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Summer Nudes: Group Show

June 18-July 25, 2026

Aicon Art, 35 Great Jones Street, New York

Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Jesse Owens, 2024

Aicon Art presents Summer Nudes, a salon exhibition bringing together more than thirty South Asian and diasporic artists whose works examine the many histories, meanings, and representations of the nude figure. Spanning from 17th- and 18th-century miniatures to contemporary painting and sculpture, the exhibition unfolds through six interconnected themes, classical, abstract, erotic, body politics, self-portrait, and trauma. It traces how artists have engaged the body as a site of desire, identity, resistance, spirituality, and transformation across time.

Find out more about the exhibition here.