Nightswimming: A group exhibition curated by Erica Samuels

Broadway is pleased to announce Nightswimming, a group exhibition curated by Erica Samuels, opening January 8, 2026. The exhibition takes its title from R.E.M.’s 1992 song “Nightswimming,” whose hush, risk, and after-dark clarity echo through the works on view. As the song has it, “Nightswimming deserves a quiet night”—a line that frames the show’s nocturnal mood and its invitation to look inward.

“What is the light shining in the dark—besides the moon?” asks Samuels. “Is it coming from within or lit from behind? Is this a beacon of the past, or is it a hopefulness of what is to come?” Across painting, works on paper, sculpture and photography, the artists open portals into their visual worlds to help viewers navigate memory, longing, and the uneasy beauty of surrender. Danger and serenity collide; the reckless and the reflective trade places; what’s forgotten returns, then slips away again.

Nightswimming—as feeling, as action—becomes a metaphor for the way art accompanies us through private thresholds: the moment before we leap, the glow after we do. The exhibition lingers in that interval where ordinary time loosens and interior life comes into focus.

Katherine Bradford

Mathew Cerletty

Jane Corrigan

Ann Craven

Woody De Othello

Mary Heilmann

Jessie Henson

Sheree Hovsepian

Rashid Johnson

Michael Kagan

Sally Mann

Eddie Martinez

Joel Mesler

Sam Moyer

Angel Otero

Scott Reeder

Emmi Whitehorse

Matthew Wong