{"id":348448,"date":"2026-09-16T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348448\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:35:38","slug":"your-cheat-sheet-to-nycs-fall-art-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348448\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Cheat Sheet to NYC\u2019s Fall Art Fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lily Hong Lei’s “7 Train” (2026) (image courtesy Spring Break Art Show)<\/p>\n

After an exceptionally moody and muggy New York City summer, the first whispers of fall spell a welcome reprieve to some, a dreaded reality check to others, and at long last, the bustling and beloved return of fall art fair season. While corn mazes might be a rare site amid the skyscrapers, there will be plenty of labyrinthine booths to wind your way through, both at the good ol’ classics like the tremendous Armory Show, and newer affairs such as the second edition of SPLIT LEVEL. <\/p>\n

To help you navigate, we’ve compiled 10 art fairs that cater to an array of interests, including affordable zines, Surrealist women artists of past and present, and Latinx arts publications. Grab your totes, layer up, and prepare to embrace the annual pageantry.<\/p>\n

The Armory Show<\/p>\n

September 24\u201327 | thearmoryshow.com<\/a>
Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, Hudson Yards, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Raghav Babbar Shudh’s “(Maha Kumbh)” (2026) (image courtesy the artist and Rajiv Menon Contemporary)<\/p>\n

Over 230 galleries, 30 countries represented, six curated sections, and some really, REALLY big sculptures. If these numbers are already making your head spin, you’ll probably need a compass to venture through endless booths across the Javits Center for Armory Week\u2019s namesake anchor event. This year\u2019s Armory Show will channel some much-loved equatorial climate through a shared focus on Caribbean and diasporic art in the Platforms and Focus sections. Between Lisu Vega\u2019s 40-foot textile installation and Sandra Brewster\u2019s enormous photo panels, keep an eye out for solo presentations of Betsabe\u00e9 Romero, Jos\u00e9 Bechara, and Katarina Riesing. The Bronx Museum and the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami are also benefiting from the Armory\u2019s debut prize, allotting five-figure funds for new acquisitions.<\/p>\n

Independent 20th Century<\/p>\n

September 24\u201327 | independenthq.com<\/a>
The Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Penrod Centurion’s “Circulam Vita” (1942) (courtesy Weinstein Gallery and Independent)<\/p>\n

Turning five this year, Independent 20th Century transforms the Breuer into a fitting headquarters for offbeat, undersung, and groundbreaking avant-garde art of the 20th century. With 57 invited participants, the fair will showcase work by over 130 artists and collectives, from Wassily Kandinsky, Gerhard Richter, and Elaine de Kooning to late Brazilian geometric abstractionist Ubi Bava, avant-garde feminist artist and illustrator Esphyr Slobodkina, and the pivotal Canadian artists’ collective General Idea. Most galleries will have solo or duo presentations, creating an opportunity for a much closer look at multiple facets of unprecedented artistic innovation that defined the century.<\/p>\n

Affordable Art Fair<\/p>\n

September 16\u201320 | affordableartfair.com<\/a>
Starrett-Lehigh Building, 601 West 26th St, Chelsea, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Nilraya’s “The Sunset Through the Forest” (2026) (courtesy Affordable Art Fair)<\/p>\n

With artworks at Art Basel and Frieze regularly fetching prices only one or two digits shy of a Social Security number, \u201caffordable\u201d may be the last adjective one associates with art fairs. An international array of artists from countries including Australia, Japan, and Nigeria aims to bridge that gap at the Affordable Art Fair, where price tags on original works range from $100 to $12,000. From Nilraya’s embroidered meadows bathed in oranges to Clark Derbes’s sculpture that feels akin to a Rubik’s cube on LSD, there will be plenty to peruse and purchase. <\/p>\n

Spring Break Art Show<\/p>\n

September 23\u201328 | springbreakartshow.com<\/a>
555 West 57th Street, Hell\u2019s Kitchen, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Kirsten Valentine’s “Smoker” (courtesy SPRING\/BREAK)<\/p>\n

The Spring Break Art Show’s fall 2026 edition seeks all that is encoded, shrouded in mystery, and cloaked in symbolism across over 120 projects.\u00a0With previous iterations held at old schools, post offices, and former workplaces for cosmetics powerhouses, the forthcoming edition will take place at the former CBS News office in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, where the justice-oriented media platform The Slow Factory will transform former recording studios into a live news installation. <\/p>\n

La Feria: Print Media Fair<\/p>\n

October 3 | latinxproject.nyu.edu<\/a>
New York University, 20 Cooper Square, NoHo, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine’s (Oasa DuVerney and Mildred Beltre), \u201cBefore it\u2019s Gone: Archive to Survive\u201d (2026). (image courtesy the artist)<\/p>\n

Artists Gabriel Garc\u00eda Rom\u00e1n, Tatiana Arocha, and Nguyen E. Smith will be among over 40 exhibitors at the third edition of the NYU Latinx Project\u2019s La Feria Print Media Fair. True to its collegiate setting, the fair champions affordability in a community-oriented model, where students and visitors alike can take home a piece of culture. Booths at the music-pumping gathering<\/a> for Latine artists and small presses have previously displayed ceramic tiles, cyanotypes, prints of queer icons, and a range of zines, works on paper, and books. <\/p>\n

Split Level Fair<\/p>\n

October 1\u20133 | splitlevelfair.com<\/a>
102 Madison Ave, NoMad, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Ariel Posh’s “Asleep in the Uber” (courtesy the artist and Blah Blah Gallery)<\/p>\n

Hunger-inducing tapestries, otherworldly chandeliers, hand-crocheted cushions, and dozens of other artworks by emerging artists and galleries will be on view for the second edition of Split Level. Departing from the white-cube model of the traditional art show, the fair encourages artists to arrange their pieces as they see fit in the showroom of Italian design company Rimadesio. Exhibitors include Ariel Posh, whose prints spell out the contemporary dating scene, and Andrius Alvarez, whose bronzed Wonder Horse sculpture hangs from a manila rope like an antique pi\u00f1ata. <\/p>\n

New York Art Book Fair<\/p>\n

September 24\u201327 | printedmatterartbookfairs.org<\/a>
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, Queens<\/p>\n

\"\"A visitor holds a pile of books at the 2025 New York Art Book Fair. (courtesy NYABF)<\/p>\n

Over 300 exhibitors will share their wares in the 20th anniversary edition of\u00a0 Printed Matter\u2019s New York Art Book Fair, filling MoMA PS1\u2019s rafters with a classroom-like clamor. The term \u201cart book\u201d applies loosely among the selections from independent presses, institutions, self-publishing artists, and antique book dealers, capturing everything from compendiums of rigorous art historical analysis to handcrafted letters and artist postcards. <\/p>\n

Salon Z\u00fcrcher<\/p>\n

September 21\u201327 | galeriezurcher.com<\/a>
Z\u00fcrcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NoHo, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Suzanne Benton’s “First Day” (2022)(courtesy Salon Z\u00fcrcher)<\/p>\n

At Part 5, we\u2019ve reached the halfway point in the second run of Salon Z\u00fcrcher\u2019s 100 Women of Spirit + mini-fair, which has highlighted the work of 11 women artists biannually since 2020. This intimate affair offers a much-needed sensory reprieve from the pizzazz-a-palooza of Armory Week through a thoughtful curation that includes Susana Wald\u2019s and Laura Corsiglia\u2019s surrealist sensibilities, Elizabeth Riley\u2019s phygital \u201cmixed realities,\u201d and a posthumous spotlight on late avant-garde poet and artist Nadia Gould. <\/p>\n

Clio Art Fair <\/p>\n

September 17\u201320 and 24\u201327 | clioartfair.com<\/a>
511 West 25th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Mickalene Thomas’s “A Moment’s Pleasure 2” (2026) (image courtesy the artist and Clio Art Fair)<\/p>\n

Keeping its recently adopted split-weekend model, Clio upholds its reputation as a beacon for self-representing artists who would rather make and sell art without regard to market trends. Assembled with the ultra-relevant theme of \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Be Useful\u201d in mind, over 250 artworks by more than 50 independent artists are included in this self-proclaimed \u201canti-fair.\u201d In addition to the usual perk of direct communication with selling artists, Clio has also organized a performance art program that takes this year\u2019s liberating tone of optimistic nihilism to the next level. <\/p>\n

U-Haul Art Fair<\/p>\n

September 25\u201327 | uhaulgallery.com<\/a>
22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, Chelsea, Manhattan<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist Sandy Williams IV (photo courtesy the artist)<\/p>\n

The unconventional, nomadic fair where galleries and artists show work in the back of U-Haul moving trucks is back for another Manhattan edition. As part of the line-up, artist Sandy Williams IV will debut their performance “Exhaustion IX\u201d with Palo Gallery. The Black Southern artist will stand on West 22nd Street with a guitar and repeat the line \u201cNo, I don\u2019t have a gun one\u201d from Nirvana\u2019s \u201cCome As You Are,\u201d a tireless, lifelong declaration that Black Americans must repeat in defense of their mere existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Hong Lei’s “7 Train” (2026) (image courtesy Spring Break Art Show) After an exceptionally moody and muggy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-348448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}