Past Events
A look back at this fall’s contemporary art exhibitions and events across the state.

Oct 18th 3 to 6pm
Flemington DIY
FLOCK TOGETHER!
Hunterdon
26 Stangl Rd, Flemington, NJ 08822, USA
Let's celebrate our feathered friends all month long! Join us for FLOCK TOGETHER! an art show all about birds, open all month.

Oct 24th 7 to 11pm
Princeton University Art Museum
Museum for All Ball
Mercer
45 Elm Dr, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
The Museum for All Ball is the Princeton University Art Museum's annual celebration for local arts and culture lovers! Join the Museum for an evening of art, dancing, food, and fashion. By supporting the ball, you further their mission of providing access to world-class art for all.

Oct 10th to Oct 24th
The 1978 Maplewood Arts Center
Proof of Existence: Artifacts made in community
Essex
1978 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ 07040, USA
Join artist and Oakland Road Art Club founder Katey Darago for a month-long community artist residency exploring creativity, sculpture, and the possibilities of found materials.

Oct 24th 6 to 8pm
ArtYard
Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception 2026
Hunterdon
13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA
Join ArtYard for the opening of three new exhibitions and a celebration of its 10th anniversary season.

Oct 24th 10am to 4pm
Grounds for Sculpture
MEB Open Studio
Mercer
80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton Township, NJ 08619, USA
Meet the artists who call Grounds For Sculpture their creative home. Step inside their studios, ask questions, learn about their processes, and discover the stories behind their artwork.

Oct 3rd to Oct 24th
Watchung Arts Center
Tatyana Kazakova: Symphony for the Unnoticed
Somerset
18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA
Tatyana Kazakova’s new drawings and paintings are inspired by the plants, weeds, and small details of nature that surround us every day, but that we often walk past without noticing.

Oct 3rd to Oct 24th
Watchung Arts Center
Anna Shukeylo: Entropic Flora
Somerset
18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA
An exhibition of floral paintings by New Jersey-based artist Anna Shukeylo.

Oct 23rd 12 to 6pm
MORA Museum of Art
Artist Meet & Greet: Principle Material
Hudson
80 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
Join Principle Material artists and curator to see and learn about the exhibition on view featuring work by the Sculptors Guild.

Sept 18th to Oct 23rd
Studio Montclair Leach Gallery
We the People
Essex
641 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
Reflecting on America’s 250-year experiment in democracy, this exhibition invites artists to explore core constitutional ideals: justice, domestic tranquility, the general welfare, and liberty for present and future generations.

Sept 18th to Oct 23rd
Sfumato Gallery
Between Forms
Bergen
24 Booker St, Westwood, NJ 07675, USA
Between Forms brings together women artists whose practices inhabit the space between abstraction and representation, memory and imagination, structure and intuition.

Oct 20th 7 to 9pm
Montclair Art Museum
Book Talk: Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop by Avis Berman
Essex
3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
Join art historian Avis Berman, author of the forthcoming Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop, as she explores Roy Lichtenstein’s journey from an obscure artist to a defining figure of American Pop art.

Oct 19th 6 to 8pm
Pierro Gallery
Artist Talk with Judy Targan
Essex
5 Mead St, South Orange Village, NJ 07079, USA
Join the Pierro Gallery for an artist talk with South Orange artist Judy Targan, who will discuss her current exhibition, "A Life in Art."

Oct 18th 11am to 6pm
Art City New Brunswick
Art City New Brunswick
Middlesex
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Outdoor festival celebrating contemporary art, culture, and community in New Brunswick, featuring visionary artists alongside immersive installations, live performance, and large-scale creative experiences.

Sept 2nd to Oct 18th
TCNJ Art Gallery
Out of the Studio: The TCNJ Biennial Faculty Exhibition
Mercer
2000 Pennington Rd, Ewing Township, NJ 08628, USA
Featuring works by faculty and staff across fine art, interactive multimedia, and graphic design, this biennial exhibition celebrates creative practice and pedagogy at TCNJ.

Oct 18th 12 to 2 pm
DC Gallery & Studio
Pumpkin Carving Linocut Print Workshop
Cumberland
508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA
Get into the spooky spirit and learn the art of block printing by creating your own custom pumpkin inspired art prints!

Sept 19th 6 to 9pm
Galerie Lucida
Scott Harbison, Recent Sightings
Monmouth
18 Wallace St.
New paintings by outsider artist Scott Harbison.

Sept 11th to Oct 18th
Evening Star Studios Gallery
Eat It!
Hudson
11 Monitor St, Jersey City, NJ 07304, USA
Evening Star Studio presents Eat It!, an exhibition of ceramics that explores food, eating, and community through ceramics.

Oct 18th 4 to 6pm
Galerie Lucida
Closing Reception - Scott Harbison - Recent Sightings
Monmouth
18 Wallace St, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
This is the final weekend to see these works in person.
After a successful, five week exhibition, many of the creatures have found new homes, here and abroad. We’ll close the show with a reception for the artist and an artist talk with Scott and gallery director, Michael Mazzeo. We’ll also be giving out door prizes, one of which is an original painting by Scott Harbison! Don’t miss out!

Oct 17th - 18th 12 to 5pm
Manufacturers Village
Manufacturers Village Artists Fall Open Studios
Essex
340-364 Glenwood Ave, East Orange, NJ 07017, USA
Manufacturers Village Artists Fall Open Studios showcases more than 35 artists and makers including painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and installation artists, all housed in a 19th-century factory complex typically closed to the public.

Oct 18th 11am to 6pm
coLAB Arts Studios
Art City
Middlesex
6 Kirkpatrick St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Join coLAB Arts and 100 art vendors, activations, and installations as Art City transforms Downtown New Brunswick into an open-air celebration of art, culture, and community.

Aug 24th to Oct 17th
Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art
Diane Burko: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes
Gloucester
301 High St W, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
Spanning painting and sculpture, artist Diane Burko examines the theme of extraction through three interconnected bodies of work, exploring Arctic climate research to Amazon deforestation.

Oct 3rd 2 to 4pm
One River Englewood
Saul Chernick
Bergen
49 N Dean St, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA
Saul Chernick's solo exhibition, I speak in Birdsong, invites viewers to engage through feeling, symbolism, and personal interpretation, embracing the mystery of communication that cannot always be articulated.

Oct 16th 6 to 8pm
DC Gallery & Studio
Effect of Entropy Opening Reception
Cumberland
508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA
DC Gallery & Studio is pleased to present visual artists Sarah Balough and Hanna Vogel in our brand-new exhibition, EFFECT OF ENTROPY.

Oct 15th 5 to 6:30pm
The Noyes Arts Garage
Opening Reception: Disturbing the Surface Contemporary Printmaking by the American Color Print Society
Atlantic
2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401, USA
Showcasing work by members of the American Color Print Society, this exhibition spans traditional and contemporary approaches, from etching and lithography to cyanotype, risograph, digital printmaking, relief, and screenprint.

Oct 15th 5 to 9pm
The Newark Museum of Art
DREAMTIME IN NEWARK Book Launch & Opening Reception
Essex
49 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Join The Newark Museum of Art for the opening of their newest exhibition Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art.

Sep 9th to Oct 15th
James Kerney Campus Gallery
No Invite: Ten Years of Capturing Fashion Week by Any Means Necessary A Retrospective by Dan Bassini
Mercer
137 N Broad St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA
No Invite is a unique look into the fashion world captured on 35mm by Jersey City-based photographer Dan Bassini.

Oct 14th 5:30 to 7:30pm
Karl and Helen Burger Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections
Opening Reception: Twisting Wool into Thread: Works by Marcy Chevali
Union
1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083, USA
In Marcy Chevali’s work, glass expands and contracts. Thin and transparent borosilicate glass rods are bent into shape with a torch and adjoined to form an irregular grid. These grids appear to swell, as if cast around an invisible, dimensional form. Chevali refers to the structures she makes out of glass, metal, and sometimes mohair as “nets.” No matter the material, the treatment is similar; wire and mohair are likewise knotted or interlaced. This solo exhibition presents fifteen works by the artist.

Sep 9th to Oct 14th
Berrie Center
Translucence of Time: Jonathan Lipkin
Bergen
505 Ramapo Valley Rd, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA
A solo photography exhibition by Jonathan Lipkin meditating on the infinite, time, and perception.

Oct 2nd to Oct 12th
Wooden Walls Project
PlusOne
Monmouth
Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA
Enjoy a three-weekend art party in Asbury Park, with large-scale murals, installations, immersive experiences, and a lineup of artist talks, tours, and workshops.

Sep 12th-Oct 12th
Jawbone Gallery
Phil Courtney: Beyond the Moment
Cape May
31 Perry St, Cape May, NJ 08204, USA
Phil Courtney transforms everyday encounters into paintings that feel at once familiar and wonderfully unexpected, incorporating coastal scenes, wetsuit-clad surfers, and seaside life.

Jun 27th-Oct 11th
ArtYard
David Bailin: A Divine Comedy
Hunterdon
13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA
Experience David Bailin’s large-scale drawings on milk carton overstock of humans mired in sinkholes of their own making.

Oct 11th 12 to 4pm
Open Doors Studio Tour
Open Doors Studio Tour
Essex
Newark, NJ, USA
A Newark Arts Festival tradition, Open Doors invites you inside Newark’s studios and creative spaces to meet artists and discover new work.

Oct 11th 4 to 8pm
Halsey Art Center
Opening Reception: In Memoriam: Daniel Kitchen's Art Collection
Essex
119 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
A lifetime of collecting fills the walls of Halsey Arts for this memorial exhibition dedicated to the late Daniel Kitchen.

Jun 27th-Oct 11th
ArtYard
Rebecca Reeves: At Rest
Hunterdon
13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA
At Rest explores the fragile space between life and death through hand-beaded flowers that embody decay and preservation.

Sept 12th 6 to 9pm
Drawing Rooms
TORN
Hudson
926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
Group exhibition exploring the concept of "torn" through works shaped, in whole or in part, from the action of tearing.

Jun 27th-Oct 11th
ArtYard
Michael Angelo Mangino: Vanishing Point Forever
Hunterdon
13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA
Mangino’s latest text paintings layer mysterious, poetic phrases onto vibrant abstract color fields, inviting new strategies of comprehension and reverie.

Oct 11th 1 to 5pm
Index Art Center
Index Open Studios
Essex
89 Market St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Featured Artist Studios: Jeanne Brasile, And/Or Films (Colin Shields), Sunil Garg, Juno Zago, Jaz Graf, and Mark Hartmann (Mark the Spark).

Oct 10th-11th 6 to 8pm
SMUSH Gallery
Cryptid Mountain Live
Hudson
340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
Cryptid Mountain is a live multimedia reimagining of the Jersey Devil myth, think Jersey Devil meets Dante’s “Inferno.”

Oct 7th - 11th
Newark Arts
Newark Arts Festival
Essex
Newark, NJ, USA
Celebrate 25 years of Newark Arts Festival, New Jersey’s largest and longest-running arts festival, with five days of citywide art exhibitions, live performances, workshops, and more.

Jun 19th-Oct 11th
Project for Empty Space
Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony
Essex
800 Kenneth Gibson Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102
Through installation, performance, and collage, Noelle Lorraine Williams uses a multidisciplinary approach through her project Black Power! 19th Century, exploring how Black women and their descendants lived under systems that treated them as property within expanding Colonial economies.

Sep 10th-Oct 11th
Drawing Rooms
Alcove Gallery
Hudson
926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
Group exhibition of mixed-media works by Ellen Martin, Madison Rocap, and Richie Vicencio.

Oct 11th 1 to 5pm
Project for Empty Space
Project for Empty Space Open Studios
Essex
800 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Explore four floors of artist studios and community workshop spaces while enjoying a warm brunch and breakfast cocktails.

Sep 10th -Oct 11th
Drawing Rooms
Paul Santoleri
Hudson
926 Newark Ave t101, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
In this immersive solo exhibition, Paul Santoleri presents room-scale drawings based on emotions, patterns, movement, and instinct, where the viewer experiences the work by walking through it.

Oct 10th 2 to 4pm
Watchung Arts Center
Opening Reception: Anna Shukeylo: Entropic Flora
Somerset
18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA
An exhibition of floral paintings by New Jersey-based artist Anna Shukeylo.

Oct 10th 6 to 8pm
NOVADO GALLERY
Opening Reception: ALL OF US
Hudson
110 Morgan St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
In “All of Us,” Johan Wahlstrom explores the human figure as a vehicle for examining identity, social interaction, and the experience of contemporary life.

Oct 10th 9 to 11am
Parq930
David Rios Ferreira + Eirini Linardaki: New Murals Celebration + Tour!
Essex
930 McCarter Hwy, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Join David & Eirini for a morning celebration to experience their new murals, commissioned by the City of Newark and Boraie Development.

Oct 10th 6 to 9pm
Akwaaba Gallery
Opening Reception: Voices of the Diaspora
Essex
509 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Group exhibition featuring work by 10 artists exploring the voices, experiences, and histories of the African diaspora.

Oct 10th 2 to 4pm
Watchung Arts Center
Opening Reception: Tatyana Kazakova: Symphony for the Unnoticed
Somerset
18 Stirling Rd, Watchung, NJ 07069, USA
Tatyana Kazakova’s new drawings and paintings are inspired by the plants, weeds, and small details of nature that surround us every day, but that we often walk past without noticing.

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm
Makerhoods Courtyard
Affordable Art Market
Essex
601 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Browse and shop original artwork from local artists and makers, with pieces priced at $500 or less.

Oct 9th 6 to 10pm
Newark ArtSpace
Opening Reception: Bisa Butler Presents
Essex
355 Broad St, Newark, NJ 07104, USA
Step inside Bisa Butler Presents, a signature Newark Arts Festival exhibition curated by internationally acclaimed artist Bisa Butler.

Oct 9th 6 to 10pm
NICO Kitchen + Bar
Newark Arts Festival - Art Night Out
Essex
One Center St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Explore Downtown Newark during Art Night Out, a neighborhood art crawl filled with exhibitions, performances, pop-ups and more.

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm
Mulberry Commons
Newark Grounds FALL NIGHT FEST
Essex
Mulberry St, Newark, NJ, USA
Newark's evening makers festival returns, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.

Oct 9th 5 to 9pm
Newark Grounds
Newark Grounds FALL NIGHT FEST
Essex
Mulberry St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Newark's evening makers festival returns, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.

Oct 8th 6:30 to 8pm
The Newark Public Library
Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist Jimena Vega
Essex
5 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Join the Newark Public Library for an artist talk with Jimena Vega, presented with the Price Institute at Rutgers-Newark.

Sept 23rd 5 to 8pm
The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University
Annie Norbeck: Afield
Essex
120 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006, USA
In Afield, painter Annie Norbeck explores the visual and emotional landscape of being far from home, treating the land as a shifting record of distance, transience, and memory.

Oct 7th 5 to 10pm
Express Newark
Newark Arts Festival - 2026 Festival Kickoff
Essex
54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Kick off the 25th Newark Arts Festival with three floors of art, live music, performances, open studios and more at Express Newark.

Oct 7th 6:30 to 8pm
Express Newark
Newark Arts Festival - Artist Talk: Bisa Butler On Purpose.
Essex
54 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Bisa Butler joins Salamishah Tillet for an intimate conversation exploring purpose, artistic practice, and the ideas behind her work.

Oct 6th 5:30 to 7:30pm
Nancy Dryfoos Gallery- Kean Galleries and Collections
Opening Reception: Scratch and Tear: Works by Winifred McNeill
Union
1003 Morris Ave Unit 2, Union, NJ 07083, USA
Spanning three decades, this solo exhibition presents works from five of Winifred McNeill’s series, featuring drawings on challenging surfaces like pipes and shells.

Oct 5th to Dec 27th
Midland Park Memorial Library
UNDERSTORY
Bergen
250 Godwin Ave, Midland Park, NJ 07432, USA
The Midland Park Memorial Library is pleased to showcase Understory, an exhibition by local artist Geraldine Abdoo.

Oct 4th 12 to 4pm
The Sperlak Gallery & Sculpture Gardens
Opening Reception: Jacqueline Boyd: In the Making
Cape May
521 NJ-47, Cape May Court House, NJ 08210, USA
In the Making, presented through Stanek Gallery’s OUTSIDE THE BOX programming, marks the debut of Jacqueline Boyd’s Ephemeral series, a new body of mixed media works that lingers in the space between making and memory.

Oct 2nd - 4th
ARTS 14C
JCAST at 150 Bay
Hudson
150 Bay St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
For the 37th Annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, 150 Bay Street opens all its doors for a weekend of open studios, exhibitions, performances, installations and more.

Oct 3rd - 4th 10am to 5pm
Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center
Festival of Fine Craft
Cumberland
1501 Glasstown Rd, Millville, NJ 08332, USA
Celebrating 27 years of artistic excellence at the Festival of Fine Craft at WheatonArts! At this crowd-favorite South Jersey two-day event, engage with a diverse collection of 150+ artists exhibiting and selling their handcrafted works of art.

Oct 1st - 4th Check for times.
Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST)
Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST)
Hudson
Jersey City, NJ, USA
Celebrating Jersey City's vibrant creative community, this citywide festival highlights over 200 artist studios, 100 gallery exhibitions, hands-on workshops, and live performances.

Sep 10th to Oct 4th
Artists' Gallery
Vibrant Views
Hunterdon
18 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ 08530, USA
Recent paintings by TingTing Hsu and Michael Schweigart, highlighting the beauty and contemplation found in landscape art.

Oct 3rd 12 to 5pm
Alyce Gottesman Studio
JCAST Open Studios: Alyce Gottesman and Donna Bassin
Hudson
225 New York Ave #2, Jersey City, NJ 07307, USA
Open Studios with Alyce Gottesman and Donna Bassin. This event is part of Jersey City Art Studio Tour

Aug 29th to Sep 3rd
Arts Council of Princeton
Echoes in Our Bones: The Empowering Legacy of Black Women Artists in American Art and Culture
Mercer
102 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
Pairing works by artists from past and present generations, such as Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler, this exhibition explores how themes of identity, history, and cultural resilience have endured and transformed over time.

Oct 3rd 11am to 5pm
Galerie Lucida
The Photo Reimagined with Gerald Slota
Monmouth
18 Wallace St.
A one-day, hands-on, creative photography workshop led by Gerald Slota.

Aug 29th to Sep 3rd
Arts Council of Princeton
Rooted in Bloom
Mercer
102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
Using bold color and gestural forms, Prajakta Joshi’s paintings move beyond traditional depictions of flowers and landscapes, seeking instead to translate the invisible pulse of living things.

Oct 3rd 11am to 3pm
Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center
Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds: Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center
Bergen
2018 Hudson Terrace, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA
Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds is a traveling installation and participatory ritual series by Idlewild Experiential and Nandi Jordan as part of Monument Lab's "Revolutionary Acts" performance and public art series. By activating historic locations across the state, Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds invites residents and visitors to reflect on memory, resilience, and the stories that continue to shape civic life.

Oct 3rd 4 to 8pm
MORA Museum of International Art
Opening Reception: Principle Material
Hudson
80 Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
Sculptors Guild presents Principle Material as part of the 37th Annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST), a citywide celebration of art across Jersey City.

Oct 2nd 6:30 to 8:30pm
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Fall Exhibitions Opening
Union
68 Elm St, Summit, NJ 07901, USA
Join the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey for the opening of its four fall exhibitions.

Oct 2nd 6 to 9pm
Project 14C
Opening Reception: You Again
Hudson
157 1st St 2nd fl, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
Selected works from Project 14C's Special Project Residencies 2025-2026.

Oct 2nd 5 to 8pm
coLAB Arts Studios
Misha Tyutyunik Open Studio and Gallery Opening
Middlesex
9 Bayard St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Misha Tyutyunik is a Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based painter, muralist, street artist, illustrator, and virtual reality artist who collaborates with communities around the world to create public art.

Oct 2nd 6:30 to 9pm
SMUSH Gallery
Meet the Artist: Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings by Rachel L Bedder
Hudson
340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
Meet Rachel L Bedder, the artist featured in Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings on view at SMUSH Gallery during JCAST.

Oct 2nd 6 to 8pm
Arts Council of Princeton
ACP BYOB: Wheel Ceramics
Mercer
102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
Beginner-friendly intro to wheel ceramics!

Oct 2nd 6 to 8pm
The Art Generators Gallery
Opening Reception: Delightfully Strange
Essex
14 Newark Way, Maplewood, NJ 07040, USA
Featuring work by local and regional artists, Delightfully Strange invites visitors into a collection that steps outside the expected, leaning into the unusual, curious, surreal, eccentric and wonderfully weird.

Oct 2nd 3 to 4:30pm
Creative Arts Center
Teen Open Studio
Hudson
242 10th St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
Teen Open Studio is a free drop-in after-school artmaking program for ages 12 and up. Each week has a different core focus while remaining a space for teens to experiment with new art mediums and hang out.

Oct 1st 6 to 8pm
GALLERY491
Opening Reception: Paulina Olivares: Memories
Essex
491 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Paulina Olivares rooted in her personal journey from Chile.

Oct 1st 6 to 9pm
Roig Collection Art Gallery x Ria Gallery
Frame Your Space
Essex
204 Bellevue Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
Ricardo Roig welcomes you to his new Art Gallery in Upper Montclair for his hand-cut prints on paper, with an opening hosted by DWELL NJ.

Oct 1st 5 to 6:30pm
Arts Council of Princeton
In Conversation | “Silks” by Laura Wheeler Waring
Mercer
102 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
Come listen to an intriguing art detective story about a painting by Laura Wheeler Waring, an African American artist whose portraits of Black Americans are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, that has been hidden in an attic for 110 years.

Aug 5th to Sep 30th
Barsky Annex
Brendan McEvoy: DON'T LOOK! KALEIDOSCOPE
Hudson
46 Newark Street Ground Floor Lobby, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Brendan McEvoy.

Sep 29th 7 to 9pm
DC Gallery & Studio
September Artist Meetup
Cumberland
508 N High St, Millville, NJ 08332, USA
Join us for a monthly networking event and get the scoop on new & local art opportunities!

Sep 28th 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Kean University
Opening Reception: Human Family: Works on Paper by Otávio Roth
Union
1000 Morris Ave, Union, NJ 07083, USA
Human Family: Works on Paper by Otávio Roth shares the artist’s 1978 series of prints illustrating all thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a statement of self-determination inspired by our nation’s founding documents.

Sep 27th 2 to 4pm
Hunterdon Art Museum
Fall Exhibition Opening Reception
Hunterdon
7 Lower Center St, Clinton, NJ 08809, USA
Join the Hunterdon Art Museum for a shared Opening Reception celebrating three dynamic fall exhibitions that explore cultural heritage, contemporary narrative, and creative experimentation.

Sep 27th 12 to 4pm
Frontline Arts
Make Your Mark: Frontline Arts Community Day
Somerset
440 River Rd, Branchburg, NJ 08876, USA
Join Frontline Arts for a family-friendly community arts event, including paper-crafting activities, printmaking, and papermaking.

Sep 27th 11am to 1pm
Heidi Gallery
Beyond the Paper: Building Dynamic Mixed Media Collages
Essex
310 Eisenhower Pkwy, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA
In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of color theory, proper collage techniques, and how to make a composition that has visual interest and cohesion.

Sep 11th to Sep 27th
Pro Arts Jersey City
Curators Choice 2026
Hudson
157 1st St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
Pro Arts’ annual Curators Choice exhibition presents the work of eight artists from Pro Arts' Meet The Curators portfolio reviews.

Sep 27th 2 to 4pm
Heidi Gallery at JSDD
WAE Studio Art Sale & Exhibit 2026
Essex
310 Eisenhower Pkwy, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA
Experience the work of WAE Center Studio Artists across a rich range of mediums, textures, and colors. Fall in love with a piece? Take it right off the wall and bring it home with you!

Jun 27th to Sep 27th
ArtYard
Cassie Arnold: Mom Bras
Hunterdon
13 Front St, Frenchtown, NJ 08825, USA
Mom Bras celebrates the natural curves, scars, wrinkles, hairs, and textures of breasts and helps us tell the story of who we collectively are as women.

Sep 12th to Sept 26th
Art Alliance of Monmouth County
Imagine
Monmouth
33 Monmouth St, Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
“Imagine” is an Art Alliance of Monmouth County members exhibition.

Sep 26th 11am to 3pm
Johnson Cemetery Memorial Park
Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds: Historic Johnson Cemetery Memorial Park
Camden
S 38th St & Federal St, Camden, NJ 08105, USA
Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds is a traveling installation and participatory ritual series by Idlewild Experiential and Nandi Jordan as part of Monument Lab's "Revolutionary Acts" performance and public art series. By activating historic locations across the state, Ceremony for Revolutionary Seeds invites residents and visitors to reflect on memory, resilience, and the stories that continue to shape civic life.

Sep 25th 6 to 8pm
The Center for Contemporary Art
Opening Reception: Fired En Masse
Somerset
2020 Burnt Mills Rd, Bedminster, NJ 07921, USA
An exhibition of large-scale ceramic works by eight New Jersey artists.

Sep 10th to Sep 25th
IMUR
Moment / Memory | Traces of Presence
Hudson
67 Greene St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA
A collaborative exhibition by Fine Art Academy of Montclair and IMUR, presenting works that reflect personal recollections, family histories, cultural narratives, changing environments, or the subtle evidence of human presence.

Sep 24th 6:30 to 8:30pm
Flemington DIY
Small Works Artist Talks
Hunterdon
26 Stangl Rd, Flemington, NJ 08822, USA
FOUR ARTISTS TAKE ON SMALL WORKS. Exploring ideas, techniques, and creative processes in creating impactful small works and an informal + fun critique.

Sep 24th 4 to 7pm
Kean Jersey City Campus
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Milcah Bassel: Imaginal Cells
Hudson
100 Culver Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA
Imaginal Cells presents highlights of Milcah Bassel's recent work exploring the relationship between geometric and human patterns.

Sep 24th 7 to 8:30pm
Katelyn Halpern
Artist Talk - Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon: Surrealist Paintings by Rachel L Bedder
Hudson
340 Summit Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA
Join artist Rachel L Bedder, SMUSH gallerist Katelyn Halpern, and fellow artist Buttered Roll in conversation about the gently strange world of Cat, Stick, Easel, Moon. Happening at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City, NJ!

Sep 4th to Sep 24th
coLAB Arts Studios
Dennis RedMoon Darkeem Open Studio and Gallery Opening
Middlesex
6 Kirkpatrick St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is a New York-based, Afro-Indigenous interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, film, collage, public murals, and socially engaged practice.

Sep 24th 5:30 to 7:30pm
Arts Council of Princeton
Re-visioning America Gallery Crawl
Mercer
Princeton, NJ, USA
A community collaboration showcasing art about the past, present, and future of the nation.

Sep 23rd 5 to 8pm
The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Annie Norbeck: Afield
Essex
120 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006, USA
In Afield, painter Annie Norbeck explores the visual and emotional landscape of being far from home, treating the land as a shifting record of distance, transience, and memory.

Sep 23rd 6 to 8pm
Pierro Gallery at The Baird Community Center
Opening Reception: Judy Targan: A Life In Art
Essex
5 Mead St, South Orange Village, NJ 07079, USA
Spanning work from the 1940s through the present day, the exhibition traces South Orange artist Judy Targan's artistic evolution over her eight-decade career.