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On View: IN Equity Gallery

Painting of an elderly woman wearing a black beanie, face mask, and patterned clothing, shopping for green vegetables on a city street with bare trees in the background.

Siyan Wong, Jong Lady on Grand, 2021, 30 × 24 in.

Siyan Wong, Mother Warriors

March 12 – April 11, 2026
Opening Reception: March 12, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Equity Gallery | 245 Broome St., New York, NY 10002

Siyan Wong’s paintings depict immigrant Chinese women working in garment factories, restaurants, homecare, and street vendors. Inspired by the immigrant dreams of a better life and the reality of survival in a dehumanizing economy, Wong notes that her paintings, “make the lives of Chinese women, and the working poor, visible while directing the viewers’ gaze to their body and soul as they toil.”

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Painted illustration of two red teapots with decorative patterns, set against a background of handwritten text.

Elim Mak, Teapots of Eternity (from Sermon Notes series), 2023, acrylic, watercolor, and sermon notes on unstretched canvas, 11.5 × 14.5 in.

Familiar Stranger

March 12 – April 11, 2026
Opening Reception: March 12, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Equity Gallery | 245 Broome St., New York, NY 10002

This group exhibition features work by contemporary artists who expand the dialogue on human life made abject during their assimilation to the US: Luisa Henao, Ying Hung, Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee, Elim Mak, and Mary Ting.

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Bronze sculpture of a human head with detailed facial features, mounted on a black pedestal.

Mark LaRiviere, Young Man, 2019, bronze, 8 x 6 × 7 in. plus base

March 12 – April 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 12, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Equity Gallery | 245 Broome St., New York, NY 10002

A new body of sculptural ensembles inaugurates Equity Gallery’s spring courtyard season and marks a shift in Mark LaRiviere’s long engagement with the figure.

Mark LaRiviere, Crisis

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Upcoming: In Equity Gallery

Sculpture made of steel plates in a folded shape with jagged edges and a cross-shaped cutout in the center, tero Fuentes, Saint, 2025, steel, 9.5 x 6 in.

Otero Fuentes, Saint, 2025, steel, 9.5 x 6 in.

Otero Fuentes, Deep Altars

April 16 – May 9, 2026
Opening Reception: Thu, April 16, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Equity Gallery | 245 Broome St., New York, NY 10002

Deep Altars, a solo exhibition by Otero Fuentes, curated by Alitza Cardona, presents an ongoing body of sculptural work that interrogates hope as a transactional currency of the attention economy and proposes ritual encounter as its counter.

Patron Partners

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Are you ready to be a patron?

The Partnership Program is a new initiative offered to collectors, philanthropists, and patrons in the arts. This program provides community access to artists, cultural organizations, institutions, and leaders, as well as a robust calendar of educational opportunities and events designed to engage with the contemporary arts sector in New York City. Whether you are a curious philanthropist and first-time art buyer or an established collector and patron, this Partnership is right for you.

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Our Members

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Featured Member:

Peter Bonner

Most recently, Peter Bonner has exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and teaches at the Art Students League and the New York School of the Arts (formerly the National Academy of Design). Bonner is a Rose level NYAE artist member, and he was a peer juror for the 2026 NYAE Members Invitational. He will be presenting a solo exhibition at Equity Gallery in the spring of 2027.

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Propose an Exhibition

Rose, Emerald & Lifetime members may propose in-person exhibits either in person for Equity Gallery, the Project Space, or the Sculpture Courtyard and online exhibits for nyartistsequity.org.