Hudson Valley (+vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: August, 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / It has been a really busy summer in the Hudson Valley, and as we move into August the momentum continues with dozens of noteworthy exhibitions throughout the region. Highlights include Ashley Garrett’s solo show opening August 16 at SEPTEMBER in Kinderhook, Janet Biggs’ multi-channel installation Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858) at Private Public Gallery in Hudson, In This Here Place, We Flesh at Gallery 495 in Catskill, Jeanette Fintz and Monika Zarzeczna at 68 Prince Street in Kingston, and opening August 30, Nicole Cherubini, Susan Jennings, and Michelle Segre at Tanja Grunert in Hudson. Don’t miss the outdoor sculpture exhibitions MUSKEG, curated by Jacob Rhodes and Jessica Hargreaves at Mother-in-Law’s in Germantown and S.C.A.P.E., curated by Linda Dubillier and Jen Dragon at a new sculpture park in Woodstock.

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New York / Hudson Valley
Galleries are listed from north (Albany) to south (Nyack)

Albany Center Gallery / 488 Broadway, Suite 107, Albany, NY / Loading… Art for All! / Aug 1 – Sep 13

Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Sight Specific: Michael Bach, Seth Butler, Matt Chinian, Sean Hemmerle, Susan Hoffer, Maeve McCool, Rob O’Neil, Andrew Pellettieri, Laura Von Rosk / Jun 6 – Nov 8

Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Goddess: Origins of Wonder / Aug 1 – Sep 14

Bill Arning Exhibitions / 17 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY / Eventless: Shirley Irons, John Jurayj, David Mramor, Rajab Ali Sayed, Paul Lake Smith / Jul 12 – Aug 10

SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Nicole Cherubini: THE MOTHERLODE / Jun 7 – Aug 3 / Psyche, Ashley Garrett / Opening Aug 16

The School | Jack Shainman Gallery / 25 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY / GENERAL CONDITIONS / May 17 – Nov 29

Chatham Soccer / 337 NY-295 Chatham, NY / Ruby Jackson / Jul 18 – Aug 23

The Green Lodge / 80 Center Street, Chatham NY / Daniel Giordano: I Knew Your Father When He had Cajones / Jul 17 – Aug 17

Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / Harold Stevenson: Less Real Than My Routine Fantasy / Jun 28 – Oct 26

The Campus / 341 NY-217 Hudson, NY / 2025 Annual Exhibition / Jun 28 – Oct 26

Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Weathered: Shawn Dulaney, Donise English, Scott Nelson Foster, Arthur King, Ricardo Mulero, and Ryan Rusiecki / Aug 1 – Sep 21

D’Arcy Simpson Art Works / 409 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Craig Hood, Country Road / Jul 18 – Aug 24

Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Ken Ragsdale, Symphony / Jul 18 – Aug 31

Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Hudson Terminus, Jon Kinzel / Jul 18 – Aug 17

Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY / Gerard Wagner / May – Aug

Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / Some New Some Historic / Aug 2 – 24

Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858) / Jul 18 – Aug 24

Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / 2D · 3D · 2025: Andrew Hildenbrand & Jared Abner / Jul 31 – Sep 2 / Opening Reception Aug 2

Tanja Grunert / 21 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY / Odette Steinert + Janis Stemmermann / Jun 21 – Aug 10 / Nicole Cherubini, Susan Jennings, and Michelle Segre / Opening Aug 30, 3 -7 pm

The Fireplace Project / 435 Warren Street Hudson, NY / JÍbaro: Dave Ortiz / Jul 19 – Aug 11

Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Distance / Decay:  Pioneers Go East Collective / Aug 12 – 23 / Closing event on Aug 23, 4-6 pm

Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Adam Linn, Fascinator; Vickie Pierre: What You Long For is Real, What You Long For is To Be; Sara Stern, STALL / Jul 19 – Sep 7

CREATE Council on the Arts / 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY / nobody is nobody: The Art + Wit of Dot Chast, Co-curated by Jesse Pollock and Stella Yoon; Seen Scenes, member artists / Jun 6 – Aug 3

Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / In This Here Place, We Flesh: Aineki Traverso, Nkechi Ebubedike, and Shiri Mordechay; curated by Maty Sall / Opened Jul 19

RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Coated / Coded: George Rodriguez, Richard Saja, Thomas Spoerndle, Jul 17 – Sep 21

LABspace / 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, NY / Zohar Lazar: Utopia Pkwy / Jul 12 – Aug 24 / Conversation with Zohar Lazar led by Jeff Bailey Aug 3, 2pm

Mother-in-Law’s / 140 Church Ave, Germantown, NY / Johannah Herr, Collateral Magic / Opened Jun 14 / MUSKEG, Curated by Jacob Rhodes and Jessica Hargreaves / Jul 17 – Sep 27

Sky High Farm Biennial Exhibition / 11 Main Street, Germantown, NY / TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END / Jun 28 – Fall 2025

Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Dana Sherwood / Jun 21 – Aug 10 / Cammi Climaco, Wild Freedom / Jul 19 – Sep 28

The Re Institute / 1395 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY / Irrigation (Upstairs) Gregory Klassen and (Downstairs) Ruby Jackson and friends / Jul 12 – Aug 23 / The Double Portrait, Curated by Joshua Rosenblatt; Odette Steinert and friends / Aug 30 – Oct 11 / Opening Aug 30, 3-6 pm

Troutbeck / 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY / Alexis England, Nature in Pieces / May 16 – Aug 31

Wassaic Project / 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY / So It Goes, 2025 Summer Exhibition: May 17 –Sep 13

Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY  / Kate Dodd, Outerwear/Omnipresent; Sketchbooks: Working Out Ideas / Jul 5 – Aug 2 / Shelley McClure Tran, Hidden in Plain Sight; Melanie Delgado, I’m in the Studio Tonight Because of You / Aug 9 – Sep 13 / Opening Reception Aug 9, 4-6pm

Opus 40 Gallery / 356 George Sickle Road, Saugerties, NY / CORRUGATED: Michael Ballou, Mara Clawson, Joe Diggs, Adrian Frost, Rah Gerg, Wendy Klemperer, Henry Klimowicz, Ian Laughlin, Lowell Miller, Susanna Ronner, and Christy Rupp / Jul 27 – Sep 1

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Salvage Stories, Eric Banks, Ken Butler, Carol Diamond, Bonny Leibowitz, Shari Mendelson, Mark Van Wagner, Shivani Patel. Curated by Alice Zinnes and Carol Diamond / Aug 2 – Sep 14 / Opening reception Aug 2, 4-6 pm

Sculpture Park at The Woodstock Spa / 62 Rick’s Road, Woodstock, NY / S.C.A.P.E: Erika deVries, Stuart Farmery, Wendy Klemperer, Bernard Klevickas, Pascal Knapp, Alex Kveton, Ian Laughlin, Alison McNulty, Lowell Miller, Eileen M. Power, Gregory Steel, Suzy Sureck, and Stephen Whisler / Jun – Oct

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Recent Acquisitions / May 9 – Aug 10 / Far & Wide National: Every Picture Tells a Story; Aaron Hauck: Soft Assembly; Eve Batista and Fiona Green: Artwork from Onteora High School; A Mixed Bag: Works by Woodstock Day School Students; Small Works G-L / Jun 27 – Aug 10 / Material Alchemy; Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent Collection; H. James Hoff: Drawn to Life; Small Works: Object Poetry / Aug 15 – Oct 5 / Opening reception Aug 16, 4-6 pm

68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / Jeanette Fintz / Monika Zarzeczna, Elusive Thresholds; Maureen Cummins / Jul 17 – Aug 17 / Conversation with Stephen Westfall and Jeanette Fintz Aug 2, 4 pm

ArtYard Kingston, 80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY / Garden of Delights: Kate Dodd, Ursula Endlicher, Erica Hauser, Kris Hauser, Sergey Jivetin, Natalya Khorover, Duncan Mackenzie, Eve Madalengoitia, Maria Markham, Ben Quesnel, Michael Rees, Margaret Roleke, Roxy Savage, Rosanna Scimeca, Suzan Shutan, Mary Ann Strandell, John Stowe, Rachel Urkowitz, and others / Jun 1 – Oct 5

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Sanctuary City / Jun 14 – Jul 6 / Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy, Curated by Lucy Sante; The Rose, Curated by Justine Kurland and Marina Chao; Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950–Present, Curated by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich / May 24 – Aug 31

Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / In The Secret Distance, Olivia Bee / Jul 5 – Aug 31 (gallery closed for summer break until Aug 15.)

The Lockwood Gallery / 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY / Ethan Ryman, Four Years Built / Jul 13 – Aug 10

Monument / 29 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY / Steve Greene: Connective Tissue / Opens Aug 1 / Opening 6-9 pm

Roundabouts Now / 25 Barbarossa Lane, Kingston NY / ANGRY WATER, PRETTY FUNNY: BOBO, Joey Frank and Daniel Kent, Alyssa McClenaghan, Nick Payne and Rachel Rossin / Jul 12 – Aug 24

One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Available Light, Jeremy Willis; Upstate Update / Opened Jul 18 / Phantasma / Opens Aug 16

Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / Pungent Pollen: Ky Anderson, Caetlynn Booth, Karlos Cárcamo, Keiko Narahashi, Sally Paul, Erika Ranee, Kate Rusek, Andy Ryan, and Alex Skorija; Curated by Kevin Umaña / Jul 17 – Sep 13

Cross Contemporary Art Projects, North River Electric House, Stone Ridge, NY / Lynne Tobin: Line Studies Drawings / Through Sep 13

Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / You Deserve Your Flowers: Laura Casas, Isissa Komada-John, S.Lantz, Vanna Ramirez, Sam Shamard, Viv Siqueiros, and Alexis Tellefsen; Curated by Lena Chin / May 17 – Sep 19

Unison Arts / 9 Paradies Lane, New Paltz, NY / Voices Unbound / Jun 21 – Aug 30

Millbrook Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook, NY / Generated Utility, Natalie Beall & Kathy Greenwood / Jul 12 – Aug 23

Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Theresa Gooby: Uncanny Garden / Jul 11 – Aug 31

Ann Street Gallery / 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY / etheReality: from breath to air, and back; Bel Falleiros, Ghost of a Dream, Sanie Irsay, Mollie McKinley, Jason Mitcham, Megan Pahmier, Linda Stillman, and Amy Talluto / Jun 21 – Aug 31

Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Off the Clock: UAP Staff Show 2025 / Jul 17 – Aug 24

BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Margaret Inga Urías, Vanishing Hour; Ephemeral; Soli Pierce, Chasing Light / Jul 11 – Aug 3 / GRIT /  Aug 8 – Sep 7 / Reception Aug 9, 6 – 8 pm

Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Michelle Silver: What She Builds, She Must Destroy / Jun 14 – Aug 10 / Threads of Love: Delvin Lugo and Amber Mustafic, Curated by Beth Kantrowitz/bk projects / Aug 16 – Oct 4 / Opening Aug 16, 7-9 pm

KuBe Art Center / Beacon, NY / Half The Sky: Cai Jin, Cui Fei, Edie Xu, Guo Zhen, Katinka Huang, Li Daiyun, Lin Tianmiao, Shen Ling, Yin Mei, Xiao Lu, Xing Fei / May 24 – Aug 30

Hudson Beach Glass Gallery / 162 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Beacon Open Studios group show / Jul 12 – Aug 3

Mother Gallery / 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY / Line Load: Kerri Ammirata, Trudy Benson, Lauren Anaïs Hussey, Meg Lipke, Paola Oxoa / Jul 17 – Aug 16

Savage Wonderground Art Gallery / 139 Main Street, Beacon, NY / KaleidoSCAPE: Caroline Blum, Shawn Dulaney, Robert Kelly, Michael Schropp, Vicki Sher, Gret Sterrett Smith, Charles Spurrier / Opened Jul 12

Super Secret Projects / 484 Main St, Beacon NY (inside Hyperbole) / Desire Melt / Jul 12 – Aug 2

Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Rick Brazill: New Abstractions / Aug 2 – 31

Ligenza Moore Gallery / 78 Trout Brook Rd, Cold Spring, NY / Destination Earth: Katherine Bradford, Marieken Cochius, Meg Hitchcock, Simeon Lagodich, Cal Lane, Chris Martin, Tony Moore, Garry Nichols, Helen O’Leary, Judy Pfaff, David Provan, Jeff Shapiro, Greg Slick, Kurt Steger, Don Voisine / Open by appointment

Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Bill Schuck; Marieken Cochius / Aug 16 – Sep 14

Kino Saito / 115 7th Street, Verplanck, NY / The Unknown and Its Poetics: Emanuel Tovar Andrade, Adrián S. Bará, Peter Brock, Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Edgar Cobián, Juan Pablo González, Ricardo González, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Elana Herzog, Melissa Joseph, Fawn Krieger, Liza Lacroix, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Pepe López Reus, Juan De la Cruz Sánchez, Lucía Vidales, Michael Kelly Williams, and Liat Yossifor, Curated by Adrián S. Bará / May 24 – Dec 21

Croton Free Library / 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY / Elizabeth Castaldo, Born of Chaos / Jul 3 – Aug 28

Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Gordon Fearey, Lucretius; Arden Klemmer & Paul Christopher Contcelli, Gonna Build a Heaven from a Little Hell / Jun 28 – Aug 17

Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / RE-EMERGING: Vicki Arthur, Richard Brooks, Anne Harmon, Jay Sidebotham / Jul 17 – Sep 14 / Kurt Steger, Sculpture in the Courtyard / May – Nov

Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Drawn from Life 2025: Identity / Aug 7 – 24 / Opening Reception Aug 10, 2-5 pm

New York / Catskills

1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / 3 FRIENDS: Angela Dufresne, Brenda Goodman, Mala Iqbal / Aug 2 – Sep 7

Al Held Foundation (collaboration with River Valley Arts Collective) / Boiceville, NY / Linnéa Gad: Peelings, Curated by Alyson Baker / May 18 – Oct 10 / Rachel Mica Weiss: Yield, Curated by Jess Wilcox / May 18 – Oct 10 / By appointment only

ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / She She: Donna Tadelman and Beth Reisman / Aug 1 – 24 / Reception Aug 1, 4–7 pm

Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Arlene Shechet / Jul 5 – Aug 23 / The Dick Gibson Show: Six Paintings, 2015–2021, Jeff Christensen; Bonnie Rychlak; Heidi Schlatter / Aug 30 – Oct 25 / Opening Aug 30 with an artist talk from 3 to 4 pm and reception 4 to 5 pm

Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Zachary Lank: Revenant Blues / Aug 2 – Sep 7 / Opening Reception Aug 2, 12-6pm

Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Under Construction: Jamie Banes and Toni Brogan / Jul 5 – Aug 30

Leo Koenig / 11 Delaware Avenue, Andes, NY / COLORLAND: Gabriele Adomaityte, Greg Bogin, Ethan Cook, Allan McCollum, Anselm Reyle, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Jana Schroeder, Pauline Shaw, Maximilian Schubert, Wolfgang Tillmans, Anke Weyer / Aug 2 – Sep 7

Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Return: Birds, Beasts and Other Beings: Irja Bodén and Elin Menzies  / Aug 9 – Oct 4

Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley

Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Summertime: Janet Rickus, Joy Taylor and Linda Pochesci, Lawre Stone, Joy Brown / Jul 12 – Aug 10 / The Cut Up: Reed Anderson, Gina Occhiogrosso, Conny Goelz Schmitt, Steven Siegel and Jason Middlebrook /  Aug 16 –  Sep 14

Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Peter Fulop: Reverie Realms / Jul 12 – Aug 17

Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Two Voices In Tandem: Michael De Feo and Shira Toren / Jul 19 – Sep 14

Furnace Art on Paper Archive / Kim Schmidt Fine Art / Jul 12 – Aug 9

Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Stories told in light and silence: Maya Tihtiyas Attean, Laura Barr, Jordann McKenna, and Benoît Trimborn / Aug 1 – Sep 30 / Curated by Lani Ming Holloway

Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Summer Exhibition 2025 / Jul 26 – Sep  21

Connecticut – New Haven

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Body’s First Architecture, Anindita Dutta, Ann Hamilton, Florencia Escudero, Hannah Woo, Leeza Meksin, LoVid, Michelle Segre, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Rachel Hayes, Rose Nestler, Sheila Pepe, Sheilah ReStack, Sopheak Sam, Suzanne Mcclelland & Alix Pearlstein, TAITAI xTina, Tamar Ettun, and Tsedaye Makonnen; Curated by Tamar Ettun and Leeza Meksin / Jun 29 – Aug 10

About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator based in Beacon, NY. In 2024 she curated the exhibitions Second Nature at N/A Project Space in New Paltz, NY and Talking Threads at Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson, NY. From 2022 to 2023 she was the Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Previously she was the gallery director at Fridman Gallery’s Beacon location and Exhibitions Director at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in Woodstock. Benson was the owner/director of Matteawan Gallery in Beacon where she curated more than fifty exhibitions from 2013 to 2018.

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