The Parrish Art Museum announces its 2025 schedule, featuring solo exhibitions by internationally renowned artists Shirin Neshat, Sean Scully, James Howell, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Nina Yankowitz. These presentations reaffirm the Museum’s commitment to showcasing groundbreaking contemporary artists, while fully utilizing the architectural design of the expansive Herzog & de Meuron-designed galleries at the Museum.
“The Museum’s ambitious 2025 program underscores the Parrish’s commitment to excellence and to presenting artists whose work resonates both locally and globally. This year’s diverse lineup—spanning painting, photography, video, and installation—highlights the dynamic dialogue between artists and themes of place, memory, and our exquisite surroundings on the East End. I am especially excited to introduce Sean Scully’s Montauk series and Shirin Neshat’s deeply personal collection to our community through our planned in-person events and programming,” said Museum Executive Director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut.
Shirin Neshat: Born of Fire | April 20–September 1, 2025
This exhibition marks the artist’s first museum exhibition in the New York area in two decades. It offers a non-linear survey of Neshat’s artistic development, presenting focused installations of four significant bodies of work. These range from her first major photographic works, Women of Allah (1993–97), images inspired by women’s involvement in the Islamic Revolution and Iran-Iraq War, to The Book of Kings (2012), a portrait series that calls on the tradition of Persian epic poetry to address the Arab Spring protest movement. The exhibition will also include more recent projects that present Neshat’s surreal film and video works alongside still photographs, including Land of Dreams (2019), in which the artist turns her attention to exploring American culture from the perspective of an Iranian artist in exile, and The Fury (2022–3), addressing sexual exploitation of female political prisoners.
Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk | May 11–September 21, 2025
Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk is a survey of the artist’s work ranging from 1981 to 2024, exploring his Long Island connection and how a single month spent in Montauk in the summer of 1982 with a fellowship at the Edward F. Albee Foundation became a pivotal place and moment in the artist’s career.
James Howell | September 14, 2025–February 8, 2026
This exhibition highlights the minimalist works of James Howell (American, 1935–2014), whose paintings, prints, and drawings explore the infinite tonal variations of gray. Inspired by mathematical precision and the changing light of Montauk, Howell’s work balances scientific calculation with artistic intuition. This will be the first exhibition of Howell’s work on Long Island, a place that deeply impacted the artist’s later career. Between 2006 and his death, Howell worked out of his studio in Montauk, where the ever-changing nature of the elements—fog, water, and light—provided fresh inspiration for his decades-long fascination with the seemingly infinite array of grays
Time Exposed: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes | September 14, 2025–February 8, 2026
A presentation of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s (Japanese, b. 1948) black-and-white seascapes for the first time at the Parrish Art Museum. Acquired by the Museum in 2022, the photolithographic series explores Sugimoto’s unwavering interest in the incremental atmospheric changes around vast bodies of water. The Time Exposed project saw Sugimoto use a 19th-century film camera to document the subtle changes in light, fog, and atmosphere.
Nina Yankowitz: In the Out/Out the In | October 5, 2025–February 22, 2026
Organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, this exhibition features 36 works by Nina Yankowitz (American, b. 1946), a boundary-defying artist who has addressed themes of feminism, environmentalism, and social justice through abstraction for nearly six decades. Ranging from pleated and draped canvases to immersive multimedia installations, Yankowitz’s work challenges traditional art categorizations and inspires fresh perspectives on the evolution of artistic expression.
