Through life-size textile sculptures of carcasses and severed trees, the artist invites viewers to experience ecological loss as intimate and immediate.

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.

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.

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.

Pro Arts’ annual Curators Choice exhibition presents the work of eight artists from Pro Arts' Meet The Curators portfolio reviews.

A solo exhibition of paintings by New Jersey-based artist Brendan McEvoy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Group exhibition of mixed-media works by Ellen Martin, Madison Rocap, and Richie Vicencio.

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.

Talita do Nascimento Cabral works with textiles, natural pigments, scraps of thread, found objects, plastic, insects, seeds, and plants in paintings, garments, sculptural forms, and participatory installations.

Mangino’s latest text paintings layer mysterious, poetic phrases onto vibrant abstract color fields, inviting new strategies of comprehension and reverie.

Group exhibition exploring the concept of "torn" through works shaped, in whole or in part, from the action of tearing.

At Rest explores the fragile space between life and death through hand-beaded flowers that embody decay and preservation.

Experience David Bailin’s large-scale drawings on milk carton overstock of humans mired in sinkholes of their own making.

Phil Courtney transforms everyday encounters into paintings that feel at once familiar and wonderfully unexpected, incorporating coastal scenes, wetsuit-clad surfers, and seaside life.

A solo photography exhibition by Jonathan Lipkin meditating on the infinite, time, and perception.

No Invite is a unique look into the fashion world captured on 35mm by Jersey City-based photographer Dan Bassini.

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.

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.

Evening Star Studio presents Eat It!, an exhibition of ceramics that explores food, eating, and community through ceramics.

New paintings by outsider artist Scott Harbison.

Featuring works by faculty and staff across fine art, interactive multimedia, and graphic design, this biennial exhibition celebrates creative practice and pedagogy at TCNJ.

Between Forms brings together women artists whose practices inhabit the space between abstraction and representation, memory and imagination, structure and intuition.

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.

An exhibition of floral paintings by New Jersey-based artist Anna Shukeylo.

A series of paintings and drawings inspired by the small, overlooked things around us.

In celebration of Art House Productions' 25th Anniversary, Creation from Destruction explores the transformative power of art in response to tragedy, and its unique capacity to preserve memory, foster healing, and inspire hope.

This two-person exhibition by Antoinette Wysocki and Jenny Reinhardt moves between three vantage points: landlocked, aerial, and that which can only be imagined.

An exhibition of work by American sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (1926-2026), who harnessed pieces of hardwood as his starting point for creative expression.

Fair-Weather Friend inhabits the uneasy space between who we are and who we have learned to be for others. Keister’s figures exist within a world of heightened femininity, suburban fantasy, domestic ritual, and manufactured ideals, where beauty, politeness, obedience, and belonging become forms of performance.

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.

An exhibition of monumental woodblock prints by 30 artists from across the US whose large-scale works push the medium far beyond its traditional boundaries.

Mixed-media, textile and painted works exploring archetype, myth, storytelling and symbolism, with a focus on themes of intimacy, metamorphosis, betrayal, and imperfection.

Curated by Adrienne Wheeler for the 25th anniversary of the Newark Arts Festival, celebrating the artists, ideas, and cultural leadership shaping Newark today.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.