Aoko—born away from home: ArteFuse

Installation view, Aoko—born away from home, curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.

Aoko—born away from home: Claiming and Creating Identity at EFA Project Space, NYC

“Aoko—born away from home is a powerful multimedia group show at EFA Project Space until November 16. The exhibition includes visual art, video, and writing from artists about the experience of being mixed race. This show was very personal to me, as I am a mixed-race person, and it touched on themes that people outside of this demographic often overlook. Oftentimes, mixed-race people feel like they are not enough of one thing to identify with any one identity because of the way their peers react to them. Aoko—born away from home touched on this feeling while fighting for our right to claim our heritage. Additionally, I have found community with other mixed-race people regardless of ethnic background, and the exhibition captured this solidarity by representing many different mixed-racial and ethnic identities.”

—Bash Ortega for ArteFuse

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MDR, Marjorie Welish, & Dylan Gauthier at ISCP 25th Anniversary Symposium

EFA Studio Member Artists MDR (Maria D. Rapicavoli), Marjorie Welish, and the Program Director of EFA Project Space, Dylan Gauthier, are part of ISCP 25th Anniversary Symposium: Cultural Exchange and the Life of the Metropolis. They’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on December 6, 2019 from 2:15 - 3:30PM.

EFA Project Space's "In the Presence of Absence" Reviewed on Hyperallergic

EFA Project Space’s exhibition “In the Presence of Absence” curated by Jillian Steinhauer was reviewed by Louis Bury on Hyperallergic. The exhibition features the artists Inbal Abergil, Emily Carris, Leigh Davis, Valery Jung Estabrook, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Nene Humphrey, Melinda Hunt, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, M. Carmen Lane, and Todd Shalom. The show is on view from March 27 – May 11, 2019.

EFA Project Space's "Curriculum" Reviewed in Artforum

EFA Project Space’s exhibition “CURRICULUM: Spaces of Learning and Unlearning” curated by Stamatina Gregory & Jeanne Vaccaro was reviewed by Artforum. The show features the artists OlaRonke Akinmowo for Free Black Women’s Library, Becca Albee, Amelia Bande, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Christen Clifford, January Hunt, Carolyn Lazard, Candice Lin & Patrick Staff, Julie Tolentino, Quay Quinn Wolf, and Sarah Zapata. The exhibition is on view from January 16 - March 16, 2019.

EFA Project Space

EFA Project Space public events this week feature OlaRonke Akinmowo's The Free Black Women's Library, a viewing and reception organized by Christen Clifford with the Feminist Art Project, and a special post-Valentine's day reading with author and critic Jennifer Doyle.

Adam Pendleton

EFA Project Space artist Adam Pendleton will participate in the Biennial of the Americas at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2015.