With exhibitions in full swing around the globe, The Unibrow has 8 shows to highlight that are open, opening, or about to come to a close before the calendar switches to November.
1) Noelia Towers + Birgit Jurgenssen @ Slip House, NYC // Through November 15, 2025 (images above)
They said: “The tension lodged within the works of Birgit Jürgenssen and Noelia Towers is on full display in this two-person exhibition at Slip House. Swinging between the former’s illustrations and photographs, and the latter’s crystalline painted images is a dance of surreal and penetrating depictions of womanhood; fraught, sentimental, peculiar, and everything in between.”
2) Lamar Peterson, The View From Outside @ Fredericks & Freiser, NYC // Through November 8, 2025
They said: “In these works, domestic life becomes both subject and setting. Peterson centers Black men seeking solace in simple rituals—cooking a meal, tending a garden, pausing for breath. Such acts unfold as quiet affirmations of care, autonomy, and survival in a world that seldom allows stillness.”
3) Elmer Guevara, Yesterday like today / Ayer cómo hoy @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles // Opens October 25, 2025
They said: “In this new body of work, Guevara explores ideas of intergenerational memory and trauma, reflecting on his own family’s experience of civil war and unrest across time and space. The paintings meditate on the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, which tore through South Central near where the Guevara family settled after fleeing violence in El Salvador.”
4) Coco Young "Detour" @ James Cope Gallery, Dallas // Through October 25, 2025
They said: “Young traces a painterly path through memory, history, and the landscapes of southern France. Drawing from the foothills of Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the forests of Fontainebleau, her luminous canvases echo Cézanne while carving a vision all her own—at once poetic and precise, nostalgic and utterly contemporary.”
5) Mark Ryden, “Eye Am” @ Perrotin Gallery, Los Angeles // Opens October 30, 2025
They said: “Using Old Master techniques, Mark Ryden creates paintings that are rich in depth and explore fantasy, the subconscious, and the underworld through the lens of pop culture from diverse eras and regions. A unique blend of contemporary surrealism, mysticism, animism, and kitsch, the enigmatic world he creates connects deeply with intuition and imagination. Ryden’s meticulous detail, exquisite presentation, and his profound impact on artists and cultures over three decades have solidified his unique presence, earning him the title, “The King of Pop Surrealism.” This is his first show in Los Angeles in over a decade.”
6) Carlos Rodriguez “The Light That Passes Through” @ Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC // Through November 1, 2025
They said: “The title of the exhibition, The Light That Passes Through Us, references William Irwin Thompson’s essay Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, where reflections on myth, sexuality, and imagination are explored as cultural forces that continue to form and shape our present. Drawing references from Mexican Muralism, Jared French, William Blake, the Greek frescoes, and Mesoamerican sculptures, the artists creates connections to the past while simultaneously opening dialogues to the present.”
7) Joyce Lin: Hypernatural @ R & Company, NYC // Opens November 7, 2025
They said: “Hypernatural presents Joyce Lin’s multidisciplinary approach toward material exploration and human intervention. Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, literature, and science, Lin presents new work that brings abstract concepts into tangible form.”
8) Aryz – Octavi Arrizabalaga “PRELUDIO” @ Galeria Senda, Barcelona // Through November 22, 2025
They said: “From a contemporary perspective, Aryz acknowledges the legacy of traditional painting and asserts the painter's craft as a legitimate means of cultural expression and transmission. PRELUDE is essentially a bridge between past and present: a deliberate return to pictorial tradition that functions as an introduction or opening to a more experimental artistic proposal yet to be revealed.”