The Kids Are Alright / Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York
27 June — 1 August 2025
Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce The Kids Are Alright, a group exhibition curated by Helen Toomer. Opening in New York on 27 June, 2025, this presentation will feature contemporary and historical works that explore cultural conceptions of childhood.
The exhibition includes work by Ann Agee, Diane Arbus, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Zoë Buckman, Dominic Chambers, Joana Choumali, Larry Clark, Mark Cohen, R. Crumb, Gehard Demetz, Kim Dingle, Madeline Donahue, Marcel Dzama, William Eggleston, Lloyd Foster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Julia García, Elizabeth Glaessner, Jay Lynn Gomez, Titus Kaphar, Jonathan Lasker, Louise Lawler, Charles LeDray, Sherrie Levine, Sally Mann, Marape, Elizabeth McIntosh, Joel Meyerowitz, Annie Morris, Ragen Moss, Anya Paintsil, Gordon Parks, Erin M. Riley, Kenny Rivero, Antonia Showering, David Shrigley, Ruby Sky Stiler, Katie Stout, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, and Rhys Ziemba.
Curatorial Statement by Helen Toomer: The Kids Are Alright brings together over forty multigenerational artists whose work explores the complicated, beautiful, and often difficult experience of childhood. This show wasn’t put together to provide answers—instead, it offers a space this summer to reflect and question: are the kids alright? Will they be? And as parents, teachers, caregivers, and neighbors, will we be?
Through painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and textiles, the works offer an amalgamated snapshot of childhood—subjects embrace and protect the young, while the adolescent search for self is also captured. We are able to see through the eyes of children—curious, honest, defiant, and hopeful in an ever changing world.
Childhood is often idealised as a time of innocence and simplicity. Whether drawing from personal memory or channeling the perspective of the child-as-subject, the artists reveal childhood as a space of contradiction: at once joyful and uncanny, intimate and expansive, playful and nostalgic, tender and turbulent.
Infused with curiosity, ambiguity, and imaginative force, these pieces explore the emotional and psychological complexities that accompany the process of becoming… alright?
This exhibition doesn’t just look back at childhood—it asks us to think about what kind of future we’re all stepping into, and how we can move through it together.
