Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, December 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / December brings numerous group exhibitions, making it the perfect time to collect art by local artists and purchase holiday gifts. On December 12-14, the pop up show Glögg Glögg features affordable work by over 30 artists at artist Melissa Dadourian’s studio near Woodstock, NY. Also in Woodstock, the 26th Annual 5 by 7 Show opens December 5 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts and features hundreds of small works by local artists. Notable exhibitions this month include Beth Dary at Front Room Gallery, Kylie Heidenheimer at Private Public Gallery, and Jim Denney and Jennifer Wynne Reeves at Philip Douglas Fine Art, all in Hudson. In Kingston don’t miss Julie Evans, Murray Hochman, Catherine Howe at 68 Prince Street; Michael McGrath at Headstone; Karen Kimmel at Maiden Lane Gallery; and the group show A Gnawing Thought curated by Mandolyn Wilson Rosen at Utopia. December 14 is the last chance to see Unfixxxed, a group photography exhibition featuring work by Alex Yudzon, Ana Mendieta, Azikiwe Mohammed, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jackie Furtado, Jon Verney, Liz Nielsen, Michal Rovner, Shirin Neshat, and more at Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh. Thanks for reading. I look forward to sharing more great art in 2026!

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

Opalka Gallery at the Albany Public Library / Pine Hills Branch, 517 Western Avenue, Albany, NY / Countenance: The Contemporary Portrait: Nuveen Barwari, Judith Braun, Maggie Halloran, John Hampshire, Phil Knoll, Mark McCarty, Philip J. Palmieri, Winosha Steele, Felicia van Bork, Oliver Wasow / Dec 5 – May 9 / Opening reception Friday, Dec 5, 6 – 7:30 pm

Opalka Gallery / 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY / The 46th PhotoRegional: Seeking New Landscapes / Oct 28 – Dec 6

Athens Cultural Center / 24 Second Street, Athens, NY / Small Works: Fall Members Exhibition / Nov 7 – Dec 14

SEPTEMBER / 4 Hudson Street #3, Kinderhook, NY / Dogs & Cats: Adriana Farmiga, Alexander Deschamps, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Anna West, Ashley Garrett, Audrey Francis, Brenda Goodman, Brian Wood, Claudia Renfro, Deb Lucke, Hannah Barrett, Jeffrey Morabito, JJ Manford, Kate Gilmore, Laleh Khorramian, Mary Temple, Phil Knoll, Sascha Mallon, Sarah Alice Moran, Valerie Hammond, Zach Seeger,
Zohar Lazar, and more / Nov 1 – Dec 21

Art Omi / 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY / YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine / Nov 15 – Feb 1

Carrie Haddad Gallery / 622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Earth Endures, Stars Abide: An exhibit of Hudson Valley Landscapes / Nov 21 – Jan 18

The Fireplace Project / 435 Warren Street Hudson, NY / WINTERFELL: Anonymous, Ross Bleckner, Eric Brittain, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kirby Crone, Nathan Dilworth, Seth Cameron, Joel Freeman, Mary Heilmann, Jeffrey Heiman, Erika Keck, Brian Kenny, Julie Kling, Kan Seidel, David Benjamin Sherry, & Jesse James Thompson / Nov 1 – Dec 21

Front Room Gallery / 205 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Beth Dary: Notions / Nov 15 – Dec 28

Hudson Hall / 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Youth Exhibition / Dec 6 – 23

Lightforms Art Center / 743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Lydia Rubio: Talisman / Nov 14 – Dec 7 / Workshop on Forms in Space with Lydia Rubio on Dec 6, 11 am-1 pm (Registration required); Concert by Music for Furniture on Dec 6, 6 pm

Philip Douglas Fine Art / 545 Warren Street, 2nd fl., Hudson, NY / The Landscape Is A Conveyor: Jim Denney and Jennifer Wynne Reeves / Nov 8 – Jan 11

Private Public Gallery / 530 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Kylie Heidenheimer / Nov 29 – Jan 11

Susan Eley Fine Art / 433 Warren Street, Hudson, NY / Cherry: Josie Tolliver Shaw / Dec 4 – Feb 1 / Artist reception Dec 27, 4-6 pm

Time & Space Limited / 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY / Home and Work: Nancy Shaver, Maximilian Goldfarb, and George Liu / Nov 15 – Dec 14

Turley Gallery / 609 Warren Street, 2nd floor, Hudson, NY / Kevin Cobb, Optic Nerve / Organized by Peter Kelly; Aya Rodriguez-Izumi: Recreation and Violence / Nov 15 – Dec 21

Gallery 495 / 495 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Aineki Traverso / Contact gallery for dates

RUTHANN / 453 Main Street, Catskill, NY / Alone with the Moon: Biff Elrod, Kathryn Lynch, Enrico Riley / Oct 10 – Dec 6 / Push the Envelope / Opens Dec 12, 6-8 pm

Geary / 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY / Fun, Ethan Greenbaum and Sun You / Oct 11 – Dec 7

‘T’ Space, The Archive Gallery / 60 Round Lake Rd, Rhinebeck, NY / New Hudson Valley Houses / Sep 7 – through Dec

Jane Street Art Center and The Sketchbook Gallery / 9 & 11 Jane St, Saugerties, NY / Suzanne Stokes: Sky•Land•Sea / Nov 8 – Dec 13

Glögg Glögg  / 591 Zena Rd, Woodstock, NY / Glögg Glögg: Natale Adgnot, Paolo Arao, Natalie Beall, Alta Buden, Saul Chernick, Lucia Coté, Melissa Dadourian, Courtney Dudley, Beka Goedde, Shanti Grumbine, Nicole Hayes, Jenny Kemp, Niki Lederer, Elisa Lendvay, Rita MacDonald, Erika Mahr, Kristen Mills, Ann Bridget Murphy, Erin O’Brien, Alison Owen, Ruby Palmer, Valerie Piraino, Courtney Puckett, Kelsey Renko, Mandolyn W Rosen, Michelle Rosenberg, Adie Russell, Greg Slick, Maya Strauss, Amy Talluto, Hanna Washburn, Annette Wehrhahn, Alona Weiss, Ann Wolf, / Dec 12 (5 – 7 pm), 13 – 14 (11 am – 6 pm)

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / 26th Annual 5 by 7 Show / Opening reception Dec 5, 5-7 pm / Opens Dec 5

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) / 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY / Unconventional Perspective: Works by Julia Leaycraft (1885–1960), A Woodstock Artist / Oct 24 – Jan 4 / Gratitude: Annual Members’ Holiday Exhibition & Sale; Karen Whitman: Cityscape Noir; Omnium Gatherum, student work from the sculpture program at SUNY New Paltz; Small Works: Textures and Tactility, Juried by Susan Eley / Dec 5 – Jan 4 / Opening reception Dec 6, 4-6 pm

68 Prince Street Gallery / 68 Prince Street, Kingston, NY / A Glimmer of Change: Julie Evans, Murray Hochman, Catherine Howe / Nov 22 – Dec 21

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) / 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY / Everyday Culture: Seven Projects by Documentary Arts; Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive; Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me / Sep 20 – Jan 11 / Time Between Photographs: Art of the Photobook / Nov 29 – Jan 11

Cut Teeth / 394 Hasbrouck Ave, Kingston, NY / Open Arms: Alana Zack, Nine Stories, Audra Wolowiec, Paul Tucci, Lauren Hirsch, Craig Kaths, Julian Gilbert-Davis, Overt Cove, Kieran Kinsella, Jared Alon Design / Opens Dec 6

Headstone / 28 Hurley Ave, Kingston, NY / Under Panther Mountain, Michael McGrath / Dec 6 – Jan 25 / Opening Reception Dec 6, 5-8 pm

Maiden Lane Gallery /  51 Maiden Lane, Kingston, NY / Karen Kimmel: Basket As We, Basket As Me / Nov 8 – Feb 8

One Mile Gallery / 475 Abeel Street, Kingston, NY / Julie Hedrick: Temporal Motion / Nov 15 – Dec 13

Women’s Studio Workshop / 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY / WORKSHOPPING: New Work by Emily Larned / Oct 3 – Jan 23

Utopia / 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY / A Gnawing Thought: Natalie Beall, Todd Bourret, Kerry Downey, Georgia Elrod, Rachel Jackson, Jenny Kemp, Elisa Lendvay, Cotter Luppi, Rita MacDonald, Adrian Meraz, Valerie Piraino, Padma Rajendran, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen,  Michelle Rosenberg, Adie Russell,  Nancy Shaver, Amy Talluto, Christina Tenaglia / Dec 6 – Jan 17 / Opening Reception Dec 6, 4-7 pm

tyte Gallery / 3280 Franklin Ave (2nd Floor), Millbrook NY / Gilded Impermanence: Janine Lambers / Nov 8 – Jan 10

CONVEY/ER/OR Gallery, 299 Main street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Loren Eiferman: A Gathering of Sticks / Dec – Jan 19 / Opening Dec 6, 4-6 pm

Gallery 40, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY / Nautical Wheeler: Monica Church; Reimagine an Image: Sylvia Mueller / Dec 6 – Jan 4 / Opening Reception Dec 6, 5-7pm

Wallkill River Center for the Arts / 232 Ward Street, Montgomery, NY / Nebulous Spirit: Atmospheric Landscapes, Betsy Jacaruso / Oct 31 – Dec 22

Elijah Wheat Showroom / 195 Front St, Newburgh, NY (Appointment required) / Unfixxxed: Alex Yudzon, Ana Mendieta, Azikiwe Mohammed, Gordon Matta-Clark, Heather Renee Russ, Jackie Furtado, Johannah Herr, Jon Verney, Lauren Silberman, Liz Nielsen, Marlos E’van, Michal Rovner, Shirin Neshat, Tianyi Zhang and Young Sun Han / Oct 18 – Dec 14

BAU Gallery / 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Soli Pierce: unEARTHED; Trace Element: Linda Lauro-Lazin and George Kimmerling; Daniel Berlin and Friends: Intermediaries / Nov 7 – Dec 7 / Ilse Schreiber-Noll: Letters to a Troubled Planet / Messages in Silence; Joel Brown and Alaina Enslen: Structure; Linda Lauro-Lazin: Legacy: My Teachers and Students / Dec 13 – Jan 4 / Opening reception Dec 13, 6–8 pm

Distortion Society / 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Intangible Devotions, Laura Bochet / Oct 18 – Jan 31

KuBe Art Center / Beacon, NY / Emil Alzamora: Irrational Experiments / Through Oct 18 / Afrofuturism: Nanette Carter, Renee Cox, Ernest Frazier, Algernon Miller, Tyrone Mitchell; Sex Education: group exhibition / Jul 19 – Dec 18

Hudson Beach Glass Gallery / 162 Main Street, Beacon, NY / Reframing the Constant: Jennifer Sarah Blakeslee and Denise DeVore / Nov 8 – Dec 7

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 / Through Dec

Buster Levi Gallery / 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY / Ada Pilar Cruz: Kelp Cartography / Dec 5 – Jan 4 / Opening reception Dec 6, 3-7 pm

Desmond-Fish Public Library / 472 Route 403, Garrison, NY / Picture Us: Alia Ali, Esperanza Cortés, John Ebbert, Patty Horing, Jordin Isip, JaFang Lu, Beverly McIver, Michael Pribich, ransome, Dylan Rose Rheingold, Nadine Robbins, and photobooth portraits from the collection of Oliver Wasow; Curated by ransome / Oct 25 – Mar 29

Garrison Art Center / 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY / Holiday Pottery Show & Sale / Dec 6 – 14 / Opening Reception Dec 5, 5 – 7 pm

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; Kikuo Saito: Reminiscence in Color / Curated by Mikiko Ino Saito / Through Dec 21

Garner Arts Center / 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY / Members Exhibition / Nov 8 – Dec 14

Yellow Studio / 792 NY-35, Cross River, NY / Between Here and There / Nov 22 – Dec 20 / Opening reception Dec 6, 4-6 pm

Perry Lawson Fine Art / 90 North Broadway, Nyack, NY / Jill Hoy, Narratives of Form & Color / Oct 4 – Jan 11

Upstream Gallery / 8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson, NY / Sean Taggart: Tribulation 2025; Susan MacMurdy: Urban Nature / Nov 13 – Dec 7

New York / Catskills

1053 Gallery / 1053 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY / Warped Vessel: Julie Evans, Joy Ray, Tessa Richardson, Richard Saja, Sarah Rose Sharp, Melissa Webb and Susan Yelavich / Nov 1 – Dec 21

ArtUp / 746 Main St., Margaretville, NY / Transients: Gerda VanLeeuwen / Nov 21 – Dec 14

Catskill Art Space (CAS) / 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY / Kat Chamberlin, Mia Brownell, and Lexa Walsh / Nov 1 – Dec 28

Hawk + Hive / 61 Main Street, Andes, NY / Winter Salon / Nov 1 – Spring 2026

Headwaters Arts Center / 66 Main Street, Stamford, NY / Community Photo Show / Nov 22 – Jan 31

Roxbury Arts Group / 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY / Holding Artemis, Jody Isaacson / Oct 18 – Dec 20

Connecticut & Massachusetts / Housatonic Valley

Bernay Fine Art / 296 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA / Two To Tango Two: Janet Rickus & Warner Friedman, Stephanie Anderson & Stephen Dietemann, Meg Hitchcock & Kurt Steger, Amy Pleasant & Pete Schulte, and Clara Stickney & Harrison Levenstein / Oct 25 – Dec 7

Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken RD, Lakeville, CT / Wish You Were Here: Fern Apfel & Colleen McGuire / Nov 4 – Jan 25

Standard Space / 147 Main Street, Sharon, CT / Fields of Snakes: Eve Biddle and Theo Coulombe / Nov 8 – Dec 21

Jennifer Terzian Gallery / 3BB South Street, Litchfield, CT / Jessica Smolinski: Mom / Nov 22 – Jan 10 / Open by appointment only

Craven Contemporary / 4 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Alex Katz: The Adas / Nov 22 – Jan 11

Kenise Barnes Fine Art / 7 Fulling Lane, Kent, CT / Assemble (Cut, Burn, Stitch) with Care: Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Tristan Fitch, and Carolyn Millstein / Nov 1 – Dec 21

Morrison Gallery / 60 North Main Street, Kent, CT / Rob Zombie: What Lurks on Channel X? / Oct 25 – Dec 7

Connecticut – Fairfield County and New Haven

G-Town Arts / 5 Main St, Georgetown, CT / Infused: Boryana Alexandrova, Kathy Coe, David Cramer, Sonja Czekalski, Roya Farassat, Piet Mura, Enne Tesse, and Julia Whitney Barnes / Nov 28 – Jan 3

Flinn Gallery / Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT / Precisely.: Sarah Walker, Nate Ethier, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll; Co-curators Chris Joy and Francene Langford / Nov 20– Jan 6

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art / 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT / Conceptual Romance, group show, Curated by Jared Quinton; Translating From the Edges / Sep 14 – Nov 2 / Unfolding Between Walls, I N T E R S T I C E: Jihyun Lee, If the blocked artist were free, would the world breathe easier?, and Rare Look from Some Old Red Oak: Jillian Shea / Nov 16 – Dec 18

About the author: Karlyn Benson is an independent curator and consultant based in Beacon, NY. She works with artists to assist with writing, promotion, studio administration, and exhibition planning. 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 Interim Curator and Exhibitions Manager at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz where she curated Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun. Previously she was 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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