80 Washington Square East, NYU

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80 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST
NEW YORK, NY 10003

Public Hours:
Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM

80wse@nyu.edu
+1 (212) 998-5747


80WSE does not accept unsolicited exhibition proposals or artist submissions, and we cannot respond to or return unsolicited material.
Founded in 1974, 80 Washington Square East, NYU is a not-for-profit gallery presenting contemporary and historical exhibitions. The gallery exhibits in two further locations, at Broadway Windows at Broadway and East 10th Street, and Washington Square Windows, next to the gallery.

Each spring, the gallery hosts MFA Thesis exhibitions from students of the Department of Art and Art Professions in New York University’s Steinhardt School. 80 Washington Square East resides in the historic Benedick building (below, c. 1925) at Washington Square Park, originally commissioned in 1879 by iron manufacturer and Metropolitan Museum trustee, Lucius Tuckerman. The building once contained the studios of painters Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham.

Black and white photograph showing the facade of the Benedick Building in 1925.
Director:
Howie Chen

Registrar:
Jon Huron

Preparators:
Olivia Andrews  
Kiyomi Taylor

Photographer:
Carter Seddon

Curatorial assistants:
Erika Airikh
Ariel He

Past directors:
Nicola Lees, 2017–2020
Jonathan Berger, 2013–2016
Peter Campus, 2009–2012