Independent New York 2025, the New Yorker of New York Art Fairs

Independent New York (Who is Danny/Adobe)

Independent New York 2025 is a contemporary art fair produced by insiders from New York City’s own art community. The world comes to New York to produce art fairs, but this is New York producing its own art fair. It’s the New Yorker of New York art fairs.

Independent 20th Century is the fall edition during Armory Week in September.

16th Independent New York 2025

Independent New York 2025, the New Yorker of New York City’s contemporary art fairs, presents over 118 artists from 85 galleries and a new curatorial initiative “Independent Debuts” featuring artists with no more than one solo show in New York and never in an art fair; at Spring Studios in Tribeca, Manhattan; with a vernissage on Thursday, May 8; and the public fair from Friday-Sunday, May 9-11, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Mitchell-Innes & Nash offers a solo presentation of works by American American performance artist Pope.L 🇺🇸

These are some of the Latin galleries:

Addis Fine Art of London, England and Addis Adaba, Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Bradley Ertaskiran of Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦
Cibrián of San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa (Basque), Spain 🇪🇸
Curro of Guadalajara, Mexico 🇲🇽
Parliament of Paris, France 🇫🇷
P420 of Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹
Galerie Sator of Romainville, France 🇫🇷
Suprainfinit of Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Vistamare of Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

15×15: Independent 2010-2024

15×15: Independent 2010-2024, Independent New York’s fifteenth anniversary contemporary art fair, features artists and galleries who have contributed to Independent’s development; at Spring Studios in Tribeca, Manhattan; from Thursday-Sunday, May 9-12, 2024. From $45. 🇺🇸 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇯🇲 🇰🇪 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇸🇴

This is Independent New York’s 15th anniversary art fair. It is curated by Independent founder Elizabeth Dee and founding curatorial advisor Matthew Higgs.

Participating artists and galleries:

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones presented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York. 🇳🇬
Adeniyi-Jones is Brooklyn English Yoruba. He paints the African body in the spiritual realm. He is very metaphysical. His use of color and pattern reminds us of traditional Yoruba headdresses. Like one who sees, Adeniyi-Jones brings the past into the future. We don’t know his heritage country, but the Yoruba people are spread across Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. @tunjiaj
Margot Bergman presented by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago and Anton Kern, New York
McArthur Binion presented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, London and Seoul
Beau Dick presented by Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver
vanessa german presented by Kasmin Gallery, New York
Jameson Green presented by Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Donna Huanca presented by Peres Projects, Berlin, Milan and Seoul. 🇧🇴
Huanca is a Bolivian American artist, living in Berlin. Her work often blends painting, sculpture, and performance. She uses color, form, and pattern to fool the eye. Her body of work includes her own body. At a quick glance, you might not realize that there is a live person in that painted sculpture. @ruaminx
Tomashi Jackson presented by Tilton Gallery, New York 🇺🇸
Jackson is an African American mixed media artist who works across painting, video, textiles, and sculpture. She was in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her theme is the oppression of Black people under cover of abstract expressionism. @tomashi_ashi | jacktiltongallery.com
Elisabeth Kley presented by Canada, New York
Alice Mackler presented by Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York
Fernando Marques Penteado presented by Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, New York, Paris and São Paulo. 🇧🇷
Marques Penteado (1955) is a Brazilian artist who works in Brussels, Belgium. He works with textiles and collage on the subject of human relations and the displacement thereof. He must be very inspired by the present moment. mendeswooddm.com
Joel Mesler presented by White Columns, New York
Peter Nadin presented by Off Paradise, New York
Ruby Neri presented by David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and New York
Kent O’Connor presented by Matthew Brown, Los Angeles
Martín Ramírez presented by Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. 🇲🇽
Ramírez (1895-1963) was a self-taught artist born in Jalisco, Mexico who moved to California to work and support his family. He spent the later part of his life in mental hospitals for catatonic schizophrenia. In that condition, one may be overly still, or overly active. Even so, he is acknowledged master of outsider art (self-taught art). He was a fine draftsman whose drawings of both Mexican and American life are a bit surreal. But then Andre Bretón, the founder of Surrealism, said that, “Mexico tends to be the utmost surrealist place.”
Akeem Smith presented by Heidi, Berlin. 🇯🇲
Smith was raised in Jamaica and New York City. His installations, videos, and performances reflect Caribbean life. They may be exotic to New Yorkers, but look like home to Caribbeans. We don’t have much, but make do with what we have. He uses found objects which bring to mind the general decay of the tropics, and often expresses poetic irony. @akeemouch
Uman presented by Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York. 🇸🇴 🇰🇪
Uman is a self-taught East African artist, born in Somalia, raised in Kenya and Denmark, and now a New Yorker. She is a painter whose work has a sophisticated childlike quality that seems to be of both this world and the next. It’s so refreshing to see natural talent. Uman wasn’t made an artist. She was born one. nicolavassel.com