FOR RELEASE: 8/20/2026
Contact:
Camille Tibaldeo
E: camille.tibaldeo@fountainhouse.org
P: 212.246.6543
NEW YORK CITY – Fountain House Gallery – the premier venue in New York City representing artists living with mental illness – announces exhibitions scheduled for the remainder of 2026 through 2027, following a successful and eventful 25th Anniversary year. The roster of upcoming shows and events highlights the diversity of talent among the Gallery’s 150+ artists. In addition to working with Fountain House Gallery artists experienced in curation, the Gallery will continue to collaborate with noteworthy external curators.
The Gallery will continue to present at the Outsider Art Fair and will also participate in the 7th Annual Creating Community Conference: “The Expanding Landscape of Art and Disabilities” in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 5-8, 2026.
Exhibition Calendar (Remainder of 2026)
Go! Figure!
September 10 – Oct 28, 2026
Curated by Fountain House Gallery artist Michael Kronenberg, with Sean Alday and Mikki Nylund
Throughout history, one of humankind’s most favored artistic pursuits has been creating images of the human figure. This exhibition showcases the artists' impressions of humanity.
Small Works: 100 & Under
November 12 – December 24, 2026
Each year, Small Works features hundreds of small-scale artworks, sized at 6 x 6 inches or smaller and priced at $100 or less.
Open Invitational Art Fair (Miami)
December 1–5, 2026
This new contemporary art fair, which takes place during Miami Art Week, presents works by artists with disabilities.
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Exhibition Calendar (2027)
Mirrors
January – February 2027
Fountain House Gallery artist Nancy Caton, who has conceived and co-curated several past Gallery shows, will be joined by an external curator TBA. Mirrors invites artists to explore reflection — literal, symbolic, emotional, and psychological. A mirror can reveal or distort, illuminate or conceal; it can affirm how we see ourselves or challenge how we believe others see us. It offers a space to look inward and outward at once, opening room for questions of identity, perception, memory, and self-awareness. Ultimately, the exhibition becomes a collective reflection where many perspectives converge.
Riot Grrls!
March – April 2027
Curated by arts writer and curator Barbara Pollack, this exhibition will bring together artists with idiosyncratic visions of women figures. Riot Grrls! will be a visual rock concert inspired by Le Tigre and Bikini Kill, feminist punk bands of the early 2000s. The idea is to juxtapose the fantastic, audacious artworks of Gallery artists with videos of the pioneering musicians who redefined the notion of a girl band. This is an especially powerful concept for this particular group of visionary artists, as these bands targeted and re-appropriated Freud’s diagnosis of “female hysteria,” a label often applied to all kinds of creative women.
Outsider Art Fair
March 2027
The Outsider Art Fair is the only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art from around the world. A presence at the Fair for nearly two decades, Fountain House Gallery curates its booth at the Fair.
7 Deadly Sins
May – June 2027
For this show, curated by Gallery artists Judith Berman and Boo Lynn Walsh, artists are encouraged to make work in response to the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.
Compulsive Genius: New Work by Fountain House Studio Artists
June – August 2027
External Curator TBA
Fall Show
September – October 2027
External Curator TBA
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Small Works: $100 & Under
November – December 2027
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Fountain House Gallery & Studio programming is funded, in part, by public funds from the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by generous
support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and the
Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
Fountain House Gallery & Studio
Fountain House Gallery & Studio envisions a world where artists find community, healing and creative growth through artistry, and where their strengths and contributions reshape how society understands serious mental illness. In the Studio, artists find a supportive community where they can explore their creativity, develop their craft, reclaim their identities, and challenge the stigma of diagnosis. At the Gallery, their work is shared with the public, celebrated and
sold — amplifying their voices by advancing their careers and demonstrating their essential contributions to art and culture. Together, the Studio and Gallery foster hope, inspire new possibilities, and build upon a movement that values artistry as a force for healing and change.
Fountain House
For 75 years, Fountain House has been a beacon of hope and recovery for people living with serious mental illness. Through its direct service clubhouse programs in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as national policy, advocacy and research initiatives, Fountain House has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of people living with serious mental illness. Founded in 1948 in New York City, Fountain House originated the clubhouse model of community mental health that has been replicated more than 370 times in nearly 40 U.S. states and in 30 countries around the world.
Fountain House Gallery
702 Ninth Avenue at 48th Street
NYC 10019
212.262.2756
Hours: Tues.-Fri. 12-6/Sat. 1-7
More than a gallery. A movement.
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