About Friday Arts

Friday Arts is an artist-run gallery for discovering and collecting contemporary art.

We believe artists reveal new ways of seeing and engaging with the world—and that living with art is transformative. Finding art you love shouldn't feel intimidating or transactional, but personal and meaningful.

Through curated exhibitions, intimate studio visits, and cinematic films, Friday Arts offers a deeper, more direct way to experience and collect contemporary art.

Our Approach

We champion established and emerging artists working in a variety of media. As a nomadic gallery, we present work both online and in person, activating spaces that resonate creatively and reach a wider audience.

Our digital presentations invite you to spend time with artists and their work, cultivating context, understanding, and connection.

Our Artists

Our artists have shaped contemporary art through exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, the New Museum, and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; teaching positions at Yale, Columbia, and MICA; and recognition including Guggenheim Fellowships, awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Their work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Hammer Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, and other important collections internationally.

Our Story

Founded by a husband-and-wife team—an award-winning filmmaker and the former Head of Digital at the Guggenheim Museum—Friday Arts draws on our decades of experience in visual culture, storytelling, and technology. With a curatorial sensibility refined over a lifetime in the arts, we created Friday Arts to amplify artists’ visions, illuminate their processes, and make collecting art personal and enriching.

Visit Often. Stay Awhile.

Explore curated artworks and exhibitions, watch films, read interviews, and step inside the stories behind the art. We’re here as your trusted partners on your journey with art.

And please, drop us a line—we'd love to hear what moves you.

Laura and Justin

Founders and Directors

Friday Arts

About Us

We’re Laura Kleger and Justin Schwarz. We met starting a rock band as Yale undergrads, earned our M.F.A.s from Columbia, had two kids, and never stopped making things. Between us, we have nearly fifty years of combined experience across contemporary art, filmmaking, design, and tech. We’ve run museum departments, curated museum and gallery exhibitions, published art books, taught college classes, written for Hollywood, directed and produced award-winning films, and built digital experiences to help people fall deeper in love with art.

Our work has reached tens of millions online, and has been shown at Cannes, Berlin, MoMA, the Museum of the Moving Image, and arthouses, film festivals, and galleries around the world. Along the way, we’ve picked up Webbys, Anthem Awards, and dozens of film and design awards. You might have seen our projects in The New York Times, Artforum, NPR, or Vanity Fair—or maybe just somewhere unexpected doing what art does best: making you feel something.