The Rising Stars
The newbies. The up-starters. Maybe even the up-settors. Witness experimentation, disruption, and where art is headed next.
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
There’s something intoxicating about the Lower East Side.
New York is a city that is perpetually ‘becoming’. But on the Lower East Side, people come to become. It might be hard to imagine when you’re looking at people sipping cocktails outside dive bars, parties spilling into the street, and endless lines for the latest fashion capsule drop, but this used to be a vast Dutch farmland.
Their churches from the 1840s are still here. And NYC’s iconic Tenement buildings, where throngs of Jewish, Italian, and Irish came to live, fresh from Ellis Island. So are the Gilded Age banks from its turn-of-the-20th century heyday, before everyone moved up town.
The Rising Stars
10 Venues
ArtLower East Side
Hannah Traore Gallery
Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.
150 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Ulrik
Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.
175 Canal Street, Floor 3
New York, NY 10013
ArtLower East Side
Below Grand
Artist-curators stretch the rules in this LES kitchen-supply-store window and a storefront gallery.
53 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and maker culture collide in this DIY gallery on Ludlow Street.
48 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Blade Study
Where artists ask the same questions humans have always asked, just asked through memes, code, and group chats.
17 Pike Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism and philosophy on the fourth floor of a Chinatown office building.
39 East Broadway, Suite 404
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.
105 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
King's Leap
A rising generation of artists whose shared Tumblr and techno experiences splinter into dystopian visions, futuristic dreams, and meta commentaries on 21st-century life.
105 Henry Street Street, Store 5
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this basement gallery, which champions younger local and international artists.
24 Rutgers Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Long Story Short
A big-hearted, storefront gallery where locals linger on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.
52 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
There’s something intoxicating about the Lower East Side.
New York is a city that is perpetually ‘becoming’. But on the Lower East Side, people come to become. It might be hard to imagine when you’re looking at people sipping cocktails outside dive bars, parties spilling into the street, and endless lines for the latest fashion capsule drop, but this used to be a vast Dutch farmland.
Their churches from the 1840s are still here. And NYC’s iconic Tenement buildings, where throngs of Jewish, Italian, and Irish came to live, fresh from Ellis Island. So are the Gilded Age banks from its turn-of-the-20th century heyday, before everyone moved up town.
The Rising Stars
10 VenuesArtLower East Side
Hannah Traore Gallery
Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.
150 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Ulrik
Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.
175 Canal Street, Floor 3
New York, NY 10013
ArtLower East Side
Below Grand
Artist-curators stretch the rules in this LES kitchen-supply-store window and a storefront gallery.
53 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Entrance
The spirit of the zine and maker culture collide in this DIY gallery on Ludlow Street.
48 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Blade Study
Where artists ask the same questions humans have always asked, just asked through memes, code, and group chats.
17 Pike Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Management
Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism and philosophy on the fourth floor of a Chinatown office building.
39 East Broadway, Suite 404
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.
105 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
King's Leap
A rising generation of artists whose shared Tumblr and techno experiences splinter into dystopian visions, futuristic dreams, and meta commentaries on 21st-century life.
105 Henry Street Street, Store 5
New York, NY 10002
ArtLower East Side
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this basement gallery, which champions younger local and international artists.
24 Rutgers Street
New York, NY 10002
ArtChinatown
Long Story Short
A big-hearted, storefront gallery where locals linger on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.
52 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002