
Exhibitions & Events


Infinite Thread
Infinite Thread: Thorbjørn Bechmann, Maja Dlugolecki, & Kenny Nguyen
March 31 - May 7, 2022
508 West 28th Street, New York, NY

Lucas Bononi: The Forest

Valeri Larko: Hidden in Plain Sight

SUNRISE: Daniela Astone

Artist-in-Residence: Lauren Matsumoto

HL9 x Sugarlift Artist Residency 2021

Flora Nova: Painting Nature Now

Post Painterly Now

Artist-In-Residence Spring 2021: Jon Legere
Come see Jon at work in his gallery-converted-studio through June 28th!
P.S. you can leave his studio with a piece of unique artwork for yourself... for free!

Zoey Frank: Summer Paintings

Give Me Some Skin

Artist-In-Residence Spring 2021

Memento Mori

Nicolas V. Sanchez: Charcoal

The Blue Review Art Prize

Compendium: Timothy Powers Wilson

Exit Point: Angela Gram and Lydia Baker

Artists-In-Residence Winter 2020

Artist-In-Residence Fall 2020: Annesta Le

-American

Plein Air

Sound & Color

Nicolas V. Sanchez Unveiling & Fundraiser
Join us on September 24th at 7:00PM sharp!
Register and donate to RAICES to get your Zoom link.

Still
Still: A Survey of Contemporary Still Life Paintings, presented by Sugarlift, examines contemporary artists from a variety of schools working in the still life genre.

Birds for Sofia

HL9 Artist Residency

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BLM Art Benefit

BIOPHILIA

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Plein Air Prospect Park
Sep 7, 2019
Painting, picnics and parasols! For our annual artist get together, we took over Prospect Park to paint en plein air, as Monet would say...

Mother and Child Vol. II
July 15, 2019
Mother & Child was a literal blockbuster! With over sixty artists participating and Colossal co-sponsoring, we raised $15,000 to support immigrant children and separated families.

Market Art + Design 2019
July 5-7, 2019
We brought Nicolas V. Sanchez's paintings and ballpoint pen drawings (oh yeah, and the artist himself) to the jam-packed Market Art + Design event in the Hamptons.

Call Me When You Get This
April 25, 2019
An exhibition and artist panel featuring the bold, non-referential paintings of Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo, Danica Lundy and Jacob Brooks.

Sugarlift at TED2019
April 15-19, 2019
Sugarlift presented "1000 Paintings in Your Pocket" at the TED conference in Vancouver, BC to offer previews of paintings by emerging artists in augmented reality.

Adam Lupton's "Telos"
Feb 23 - Mar 16, 2019
A baptism, a drowning: When context is stripped, the vulgarity and violence of the ritual is exposed. Layers of dirt, sand, wax and paint energize the struggle between persons and submersion. - Adam Lupton

Art on Paper 2019
March 7-10, 2019
Sugarlift's solo booth for Nicolas V. Sanchez at the Art on Paper fair featured his exquisite ballpoint pen drawings.

Sketchbook Vol. I
Jan 19 - Feb 16, 2019
Sketchbook Vol. 1 is more than a show. It's a rare chance to flip through masters' sketchbooks yourself and see where art starts.

DRAW the Subway
August 25, 2018
Sugarlift and NYC Artists Took Over the 2nd Avenue Subway and Raised over $2,000 for Young New Yorkers!

Mother and Child
July 9, 2018
With your help, we raised (and are still raising!) enough work to send $2000+ to each of our four partners that provide aid and services to separated immigrant families.

Sugarlift Open Studios
May 6 -7, 2017
Sugarlift Open Studios was an exhibition in downtown Manhattan featuring new and unfinished works by 24 NYC-based artists.

Art on Paper 2018
March 8-11, 2018
We are featuring works on paper by 25 New York artists, exploring similarities in the visual vocabulary across the figurative–abstract spectrum.

We Drink To Draw
August 12, 2016
On Thursday night, Sugarlift partnered with ballpoint artists Guno Park and Nicolas V. Sanchez for an evening of figure drawing at WeWork NoMad. We had a blast.

Market Art + Design
July 7-10, 2016
Sugarlift made the trip from the city and ventured over to the Hamptons this weekend for the Market Art + Design fair in Bridgehampton.

Draw the High Line
June 22, 2016
Over 200 artists--from kids to the more seasoned among us--took over the High Line to sketch and receive some feedback from our host artists.

Affordable Art Fair NYC 2016

Guno Park presents "Ballpoint"
We were blown away by everyone who came out to last Friday's opening of "Ballpoint" here at Sugarlift. A huge thanks goes out to Braven Brewing, Guno Park, and all of the artists involved in the show. If you couldn't...

Lizzie Gill's "Textpectations"
We don't want to be cliché, so we definitely WON'T say that Lizzie Gill's solo show "exceeded our Textpectations". But just know that we could. It was awesome celebrating Lizzie and her work on Friday night here at Sugarlift, with...

Jon Legere's "Maelstrom"
In the midst of the craziest storm we've seen out in Bushwick for a while, last Friday we hosted the opening for Jon Legere's solo show "Maelstrom" (the irony of the show's title was not lost on us). Guests braved...