KinoSaito’s spacious galleries are designed to highlight ideas at the core of the center’s mission—experimental practices of artists working today seen in relation to Kikuo Saito’s paintings, works on paper and theater design from throughout his over fifty-year career. In the first gallery, visitors encounter a selection of Saito’s work that changes quarterly, each iteration highlighting a theme, motif, painting style or area of focus worthy of the artist’s extended study. The second gallery is a rotating series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists across disciplines, media, and artistic practices.
GALLERY 2 and THEATER GALLERY
All Day Long
A show about landscape curated by Katrin Lewinsky and Sarah Greenberg Morse
On view through 20 Dec. 2026
Naofumi Maruyama, Waterfront Scenery (201703), 2017, Acrylic on cotton, 35 x 57 in, Courtesy of ShugoArts
Focusing on contemporary landscape and its 20th-century influences, All Day Long considers the artist’s vision of nature as explicit material and as abstract fields of color. KinoSaito’s founding muse, Kikuo Saito, was a prolific abstract painter, who had a habitual landscape practice. Saito explored the wilderness of experience and expression, outfitted with a broad palette and an eye on his Color Field mentors and peers. Each artist in All Day Long is creating work along the edge of subject and obliteration, challenging the viewer to contemplate what is contained in the landscape versus what is present in front of them. In 2026, and all day long, the present and future fragilities of our natural world confront us – making landscape a genre that is an urgent force in the 21st century and on into the horizon.
Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio and Kristin Larkin LoGerfo
On view through 20 Dec. 2026
Kikuo Saito, Dime Lake, 2015, Oil on canvas, 56 x 78 in
One does not immediately associate Kikuo Saito, master of abstraction, with the landscape genre, and yet he spent much of his life painting the natural scenes around him; from the Hudson Valley to his old summer home in the Victorian-built whaling community of Cape May, New Jersey, from the surfside hamlet of Rincon, Puerto Rico, to the more kempt, parkland precincts and ramshackle urban cores of Madrid, Vienna, and Rome. He never traveled without his sketchbook and watercolors, pastels, charcoal, pencil, and pen, and his plein-air renderings gave figurative expression to his fancy, making his “color fields” bloom and blurring the distinctions among water, cloud, and sky. This show features a diverse selection of these landscapes, along with a major painting -- in fact, the last painting Saito ever completed -- a large abstract canvas given the landscaped name “Dime Lake.” There is, of course, no real Dime Lake, at least none that Saito ever knew, making his depiction an imaginary vista, the view within, lush with myriad greens. These landscape paintings are displayed alongside works by Kristin Larkin LoGerfo, a student of Saito, and Paul LoGerfo, her husband and the physician of Saito’s first wife, the choreographer and dancer Eva Maier. Brought together by Maier, the friends and companions forged a close bond, particularly through their regular trips together through nature. These works are like the postcards they brought back.
OUTDOOR
Jongil Ma: The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap
On view through 20 Dec. 2026
Jongil Ma, The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap, 2026, Wood, acrylic, nuts, bolts, and screws, 123 × 80 × 70 in
AIR STUDIOS
KinoSaito Annual
Curated by KinoSaito
11-13 and 18-20 Dec. 2026
Past Exhibitions
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Kikuo Saito: Red Talia
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
7 Mar. – 14 Jun. 2026 -
Alison Knowles: Secrets of Ordinary Things
Curated by Katrin Lewinsky
7 Mar. – 14 Jun. 2026 -
Irina Lotarevich: Indicators
Curated by Megan Meadowlark
7 Mar. – 14 Jun. 2026 -
Kurt Steger: No Words
7 Mar. – 14 Jun. 2026
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2025 KinoSaito Annual
Community Art Benefit
Curated by KinoSaito Art Center
12-14 and 19-21 Dec. 2025 -
Katherina Jesek: Venus in Vectors
Curated by Megan Meadowlark
2 Sept. – 8 Dec. 2025 -
Kikuo Saito: Reminiscence in Color
Curated by Mikiko Ino Saito
24 May – 21 Dec. 2025 -
The Unknown and Its Poetics
Curated by Adrián S. Bará
24 May – 21 Dec. 2025 -
Kikuo Saito: The Wrong Side of the Brush
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025 -
Reuven Israel: U.F.O. (Untitled Folding Object) 1329
Curated by Kathy Battista and Sarah Strauss
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025 -
Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland: Sound Forest / Between Worlds
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025
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Alice Mizrachi: Unifying Threads of Our Evolution
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025
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2024 KinoSaito Annual
Community Art Benefit
Curated by KinoSaito Art Center
13-15 Dec. 2024 -
Kikuo Saito: Summer Song
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory
Curated by David A. Ross
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
NON Objectified
Curated by Kathy Battista
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
Natsuki Takauji: The Heart of the Tree
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024
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Kikuo Saito: Unraveling
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm
Curated by Sarah Strauss
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise
Curated by Jess Wilcox and organized in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Ricardo de Oliveira: As The Years Went On… (Woman’s Eye)
Curated by CLEA RSKY
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
KinoSaito Annual: Community Art Benefit
Curated by KinoSaito Art Center
15-17 Dec. 2023 -
Lee Tribe
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
2 Sep. – 17 Dec. 2023 -
Kikuo Saito and Friends: New York City Downtown and Beyond, 1970s and 1980s
Curated by Karen Wilkin
13 May – 17 Dec. 2023 -
Niki Lederer: Knickerbocker Ice
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
4 Mar. – 30 Aug. 2023 -
Kikuo Saito: Pictorial Clay
Curated by Jim Walsh
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Patrice Renee Washington: Tendersweet
Curated by Olga Dekalo and organized in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Murray Hochman: New Dimensions
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Kikuo Saito: Hatching Color
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. - 18 Dec. 2022 -
Signaling
Curated by Alexander Provan
9 Sep. - 11 Dec. 2022 -
XYZ: Alphabetical Ruptures and Reformations
Curated by Sophie Landres
8 Jul. - 4 Sep. 2022 -
Kikuo Saito: The Alphabet Paintings
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
3 Jun. - 4 Sep. 2022 -
Pooneh Maghazehe: Half-Life
Curated by Beth Venn
6 May – 26 Jun. 2022 -
Material Presence: Kikuo Saito
Curated by Karen Wilkin
4 Mar. – 22 May 2022 -
Material Presence: Jilaine Jones + Fran O’Neill
Curated by Karen Wilkin
4 Mar. – 24 Apr. 2022 -
Christina McPhee: Regeneration
Curated by Beth Venn
4 Mar. – 24 Apr. 2022 -
Kikuo Saito: Cloud Paintings
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. – 19 Dec. 2021 -
Painting as Performance / Performance as Painting: The Theater Paintings of Kikuo Saito
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. – 19 Dec. 2021