The Gochman Family Collection, a significant patron of Indigenous art, has announced plans to open two new exhibition spaces totaling 10,000 square feet in Katonah, New York. Scheduled to debut this fall, the venues will showcase selections from a rapidly growing collection of over 750 works by Native artists from the U.S. and Canada. To lead this expansion, the organization has appointed Laura Phipps, a former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as its inaugural director.
This move signals a major shift from a private collection to a public-facing institution, further cementing the Gochman family's influence in the contemporary Native art landscape alongside their existing nonprofit, Forge Project. By establishing a permanent hub just outside Manhattan, the collection aims to increase the visibility of Indigenous artists like Wendy Red Star and Edgar Heap of Birds while providing a more accessible, institutional-scale platform for public programming and scholarly engagement.