2025 Exhibitions
The Church
Some of Tom’s Typewriters: Typewriters from the Collection of Tom Hanks, Installed by Simon Doonan
January 12 - March 10
Our year kicks off with an exhibition of important typewriters from the collection of actor Tom Hanks. The exhibition installation has been designed the by the renowned creative director Simon Doonan, who will transform The Church’s extraordinary space into a fanciful home for these magical machines in all their iconic, sadly obsolete, glory.
Some Odes: Sam Messer with Paul Auster,
Eleanor Gaver, Denis Johnson, and Sharon Olds
January 12 - March 10
Concurrent to Some of Tom’s Typewriters, The Church will present an intimate exhibition on the Main Floor entitled Some Odes: Sam Messer with Paul Auster, Eleanor Gaver, Denis Johnson, and Sharon Olds. This small-scale exhibition will focus on the confluence of ideas between artists and artistic media as they flow individually and within an artistic community.
Image: Sam Messer, New Directions (Tobey Pond), 2015, oil on canvas, 52 x 40 inches. (c)Sam Messer, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist.
Eternal Testament
Curated by Meranda Roberts, PhD
and Jeremy Dennis
March 22 - May 26
Eternal Testament is an exhibition reaffirming that Sag Harbor, including this “church,” occupies the traditional homelands of the Montaukett and Shinnecock Nations. By featuring works by Native artists regionally and from across the country that incorporate wit, irreverence, and playfulness —tools for survival and healing— the exhibition asserts Indigenous presence and sovereignty as artists reclaim space, “temporarily transforming a site of forced assimilation into one of resistance and refusal,” according to Roberts.
Image: Juane Quick to See Smith, Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria 2005, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 200 inches. © Jaune Quick to See Smith, 2005. Gochman Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York.
THE ARK
Curated by Eric Fischl
June 22 - September 1
The Ark is an exhibition curated by The Church co-founder and artist Eric Fischl, composed solely of animal sculptures by over 40 international artists of the last century. The title is a nod to Noah’s Ark, a story that centers around the story of the Deluge: a great flood of apocalyptic scale, marking the rebirth of earth in its wake, which memorably featured pairs of animals boarding a large ship to survive the flood.
Image: detail of Daisy Youngblood, Little Gorilla, 2020, low fired clay, 12 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94 ©Daisy Youngblood
Here & There: The First Churchennial
October 4 - December 30
Kicking off an ongoing tradition, this multi-discipline exhibition will highlight the more than 60 artists who have been in residency at The Church since its inaugural year in 2021 through 2024. Subsequent iterations will feature the preceding three years. In addition to works installed throughout the building, the exhibtion will include performances, concerts, workshops and readings. ARTIST LIST IN FORMATION, to be released in Summer 2025.