For collectors

First look.
Every time.

Twice a year, the project opens a pop-up exhibition of new work by an artist you have not heard of yet — and will.

The opening is a private party. The guest list is small and deliberate: collectors, designers, editors, and the people whose taste travels. The work on the walls was made in the six months before you walked in, and most of it will be gone by the time you leave.

Guests at a Raia opening

The exhibition

A body of work.

Each cycle ends with a pop-up in a New York space chosen for the work. The artist is there. The work is for sale. Over six months the artist builds a body of work; at the show, they build a network of buyers who follow them from here.

The Raia Collective

Join the collective.

Every Raia artist joins a growing community: the Raia Collective, where artists have the space to live, create, share, and thrive in New York City, and where each cycle’s artists become part of the next one’s world.

The list

Openings are by invitation. Ask for one.

Collectors, patrons, and people who want to support the next artist can request a place on the list for the next opening, or ask about supporting a cycle directly.