Darren Kall was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and grew up in East Paterson/Elmwood Park. From a young age, Darren was incessantly drawing. His artistic vision was so strong that he was inspired to draw on the walls of his…

Bob Delevante will astound you with his artistic versatility. He is a renowned photographer, illustrator, designer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. In all of his art forms, Bob is a storyteller who captures glimpses of everyday life with sensitivity and…

The Hoboken Historical Museum is proud to present “Hoboken Trash: The Works of Jeremy Roche” in the Upper Gallery.  Born and raised in Commack, Long Island, Jeremy Roche is an abstract artist who repurposes trash into art. While trained as…

Bill Bayer grew up in Wood-Ridge, NJ. It wasn’t until after high school that Bill was first exposed to the field of photography. He gravitated to pictures in the 1970’s, which he considers a golden era of photojournalism. He would…

Julio Cesar Santiago was born on August 17th, 1950 in the coffee town of Yauco, Puerto Rico. Raised on a farm, Julio had ambitions of a big city life and developed a love for all things New York City. He…

Jean-Paul Picard is a Canadian American artist who grew up in Morristown, NJ. He received early exposure to the arts thanks to his beloved aunt. As a student at Morristown High School, Jean-Paul participated in the “Arthouse Group,” a small…

The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to host "Hoboken Walkabout" by Maggie Hinders. Maggie's Artist Talk will take place on Friday, November 10, 2023 at 7pm. Her opening reception will take place on Sunday, November 12, 2023 from 2pm-5pm at…

The Hoboken Historical Museum and Hoboken Business Alliance are pleased to present "The Heap," the creative character developed by Paul Andrejco of Puppet Heap. Please be sure to check out The Heap walking through Hoboken on Friday, September 22, 2023…

Peter Fiordalisi was born in Union City in 1904 and had a deep connection to Hudson County, living many years in Weehawken. As a child, Peter was inspired after seeing a man painting the New York Harbor. Peter was never…

"Hoboken: Studio & Garden, Paintings by Bill Curran" opened in our Upper Gallery on Sunday, July 2 with a reception from 2-5pm. To get us ready for the exhibition, Bill Curran was interviewed by Maggie Hinders for an online Artist…

"COMMUTE: photographs by Anthony Jannelli" opened in our Upper Gallery on Sunday, May 21 with a reception from 2-5pm. Jannelli joined Museum Director Bob Foster for an online Artist Talk Friday, May 19 at 7pm. It can be viewed below,…

"Shipyard Marina: watercolors by Patrick Neill," opens in our Upper Gallery on Saturday, April 8 with a reception from 2-5pm.  Patrick joined Museum Director Bob Foster for an online Artist Talk Thursday, April 6 at 7pm. It was livestreamed on…

In conjunction with our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982,” the Museum is pleased to present the work of Pierce Logan of QWERT Poetry in our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "From a Yuppie's Typewriter," from February 26 through Sunday,…

In conjunction with our Main Gallery exhibit, “The Fires: Hoboken 1978-1982,” we are proud to present an accompanying installation by Christopher López. (UN)ERASED, our new Upper Gallery exhibit, has its opening reception Sunday, September 22 from 2 - 5pm. This…

On Sunday, December 11, we kicked off the House Tour with the unveiling of our new bronze bust of Sinatra by master sculptor Chris Dahlberg. The bust can be viewed until Friday, December 23 in our Upper Gallery where you…

We are thrilled to present recent paintings by a longtime Hoboken resident. Our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl" has its opening reception Sunday, September 11 from 2 - 5pm. The show's run has been…

We are thrilled to present photography by Carol Halebian, in our new Upper Gallery exhibit, "When We Were Young."  We're showing select images form the Kodachrome film she shot of Hoboken Street life between the late 70s and early 80s.…

We are thrilled to present the recent work of Hoboken master painter Lou Carbone. "COVID" debuts in our Upper Gallery on Saturday, May 7 with an opening reception with the artist from 2 - 5pm.  The exhibit consists of 25…

The artwork of Liz Ndoye and the artwork of Ibou Ndoye are featured in our Upper Gallery exhibit, "Adjacent." The show runs from Sunday, March 6th until Sunday, May 1st. There is an opening reception on Sunday, March 6 from…

Frank Hanavan’s last exhibition in the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery showcased his temporary departure from painting with acrylics into working with watercolors. The resulting series of watercolors were beautiful, but he has since returned to painting with acrylics – always…

Frank Hanavan’s last exhibition in the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery showcased his temporary departure from painting with acrylics into working with watercolors. The resulting series of watercolors were beautiful, but he has since returned to painting with acrylics – always…

The Museum’s Upper Gallery presents a new exhibit of photographs by Joan Michel, based on her film project "Cavemen Built My Skateboard" from September 19 - November 7. All are invited to the opening reception on September 19, from 2…

The Museum’s Upper Gallery presents a new exhibit of paintings by Donna O'Grady, "Light at Play in Hoboken" from August 1 - September 12. All are invited to the opening reception on August 1, from 2 - 5 pm.

The Museum’s Upper Gallery presents a new exhibit of photographs by Hoboken photographer Gary Spector, whose solo show “Portraits of Essential Workers - Hoboken Hospital 2020” is on view in the Museum’s Upper Gallery through July 4.

The Museum’s Upper Gallery will present a new exhibit of photographs by Hoboken artist, graphic designer and photographer McKevin Shaughnessy, whose solo show “The Hidden Faces of Hoboken” opens in the Museum’s Upper Gallery starting Sunday, March 14.

Jersey City photographer Duquann Sweeney captures the spirit of his neighborhood in warm black and white photographs. His exhibition, "Dignity, Beauty and Everything Between," will go on view in the Museum's Upper Gallery from January 17 - March 7.

Japanese artist Mika Endo's ethereal paintings of Hoboken scenes, "Pen and Brush Works by Mika Endo," will go on view in the Museum's Upper Gallery from November 8 - January 10.

Ray Guzman's "Hoboken Tempest" is a panoramic, 10-foot-wide painting that must be seen in person, under good lighting, to fully appreciate. The work, along with a couple of Hudson County portraits Ray painted around the same time, will be on…

Artist Bill Curran has been painting up a storm during the state's shelter at home restriction. See his latest works in "If Not Now, When? Painting During the Pandemic," on view from August 30 - September 27.

Lily Zane's needlework art will be on view in the Museum's Upper Gallery in an exhibit titled "The Thread That Binds," from July 26 through August 23.

Jack and Peter Mecca grew up in Hoboken in between its industrial boom in the first half of the 20th century and its economic decline and rebirth near the end of the century. In the late 1970s, they would load their…

Uruguayan artist Alex Morales returns to the Hoboken Historical Museum with a new batch of 15 paintings of his beloved adopted home of Hoboken. The public is invited to a free opening reception on Feb. 16 from 2 - 5…

The Museum's Upper Gallery space opens 2020 with an exhibition of works by artist, teacher and writer Meredeth Turshen. All are invited to a free opening reception on Jan. 5 from 2 - 5 pm. The exhibition will remain on…

One distinctive fixture of the Hoboken cityscape is the historic 1907 Lackawanna Terminal, the gateway to Hoboken and NYC for so many visitors and new arrivals. The terminal and its surroundings are the focus of the exhibit, “Lackawanna ~ From…

Artist Steve Vizena has been dazzling neighbors and passers-by at Halloween for a little over a decade with his thought-provoking 3D assemblages -- sometime featuring symbolic "cloud zombies" --  in his garden at the corner of 11th and Garden streets.…

Sneak back in time to Hoboken in the 1950s and 60s through the rich Kodachrome images taken by Anita Heimbruch, a long-time employee at Hoboken's Keuffel & Esser factory at Third and Adams Streets. Her photographs reflect the daily lives…

Hiro Takeshita wields an exacto knife with more finesse than many painters with brushes and oils. He creates dazzling works of art with layers of precisely cut paper in saturated hues.

Photographer Greg Miller's new exhibition, “Hoboken from Above,” opens Sunday, April 28. The exhibition shows the city of Hoboken from multiple unusual vantage points, high above the city's mostly 19th century streetscape.  

Photographer Tom Zuk's latest series, “Work/Seven Portraits,” opens Sunday, March 17. The exhibition honors the work of people whose jobs are often classified by economists as “service” or “labor”: a nanny, a crossing guard, a waiter, a dog walker, a…

Issa Sow is a Hoboken artist in the truest sense of the word. Before moving to Hoboken from France about 7 years ago, he had never created art. He had always been an avid collector of traditional and contemporary art…

Jim Fallon’s “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Monoprints on Combat Paper” ties his own service as a Vietnam War medic to the war experiences of American soldiers from World War I through today. On view through Dec. 23.

Highlights from Gary Spector’s seven-year series of portraits of Hoboken’s Halloween trick-or-treaters are now on display in the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery, “Hoboken Halloween,” on view through November 4.

Photographer David White recreates the glass-plate process look of vintage mugshots from the 1920s using modern digital technology. The result is a series now on display in the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery, “Bootleggers Under Glass,” on view through September 16.

Laura Alexander is best known for her large-scale, vividly colored oil portraits. Visitors to the Hoboken Museum in 2012 might remember the striking, four-foot-tall portraits in her “Mostly Rosemary” exhibit. She also had a solo exhibit titled “Portraits” in 2005, featuring…

Tom Zuk has made photographic art from the rough materials of the urban cityscape outside his Hoboken apartment window. A wall of crumbling masonry, a clothesline with pulley, a patio, a street corner, a church with steeple, hi-rise apartment, just…

Even though Hoboken is very close to the Big Apple, the city has its own personality and charm. There's a sense of familiarity, a warm environment where foreigners are welcomed to be themselves and keep their traditions alive. Small, family-owned…

As the commemoration of the centennial of America's involvement in World War I continues into 2018, a new photography exhibit in the Museum's Upper Gallery documents one man's quest to bring attention to the wealth of fine statuary and other…

A hand-crafted card is a gift in itself, in an age when computer-generated “hand-writing” typefaces attempt to mimic the personal touch without quite pulling off the illusion. Hoboken-based lettering artist Anna Pinto has produced snow-themed calligraphic holiday cards for more…

A plein air painter’s life isn’t easy, especially in an urban setting. Imagine lugging around close to 20 pounds of art supplies, including an easel and bulky canvases, perched on a bike or squeezed into public transit, just to capture…

Art teacher Liz Cohen has been teaching weekly classes at the Hoboken Shelter and St. Matthew's lunch program, as a volunteer. After retiring from 40 years of teaching in a private school, she enjoys working with Hoboken’s transitional population, helping…

An architectural illustrator by profession, William Magruder has an irrepressible artistic imagination that expresses itself in fantasy-infused drawings, reminiscent of one of his favorite artists, Windsor McKay. A recent series was inspired by Hoboken’s inundation during Superstorm Sandy. Magruder and…

Join us for a free opening reception for our latest Upper Gallery art exhibition: "The Essence of Hoboken: Watercolors by Robert Nardolillo." These dynamic and moody watercolor paintings by the Brooklyn-born artist who now lives in the suburbs, express the…

The versatile artist Jean-Paul Picard specializes in web design and digital photography. He teaches courses in these technical skills in evening classes at the Hudson County Schools of Technology. But he started out as a graphic designer and photographer back…

Elliot Appel has always been interested in capturing the myriad interesting architectural details embedded in the urban landscape.

While most of us are busy documenting our travels and daily lives with cameras that fit in our pockets, Donna O’Grady carts along a full pochade box, a traditional painter’s supply case with attachable tripod easel, to capture scenes from her…

When most of us pass a flowerpot in full bloom on a stoop or a cat sunning lazily in a window, we might make a mental note of these moments of unexpected beauty, but they are soon forgotten, buried under…

The Uruguayan artist Alex Morales has been making art in a wide range of media from an early age, studying and refining his skills at the Museum of Fine Arts in the state of San Jose de Mayo in his…

The accomplished artist Judy Schmitt may be based in Cape Cod, but since her daughter and son-in-law moved to Hoboken 15 years ago, this city has been a second home for her. Inspired by the artistic tradition of Provincetown, Mass.,…

Ecuadoran artist Walter Barco creates extraordinary “rock-works” that evoke nostalgic memories of his native Guayaquil’s colonial architecture and 19th century homes, using a technique he describes as "la litopintura," or stone-painting. With incredibly fine detail, including tiny figures in the windows of these…

Hoboken is a kid-friendly city -- just ask a kid! We asked hundreds of children who visited the Museum with their school groups, scout troops and Family Fun Day participants to list their favorite places in town, and the result…

With diverse influences that include cubism, surrealism and the Mexican muralists, Lou's paintings are a series of pictorial spaces borne of personal experience as filtered through dreams and illusions. The images of anonymous figures in common settings depict ritual happening…

Ibrahima Ndoye, who goes by “Ibou,” has been an artist all his life. Born in Senegal to a family who expressed their creativity in tie-dying, embroidery, welding and dressmaking, Ndoye learned from an early age that nearly any material can…

In an age of digital media, Tracie Fracasso’s artworks demand to be seen in person – a flat screen cannot do them justice. Her works are multilayered, two-dimensional images carefully arranged in a three-dimensional space within a glass-fronted frame. She…

You’ve probably seen Adam Rodriguez’s art, without knowing it. As a professional artist with the New York-based graphic design firm Success Apparel, he’s created designs for some of the most recognizable brands in the world, including John Deere Apparel, Dickies…

Bowerbirds don’t merely “feather their nests” — they create elaborate art installations to impress prospective mates, using colorful materials collected from around their environment, such as cast-off bottle caps, buttons and trinkets. Jennifer Place identifies with the impulse to collect.…

Most of us deliberately tune out the scenery along New Jersey highways as we drive past the railroad and highway bridges crisscrossing the Meadowlands marshes. It’s hard to categorize what we’re seeing—neither planned architectural landscaping nor unfettered nature, it’s a…

From a distance, an artwork by Robert Forman appears to be many paintings at once, layered in some mysterious way. Up close, the mystery deepens: Instead of paint, the surface is composed of many colored threads, laid downwith as much…

Hiro Takeshita was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and from an early age was interested in art and American culture. Born two years after the atomic bomb blast in his native city, he can still recall his mother’s searing memories of…

Ever since his mother took him to an airshow and let him take a ride in a B-24, at age 9, Peter Gutierrez has been fascinated by airplanes. He started making drawings of aircraft, and then his grandfather, a civil…

Hoboken resident and longtime Macy’s Parade Studio float builder John Cheney loves the challenge of drawing in ink. “Ink won’t allow you to go back and erase – you can accommodate errors, but just like in life, you can’t go…

Growing up in the Bronx under the watchful eye of a very protective grandmother, Benjamin Roman Jr. and his sister had a lot of time to while away indoors. He would fill hours sketching scenes of his apartment, images from…

The Museum is pleased to open a new Upper Gallery art exhibit on the same day as Hoboken's 3rd Sunday Gallery Walk, March 17, with "Mac Hartshorn, Photographer," an exhibit of artistic photographs of babies and children by professional portrait…

For Tom Yezerski, all roads seemed to lead to the Meadowlands. Literally. As a recent transplant to New Jersey from Allentown, Pa., Yezerski moved to Rutherford 14 years ago seeking a reasonably affordable community close enough to New York City…

Hoboken’s physical character is known for its storied waterfront, its compact and walkable streets, and its rows of well-preserved late-Victorian homes. But not since the Elysian Fields were converted to industrial use in the early 1900s has it been known…

Sometimes you have to get away—far away—to see your hometown from a fresh perspective. Or, you can stop by the Hoboken Museum’s Upper Gallery this September to see Hoboken From Afar: Photomontages by Roslyn Rose. A New Jersey native and…

Ricardo Roig, a young artist who moved to Hoboken in 2009 after finishing college, has long been an admirer of the Impressionist painters. Hoboken became his muse, he said, in part because its architecture reminded him of the Belle Epoque…

Did you know that Hoboken is home to one of the stars of the puppet-making world? The cover story from the Fall 2011 issue of The Puppetry Journal features Hoboken’s own Puppet Heap, an innovative design and fabrication studio that…

For head scenic artist Beth Lucas, the Macy's Parade Studio's move from Hoboken to Moonachie last year was bittersweet. While the new facility offers better lighting and working conditions, she misses being surrounded by historic details scattered throughout the architectural…

Hoboken artist Laura Alexander’s Monroe Center studio is a fixture on the annual Artists Studio Tour. In addition to her paintings, her studio walls are covered with colorful and interesting pop culture artifacts, which are fun to look at, but…

Artists’ muses can assume unexpected forms; the artist’s challenge is to be open to the muse’s inspiration. For artist Liz Cohen, a handmade doll from her childhood has emerged as a significant influence in her art. As a little girl,…

Unfolding Landscapes: Books and Boxes by Barbara Mauriello September 25 - October 2, 2011 An artist with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in painting, Barbara Mauriello hadn’t given much thought to how the books she loved to…

www.louisegale.com/art/ As a child growing up in South London, Louise Gale was encouraged to be creative, spending hours after school and during the summer drawing, painting, and creating patterns with her beloved Spirograph. She loved making decorations for Christmas, Easter,…

Hoboken artists Jennifer Place and Jodie Fink have been friends for so long, it’s hard for them to remember exactly when and where they met, but their long, close friendship is evident in the simpatico evolution of their artwork. They are…

Artist/photographer Sterne Slaven has an eye for the industrial soul of Hoboken. When he moved here in 1983, after graduating art school, he found himself drawn again and again to the old factory buildings in his uptown neighborhood: Ferguson Propeller…

A born artist, Bill Curran was fascinated with the interplay between shapes, colors, and light on the Hudson River from the moment he laid eyes on it from a stunning new vantage point, the Stevens Institute of Technology campus overlook.…

If you travel Hoboken by foot, you no doubt have seen those eyecatching posters on telephone poles and empty storefronts around town promoting local artist Robert Burczy. An art form of their own, these promotional posters have become a fixture…

“Down all the side streets, people have wonderful hidden gardens,” artist Bill Curran told a reporter from The Hudson Dispatch in 1986. Today, the painter says, “Seeing other backyards helped me see my own.” Curran loves nature and looking out…

Acclaimed photographer Benedict J. Fernandez went to work at Hoboken’s Bethlehem Steel Shipyard right after high school. His father, who had gone to work at the yard in 1936 and stayed until it closed, got him the job. Ben Fernandez…

A native of the Dominican Republic, painter Antonio DeJesus moved to Hoboken only three years ago. When he first arrived, DeJesus took long walks around town and developed an appreciation of Hoboken’s architecture. His paintings of local architecture and highly…