The Photography Show 2026 introduced by AIPAD

©Patty Carroll, Hell’s Kitchen, 2025 Exhibited on the CATHERINE COUTURIER Gallery, Houston, TX

Every 12 months in April, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD options exhibitors from around the globe bringing traditionally vital and formally progressive work. The occasion will happen April 22-26, 2026 on the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.  The truthful continues The Photography Show’s lengthy standing dedication to deepening the collective understanding of pictures’s historical past whereas spotlighting a number of the most dynamic examples of latest experimentation.

©Lou Peralta, Disassemble #23, Disassemble Series II, 2018 Exhibited on the OBSCURA GALLERY, Santa Fe, NM

The Photography Show showcases distinctive shows by members of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), together with visitor exhibitors and galleries new to the truthful. The 2026 iteration of the truthful marks the solidification of AIPAD’s standing because the market chief in pictures and the crystallization of The Photography Show as a benchmark occasion for the exhibition of pictures. After a number of years of refinement, The Photography Show has now reached its optimum measurement, one that permits it to most successfully form, assist, and advocate for the sphere of pictures in all of its historic and modern permutations.

©Melanie Willhide, Dull Drought Distanced Dear,2020 Exhibited on the VON LINTEL GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA

AIPAD is worked up to welcome new exhibitors, reminiscent of Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France; Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY and San Antonio, TX and Leica Gallery New York, alongside these returning to the truthful, reminiscent of Augusta Edwards Fine Art, London, United Kingdom; IBASHO, Antwerp, Belgium and Rolf Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A defining function of this 12 months’s truthful is the growing gender parity amongst new and established galleries alike, with over a 3rd of all exhibitors being women-led, based or each. Regularly overlapping with this progress and diversification in exhibitors is the prominence of Latin American pictures within the packages of member galleries, one thing that shall be mirrored within the programming of the truthful.

©Bill Hayes, Child in a Mask, Exhibited at CLAMP ART, New York, NY

AIPAD is proud to welcome again Lead Cultural Partner MUUS, whose partnership will permit The Photography Show to function an eclectic mixture of illuminating and celebratory occasions. Four days of AIPAD Talks, hosted by thought leaders within the arts and tradition house, shall be accompanied by insightful walkthroughs and academic occasions. The celebration of the celebrated AIPAD Award, introduced yearly to a pioneer in the neighborhood, recognizing them for altering the methods we understand pictures, in addition to the AIPAD Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring the legacies of photographic icons, will happen throughout the brand new Opening Night Party on Wednesday, April 22. For the primary time, the Aperture Portfolio Prize shall be awarded on the truthful, with all 5 finalists taking part in a gaggle exhibition organized by Aperture at AIPAD in addition to an AIPAD Talks program that includes the finalists.

©Fabiola Menchelli, Triangle, 2025 Exhibited by MARSHALL GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA

FOCAL POINT SECTOR

AIPAD is worked up to introduce Focal Point, a brand new solo presentation sector for The Photography Show 2026. Focal Point will spotlight galleries and artists centered on lens-based pictures and is designed to showcase how artists have traditionally expanded our collective understanding of what pictures is and the way modern artists proceed to indicate us what it may change into. Designed in a dynamic format to create contemporary sightlines and conversations by Oficina.la, the famend woman-led Mexico City and Los Angeles based mostly structure agency, Focal Point is a revelatory technique to exhibit highly effective concepts and creative practices within the iconic Park Avenue Armory. By selling singular and very important voices in an creative manner, AIPAD affirms its dedication to supporting the following era of galleries and photographers, whereas providing collectors, curators and the general public the chance to find the people who’re shaping each the previous, current and the way forward for the medium.

©Sophie Zénon, Deliciosa, 2025, Exhibited at GALLERIE XII, Paris, France and Los Angeles, CA

2026 EXHIBITORS

MAIN GALLERY SECTOR

nineteenth Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop | New York, NY
Alta | Anyós, Andorra
Augusta Edwards Fine Art | London, UK
Bildhalle | Zurich, Switzerland | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bruce Silverstein | New York, NY
Catherine Couturier Gallery | Houston, TX
Cavalier Galleries | New York, NY | Greenwich, CT | Nantucket, MA | Palm Beach, FL
Charles Isaacs Photographs | New York, NY
CLAMP | New York, NY
Curatorial Gallery | London, United Kingdom
Daniel / Oliver Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
Danziger Gallery | New York, NY
Deborah Bell Photographs | New York, NY
Echo Fine Arts | Cannes, France
Edwynn Houk Gallery | New York, NY
Form. Gallery | Dinard, France
Galerie Olivier Waltman | Miami, FL | Paris, France
Galerie XII | Los Angeles, CA | Paris, France
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker | Paris, France
Gana Art | Seoul, South Korea | Los Angeles, CA
Gilman Contemporary | Ketchum, ID
Gitterman Gallery | New York, NY
Gregory Leroy Photographs | Madrid, Spain
HackelBury | London, United Kingdom
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. | New York, NY
Higher Pictures | Brooklyn, NY
Holden Luntz | Palm Beach, FL
Howard Greenberg Gallery | New York, NY
The Hulett Collection | Tulsa, OK
IBASHO | Antwerp, Belgium
Ilaria Quadrani Fine Art | New York, NY
IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO | Antwerp, Belgium
INTHEGALLERY | Copenhagen, Denmark | Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jackson Fine Art | Atlanta, GA
Janet Borden Inc. | Brooklyn, NY
jdc Fine Art | San Diego, CA
Keith de Lellis Gallery | New York, NY
La Galerie de l’Instant | Paris, FR
LARGE GLASS | London, UK
Leica Gallery New York | New York, NY
Marshall Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Michael Hoppen | London, United Kingdom
Michael Shapiro Photographs | Westport, CT
Momentum | Miami, FL
Monroe Gallery of Photography | Santa Fe, NM
Nailya Alexander Gallery | New York, NY
Obscura Gallery | Santa Fe, NM
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. | San Francisco, CA
POLKA Galerie | Paris, France
Rick Wester Fine Art | New York, NY
Robert Klein Gallery | Boston, MA
Robert Koch Gallery | San Francisco, CA
Robert Mann Gallery | New York, NY
Rolf Gallery | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ruiz-Healy Art | New York, NY | San Antonio, TX
Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. | Santa Fe, NM
Scott Nichols Gallery | Sonoma, CA
Staley-Wise Gallery | New York, NY
Stephen Bulger Gallery | Toronto, ON
Stephen Daiter Gallery | Chicago, IL
Throckmorton Fine Art | New York, NY
Toluca Fine Art | Paris, France
Vasari | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Von Lintel Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Yancey Richardson | New York, NY

FOCAL POINT SECTOR

Be Fine Art Gallery | Chiayi and Taipei City, Taiwan | Artist: Hsu-Pin Lee
C + C Gallery | New York, Nantucket, and Palm Beach | Artist: Dean West
Central Server Works | Los Angeles, CA | Artist: Lenard Smith
Duncan Miller Gallery | Los Angeles, CA | Artist: Jacqueline Woods
ELLEPHANT | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Artist: JJ Levine
Glaz Gallery | Moscow, Russia | Artist: Zhenya Mironov
Galerie Catherine et André Hug | Paris, France | Artist: Susan Burnstine
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs | New York, NY | Artist: Ray Mortenson
LAS Contemporary | Nashville, TN | Artist: Chrissy Lush
Proyecto CALLE | Buenos Aires, AR
ROLAND BELGRAVE | Brighton, UK | Artist: Baud Postma
SoMad | New York, NY | Artist: Yi Hsuan Lai
Thomas Erben Gallery | New York, NY | Artist: Olivia Reavey

About AIPAD
Organized in 1979, AIPAD, with its international membership throughout six continents, is the collective skilled voice for tremendous artwork pictures sellers. Through its acclaimed schooling initiative, AIPAD Talks, and its flagship occasion, The Photography Show, the group enhances the arrogance of the general public, museums, establishments and others in accountable tremendous artwork pictures gathering. Presented by AIPAD, The Photography Show is the longest-running exhibition devoted to the photographic medium on the planet.