Isabel Sullivan Gallery

Isabel Sullivan Gallery We are a woman-owned gallery in Tribeca, New York City.

06/12/2026

Cat Spilman explaining the meaning behind her painting “Balthazar” ✨

This weekend marks the final days of Cat’s solo exhibition, “Dear New York.” Many of the works are already on their way to new homes, and we’re so grateful for the incredible response to this show.

Bringing Cat’s vibrant, nostalgic vision of New York to our Chelsea gallery has been a true joy. If you haven’t seen it yet, we hope you can visit us tomorrow for the closing day!

📍501 West 23rd Street, Chelsea NYC

“Nature of Nordic Woman: Reclaiming Anger, Eros and Creative Power”Photography exhibition and live performance premieres...
06/06/2026

“Nature of Nordic Woman: Reclaiming Anger, Eros and Creative Power”
Photography exhibition and live performance premieres June 18 in Tribeca, with public performances June 24 & 25 ✨
Space is limited! Reserve seats through the link in bio

“Nature of Nordic Woman” is a multidisciplinary work that traces a journey from numbness, self-suppression and survival, back toward vitality, creative power and aliveness, back to what the artists call our Original Nature. The work explores healthy anger as the foundation of boundaries, agency and selfhood, and eros not merely as sexuality, but as life force, vitality, creativity and connection.

The exhibition features a new body of photographic work by Meeri Koutaniemi, one of Finland’s most celebrated visual artists and photojournalists. Known internationally for her human rights work and reporting from more than seventy countries, Koutaniemi has received numerous awards for her contributions to photography and journalism. In “Nature of Nordic Woman,” she turns her lens toward the relationship between body, nature, and psychological transformation.

The exhibition premiere includes a live psychoperformative experience created by psychologist Iida Mäkikallio and performance artist Ida-Maria Martela. Mäkikallio is a Finnish psychologist, Speaker of the Year 2025, and one of Finland’s most recognized public voices on relational dynamics and psychological wellbeing. She is also well known as the relationship expert on one of Finland’s most popular TV shows, Love at First Sight.

Martela is a trained dancer, performance artist, and facilitator. A former bronze medalist in the Finnish Show Dance Championships, she now works at the intersection of movement, creative expression, and human transformation, facilitating workshops for women to support them in taking up space and claiming their place in the world.

We are thrilled to host these inspiring women from Finland and hope to see you at the show!

📍39 Lispenard Street Tribeca, NYC

06/04/2026

“Women are not dysregulated because they lack calming techniques. They are dysregulated because their nervous systems have been shaped around chronic self-suppression.”

NATURE OF NORDIC WOMAN
Reclaiming Anger, Eros & Creative Power

A Finnish psychologist, an acclaimed photographer, and a performance artist bring a provocative exploration of anger, eros, and vitality to New York, challenging mainstream ideas of wellbeing.

Photography Exhibition by Meeri Koutaniemi

Psychoperformative Show by Iida Mäkikallio & Ida-Maria Martela, feat. Anna Sofia Abrahamsson

Private Exhibition Opening & Premiere — June 18, 2026

Following a sold-out theater performance in Finland, Nature of Nordic Woman comes to New York for two public performances only.

Public performances:
June 24 & 25, 2026
39 Lispenard Street Tribeca, NYC

Reservations open tomorrow — tickets are limited, first come, first served. More info tomorrow 🔥

06/03/2026

NATURE OF NORDIC WOMAN

“Vitality follows the logic of nature in its uncontrollable, unpredictable and ever-evolving power. Its deepest roots lie in creativity, playfulness, rebellion and reinvention.”

Photography Exhibition by Meeri Koutaniemi

Psychoperformative Show by Iida Mäkikallio & Ida-Maria Martela , feat. Anna Sofia Abrahamsson

Find out tomorrow what we have planned for June ✨

06/03/2026

What if wellbeing is not found through self-improvement, productivity, or positive thinking, but through reclaiming exactly those parts of ourselves we have been conditioned to suppress?

NATURE OF NORDIC WOMAN
6/18/2026

Photography Exhibition by Meeri Koutaniemi

Psychoperformative Show by Iida Mäkikallio & Ida-Maria Martela

Stay tuned 🔜

If you haven’t had a chance to see Cat Spilman’s solo show “Dear New York” yet, we are extending it through June 13! ✨Fi...
06/03/2026

If you haven’t had a chance to see Cat Spilman’s solo show “Dear New York” yet, we are extending it through June 13! ✨

Filled with color, movement, and nostalgia, this exhibition is a must-see for New Yorkers. The paintings are inspired by places and memories throughout the city, capturing the magic of New York through Cat’s personal lens.

📍501 West 23rd Street Chelsea NYC

“These paintings have poured out of me with all the fondness and nostalgia I carry for New York. And for the first time, I’ve used color this way – to celebrate the vibrancy that defines this city.

Whether you’ve lived in New York for decades or today is your first visit, I hope you see in these pieces a bit of the magic that makes this place and its people so incredibly special.“ -

Our friends from Lyle Gallery recently hosted a sapphic garden party during NYC Design Week in our Chelsea sculpture gar...
06/02/2026

Our friends from Lyle Gallery recently hosted a sapphic garden party during NYC Design Week in our Chelsea sculpture garden. It was a perfect evening, with delicious wine and an intimate group of women, q***r, and nonbinary guests from a wide range of fields: interior design and architecture, law and wealth management, art and design, writing, and technology.

My close friend Lin was smiling radiantly (that’s Lin with her wife Maggie in the window—the life of the party). Lin is a dear friend whom I have admired for many years. She is endlessly creative and has a remarkable ability to attract the warmest and most interesting people into her orbit.

Lin launched .gallery at around the same time I launched ISG. We used to sit around my dining table in Brooklyn, or share beers at Fanelli’s in SoHo, talking about opening our own galleries one day.

And there I was, standing on the second floor of this iconic building on a temperate May evening, looking down at the crowd and thinking: we actually did it.

If you’re around Lin, you’re guaranteed to meet captivating people—and almost certainly guaranteed a laugh. This was the first private event we’ve hosted at our new location, the beautiful glass-and-steel building at the corner of 23rd Street and 10th Avenue that we now share with

It’s the first of many curated garden parties to come. If you’d like to hear about future events, leave us a comment below to be added to our mailing list ✨

New work by Danish artist ✨Anders Scrmn Meisner The Red Swan, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 39 x 37 in (99 x 94 cm)Viewable at...
05/31/2026

New work by Danish artist ✨

Anders Scrmn Meisner
The Red Swan, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
39 x 37 in (99 x 94 cm)

Viewable at our Chelsea location
📍501 West 23rd Street

When you run out of walls, there’s always a bookshelf ✨ Sculpture is a great way to stylize a table or a bookshelf. Our ...
05/30/2026

When you run out of walls, there’s always a bookshelf ✨ Sculpture is a great way to stylize a table or a bookshelf. Our books are enjoying the company of glass sculptures by - on view at our Chelsea location!

📍501 West 23rd Street NYC

Some news that feels pretty unreal to say out loud: Isabel Sullivan Gallery, along with multiple works from our exhibiti...
05/26/2026

Some news that feels pretty unreal to say out loud: Isabel Sullivan Gallery, along with multiple works from our exhibitions, was featured in Interior Design Magazine’s ✨The Ones to Watch✨ issue, celebrating bold ideas and the creatives shaping what comes next!!

For nearly 90 years, Interior Design Magazine has been one of the places professionals turn to for inspiration, so seeing Liu Shuishi’s exhibition “Existential, Being” featured alongside Sophie Collé’s clock “Just for Fun” from our ONNI exhibition felt pretty surreal. Especially surrounded by such outstanding global projects and ideas.

I want to tell you: this mentioning made our whole team feel so seen.

Because we spend a lot of time thinking about what kind of gallery we want to be — not only what we show, but how we show up in people’s lives. We want art and design to feel welcoming, exciting, transformative. The kind of work that makes someone stop for a second and think: oh, WOW. That’s why we launched ONNI in December together with Lyle Gallery, as a labor of love celebrating true craftsmanship, thoughtful design, and the beauty of handmade objects.

Right now we’re all seeing visually unbelievable things online every day, increasingly things made by AI in seconds. So that visual ”wow” doesn’t always hit the same way.

But what still moves people, and what we believe always will, is human creativity.

That moment of seeing something and thinking:

Someone actually made this.

Someone sat with an idea for months, or years. Obsessed over tiny details. Made mistakes, changed direction, tried again.

Whether it’s art, design, or architecture, that human creativity is what drives us to do what we do. Because it reminds us what we’re actually capable of, and what being human is all about.

We’re incredibly grateful to journalist Lisa Di Venuta for including these works in an article celebrating creativity that thinks outside the box.

And if you’re curious, Sophie Collé’s clock is currently on view at our Chelsea gallery, while a few of the last available works from Liu Shuishi’s exhibition can still be viewed by appointment ✨

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39 Lispenard Street
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10013

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Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

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