Frieze New York returns to The Shed in Hudson Yards from May 13 through May 17 — the fair’s 15th edition and its sixth consecutive year at the West Side cultural complex — bringing 67 galleries from 26 countries to the city as the spring marquee art week opens. The invitation-only preview runs Wednesday May 13; public days are May 14 through 17. The fair sits inside the same week as Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary Evening on May 14, Sotheby’s Modern Evening on May 19, Christie’s 21st Century Evening on May 20, and Phillips Modern & Contemporary on May 19 — a structural alignment that turns The Shed into the social and commercial center of New York’s primary art week.
The Gallery Roster
The 2026 exhibitor list runs the blue-chip column — Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Perrotin, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, and David Zwirner all return. Hauser & Wirth is presenting new works by Avery Singer and Cindy Sherman. White Cube brings together pieces by Tracey Emin, Sara Flores, Beatriz Milhazes, and Doris Salcedo. International galleries include Toronto and Tehran’s Dastan, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo’s A Gentil Carioca, and Mexico City’s OMR. Fair organizers have flagged a “notably strong” Central and South American presence in this year’s lineup.
New York representation includes 303 Gallery, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Canada, Chapter NY, James Cohan, Alexander Gray Associates, and Ortuzar — the Manhattan gallery district continuity that has anchored the fair since its 2019 move to The Shed.
The Focus Section
The Focus section, dedicated to galleries operating for 12 years or less, brings together 11 international exhibitors. Curator Lumi Tan returns for a third consecutive year. Highlights named by the fair organizers include solo presentations by Antoni Miralda, Seba Calfuqueo, Reika Takebayashi, and Aki Goto. Material on offer ranges across sculptural experiments in bronze, wax, and adobe, immersive video, ceramics, and textile work.
Frieze has co-commissioned a photographic installation by Jonathan González with the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Dia Art Foundation will present video work by David Lamelas to coincide with a survey of the artist’s work at Dia Beacon — a programming alignment that has become standard for Frieze week New York.
The Spring Calendar Read-Through
For Manhattan luxury buyers, Frieze week is the highest-density art-and-collecting week of the calendar. The fair runs Wednesday through Sunday May 13–17. Sotheby’s New York holds The Now on Thursday May 14. Phillips Modern & Contemporary runs Tuesday May 19. Sotheby’s Modern Evening runs Tuesday May 19. Christie’s 21st Century opens with the seven-painting Marian Goodman Richter cohort on Wednesday May 20 — anchored by Kerze (Candle) at a $35 to $50 million estimate. The pre-Frieze weekend (May 9–10) doubles as Christie’s main preview window at Rockefeller Center plus the opening weekend of the Met’s Costume Institute “Costume Art” exhibition (which opens to the public on May 10 following the Met Gala on May 4).
The four marquee evening sales aggregate to roughly $700 million in low estimate and $900 million-plus in high estimate. Frieze contributes dealer-side primary and secondary commerce inside that window. The institutional alignment — the Whitney photographic commission, Dia Beacon’s Lamelas survey, the Met’s “Costume Art” opening — gives the week the kind of museum scaffolding that pulls collectors in for multi-day stays. This is the most sustained collector week New York runs outside of fall Armory.
Tickets and visitor information are available at frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york.
From the Borro desk: Borro tracks the cross-asset implications of New York’s marquee art weeks — see the $422 million Sotheby’s May architecture and the Christie’s Marian Goodman cycle for the auction half of the week.
Related coverage: Met Gala 2026 preview — May 4 “Fashion is Art” theme. Christie’s New York opens viewing rooms May 9 — Marian Goodman’s collection and a major spring season begin.
