Exhibitions

For twenty years, CRS held exhibitions in our Manhattan space — a gallery where paintings, photographs, fiber arts, and mixed-media works found a home alongside the weekly classes, concerts, and gatherings that defined our community. In 2024 we closed that space. We continue to curate and present exhibitions at partner institutions, in other cities, and online.

What we curate

Work we select addresses themes of spirituality, nature, women’s and human rights, parenting, and the creative process. We present artists from across CRS’s global community — from those exhibiting for the first time to those with gallery representation and work in museum collections. Past exhibitions have included works from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and by artists with representation at Felix Ringel Galerie (Düsseldorf), C24 Gallery (New York), and institutions including Epcot Center, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and The National Museum of Iceland.

Past exhibitions

Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art Tokyo Artist Talk & Reception

May 23, 2026

LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART — TOKYO

May 19 – May 28, 2026

Life Is Art Is Motherhood Is Art Kyoto Closing Reception & Artist Talk

May 10, 2026

LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART — KYOTO

Apr 14 – May 10, 2026

LIFE IS ART IS MOTHERHOOD IS ART Exhibition

Jul 21 – Jul 26, 2025

Exhibition: Wooded Tales of Phantasy — A Photography Series by Troy Stallman

Mar 21 – May 3, 2020

Exhibition: Matters — Works on Silk by Aomi Kikuchi

Dec 11, 2019 – Mar 9, 2020

Vibration: SAORI KANDA Art Performance with LÄLE SAYOKO

Dec 6, 2019

Opening Reception for the Exhibition Electricity — Works by Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez

Oct 12, 2019

Exhibition: Electricity — Works by Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez

Oct 4 – Nov 25, 2019

Exhibition: Celestial Mandala — Works on Paper by Heejung Kim

May 31 – Jul 31, 2019

Exhibition: Matter — Paintings & Photographs by Takeshi Inoue

Apr 16 – May 28, 2019

Exhibition: Archetype-Hidden Memory — Paintings by Lex Braes

Feb 11 – Apr 7, 2019

Exhibition: Nature in Motion — Paintings by Ayako Bando

Dec 3, 2018 – Feb 9, 2019

Exhibition: Ne-ko — Paintings by Hiroki Otsuka

Oct 22 – Nov 21, 2018

Exhibition: Small Voyage by Ayane Kurai

Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018

Exhibition: Love Planet – sending love of the plants all over the world through photography

Jul 7 – Aug 30, 2018

Exhibition: CODE — a drawing like poetry like drawing

Jun 9 – Jul 5, 2018

Exhibition: One Art One Spirit

May 11 – Jun 6, 2018

Exhibition: The Color of Energy — Recent Paintings by Janet Morgan

Mar 10 – May 8, 2018

Exhibition: Happy Peace — Paintings by Kimi Tea

Feb 8 – Mar 8, 2018

USAATO Clothing Exhibition & Sale

Dec 10, 2017 – Dec 15, 2019

Exhibition: Paintings by Yoshihiro Youkee Nishida

Dec 4, 2017 – Feb 6, 2018

Exhibition: The Mortal Apparatus — Photographs of Flowers & Cityscapes by Chris Fiore

Sep 14 – Nov 30, 2017

Exhibition: Imaginary Mindscapes by Philippe Halaburda

Jul 13 – Sep 13, 2017

Exhibition: Rhythmic Continuity — Paintings by Deanna Lee

May 3 – Jul 12, 2017

Exhibition: Beyond Prayer — Paintings by Yuko Kasahara

Apr 6 – Apr 25, 2017

Exhibition: Nagi — Photographs by Tomoko Iki

Feb 4 – Apr 5, 2017

Exhibition: Out of Mind — Paintings by Eric Holzman

Dec 1, 2016 – Jan 31, 2017

USAATO Fashion Show & Exhibition

Oct 28, 2016

Exhibition — The Art of A Good Life in Hell by Ai Tatebayashi

Aug 4 – Oct 4, 2016

Exhibition: Water People — Prints by Kazoo

Jun 5 – Aug 3, 2016

Exhibition: Regeneration — Works by Tomoko Abe

Feb 23 – Apr 25, 2016

Exhibition: New Flowers — Paintings by Robin Ann Meyer and Rie Nishimura — 5/17 – 6/28/14

Jan 14, 2016

Exhibition: Thinking Forward (Opening Reception 8/3)

Jan 14, 2016

Exhibition: Space Beyond — Speculative Works by Clouds AO

Dec 23, 2015 – Feb 13, 2016

Exhibition: “Debris of Angel” by Su

Nov 30 – Dec 19, 2015

Exhibition — “Home and Home: New York in My Life” — Photographs by Satomi Shirai

Oct 19 – Nov 28, 2015

Exhibition: Moments of Silence — Paintings by Douglas Newton

Aug 20 – Sep 30, 2015

Exhibition: Whispering Lights — Art by Erika Mizukami

Jul 11 – Aug 17, 2015

Exhibition: Voice of Nature — Paintings by Keiko Takeko

Jun 6 – Jun 30, 2015

Exhibition: Rhythm of Color by Brian Potter

Apr 25 – May 31, 2015

Exhibition: “流転-RUTEN-” by Yasuka Matsumoto

Apr 17 – Apr 20, 2015

Exhibition: Reflected Reverie: Paintings by Marianne Gunther

Jan 10 – Feb 28, 2015

Exhibition: Atonement – Aganai — Ceramic Sculpture by Miyu Asakawa

Sep 13 – Oct 31, 2014

Exhibition: Haruko BlueStarChild

Aug 22 – Aug 24, 2014

Exhibition: New Flowers — Paintings by Robin Ann Meyer and Rie Nishimura

May 9 – Jun 28, 2014

Exhibition: 3.11 Portrait Project — 3/6 – 5/8/14

Mar 6 – Apr 30, 2014

Exhibition: Marvin’s 3rd Eye Paintings

Feb 8 – Mar 4, 2014

Exhibition: Photographs & Stories by Annie Ling

Jan 11 – Jan 31, 2014

Exhibition: LIGHT — Paintings by Aoi Nakamura

Dec 8 – Dec 22, 2013

Exhibition: Portraits by Yoko Kiuchi

Nov 10 – Nov 30, 2013

Exhibition: Paintings by Rita Holcberg

Sep 16 – Oct 28, 2013

Exhibition: Thinking Forward

Aug 3 – Aug 29, 2013

Exhibition: Miracle Kototama Art — Calligraphy by Shisui

May 18 – Jul 13, 2013

Exhibition: The Butterfly People — Photographs by Katherine Abegg

Mar 2 – Apr 30, 2013

Exhibition: Works from the CRS Collection by Miori Inata, Mayumi Nashida, and Chiharu Nishiyama

Jan 22 – Feb 26, 2013

Exhibition: Family Diary by Mami

Dec 1 – Dec 31, 2012

Exhibition: Works on Paper by Lex Braes

Jan 27 – Mar 31, 2012

Exhibition: Photography by Brad Oliphant

Jan 7, 2012

Exhibition: Harie by Junko Yamada

Nov 4, 2011 – Jan 4, 2012

Exhibition: Pretty Dresses, Long Legs… Dance Paintings by Meeke Mutter

Sep 10 – Oct 31, 2011

Exhibition: CODE — Drawings & Visual Poetry by Teo Yamamoto

May 7 – Jun 18, 2011

Exhibition: Yuko’s Spring Has Come — Recent Paintings by Ayane Kurai

Oct 30 – Dec 2, 2010