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SAPAR Contemporary SAPAR is dedicated to exhibiting and promoting the work of mid-career contemporary artists. SAPAR Contemporary launched a nomadic incubator program in 2015.

SAPAR Contemporary Gallery + Incubator is the brainchild of Raushan Sapar and Nina Levent. The project that has been in the works since 2014 while we were looking for a space that was in line with our vision. The gallery has finally acquired a ground floor space at 9 North Moore Street and renovated this older traditional Tribeca space into a modern sunlit gallery space that respects the architectural legacy of the neighborhood and retains its original charm. SAPAR Contemporary artists span three generations and five continents. They engage in global conversations and develop vocabularies that resonate as strongly in Mumbai, Almaty and Istanbul as they do in New York, Berlin and Mexico City. Their artistic practices vary from meditative traditional ink painting to writing programming code; what connects them are the artists’ capacity for empathy, insight, and imagination, their whimsy and generosity of spirit, as well as the rigor and depth of their studio practice. The Incubator program, residencies and group shows offer a unique lens that is immediate and global, future-oriented and accessible, multi-sensory and immersive. The gallery program brings together visual artists and creative minds of all disciplines: scientists, engineers, architects, performers, musicians and perfumers. SAPAR Contemporary artists’ works have been featured in international Biennials and are included in private and public collections around the world; among them are the MoMA, LaCMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, the Smithsonian and many others. SAPAR Contemporary commissions works that are site-specific to New York, but infused with sensibilities, materialities and traditions of the artists’ backgrounds. The Gallery does not accept unsolicited portfolios.

09/24/2026

What does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence? Since 2018, artist and poet Sasha Stiles has explored this question through collaborations with her alter ego, Technelegy, an evolving AI system trained to emulate and augment her writing and voice. Their projects consider how human and machine minds process language, shaping new forms of expression for a rapidly changing world. Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles: “THIS PLACE WAS HOME BEFORE I LIVED HERE” / Poems After Jangar opens TOMORROW September 25, 6-8pm.This is the gallery’s first exhibition of works by Stiles, who embarks on a deeply personal exploration of poetry as a technology of inheritance. Drawing on Jangar – a centuries-old Kalmyk-Mongolian epic that has survived migration, persecution, deportation, and diaspora – Stiles returns to a foundational story of her nomadic heritage to consider how language, memory, and culture are carried forward, or fall silent.

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09/16/2026

Since 2018, Artist Sasha Stiles has worked closely with artificial intelligence as both subject and collaborator, developing hybrid creative systems that expand the possibilities of authorship and expression. Working across immersive installations, generative systems, artist books, publications, physical objects, and live performance, Stiles traces a throughline from ancient traditions of orality and inscription to the technocultural landscape of the twenty-first century. Engaging both the exhilaration and unease of this shift, she uses poetry to distill meaning from noise, interrogating language as both a flawed interface and a powerful force for connection, collaboration, and survival. Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles: “THIS PLACE WAS HOME BEFORE I LIVED HERE” / Poems After Jangar opens September 10, 6-8pm.

08/18/2026

Nancy Hemenway Barton (1920-2008), who was a subject of a major retrospective at the Denver Art Museum last year, worked from her studio on a tiny island off Boothbay Harbor in Maine, where she developed a textile practice that was unlike those of her contemporaries. She called it “bayetage.” Barton, who was also a poet, used textiles and embroidery as collage or drawing to create lyrical textured compositions, sometimes abstract and soulful, and sometimes tentatively figurative.

Nancy Hemenway Barton (1920-2008) & Benigna Chilla is on view through August 27.

08/13/2026

In the past decade, Chilla has returned to working principally on large canvases, building her ideas in paint and with remnants of textiles, which she uses both to create texture and as a material adhered to the surface. Increasingly, the artist’s color-block forms, iconometric compositions, and even the scroll-like formats of her work reflect the importance of the time she has spent in Asia to her practice.

07/23/2026

Artist Amanda Reeves in conversation with Dr. Nina Levent, Director of Sapar Contemporary Gallery + Incubator

Amanda Reevesʼ fascination with natural systems, their networks and the creatures who inhabit them initially drew her to studying marine biology, where she could revel in the fantastical creatures and unknown realms. These biological systems, so diverse and unique to their surroundings had such exquisite specificity and yet seemed so fantastical; untethered and floating within the space they inhabit, seemingly weightless. Interconnected, related and yet abstract and nonsensical. 

07/01/2026

London-based British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode takes us around her studio to mark the end of this Pride Month

See Sola Olulode at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African Art in Here: Pride and Belonging, on view through August 23, 2026.

Olulode’s dreamy q***r visions explore embodiments of British Black women and Non-Binary Folx. Her figures exemplify the warm embrace of q***r love, and her utopian scenes celebrate relationships that transcend crude notions of q***r sexuality, creating a temporal space to bathe in memories of intimacies abundant with profoundly deep tender connections.

06/30/2026

London-based British-Nigerian artist Sola Olulode takes us around her studio to mark the end of this Pride Month

See Sola Olulode at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African Art in Here: Pride and Belonging, on view through August 23, 2026.

Olulode’s dreamy q***r visions explore embodiments of British Black women and Non-Binary Folx. Her figures exemplify the warm embrace of q***r love, and her utopian scenes celebrate relationships that transcend crude notions of q***r sexuality, creating a temporal space to bathe in memories of intimacies abundant with profoundly deep tender connections.

06/23/2026

Catch Sofia Cacciapaglia: Apparizione tomorrow night at Downtown Gallery Night 6-8pm, sponsored by Showrunner

Sofia Caccipaapglia: Apparizione ends this Saturday 6/27

06/20/2026

Art Basel closes tomorrow, June 21st. Visit Unlimited Hall 1 U4 to see Rashid Al Khalifa’s Crate Maze!

The space is alive with a careful play of light and shadow, created by the installation’s geometry, which casts intricate patterns on the ground. This interplay forms a dynamic visual dialogue, enhancing the sense of movement and fluidity, and reflecting the geometric intricacy associated with Middle Eastern art and architecture. These patterns emphasize the cultural roots of the region, where symmetry, repetition, and elaborate designs have long been integral to artistic expression. Rashid Al Khalifa Art Basel

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9 N. Moore Street
New York, NY
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Tuesday 12pm - 6pm
Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm

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