HACO NYC

HACO NYC is a gallery in Williamsburg that exhibits contemporary art alongside historic Japanese ceramics, lacquerware, and textiles while offering hands-on workshops, blending objects and artistic practice as a unified experience.

HACO stands for Human Art Core Odyssey. And that self-given name is the clearest signal of what the space is trying to do. Run by Yoko Suetsugu out of a storefront on Grand Street, it holds exhibitions, sells Japanese homewares, and runs hands-on workshops, treating all three as the same conversation. The programming moves between contemporary painting and objects centuries in the making: aizu hongouyaki pottery fired in Fukushima kilns active since the Azuchi-Momoyama period, lacquerware harvested from Aizu mountain forests, scroll paintings from a Soto Buddhist temple founded in 1595. What HACO keeps returning to is the question of what survives transmission: how a tradition stays alive not by freezing itself but by staying coherent to the present without abandoning its core.