BARELY FAIR 2026 presents many new first-time exhibitors, past-participants, and a friendly return to repeating partners. Our second year after returning to Julius Caesar will be adding to this year's exhibitors in the coming days.
To see past fairs and exhibitors, visit the past section on the menu bar.
Ackerman Clarke
Chicago
Named for and dedicated to two inspiring Grandmothers, Ackerman Clarke is an evolving endeavor committed to the sales, promotion, and further development of select contemporary visual art. Initiated in the Fall of 2019 by John Schmid, the Chicago-based pursuit expands on thirteen years in the field and seeks to hybridize expected and innovative models of presentation and brokerage.
Chris Sharp Gallery
Los Angeles
Chris Sharp Gallery opened in Los Angeles in January, 2021. Founded by writer, curator and co-founder of Lulu, Mexico City, Chris Sharp, the gallery is focused on a mixture of emerging, mid-career and overlooked or historically neglected artists. With a strong core of artists based in LA, the gallery also represents a number of positions on the East Coast, the UK, and Europe.
DK Collection
Chicago
DK Collection, located in Chicago, contains works of artists, performers, and writers from different countries and different backgrounds including Europe—especially Poland—and representing South America, Mexico, Africa, USA, and other international regions. A hallmark of the collection is a focus on language.
Essex Flowers
New York City
Essex Flowers is a New York City based artist-run cooperative gallery founded in 2013. Over the past decade, the collective has mounted over 100 projects and exhibitions, with a focus on emerging and contemporary art. Originally housed in the basement of an eponymous flower shop on Grand Street, Essex Flowers reopened in 2016 in a storefront gallery at 19 Monroe Street, situated at the intersection of Chinatown, Two Bridges, and the Lower East Side.
Fundacja Art House
Olesnica, Poland
Fundacja Art House is an artist-run initiative presenting a diverse and experimental program of contemporary art. It operates as a peripatetic laboratory rethinking ideas of periphery and center-- reflecting on small-town culture in Poland, Europe (and the world). The foundation supports art and culture through exhibitions, performances, residencies, and community projects that encourage intercultural exchange, mobility, and artistic research.
Galerie Noah Klink x Good Weather
Galerie Noah Klink and Good Weather are presenting works by Irina Jasnowski Pascual.
Founded in 2017, Galerie Noah Klink represents nine international contemporary artists working across painting, installation, sculpture, writing and performance. The program brings together distinct practices united by conceptual and intuitive approaches, creating an aesthetic marked by tension and timelessness. Through exhibitions, collaborations and participation in fairs such as Frieze London and Art Basel, the gallery expands its international presence.
Good Weather is a contemporary art gallery from North Little Rock, Arkansas founded in 2011 in a one-car suburban garage. The gallery formed through a familial approach and from a desire to seed, locate, and bring contemporary art discourse to Arkansas. Since 2016, Good Weather has presented exhibitions and auxiliary programming through a commercial gallery infrastructure with current locations in Chicago, Illinois and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Good Naked Gallery
New York City
Good Naked (New York, NY) is a roving exhibition program curated by Jaqueline Cedar. Titled after a Seinfeld episode, it is with levity and sincerity that Good Naked’s programming hovers around the intimate and awkward. The focus is on work that engages tactility, humor, movement, and play. Good Naked's exhibitions are responsive and generative, prioritizing space for new voices and dialogue amongst contemporary artists.
Good Weather
North Little Rock & Chicago
Good Weather is a contemporary art gallery from North Little Rock, Arkansas founded in 2011 in a one-car suburban garage. The gallery formed through a familial approach and from a desire to seed, locate, and bring contemporary art discourse to Arkansas. Since 2016, Good Weather has presented exhibitions and auxiliary programming through a commercial gallery infrastructure with current locations in Chicago, Illinois and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Gordon Robichaux
New York, New York
Gordon Robichaux is a gallery and curatorial agency that nurtures and promotes underrecognized and emerging artists and offers new perspectives on established artists. Gordon Robichaux develops and presents exhibitions, performances, readings, publications, and multiples; supports artists with special projects; works closely with nonprofit organizations; and participates in art fairs to cultivate new audiences.
Harlesden High Street
London
Harlesden High Street is a POC run experimental space founded with the mission of facilitating access between experimental/outsider artists and the traditional gallery system, hosting only people of colour and giving a platform to those who lack access, bridging social and cultural gaps against the homogeny found in contemporary art.
Jack Barrett
New York City
Jack Barrett has focused on showcasing emerging artists working across diverse multidisciplinary practices. First opening in the Lower East Side, the gallery has since relocated to a storefront in Tribeca, where it continues to develop the practices of a roster of represented artists, along with fostering newly emergent voices in contemporary art. Today, the gallery maintains regular programming and participates yearly in art fairs.
Julius Caesar
Chicago
Julius Caesar (JC) is an independent artist collective founded in Chicago's East Garfield neighborhood. Supporting Chicago’s contemporary art scene outside the commercial gallery ecosystem since 2008, JC began as a Sunday afternoon showcase of SAIC students, graduates and teachers. JC has since evolved in leadership and scope, regularly exhibiting national and international artists, and founding BARELY FAIR in 2019.
Junior. Gallery
Chicago
Junior. Gallery, founded in spring 2025, is an artist-run space dedicated to supporting underrepresented artists, and amplifying voices often overlooked in the art world. Providing a platform for experimentation and innovation, while offering artists the opportunity to exhibit works that don't fit into a mold.
Founded by Mat Mancini, Noël Morical, and Nick Schuzenhofer, Junior. Gallery is rooted in Chicago’s DIY artist-run tradition; and we’re here to give you the good shit.
LANDLINE
Chicago
LANDLINE is a Chicago-based curatorial project by artist Robert Chase Heishman that presents thought-provoking texts and sound works by contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers. Contributors provide an original piece of writing or text that is displayed on an LED sign in an apartment window, and an audio work that is accessible via +1 866-LND-LINE.
Laura (the Gallery)
Houston
Laura (the gallery) is a curatorially driven project space based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2022 by New York–transplant Laura Burton, the gallery fosters dialogue between an international network of artists and the cultural landscape of Texas. Its program spans emerging, mid-career, and historically overlooked artists, with a particular focus on practices rooted in New York and the broader East Coast, Texas, Latin America, and Asia.
MARCH
New York City
MARCH is a curatorial platform and gallery operating at the intersection of visual art and social justice. Founded in October 2020 by Phillip March Jones, the gallery presents artworks in a variety of formats and settings — online, in collaboration with other institutions, and at off-site locations — with the aim of amplifying the voices and showcasing the talents of under-recognized artists.
THE MISSION PROJECTS
Chicago
THE MISSION PROJECTS champions emerging and mid-career artists from the United States and Latin America through an itinerant exhibition program spanning galleries, alternative project spaces, pop-up exhibitions, and art fairs. Its latest initiative, THE RESIDENCE, a residential exhibition space in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, advances this mission by showcasing contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on Latin American practices.
Galerie Noah Klink
Berlin
Founded in 2017, Galerie Noah Klink represents nine international contemporary artists working across painting, installation, sculpture, writing and performance. The program brings together distinct practices united by conceptual and intuitive approaches, creating an aesthetic marked by tension and timelessness. Through exhibitions, collaborations and participation in fairs such as Frieze London and Art Basel, the gallery expands its international presence.
Olney Gleason
New York City
Olney Gleason was founded by Nicholas Olney and Eric Gleason in 2025. Across two locations in Chelsea, New York, the gallery presents exhibitions that bring international contemporary artists into dialogue with practices that have shaped the last century of art history. Spanning generations and media, the program is grounded in the gallery’s commitment to long-term artist representation and highly-researched exhibitions.
Ortega y Gasset Projects
Brooklyn
Ortega y Gasset Projects came together as an artist-run space in Brooklyn, NY in April 2013. OyG is entirely run by working artists, who recognize that exploration is key to artistic vitality. We embrace an exploratory model where artists take the role of curator, critic and promoter. The goal of OyG is to mount exhibitions that support under-represented, and emerging artists, provoke dialogue and bolster the artistic community.
OSMOS
New York City & Stamford, NY
OSMOS began in 1997 in Berlin and was re-established in 2012 as platform for curatorial and editorial activities with locations in New York City and the Western Catskills.
OSMOS has developed a particular expertise in handling artists’ estates and reintroducing historic positions, especially constructivist tendencies, photography, and works by women artists. OSMOS also works with younger artists that reinvigorate historic legacies we champion.
P.A.D.
New York City
P.A.D. [Project Art Distribution] is an art exhibition space in historic SoHo (South of Houston) Arts District in New York City. It reflects the bustling economy of artists making, selling and promoting their artworks on the street year-round, weather permitting. The aim of the space is to platform small and editioned works by artists that are interested in embracing new contexts for exhibiting.
Red Arrow
Nashville
Red Arrow was founded in 2006 in Joshua Tree, California, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2014. Beginning with bold roots in the desert, the gallery has since become a cornerstone of Nashville’s contemporary art scene.
With a program rooted in collaboration, care, and rigor, Red Arrow is committed to building artists' careers, fostering relationships, and putting Nashville and its artists on the international map.
ro art services
Chicago
ro art services combines components of an art advisory and artist agency, providing collectors direct access to contemporary art inventory and artists with gallery representation services. Curatorial programming and object-forward presentations include art fair and gallery exhibitions in New York and Chicago. Often partnering with galleries for exhibitions of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, RAS’s collaborative model is built on a foundation of mutual investment.
Romance
Pittsburgh
Romance is a gallery dedicated to the work, development, and discourse of emerging and contemporary artists from across the U.S. and internationally, alongside cross-generational narratives and underrecognized art historical figures. The gallery was founded in 2023 by writer Margaret Kross in the basement of a Pittsburgh apartment with an ethos of risk-taking and intimacy that continues to shape its exhibitions and critical frameworks.
Tala
Chicago
Founded in 2024 by Francine Almeda, Tala (Tagalog for “bright star”) is a contemporary art gallery with a library and atrium gathering space. Its distinctive architectural floor plan proposes an alternative gallery model that supports experimental, subversive, and future-facing art practices.
Western Exhibitions
Chicago
Western Exhibitions shows thought-provoking and visually innovative artists who work across most media, with an emphasis on personal narratives and cosmologies; LGBTQ and feminist issues; pattern and surface concerns; works on paper; and artist books. The gallery presents unique artist projects, curated group shows and maintains a specific inventory of artist books and multiples, gathered together as a sister entity and store, WesternXeditions.