| September |
| Esperanza Cortés: Embroidered Allegories | Hispanic Society Museum & Library | Uptown | Thu, Sep 3 | — | Opening |
| Yvonne Jacquette | Karma, 549 West 26th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 3 | — | Opening |
| Elsa María Meléndez: The Cage Became a Bird | Claire Oliver | Uptown | Fri, Sep 4 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | 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 |
| Telenovela | Americas Society | Uptown | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Matthias Franz | GRIMM Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Volker Hüller | GRIMM Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | 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 |
| Paul Fägerskiöld: Ergosphere | Peter Blum | 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 |
| 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 |
| Project Room: Tim Gardner | 303 Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Tanya Merrill | 303 Gallery | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art | El Museo Del Barrio | Uptown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Rana Begum | Lehmann Maupin, New York | Chelsea | 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 |
| 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 |
| Geometries | Studio Museum Harlem | Uptown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Sandra Vásquez de la Horra | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | 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 |
| Janet Biggs: Path of Totality | Cristin Tierney Gallery | 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 |
| Thomas Ruff: jpegs ny | David Zwirner, 533 W 19th Street | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 10 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Scott Kahn | David Zwirner, 537 West 20th 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 |
| settle for a good fantasy | Luhring Augustine, Chelsea | Chelsea | 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 |
| Nike: Form Follows Motion | Museum of Arts and Design | Uptown | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening |
| Finnegan Shannon: 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 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening |
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | Lisson, 504 W 24th Street | Chelsea | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Leonilson | Lisson, 508 W 24th Street | Chelsea | Tue, Sep 15 | — | 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 |
| Emily Mae Smith | Petzel Gallery | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror | Jack Shainman Gallery, Tribeca | Tribeca / SoHo | 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 |
| 100 Works on Paper BENEFIT Exhibition 2026 | Kentler International Drawing Space | Brooklyn | 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 |
| Robert Szot: Dust Do Shine | Anita Rogers Gallery | Tribeca / SoHo | Wed, Sep 23 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | 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 |
| Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork | The FLAG Art Foundation | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 24 | — | Opening |
| Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork | The FLAG Art Foundation | Chelsea | Thu, Sep 24 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | 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 |
