Screens Series: Umi Ishihara at the New Museum

The New Museum, at 235 Bowery on the Lower East Side, is presenting Screens Series: Umi Ishihara from September 24, 2026 through January 31, 2027. The program puts the Japanese artist Umi Ishihara in front of New York audiences.

Screens Series is the museum's program devoted to artists working with the moving image and the screen. Each installment centers on a single artist, and this one is given to Ishihara.

Ishihara is an artist based in Japan. Solo presentations of Japanese artists in New York are not frequent, so the show is a useful chance for readers who already know her work, and for those encountering her name for the first time, to see it in person.

The New Museum is easy to spot on the Bowery, with its distinctive stacked-box architecture. It sits well within a day of gallery visits and walks around the Lower East Side. The run extends into late January 2027, which leaves plenty of flexibility for planning a visit.

For visitors in New York this season who want a current look at contemporary art with a Japanese connection, this is a worthwhile stop.