November Art Guide 2025

Explore new exhibitions across Houston, New York, Brussels, Toulouse, London, Columbus, and Hong Kong in this November Art Guide 2025. From contemporary voices to rediscovered masters, these shows connect past and present through bold narratives, visual experimentation, and cultural reflection.

Houston, Texas
Mario Ayala: Seven Vans – Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
On view November 14, 2025 – March 30, 2026

Mario Ayala, Camouflage, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 65.75 x 75 in. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and New York. © Grant Guiterriez.

Los Angeles–based artist Mario Ayala debuts his first U.S. museum solo exhibition at CAMH. Seven Vans presents life-size shaped canvases inspired by van culture and everyday urban encounters. Ayala reimagines vehicle backs as portraits, each reflecting its owner’s character through color, decals, and wear. The show bridges Houston’s car identity with Los Angeles’ lowrider aesthetic, exploring movement, labor, and cultural expression.

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New York, New York
Xan Padrón: Intervals – Benrubi Gallery
Through November 26, 2025

Xan Padrón, Hudson Square, NYC, 2023. From the Time Lapse series. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, New York.

Benrubi Gallery’s debut exhibition with Galician photographer Xan Padrón features his Time Lapse series, meditating on people and place through motion and stillness. Each image captures the rhythm of city life—an unfolding portrait of time in public spaces. The gallery also highlights artists Alia Ali, Corinne Botz, and Christopher Payne, each exploring identity, industry, and domestic space.

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Toulouse, France
Le Nouveau Printemps 2026 – Conceived by Rossy de Palma
May 29 – June 28, 2026

Rossy de Palma by Manuel Outumuro, 1994–2017. Courtesy of Le Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse. © Manuel Outumuro.

Spanish artist and actress Rossy de Palma curates the next edition of Le Nouveau Printemps, transforming Toulouse’s Marengo, Bonnefoy, and Jolimont neighborhoods into open-air stages for visual and performing arts. The festival celebrates cultural exchange and creative freedom, continuing its mission to merge art, community, and civic life.

lenouveauprintemps.com  | Instagram @le_nouveau_printemps

Brussels, Belgium
Sanam Khatibi: I Miscalculated the Stars – Rodolphe Janssen Gallery
November 6 – December 20, 2025

Sanam Khatibi, I Miscalculated the Stars, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels.

Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi unveils intimate paintings that blend humor, ritual, and primal instinct. Her small-format works depict nude figures in surreal landscapes, evoking medieval illumination and myth. Through spontaneity and symbolism, Khatibi examines vulnerability, intuition, and the ritual of creation.

rodolphejanssen.com  | Instagram @rodolphejanssen

London, United Kingdom
Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light – The National Gallery
November 20, 2025 – February 15, 2026

Edwin Austin Abbey, Study for “The Hours”, c. 1909–1911. Oil on canvas, 381 cm diameter. Yale University Art Gallery, Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection.

The National Gallery presents the first major U.K. exhibition dedicated to American painter Edwin Austin Abbey. Centered on The Hours—his vast ceiling mural for the Pennsylvania State Capitol—the exhibition revisits Abbey’s late career and his enduring friendship with John Singer Sargent. Sketches and studies reveal the vision behind his luminous allegory of time and renewal.

nationalgallery.org.uk  | Instagram @nationalgallery

Columbus, Ohio
Artemisia Gentileschi: Naples to Beirut – Columbus Museum of Art
October 31, 2025 – May 31, 2026

Artemisia Gentileschi, Bathsheba, c. 1636–1637. Oil on canvas. Museum Purchase, Schumacher Fund. Courtesy of Columbus Museum of Art.

Following its unveiling at the Getty Museum, Artemisia Gentileschi’s restored Hercules and Omphale travels to Columbus. The exhibition reunites the work with Bathsheba and Lucretia, illuminating Gentileschi’s Neapolitan period. Through myth and mastery, the show celebrates her artistic resilience and rediscovery as one of the Baroque era’s most powerful voices.

columbusmuseum.org  | Instagram @columbusmuseum

Hong Kong
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Gama – Empty Gallery
Through November 15, 2025

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Gama, 2025. Installation view, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong. Courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery. © Felix S.C. Wong.

At Empty Gallery, Los Angeles–based artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork transforms sound and space into a haunting sensory experience. Gama merges acoustic sculpture with historical reflection, exploring Okinawa’s cultural memory through ceramic and sonic forms. The installation investigates trauma, echo, and the tension between silence and resonance.

emptygallery.com  | Instagram @emptygallery.hk

Art in Motion: A Global Conversation

Across continents, these exhibitions reveal how artists past and present engage with identity, memory, and materiality. Whether tracing van culture through Los Angeles and Houston streets, revisiting Baroque heroines, or listening to echoes from Okinawa’s caves, the shows in this November Art Guide 2025 remind us that art remains a mirror of human experience—one that shifts with every generation and place it inhabits.

Read our Miami Art Week Guide 2025.

Lisa Morales

Lisa Morales is the owner of Allegory PR Services and founder of Live in Italy Magazine. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Live in Italy Magazine. She is a Contributing Editor for Widewalls, and a Contributor for Impact Wealth Magazine, Food Wine Travel magazine, Culture Trip, and La Ceramica in Italia e nel Mondo. Lisa’s “beats” are the visual arts, food and wine, Art Basel Miami and other South Florida art fairs and art exhibitions. Seeking solace from her PR and marketing life, Lisa cooks and blogs about her food and wine pairing adventures. She is WSET 2 Certified with Distinction.

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