Congratulations to Gallery Onetwentyeight on their 40th Anniversary Opening celebration November 7. 5:00-7:00-22, 2026. Details Below!

Gallery Onetwentyeight's  anniversary exhibition featuring artists Kazuko Miyamoto runs Nov. 7-22,2026

Welcome to the Neighborhood: Forty Years of Gallery Onetwentyeight  A group exhibition celebrating the gallery's 40th anniversary.  November 7 - 22, 2026  Friday - Sunday, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM    Welcome to the Neighborhood: Forty Years of Gallery Onetwentyeight brings together more than forty artists who have had long relationships with the gallery and its founder, artist Kazuko Miyamoto. An opening celebration will be held on Saturday, November 7, from 5-7 pm. Miyamoto established the lower east side gallery before the building was modernized. At the time, the space still had beautiful ceramic tile floors and tin ceiling tiles. Miyamoto learned of its availability in 1986 through her old friend Richard Armijo, proprietor of a bookstore next door.    More than simply a static place to exhibit art, Gallery Onetwentyeight was a hub and a touchstone for Kazuko’s broader connectivity with art and artists. She and some artists built Sol LeWitt sculptures there. They walked from Rivington Street to Soho galleries to install or repair LeWitt works. Kazuko packed up gallery artworks, including her own, and took them to Europe for exchange exhibitions. At times Kazuko used the space as her studio. Always, it was a locus for creation, thought, gathering and conversation. Her natural inclination was toward inclusivity. Everyone was welcome and she gave innumerable artists an opportunity to show their work.  After forty years, it is difficult to separate Gallery Onetwentyeight from Kazuko’s life as an artist. It was her lifelong project: a space that has continued to evolve through art, friendship, work, travel, and community.    The exhibition features works by Angela Valeria, April Vollmer, Akemi Takeda, Amir Bay, Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart, Carol Salmanson, Chris Craig, Chris Passehl, Christopher Knowles, Cristián Pietrapiana, David Higginbotham, Eiji Matsukubo, Eric Ginsburg, Fumio Yamaguchi, Gerald Jackson, Haruko Mochimaru, Howard McCalebb, Hugh Burckhardt, Ilona Pachler, Jacek Maczynski, Janet Passehl, Jefre Harwoods, John Hogan, Joan Criswell, Kaitlin Martin, Katsumi Suzuki, Kazuko Hyakuda, Kikunobu Ozaki, Kotatsu Iwata, Leela Ramotar, Maxwell Stevens, Mieko Mitachi, Nancy Linn, Olivia Beens, Orestes Gonzalez, Orin Buck, Paul Fischnaller, Ptah Miller, Richard Armijo, Sanae M Buck, Sante Scardillo, Sol LeWitt, Sylvia Netzer, Sumayyah Samaha, Taku Arita, Todd Ayoung, Toki Ozaki, Toyo Tsuchiya, Vernita Nemec, Yoshiko Chuma, and Kazuko Miyamoto.

Kazuko Miyamoto was born in Tokyo in 1942 and moved to New York City in 1968. That same year, she moved into her first studio at 117 Hester Street on the Lower East Side, a building also occupied by Adrian Piper and Sol LeWitt. Miyamoto and LeWitt met during a fire-alarm in the neighborhood one night. They soon became collaborators, with Miyamoto fabricating LeWitt's early Open Cube Structures and executing his early Wall Drawings, including those exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 1971. In 1972, Miyamoto became an early member of New York’s A.I.R. Gallery, the first nonprofit all-women artist collective in the United States. She held five solo exhibitions there and co-curated two group shows. In 1986 she founded Gallery Onetwentyeight at 128 Rivington Street, the longest continuously operating gallery on the Lower East Side. Miyamoto’s art is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton), National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto) ,Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D. C.), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven), and the Daimler Art Collection (Berlin), among others.

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