Members Only
Happy Artsy Hour
11 Jun. 2026 | 5:30-7:30pm
Members Only | RSVP Required
Join us at KinoSaito for special extended evening hours to enjoy our current exhibitions, Kikuo Saito: Red Talia, curated by Kikuo Saito Studio; Irina Lotarevich: Indicators, curated by Megan Meadowlark; Kurt Steger: No Words; and Alison Knowles: Secrets of Ordinary Things with Celebration Red: Homage to Each Red Thing, curated by Katrin Lewinsky.
Members and their allowed number of guests are welcome.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This is an exclusive event for KinoSaito members. Not a member yet? Sign up today to join us! Memberships start at just $50, with special discounts available for students, seniors (65+), veterans, and working artists.
Note: An art workshop will happen concurrently with each Member’s Happy Artsy Hour, but registration for the workshop is required ahead of time. Don’t forget to use your discount code!
Installation view of Celebration Red at KinoSaito.
Celebration
2026 Spring Closing Party
14 Jun. 2026 | 2:30-5pm
Free | RSVP Required
Celebrate the close of our Spring 2026 exhibitions with an afternoon of art, exchange, and performances. Enjoy a final walk-through of works by Alison Knowles, Irina Lotarevich, Kikuo Saito, and Kurt Steger, and contribute to the final swap of the full Celebration Red: Homage to Each Red Thing installation. We’ll bid farewell to the season by activating Knowles’s Event Scores with audience participation and closing with a special musical set by Jeff Kane and John Watts.
3pm
Activation of Alison Knowles’s Event Scores
4pm
A Jeff Kane & John Watts Duo Performance
Light refreshments provided.
Kikuo Saito, Dime Lake, 2015, Oil on canvas, 56 x 78 in
Members Only
Summer Exhibitions Preview Reception
24 Jun. 2026 | 5-7pm | Free
Members Only | RSVP Required
Join us for an exclusive member preview as we unveil a captivating new season of exhibitions. Rounding out the season is All Day Long, a curated group exhibition by Katrin Lewinsky and Sarah Greenberg Morse that offers a profound look at landscape adaptations. Experience the evocative world of Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake, curated by Kikuo Saito Studio and Kristin Larkin LoGerfo, alongside a striking new site-specific outdoor installation by former Artist in Residence Jongil Ma.
Members and their allowed number of guests are welcome.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This is an exclusive event for KinoSaito members. Not a member yet? Sign up today to join us! Memberships start at just $50, with special discounts available for students, seniors (65+), veterans, and working artists.
2026 Upstate Art Weekend
Upstate Art Weekend at KinoSaito
25-29 Jun. 2026 | 10-6pm
We are excited to share our participation in the sixth edition of Upstate Art Weekend, June 25-29, 2026! The seventh edition Upstate Art Weekend’s flagship annual event brings together 160 artists, organizations, and audiences across the Hudson Valley and Catskills, inviting exploration of exhibitions, programs, and cultural spaces throughout the region.
Open Studios
Ari Elefterin and Borinquen Gallo
25 Jun. 2026 | 1-4pm | Free
Join us for open studios with our future Artists in Residence Ari Elefterin and Borinquen Gallo. Peak into their studios and chat with them about their practice.
Pratt Institute
A top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and serves 5,140 students. The Institute’s impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus, PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Since its founding in 1887, Pratt has prioritized diversity and inclusion, welcoming students from all walks of life while developing and sustaining pathways to more equitable workplaces and careers.
Artist Pop-Up
By Mayumi Nakao
Free Drop In Program
26 Jun. 2026 | 11am-1pm
For the 2026 Upstate Art Weekend, KinoSaito is pleased to present an Artist Pop-up store with artist Mayumi Nakao. Mayumi will also offer free face painting on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that capacity is limited for this special activity.
Mayumi is a Japanese-born visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She began painting seriously in 2018, inspired by her experience of moving from Japan, as well as themes of memory and everyday life.
She focuses on children, family scenes, and quiet everyday moments, combining realism with imagination. Her work is about transforming ordinary scenes into images that invite viewers to pause and take a closer look.
She studied oil painting at the Art Students League in New York and has exhibited in New York, Tokyo, and Paris. She has also participated in residencies in Côte d’Ivoire and Venice, which continue to influence her practice.
Naofumi Maruyama, Waterside Scenery, 2017, Acrylic on cotton, 35 x 57 in, Courtesy of ShugoArts
Garden Party
2026 Summer Opening Reception
27 Jun. 2026 | 4-7pm
Free | RSVP Required
We have shifted our second exhibition of the season to June—a move that perfectly aligns with Upstate Art Weekend, which has also moved to June this year. This timing makes our upcoming opening reception one of the most significant summer events in our history.
We invite you to join us for the opening of three exceptional exhibitions:
All Day Long
A comprehensive exploration of landscape curated by Katrin Lewinsky and Sarah Greenberg Morse, featuring 12 artists throughout our gallery spaces.Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake
Curated by the Kikuo Saito Studio and Kristin Larkin LoGerfo.Jongil Ma: The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap
Outdoor Installation
Join our Garden Party with Music Performance: Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot.
Music Performance
Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot
27 Jun. 2026 | 5pm
Free | RSVP required
This performance is a part of 2026 Summer Opening Reception.
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello and her right foot nicknamed My Pal Foot Foot as live looping producer.
Gillet was raised in Belgium, Singapore, Chicago, Wisconsin and has lived in New Orleans for 23 years and counting. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll. She has played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024.
Members Only
Kurt Steger Studio Visit
10 Jul. 2026 | 6-8pm | Free
Members Only | RSVP Required
Take a behind-the-scenes look at KinoSaito’s outdoor garden exhibition, Kurt Steger: No Words, by visiting Kurt Steger’s studio and sculpture garden in Lake Peekskill, NY. Steger has turned his modest suburban residence into an ongoing sculpture project, including over 50 outdoor sculptures, a studio building he designed and built, a house full of his furniture designs, his wife Meg Hitchcock’s studio and show space, as well as his latest addition of 2ndSun, a ceramic gallery, where he is curating monthly shows of ceramic artists and potters.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This is an exclusive event for KinoSaito members. Not a member yet? Sign up today to join us! Memberships start at just $50, with special discounts available for students, seniors (65+), veterans, and working artists.
Members Only
Happy Artsy Hour
23 Jul. 2026 | 5:30-7:30pm | Free
Members Only | RSVP Required
Join us at KinoSaito for special extended evening hours to enjoy our current exhibitions: Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake, curated by Kikuo Saito Studio; Kristin Larkin LoGerfo, and All Day Long, curated by Katrin Lewinsky and Sarah Greenberg Morse, and outdoor installation Jongil Ma: The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap.
Members and their allowed number of guests are welcome.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This is an exclusive event for KinoSaito members. Not a member yet? Sign up today to join us! Memberships start at just $50, with special discounts available for students, seniors (65+), veterans, and working artists.
Note: An art workshop will happen concurrently with each Member’s Happy Artsy Hour, but registration for the workshop is required ahead of time. Don’t forget to use your discount code!
Members Only
Happy Artsy Hour
6 Aug. 2026 | 5:30-7:30pm | Free
Members Only | RSVP Required
Join us at KinoSaito for special extended evening hours to enjoy our current exhibitions: Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake, curated by Kikuo Saito Studio; Kristin Larkin LoGerfo, and All Day Long, curated by Katrin Lewinsky and Sarah Greenberg Morse, and outdoor installation Jongil Ma: The Hidden Crown Between Twin Hills, Tiptoeing ……, A Brief Leap.
Members and their allowed number of guests are welcome.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This is an exclusive event for KinoSaito members. Not a member yet? Sign up today to join us! Memberships start at just $50, with special discounts available for students, seniors (65+), veterans, and working artists.
Note: An art workshop will happen concurrently with each Member’s Happy Artsy Hour, but registration for the workshop is required ahead of time. Don’t forget to use your discount code!