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Large-scale work on view in the Museum: JR, Les Enfants d’Ouranos, Bois #6, 2022. Ink on wood, oak frame. 50 ½ x 80 x 2 ½ in. ©JR. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

JR

Les Enfants d’Ouranos (Children of Ouranos)

May 27, 2023 to September 9, 2024

Les Enfants d’Ouranos is a new work by artist JR (b. 1983, Paris, France) presented as a large-scale, site-specific installation on the south façade of the Museum for an entire year. The 200-foot long banner, depicting children playfully running, will…
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Lauren Halsey. pride n progress thang, 2024. Mixed media on foil-insulated foam and wood, 120 1/16 x 98 x 23 5/8 inches (305 x 249 x 60 cm). © Lauren Halsey. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.

FRESH PAINT

Lauren Halsey

June 8–August 25, 2024

In collaboration with The FLAG Art Foundation, the Parrish presents FRESH PAINT, a rotating series of single-artwork exhibitions housed in the Creativity Lounge. The inaugural installation features a multi-layered piece by artist Lauren Halsey. FRESH PAINT circumvents traditional exhibition planning…
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Simón Vega, Tropical Mercury Capsule, Wood, metal roofing sheet, recycled materials, found objects, light, live plants. 250 x 140 cms. 2012. Courtesy the Artist.

Simón Vega

Tropical Space Castaways

February 25–June 30, 2024

Salvadoran artist Simón Vega creates drawings, objects, sculptural installations, and happenings inspired by the self-made informal architecture, local market stands, and vendor carts found in the streets and beaches of Central America. These works, assembled with wood, cardboard, plastic, metal,…
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Installation View: The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, April 21–June 30, 2024. Photo: © Gary Mamay.

The Art of Food

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

April 21–June 30, 2024

The Art of Food focuses on food as an essential cultural component that builds communities and fortifies human relationships. More than one hundred drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics by thirty-seven artists from the Jordan Schnitzer Foundation will be exhibited.…
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Nell Blaine, American, 1922-1996, Imaginary View of Corsica No. 2, 1953-1954, Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 62 1/8, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Arthur W. Cohen, 1987.4

Beyond the Horizon

Interpretations of the Landscape from Women in the Permanent Collection

February 18–June 16, 2024

Spanning mural-sized representational oil paintings, expressionistic watercolors and pastel drawings, and intimate mixed-media abstractions, Beyond the Horizon will take viewers on a journey through visual styles and thematic experiences of the landscape. Featured women artists from the permanent collection capture the…
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Fairfield Porter (American, 1907–1975), Cityscape, ca. 1945, Oil on canvas, 25 x 30, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Gift of Robert Fizdale, in Memory of Arthur Gold, 1991.5

Across the Avenues

Fairfield Porter in New York

February 18–June 16, 2024

Comprised of 27 paintings and prints, Across the Avenues: Fairfield Porter in New York focuses on the cityscapes Porter created of Manhattan between the mid-1940s to mid-1970s. Drawn from the Museum’s vast Porter collection—consisting of over 240 works—Across the Avenues…
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Student Exhibition Preview Day 2024.

2024 Student Exhibition

March 3–April 7, 2024

The annual Student Exhibition, a tradition for over 70 years at the Parrish, features the work of more than 1,000 young artists from Eastern Long Island schools. Working with their art teachers, after school programs and in art clubs, the…
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Artists Choose Parrish

Celebrating the Museum’s 125th anniversary, this landmark exhibition honors the East End’s rich artistic legacy and brings greater attention to major artists practicing here today. Forty-one renowned artists with deep local roots will select works from the collection to be…
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KAWS, TIDE, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 104 in. © KAWS. Photo: Farzad Owrang

Artists Choose Parrish

Part III

October 29, 2023–February 18, 2024

Celebrating the Museum’s 125th anniversary, this landmark exhibition honors the East End’s rich artistic legacy and brings greater attention to major artists practicing here today. Forty-one renowned artists with deep local roots will select works from the collection to be…
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Alix Pearlstein, Archive Collage (Zinc Plain, Nitsch female participant, Padre & Madre, Non-Picturesque Mountain Landscape and Pearlstein nudes), 2022. 30 x 24 in. Courtesy the Artist

Artists Choose Parrish

Part II

August 20, 2023–February 4, 2024

Celebrating the Museum’s 125th anniversary, this landmark exhibition honors the East End’s rich artistic legacy and brings greater attention to major artists practicing here today. Forty-one renowned artists with deep local roots will select works from the collection to be…
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James Brooks (American, 1906–1992), Ashawagh, 1970. Silkscreen, 22 x 30 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, Gift of the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation

James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing

August 6–October 15, 2023

The Parrish Art Museum is organizing James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thing, a comprehensive survey of significant scope comprised of over 100 paintings, prints, and works on paper drawn from public and private U.S. collections. Throughout his long…
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Hiroyuki Hamada, September 2023. Photo by Lisa Tamburini.

Road Show 2023

Hiroyuki Hamada: Matter on Ground

September 9 to October 10, 2023

For the 2023 Parrish Road Show, Hiroyuki Hamada (Japanese, born 1968) was invited to create a site-specific exhibition at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton, NY. Now in its twelfth year, Parrish Road Show is…
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Nanette Carter, Cantilevered #53(Teetering), 2020. Oil on Mylar, 32 ¼ x 64 ¼ in. © Nanette Carter, Courtesy Berry Campbell, New York.

Artists Choose Parrish

Part I

April 16 – August 6, 2023

Celebrating the Museum’s 125th anniversary, this landmark exhibition honors the East End’s rich artistic legacy and brings greater attention to major artists practicing here today. Forty-one renowned artists with deep local roots are selecting works from the collection to be shown along…
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© Hank Willis Thomas, Remember Me, 2022. Installation view, Parrish Art Museum. White neon with black painted front, 95 x 624 1/2 inches. Courtesy the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo Credit: Gary Mamay

Remember Me | Another Justice: US is Them

Hank Willis Thomas

May 22, 2022 to May 14, 2023

Installed on the south-facing façade of the Museum is the 55-foot neon Remember Me (2022) by Hank Willis Thomas (American, 1976)—the first work presented as part of the exhibition Another Justice: US Is Them. The source material for Remember Me was a vintage…
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Installation View: 2023 Student Exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 12–April 16, 2023. Photo: Kerry Sharkey-Miller

2023 Student Exhibition

March 12–April 16, 2023

Participating schools in the 2023 Student Exhibition include: High Schools: Bellport, Bridgehampton, Center Moriches, East Hampton, Eastport South Manor, Gary D. Bixhorn Technical Center, Hampton Bays, Mattituck, Miller Place, Pierson, Riverhead, The Ross School, Shelter Island, Shoreham Wading River High School, Southampton High…
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Installation View: Studio Lenca: Chisme at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, March 12–April 26, 2022. Photo: Jessica Dalene

Studio Lenca: Chisme

Jose Campos

March 12–April 16, 2023

Studio Lenca (Jose Campos) presents an installation of 15 painted woodcut figures depicting vibrant Latin migrant workers. Chisme was completed in partnership with WeCount!, a membership-led organization of low-wage immigrant workers in South Florida who made drawings of plants, trees,…
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Kahlo: An Expanded Body

November 19, 2022–April 2, 2023

Kahlo: An Expanded Body is a groundbreaking investigation into iconic artist Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) through the lens of her dramatic medical history and its sustained impact on her life and work. The multi-gallery exhibition provides new insight into the…
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An Expanded Portrait

Works from the Permanent Collection

November 20, 2022–April 2, 2023

In dialogue with Kahlo: An Expanded Body, the Museum’s collection-based exhibition An Expanded Portrait features sixteen women artists exploring self-representation and particular manners in which women experience the world. The selected works on view sew a thread between self-agency, mortality,…
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An Expanded Muse

Works from the Permanent Collection

November 20, 2022–April 2, 2023

In tandem with Kahlo: An Expanded Body, this William Merritt Chase and Alice Gerson—Mrs. Chase—exhibition from the Museum’s permanent collection highlights the importance of family participation and the theatrical flair of the portrait models. In the Chase household, it was…
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After Flags I (green), 2022. Mixed media including US flags and decommissioned prison uniforms, 60 x 72. Courtesy the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Another Justice: US is Them

Hank Willis Thomas | For Freedoms

July 23 to November 6, 2022

The Parrish Art Museum has invited Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, NJ), a conceptual artist working with themes related to identity, commodity, media, and popular culture, and For Freedoms–the artist coalition he co-founded with Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and…
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