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Clio Art Fair Returns to New York with Double Edition

and Provocative Performance Program
 

September 4–7 & September 18-21, 2025

511 West 25th Street, NYC

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New York, NY — Clio Art Fair, the leading independent art fair that champions self-represented artists, returns to Chelsea this spring with two consecutive editions: September 4-7 and September 18–21, 2025. Each week will feature a completely new roster of 35+ international artists and artist collectives, offering collectors, curators, and the public a fresh and diverse experience across both weekends. Clio Art Fair continues to break the mold of traditional art fairs by providing a high-visibility platform for artists without exclusive gallery representation. Focused on direct connection, authenticity, and discovery, Clio has become a must-attend event for those seeking what’s next in contemporary art. ​

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📍 Location 

511 W 25th Street
Chelsea, New York City

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🗓️ Dates & Hours:

September 4-7

September 4 (Press & VIP Preview, $35/ticket): 6-9pm

September 5-6 (General Admission, FREE Entrance): 12-8pm

September 7 (General Admission, FREE Entrance): 12-6pm

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September 18-21

September 18 (Press & VIP Preview $35/ticket): 6-9pm

September 19-20 (General Admission, FREE Entrance): 12-8pm

September 21 (General Admission, FREE Entrance): 12-6pm

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✨ Special Guests

Ami Park (1991, South Korea)

Amparo Garzón (1956, Colombia)

Daniel Rosenbaum (1955, USA)

Deborah L Morris (Jersey City)​

Katherine Miranda (1997, USA)

MJ King (1955, USA)

Nieves Saah (Spain)

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🎟️ Admission

Free for Press and Art Professionals: reach out to art@clioartfair.com.

Tickets available here​

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PRICE RANGE:

150+ artworks by 35+ independent artists will be on show, with a wide range of prices, starting at $50 and up to $150,000.

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MORE INFO ABOUT CLIO ART FAIR:

Clio Art Fair is a contemporary art fair held biannually that focuses on showcasing independent artists without exclusive gallery representation in NYC. Clio is an alternative to larger, historical art fairs which are often dominated by blue chip galleries and high-priced artworks.

Clio Art Fair aims to create an intimate and approachable environment for both artists and collectors. Each independent artist is given their own exhibition space and the possibility to interact directly, without filters, with the collectors and art lovers that visit the space. The fair features a diverse range of contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installations. It also offers a performance program.

Adding to the innovative nature of our vision, Clio is the first art fair to accept the primary crypto-values as a form of payment: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, since 2017.

 

WHAT'S DISTINCTIVE:

Clio Art Fair has gained a reputation for being a supportive and welcoming environment for emerging artists, and has been praised for its inclusivity and diversity. It has attracted a growing audience of art collectors, curators, and enthusiasts who are looking for a fresh and outside of the box perspective on the contemporary art world. Overall, Clio Art Fair is a must-see event for anyone interested in art.

The fair is known for its democratic and inclusive approach to art and its emphasis on collaborating with artists from a wide range of backgrounds and styles. We also pride ourselves on being very attentive to the architecture of our venues, thus not creating booths, but trying to respect as much as possible the spaces that host us. Finally, one of the most distinctive features of our fair is that we are born and we proudly still are a small and intimate fair, in opposition to the infinite isles of blue-ship fairs. Nevertheless, Clio Art Fair was born with a big challenge: empower independent artists and give them a spotlight in the NYC Art Week. We firmly stand by what the Italo-French Art Historian Philippe Daverio once said:

People walk into museums and look at 400 paintings in one hour and a half. Then they head over to grab a Coke once they head out, with their swollen feet, trying to forget the whole experience. [...] Similarly to libraries, Museums hold hundreds of works, but they are not intended to be looked at all together, just as libraries hold thousands of books, but who walks in is not meant to read them all. [...] The artist who has painted a work of art might have taken months or even years to finish:

what gives us the right to look at it for no more than 5 seconds?

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: "ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL"

In a world increasingly shaped by screens and digital interactions, we are witnessing a profound shift — from physical spaces of communal gathering to fragmented, algorithm-driven realities online. The public square, once the beating heart of collective discourse, is now replaced by curated feeds, comment sections, and endless scrolls. The “walls” of today are not just physical; they are cognitive, emotional, and ideological — reinforced by invisible architectures of code, data, and capital.

In this shifting landscape, the artist is not a passive observer but an active constructor of new realities. As Oscar Wilde once wrote: Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force … it seeks to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. 

Another Brick in the Wall explores this pivotal moment of transformation. What does it mean for connection, for dissent, for the human impulse to create meaning together? And crucially — what is the artist’s role in this new dimension? Are artists building bridges or fortifying walls? Are they disruptors of the algorithmic order, or merely content within it?

This program invites artists to interrogate these new boundaries and architectures.

 

​​​​​Performance program and schedule:​​

Gabrielle Meyerowitz, | Mobile Confessional | September 4th, 7:00pm

ama of MetallicFern | Do You Hear Me | September 18th, 7:00pm​

Gabrielle Meyerowitz, | Mobile Confessional | September 18th, 7:00pm

Tani B. Burwell | The Plight of a Magical Girl | September 18th, 8:00pm​

Analia Farfan | Infidencias | September 18th, 8:00pm

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For additional information, please reach us at art@clioartfair.com​​​​​​​​​​​

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