THE EVENTS LISTED BELOW MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, AND ONLY SERVE AS A GUIDELINE TO UPCOMING ART RELATED HAPPENINGS.
JANUARY 2017
Palm Beach County Convention Center
Celebrating its 20th year in 2017, APB is dedicated to contemporary, emerging, and modern master works of art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over 85 international galleries will be exhibiting paintings, sculpture, as well as functional and innovative design.
FEBRUARY 2017
Zona Maco Mexico Arte
Centro Banamex, Hall D., Av. Conscripto #311. Col. Lomas de Sotelo, Mexico City. CP. 1120
Latin America’s most important contemporary art fair brings collectors, specialists and galleries from every part of the world together in Mexico City.
February 8 – 12, 2017
David Hockney
Tate Britian, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
The largest retrospective of the painter's work, from his early abstractions to his iPad experiments.
February 9 - May 29, 2017
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
Palm Springs Convention Center
, 277 N Avenida Caballeros
The sixth annual Palm Springs Fine Art Fair returns to an eager audience. It is strategically scheduled over the extended President’s Day Weekend coinciding with Palm Springs Modernism Week at the height of the Coachella Valley’s season.
February 16 - 19, 2017
Art Wynwood
The Art Wynwood Pavilion, 2901 NE 1st Avenue
Art Wynwood has secured its position as the most important contemporary art fair in the southeast during the winter months by offering the most discerning international collectors, art enthusiasts and seasoned cultural travelers the best opportunity to discover, explore and collect some of the most significant art works of our time.
February 16 - 20, 2017
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity MIrrors
Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Avenue at 7th Street SW, Washington DC
The first show to explore the Japanese artist's kaleidoscopic spaces as a unified body of work.
February 23 - May 14, 2017
ARCO Madrid
FERIA DE MADRID, Halls 7 and 9
An international contemporary art fair that hosts modern and contemporary galleries.
February 22 - 26, 2017
Desert X
Palm Springs, CA
The Coachella Valley and its desert landscape will become the canvas for a curated exhibition of site-specific work by established and emerging artists, whose projects will amplify and articulate global and local issues that may range from climate change to starry skies, from Tribal culture and immigration to tourism, gaming, and golf. The art works, in various indoor and outdoor locations, will be available free and will offer visitors a way to see the Valley and reflect on serious and playful issues through the lens of the participating artists' creativity and work.
February 25 - April 30, 2017
Moving Image
Waterfront New York Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue, Between 27th and 28th Streets, New York
Moving Image was conceived to offer a viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms. Participation is by invitation only. The newly formed Curatorial Advisory Committee is inviting a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions to present single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, immersive media, and other larger video installations.
February 27 - March 2, 2017
MARCH 2017
The ADAA Art Show
Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street
Organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show offers intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated presentations by the nation’s leading fine art dealers, providing audiences a rich selection of works from the late 19th century through today.
March 1 - 5, 2017
The Armory Show
Piers 92 & 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, NYC
New York’s premier international art fair, showcasing over 200 galleries from around the world. Now in its 22nd year, The Armory Show remains a highly-anticipated event on the global arts calendar, connecting the world’s leading galleries with international collectors, curators and art professionals in the capital of the art world.
March 2 - 5, 2017
Art on Paper
Pier 36, South Street, New York
Art on paper will feature work by artists who look to paper as a major influence in their sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography. Art on Paper's second edition will feature special projects that push the boundaries of its celebrated medium.
March 2 – 5, 2017
Volta NY
PIER 90, WEST 50TH STREET AT 12TH AVENUE, NYC
The invitational fair of solo artist projects and the American incarnation of the original Basel VOLTA show, which was founded in 2005 by three art dealers as a fair "by galleries, for galleries".
March 1 - 5, 2017
Scope New York
639 West 46th Street, NYC
This year, it will host 60 international galleries and a focused schedule of special events, performances and talks to complement its new open-plan exhibition format.
March 2 - 5, 2017
Independent
50 Varick Street, Spring Studios, New York
Emerging and contemporary galleries display their works.
March 2 - 5, 2017
NADA
572 Washington St, Skylight Clarkson North, New York
The non-profit model has always been a flexible and adaptable one, which continues to respond to the needs of its exhibitors and the art world at large by creatively reinventing the experience and presentation of art in a fair environment. NADA is dedicated to showcasing new art and to celebrating the rising talents from around the globe.
March 2 - 5, 2017
In the Tower: Theaster Gates
National Gallery of Art, Between 3rd and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC
The socailly conscious Chicago installation artist takes over the National Gallery's newly renovated East Building. The installation will examine how discarded and ordinary objects, including the floor of a Chicago high school gym and the archives of Ebony magazine, acquire value through the stories we tell.
March 5 - September 4, 2017
TEFAF
Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC) Forum 100 6229 GV Maastricht, Netherlands
Universally regarded as the world’s leading art fair, setting the standard for excellence in the art market. TEFAF Maastricht is a continuously evolving showcase for the best works of art currently on the market.
March 10 – 19, 2017
Art Dubai
Madinat Jumeirah, Al Sufouh Road, Umm Suqeim, Exit 39 (Interchange 4) from Sheikh Zayed Road
This fair presents a select yet diverse line-up of around 90 galleries from the UAE and around the world, across three programmes: Contemporary; Modern, devoted to masters from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia; and Marker, a curated section of artspaces that focuses each year on a particular theme or geography.
March 15 - 18, 2017
Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York
The hugely influential biennial exhibition willbe shown in the new downtown location after a three year hiatus. 63 participants have been carefully selected and include established artists such as Jo Baer, Larry Bell, international collectoves like the Gulf-based GCC, and young New York artists like Torey Thornton, Casey Gollan, and Victorai Sobel. Dana Schutz, Pope L., JOrdan Wolfson and Anicka Yi will also be featured.
March 17 - June 11, 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai
The upcoming show offers a premier platform for showing works from across the globe, more than half from Asia and Asia Pacific. The show provides an in-depth overview of the region’s diversity through both historical material and cutting-edge works by leading and emerging artists.
March 23 – 25, 2017
Affordable Art Fair
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th Street (between 6th and 7th Ave), NYC
This year, more than 70 local, national, and international galleries offering an array of original artwork from more than 500 artists, ranging in price from $100-$10,000, with more than half priced under $5,000
March 29 - April 2, 2017
APRIL 2017
Dallas Art Fair
Fashion IndustryGallery at 1807 Ross Avenue
This fair will feature prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists.
April 7 - 9, 2017
Documenta 14
Various venues, Athens
For the first time in its 60-year history, the event will be split across two cities: Kassel in Germany, the birthplace of the exhibition, from June 10 - Sept 17 and Athens. A huge repica of the Acropolis in Athens, made from 100,000 banned books, will rise in the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel as part of the show.
April 8 - July 16, 2017
Indenpendent Brussels
Schildknaapstraat 50 Rue de l'Ecuyer
Independent launches their debut edition in Brussels in the 50,000-square-foot Vanderborght Building.
April 19 - 23, 2017
Art Brussels
Tour & Taxis, Avenue du Port 86c, BE - 1000 Brussels
The size of the fair will be reduced from 191 galleries to 139. It will thus have three clear sections, aligned with its profile: DISCOVERY where the focus is on young, emerging and lesser-known artists with recent works (2013-2016); PRIME where the focus is on established artists from modern to contemporary; REDISCOVERY NEW section! Dedicated to art from 1917 to 1987, which presents living or deceased artists that are under-recognised, under-estimated or forgotten. This section offers the possibility to extend the stand with a SOLO presentation and SOLO An individual ambitious project dedicated to the work of one artist, a one man show in the entire stand or in extension of the main stand
April 21 - 23, 2017
Art Cologne
Koelnmesse, Messeplatz 1
ART COLOGNE is the world's oldest art fair for modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st century. Today's fair annually invites approximately 200 international galleries to showcase painting, sculpture, photography, prints, multiples, installations, performance and moving image art in the city of Cologne, cultural center of the Rhineland region and beyond.
April 26 - 29, 2017
MAY 2017
Art New York
12th Avenue at 55th Street, Pier 94
Artwork from more than 150 galleries representing nearly 1,200 artists from 50 countries, Art New York provides a fresh alternative for acquiring important, never-before exhibited works from both primary and secondary markets. The fair welcomes both experienced and new art collectors who are looking to experience a carefully-curated, rich-in-content presentation of the best in the global contemporary art market.
May 3 - 7, 2017
Frieze Art Fair
Randall's Island Park, New York
More than 200 galleries will bring together the most exciting emerging and established artists from around the world.
May 4 - 7, 2017
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
159 Pioneer Street, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
The leading transnational platform dedicated to promoting Africa and African-related art practices and projects
May 5 - 7, 2017
57th Venice Biennale
Arsenale and Giardini
There will be more women included this year, an emphasis on forgotten artists, and explorations of work from Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. A quirky aspect is Open Table, whereby participating artists will have lunch with members of the public in front of the Central Pavilion in the Giardini throughout the exhibition.
May 13 - November 26, 2017
JUNE 2017
Volta 13
MARKTHALLE, VIADUKTSTRASSE 10, CH-4051 BASEL, Switzerland
This fair continues to highlight single-artist projects and dynamic configurations of two or three artists in dialogue as the backbone to its program. In doing so, it returns the focus of the art fair atmosphere back to its most crucial component: the artists and their works.
June 12 - 17, 2017
Liste
Burgweg 15, Basel, Switzerland
For over 20 years, the fair has been making relevant contributions to the promotion of young artists and galleries. The intentionally low number of 79 galleries and the high level of sophistication of those galleries are reasons for LISTE’s extraordinary success, international reputation and drawing power. For many years now, every young, ambitious gallery has sought to be a part of this most important art event.
June 13 - 18, 2017
Design Miami/Basel
Hall 1 Süd, Messe Basel, Switzerland
The global forum for design, bringing together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture and commerce. Occurring alongside the Art Basel fair, Design Miami/ has become the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating collectible design.
June 13 - 18, 2017
Art Basel
Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
More than 280 of the world’s leading galleries showing the work of over 4,000 artists, ranging from Modern Art’s great masters to the youngest generation’s emerging stars.
June 15 - 18, 2017
JULY 2017
2368 Montauk Hwy, Bridgehampton Historical Society
Presentations by top galleries enhanced by a striking and tightly curated Design component pulling from dealers and designers from around the world.
July 6 - 10, 2017
Marx Halle, Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19,A-1030 Vienna
With 105 galleries from 25 countries, viennacontemporary is the largest and most prominent art fair in the region, offering the most extensive array of contemporary art from Austria, the highest concentration of Eastern European galleries worldwide, and a continuously growing international scope with special attention to emerging art markets.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, Exhibit Hall A & B, 255 Front Street West
Providing unique access to the Canadian art market, the fair is one of the most important annual art events in Canada. Art Toronto presents important artwork from leading Canadian and international galleries combined with PLATFORM, an engaging series of lectures and panel discussions from prominent art world figures, curated projects, an extensive VIP Program, and top-tier cultural offerings throughout the city.
New York City
Performa has grown to incorporate all disciplines as part of its major, city wide programming, including dance, film, music, architecture and food, making it America’s only cross-disciplinary biennial as well as the country’s first and most important international biennial. It is the only biennial worldwide, to involve a team of more than 25 curators and a consortium of more than 40 cultural partners, including year round educational initiatives with schools and universities. In addition, Performa works closely with more than 25 cultural attaches from countries around the world, including Australia, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Israel, producing new commissions by artists in all disciplines.
November 1 - 19, 2017
The leading international contemporary and modern art fair that takes place each December during art week at the midtown Miami complex in the renowned Wynwood Arts District. It is one of the most important annual contemporary art events in the united states, attracting more than 82,000 collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts from around the globe annually.
