Best Galleries to See Digital Art in NYC 2023
New York City is renowned for its vibrant art scene, and the year 2023 promises to showcase some of the most groundbreaking digital artworks yet. From immersive installations to interactive exhibits, the city offers an array of galleries dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the world of digital art.
Whether you’re a digital art enthusiast planning a trip to the Big Apple, or a life-long New Yorker curious to explore the digital art scene in the city, this list is for you.
Here’s 10 of the best galleries NYC that you don’t want to miss on your quest to experience the cutting-edge of digital art in 2023.
Digital art exhibition in NYC: In The Screen I am Everything by Ellie Pritts at Bitforms Gallery
The NFT Gallery
88 Clinton St,
New York, NY
Founded by Lynn Rosenberger, Andrin Pfister, and Lilien Hornung-Mary, The NFT Gallery is an accessible space for digital and NFT art for both collectors and creators. Combining cutting-edge technology with visionary artists, the gallery offers a curated selection of authentic and unique artworks to purchase online via the blockchain technology as well as in physical displays.
In addition to exhibition programming, The NFT Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan aims to help people better understand digital arts and NFTs and promote further participation in the field by providing educational resources and tools.
Recent exhibitions include Nature in the Digital Age, which invited the viewers to admire the beauty of nature through digital creativity featuring a great variety of forms of digital art by six digital artists including generative art, collage, and video.
Their upcoming exhibition, How High The Moon, will be on view September 7th — the exhibition showcases the works of prominent artists from Africa and the Diaspora, and is supplemented with an intimate networking event with inspiring conversations with artists and collectors.
The NFT Gallery is open Tuesday — Friday, 10 am — 6 pm and Saturday, 11 am — 5 pm
bitforms gallery
131 Allen St
New York, NY
Bitforms Gallery was founded in 2001 to support and advocate for the collection of ephemeral, time-based, and digital artworks. They represent artists that critically engage with new technologies and program exhibitions that present digital and new media art forms whether they are more established, mid-career, or emerging artists.
The gallery is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and supports media art from its history through current developments via its programming while offering an incisive perspective on the fields of digital art.
Recent exhibitions include Pixelweaver by Daniel Canogar, for which the artist brought together traditional weaving techniques and algorithmic tools to represent the social fabric of our data-driven society. With generative tapestries and intertwined news captions, Pixelweaver presented a creative record of current news and finance updates in digitalized versions of century old methods.
Ellie Pritts has recently presented at Bitforms Gallery a colorful world of possibilities through AI-collaborative imagery and the art of self-portraiture with her solo show, In The Screen I Am Everything. The artist presented a collection of works that combine analog video with glitch aesthetics to explore her interior world and concepts of reinterpreted nostalgia.
Their upcoming exhibition, Delusions of a Time-Traveling Cactus by Alexander Reben will be on view September 6 — the artist investigates the human connection to algorithms and automation and uses mischief, absurdity, and humor to explore the inherently human nature of the artificial.
Bitforms Gallery is open Tuesday — Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm.
SUPERCHIEF GALLERY NYC
185 Greenwich St #4405
New York, NY
Superchief Gallery is an independent artist-run gallery founded in 2012 by Edward Zipco and Bill Dunleavy in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery supports artists from disparate scenes and collectives, enabling them to participate in the larger community. As a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platform, Superchief Gallery is an extension of the cultural landscape in its most raw and honest form.
In March 2021, the gallery established itself as the world's first physical NFT Gallery, and celebrated the opening of their NYC location in beginning of this year — Superchief Gallery NFT is located at The Canvas 3.0 at THE OCULUS at the Westfield World Trade Center in Financial District.
In addition to weekly rotating exhibitions, the gallery organizes educational programming at their NYC space. Recent events include FUBUFUTURE, hosted by Mec and Elise Swopes, which was a class about Web3, the blockchain, and the importance of decentralization, as well as the history of storytelling and resistance from a Black perspective through the medium of a patchwork quilt activity.
The gallery recently organized an event called Advancing Photography w/ Inclusive and Diverse Imagery using Midjourney AI with photographer and AI artist, Rochelle Brock, which was a class on how to incorporate inclusivity and diversity into images through the innovative lens of Midjourney AI.
Superchief Gallery NYC is open Wednesday – Saturday, 12 pm – 6 pm
:iiddr gallery
162 Allen St
New York, NY
:iidrr gallery is in the Lower East Side of New York City. It’s an artist-run gallery that’s focused on new media art and trendy cultures. Founded by Shuwan Chen and Annie Chen Ziyao in 2020, :iidrr has a mission to support artists who are critically engaged in new technologies and cultures.
The gallery collaborates with more recognizable contemporary artists as well as emerging talents who create new media-focused works. They program exhibitions, experiences, performances, and artist talks for the artists and collectors alike. Trendsetting cultural expressions and traditional media art forms come together in the gallery space as part of the vibrant visual culture in New York City.
Recent exhibitions include 404: error, which brought together a collection of art that embraces moments of disruptions and sees them as a meaningfully disruptive force that produces a new way of thinking. The group show was curated by Natasha Chuk and featured eleven artists who critically engage with errors, glitches, and other failures in their work.
:iidrr will be organizing a pop-up event and exhibition during NYFW — The "I-Equilibrium" Show is about personal identity and self-expression through art and fashion. Visit the gallery during New York Fashion Week 2023 to see the works by showcasing fashion designers and artists.
:iidrr gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday, 11 am – 5:30 pm
0x.17 Gallery
Ground Floor, Pier 17
89 South Street
New York, NY
0x.17 Gallery is a community-focused NFT gallery where art and technology meets in The Seaport. The gallery showcases digital works of art in the beautiful neighborhood by the East River and bring awareness to the works and creators as hundreds of people (like you!) feel curious to drop by to see the art as they walk by the festive port.
HUG’s debut exhibition, Enter the Inclusiverse, took place in 0x.17 — the exhibition provided a holistic view of the ongoing efforts to create a Web3 ecosystem that values and embraces the richness of human diversity by empowering marginalized voices and showcasing works by artists from underrepresented communities.
At the beginning of Summer 2023, the leading NFT marketplace for curated digital artworks, SuperRare, took over the exhibition to showcase three curated shows through end of July. The program opened with Artifacts by Claire Silver, a solo exhibition featuring seven artworks the renowned digital artist created using AI.
Another recent exhibition at the gallery was A Digital Transcendence: The Intersection of Art and Tech by SuperRare — the exhibition presented a collection of digital artwork by eight artists who incorporate technology into their creative practice.
0x.17 Gallery is open every day, 10 am – 8 pm
Digital art exhibition: Enter the Inclusiverse by HUG at 0x.17 Gallery
LUME Studios
393 Broadway
New York, NY
Well, LUME is not actually a gallery, but often becomes one — LUME Studios is a six-story building in the heart of Manhattan in Tribeca that’s devoted to immersive technologies and digital arts. The space can turn into a wonderful screen gallery, installation hub, production workspace, lounge, and more.
LUME Studios offer their space for art exhibitions, Web3 and NFT events, as well as private events and brand activations. For instance, HBX and Coinbase has recently partnered for a pop-up event at the studio that featured an NFT gallery, gashapon arcade (Japanese capsule toy machines), and screen printing. NFTs by digital artists such as FVCKRENDER, Henbo Henning, and Rhymezlikedimez were showcased at the exhibition and visitors had a chance to network with like-minded crypto enthusiasts.
Similarly, on Friday June 16th, the artist-led collective Subjective hosted a digital art exhibition at LUME Studios. The exhibition, HOMAGE, was organized by Accelerate Art in partnership with Art Bees to be presented at the Constantin Brâncuși Center of the Craiova Museum in Romania, and found New York City visitors at the studio space. In honor of the revolutionary pioneer of modern sculpture, Constantin Brâncuși, 47 digital artists reinterpreted the sculptor’s work for the collection.
LUME Studios opening days and hours vary depending on the event
ARTECHOUSE
439 W 15th St
New York, NY
Founded in 2015, ARTECHOUSE is a new media art venue dedicated to experiential art, science, and technology. It’s located beneath Chelsea Market and offers immersive art experiences using high-megapixel projections and hyperreal and spatialized sound technology.
The innovative art platform creates, produces, and presents technology driven exhibitions and pioneering digital art. ARTECHOUSE also works as an incubator that allows technology focused artists to create and show their work without limitations while inviting visitors to enhanced experiences of this new type of art.
Previous installations include Machine Hallucination: NYC by Refik Anadol — the immersive exhibition was a time and space exploration into New York City’s past and potential future. The internationally renown digital artist used machine learning algorithms on over 100 million photographic memories of the iconic city to generate a mesmerizing vision of the near future.
ARTECHOUSE collaborated with NASA scientists for their current exhibition — Beyond the Light is an artistic expression of scientific discoveries and tells the story of how human innovation has enabled us to see beyond our imaginations and into the unseen depths of our universe. The immersive art experience includes AI-aided visual production, original sound created from galactic data, and imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The tickets cost $25 for general admission and $20 for students and military. Sessions are every 30 minutes and last for 60 minutes.
ARTECHOUSE is open every day, 10 am - 10 pm
Bright Moments
204 Front St
New York, NY
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and is now in Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, as well as at The Seaport in New York City. They work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real world experiences of their art, and establish crypto art communities around the world.
The gallery has a pixel art NFT collection called CryptoCitizens, created by the artist QianQian, which are minted IRL at in each city in batches of 1,000. These events are called “city activations,” and the art is created after a thoughtful anthropological study of the people and culture associated with each destination.
Bright Moments us known for their live IRL minting experiences — this is an event of revealing a generative art piece for the very first time, in-person, in a unique way, that is designed by the artist and created by the gallery.
Bright Moments is dedicated to creating unforgettable events, meetups, and experiences that are centered on the experience of minting generative and AI art. They organize independent in-person shows where artists release their new projects by minting them IRL in the event.
For instance, the Artist in Residence for August was Nicole Vella — the artist minted her generative art collection, If You Could Do It All Again, with Bright Moments community at Gotham. The collection presents simple 2D grid of colors blended, reflected, and refracted through a rotating glass-like structure in 3D space. Through the artwork the generative artist explores the cyclical way we experience time.
Bright Moments is open Tuesday – Friday, 12 pm – 5 pm
The MoDE
65 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY
The Museum of Digital Experiences is located in the beautiful neighborhood of DUMBO in Brooklyn, and it’s New York's first all-digital museum — they’re proudly the first museum in NYC that’s focused on showcasing digital art by the creatives of the future.
The museum opened their doors with their first exhibition featuring 14 unique digital art installations created using the forefront of technology and interactive arts, including an interactive piece by Kaoru Tanaka, who has been featured as one of the 10 Digital Artists: The Reign of Generative Art.
Tickets cost $22 for general admission and $15 for students and military. Visitors typically spend 40 minutes in the museum.
The MoDE is open Thursday - Friday, 4 pm - 9 pm and Saturday - Sunday, 11 am - 6:45 pm
EPOCH
Online
OK we’re cheating a little here because EPOCH isn’t an art gallery in NYC, but an artist-run virtual experiment that is an amazing platform to see digital art. They organize virtual art exhibitions featuring brilliant digital artwork by talented artists worldwide.
The online gallery allows digital art enthusiasts from all around the world to experience and appreciate digital art at their on time, in their own space. As another perk of a virtual gallery, visitors can still visit the previous exhibitions via EPOCH’s archive.
EPOCH offers these virtual exhibitions as interactive HTML on the blockchain as NFTs. The proceeds are then equitably distributed among the artists and collaborators.
EPOCH often partners up with physical galleries to bring the exhibitions both virtually and physically to their visitors. Their most recent exhibition, CATALYST, for instance, is a group exhibition organized by EPOCH in partnership with Honor Fraser Gallery. The contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles hosted the physical installation in addition to the virtual exhibition.
The collection in CATALYST is of artwork that provoke personal, social, or political change — the show questions the role of cultural institutions and their responsibilities in relation to giving rise to change. While raising questions related to biases within these spaces, the exhibition itself becomes a space where individual artwork that prompt change are seen and celebrated. The exhibition is on view through September 15th.
You can visit EPOCH 24/7
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