EFA Project Space - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for EFA Project Space. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Katinka Mann “Perception Of Space”
In Katinka’s universe, her forms are clear, and the color illuminates the spiritual, minimalistic simplicity of her message. The tonalities of the aluminum and white pieces are sober. Katinka’s persona...More »
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“Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles” Exhibition
Curated by Nicholas O’Brien EFA Project Space presents Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles, a group exhibition of artists, designers, and developers exploring the boundaries of games...More »
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“Dark Data” Exhibition
Curated by Gee Wesley and Curatorial Fellow Bianca Dominguez and Mae Miller EFA Project Space presents Dark Data, curated by Gee Wesley with Curatorial Fellows Bianca Dominguez and Mae Miller, and work...More »
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“EFAbstract” Exhibition
Curated By: Bill Carroll Artists: Clytie Alexander, Vicky Colombet, Sally Egbert, Suzan Frecon, Katinka Mann, Heather Bause Rubinstein, Suzanne Song, Dannielle Tegeder, & Marjorie Welish More »
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“Free Elements” Exhibition
EFA Studios - 3rd Floor Gallery Artists: Emilia Ami, Deric Carner, Bill Carroll, Jazmine Catasus, Alex Credle, Kevin Dudley, Joshua Ene, Dylan Gauthier, JP-Anne Giera, Rob Golding, HC Huynh, Albert...More »
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“2019 Annual Members’ Show” Exhibition
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Community will come together to show the diverse talent of its members. More »
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“Soft and Wet” Exhibition
Curated by Sadia Shirazi EFA Project Space presents Soft and Wet, curated by Sadia Shirazi. The exhibition features works by Arooj Aftab, Beverly Buchanan, Crystal Z Campbell, Caroline Key, Ana Mendieta,...More »
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“WELCOME / New Member Exhibition”
Curated by Bill Carroll The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts extends a warm welcome to the six artists joining the EFA Studio Program in 2019. The group began their two-year renewable membership in...More »
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“Museum Without Building” Exhibition
a project by Yona Friedman Organized by Sylvie Boulanger, Nicholas Vargelis, Dylan Gauthier Artists: Fanny Allié, Laetitia Badaut Haussmann, Théodora Barat, A Constructed World with Stephanie Lin,...More »
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“Temporary Island” Exhibition
SHIFT Residency Exhibition Artists: Pradeep Dalal, Matthew de Leon, Alicia Ehni, Nung-Hsin Hu, Patrick Rowe, Maya Valladares, Annette Wehrhahn Organized by the 2018/19 SHIFT residents, with curatorial...More »
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Ming-Jer Kuo “Cemetery, Suburb, City”
Curated by Bill Carroll Working with sculptural elements and lens-based imagery such as aerial photography, EFA Studio Member Ming-Jer Kuo investigates the city, playing with perspective and scale to...More »
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“In The Presence Of Absence” Exhibition
Curated by: Jillian Steinhauer EFA Project Space presents the first exhibition curated by celebrated arts journalist Jillian Steinhauer, In the Presence of Absence, which looks at the nature of grief....More »
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“American Psyche” Exhibition
American Psyche presents works by EFA Studio Member Artists who make representational paintings and drawings focusing on the human figure. In selecting works for the show, it became clear that portraying...More »
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“CURRICULUM: spaces of learning and unlearning” Exhibition
Curated by: Stamatina Gregory & Jeanne Vaccaro Artists: OlaRonke Akinmowo for Free Black Women’s Library, Becca Albee, Amelia Bande, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Christen Clifford, January Hunt, Carolyn...More »
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“The Endless Editions Biennial” Exhibition
Featuring a piece by Gabriel Garza ARTISTS / Marcela Pardo Ariza, Shelly Bahl, Sarula Bao, Mitsuko Brooks, Angela Conant, Sage Dawson, Ricki Dwyer, Sarah Farahat, Divya Gadangi, Sair Goetz, Nicki Green,...More »
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“As Far as the Heart Can See” Exhibition
Nao Bustamante, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova & Project 59, Beatrice Glow, Ivan Monforte, Linda Mary Montano, Praxis (Delia & Brainard Carey), Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, and Martha...More »
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“A Place In The Sun” Exhibition
Noel W. Anderson, Shimon Attie, Ronald Hall, Justin Kim, Park McArthur, Cheryl Molnar, Amy Myers, Curated by Deric Carner The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program presents an exhibition...More »
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“SIP Fellowship Exhibition Part I” Exhibition
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“#callresponse” Exhibition
CALL To support the work of Indigenous women from across Turtle Island through art that drives dialogue and mobilizes action on the topic of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. To stand together across...More »
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“Protest Club” Exhibition
EFA International Partnership Artists: Ava Ansari, Salar Ansari, Maria Elvira Escallón, Rashwan Abdelbaki, Şener Özmen; and EFA Studio Member Artists: Wafaa Bilal, Saya Woolfalk, Richard Jochum, Karina...More »
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“Omega Workshop An Experiment in Counter-Fashion” Exhibition
Curated by: Rational Dress Society EFA Project Space presents Omega Workshop, an exhibition that functions both as a survey of contemporary experiments in revolutionary and utopian dress, and as a laboratory...More »
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“Progeny!” Exhibition
Artists: Carlos Amorales & Carlos Aguirre, Julian Hoeber & Ditta Baron Hoeber, Liz Magic Laser & Wendy Osserman, David Levine & Anne-Marie Levine, Nandi Loaf & Jean Patrick Icart-Pierre,...More »
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“Host EFA New Member Show 2017” Exhibition
Curated by Javier Plasencia and Anthony Tino Featuring 8 New EFA Studio Member Artists: Mattia Casalegno Jordan Casteel Elizabeth Colomba Sarah Dineen Alex Gingrow Ming-Jer Kuo Eun Young (Lydia)...More »
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“Near & Dear” Exhibition
Near & Dear is an intergenerational exhibition which explores amorous connections artists make with signifying materials and objects. These eight artists each use objects to deliver embodied meaning,...More »
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“Past Live” Exhibition
At EFA Project Space, 2nd Floor EFA Project Space presents Past Live, an exhibition produced by our 2016/17 SHIFT Residency artists. SHIFT Residency was launched in August 2010 to provide studio space...More »
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“2016/17 Whitney ISP Studio Exhibition”
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“EFA: The Real Staff Show” Exhibition
William Carroll Alex Credle Joshua Ene Meghana Karnik Essye Klempner Ernest Kuffour Michelle Levy Natalia Nakazawa Wilfred Perez Dathon Pilgrim Javier Plasencia Alexandra Price Mike Owens Justin...More »
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“Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying” Exhibition
Curated by: Taraneh Fazeli Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying focuses on how the body is articulated in various discourses oriented around health. It proposes...More »
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“Once More, with Feeling” Exhibition
Once More, with Feeling investigates the gendered economy of emotional expression and its relationship to contemporary art. Exploring the gaps between fantasy and reality, labor and leisure, free and working...More »
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“Apparatus for a Utopian Image” Exhibition
Curators: Pavla Sceranková and Dušan Zahoranský Exhibition Assistant: Tereza Jindrová Artists: Matěj Al-Ali, Keren Bebenisty, Tyler Coburn, David Court, Sean Fader, Kara Hearn, Zebadiah Keneally,...More »
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“NO ATLAS” Exhibition
EFA Project Space presents NO ATLAS, an exhibition produced by our 2015/16 SHIFT Residency artists. The unique nature of SHIFT Residency draws out unspoken challenges and considerations in the lives of...More »
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“A Certain Urge (Towards Turmoil)”
EFA Project Space brings together seven artists from Mexico, Spain, Chile and the U.S., to participate in the exhibition A Certain Urge (Towards Turmoil). Curated by Blanca de la Torre, A Certain Urge...More »
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“The Let Down Reflex” Exhibition
The Let Down Reflex is an exhibition that attempts to recognize the complexities of parenting in the art world, and asks if a better alternative for families can exist. Calling out a slippage in today’s...More »
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“Accompaniment” Exhibition
Curators: Kari Cwynar and Kendra Sullivan Accompaniment is a curatorial project exploring “accompaniment” as an evolving theory of practice, developed in response to our cultural and political milieu....More »
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“Writing Bodies” Exhibition
Participants: Dylan Mira, Jess Arndt, Dean Daderko, EJ Hill, robbinschilds, Katherine Hubbard, Simone White, Michelle Boulé and keyon gaskin Curated by: Litia Perta where are you right now as you...More »
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“The School of Nature and Principle” Exhibition
The School of Nature and Principle is an ensemble of works speculating on the relationship between metaphysics and various aspects of contemporary society. The exhibition also addresses, partly through...More »
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“Double Visions” Exhibition
We go round and around Making Lists Going around, making lists Going around, trying to make sense Going round, making sense Going round, making (non)sense Making sense Making sense, sense in making Making...More »
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“A Wicked Problem” Exhibition
A “wicked problem” is a term used by social policy experts to describe an issue that has innumerable causes, is tough to describe, and doesn’t have a right answer. Classic wicked problems include climate...More »
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“As We Were Saying: Art and Identity in the Age of ‘Post’” Exhibition
The artists in this exhibition wrestle with the question of what identity and difference mean today. Works by A.K. Burns and Katherine Hubbard, Josh Faught, and Cassandra Guan reflect on the erosion of...More »
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“Failing to Levitate” Exhibition
Curated by Kerry Downey and Natasha Marie Llorens, with guest speaker Heather Love. “Failing to Levitate” is a platform to think about failure and vulnerability in art practices that are based in the...More »
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“Several Circles” Exhibition
Curated by: Marco Antonini This group exhibition takes its title from Vasily Kandinsky’s “Several Circles,” a 1926 painting that epitomizes Kandinsky’s co-optation of geometric form, a consequence...More »
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Art Talk: Hasan Elahi “Tracking Transience”
In an age where everything is archived and the need to delete is almost nonexistent, can we remain private anymore? Hasan Elahi will discuss the new normal of post 9/11 privacy and describe his experiences...More »
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“Distant Images, Local Positions” Exhibition
What controls geography? Photographs, ultimately and they do so without neutrality. Our understanding of geography from afar is constructed in a fragmented and subjective way, via photographic imagery....More »
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“A Necessary SHIFT” Exhibition
Organized by: Michelle Levy, Lauren Bierly and Claire Barliant A Necessary SHIFT is an exhibition and series of events that celebrates and highlights EFA’s Residency for Arts-Workers as Artists, now...More »
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“Last Year at Marienbad redux” Exhibition
Curated by: James Voorhies, produced by Bureau for Open Culture “Last Year at Marienbad redux” is an exhibition, public program and publication that together explore the way fictional narratives...More »
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“Empathy Corporation” Exhibition
The Hive features projects that expand the boundaries of art by seeking new ways to integrate into real life experience. Instead of producing objects for display, the artists featured focus on participation...More »
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"The Emo Show" Exhibition
Curated by: Jaishri Abichandani and curatorial team Derrick Adams, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Maymanah Farhat, Edwin Ramoran, Jasmine Wahi and Raúl Zamudio. EFA Project Space announces "The Emo Show," a...More »
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"The Book Lovers" Exhibition
"The Book Lovers" is a multi-disciplinary exhibition, series of events, and library, all rising out of the phenomenon of artist novels. "The Book Lovers'" curators embarked on this project in order to...More »
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"Resonance and Repetition" Exhibition
"Resonance and Repetition," is a group exhibition featuring work by 10 artists organized by curatorial office Rivet. Resonance and Repetition carries forward the office's ongoing research into object-oriented...More »
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"To Have and To Owe" Event Series
"To Have and To Owe," is a research platform and event series for thinking about debt, organized by Leigh Claire La Berge and Laurel Ptak. Focused on the social relations that debt engenders, To Have and...More »
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"Cultural Transference" Exhibition
Curated by Sara Reisman, "Cultural Transference" presents recent artwork by sixteen international and New York-based artists whose practices are actively engaged with the transformation of culture in contemporary...More »
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"Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship" Exhibition
Curated by Belarus-born Olga Kopenkina, this exhibition brings together nine of the most active young artists from Belarus, and their videos, posters, paintings and installations created in solidarity...More »
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"Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" Exhibition
EFA Project Space partners with Telephone to present a unique venture inspired by concrete poet, Augusto de Campos. The exhibition and corresponding publication "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto...More »
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"Open Studios 2011" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-10-14 - 2011-10-15
Open Studios 2011 is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our vibrant and diverse community of 76 contemporary artists. EFA artists work...More »
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"iraqimemorial.org" Exhibition
"iraqimemorial.org" is a participation- based conceptual project launched in 2007 as an internet platform for artists, designers, and architects to propose concepts for memorials to the unrecognized civilian...More »
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"Sea Worthy" Exhibition
EFA Project Space presents an exhibition featuring artists who approach water navigation as subject, pushing its potential as a mutable open platform for social experimentation as well as metaphor for...More »
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Huong Ngo and Hong-An Truong "Acting the Words is Enacting the World"
"Acting the Words is Enacting the World" is a two week-long experiment in radical modes of education. Working with a group of young people aged 16-20, Truong and Ngo will conduct a series of intensive...More »
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"Playing to the Senses: An Evening of Food and Discussion with Elizabeth Thacker Jones" Art Talk
Organized in conjunction with the "Prolonged Engagement" exhibition, and inspired by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett' "Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium," Elizabeth Thacker Jones addresses...More »
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"Prolonged Engagement" Exhibition
Prolonged Engagement is an exhibition that brings together artists who create aesthetic conditions rather than discrete art objects. Finding beauty and ingenuity amidst human imperfection, the artists...More »
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"A Love/Hate Relationship: Artists Explore their Fixation with the Art World as Subject" Talk
A panel discussion featuring curator and artist Eric Doeringer in conversation with exhibiting artists Jennifer Dalton, Loren Munk, and William Powhida. The panelists will discuss their reasons for making...More »
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"I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me" Exhibition
We welcome in a new year of art with the exhibition I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me -- featuring artists whose subject matter is the art world. The title plays on Joseph Beuys’s infamous...More »
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"all we ever wanted was everything" Exhibition
Curated by galería perdida, "all we ever wanted was everything" commissions nine artists to question the importance of the single image. For this exhibition, a selection of diverse artists will design...More »
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"Short-Term Deviation: A Collaboration with Showpaper" Exhibition
Beginning mid-September, this collaboration with the print publication Showpaper, is a month-long exhibition, publication, video and music event. Bringing the spirit of Showpaper—which crossbreeds music,...More »
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"Word-Less" Exhibition
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-06-03 - 2010-07-23
Word-Less presents work that purposefully denies established forms of communication. Through performance, photography, video, sculpture, and installation, the artists in the exhibition seek alternative...More »
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"Common Jive" Exhibition
"Common Jive" presents a spectrum of contemporary artists who summon up vernacular and traditional craft approaches in their art-making practice. Organized in a collaborative effort between curator Julie...More »
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"The Artist-Citizen" Panel Discussion
EFA and CUE Art Foundation announce the fourth in a series of conversations focused on pertinent issues related to aristic survival in today's society. Artists play an essential role in contributing...More »
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"Companion" Exhibition
EFA Project Space announces "Companion," an exhibition of artworks contextualized with the source that influenced their creation. Using the EFA Studios Program as a curatorial foundation, "Companion" culls...More »
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"One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project" Exhibition
From the detritus under the windshield and the debris in our pockets to gig posters mounted on telephone poles, "One Every Day" attests that all varieties of print ephemera share the following three characteristics:...More »
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"EFA Project Space & Flux Factory present: Arctic Book Club, Artists Respond to An African in Greenland" Exhibition
Tété Michel Kpomassie’s book, An African in Greenland, serves as memoir, ethnography, and travelogue, and is the account of the author’s unique journey from his native Togo to Greenland. As a young man...More »
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"Chaperone: Eight Artists, Eight Weeks, Eight Movies" Film Series
Chaperone is an eight-week summer event consisting of films handpicked by a group of artists, all whose work provocatively explores disparate aspects of our culture’s love affair with mediated reality....More »
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"Never Late Than Better" Exhibition
On the centennial anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto, "Never Late than Better" (Trong Gia Nguyen, curator) contends with the questionable boundaries of space, time, and reality. Re-appraising the past...More »
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"Post Memory: Makeshift Memorials in Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Curated by Yaelle Amir, the exhibition features artists investigating alternative approaches to the process of memorializing, representing “various outcomes of remembrance through a mediated history.”...More »
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"Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception and the Artist’s Intervention" Exhibition
Curated by Michelle Levy. Image by Glen Baldridge.More »
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"In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space" Exhibition
"In Residence" is a collaboration between The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Sculpture Space, Utica. The exhibition is co-curated by Christa Erickson and Patterson Sims, and celebrates the crucial...More »