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Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with an international exhibition program.

Founded in 2010, Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery committed to the development and support of both established and emerging artists. The international exhibition program emphasizes critical theory and art history, with an attendant interest in under-recognized artists and art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

08/05/2026

Shaun Leonardo’s “We Went Undefeated 2” is a four-channel video installation exploring the negotiation between masculinity, racial performance, and the (sometimes) transformative power of failure.

Join us for In Conversation: Shaun Leonardo and Professor Robert O’Meally (Columbia University) on Thursday, August 6, at 6:30 PM to learn more about “We Went Undefeated 2” and the ideas behind the work.

Then, return on Friday, August 7, for “Four Rounds,” a live performance by Leonardo and four collaborators unfolding over the duration of an amateur boxing match. Doors open at 6 PM. Performance begins at 7 PM.

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Shaun Leonardo, “We Went Undefeated 2,” 2026. Single-channel video. 12:10 mins.
Shaun Leonardo, “We Went Undefeated,” 2024. Four-channel video. 20:48 mins.

08/01/2026

I’m just gonna leave this here 🙌

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07/24/2026

We are pleased to present “Path of Totality,” a solo exhibition of new and recent video installations by Janet Biggs. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition opens Wednesday, September 9th and will be on view through Saturday, October 24th. The artist will be present at the opening reception on September 9th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

For decades, Biggs has traveled to extreme environments, using the journey as a framework to explore how physical landscapes mirror the psychological and emotional terrain of human life. “Path of Totality” extends this inquiry by bringing together two video installations set in vastly different environments: “Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021)” (2022–24), and “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858)” (2025). Through the juxtaposition of contemporary footage with historical writings, navigational accounts, and inherited memory, Biggs collapses geographical and temporal distance. The solar eclipse becomes both an astronomical event and a metaphor for human psychology: a moment when light is blocked, orientation is disrupted, and familiar conditions are temporarily transformed.*

*[link in bio to read the full press release]

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1. Still from Janet Biggs, “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858),” 2025. Three-channel HD video with spatial sound. 10:16 minutes.
2. Still from Janet Biggs, “Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021),” 2022-24. Single-channel HD video with spatial sound. 6:51 minutes.

07/21/2026

Shaun Leonardo’s “The Messengers (Diddy Wallpaper)” asks what it means when images of influence, power, and impending violence become not only normalized, but socially sanctioned.

P. Diddy’s notorious all-white parties projected an illusion of equality through a strictly enforced dress code that subsumed individual identities into a carefully constructed public image. In “The Messengers (Diddy Wallpaper)”, Leonardo transposes images from Diddy’s parties onto red and white wallpaper, transforming evidence of violence into a familiar domestic pattern. As these images become decorative through repetition, Leonardo reveals how spectacle can conceal violence in plain sight, echoing Ralph Ellison’s meditation on the distance between being seen and being truly recognized.

“The Messengers (Diddy Wallpaper)” is featured in “Shaun Leonardo: The Invisible Man,” on view through Friday, August 7th.

Photo credits:
Kevin Mazur, Getty Images
Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images
Brian Bedder/CP, Getty Images

07/13/2026

This Wednesday, we will stay open until 8pm for the ADAA Tribeca Gallery Walk! Stop by to see “The Invisible Man,” a survey exhibition of works by Shaun Leonardo; on view through Friday, August 7th.

You can RSVP for the walk by following the link in the ADAA’s bio. Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)

Shaun Leonardo Cristin Tierney

07/10/2026

Join us tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for the opening reception for “The Invisible Man,” a survey exhibition of works by Shaun Leonardo. He will be present at the reception. The exhibition will be on view through Friday, August 7th.

Scale image of Shaun Leonardo, Concussion (drawing 2), 2024. Charcoal on paper. 51 1/2 x 39 inches (130.8 x 99.1 cm).

Shaun Leonardo Cristin Tierney

07/09/2026

Join us tomorrow from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for the opening reception for “The Invisible Man,” a survey exhibition of works by Shaun Leonardo. This marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. He will be present at the opening reception. The exhibition will be on view through Friday, August 7th.

Spanning drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and performance, “The Invisible Man” traces Leonardo’s longstanding investigations of masculinity, race, memory, and what the body can endure under pressure. The exhibition’s title draws on Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” (1952), referencing the experience of being viewed through the lens of racial stereotypes and projection, and therefore being unseen. For Leonardo, this invisibility is both an internalized condition and a social position—one tied to the repeated failures produced by systems of oppression, constructs of masculinity, racial stereotypes, and of institutions that promise belonging while ultimately withholding it.

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07/06/2026

Today’s rainy day is a perfect time to visit Shaun Leonardo’s survey exhibition, “The Invisible Man.” Stop by the gallery to see decade-spanning works by the artist, including two new video installations: “The Return of El Conquistador” and “We Went Undefeated 2” (both 2026).

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07/04/2026

In honor of Independence Day and the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America, we are throwing it back to our booth at Art Basel Miami Beach last year. Our presentation explored what it means to be an American within our current political climate. The booth turned its gaze inward—toward America itself, its ideals, contradictions, and interpretations of freedom. In a moment of political division and renewed retrospection, we hark back to the role art can, and should, play in encouraging civic discourse.

The artists in this presentation approach America as both subject and metaphor—a shifting terrain where ideology, memory, and myth converge. Their works invite sustained reflection on what endures and what must be reimagined as the country nears its next defining milestone.

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07/02/2026

NYC, please stay cool during the heat wave!! Limit time outdoors; stay hydrated; keep pets inside; go to a cooling center, or get yourself into a cold pool.

Maureen O’Leary, “Cold Pool” (2025). Oil on canvas. 14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm).

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Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	12pm - 6pm

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