Westwood Gallery

Westwood Gallery Contemporary art gallery in New York City's Bowery Art District.

WESTWOOD GALLERY, established in 1995 in NYC, focuses on contemporary artists from the 1960s through today, including downtown artists, Bowery Arts District, historic photography, and secondary market artwork. Other projects include an award-winning documentary environmental film, site-specific installations, international art collaborations, museum loans and non-profit philanthropic activities. T

he gallery also has a research, archive and book publishing division to preserve artist estates and their legacy. Westwood Gallery artists are represented in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, PS1, Walker Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other national and international institutions.
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08/27/2026

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
September 11 – November 7, 2026

Main Gallery // Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
Gallery II // Charles Hinman: Gems

08/21/2026

OPENING SOON //
Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit

The exhibition highlights 'Full Circle' (2023), Simmons' mixed-media painting across eleven canvases, which serves as the basis for his MTA Arts & Design commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens. Also on view are seventeen recent paintings and works on paper completed during the final years of his life.

on view September 11 – November 7, 2026

08/18/2026

On August 17, we celebrated what would have been Danny Simmons' 73rd birthday 🤍🎈

As a poet, artist, and philanthropist, Danny’s dedication to uplifting others and to bringing people together through art was felt in everything he did. This September, we honor Danny's life and legacy with a solo exhibition of his recent artwork—his first since his passing.

Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit
on view September 11 – November 7, 2026

Happy Birthday, Lucien Clergue (1934–2014)! 🎈A pioneering figure in 20th-century photography, Clergue moved effortlessly...
08/14/2026

Happy Birthday, Lucien Clergue (1934–2014)! 🎈

A pioneering figure in 20th-century photography, Clergue moved effortlessly between the intimate and the experimental, photographing artists, musicians, intellectuals, the human figure, and the landscapes of his native France. His enduring friendships with figures including Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau became part of his remarkable photographic legacy.

Westwood Gallery NYC has held two solo exhibition of Clergue’s photography including ‘Lucien Clergue: Phoenixology,’ featuring photographs of Jean Cocteu’s ‘Testament of Orpheus’ captured in 1959.

01./ Jean Cocteau as the Poet and the Sphinx, Testament of Orpheus, Val d’Enfer, Les Baux-de-Provence, 1959
02./ Jean Cocteau bursts the bubble, Testament of Orpheus, Studios de la Victorine, Nice, 1959
03./ Jean Cocteau and Edouard Dermithe, Testament of Orpheus, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, 1959
04./ Installation View | ‘Lucien Clergue: Phoenixology,’ Westwood Gallery NYC, 2022

Featured in The New York Times' list of "The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age," was the 1968 ‘Benefit for the St...
08/08/2026

Featured in The New York Times' list of "The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age," was the 1968 ‘Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,’ the first show at New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery. A pivotal moment in the history of minimalist sculpture, the exhibition included works by Will Insley as well as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Dan Flavin.

"The benefit at Paula Cooper was not only the gallery’s first show, but the first in SoHo, the neighborhood that would become, until the end of the 20th century, the center of the New York art world."

In 2018, Paula Cooper Gallery held its fiftieth anniversary exhibition entitled, ‘50 Years: An Anniversary, A Benefit Exhibition for March For Our Lives.’ The exhibition included Will Insley’s ‘Wall Fragment 66.4’ (1966-67) on loan from Westwood Gallery NYC as well as other 1960s artworks by Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Bill Bollinger, Dan Flavin, Robert Huot, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Murray, Doug Ohlson, and Robert Ryman.

01./ Eva & Adele performance art duo with Will Insley installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, 2018
02./ Gallerist Paula Cooper and Westwood Gallery co-founder and curator James Cavello at exhibition opening, 2018

03./ Will Insley ‘Wall Fragment 66.4’ (1966-67) at Westwood Gallery NYC, 2026
04./ Will Insley ‘Wall Fragment 66.4’ (1966-67) at Paula Cooper Gallery, 2018
05./ Will Insley Wall Fragments (Rulers) (1967) at Paula Cooper Gallery, 1968
06./ Exhibition Pamphlet | Paula Cooper Gallery, ‘Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,’ 1968

Thank you to for the perceptive review of 'Leo Matiz: Mythmakers'! offers a poetic reflection on the Matiz's photograph...
07/30/2026

Thank you to for the perceptive review of 'Leo Matiz: Mythmakers'!
offers a poetic reflection on the Matiz's photographs of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros as they shaped the course of Mexican Modernism in the 1940s. Some photographers document history. With his images, Leo Matiz helped define it.

Leo Matiz: Mythmakers celebrates the legendary photographer whose portraits of icons like Frida Kahlo continue to shape how we see art and culture today.

on view through Saturday, August 1, 2026

Thank you to Bridget Goodbody and for the thoughtful review of 'Artists on the Bowery, Part 6: Reframing the Edge'!Taki...
07/29/2026

Thank you to Bridget Goodbody and for the thoughtful review of 'Artists on the Bowery, Part 6: Reframing the Edge'!

Taking the reader on a tour of the exhibition, Bridget reveals how each exhibited artist answers the questions, "Why does a painting have to be square or rectangle? Why does it have to sit flat against the wall? Why pretend it isn't just an object — a thing in the room with you?"

on view through Saturday, August 1, 2026

07/25/2026

One week left! 🚨

Come in next Tuesday to Saturday to catch ‘Artists on the Bowery, Part 6: Reframing the Edge’

07/23/2026

What is the shaped painting movement?

Shaped canvas pioneer Charles Hinman (1932-2026) combines the “real” space of sculpture with the “illusory space” of painting with his Gems series, on view now through August 1 💎

Happy 102nd birthday to Boris Lurie (1924–2008) 💥It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since we held the artist’s cente...
07/18/2026

Happy 102nd birthday to Boris Lurie (1924–2008) 💥

It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since we held the artist’s centennial exhibition at Westwood Gallery NYC in collaboration with the .

The exhibition opened on July 18th, 2024, what would have been Lurie’s 100th birthday, and included over 30 paintings, collages, and works on paper from 1945-1972 by Boris Lurie co-founder of the NO!art movement.

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262 Bowery
New York, NY
10012

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

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