What Will You See at Jason Moran’s STACKS at Luhring Augustine New York?

Short answer

Jason Moran: STACKS opened at Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street, New York, on November 6, 2026, and runs through December 19, 2026. It is the third solo exhibition at the gallery for the jazz pianist, composer and visual artist: new sculpture, works on paper, video and jazz ephemera that trace how music becomes image and object.

Key facts

• Who: Jason Moran, a MacArthur Fellow jazz pianist and composer whose visual art practice grows out of improvisation, performance and the material history of jazz.
• What: STACKS, an exhibition of new and recent work: a sculpture of two stacked parlor pianos, pigment-on-paper imprints made while playing, collected jazz ephemera, and a new video made with Ari Marcopoulos.
• Where: Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011.
• When: November 6 – December 19, 2026.
• Admission: Free. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.

What will you see?

At the center of the exhibition stands a new sculpture of two small upright parlor pianos stacked on top of each other, one mirrored and inverted. The familiar instrument becomes a monumental architectural form that carries both the piano’s place in jazz history and the weight of generations of musicians layered one on another.

Around it hang Moran’s celebrated works on paper. To make them, he coats a piano keyboard in powdered pigment and presses a thin sheet of Japanese Gampi paper against the keys as he plays. The imprints record the pace, pressure and pauses of his fingers: chords register as clusters, repeated phrases as dense accumulations, silences as open space. The show also includes objects from Moran’s own collection of jazz ephemera, from a handmade flag of the Harlem Hellfighters to a sheet of stamps printed with Thelonious Monk, and a new video work by photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos made in collaboration with Moran.

Why does this exhibition matter?

Few artists move between music and visual art as fluently as Moran. He was the artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center from 2011 to 2025, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010, and has collaborated with Joan Jonas, Adrian Piper and Glenn Ligon. STACKS, his third solo exhibition with Luhring Augustine, a commercial contemporary art gallery founded in 1985, shows how his improvisational language translates into sculpture and drawing.

How do you visit?

The gallery is at 531 West 24th Street in Chelsea, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; admission is free. The works on paper reward slow attention, since each image is literally a performance fixed in time; our guide to cultural mediation explains how to meet a work on its own terms.

FAQ

When is Jason Moran: STACKS on view?

The exhibition opened on November 6, 2026, and runs through December 19, 2026.

Does it cost anything?

No. Admission to Luhring Augustine is free, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.

Is Jason Moran a musician or a visual artist?

Both. Moran is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer who also makes sculpture, works on paper and video, and STACKS shows how closely those practices are connected.

What are the works on paper made of?

They are imprints of a pigment-coated piano keyboard pressed against thin Japanese Gampi paper while Moran plays, so each image records an actual performance.

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Sources

• Luhring Augustine, exhibition page for Jason Moran: STACKS: dates, works and exhibition description.
• Luhring Augustine, Chelsea location information: address and hours.

More context: our guides to Julie Curtiss’s UNREAL at Gagosian New York and Zeng Fanzhi’s first New York show in over a decade at Hauser & Wirth.