| September |
| Eleventh Hour Art Group Show | Eleventh Hour Art | Brooklyn | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| TIDES | Leslie Feely | Uptown | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Catharine Czudej: God is Good | Meredith Rosen | Uptown | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Maxwell Stevens: Surfside | ONETWENTYEIGHT | Lower East Side / East Village | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| A Vivid Blur | SVA Chelsea Gallery | Chelsea | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Selena Kimball | Ulterior Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Martina Cox: Heart Eyes | Jarvis Art | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 2 | — | Opening |
| Bruno Munari: The Circus in the Mist | SVA Chelsea Gallery | Chelsea | Wed, Sep 2 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Esperanza Cortés: Embroidered Allegories | Hispanic Society Museum & Library | Uptown | Thu, Sep 3 | — | Opening |
| Osamu Kobayashi Cave Painting | Hollis Taggart | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 3 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Ákos Ezer: Call of the Wild | Plato Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 3 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Maude Corriveau: Solo Exhibition | Plato Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 3 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Weaving a Day, Mourning a Life: The Mother and Daughter-in-Law of Phúc Sen | Apex Art | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 4 | — | Opening |
| The Weight of Grace: New Works by Stan Squirewell | Claire Oliver | Uptown | Fri, Sep 4 | — | Opening |
| Valerio Adami: Alice in the Land of Violence | David Nolan Gallery | Uptown | Fri, Sep 4 | — | Opening |
| Elsa María Meléndez: The Cage Became a Bird | Claire Oliver | Uptown | Fri, Sep 4 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Caitlin MacBride | Deanna Evans Projects | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 4 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Caitlin MacBride: The Floor Below The Floor | Deanna Evans Projects | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 4 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 | Whitney Museum of American Art | West Village / Union Square / Meatpacking | Sat, Sep 5 | — | Opening |
| Kimberly Fulton Orozco | Open Source | Brooklyn | Sat, Sep 5 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Jutta Koether | Galerie Buchholz | Uptown | Tue, Sep 8 | — | Opening |
| A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Uptown | Tue, Sep 8 | — | Opening |
| Christopher K. Ho: Waterloo! | 56 Henry | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| DANNY FOX: FATA MORGANA | Alexander Berggruen | Uptown | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Telenovela | Americas Society | Uptown | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Dindga McCannon: Yesterday and Today | Fridman | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Matthias Franz | GRIMM Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Volker Hüller | GRIMM Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Michael Mandiberg: Taking Stock Objects | Heft | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Ulrike Müller | Hoffman Donahue | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| 10 Year Anniversary | Magenta Plains | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Narcissister | Margot Samel | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Brenda Mallory: Of Seasons and Cycles | Marinaro | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Vojtěch Kovařík: In Between | Mendes Wood DM | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Herman Cherry: Rivers from 30,000 Feet | Sebastian Gladstone, New York | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Nizhonniya Austin: Trying to Be Alaska | Tara Downs | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Grace Graupe-Pillard: Burning Point | Hal Bromm | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Mala Iqbal: Among Us | JJ Murphy Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Nikki Maloof | Perrotin | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 9 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Paul Fägerskiöld: Ergosphere | Peter Blum | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Scott Kahn: Silent Night | David Zwirner, 525 West 19th Street | Chelsea | Wed, Sep 9 | 8:00pm | Opening |
| Project Room: Tim Gardner | 303 Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Tanya Merrill | 303 Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Timothy Cook | D'Lan Contemporary | Uptown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art | El Museo Del Barrio | Uptown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Anastasya Peña: Mood Ring | Fredericks & Freiser | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| BOBBIE OLIVER: TITLE TBA | High Noon Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Mark Armijo McKnight: Cut the World | Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Rana Begum | Lehmann Maupin, New York | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Raphaella Spence: From Rome to New York | Louis K Miesel | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Dora Jeridi | Marianne Boesky Gallery, 507 24th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| The Haas Brothers: Haas Brothers | Marianne Boesky Gallery, 507 24th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Roy Dowell | Miles McEnery, 511 W 22nd Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Suzanne Caporael | Miles McEnery, 511 W 22nd Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Lucy Williams | Miles McEnery, 515 W 22nd Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| ISCA GREENFIELD-SANDERS | Miles McEnery, 525 W 22nd Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| LUCY WILLIAMS | Miles McEnery, 525 W 22nd Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Rebecca Ness: Inheritance | Morgan Presents | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Tomas Harker | Nicodim | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Tauba Auerbach: Zephyr, Zephyr | Paula Cooper, 521 W 21st Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Eric N. Mack: You Red The Shirt Off My Back | Paula Cooper, 534 W 21st Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Nastaran Shahbazi: Under The Same Skin | Scroll | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Geometries | Studio Museum Harlem | Uptown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Sandra Vásquez de la Horra | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Sandra Vásquez de la Horra | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Tania Franco Klein: RAGETM | Yancey Richardson | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Sam Jones | Amos Eno Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Perle Fine: Ninth Street Woman | Berry Campbell Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Anna Ortiz: Shapeshifter | CHART | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Nate Lowman | David Zwirner, 519 W 19th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Peter Howson: Salvation | Essex Flowers | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Brice Marden: I Am Plane Image | Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Yvonne Jacquette: From the Air | Karma, 549 West 26th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Eric N. Mack: You Red The Shirt Off My Back | Paula Cooper, 521 W 21st Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Tauba Auerbach: Zephyr, Zephyr | Paula Cooper, 534 W 21st Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Pierre Knop: Le Sacre Du Printemps | Yossi Milo Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Alison Hall | Kate Werble Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| settle for a good fantasy | Luhring Augustine, Chelsea | Chelsea | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| Arlene Shechet: She Said She Said | Pace | Chelsea | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING | Pace | Chelsea | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue | Pace | Chelsea | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| Sarah McEneaney | Tibor de Nagy Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Fri, Sep 11 | — | Opening |
| Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings | Artists Space | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 11 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Sally Scopa: Stereographs | Oolong Gallery | | Fri, Sep 11 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Danh Vo | White Cube | Uptown | Fri, Sep 11 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Celeste Dupuy-Spencer: Burning in the Eyes of the Maker | Jeffrey Deitch, Wooster Street | Tribeca / SoHo | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| Nike: Form Follows Motion | Museum of Arts and Design | Uptown | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom | Pioneer Works | Brooklyn | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| There's no me without you | Pioneer Works | Brooklyn | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| Tuomas A. Laitinen: Siphon | Pioneer Works | Brooklyn | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| Proserpina / Devil Chaser | Gordon Robichaux | West Village / Union Square / Meatpacking | Sun, Sep 13 | — | Opening |
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | Lisson, 504 W 24th Street | Chelsea | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Leonilson | Lisson, 508 W 24th Street | Chelsea | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Jean-Marc Superville Sovak: The Price of Half-Freedom: Manuel de Gerrit de Reus; Enslaved, Condemned, Pardoned and Freed, 1641-1644 | Shirley Fiterman Art Center | Tribeca / SoHo | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Johannah Herr: I Have Seen the Future: The American Home | Shirley Fiterman Art Center | Tribeca / SoHo | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Affordable Art Fair NYC | Eleventh Hour Art | Brooklyn | Wed, Sep 16 | — | Opening |
| Ten Years of Fierman | FIERMAN | Lower East Side / East Village | Wed, Sep 16 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Alejandro Corujeira | Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary | Uptown | Wed, Sep 16 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Sentient Earth | Amant | Brooklyn | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Call Mom: Olive Ayhens and Ezra Johnson | Bookstein Projects | Uptown | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Breaking Ground: Artists of the Desert Ranges | D'Lan Contemporary | Uptown | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Abelardo Morell: Out of Paper / In Dialogue with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski & Larry Poons | Edwynn Houk Gallery | Uptown | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Emily Mae Smith | Petzel Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Ross Bleckner | Petzel Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Parasol Press: Breaking New Ground | Print Center New York | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Liu Wei: The Genesis Facade Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Uptown | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Uptown | Thu, Sep 17 | — | Opening |
| Taking up Space: New Works by Kandy G Lopez | ACA Galleries | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Wendell Castle: LIVING | Friedman Benda | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Ryan Flores | Greenwich House Pottery | West Village / Union Square / Meatpacking | Thu, Sep 17 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Shelter from the Storm: An Artist’s Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum | National Academy of Design | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Emma McIntyre: This body holds / swamp stuff | David Zwirner, 519 W 19th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 17 | 8:00pm | Opening |
| Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror | Jack Shainman Gallery, Tribeca | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 18 | — | Opening |
| Asher Liftin: Recent Work | Pace | Chelsea | Fri, Sep 18 | — | Opening |
| Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague | The Jewish Museum | Uptown | Fri, Sep 18 | — | Opening |
| Emma McIntyre | David Zwirner, Tribeca | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Sep 18 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Taryn Simon | Guggenheim | Uptown | Fri, Sep 18 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Will Clift: Still Points, Turning World | Gerald Peters | Uptown | Sat, Sep 19 | — | Opening |
| 100 Works on Paper BENEFIT Exhibition 2026 | Kentler International Drawing Space | Brooklyn | Sat, Sep 19 | — | Opening |
| Alex Gross | Krause | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Sep 19 | — | Opening |
| Coumba Samba: Stars and Stripes | Whitney Museum of American Art | West Village / Union Square / Meatpacking | Sat, Sep 19 | — | Opening |
| Aziz Hazara: Coming Home | SculptureCenter | Queens | Sat, Sep 19 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Opening |
| Yining Fei: Feral Sediment | SculptureCenter | Queens | Sat, Sep 19 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Opening |
| Marianne Wex: Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives | MoMA | Uptown | Sun, Sep 20 | — | Opening |
| Salon Zürcher 35th Edition: 100 Women of Spirit +, Part 5 | Zürcher Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Mon, Sep 21 | — | Opening |
| Robert Szot: Dust Do Shine | Anita Rogers Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 23 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Yulia Pinkusevich | Kutlesa | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Teresa Margolles | MoMA PS1 | Queens | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony | New Museum | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! | New Museum | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| The Bowery: Devil’s Mile | New Museum | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Independent 20th Century 2026 | Salon 94 | Uptown | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork | The FLAG Art Foundation | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 24 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Halumii Ktapihna | Museum of the City of New York | Uptown | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| Raise Your Voice | Museum of the City of New York | Uptown | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France | Poster House | NoMad / Flatiron | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works | Poster House | NoMad / Flatiron | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| October |
| 250 Years: American Women Artists and the Nation's Story | Lincoln Glenn | Chelsea | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| DEBORAH BUCK: NEW JEWELS | Pen and Brush | NoMad / Flatiron | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| A sustained becoming: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2026 | Studio Museum Harlem | Uptown | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| Hunt Slonem | Bonner David | Uptown | Thu, Oct 1 | 6:00pm | Opening |
| Amelia Briggs: Meadows | Deanna Evans Projects | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Oct 1 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | Fri, Oct 2 | — | Opening |
| Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | Fri, Oct 2 | — | Opening |
| Art of Manga | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | Sat, Oct 3 | — | Opening |
| Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American "Schoolgirl" Art | American Folk Art Museum | Uptown | Fri, Oct 9 | — | Opening |
| Louise Bourgeois - The Architecture of Memory | NYC MOCA | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Oct 9 | — | Opening |
| Roy Lichtenstein: Like New | Whitney Museum of American Art | West Village / Union Square / Meatpacking | Sun, Oct 11 | — | Opening |
| Unspoken Agreement: new Shona sculptures | Bonner David | Uptown | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now | International Center of Photography | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure | International Center of Photography | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| Raphaella Spence: On the Road | Louis K Miesel | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| Annie Hémond Hotte: The Divine Comedy: Hell | Margot Samel | Tribeca / SoHo | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 | The Frick Collection | Uptown | Thu, Oct 15 | — | Opening |
| Hiroko Ohno | Amos Eno Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Thu, Oct 15 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Leo Manelli x Thirsty Bstrd "Viva la France" | Krause | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Oct 17 | — | Opening |
| Roger Ferney-Cortés | Open Source | Brooklyn | Thu, Oct 22 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Rembrandt’s Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic | The Morgan Library & Museum | NoMad / Flatiron | Fri, Oct 23 | — | Opening |
| Susan Jane Walp | Tibor de Nagy Gallery | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Oct 24 | — | Opening |
| Yoshitomo Nara | David Zwirner, 533 W 19th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Oct 29 | — | Opening |
| Yoshitomo Nara: New York: 19th Street, New York: 20th Street | David Zwirner, 69th Street | Uptown | Thu, Oct 29 | — | Opening |
| Elaine de Kooning: (1918-1989) | Berry Campbell Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Oct 29 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Nick Hallett: Voice Portraits | Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Oct 30 | — | Opening |
| Tamara Gonzales: Brujas | Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Fri, Oct 30 | — | Opening |
| Fantasy and Reality: The Art of Johan Tobias Sergel | The Morgan Library & Museum | NoMad / Flatiron | Fri, Oct 30 | — | Opening |
