James Cohan (291 Grand St.) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for James Cohan (291 Grand St.). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Spencer Finch “H2O”
James Cohan presents H2O, an exhibition of new and historic work by Spencer Finch. This is Finch’s fifth solo exhibition with James Cohan. Perception, the memory of visual phenomena, and the impossible...More »
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA “Boomerang: Returning to African Abstraction”
James Cohan presents Boomerang: Returning to African Abstraction, a solo exhibition by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA featuring new hand-painted bronze sculptures, quilt works, and the premiere of the artist’s...More »
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Eamon Ore-Giron “Talking Shit”
James Cohan presents Talking Shit, an exhibition of new paintings, textiles, and ceramic murals by Eamon Ore-Giron. This is Ore-Giron’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist will also be...More »
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Federico Herrero Exhibition
James Cohan presents an exhibition of new work by Federico Herrero. Federico Herrero uses an expansive and deeply personal concept of landscape to create a language of form and color grounded in the...More »
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Simon Evans™ “Room to Live”
James Cohan presents Room to Live, an exhibition of new work by Simon Evans™. This is the artists’ sixth solo exhibition at James Cohan. Simon Evans™ is the artistic collaboration between Simon Evans...More »
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Shinichi Sawada “Messengers”
James Cohan presents Shinichi Sawada: Messengers, a solo exhibition of sculptures by the self-taught ceramicist Shinichi Sawada. Shinichi Sawada: Messengers is organized in partnership with Jennifer Lauren...More »
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Lee Mullican “The Nest Revived”
James Cohan is pleased to present Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived spans six decades of formal experimentation...More »
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Yun-Fei Ji “The Sunflower Turned Its Back”
James Cohan presents The Sunflower Turned Its Back, an exhibition of new work by Yun-Fei Ji. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition at James Cohan. For more than two decades, Yun-Fei Ji has...More »
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Teresa Margolles “Lo que hemos perdido / What we lost”
Teresa Margolles’s exhibition, Lo que hemos perdido / What we lost. For the artist’s second solo exhibition at James Cohan, Margolles presents a series of painted ceramic vessels from her continued...More »
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Spencer Finch “We send the wave to find the wave”
James Cohan presents We send the wave to find the wave, an exhibition of work by Spencer Finch. We send the wave to find the wave features new paintings, light-based work, watercolors, and major installations...More »
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen “Unburied Sounds”
James Cohan presents Unburied Sounds, an exhibition of new work by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. This is Nguyen’s second solo exhibition at James Cohan. In Unburied Sounds, Nguyen explores the ways in which...More »
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Christopher Myers “The Hands of Strange Children”
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Grace Weaver “11 Women”
James Cohan presents 11 Women, an exhibition of new paintings by Grace Weaver. For her third exhibition at James Cohan, Weaver has created eleven paintings of monumentally-scaled women. Expressively...More »
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Gauri Gill “A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance”
James Cohan presents A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, an exhibition by Gauri Gill, at 52 Walker Street. This is Gill’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan and inaugurates the gallery’s...More »
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Michelle Grabner Exhibition
James Cohan presents an exhibition of new works by Michelle Grabner. This is Grabner’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Michelle Grabner is known for her broad perspective developed as teacher,...More »
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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian “Mirror-works and Drawings (2004–2016)”
James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. The exhibition will span both of the gallery’s locations, with a presentation of three major sculptural series...More »
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Yinka Shonibare “CBE Earth Kids”
“The wild is far from unlimited. It is finite. It needs protecting.” - David Attenborough James Cohan presents Earth Kids, an exhibition of new sculptures by Yinka Shonibare CBE. This is the artist’s...More »
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Jordan Nassar “I Cut The Sky In Two”
James Cohan presents I Cut The Sky In Two, an exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan. I Cut The Sky In Two features hand-embroidered wall...More »
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Trenton Doyle “Something American”
At James Cohan’s Grand Street gallery, Trenton Doyle Hancock will present a new suite of ink-on-paper works that comprise the second chapter of the artist’s most visionary drawing project to date: Trenton...More »
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen “A Lotus in a Sea of Fire”
James Cohan presents A Lotus in a Sea of Fire, an exhibition of new work by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan. Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s work explores the power...More »
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Federico Herrero “Volume”
James Cohan presents Volume, an exhibition of new work by Federico Herrero, at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. This is Herrero’s second solo exhibition with James Cohan. Federico Herrero sees...More »
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“James Cohan: Twenty Years” Exhibition
James Cohan presents James Cohan: Twenty Years, a special group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s twentieth anniversary. On view from November 1 through December 20 at James Cohan’s Tribeca and Lower...More »
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Nam June Paik “Music is Not Sound”
James Cohan presents Music is Not Sound, an exhibition of important works by the late Nam June Paik. Commonly hailed as the father of video art, Nam June Paik saw the latent artistic potential in the...More »
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Scott Olson Exhibition
James Cohan presents an exhibition of new work by Scott Olson at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Scott Olson’s painting practice is rooted in a deep investigation of painting’s materials, tools,...More »
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Firelei Báez “Je bâtis a roches mon langage”
James Cohan presents Je bâtis a roches mon langage, an exhibition of new work by Firelei Báez, at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Dominican-born, New York-based artist Firelei Báez reconfigures...More »
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Simon Evans™ “Passing through the gates of irresponsibility”
James Cohan presents Passing through the gates of irresponsibility, an exhibition of new work by Simon Evans™ at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Simon Evans™ is the artistic collaboration between...More »
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“Borders” Exhibition
James Cohan presents Borders, a group exhibition that considers how contemporary artists engage with political, ideological and formal borders. Borders are synonymous with state power, sovereignty and...More »
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Spencer Finch Exhibition
James Cohan presents an exhibition of new work by Spencer Finch. Over the summer, the artist re-read all 1789 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote in her lifetime. The work in this exhibition is a response...More »
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Grace Weaver “Best Life”
James Cohan will present BEST LIFE, an exhibition of new work by Grace Weaver. Grace Weaver’s paintings are vibrant investigations of the life and times of her generation. Weaver paints an atmospheric...More »
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Helene Appel “Washing”
James Cohan will present Washing, an exhibition of new work by Helene Appel at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. Helene Appel turns an incisive aerial gaze upon the humble sights of everyday...More »
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Yun-Fei Ji “Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions”
In this body of work, Yun-Fei Ji turns his attention to the stories of people living in rural China. The realities of life outside the nation’s largest cities have largely been ignored by narratives of...More »
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Xu Zhen “Movement Field”
James Cohan presents Movement Field, an exhibition of work by XU ZHEN®. The exhibition will present new sculptures and wall-works alongside the immersive installation Movement Field. Movement Field is...More »
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Tabaimo “Clue to Utsushi”
James Cohan presents Clue to Utsushi, a new exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. The exhibition will feature four works previously presented in her 2016 show...More »
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor “The Backwards Forward”
The Backwards Forward is a show of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at James Cohan, Lower East Side. In the artist’s fifth solo gallery show, Taylor’s new work reveals an evolution...More »
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Omer Fast “August”
James Cohan presents an exhibition by Omer Fast. This show is Fast’s second solo exhibition at James Cohan. The exhibition presents the New York premiere of August, a 3D digital film inspired by the...More »
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Nahum Tevet, Richard Long and Alan Saret “Sculpture”
James Cohan presents an exhibition of works by Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, and Alan Saret. The works in the exhibition are united by their physicality and adept spatial integration. Known primarily for...More »
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Amy Feldman “Nerve Reserve”
Nerve Reserve, James Cohan’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Amy Feldman. Amy Feldman generates her grey-on-grey paintings at the electrifying junction of the gesturally...More »
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Scott Olson Exhibition
James Cohan presents the first solo exhibition of new paintings by Ohio-based artist Scott Olson at the gallery Olson is known for his improvised abstract paintings in which the final composition is determined...More »
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Simon Evans™ “Soul Gym”
James Cohan presents Soul Gym, the fourth solo exhibition of work by Simon Evans™ at the gallery. Simon Evans™ is the artistic partnership between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. Their collaborative...More »
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Byron Kim “Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star”
James Cohan presents Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Byron Kim fills his works with subtlety and nuance, producing nearly monochromatic works that achieve...More »
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Trenton Doyle Hancock “Pandemic Pentameter”
James Cohan presents Pandemic Pentameter, Trenton Doyle Hancock’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Comprising a new series of paintings, this exhibition by the Houston based artist further...More »
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Katie Paterson Exhibition
James Cohan presents the first major solo exhibition in New York by Scottish conceptual artist Katie Paterson. Paterson treats her varied subjects – geology, ecology, astronomy, the nature of time itself...More »
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“Certain Skins” Exhibition
James Cohan presents Certain Skins, an exhibition of works by Graham Anderson, Sadie Benning, Byron Kim and Sara Greenberger Rafferty. The works collected in this exhibition explore the role materials...More »
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Kirk Mangus “A pot, a joke, a rhythm, a theory”
James Cohan presents the exhibition A pot, a joke, a rhythm, a theory, by the late Kirk Mangus (1952-2013). Following a major career retrospective at MOCA Cleveland, this is Mangus’s first exhibition in...More »
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The Propeller Group “The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music”
James Cohan presents an exhibition by The Propeller Group, running. The exhibition presents the New York premier of The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, a film work originally created for Prospect.3...More »
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Philip Hanson “It is too difficult a Grace”
James Cohan presents the exhibition It is too difficult a Grace, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of paintings by Philip Hanson. As a complement to the exhition, James Cohan will host a poetry reading...More »
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Mernet Larsen “Things People Do”
James Cohan presents Things People Do, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by Mernet Larsen. Mernet Larsen’s paintings are simultaneously rooted in and distant from reality. Taking inspiration...More »
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Robert Smithson “Pop”
James Cohan presents Pop, an exhibition of the late Robert Smithson’s works on paper and select sculpture from 1963-65. This exhibition marks the debut of James Cohan’s second NYC gallery space located...More »