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In 2025 White Columns presented solo exhibitions and projects by a wide range of artists, including: Theo Baransky (b. 2003), an artist affiliated with New Jersey’s ‘Studio Route 29’, a progressive art studio that supports a community of artists with disabilities, with whom we published Theo’s first monograph Restricted. The first New York solo exhibition by the artist and musician Amy Sheffer (b. 1944) who gave two rare musical performances at the gallery. Accompanying artist and musician Annie Pearlman’s exhibition of paintings we released her first vinyl EP WALKABLE on the gallery’s record label ‘The Sound of White Columns’. The first New York solo exhibition by the Dallas-based artist Eli Ruhala (b. 2000), who created an immersive installation of his hybrid sculptural paintings. And a solo exhibition by the New York-based poet and visual artist Ama Birch (b.1977.)
Our long-running, and much anticipated White Columns Annual exhibition Looking Back returned for its fifteenth edition in 2025, guest-curated by the artist Elisabeth Kley, who created an intergenerational exhibition featuring the work of more than sixty artists. In the Spring we presented an extraordinary exhibition – curated by Roger Gastman and Jessamyn Fiore – of Gordon Matta-Clark’s little-known photographs of New York graffiti from 1971/73, which were presented alongside original artworks by the earliest generation of New York graffiti writers.
More than 1,000 artists submitted their work for consideration for White Columns’ ‘Curated Artist Registry’, and during 2025 we presented four guest-curated exhibitions drawn exclusively from the registry, organized by Antonia Machado Oliver, Katharina McCarty, Reeana Miller, and Ben Seeley and Kirstie Sequitin.
Our ongoing collaborations with other organizations included projects in 2025 with Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center; Frenchtown, NJ’s Studio Route 29; the independent New York record labels RVNG Intl. and Freedom To Spend; Los Angeles’ Grief and Hope (who we created a fundraising edition for with Kim Gordon); and the New York-based artists’ collective Ceramics Club.
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