Goings On | 04/20/2026

Contents for April 20th, 2026

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1. John Ahearn, Penny Arcade, Pixy Liao, Alva Rogers, Juana Valdez, FF Alumns, named 2026 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows

2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at HuckMag.com and more

3. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at 127 Walker Street, Manhattan, thru April 24

4. Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumns, now online at YouTube.com

5. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, thru Aug. 23

6. Billy X. Curmano, FF Alumn, at Broken World Records, Winona, MN, Apr. 24

7. Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumn, at The Glass House, New Canaan, CT, thru Dec. 14

8. Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

9. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1184350304

10. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru May 9

11. IV Castellanos, Anya Liftig, Anh Vo, FF Alumns, at Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan, June 4-7

12. Bob & Bob, FF Alumns, at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Apr. 25

13. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, now online at MoMA.org

14. Spalding Gray, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com

15. Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

16. Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

17. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, spring news

18. Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, Barry Rowell, R Sikoryak,  FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 30

19. Suzanne Anker, FF Member, at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, thru Sept. 30

20. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, at AfterWork Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, opening April 24

21. Tessa Hughes-Freeland, FF Alumn, at Gallery 1053, Fleischmanns, NY, thru April 26

22. Sylvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at MoCA London, UK, opening May 31

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1. John Ahearn, Penny Arcade, Pixy Liao, Alva Rogers, Juana Valdez, FF Alumns, named 2026 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows

Please visit this link:

https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2026-guggenheim-fellows\

Thank you.

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2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at HuckMag.com and more

Please visit these links:

https://www.huckmag.com/article/photos-new-york-80s-90s-queer-activists-scene

https://www.advocate.com/photography/nyc-queer-history-comes-alive#rebelltitem22

Thank you.

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3. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at 127 Walker Street, Manhattan, thru April 24

RSVP: https://linktr.ee/boroughbasedliberationproject

City in Resistance, an iteration of the Borough Based Liberation Project of 2024, will launch on April 17, 2026 at 127 Walker Street in Chinatown, New York, opening a week-long space for gathering, exchange, and organizing during Earth Week and an alternate home for indigenous organizing parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Spearheaded by Chinatown Art Brigade, Alicia Grullón, Quito Ziegler from Dandelions NYC, Mon M., and the W.O.W Project, this convening brings together land defenders, artists, organizers, and movement workers from Indigenous territories and New York City communities. At a moment of overlapping political, ecological, and social crises, City in Resistance centers connections across movements, recognizing that struggles for land, housing, sovereignty, justice and collective survival are deeply interconnected.

City in Resistance will operate as a shared organizing space in Chinatown, which has always been a site of resistance. This space sits adjacent to the proposed site of one of four new jails in the city.  Our gatherings ask what futures we could build rather than caging people. The central days of the week will focus on visiting indigenous land defenders and cross-movement exchange, while other days will hold more locally-grounded gatherings with communities and organizers based in New York City. The intention is to create a place where people can meet beyond the constraints of formal conferences, build relationships, share strategies, and explore what coordinated action might look like across borders.

We continue to nurture the seeds of collaboration planted during the Borough Based Liberation Project installation that took place at 127 Walker in the fall of 2024. Like then, as now, movements, organizers, and artists convened to reckon with anti-war and anti-genocide solidarity, to study together, and to learn about ongoing struggles within the city together. 

Throughout the week, participants can expect circles, conversations, co-working sessions, workshops, strategy sessions, and informal gatherings that make space for both reflection and planning. Participants will share how they are experiencing the current political moment in their territories and communities, while collectively exploring pathways for solidarity and action.

City in Resistance is grounded in a simple premise: when movements meet each other directly—across geographies, languages, and struggles—they build the conditions for stronger, more coordinated resistance. This week in Chinatown offers a place for those connections to take root.

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4. Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh, FF Alumns, now online at YouTube.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvljsoMC22M

Thank you.

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5. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, at Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, thru Aug. 23

Marina Abramović

Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition

Gropius Bau, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany

April 15 – August 23, 2026

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition, a major exhibition by Marina Abramović at Gropius Bau in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. Spanning across ten rooms, the exhibition underscores key themes prevalent in Abramović’s oeuvre, including ritualistic practices, the intricate historical context of the Balkans, and the nuanced interplay between eroticism and mortality.

Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition features a convergence of historical works and new video installations, delving into Marina Abramović’s exploration of the body as a powerful medium for addressing political systems, historical narratives, and mythologies of the Balkan region. The exhibition is organized into three thematic chapters, beginning with Tito’s Funeral, 2025, a monumental video installation that revisits the funeral of Josip Broz Tito, drawing parallels between collective mourning and the Southeast European tradition of expressing sorrow through rhythmic movement and ritualistic wailing. The second installation, Kafana, 2025, reconstructs the ambiance of traditional Balkan taverns, inviting viewers to engage with the environment and creates an opportunity for communal reflection, evoking the social interactions that took place during the era of Yugoslav socialism. Magic Potions, 2025 features a performer dressed as a scientist who guides attendees through the rich tapestry of regional rituals, set against a backdrop of towering phallic mushrooms. Animated videos within this installation illuminate historical practices that highlight the significant role of sexual symbolism in the cultural landscape of the Balkans.

The exhibition will also include iconic works such as Rhythm 5, 1974, Lips of Thomas, 1975/2005, and Spirit Cooking, 1996. Nude with Skeleton, 2002/2026 will be re-performed daily, serving as a poignant reminder of the intimate bond between life and death. In conjunction with the exhibition at Gropius Bau, a corresponding stage version will also be presented at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in October 2026.

For more information about Marina Abramović’s Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition, please visit berlinerfestspiele.de

For information on Marina Abramović, please visit skny.com

For all other inquiries, please email Lauren Kelly at Lauren@skny.com

For media inquiries, please email Brandon Tho Harris at Brandon@skny.com

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6. Billy X. Curmano, FF Alumn, at Broken World Records, Winona, MN, Apr. 24

Wonderland Billy X Curmano & Mai’a Williams with special guest: Rowan Emmanuel

April 24th, 6 pm, Broken World Records, 265 E. 3rd St, Winona, MN

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7. Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumn, at The Glass House, New Canaan, CT, thru Dec. 14

Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg:

The Catch One

The Glass House, New Canaan, CT

April 16 – December 14, 2026

To mark the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth, The Glass House together with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation proudly presents Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One. Featuring newly commissioned paintings by Jackson in dialogue with works by Rauschenberg from the historic site’s permanent collection, the exhibition contributes to a global slate of 2025–26 initiatives that reexamine Rauschenberg’s legacy, honoring his expansive creativity, spirit of curiosity, and commitment to change.

Rauschenberg was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century who influenced the trajectory of American art. In 1961, the artist made the Combine First Landing Jump, which Johnson purchased and later gave to the Museum of Modern Art; it was the first painting by Rauschenberg to enter the museum’s collection. Four years later, Rauschenberg designed costumes for a performance choreographed by Merce Cunningham on The Glass House grounds, set to a score by John Cage and debuted alongside a concert by the Velvet Underground. Three works by Rauschenberg remain in The Glass House’s permanent collection.

Drawing inspiration and materials from his surroundings, Rauschenberg famously collaged images, and everyday objects into his work. “There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,” Rauschenberg said. This exhibition includes two artworks from the Spread series (1975–83) by Rauschenberg from The Glass House collection: Ring Master and Recital—both made in 1980 and collected by Philip Johnson and David Whitney. These works are composed of plywood panels on which Rauschenberg variously applied acrylic, paper, fabric, solvent-transferred imagery, and commonplace objects, such as a fan. Additional works from The Glass House permanent collection and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation will also be featured in the exhibition.

While distinct in approach and context, Tomashi Jackson’s practice has affinities with Rauschenberg’s: she employs painting, printmaking, photography, and performance to examine how abstraction, color theory, and social histories intersect in shaping perception and everyday life. Rigorous and experimental, her work is rooted in archival research while pushing the material and conceptual boundaries of painting.

Jackson was invited to respond to the Spreads in The Glass House collection during a summer 2025 Rauschenberg Foundation residency in Rauschenberg’s former home and studio in Captiva, Florida. While reflecting on the Captiva compound and The Glass House as creative sanctuaries fashioned by white queer men, Jackson recalled memories of her mother’s involvement with sanctuaries for and by Black lesbian women in her native Los Angeles.

Jackson’s new paintings feature archival images related to Jewel’s Catch One, a Black lesbian-owned nightclub in Los Angeles that provided a welcoming space for Black and queer communities, offering cultural programming, health services, and social support when many mainstream clubs excluded them. Under the leadership of its owner, Jewel Thais Williams, the Catch One became a vibrant community institution that fostered a sense of joy, care, and belonging.

“At The Glass House, we have long understood the site as a place of exchange between past and present, architecture and art,” says Kirsten Reoch, Executive Director of The Glass House. “This exhibition carries that vision forward by placing Robert Rauschenberg’s historic work in dialogue with Tomashi Jackson’s powerful contemporary practice; by pairing pieces from our collection with new commissions, we seek to create an experience that deepens engagement with the site and underscores our commitment to exhibitions that provoke reflection, spark dialogue, and invite discovery.”

“This exhibition demonstrates the power of dialogue across time, place, and lived experience,” says Courtney J. Martin, Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. “Bringing Tomashi Jackson’s newly commissioned works into conversation with Rauschenberg’s Spreads invites us to encounter both artists anew, each attuned to the social textures of their moment and to the ways material, image, and history shape how we see and understand the world. Jackson’s response echoes Rauschenberg’s conviction that art is not separate from life, but an active force within it. We are proud to partner with The Glass House on this ambitious project, which honors Rauschenberg’s centennial as a living exchange grounded in care, experimentation, and the enduring capacity of art to foster connection and change.”

Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One is curated by Cole Akers and organized by The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

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8. Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/arts/design/emily-pulitzer-st-louis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Thank you

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9. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1184350304

TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS 

MAILING LIST:

“Am I going in the right direction?”

https://vimeo.com/1184350304

PZ, April 18, 2026

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10. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru May 9

The Plato’s Cave exhibition of Robert Allen Witz, “I PAINT OVER.” 
extended to Saturday May 9, 2026 
originally March 20 to April 18, 2026

Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House, 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249 USA 
Hours by appointment, contact: Paul Lamarre: eidiahouse@earthlink.net

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11. IV Castellanos, Anya Liftig, Anh Vo, FF Alumns, at Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan, June 4-7

 New Dance Alliance Announces the 40th Annual Performance Mix Festival

June 4-7 2026 at Abrons Arts Center’s Underground Theater

New York, NY, March 25, 2026 – New Dance Alliance (NDA) has announced the lineup for the 40th Annual Performance Mix Festival, marking four decades of championing innovative experimental work. Performances are Thursday, June 4 to Sunday, June 7, at Abrons Arts Center’s Underground Theater, 446 Grand Street (at Pitt Street) in Manhattan. Performance times vary. Tickets for the festival are $16.60 (including fees). Special packages are also available. Tickets can be purchased online at https://abronsartscenter.app.getcuebox.com/o/C5XTY485/shows/1N78CWNK.

“This year’s festival marks the 40th anniversary of Performance Mix, a testament to its continued vital necessity to our city’s cultural community,” said Karen Bernard. “We have invited festival alumni and early career artists. We are pleased to announce three Franklin Furnace alumni IV Castellanos, Anh Vo, and Anya Liftig. This anniversary celebration will strengthen our alumni network across generations and geographies, create new opportunities for international artistic exchange, and reinforce NDA’s role in helping experimental artists advance their careers in the cultural capital we call home.”

For More Information: https://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/

Artist biographies are available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/vmtxbq1uio0jw6wpmi25m/AL6kQuc5pDDyeUHy4amz_5Y?rlkey=g37ryr\3ywtk3wn7kyho65n9yy&st=wwc2j042&dl=0

About Abrons Arts Center

Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential for a thriving city. Through performances, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.

About Performance Mix Festival

For 40 years, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival has offered diverse emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to share work with audiences in Manhattan. Annually, it offers this jam-packed program of local, national, and international artists with the direct aim of supporting the

development of experimental works with the public. The original Performance Mix Festival in 1986 was groundbreaking in that it was the only festival at that time exclusively dedicated to performance art in Lower Manhattan. Its continued success is testimony to its vital necessity in New York’s cultural community.

About New Dance Alliance

Incorporated in 1989, New Dance Alliance (NDA) is a performing arts nonprofit. Its mission, from the earliest days, has been to support emerging experimental movement-based artists. NDA has made an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion by creating programs that center the work of artists from historically marginalized communities of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities. NDA provides space, residences, performance, and networking opportunities that help artists cultivate relationships, develop their artistry, and open doors to share their work in the US and internationally. NDA’s programs are Performance Mix Festival, Black Artists Space to Create, LiftOff Residency, Satellite, Work Session, and Karen Bernard Projects. These programs support the work of more than 100 experimental artists and 2,500 audience members each year. https://newdancealliance.org NDA’s season has been funded by Charities Aid Foundation America, Bernstein Family Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Peninsula Charities Foundation II. Cultural Services of the Quebec Government Office in New York, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and generous individual donors.

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12. Bob & Bob, FF Alumns, at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Apr. 25

Artist Talk & Mid-Show Reception

Bob & Bob

50 Years of Art | lost and found

Saturday, April 25 at 4PM

Refreshments will be served

rsvp: info@craigkrullgallery.com

Please join us for a spirited discussion on Bob & Bob’s prolific 50 year history as an Art Team.

Bob & Bob began their artistic career as a duo while attending the ArtCenter College of Design in 1974 after they met in a painting class taught by Llyn Foulkes. Deeply influenced by Foulkes’ rebellious and subversive attitude towards consumerist culture, Bob & Bob began creating performances, paintings, drawings, and happenings in response to the political and cultural climate of Los Angeles in the late 20th Century.

https://www.craigkrullgallery.com

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13. Peter d’Agostino, FF Alumn, now online at MoMA.org

Here is exciting news to share-  MoMA’s recent  acquisition of my ALPHA, TRANS, CHUNG project  – below.

Now online at  https://www.moma.org/collection/works/505154

Please let me know if you would like additional information. Stay in touch- with best wishes, pdA  https://peterdagostino.com

Peter d’Agostino, Professor Emeritus, Film & Media Arts, Temple University

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14. Spalding Gray, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/avant-garde-experimental-theater.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Thank you

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15. Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/arts/design/sfmoma-fisher-collection-museum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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16. Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/arts/design/guggenheim-pop-art.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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17. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, spring news

News Blast April-May

Spring Open Studio:

New Paintings on Displacement

An instinctive response to recent current events at Salon 37

April 25-26, 2-5pm

37 Canal St, #3, New York, NY, 10002

(third-floor walkup)

Exhibitions Opening Soon

Our Mother

A new exhibition opening in Pangea’s Cabaret Room

May 3 – August 30, 2026

Pangea Restaurant and Bar

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm

and

Rooted

A group exhibition exploring the visible and invisible roots that shape who we are

May 7th – June 9th 2026

Kota Alliance

Opening Reception: May 7, 2026 at 6:00pm

and

Women Celebrating Women

A group exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace

March 4th – March 28th, 2026

Let’s have some fun! Happy Spring!

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18. Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, Barry Rowell, R Sikoryak,  FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, April 30

SAVE THE DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 30!

An 18-month performance adventure begins with a one-night only event

A Performance Cabaret Celebrating the Native New Yorkers

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2026 at 7pm

The Lounge at Dixon Place

161A Chrystie Street, btwn Rivington & Delancey, NYC (map it)

Featuring:

Songs by DAVID BRANDON ROSS

A dance by JUAN CAMILO ORTIZ inspired by the poetry of Miguel Piñero

Live painting by R. SIKORYAK inspired by the art of Maurice Sendak

Your hosts, native New Yorkers

HECHTER UBARRY and ABIGAIL MATIAS

New works by CHERRYE J. DAVIS, CONRADO FALCO, and BARRY ROWELL

Performed by OSCAR CASTILLO*, TIM CUSACK*, ALLESANDRA LOPEZ, CATHERINE PORTER*, ISABELLA JANE SCHILLER, NOMI TICHMAN, and more!

Production Stage Manager HEATHER OLMSTEAD*

Directed by KATHLEEN AMSHOFF

Produced by RALPH LEWIS, CATHERINE PORTER, and BARRY ROWELL

In 2013, PWP led audiences on an epic adventure through New York City history over two floors of the James A. Farley post office in midtown Manhattan. In 2026, we’re building a new promenade by bringing together artists from multiple disciplines to create brand new works celebrating the city that we all call home.

The first installment in the development of our 2027 promenade production kicks off the series of performance parties with All I Remember is Here, an evening dedicated to the people born and raised in New York City.

Get more info on our website, here: https://www.peculiarworks.org/citysessions_04-30-2026.php

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19. Suzanne Anker, FF Member, at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, thru Sept. 30

BLOOM

Katrin Bucher Trantow, Chief Curator

Runs through September 2026

Kunsthaus Graz

Lendkai 1

A-89020 Graz, Austria

Installed in more than 10 museums, Bloom is an exhibition highlighting flowers and their relationship to humans. Bringing together the role of flowers amidst an ecological crisis, colonial aftermaths, and the digital revolution, 35 international artists explore this concept in myriad ways. As we share 30% of our genetic information with flowers, we become aware of evolutionary time. This exhibition invites viewers to pay attention to things that grow slowly, require care, dissolve, and reappear quietly.

With works by i. a. Iris Andraschek, Suzanne Anker, Karl Blossfeldt, Andrea Bowers, Viltė Bražiūnatė & Tomas Sinkevičius, Claude Cahun, Regula Dettwiler, Spencer Finch, Barbara Frischmuth, Anita Fuchs, Yevhen Holubentsev, Sanja Iveković, Anna Jermolaewa, Markus Jeschaunig, Claudia Larcher, Jonas Mekas, Joiri Minaya, Ryts Monet, Alois Neuhold, Agnieszka Polska, Anna Ridler, Ugo Rondinone, Martha Rosler, Sonya Schönberger, Nina Schuiki, Elfie Semotan, Petr Štembera, Alexander Stern, Thomas Stimm, Michael Stusser, Neja Tomšič, Dirck van Rijswijk, Anna Zemánková and further loans from collections of cultural history, natural sciences or literature, the exhibition unfolds as a polyphonic exploration of the flower, its attribution and power of attraction.

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, the Daejeon Biennale 2018, Korea, The Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe | ZKM, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the JP Getty Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York, where she continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Laboratory. She is also the recipient of SLSA’s (Society of Literature, Science and the Arts) Lifetime Achievement Award (2024).

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20. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, at AfterWork Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, opening April 24

Hello,

You are invited to explore the damaged, intriguing body of water between Queens and Brooklyn, a small river known as Newtown Creek. For MUSSEL MEMORY, my upcoming exhibition, I make prints, drawings, installations, zines, and textile works, and collaborate with dancers also inspired by the Creek’s history and science. This iteration of my SLUDGE project focuses on the native mussels returning to the Creek, despite having endured nearly 200 years of industrial toxins. 

At the heart of this inquiry is a ghost island, made entirely of mussels and demolished a century ago: Mussel Island.

The MUSSEL MEMORY exhibition is an ode to the disappeared island and a tribute to a current multispecies effort of tenacity, resilience, and return to the Creek.

Here are the details:

MUSSEL MEMORY: Priscilla Stadler’s Continuing Creative Exploration of Newtown Creek

April 24 – May 21, 2026

Opening Friday April 24, 6 – 9 pm, Shakun Davi Dance performance 7:30pm

AlterWork Gallery, 40-20 22nd St., lower level, Long Island City, NY 11101

Gallery open 12 pm – 9 pm daily

Get updates via: IG @atreeilove, or www.priscillastadler.com/mussel-memory.

Hope to see you there,

Priscilla

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21. Tessa Hughes-Freeland, FF Alumn, at Gallery 1053, Fleischmanns, NY, thru April 26

I’m having a show at Gallery 1053 In Fleischmanns NY from April 17th – April 26th.Thank you. Tessa Hughes-Freeland

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22. Sylvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at MoCA London, UK, opening May 31

Save The Date! 31/5/26

BY A THREAD Silvia Ziranek

TRIGGER WARNING: contains allusions to physical and emotional abuse.

Domestic. Universal. Poetic. Provocative. Unifying. Ingenious. Explosive. Subtle. Text in Textiles. True. Sculpture.

Sound installation.

Through sculpture and sound installation Silvia Ziranek’s

BY A THREAD, incorporating UNSUNG SONGS, offers insight into a personal yet universally recognised outrage. Ingenious use of everyday materials combines in beautifully created text framed in textiles in the form of a monumental mobile to create a provocative arena for contemplation.

Launch Sunday 31/5/26 2-4pm, readings at 2.30 and 3.40pm

Closing Saturday 4/7/26 2-4pm, reading at 3.15pm

113 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4QY

@silvia_ziranek

@moca_london

MOCA LONDON

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