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.

Ghada Amer: A New World, marks the artist’s conclusion of a three-year Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Council of Princeton, generously supported by Timothy M. Andrews. It is both record of that residency and reflection on our relationship with Ghada Amer, which began long before the residency itself.

Featuring Sam Gilliam’s piece Breeze, this installation encourages slow, mindful looking to explore the artist's intuitive, time-based painting process.

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.

This exhibition features new ceramic works by Hunterdon County artist, John Reinking, produced entirely from locally sourced clays and glaze materials.

In “All of Us,” Johan Wahlstrom explores the human figure as a vehicle for examining identity, social interaction, and the experience of contemporary life.

Chock full of surrealist landscapes rendered in rich elemental hues, the paintings in Rachel Bedder’s atmospheric solo show are deliberately ambiguous, and resist easy categorization.

Rachel Jackson’s work employs a recurring cast of characters to explore existential themes in a cartoonishly surreal way, creating an uncanny world where laughter and concern seem equally appropriate.

Group exhibition featuring work by 10 artists exploring the voices, experiences, and histories of the African diaspora.

Bringing together the work of 15 New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) members, The Art of Assembly explores community, collective identity, artistic freedom, and the changing social landscape of our time.

“In & Out of Balance” asks us to consider how visual weight, tension, and spatial harmony are managed within a work of art.

Imaginal Cells presents highlights of Milcah Bassel's recent work exploring the relationship between geometric and human patterns.

Step inside Bisa Butler Presents, a signature Newark Arts Festival exhibition curated by internationally acclaimed artist Bisa Butler.

Jin Jung is a visual artist based in Jersey City, whose work combines historical and scientific research with personal narratives, focusing on the untold stories of marginalized individuals through grassroots community outreach.

This exhibition brings together 20 artists with familial roots in Latin America, showcasing work that blurs the line between fantasy and reality.

Art House Productions presents Urban Decay, a solo exhibition by Jersey City artist Robert Bohn.

Root System is an outdoor group exhibition of ten site specific artworks made during a residency program hosted by Wildflower Sculpture Park.

Employing a unique technical approach, Lisa Alonzo contrasts colors, light, and surface to create vibrant and textured paintings that tackle complex and difficult themes including legal and unlawful environmental toxins, social media, propaganda, international conflicts, and whistleblowers.

Discover over 30 works by Leonor Fini, a leading 20th century European artist associated with the Paris Surrealist Movement.

A solo textile art exhibition by local East Orange fiber artist and master quiltmaker Glendora Simonson exploring African-American heritage, family, culture, and community memory.

Spanning three decades, this solo exhibition presents works from five of Winifred McNeill’s series, featuring drawings on challenging surfaces like pipes and shells.

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.

Fraction/Refraction brings together Kerr Cirilo, Clare Hu, and Basharat Ali Syed, whose image-based works push and pull highlighted, forgotten, or obscured layers of history to offer entry points into its constructed truths.

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.

Marking the start of their graduate studies, first-year MFA artists present a diverse array of interdisciplinary works.

An exhibition of large-scale ceramic works by eight New Jersey artists.

A lifetime of collecting fills the walls of Halsey Arts for this memorial exhibition dedicated to the late Daniel Kitchen.

A Place to Be Held is the first solo museum exhibition by NYC-based artist Maria Yolanda Liebana. Inspired by the birth of her daughter, Liebana explores motherhood as both a physical and spiritual terrain shaped by labor, wonder, and transformation, through bold mixed-media artworks and immersive installations.

The Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Bodies of Thought, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Stella Chang and Lucy Rovetto. Bringing together two distinct approaches to figurative painting, drawing, and mixed media. The exhibition explores the body as both subject and vessel, an outward form shaped by memory, emotion, identity, and experience.

Featuring contemporary works by immigrant artists, this exhibition explores themes of memory, identity, ritual, and transformation in the search for a new place to call home.

Galerie Lucida is pleased to present Limina, a solo exhibition of new sculpture with integrated drawing by Judi Tavill, and the debut of color in her work.

A Hundred Thousand Tender Hours presents photographs from Stephanie Schwiederek that trace the ongoing documentation of her mother, Anna. For years, Schwiederek referred to her mother as her muse, but that description only tells part of the story. What began as a record of her mother and her space gradually became a deeper confrontation with the complex relationship between mother and child. Photographing her mother became part of their shared life; a way to observe the tenderness, the repetition, and the quiet weight of home. Over time, the work expanded into something more reflective: a window into memory, a mirror of becoming, and a meditation on mortality.

Good Karma highlights art that can spark empathy, build relatability, and emphasize environmental, mental health, and identity advocacy through textile design and needlework.

A solo exhibition of work by New Jersey-based artist Valerie Huhn exploring the relationship between the fingerprint and identity.

A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Paulina Olivares rooted in her personal journey from Chile.

A solo exhibition of new paintings by New Jersey-based artist Mona Brody that express the weight of the human experience through color, texture, and form.

Highlighting regional artists, this exhibition examines how built and natural environments shape our understanding of climate change and ecological solutions across the region.

Installation bringing together three of Ruth Asawa's iconic wire sculptures from different periods.

Surveying nearly 90 iconic works, this retrospective highlights conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, connecting historical moments of resistance to contemporary life.

Curated by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, this statewide survey highlights works by visual artists living and working across New Jersey.

Artist Laylah Amatullah Barrayn re-examines the mid-century landscape of jazz through a layered reimagining of archival photography.

Pierogi, in partnership with Monira Foundation and Mana Contemporary, presents OPEN BOOK(S): Observations highlighting artist book makers who utilize the book to bring ideas to life through traditional and non-traditional book forms.

Visitors to the Museum of American Glass will encounter a site-specific window intervention by guest artist and curator, Jocelyne Prince.

Flat Files is an interactive archive and exhibition series featuring approximately 300 portfolios of original works on paper, highlighting over 30 artists from the Mana Contemporary community.

New pop-up galleries have opened at Lackawanna Station, bringing artwork from local sculptor Charlie Spademan and photographer Julia Gorton to the Little Shops wing.

An exhibition of Alida Fish's work over 50 years.

A solo exhibition by Mana Contemporary Studio Artist Kota Onouchi exploring the space before definition: the moment before identity takes form and interpretation becomes fixed.

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.

Five artists investigate the optical depth of a sheet of glass, manipulating light, surface, and refraction.

Modeled after the familiar visual language of an EXIT sign, ÉXITO by artist Chantal Fischzang transforms a symbol of departure into a declaration of possibility.

A Grandassa Sunday honors the legacy of the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS) and the Grandassa Models, whose Naturally shows helped define the “Black Is Beautiful” movement.

Shoshanna Weinberger's "Between the Trees and the Thicket: A Grove of Knowledge" transforms the Lecture Hall into an immersive landscape where nature, architecture, memory, and the exchange of ideas converge.

A contemporary artist’s irreverent take on The Tale of the Heike, the epic narrative about a famed Japanese civil war.

This photography exhibit, “A Sense of Place”, curated by Bob McKay and Dan Epstein, brings the work of exemplary photographers and their images into view.

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.

In this exhibition, filmmaker Chantal Feitosa-Desouza analyzes the screen as both a tool of witness and a site of limitation. At a moment when complex events are routinely compressed into clips, headlines, and rapidly circulating images, Feitosa-Desouza asks viewers to meditate with stories that cannot be contained in a single frame.

Spanning the career of Baltimore artist Joyce J. Scott, this exhibition showcases her intricate sculptural beadwork to create compelling, timely “declarations” connecting past and present themes of gun violence, misogyny, and racial injustice.

Spanning photography, sculpture, fiber, glass, printmaking, painting, drawing, and collage, the exhibition reflects the breadth of creative practices represented within the Hunterdon Art Museum member community.

Photographer Geoffrey Biddle’s Terms of Endearment will be on display in Marité and Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. The exhibition follows the many roles photography has played within his family over decades. Photographs made by his parents, pictures from his childhood, and images of his children and grandchildren trace Biddle’s changing position within a multigenerational family history

American by culture and education, but Italian by heritage and home life, the artists in "A Legacy of Making" draw from both sources to create art that speaks to the immigrant experience.

In the VACNJ Main Gallery, the group exhibition Precious & Temporary looks at family memory as a living material rather than a fixed record. The show includes work by Nick D’Ornellas, Nazli Efe, Colby Lamson-Gordon, Tone Miller, and Andina Marie Osorio.

Troy Jones reinterprets the mask as a living component of diasporic identity in bold, modern portraits.

Examining complex Indigenous and settler histories, artist Nadia Myre explores memory and identity through experimental ceramic sculptures, videos, and text-based works.

How We Got Over includes new works developed during Lonnie Holley's summer residency at ArtYard, nestled in the Delaware River Valley north of where the Declaration of Independence was signed, alongside selections spanning his remarkable career, inviting visitors into an artistic practice that continually gathers memory, experience, and imagination into new forms.

Centered on the serpent as an ancient symbol of cyclical time, transformation, and collective renewal, the exhibition invites visitors into an immersive environment where inherited ways of seeing give way to new possibilities for connection.

Focusing on Jean-Michel Basquiat's rare Blue Ribbon series, this exhibition investigates how the artist incorporated reproductive media to define 1980s visual culture.

Artists Dean Millien and Jude Tallichet’s experiments in tin, aluminum, and foil conjure a herd of imaginary childhood companions and a world of broken objects teetering towards collapse.

National Portrait Beauty Gallery offers a collection of portraits made by a coalition of artists working in different contemporary contexts, many of whom work in supported studios for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Prints, photographs, archival materials, and other works by Japanese and Japanese-American artists explore 150 years of cultural exchange between Japan and the United States.

Questioning conventional museum narratives, this exhibition invites viewers to engage critically with art, exploring the assumptions that shape how we look.

Through large-format photographs, Victoria Sambunaris documents an American terrain shaped by heavy industry, evolving infrastructure, and national expansion.

An exhibition of powerful prints by Black women artists with a connection to New Jersey, held in the Morven Museum's new Stockton Education Center.

In collaboration with RevolutionNJ, Liberty & Legacy explores revolutionary values, past and present, through works about equality, sovereignty, inclusion and exclusion, and political participation.

Focusing on Sam Gilliam's signature beveled-edge canvases from 1970–1972, this exhibition explores a pivotal period of spatial and structural innovation in abstract painting.

Artist Hilliary Gabryel reconstructs secondhand furniture, depicting neoclassical design motifs that have been translated from marble into vacuum-formed plastic headboards and vanity mirrors, examining aspirational luxury and mass-produced objects in contemporary American consumer culture.

Celebrating the 35-year legacy of Newark’s groundbreaking Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art, this sweeping exhibition features 44 local and global artists.

In Fervor, seeds, flowers, and spices from the Ecuadorian Andes are reimagined within a geometric composition designed as a site of transformation by artist Raul Ayala.

Developed while in residency at Express Newark, this work continues Ayana V. Jackson's exploration into the lives of Black and mestiza women who asserted themselves across social and geographic boundaries despite racial prejudice.

In Disco Calypso, Kevin Darmanie explores the ongoing exchange between Caribbean and American cultural expression through an immersive installation combining video, painting, pattern, sound, and live DJ performances.

Spotlighting pioneering women artists from the 1970s and 80s, this exhibition presents paintings and works on paper from Soviet-era nonconformist art movements.

Spanning an 80-foot earthen mural alongside ceramic and bronze sculptures, this solo exhibition explores migration, identity, and the demand for justice and human dignity.

You're Invited is an immersive site-specific installation by artist Kate Dodd in the Laurie Art Stairway, made primarily of excess printed Montclair Art Museum materials, that fully engages viewers in a sculptural experience that they can walk through.

Risham Syed addresses colonialism, capitalism, and climate change in an exhibition of works based on The Newark Museum of Art’s collection.

An immersive, site-specific installation featuring murals, textiles, and an engagement space that invites visitors to explore their relationship with time.