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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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Esteban Vicente, Composition, 1998. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in. © The Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation.

Joaquín Sorolla and Esteban Vicente:

In the Light of the Garden

August 7–October 16, 2022

The exhibition In the Light of the Garden introduces the work of two Spanish masters in the context of the light and color emanating from their gardens—a vibrant source of inspiration in their final creative periods. Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish, b.…
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The Shinnecock Monuments on Sunrise Highway

Shinnecock Monuments | Another Justice: US is Them

Hank Willis Thomas & For Freedoms

July 4 to September 30, 2022

As part of the exhibition, Another Justice: US is Them—Hank Willis Thomas | For Freedoms, on view at the Parrish Art Museum from July 23 to November 6, the Museum has activated the local Shinnecock Monuments throughout July, August, and…
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Installation view of Kennedy Yanko as part of Set It Off at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, May 22 to July 24, 2022. Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires. Photo: David Benthal

Set It Off

May 22 to July 24, 2022

Curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires—Set It Off brings together work by Leilah Babirye, Torkwase Dyson, February James, Karyn Olivier, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Kennedy Yanko. Often combining multiple elements of paintings, sculpture, installation,…
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Jasper Johns, Flags I, 1973. Screen print on paper, 3/65. 27-3/8 35-1/2 in. Collection Walker Art Center, Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1988.

An Art of Changes:

Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018

April 24 to July 10, 2022

Surveying six decades of the seminal artist’s printmaking practice, the exhibition is organized by Joan Rothfuss, guest curator, Visual Arts, for the Walker Art Center, drawn from the Walker’s collection. Highlighting Jasper Johns’s (American, b. 1930) experiments with familiar, abstract,…
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Frank Wimberley, Wrinkles, 1994. Mixed media collage, 22 ¼ x 30 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of Lyn and E.T. Williams.

Encounters:

Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection

November 18, 2021–April 10, 2022

A display of recent acquisitions by the Parrish Art Museum, Encounters brings together works by artists who have a special relationship to the East End of Long Island. This diverse group of makers includes some who were born and raised in…
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peter campus

when the hurly burly’s done

November 7, 2021–February 27, 2022

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Image credit: Virginia Jaramillo: The Harmony between Line and Space (Close detail shots and installation). Photos: Gary Mamay. 

Virginia Jaramillo:

The Harmony between Line and Space

November 7, 2021–February 27, 2022

A pioneering minimalist whose career has spanned six decades, Virginia Jaramillo (American, b. El Paso, Texas, 1939) creates work from sources that span history and cross cultures. The exhibition brings together never before seen paintings and drawings completed in her…
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