Top New York Fall Exhibitions Part I: From Gordon Parks to Hiroshi Sugimoto

As New York’s fall art season gathers pace, galleries and museums across the city are opening exhibitions that move between intimate portraiture, painting’s long history, photography, sculpture, and the stories embedded in everyday life. From the Guggenheim Rotunda to Chelsea, Tribeca, and beyond, here are the dazzling exhibitions to see this fall.

Taryn Simon: “Father Country I Do Love You”

Guggenheim New York

Upper East Side

This fall, the Guggenheim New York presents Taryn Simon’s “Father Country I Do Love You,” alongside “Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now” and “Modern European Currents.” Simon’s exhibition takes over the museum’s iconic Rotunda with a new body of work nearly a decade in the making. Bringing together photographs, texts, videos, sculptures, and interactive elements, the project traces the life of an unnamed federal agent and the far-reaching consequences of events he witnessed over four decades. The installation explores duty, loss, surveillance, violence, chance, and family through a complex, immersive sequence of works.

What we love: Simon turns the Guggenheim’s iconic Rotunda into a living narrative, where architecture, image, and memory unfold together.

“Father Country I Do Love You” at Guggenheim New York,1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
September 18, 2026 – March 14, 2027

Deana Lawson

Gagosian

Chelsea

This fall, Gagosian presents exhibitions by Deana Lawson, Brice Marden, Jordan Wolfson, and Bea Scaccia, including “Edge Control,” “I Am Plane Image,” Wolfson’s new works, and “Groomed.” At 541 West 24th Street, Lawson’s exhibition brings together mirror-framed photographs, holograms, and recent large-scale portraits. “Edge Control,” begun in 2023, recontextualizes surveillance images from beauty supply stores across the United States while protecting the identities of those pictured. Recent portraits return to domestic interiors, drawing on family albums and seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Holograms extend the series into another dimension, introducing technology and questions of identity.

What we love: Lawson creates a striking dialogue between surveillance, beauty, portraiture, and technology.

“Deana Lawson” at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York
September 10 – October 24, 2026

Gordon Parks: “Voices in the Mirror”

Jack Shainman Gallery

Tribeca

This fall, Jack Shainman Gallery presents Gordon Parks’s “Voices in the Mirror” at 46 Lafayette Street and Becky Suss’s “Night House” at 513 West 20th Street. “Voices in the Mirror” revisits Parks’s photographs through the voices and memories of the people he photographed, including their families and cultural figures. Marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation, the exhibition considers how photographs continue to live through personal memory. Works spanning Parks’s career include “At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama,” “The Doll Test,” and “Eldridge Cleaver and His Wife, Kathleen.” Together, they bring intimate perspectives to photographs deeply embedded in American history.

What we love: Parks’s photographs gain new resonance through the memories and voices of the people whose lives they entered.

“Voices in the Mirror” at Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, New York
September 18 – November 6, 2026

Yoshitomo Nara

David Zwirner

Chelsea

At David Zwirner, Yoshitomo Nara presents new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works across the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street and 533 West 19th Street locations. The exhibition accompanies Jem Perucchini’s “Sospiro” at 52 Walker Street. Nara’s presentation marks his first solo exhibition with David Zwirner and his first major New York solo in nearly a decade. New paintings feature a more muted, nuanced palette and increasingly diffused brushwork, while large monochrome drawings emphasize his distinctive line. Thirteen monumental bronze heads at 19th Street expand on palm-sized clay models, recalling the snow “monsters” of Nara’s childhood.

What we love: Nara’s familiar figures take on an especially quiet and contemplative presence.

Yoshitomo Nara at David Zwirner, 33 West 19th Street & 537 West 20th Street, New York
October 29 – December 12, 2026

Andrea Modica: “Italian Story”

Alice Austen House Museum

Staten Island

Alice Austen House Museum and AMR Art DUMBO present two concurrent exhibitions by Andrea Modica, “Italian Story” and “Catholic Girl.” At Alice Austen House, “Italian Story” brings together 39 platinum prints made across more than four decades of Modica’s travels in Italy. The exhibition marks the first U.S. presentation of the series and Modica’s first solo museum exhibition. Rooted in her Italian American heritage, the photographs explore portraits, landscapes, interiors, rituals, and everyday encounters. Each print was hand-produced specifically for the presentation, highlighting Modica’s commitment to traditional photographic processes. Together, the works form an intimate meditation on memory, identity, family, and belonging.

What we love: Modica turns Italy into a landscape of memory as much as place.

Andrea Modica: “Italian Story” at 2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island
September 12, 2026 – February 20, 2027

Yvonne Jacquette: “From the Air”

Karma

Chelsea

Karma presents Yvonne Jacquette’s “From the Air,” the gallery’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. Bringing together paintings and works on paper made between 1971 and 2016, the exhibition traces Jacquette’s fascination with aerial perspectives, from clouds and cultivated fields to Manhattan viewed from above. Her compositions transform landscapes and cities into interlocking patterns of line, color, and light, shaped by journeys over Maine, Manhattan, California, Colorado, and beyond. Moving between observation, memory, and imagination, Jacquette developed distance into a distinctive way of seeing the world below, eventually bringing that elevated perspective back to earth in her later work.

What we love: Jacquette makes the familiar feel newly expansive, turning cities and landscapes into luminous fields of movement, pattern, and remembrance.

Yvonne Jacquette: “From the Air” at 549 West 26th Street, New York
September 3 – October 31, 2026

Rana Begum

Lehmann Maupin

Chelsea

Lehmann Maupin presents two concurrent New York exhibitions this fall, Rana Begum’s solo exhibition and Anna Park’s “House Rules.” Begum’s first solo exhibition in New York brings together sculptural works that explore abstraction through light, color, repetition, and geometric form. At the center is a large-scale installation from her Chainlink series, transforming industrial fencing into a suspended, richly textured structure. Works from her Louvre and Fold series further investigate the relationship between material, surface, space, and light, shifting as viewers move around them. Drawing from geometric abstraction and the motifs of Islamic art and architecture, Begum creates works that invite contemplation while continually changing with their surroundings.

What we love: Begum gives light a physical presence, allowing color, shadow, and geometry to shift with every step around the work.

Rana Begum at 501 West 24th Street, New York
September 10 – October 24, 2026\

Hiroshi Sugimoto: “Unnatural Habitat”

Lisson Gallery

Chelsea

Lisson Gallery presents two concurrent New York exhibitions this fall, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Unnatural Habitat” and José Leonilson’s solo exhibition. Sugimoto’s third solo presentation with the gallery returns to his Diorama series, tracing a photographic meditation on the boundary between nature and artifice. Bringing together works spanning five decades, the exhibition includes early photographs such as Polar Bear (1975), recently revisited images, and new photographs made through access to dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. Four new color works, printed on washi paper and presented as folding screens, or byōbu, introduce a luminous, sculptural dimension to a practice long associated with black-and-white photography. Across image, material, and space, Sugimoto transforms constructed habitats into sites of suspended time and shifting perception.

What we love: Sugimoto turns the museum diorama into something dreamlike, where the line between the natural and the fabricated becomes beautifully uncertain.

Hiroshi Sugimoto at 504 West 24th Street, New York
September 15 – October 24, 2026