Get ready for a packed week of art openings and cultural events across downtown Manhattan. From June 19–21, galleries and creative spaces in the Lower East Side, Tribeca, East Village, and Two Bridges are hosting new exhibitions, late-night receptions, and community-driven happenings that make this one of the most exciting weeks of the summer art season.
This week’s guide includes curated highlights from across these downtown neighborhoods, plus a Friday night art map to help you navigate the dense lineup of Lower East Side gallery openings. Over in the East Village, expect boundary-pushing shows and intimate spaces, while Tribeca continues to deliver museum-quality solo exhibitions in grand architectural settings. And don’t miss a special celebration in Two Bridges, where a beloved vintage shop marks its one-year anniversary with an art-infused event.
Whether you’re an art collector, casual gallery hopper, or just looking for something new to do in downtown NYC, this guide to the week’s best openings and events in the LES, Tribeca, East Village, and Two Bridges has you covered.
Lower East Side | Thurs
ICP, 79 Essex Street, ‘The Great Acceleration’ by Edward Burtynsky, ‘Panjereh’ by Sheida Soleimani
East Village | Thurs
CLLCTV, 209 East 3rd street, A Mixtape of Memories’ 6:30pm-9:30pm
Tribeca | Thurs
Hesse Flatow, 77 Franklin St, ‘i still look for her in every lifetime’ by Andina Marie Osorio
Tribeca | Fri
Bienvenu Steinberg & J, 35 Walker Street, ‘Woven Abstractions’ by Lindberg, Marela Zacarías, and Ria Bosman
Hyacinth Gallery, 179 Canal St #4B, ‘Palimpsest’ by Joseph J. Greer
Lower East Side | Fri
Kates-Ferri Projects, 561 Grand Street, Sphere Not by Cecile Chong
Galeria Azur, 157 Bowery, ‘Here and There’
David Peter Francis, 35 East Broadway #3F, ‘Cognitive Fatigue’ by Jessica Vaughn
Marc Strauss, 299 Grand St, ‘Past Tense/Future Perfect’ by Christine Lee Tyler, Victoria Thorson, Estefania Velez Rodriguez, and Loretta Violante, work by Caleb Weiss + Luke Malaney
Space776, 37-39 Clinton St, Love Dive featuring Alex Katz, Marco Lodola, Damien Hirst, Sunjoo Chung, Richard Prince, and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St, All Art+ Summer Solstice, Concrete Myths
Westwood Gallery, 262 Bowery, ‘Cast Paper Reliefs, 1980s’ by Charles Hinman
Tribeca | Sat
15 Orient, 72 Walker Street, 3rd Floor, Selected Works 1978-2000 from Hudinilson Jr, 6pm-9pm
Lower East Side/Two Bridges | Sat
Time Again, 105 Canal St, Breakfast Club Tokyo Closing Party with performances, art curated by Entrance gallery
Fucking Awesome, 420 E 9th St, Converse/Breakfast Club Popup, 1pm-6pm
Galerie Shibumi, 13 Market St, Inside Rooms, Outside Spaces’ by Ira Oksman, 5pm-7pm
Blumka Contemporary, 170 Forsyth St, New Myths, Old Systems, 6pm-9pm
Hashimoto Contemporary, 54 Ludlow St, ‘Left Unsaid’ by Tania Alvarez, Sabrina Bockler, Allie Gattor, Rachel Gregor, Zoe Hawk, Nicholas Bono Kennedy, Thérèse Mulgrew, Cait Porter, Zack Rosebrugh, Sara Suppan, Natalie Terenzini, Angela Fang Zirbes, Jesse Zuo
Khata, 83A Hester St, 1st Year Anniversary with DJ (Mona Matsuoka), 7pm-10pm RSVP Email: communication@khataspace.com
Friday Art Map:
As the week’s gallery openings and downtown art events unfold across the Lower East Side, Tribeca, East Village, and Two Bridges, make time to experience i still look for her in every lifetime, the debut solo exhibition by New York-based artist Andina Marie Osorio at HESSE FLATOW. Osorio’s work stands out not only for its emotional depth but also for its formal innovation—melding photography, archival materials, and galvanized steel into sculptural installations that explore themes of queer identity, Afro-Caribbean heritage, Black femme desire, migration, and intergenerational memory. Her use of family photographs, worker IDs, and personal ephemera—some dating back to the 1930s—grounds her work in lived experience while opening up larger conversations about visibility, longing, and self-representation within the context of queer and diasporic life.
Drawing visual influence from Caribbean architectural forms and shaped by her experiences in communities like Brooklyn and Fire Island, Osorio’s practice offers an embodied, reflective approach to image-making—one that invites viewers to reconsider what archives can reveal and withhold. Her debut comes at a time when downtown Manhattan’s art scene is reasserting its importance as a hub for experimental, intimate, and politically engaged work. Whether you’re following our LES Friday night map, exploring new gallery spaces in Tribeca or Two Bridges, or celebrating local creativity at a vintage shop’s anniversary, Osorio’s exhibition provides a powerful anchor—offering quiet resonance amid the week’s many openings. Don’t miss the chance to experience one of the most thoughtful and affecting shows currently on view in downtown NYC.
Featured work above by Andina Marie Osorio at Hesse Flatow
