US Art Spaces Shutter Nationwide in Support of General Strike Protesting ICE
35Jan. 30, 2026
Art spaces across the US and abroad will go dark tomorrow, Friday, January 30, in support of a nationwide general strike in protest of Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity across the country, especially in Minnesota. The state in recent weeks has seen nearly 3,000 agents deployed in its streets by the Trump administration in an anti-immigration crackdown. In the course of these actions, federal agents have killed two US citizens in Minneapolis: Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent on January 7, and Jeffrey Pretti, who was shot by DHS agents on January 24.
The general strike was initiated by the decentralized grassroots movementNational Shutdown. A continuation of the statewide January 23 strike instituted in Minnesota by a local chapter of the progressive organizationIndivisible, the shutdown is intended to cause economic pain and to free participants from their daily roles to demonstrate against the federal occupation of American cities. Though the decision to close—especially on a Friday, when many galleries increasingly hold openings—may be a costly one, those shuttering deemed it essential to do so.
“It’s a simple but important act of solidarity,” Cristin Tierney, owner of the New York gallery of the same name, told Artforum. “We want the citizens of Minnesota and immigrants all across this country to know they are not alone. Our artists, our staff, our community—we are all standing with them. We are all Minnesotans now.”
The many galleries closing in New York include young operations such as Manhattan’s Blade Study and Queens’s Mrs.; midsize operations like Bortolami and Magenta Plains; and stalwarts such as Greene Naftali, Peter Blum, Pace, and Marian Goodman. In LA, The Pit, Regen Projects, and Vielmetter announced their solidarity with the strike. In Portland, Oregon, Adams and Ollman did the same; David B. Smith Gallery will go dark in Denver, while Corbett vs Dempsey and Document will shutter in Chicago. Some nonprofits will close their doors as well, among them New York’s White Columns; Brooklyn, NY’s A.I.R. Gallery; Newark, New Jersey’s Project for Empty Space; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
The general strike has its supporters in Europe, too, with Bern, Switzerland’s Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick and Paris’s Bridgette Muholland announcing they would shutter for the day. “I’m an American immigrant living in France,” wrote Mulholland, the Paris gallery’s owner, in an Instagram post. “I grew up in New York, proud to live in the great melting pot. My ancestors fled there to escape famine, persecution, war. . . .The gallery will be closed tomorrow in solidarity, and I will not be spending any money with US companies as well.”
Below is a partial list of January 30 strike closures, as announced on Instagram as of January 30.
Commercial Galleries
303 Gallery (NYC)
56 Henry (NYC)
Abattoir (Cleveland, OH)
Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR)
Alexander Gray Associates (NYC)
Alison Bradley Projects (NYC)
Almine Rech (NYC)
Andrew Edlin (NYC)
Andrew Kreps Gallery (NYC)
Anonymous Gallery (NYC)
Anton Kern Gallery (NYC)
Berggruen Gallery (SF)
Berry Campbell (NYC)
Blade Study (NYC)
Bockley Gallery (Minneapolis, MN)
Bortolami (NYC)
The Brick (Brooklyn, NY)
Brigitte Mulholland (Paris)
Canada (NYC)
Casemore Gallery (SF)
Casey Kaplan (NYC)
Charlie James Gallery (LA)
Chapter NY (NYC)
Chart Gallery (NYC)
Chris Sharp Gallery (LA)
Company (NYC)
CONNERSMITH (Washington, DC)
Corbett vs Dempsey (Chicago)
Cristin Tierney (NYC)
Cristina Grajales Gallery (NYC)
David B. Smith Gallery (Denver)
David Klein Gallery (Ferndale, MI)
David Zwirner (NYC, LA)
DC Moore (NYC)
D.D.D.D. (NYC)
DIMIN (NYC)
Document (Chicago)
Fernberger Gallery (LA)
Foster/White (Seattle)
Fragment (NYC)
Fraenkel Gallery (SF)
Fridman Gallery (NYC)
Gagosian (NYC; LA)
Galerie Lelong (NYC)
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick (Bern, Switzerland)
Gordon Robichaux (NYC)
Gray (NYC, Chicago)
Greene Naftali (NYC)
Harkawik (NYC)
Henrique Faria New York (NYC)
Hesse Flatow (NYC)
Higher Pictures (NYC)
Hoffman Donahue (NYC)
Hostler Burrows (LA)
Howard Greenberg Gallery (NYC)
ILY2 (NYC; Portland, OR)
instituto de visión (NYC)
Ivester Contemporary (Austin, TX)
Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery (NYC)
James Cohan (NYC)
Jane Lombard Gallery (NYC)
Jeffrey Deitch (NYC; LA)
Jessica Silverman (SF)
JOAN (LA)
Karma (NYC)
Kavi Gupta (Chicago)
Klaus von Nichtssagend (NYC)
Kristen Lorello (NYC)
kurimanzutto (NYC)
La Loma (LA)
Lehmann Maupin (NYC)
Luhring Augustine (NYC)
Lyles & King (NYC)
Make Room (LA)
Management (NYC)
Marian Goodman (NYC, LA)
Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago)
Marianne Boesky (NYC)
Martha’s (Austin)
Martos Gallery (NYC)
Magen H Gallery (NYC)
Magenta Plains (NYC)
Margot Samel (NYC)
McClain Gallery (Houston, TX)
Megan Mulrooney (LA)
Michael Kohn Gallery (LA)
Michael Rosenfeld (NYC)
Microscope Gallery (NYC)
Miguel Abreu Gallery (NYC)
Monique Meloche (NYC)
Morgan Lehman (NYC)
Moskowitz Bayse (LA)
Mrs. (Queens, NY)
Nara Roesler (NYC)
Nathalie Karg (NYC)
Nazarian/Curcio (LA)
Nicodim (NYC; LA)
Nicola Vassell (NYC)
Nina Johnson (Miami)
Nguyen Wahed (NYC)
Olney Gleason (NYC)
Pace (NYC, LA)
Pablo’s Birthday (NYC)
Palo Gallery (NYC)
Patron (Chicago)
Paula Cooper (NYC)
Peter Fetterman Gallery (LA)
Peter Freeman (NYC)
Petzel (NYC)
Peter Blum Gallery (NYC)
Picture Theory (NYC)
The Pit (LA)
PPOW (NYC)
PROXYCO Gallery (NYC)
Quint Gallery (La Jolla, CA)
R & Company (NYC)
Rajiv Menon Contemporary (LA)
Rebecca Camacho Presents (SF)
Regen Projects (LA)
Rele Los Angeles (LA)
Rivalry Projects (Buffalo, NY)
Roberts Projects (LA)
Ryan Graff Contemporary (SF)
Ryan Lee (NYC)
Salon 94 (NYC)
Sargent’s Daughters (NYC)
Sean Kelly (NY)
Sebastian Gladstone (LA, NYC)
Shrine (NYC)
Silke Lindner (NYC)
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins (NYC)
Stroll Garden (LA)
Tanya Bonakdar (NYC)
Templon New York (NYC)
Timothy Taylor (NYC)
Vielmetter Los Angeles (LA)
Western Exhibitions (Chicago)
Yancey Richardson (NYC)
Nonprofits
601 Artspace (NYC)
A.I.R. (Brooklyn, NY)
Artists Space (NYC)
Bronx Art Space (Bronx, NY)
CARA (Center for Art, Research, and Alliances) (NYC)
Drawing Center (NYC)
El Museo del Barrio (NYC)
Eyebeam (NYC)
Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (LA)
The Luminary (St. Louis)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI)
MOCAD (Detroit)
MOCA LA (LA)
New Art Dealers Association (canceled talk in NYC)
Performance Space New York (NYC)
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR)
Printed Matter (NYC)
Project for Empty Space (Newark, NJ)
Recess (Brooklyn, NY)
Scandinavia House (NYC)
Screen Slate (NYC/SF)
Slash (SF)
Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY)
The Watermill Center (Water Mill, NY)
White Columns (NYC)