Karma Gallery in New York
East Village · Contemporary programme
Editorial Profile
Karma operates across multiple locations — two spaces in the East Village on East 2nd Street, a Chelsea venue at 549 West 26th Street, and a gallery in Los Angeles — making it one of the more spatially distributed mid-scale galleries active in contemporary art in New York. Founded with a pronounced orientation toward painting, the program moves fluidly between living artists and estate representation, drawing connections across American and European art from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Its ADAA membership and expanded footprint signal an established commercial positioning, while the East Village address — historically associated with alternative spaces and artist communities — lends the program a lateral quality that resists easy market categorisation. The gallery's curatorial approach favours strong individual visual languages over stylistic coherence, and solo exhibitions are typically developed with a degree of depth that reflects long-term artist relationships rather than speculative programming.
The roster foregrounds painters but extends into sculpture and craft-adjacent practices. Nicolas Party, Woody De Othello, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Henni Alftan, and Ann Craven form a cross-generational cluster of painters whose work ranges from decorative flatness to psychologically charged figuration; sculptors Thaddeus Mosley and Robert Grosvenor introduce a different material register, while the estate of Manoucher Yektai anchors a connection to American abstract expressionism. Public programming — artist talks and panel discussions tied to ongoing exhibitions — extends the gallery's engagement beyond commercial exhibition-making. An active bookstore and editions program, operating under the same name, places Karma within a broader culture of galleries in New York that treat publishing as integral to curatorial identity, reinforcing a presence that now extends well beyond a single address.
Selected Artists
Nicolas Party
Swiss
Henni Alftan
Finnish
Woody De Othello
American
Thaddeus Mosley
American
Jonas Wood
American
Maja Ruznic
Bosnian-American
Jeremy Frey
American
Mungo Thomson
American
Selected Exhibitions
Dead Fish
Nicolas Party
Tuning the Dial
Woody De Othello
Stop Making Sense
Henni Alftan
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
Unbound
Jeremy Frey
Time Life
Mungo Thomson
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