BARELY FAIR 2025 is the 5th edition of our tiny fair. 24 exhibitors will be joining us in a return to the white cube origin. To see documentation of past editions, visit our PAST section, or look through SPOTLIGHT to see past exhibitors and the artists they presented.
We will be updating this page with new exhibitors and launch this year's SPOTLIGHT before BARELY FAIR 2025 opens on APRIL 22nd.
Chicago Art Book Fair
Chicago
062
Chicago
Named after local zip code in Gwangju, South Korea, 062 is a non-profit art gallery in Chicago and is committed to the promotion of global art discourse. 062 is an open platform for international artists and cultural organizations. 062 supports the work of emerging and established artists through the dissemination of ideas, actions and conversations, and experimental exhibition formats.
56 Henry
New York City
56 Henry, founded in 2013 by Eleanor Rines, is a New York-based gallery representing fourteen emerging and mid-career artists. Through its commitment to installational exhibitions, special edition print portfolios, and publications 56 Henry engages with national and international contemporary art historical canon. The gallery has two locations, 56 Henry Street and 105 Henry Street in New York’s Chinatown.
april april
Pittsburgh
april april is an art gallery located in the Regent Square neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the borough of Wilkinsburg. The gallery represents and exhibits a comprehensive range of practices with an artist-driven curatorial sensibility. It was founded by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi in 2021. april april is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
Cleaner Gallery + Projects
Chicago
Cleaner Gallery + Projects is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Starting off as artist studios with a window gallery, Cleaner now houses 2 galleries showing contemporary solo and group shows. We are committed to exhibiting artists who want to put on serious shows. We still have artist studios and a half pipe.
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.
free range
Chicago
free range is an artist's run space in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, Started in 2013 as a studio and project space, free range provides a gallery and performance space for artists of all stages in their career to experiment with new ideas and expand ways of thinking about and presenting their practice. Artists are given free rein to explore alternative methods of examining and challenging exhibition modes for their work.
Good Naked Gallery
New York City
Titled after a Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s girlfriend attempts to open a pickle jar and fix a bike in the buff, 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.
hardboiled
Chicago
hardboiled is an artist-run space located 7 inches away from a Wicker Park apartment kitchen in Chicago. The curatorial parameters focus on conceptual and material artistic practices with immediacy. Through monthly, back-to-back two-person exhibitions of early and mid-career artists, hardboiled intends to be a platform for the possibilities of group work. We offer artists, scholars, and writers an option to connect, converse, and collaborate.
ILY2
Portland
Founded in 2020, ILY2 takes an experimental approach to working with emerging and mid-career artists to produce exhibitions, editions, projects, and fair presentations. The team grounds the program and its focused support of artists in decades of gallery, advisory, collections, and curatorial experience. ILY2’s 1,660 sq. ft. gallery is located in Portland’s Pearl District.
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
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.
Patel Brown
Toronto & Montréal
Patel Brown highlights alternative perspectives and encourages experimentation and innovation in both its programming and operations. Identifying gaps in representation and opportunities guided by collaboration and community; the gallery’s program looks to traditions in culture and identity, and how they are increasingly challenged by the globalized world.
Patient Info
Chicago
PATIENT INFO is an artist run space based in Chicago. Founded in 2019 and operating in a former dermatology office, the space allows for re-contextualization and risk taking across media. Exhibitions at Patient Info are a collaborative exercise, creating an opportunity for artists to engage in the curatorial process while showcasing their work.
P.A.D.
New York City
P.A.D. 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 is the leading space for contemporary art in the rapidly transforming city of Nashville, TN. Our dynamic program responds to the global art scene, featuring a diverse representation of artists. A significant platform for bold exhibitions locally and at select global fairs, Red Arrow values advocating for artists in the South and beyond.
Tala
Chicago
Founded in 2024, Tala is a contemporary art gallery and center for curatorial practice, research, and gathering. As Chicago’s only commercial gallery with a public library study center and atrium gathering space, Tala’s distinctive architectural floorplan fosters a dynamic, discursive platform that offers an alternative model for experimentation and resilient 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.