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Emily Mae Smith (b. 1979, Austin, Texas) creates sly, humorous, and riveting compositions which nod to art historical movements such as Symbolism and Art Nouveau, though with a distinctly 21st century spin. Her genre-defying paintings speak through a vocabulary of signs and symbols addressing timely subjects including gender, class, and violence. Smith’s paintings tackle art history’s phallocentric myths and create imagery for subjectivities absent in visual culture, specifically the feminist perspective. Smith’s exhibition of new paintings, Transit of Venus, is currently on view at Petzel, 520 West 25th street, New York, through October 31, 2026. This marks Smith’s second solo show at the gallery and follows her 2024 survey exhibition at the Magritte Museum in Brussels, where the artist’s work was curated in dialogue with René Magritte’s oeuvre.
 

New York-based artist Matthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, Kentucky) is best known for his chromatic, handmade wood sculptures that suggest unearthly landscapes with futuristic architectures and bodily processes like digestion and aging. His fourth solo exhibition at Casey Kaplan, Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season; is on view through Saturday, October 24th. 

Peter Halley, born in 1953, New York City, came to prominence as a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. He uses his visual lexicon to examine the technological forces that regulate daily life. Known for his use of fluorescent colors and synthetic Roll-a-Tex surfaces, Halley embraces materials that are anti-naturalistic and commercially manufactured. 
 
Halley is currently presenting new paintings at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena, Italy, as well as Exploding Cell, a new series of digital prints, at Triennale Milano in Milan. This month, he has also created site-specific installations for Le Consortium (Dijon) and the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), extending his ongoing exploration of architecture, materiality, and pictorial space.
 

Christopher K. Ho (b. 1974 Hong Kong) is a speculative artist based in New York and Hong Kong. He is a maker, organizer, and teacher. His current solo exhibition Waterloo! at Ellie Rines Gallery draws parallels between the Biedermeier period and today, and extends his decades-long interest in what politics in art can look like. 
 

Alice Tippit is an artist who lives and works in Chicago, IL. Embracing ambiguity and contradiction, Tippit invites viewers to consider the myriad ways in which we construct meaning through language and form as well as the coexistence of multiple interpretations. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at  Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York in 2026, Rodolphe Janssen Galerie, Brussels in 2025, and Patron Gallery, Chicago in 2024. Her first institutional solo exhibition was mounted in 2026 by the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago.

Jerry Blackman (b.1984, Brooklyn) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has had several solo shows of his work in New York City and is looking forward to his forthcoming exhibition at Peninsula where he is represented. Blackman has also participated in numerous group shows nationally and internationally in cities including Taipei. Vienna, New Haven, and others. Additionally, Blackman has also curated several group shows online and in New York City. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2006, and his MFA from Yale in 2014.

James Hyde is a practicing painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s. His recent book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), is the first critical study of “pictorial space” as a historical construction. Hyde’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC). He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.

Claire Downes Whitehurst is a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work explores the intersections of botanical form, religious iconography, and the abstract relationship between image and object. 

Deeply rooted in a conceptual framework, Tony Oursler conjures multimedia and immersive experiences which combine traditional art making tools with new technologies. Oursler is known for his work with moving images, installation and projection. He draws inspiration from wide ranging pop cultural phenomena including telecommunications, narrative evolution, conspiracy, social media, facial recognition, mysticism and environmental concerns.

Deeply rooted in a conceptual framework, Tony Oursler conjures multimedia and immersive experiences which combine traditional art making tools with new technologies. Oursler is known for his work with moving images, installation and projection. He draws inspiration from wide ranging pop cultural phenomena including telecommunications, narrative evolution, conspiracy, social media, facial recognition, mysticism and environmental concerns.