jules Gårder & Nate Millstein / May 24 – Jul 5 / Opening reception May 31, 3-6 pm, followed by a potluck
Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Alexis England, Nature in Pieces / Opens May 16
Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / So It Goes, 2025 Summer Exhibition: May 17 –Sep 13
Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Lindsey Wolkowicz, folds and faults; Nicholas Katranis, Drawings 2020-2024 / May 17 – Jun 21
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Andrew Lyght, Touch Wood / Curated by Osi Audu / Jun 7 – Jul 20 / Opening reception Jun 7, 4-6 pm
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Paola Bari: Nature, Revisited; FOCUS: In Flux / May 9–Jun 22 / Recent Acquisitions / May 9–Aug 10
68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Francine Tint: Symbolic of the Whole; Andrea Burgay; Maureen Cummins / Apr 26 – Jun 15
ArtYard Kingston, 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Garden of Delights: Kate Dodd, Ursula Endlicher, Erica Hauser, Kris Hauser, Sergey Jivetin, Natalya Khorover, Duncan Mackenzie, Eve Madalengoitia, Maria Markham, Ben Quesnel, Michael Rees, Margaret Roleke, Roxy Savage, Rosanna Scimeca, Suzan Shutan, Mary Ann Strandell, John Stowe, Rachel Urkowitz, and others / Jun 1 – Oct 5 / Opening Reception May 31, 6-8 pm / Flagpole Project / Ongoing
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy, Curated by Lucy Sante; The Rose, Curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao; Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present, Curated by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich / May 24 – Aug 31
Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / More Than Any Mirror: Benjamin Herndon and Adie Russell / May 3 – Jun 1 / John Roy and Jinsik Yoo / Jun 7 – 29 / Opening Reception Jun 7, 5-8 pm
The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / D. Jack Solomon: Redux / May 24 – Jun 22
Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / Virginia Shelpley, Energies and Openings / May 16 – Jun 15 / Scott Ackerman, Two Sided Flower / Opens Jun 20
Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston NY / Liquefier: Meg Lipke and Jeff Williams / May 10 – Jun 21
One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Muddy Music: Graham Collins, Sean Downey, Ben Estes, Katy Fischer, Robert Gluck, Jennie Jieun Lee, Jordan McDonald, Kevin McNamee-Tweed; Curated by Ben Estes / Opens May 17 / Gabe Benzur / Opens Jun 14
Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / Kiss Pattern / Apr 26 – Jun 22
Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Ln, New Paltz, NY / Voices Unbound / Jun 21 – Aug 2 / Opening Reception Jun 21, 1-5 pm
Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / Lively Flourishes: Ben Pederson & Joy Taylor / Jun 6 – Jul 5 / Reception Jun 6, 6– 7:30 pm
Convey/er/or Gallery / 297 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / This Land Ain’t Your Land: Dan Goldman / Apr 5 – Jun 1
ADS / DAS Project Space / 105 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / Mollie McKinley: Gloop Entity / May 31 – Jun 29 / Opening reception May 31, 4-7 pm
Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / etheReality: from breath to air, and back; Bel Falleiros, Ghost of a Dream, Sanie Irsay, Mollie McKinley, Jason Mitcham, Megan Pahmier, Linda Stillman, and Amy Talluto / Jun 21 – Aug 31 / Opening Reception Jun 28, 5 – 7 pm
Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Compact, Relaxed & Intact, Millicent Young & Virginia L. Montgomery; Girls at the End of the World, Jessica Hargreaves / April 19 – Jun 29
BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Daniel Berlin: Swallowing the Sun ; BAU Gallery Artists: In This Place ; Iain Wall: Precious Stones / May 9 – Jun 8 / Nansi T. Lent: Said, Not Said / Jun 13 – Jul 6 / Opening Reception Jun 14, 6-8 pm
Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Inner Excess: Jared Freschman, Emma Jackson, Gracelee Lawrence, Sam Reeder, Kat Ryals, Colleen Rae Smiley / Curated by Evan Paul English / Apr 12 – Jun 7 / Michelle Silver: What She Builds, She Must Destroy / Jun 14 – Aug 10 / opening reception Jun 14, 7-9 pm
KuBe Art Center / Beacon, NY / Half The Sky: Cai Jin, Cui Fei, Edie Xu, Guo Zhen, Katinka Huang, Li Daiyun, Lin Tianmiao, Shen Ling, Yin Mei, Xiao Lu, Xing Fei / May 24 – Aug 30
Savage Wonderground Art Gallery / 139 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Radical Fun: Jane Hammond, Brent Owens, Judy Pfaff, and others / May 10 – Jul 16
Soon is Now at The River Center / 8 Long Dock Rd, Beacon, NY / Koyoltzintli: TINKUY, seven acts for the beginning, end, and beginning of time / Jun 6 – 27 / Performances with with Koyoltzintli, Dan Blake, Bel Falleiros, Theresa Bear Fox, Ricardo Gallo, Cristina Mejía, and Mar Parrilla on May 31, 5 pm and Jun 1, 1 pm (RSVP required for performances)
Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / Diana Vidal, The Hard and Soft of It, May 10 – Jun 7 / Closing Reception + Artist Talk, Jun 7, 1-2 pm
Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Lisa Diebboll, Between Observation and Abstraction / May 3 – Jun 1 / Gretchen Kane and Maria Pia Marrella: Shifting Ground / Jun 7 – 29 / Opening reception, Jun 7, 4-7 pm
Ligenza Moore Gallery / 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring, NY / Destination Earth: Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Meg Hitchcock, Simeon Lagodich, Cal Lane, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Helen O’Leary, Judy Pfaff, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Kurt Steger, Don Voisine / May 24 – Jul 27
Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Jeremy Dennis, Rise: Scenes of Resistance / May 17 – Jun 22
Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / The Unknown and Its Poetics: Emanuel Tovar Andrade, Adrián S. Bará, Peter Brock, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Edgar Cobián, Juan Pablo González, Ricardo González, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Elana Herzog, Melissa Joseph, Fawn Krieger, Liza Lacroix, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Pepe López Reus, Juan De la Cruz Sánchez, Lucía Vidales, Michael Kelly Williams, and Liat Yossifor, Curated by Adrián S. Bará / May 24 – Dec 21
Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Franc Palaia: Urban Archeology; Edward M. O’Hara: Echoes of Grass / May 3 – Jun 15
Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Kahori Kamiya: Sacred Threads / May 24 – Jul 13 / Kurt Steger, Sculpture in the Courtyard / May – Nov / Opening reception Jun 6, 6-8 pm
Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY / Susan Richman: Dissolving Boundaries; Rachel Weatherford Whitlow: A Sense of Place / May 22 – Jun 15 / Artist Conversation with Susan Richman and Rachel Whitlow, Moderated by Marie Louise Miller of RiverArts / Jun 5, 7- 8:30 pm
New York / Catskills
1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Feeding Our Demons: Eva Davidova, Sarah Grass, Alexandra Hammond, Abigail Simon and Marina Zurkow, curated by Hovey Brock / May 3 – Jun 15 / GUIDED BY VOICES: Theresa Daddezio, Steve Ellis, Jo Nigoghossian, Pareesa Pourian, Caroll Taveras, Paul R Weil and Rodney White / Jun 21 – Jul 27
Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / Nicki Green: Fruitful Vine, Curated by Liz Munsell / Apr 6 – Jun 8 / Linnéa Gad: Peelings, Curated by Alyson Baker / May 18 – Oct 10 / Rachel Mica Weiss: Yield, Curated by Jess Wilcox / May 18 – Oct 10 / By appointment only
ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Kurt Novak: Alien Invasion / May 16 – Jun 1
Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Wade Kramm; Howard Schwartzberg; and Susan Silas / May 3 – Jun 21
Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Laura Taylor: Another Way of Looking at Love / May 17 – Jun 22
Leo Koenig / 11 Delaware Avenue, Andes, NY / Altered States: Lorenzo Amos, On Kawara, Sherrie Levine, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Thomas Schütte, Ser Serpas / May 25 – Jul 20
Roxbury Arts Center and Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Kathleen Green and Oneida Hammond / Apr 26 – Jun 14
Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley
Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Nature Reimagined: Rachel Burgess, KK Kozik, F Lipari and Warner Friedman / May 3 – Jun 1 / Shifting View: Noah Post, Simona Prives, Karin Schaefer and Chenta Laury / Jun 7 – Jul 7
Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Stephan Sagmiller: LAWNS / May 17 – Jun 22
Carol Corey Fine Art / 6 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Roz Chast: May 3 – Jun 8
Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / David Shrigley: Good Vibes / May 10 – Jul 13
Furnace Art on Paper Archive / Erick Johnson: Passages / Jun 7 – Jul 6 / Opening Jun 7, 4-6 pm
Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Julia Whitney Barnes and Sarah Morejohn / Apr 26 – Jun 8 / Janna Watson, Poems Without Words / Jun 14 – Jul 27 / Reception Jun 14, 4–6 pm
Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Inaugural Group Exhibition / Through Jun 15
Connecticut – New Haven and Redding
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Ashton Phillips: Prey Drive; Old in Art School / May 4 – Jun 22
GTown Arts / 5 Main Street, Redding CT / Summer Dreams: Mary Bailey, Jennie Carr, Kathy Coe, David Cramer, Frank Kara, Anthony Kirk, Katerina Lanfranco, Robert Lee Morris, Dan Makara, Margaret Roleke, Mark Savoia, Julia Whitney Barnes, and more / May 31 – Jul 26 / Opening reception May 31, 4-6 pm
About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator based in Beacon, NY. In 2024 she curated the exhibitions Second Nature at N/A Project Space in New Paltz, NY and Talking Threads at Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson, NY. From 2022 to 2023 she was the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Previously she was the gallery director at Fridman Gallery’s Beacon location and Exhibitions Director at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock. Benson was the owner/director of Matteawan Gallery in Beacon where she curated more than fifty exhibitions from 2013 to 2018.
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