James Cohan is marking its twentieth anniversary with a group exhibition spread across its two downtown New York spaces. James Cohan: Twenty Years opens on 1 November and runs until 20 December 2026, with new or historical works by every artist in the gallery's current programme.

The show fills the gallery's Tribeca space at 48 Walker Street and its Lower East Side space at 291 Grand Street, with opening receptions on Friday 1 November — from 5 to 7pm at Grand Street and 6 to 8pm at Walker Street. The staggered timings let visitors move between the two spaces on the opening night, and the two-venue hang is a reminder of how the gallery has grown since it opened on West 57th Street in the autumn of 1999, when its first exhibition presented early work by Gilbert & George.

Those first years set the pattern for the programme that followed, with early exhibitions for Trenton Doyle Hancock, Robert Smithson, Fred Tomaselli and Bill Viola among the artists who shaped the gallery's identity. The anniversary show draws on that history, pairing recent work with pieces from earlier in the gallery's two decades, and in recent years the gallery has shown newer additions to its programme from its Chelsea space as well.

The gallery now operates under the name Norr Cohan, but the exhibition keeps the original name for its title, looking back over twenty years of shows in Chelsea, Tribeca and the Lower East Side. It is the gallery's most expansive group presentation in years, and a stock-taking exercise as it enters its third decade.