Chelsea’s galleries roll into their late-fall season with a heavy first week of November, followed by a second wave of openings on November 12. This guide lists the shows opening this month, in order of opening date, with a short list of notable exhibitions that opened in October and remain on view.

Unless noted, galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10am – 6pm, and all are free to visit.

Why November Is a Good Month for Chelsea

Chelsea remains the densest gallery district in New York, roughly bounded by West 18th and West 28th Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues. Early November brings a concentration of large-gallery openings, so the first and second weeks of the month are the most efficient times to cover several blockbuster shows in one trip.

New Chelsea Exhibitions Opening This Month

Opened November 4 – 5

  • Myth Migration – Lisson Gallery. Nov 4 – Jan 9, 2027. 508 W 24th St. A group exhibition on themes of mythology and movement. lissongallery.com
  • Yu Hong: Field of Asura – Lisson Gallery. Nov 4 – Jan 9, 2027. 504 W 24th St. New paintings that extend Yu Hong’s epic, allegorical approach to contemporary life. lissongallery.com
  • Cristina Iglesias: Possible Matter – Hauser & Wirth. Nov 5 – Jan 16, 2027. 542 W 22nd St. A dome installation by the Spanish sculptor. hauserwirth.com
  • Zeng Fanzhi – Hauser & Wirth. Nov 5 – Jan 16, 2027. 542 W 22nd St. His first New York show in over ten years, with new sculpture and paintings that imagine landscapes beyond Earth and test what paint can do as a material. hauserwirth.com
  • John Baeder: America – ACA Galleries. Nov 5 – Jan 6, 2027. 173 Tenth Ave. Drawing on the artist’s personal collection, including his final matchbook-cover series, the show traces his paintings from hopeful postwar roadside diners and motels to scenes of their decline. acagalleries.com
  • Yoshitomo Nara – David Zwirner. Nov 5 – Dec 12. 533 W 19th St and 537 W 20th St. Opening reception Nov 5, 6 – 8pm. Nara’s debut solo show with the gallery and his first major New York solo exhibition in close to ten years spans both spaces, with new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and earlier works selected by the artist. davidzwirner.com
  • Jasper Johns: Recent Drawings – Matthew Marks Gallery. Nov 5 – Jan 23, 2027. 526 W 22nd St. Opening reception Nov 4, 6 – 8pm. Tue – Sat 10am – 6pm. Twelve drawings from the past two years combine recurring motifs, including a boy’s silhouette from The Seasons, a Rubin’s vase of two facing profiles, the American Sign Language alphabet, and a figure inspired by Picasso’s Reclining Nude (1938); several works return to The Seasons, with a skeleton holding a skull in place of the artist’s shadow. matthewmarks.com
  • Robert H. Colescott: Cairo – Gladstone Gallery. Nov 5 – Dec 19. 515 W 24th St. The gallery’s first solo show with the artist since it began representing his Estate in 2025 focuses on his mid-1960s years in Cairo, Egypt, tracing how the city shifted his palette, figuration, and thinking about Black identity, from early tonal brown paintings to color-saturated later works. gladstonegallery.com
  • Inka Essenhigh – Miles McEnery Gallery. Nov 5 – Jan 9, 2027. 515 W 22nd St. The artist’s fourth show with the gallery explores landscapes, floral motifs, and still lifes, blurring the line between the natural and the imagined as her paintings move from the familiar toward dreamlike, vibrant scenes. milesmcenery.com
  • Donyel Ivy-Royal: By the time the rain comes, we will be home – Jack Shainman Gallery. Nov 5 – Dec 19. 513 W 20th St. jackshainman.com
  • Another World – Nagas. Nov 5 – Dec 12. 47 W 28th St, 2nd Fl. Wed – Sat 12 – 6pm. It brings together artworks from major artists of the Parisian Avant-garde and Surrealist movement: Roberto Matta, Louise Janin, Irène Lagut, Véronique Wirbel, Eric Cederberg, and Marcel Defize. https://nagas.art/exhibitions/16-another-world/overview/
  • The Other – Nara Roesler. Nov 5 – Jan 9, 2027. 511 W 21st St. An exhibition curated by Vik Muniz that is part of the yearlong program celebrating 50 years of Nara Roesler’s career as a gallerist. nararoesler.art
  • Tschabalala Self: Tools of Worship – Petzel. Nov 5 – Jan 30, 2027. 520 W 25th St. Tue – Sat 10am – 6pm. New paintings and the artist’s first concrete sculptures treat the human figure as a changeable vessel for identity, belief, and exchange, built from found textiles and drawing on devotional imagery. petzel.com
  • Ilan Averbuch: After the Fire – Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Nov 5 – Feb 3, 2027. 520 W 27th St. New granite and steel sculptures sit alongside drawings, many made from salvaged materials, exploring how memory, history, and inheritance stay inside physical objects. nancyhoffmangallery.com
  • Pam Glick: PG-13 – Nicola Vassell Gallery. Nov 5 – Dec 17. 138 Tenth Ave. Glick’s first solo show with the gallery, and her first body of work since returning to New York after 30 years away, combines grid-like structures with looping white lines and gestural marks over bold color fields. nicolavassell.com
  • Kim Tschang-Yeul: Recurrence – Tina Kim Gallery. Nov 5 – Dec 19. 525 W 21st St. The exhibition traces the evolution of Kim’s mature practice as he embraced a more tactile materiality, experimented with varied surfaces and grounds, and began working on a larger scale depicting luminous, hyperrealistic waterdrops.. tinakimgallery.com

Opened November 6

  • Jason Moran: STACKS – Luhring Augustine. Nov 6 – Dec 19. 531 W 24th St. Sits at the intersection of jazz, improvisation, and visual art, centered on a sculpture of two stacked parlor pianos. luhringaugustine.com
  • Li Hei Di: the year of mud – Pace. Nov 6 – Dec 19. 540 W 25th St. New paintings by the London-based artist blend figuration and abstraction, in her first solo show with Pace in New York. pacegallery.com
  • Lucas Samaras: Boxes and Reconstructions – Pace. Nov 6 – Jan 23, 2027. 540 W 25th St. Box sculptures from the 1960s through the 1980s are paired with never-before-seen fabric works from his 1979 Reconstructions series, showing how he turned everyday materials into self-contained, surreal environments about identity. pacegallery.com
  • Elmgreen & Dragset: TRANSITION – Pace. Nov 6 – Jan 16, 2027. Pace 510 West, 510 W 25th St. pacegallery.com
  • Kehinde Wiley: What the Light Becomes – Sean Kelly Gallery. Nov 6 – Dec 23. 475 Tenth Ave. Tue – Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 5pm. New paintings, oil studies, and a film portray ordinary New Yorkers met on the street, using Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons as a framework for change and renewal. skny.com

Opening November 12

  • Harmony Korine: UX LAM – Hauser & Wirth. Nov 12 – Jan 16, 2027. 443 W 18th St. Opening reception Nov 12, 6 – 8pm. Twelve new paintings mark Korine’s debut with the gallery, following his first US museum survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. hauserwirth.com
  • Mike Kelley: Jerry Meandering – Hauser & Wirth. Nov 12 – Jan 16, 2027. 443 W 18th St. Opening reception Nov 12, 6 – 8pm. Presented with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the show focuses on Kelley’s works on paper, including prints, drawings, and collages from his University of Michigan years (some shown publicly for the first time) and selections from Untitled (Collages 1974 – 2011). hauserwirth.com
  • Eric Zener: Liminal Spaces – Gallery Henoch. Nov 12 – Dec 5. 555 W 25th St. Tue – Sat 10:30am – 6pm. galleryhenoch.com

Still on View This Month

These opened in October and are still running:

  • Elaine de Kooning – Berry Campbell, 524 W 26th St. Through December 19. Paintings and works on paper from 1948 to 1988 span her abstractions, portraits, and sports and Bacchus scenes, in the first major solo show of her work since the National Portrait Gallery’s 2015 – 2016 exhibition. berrycampbell.com
  • Mildred Thompson: Cosmos Calling – Galerie Lelong, 528 W 26th St. Through December 19. Early-1990s Music of the Spheres paintings and selections from the Heliocentric Series are paired with their electronic music, shown publicly in New York for the first time. galerielelong.com
  • What Holds Us – Galerie Emmanuelle Grelier, 555 W 25th St. Through December 5.
  • Diana Kurz: Hidden in Plain Sight – Lincoln Glenn, 542 W 24th St. Through December 5. Small abstract paintings made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, found in her SoHo loft and unseen for decades. lincolnglenn.com
  • Karen Gunderson: Dark Waves Rising and Sharon Core: Flowering – Yancey Richardson, 525 W 22nd St. Through December 19. Gunderson’s first New York solo show in over a decade presents new works from her Moon and Water series, built from dense, layered brushwork that shifts with light; Core shows new photographs of flowers and plants from her garden, from bloom to decay. yanceyrichardson.com
  • Elizabeth Reagh: True Fiction and Robin Feld: Captured Brushstroke – The Painting Center, 547 W 27th St, Suite 500. Through November 21. Tue 10am – 4pm, Wed – Sat 11am – 6pm. Reagh reshapes observed and photographed subjects into imagined heads and figures; Feld’s collaged paintings (2023 – 2026) combine acrylic with imagery printed on acetate. thepaintingcenter.org
  • Brice Marden: I Am Plane Image – Gagosian, 522 W 21st St. Sep 15 – Dec 12. Tue – Sat 10am – 6pm. A survey of Marden’s paintings across six decades, including major institutional loans and rarely exhibited works, it focuses on his lifelong interest in the flat picture plane. gagosian.com
  • Channing Hansen: Metaphotical Spectra – Susan Inglett Gallery, 522 W 24th St. Through November 25. Hansen’s algorithm-based knitted textiles treat light as both a physical phenomenon and a generative force, drawing on research into light emitted by living organisms and on metaphysical ideas. inglettgallery.com
  • Gideon Rubin, Martine Gutierrez, and Luis Baylón: Cinématique – Ryan Lee Gallery, 515 W 26th St, 3rd Fl. Through December 23. ryanleegallery.com
  • Jeff Brouws: Silent Monoliths – Robert Mann Gallery, 508 W 26th St, Suite 4C. Through December 12. robertmann.com
  • Norman Lewis: Jumping Jive – Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 100 Eleventh Ave at 19th St. Through November 14. Tue – Sat 10am – 6pm, or by appointment. The gallery’s seventh Lewis solo show surveys more than four decades of paintings and drawings and examines how music, from jazz and blues to pop and reggae, shaped his figurative and abstract work. michaelrosenfeld.com
  • Julio Larraz: Revisiting the 1980s – Nohra Haime Gallery, 500A W 21st St. Through November 14. nohrahaimegallery.com

  • Start on West 24th and 25th Streets. Lisson, Luhring Augustine, Pace, and Lincoln Glenn are all within a block or two of each other.
  • Take the West 20th – 22nd Street corridor next. Jack Shainman, Nara Roesler, Tina Kim, Yancey Richardson, and Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street space are close together.
  • Save West 18th Street for November 12 or later. Hauser & Wirth’s Korine and Kelley shows open November 12.
  • Mind the closing dates. Norman Lewis at Michael Rosenfeld and Julio Larraz at Nohra Haime both close November 14.
  • Check reduced-hours spaces. Nagas, The Painting Center, and Sean Kelly keep slightly different hours than the standard Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm.

Frequently Asked Questions

When do Chelsea galleries open new shows in November 2026? The largest cluster opens November 4 – 6, with a smaller wave on November 12.

Are Chelsea galleries free to visit? Yes. All of the commercial galleries listed above are free and open to the public during posted hours.

What is the best day to visit? Tuesday through Saturday during regular hours. Most Chelsea galleries are closed Sundays and Mondays.

How does Chelsea compare with Tribeca and the Lower East Side? Chelsea has the most galleries and the largest rooms, Tribeca is more compact and walkable, and the Lower East Side skews smaller and more emerging.

Exhibition details are current as of early November 2026 and subject to change – check individual gallery websites for the latest hours and closing dates before you visit.