Aicon, New York

Aicon, New York At Aicon we specialize in modern and contemporary non-Western art with a focus on South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Alongside solo shows, the gallery presents a program of curated group exhibitions that are international in their scope and ambition. Subscribe to our mailing list for events -
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11/15/2025

Aicon New York is proud to present Sonal Ambani’s ‘The Summit of Women’s Voices: A Monumental Tribute to Resilience & Unity’ at the third edition of Art Mumbai. The stainless steel, pyramid structure plays with light and shadow, symbolizing how women’s voices, often obscured, remain enduring. The work is on view through November 16, 2025.

11/15/2025

Aicon is at Art Mumbai through November 16. Visit Stand A1 to view the best of South Asian modern and contemporary art.

11/13/2025

FINAL DAYS: Threaded closes this Saturday, November 15.

Visit Aicon for you last chance to view this group textile exhibition featuring Khadim Ali, Hangama Amiri, Bhasha Chakrabarti + Thew Smoak, Anindita Dutta, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Shehnaz Ismail, Rachid Koraïchi, Suchitra Matai, Pruvai Rai, and Shaheer Zazi.

The Armory Show is open through Sunday, September 7. Visit Aicon at Booth 431 to view our stunning presentation of Moder...
09/05/2025

The Armory Show is open through Sunday, September 7. Visit Aicon at Booth 431 to view our stunning presentation of Modern masters that The New York Times named one of their 13 Certified Winners of this years fair. Walker Mimms wrote:

The late-career or deceased Indian artists in this booth contribute surprisingly liberated, and often nightmarish, takes on color and s*x. K. Laxma Goud of Hyderabad, born 1940, takes center stage with small but unsettling voyeuristic scenes in etching and crayon. Others employ a vigorous, three-dimensional segmentation on canvas, almost like scar tissue, to define the lines of their human figures. For instance: the slatherings of red polyvinyl acetate, an early version of acrylic paint, that outline the “Stricken Monk with Cat O’Nine Tails” (1968) by Lancelot Ribeiro (1933-2010) of Mumbai and London — a gory and bizarre painting not to be missed.

Photography by Studio Abbruzzese.

Aicon is pleased to announce its participation in the 2025 Armory Show with a group presentation of works by Modern Mast...
08/26/2025

Aicon is pleased to announce its participation in the 2025 Armory Show with a group presentation of works by Modern Masters F. N. Souza (1924-2002), Achuthan Kudallur (1945-2022), Lancelot Ribeiro (1933-2010), K. Laxma Goud (b. 1940) and Mohan Samant (1924-2004). Kudallur, Ribeiro and Samant were celebrated with solo exhibitions at our New York gallery last year.

The Armory Show 2025 takes place next week, September 4 - 7 at the Javits Center. Visit Aicon at Booth 431.

Looking Back and Forward by Victor Ekpuk & In Lights by Rasheed Araeen are in their last two weeks. Visit Aicon through ...
08/09/2025

Looking Back and Forward by Victor Ekpuk & In Lights by Rasheed Araeen are in their last two weeks. Visit Aicon through August 23 to experience these fantastic exhibitions. As a special treat, we will also be open this Sunday (August 10) and next (August 17) from 12-5pm, so you have even more time to explore the shows!

Tussle recently published a review of Looking Back and Forward by Siba Das. In the article, Das provides insight into Ekpuk’s visual language and use of the Nsibidi script. He writes:

“Especially worth a deep look is a set of six vividly colored portraits, all painted in 2025. Ekpuk has been making portraits from the start of his career but these represent both a reimagining of what he has done so far and a new beginning. From a personal collection of masks, statues, and puppets created in his Ibibio culture, he has selected a variety of ideas and forms, and transmuted them to imagined contemporary figures, to whom he has imparted complexity and expressiveness. He uses brilliant colors to this end, returning thereby to the focus on color that dominated his early career. He enlarges and diversifies the tactility of his textures, especially by fixing dry acrylic to parts of his surfaces. Building upon previous collage-making, he also applies Dutch wax-print textiles and burlap in his new portraits such that, via intertextuality, he extends his art with a new profundity.”

Photography by Bea Frank.

The paintings in Rasheed Araeen’s ‘In Lights’ act as two-dimensional images of the neon structures. Using ultramarine bl...
08/06/2025

The paintings in Rasheed Araeen’s ‘In Lights’ act as two-dimensional images of the neon structures. Using ultramarine blue and black for the background makes the geometric calligraphy painted in vivid colors pop in a way that emulates the glowing neon. In these paintings, the artist simplifies the word “Allah” to its most basic geometric form, creating a minimal, abstract composition. The works challenge Western-centric perceptions by reclaiming geometric and calligraphic abstraction as inherently global practices with deep historical roots beyond the European tradition. Araeen articulates a critical stance that situates abstraction as both culturally specific and universally accessible, drawing attention to the two-way permeable boundaries between artistic traditions across cultures.

Installation photography by Bea Frank.

At Aicon we believe in embodying the art…
08/02/2025

At Aicon we believe in embodying the art…

Join us at Aicon next Thursday, July 31 at 6 pm ET for a dialogue between Jane DeBevoise and Yasi Alipour, moderated by ...
07/25/2025

Join us at Aicon next Thursday, July 31 at 6 pm ET for a dialogue between Jane DeBevoise and Yasi Alipour, moderated by Iftikhar Dadi, building upon on Rasheed Araeen’s memoir-style book, Art and Institutional Racism. In this new book, Araeen reflects “upon the experiences of [his] life, particularly in London, not only as an artist but also as an ordinary person...This book is about [his] struggle to assert and maintain [his] freedom not only as a thinking person but also in [his] pursuit of new ideas in [his] practice as an artist.” Our panelists will weave their own experiences together with Rasheed’s essays to shed light on the ways in which they confront the Eurocentricity of art history and modernism. The conversation will be situated within the context of the paintings and structures at the heart of Araeen’s latest Aicon solo presentation, In Lights.

RSVP by emailing [email protected].

Aicon is proud to present “In Lights” by Rasheed Araeen, a solo exhibition of the artist’s recent paintings and wall str...
07/15/2025

Aicon is proud to present “In Lights” by Rasheed Araeen, a solo exhibition of the artist’s recent paintings and wall structures, centered around two brand-new neon works. Join us at the opening reception on Thursday, July 17, 6-8 pm.

Araeen’s foray into neon over the past few years highlights the artist’s ever-evolving interest in material and the ways in which an artwork can transform its environment. Known for his interactive structures that require viewer participation to rearrange the works, thereby altering how a work relates to a specific space, the neon work’s transfiguration of space is self-contained. From the second they are turned on, the intensely colored light emitted by the works reshapes the room. Although concerned with form, these neon works critically engage with space and subvert the circumscribed standard of viewing art in a white cube. This visual critique of the homogenized contemporary exhibition space is a continuation of the artist’s career-long dismantling of systemic exclusionary art institutional practices.

Aicon is pleased to announce ‘Looking Back and Forward,’ an exhibition of both new and old paintings and sculptures by V...
07/10/2025

Aicon is pleased to announce ‘Looking Back and Forward,’ an exhibition of both new and old paintings and sculptures by Victor Ekpuk. The exhibition opens on July 17, with a reception between 6 and 8pm, and runs through August 23, 2025.

“My art is deeply shaped by nsibidi, the traditional Ibibio symbol system. This rich cultural heritage has profoundly influenced my abstract style.

In ‘Looking Back and Forward,’ I explore a conversation between the past, present, and future. I engage in a dialogue with my Ibibio cultural artifacts, allowing these historical objects to interact with my contemporary imagination. This dynamic interplay reveals a continuous thread of memory and identity that connects generations.” – Victor Ekpuk, 2025

1. Victor Ekpuk, Oracle, 2025, Acrylic and cloth on board, 36 x 36 in
2. Victor Ekpuk, Wise One, 2022, Painted aluminum, 35 x 24 in
3. Victor Ekpuk, Nka Iferi, 2025, Acrylic and cloth on board, 36 x 36 in

MUST SEE | Saad Qureshi’s monumental Tower of Now is currently on view at Hall Ings in Bradford, UK. Tower of Now is ‘in...
06/14/2025

MUST SEE | Saad Qureshi’s monumental Tower of Now is currently on view at Hall Ings in Bradford, UK.

Tower of Now is ‘inspired by memory and place, and how our sense of who we are can be shaped by the buildings we see around us.’

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