The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th edition of NADA New York on Wednesday, coinciding again with the start of Frieze just five blocks north.
Those who made the trip to Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue were greeted by not just NADA, but also 1-54, which hosts its New York fair on the first floor. Two floors up, NADA occupied most of the third floor, flooded on either end with bright natural light from banks of floor-to-ceiling windows.
This year’s fair counted 110 exhibitors, just one shy of 2025’s 111, with a wide spread of galleries hailing from New York to Shanghai. Fifty-one galleries were first-time exhibitors, and some of the strongest presentations on offer came from these first-timers, signaling that NADA’s curatorial standards remain high.
This year saw plenty of ceramics and fiber, a welcome shift from recent years’ emphasis on figurative painting. Perhaps the emphasis on these new (old) mediums should be expected, given how, as ARTnews‘s Brian Boucher reported just last week, ceramics have taken over galleries and museums of late. (And in 2023, Art in America found a slew of young artists turning to fiber as their medium of choice.)
Below, see the standouts at the 2026 edition of NADA New York.
