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Please join us for the opening of the 2026 Eighth House Benefit Exhibition next week! 

2026 Eighth House Benefit Exhibition: Community as Praxis 

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 20, 6 - 8pm 

Exhibition on view: May 20 - 31 

105 HENRY STREET, NEW YORK

In partnership with 56 Henry and PLATFORM, the exhibition brings together a dynamic group of contemporary artists from Eighth House’s extended creative community to explore how networks of care, collaboration, and mutual support are actively built and sustained in an evolving world.

This year’s Benefit Exhibition’s Curatorial Committee includes 15 curators, gallerists, advisors, and leaders from Eighth House’s community that have selected artists they admire to participate in the exhibition. 

Curatorial Committee
Danny Baez, Lilly Berggruen, Jeffrey De Blois, Jennie King, Taylor Langone, Christopher Y. Lew, Katharina McCarty, K.O. Nnamdie, Chelsea Rana, Ellie Rines, Euan Rugg, Rebecca Ryba, Chris Sharp, Olivia Smith, and Aaron Stern.

Participating Artists
Aria Almanzar, Chando Ao, Daniel Arnold, Sophie Barber, Nick Bierk, Jake Booth, Sascha Braunig, LaKela Brown, Jeane Cohen, Simon Cohen, Emma CC Cook, Henry Curchod, Marcel Dzama, Alec Egan, Ryan Foerster, Al Freeman, Myles Gable, Phillip Gabriel, Todd Gray, Gordon Hall, Richard Hawkins, Adam Higgins, Gwen Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Jaeger, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Calvin Kim, Clifford Prince King, Laura Larraz, Caleb Lyons, Milo Matthieu, Ebecho Muslimova, K.O. Nnamdie, Africanus Okokon, Rob Pruitt, Jamel Robinson, Daid Roy, Koichi Sato, Pallavi Sen, Nicolas Shake, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, Kyungmi Shin, Bosco Sodi, Mark Steinmetz, Jane Swavely, Tina Sellati, Richard Tinkler, Jacqueline Amezcua Trouillot, Jonas Wood, and Erin Wright.
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Curated list by our friend Rebecca Ryba ⭐️ @rybaartadvisory 

Note from Rebecca: 
I started this list without a theme in mind, just adding what caught my eye in New York this month. But as I put this together during a freezing January, I kept returning to artists who worked outside the system—either geographically isolated, self-taught, or overlooked.

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) spent decades painting in a remote location in Finland, largely unknown internationally. Her show at the Met is incredible—I love the hauntingly beautiful self-portraits she painted at the very end of her life. James Castle (1899–1977) was born deaf and worked in isolation in rural Idaho, entirely self-taught. He used soot, spit, and whatever materials he could scavenge—envelopes, sticks, homemade tools—and made work for nearly seventy years. His show is at Rodder. Frank Walter (1926–2009), another self-taught artist, became a recluse later in life. He spent the last twenty-five years working in a remote rural shack in Antigua. He has a solo at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Leslie Bohnenkamp (1943–1997) and Bill Bollinger (1939–1988), two artists working in late 1960s-80s New York with rigorous material practices, are both getting a spotlight with shows up now. Justin Bradshaw (1971) is originally from London but has been working in Italy for twenty years. Still relatively unknown, he’s having his first New York show at Galerie Sardine’s beautiful new space on East 10th. A month of discovery and rediscovery.

Also really enjoyed these shows: Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum (figurative work from the ‘70s), Keith Haring’s 1984 FDR Drive mural at Martos (ten out of ten). I loved Arthur Jafa’s selections at MoMA. Also stop by the Morgan Library to see Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit”.

Enjoy the shows. #ShowrunnerNYC
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‘Moth’. The soft lovely word leads us to the silent ‘star’ of Andrew Cranston’s painting of the same name — the moth that’s flown into this big room and been drawn, like us, to the light. As the moth’s come in, the people have left, but the space, with its violet underglow and expectant pooch almost camouflaged in the foreground, is warm and waiting, not melancholy. This painting, which arrived in the AGNSW collection last year, grows on me more each time I visit it. It’s on show at the Gallery till the 16th in the collection show Living Space. @artgalleryofnsw @andrew.cranston #matissealive #livingspace (‘Moth’, 2021, collection AGNSW)
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