Exhibitions
The New City Arts exhibition space, Welcome Gallery, features work by Charlottesville-area artists through exhibitions, workshops, and events.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Current Exhibition
Past Exhibitions
Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn | Nhớ
Growing from Phuong’s recent work, Nowhere, this exhibition will feature an all-consuming, immersive installation made of sewed and embroidered structures that visitors can weave through and be embraced by.
Anna Hogg | Mapping Above Below
Mapping Above Below explores ideas of mapping and being mapped, surveillance, and the world beyond humans.
Chandler Jennings | Research Residency Exhibition
From July 5-25, 2024, New City Arts presents an exhibition by Spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Chandler Jennings.
Adrian Wood | Voroboros
This video work explores survival under capitalism. This work unfolds in three parts: eating, being eaten, and eating oneself in order to survive (and the consequences of survival).
Benita Mayo | Womanist: The Tao of Midlife & Menopause
A portrait and conceptual project exploring womanhood & womanism, this exhibition seeks to unearth stereotypes and archetypes we unconsciously adopt as truism.
Meesha Goldberg | Empire Is Over: The Lewis, Clark, & Sacajawea Cut-Ups
From February 2-22, 2024, New City Arts presents Empire Is Over: The Lewis, Clark, Sacajawea Cut-Ups, an exhibition by Fall 2023 Artist-in-Residence, Meesha Goldberg.
Matt Shelton | repair is the dream of the broken thing
This exhibition will deploy site-responsive installation, drawing and projection to explore relationships between medium and content, past and present, individual and collective memory.
Claire Szeptycki & Maddie Butkovich | Too Many Dinner Parties
From November 3-22, New City Arts, supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts, will present an exhibition of prints by 5th Year UVA Aunspaugh Fellows, Maddie Butkovich + Claire Szeptycki.
Sri Kodakalla | growing out of season
Through mixed-media installation and vignette storytelling, this intimate exhibition explores the decomposition and evolution of a specific memory from the artist's childhood, re-contextualized under immigration growing pains and the multiplicity of compounded grief.
Edie Read | Color is Light
What is visual language/to whom is it speaking? Edie Read’s work wonders aloud and searches to understand its sources.
MaKshya Tolbert | Shade is a place: relief is my form
From August 4-24, 2023, New City Arts presents Shade is a place: relief is my form, a Clearing by MaKshya Tolbert.
2023 New City Arts Fellowship Exhibition: Soft Spot
From July 7-27, New City Arts presents Soft Spot, an exhibition featuring work by the 2023 New City Arts Fellows: Kia Wassenaar, Aidyn Mancenido, Eileen Johnson, Audrey Parks, and Rachel Austin.
Ashon Crawley: loss.nothing.memorial.
From June 2-29, New City Arts presents loss.nothing.memorial, an exhibition by Ashon Crawley.
Jackson Taylor: Fever Creek
From May 5-25, New City Arts presents Fever Creek, an exhibition of prints by Jackson Taylor.
The Fralin Museum of Art’s Early Visions Exhibition
From April 25-28, New City Arts partnered with The Fralin’s Early Visions program to present work by students from the Cherry Avenue, Albemarle Campus Club, and Southwood Boys & Girls Clubs.
Conrad Cheung: Essing, Fawning, Gawping, Hocking, Isling, Jostling, Keening, Legging, Moping, Nodding, Ooling, Putzing, Querling
From April 7-22, New City Arts presents Essing, Fawning, Gawping, Hocking, Isling, Jostling, Keening, Legging, Moping, Nodding, Ooling, Putzing, Querling by Conrad Cheung.
Jay Simple: Razed To Be Born Again
From March 3-31, New City Arts presents Razed To Be Born Again by Jay Simple.
Sarah Lawson: Salience, the sea
From February 3-24, New City Arts presents Salience, the sea, an exhibition by Sarah Lawson.
JaVori Warren: From Her to My Niece
From January 6-27, New City Arts presents From Her to My Niece by JaVori Warren.
David Askew: i decided to do nothing (about everything)
From December 2-22, New City Arts presents i decided to do nothing (about everything) by David Askew.
Léo Zhang: In Pursuit of an Accord
From November 4-19, New City Arts, supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts, presents In Pursuit of an Accord by Léo Zhang.
Amanda Nelsen | NotAway: Works of Consumption
From October 7-28, 2022, New City Arts presents NotAway: Works of Consumption, an exhibition of work by Amanda Nelsen.
2022 Auction Artwork Preview at Welcome Gallery
Join us for a preview of artwork featured in our upcoming art auction in partnership with The Haven.
Mara Sprafkin & Warren Craghead III | Feed Them
From September 2-23, 2022, 2022, New City Arts presents Feed Them, an exhibition of drawings by Warren Craghead III and paintings by Mara Sprafkin, made in collaboration with her children.
Lily Erb | Friction: an exploration of impediments to interdependence
From August 5-26, 2022, New City Arts presents Friction: an exploration of impediments to interdependence, an exhibition of work by Lily Erb. This exhibition is presented by The FUNd at CACF.
Maya Kneebone Kim | I used to be
From July 1-2, 2022, New City Arts presents I used to be, a solo exhibition by Maya Kneebone Kim at Welcome Gallery featuring work she created during the New City Arts Fellowship.
Alma Molina | Astronaut Mom_Landing
From June 3-4, 2022, New City Arts presents a solo exhibition by Alma Molina at Welcome Gallery featuring work she created during the New City Arts Fellowship.
Lisa Woolfork | SHUCT: Sally Hemings University Connecting Threads
From May 6-7, 2022, New City Arts presents SHUCT: Sally Hemings University Connecting Threads, an exhibition of work made by students of April Fellow Dr. Lisa Woolfork and Tobiah Mundt at Welcome Gallery.
Kweisi Morris | Diaspograms: The Symbology of Black Life
From April 1-2, 2022, New City Arts presents Diaspograms: The Symbology of Black Life, a solo exhibition by Kweisi Morris at Welcome Gallery featuring work he created during the New City Arts Fellowship.
Jess Walters | Delights: Disparities — a spectrum of life lived in the meantime.
From March 4-5, 2022, New City Arts presents Delights:Disparities—a spectrum of life lived in the meantime., a solo exhibition by Jess Walters at Welcome Gallery featuring work they created during the New City Arts Fellowship.
Kori Price | You can’t compromise my joy.
New City Arts presents “You can't compromise my joy.”, an exhibition of new work by Fall 2021 New City Artist-in-Residence, Kori Price.
11 Local Artists: 2021-2022 Artist Exchange
New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Tori Cherry, Ashon Crawley, Jen Deibert, John Grant, Mary Lamb, Calista Lyon, Frank Phillips, Lisa Ryan, Andrea Ruedy Trimble, Joe Vena, and Derrick J. Waller.
Tori Cherry | In Good Time
New City Arts announces In Good Time, Tori Cherry's first solo exhibition, at Welcome Gallery. Featuring still life and figurative paintings, Tori's exhibition is presented by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.