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NYU Steinhardt | MFA Thesis Part 2 EGGSHELL May 6 – May 23 Ariel Dizon Barish Christopher Chan Roxie De Là Mélanie Dumas Fan Qi Opening May 6, 6–8PM 80 Washington Square East New York, NY 10003 Reading by Roxie De Là, 6:30PM _____________________ - e g g s h e l l s (crack) are all around you especially u n d e r f o o t step lightly or don’t - @arield.b @honorroller @roxie.de.la @melaniedumas__ @fanqi_777

NYU Steinhardt | BFA Senior Honors The Magician's Choice March 21 – May 17 Sierra Cole Kaveh D’Rosario Alice Ningci Jiang Kangju Lee Yuxi Ma Tech Nix Cassie Pina Chloe Rady Owen Roberts On View at Broadway Windows* Broadway & East 10th Street ______________________ The Magician's Choice is a group exhibition curated by 80WSE Director, Howie Chen, and features the artwork of nine BFA Studio Art Majors in the final year of their undergraduate studies at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development’s Department of Art & Art Professions. *Broadway Windows is a series of five street-level display windows located at the corner of Broadway and East 10th Street. The installations can be viewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Image: Chloe Rady, Step Right Up, 2026.

NYU Steinhardt | MFA Thesis Part 1 Hoodwinked April 1 – April 18 Nicholas Koby Richard Medina Roselynn Sadaghiani Mario Saponaro Brooke Schneider Opening April 1, 6–8PM 80 Washington Square East New York, NY 10003 _____________________ Hoodwinked brings together five NYU MFA candidates in a game of barriers, overgrowth, decoys, fronts, and obstacles. Confronting our desperate times, each artist turns concealment into a generative act. @nick___koby @richardmedinastudio @roselynnsadaghiani @mario__saponaro @brooke_e_s

NYU Steinhardt | MFA 1ST YEAR PLUTO Feb 25 – Mar 14, 2026 Marley Blauch Sung I Chun Marlos E’van Chloe Hendrick hooz Eduardo Joaquin Kaj O’Connell Brian Oh Meiqin Peng Angela Wei _____________________ Out in the metallic hue - Pluto spins. - - In 2006 Pluto lost planetary status. Humans said, in order for an object to be deemed a planet in our solar system it must: 1. Orbit around the Sun. 2. Be round, shaped by its own gravity. 3. Have cleared its orbital neighborhood of other debris. Pluto failed to meet the third condition and was subsequently demoted out of planet-hood. - - Below the ice mountain skin of this once-planet, a vast ocean surges. In that dark water momentum, no cosmic murmur published on Earth can be heard from. Pluto, we slap thin palms against this infinite wall and let your image pounce from the dark. This show brings together work that exists in unstable or contested forms. We accumulate doubts, debris, contradictions, matter, as the force of our practices emerge. Pluto asks what value can persist when status is questioned or redefined. @artofmarley @siculptor @marlosevan @okchloeart @uhoozi @eduardojoaquin_studio @kajoconnell @5university @meiqin_pengpeng @theangelawei

NYU Steinhardt | Costume Studies Exhibition Praxis DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s The Project space at 80WSE January 17 – March 7, 2026 On view starting Saturday, Jan 17 Reception Wednesday, Feb 25, 6-8PM _____________________ Often imagined as innocent or naïve, girlhood is a complex terrain where self-discovery and joy coexist with the pressures and restrictions of adolescence. DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s examines how young women and girls in the last decade of the 20th century confronted dominant social expectations and redefined ideas of femininity through handcraft, community building, and a Do-It-Yourself approach. With a new millennium on the horizon girlhood became a landscape of possibility rather than a predetermined stage of life. DIY Grrrl reframes girlhood as a political condition concerned with issues of representation, bodily autonomy, and the right to self-definition. The term “girl” is understood as encompassing multiple possibilities across lines of gender, sexuality, race, and lived experience. Historical objects that pushed boundaries such as the works of Riot Grrl artist Tammy Rae Carland, the designs of Betsey Johnson, and an American Girl doll are placed in conversation with contemporary objects ranging from a home scrapbook to a SKIMS thong. Girlhood emerges in this exhibit not as nostalgia but as a contested and continually reconstructed space. DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s is curated by the NYU Costume Studies Masters Candidates: Erika Airikh, Ariel Bleakley, Rebecca Kaufman, Sloan Mulloy, and Kai Sweeney, under the instruction of Keren Ben-Horin. @nyucostumestudies

Akino Kondoh and Ryan Holmberg IN CONVERSATION, January 21, 7PM To mark the closing of Beetles, Cats, Clouds, artist Akino Kondoh and curator Ryan Holmberg will lead a gallery tour and conversation exploring alternative manga, Kondoh’s experience of cartooning as a woman in Japan, and the intersections of manga, animation, and fine art. Image: Kondoh Akino, Never Before Named concept art, 2020-3 * * * Kondoh Akino (b. 1980) grew up in the Tokyo suburbs of Chiba Prefecture and attended Tama Art University. In 2000, she received an award for her story “Kobayashi Kayoko” in Ax, an alternative manga magazine founded in 1998 by former editors of Garo. Melding the refined minimalism of traditional Japanese art with the imaginative flights of gothic fantasy, Kondoh’s exquisitely drawn and stylistically unique comics have ranged from surreal explorations of women’s identity and sexuality to romantic comedies and diaristic meditations. Glacier Bay Books’ forthcoming edition of her debut collection, Box Garden Beetle (2004), will be her first full book in English. Ryan Holmberg is an art and comics historian, editor, and Japanese-English translator. He is the author of The Translator Without Talent (Bubbles, 2020) and Garo Manga: The First Decade, 1964-1973 (Center for Book Arts, 2010). He has contributed numerous essays and reviews about art and comics to such publications as The Comics Journal, Artforum International, Art in America, and The New York Review. As an editor and translator of manga, Ryan has worked with Drawn & Quarterly, New York Review Comics, Breakdown Press, Retrofit Comics, PictureBox, Floating World, Bubbles, Glacier Bay Books, and Living the Line on over fifty books. His editions of Tezuka Osamu’s The Mysterious Underground Men (PictureBox) and Fujiwara Maki's My Picture Diary (D&Q) won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia in 2014 and 2024, respectively. He has advised on manga-related exhibitions at the British Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (remote) and lives near Baltimore, MD.

The curators behind @80wse ’s “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” accept the 2025 ARTnews Award for Best Thematic Museum Show. Surveying the period from 1969 to 2001, the show focused on three organizations: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, the Basement Workshop, and the Asian American Arts Centre. All three entities were explicitly branded as art spaces for Asian American artists, whose work was largely marginalized by mainstream institutions at the time. But “Legacies” was not merely a survey of these three entities, it also explored artists who operated outside them. Read more about “Legacies” at the link in our bio.

The 2025 ARTnews Award for Best Thematic Museum Show is awarded to “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” at 80WSE, New York, which was on view from September 11–December 20, 2024. The curators were Howie Chen, Jayne Cole Southard, and christina ong.⁠ ⁠ The show was billed as the first institutional show ever to survey artists of Asian descent in its titular city, a distinction that would make this show significant enough its own right. But, the exhibition also demonstrated that the 90 artists included did not only make art about their race, in the process complicating the relationship between one’s work and one’s identity in a nuanced way. ⁠ ⁠ Surveying the period from 1969 to 2001, the show was centered around three organizations: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, the Basement Workshop, and the Asian American Arts Centre. The teaser image for the show was a 1985 photograph by Hanh Thi Pham in which the Vietnamese American artist is shown holding a pipe to her mouth, a pose that vaguely recalls a similar one adopted by white male painters of the early 20th century. The photograph questions which kinds of people we typically consider to be artists.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the exhibition, and the nominees, at the link in our bio.⁠

80WSE is pleased to announce that 'Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969 - 2001)' has received ARTnews’ Best Thematic Museum Exhibition Award for 2025. “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City was billed as the first institutional show ever to survey artists of Asian descent in its titular city, a distinction that would make this show significant enough its own right. But curators Howie Chen, Jayne Cole Southard, and christina ong also demonstrated that the 90 artists included in the show did not only make art about their race, in the process complicating the relationship between one’s work and one’s identity in a nuanced way.” “Legacies was staged by 80WSE, an art space on Washington Square Park that is part of New York University; Chen, one of the cocurators, serves as its director. It is notable that this exhibition was put on not by a major museum but by this small institution, whose contributions to the New York ecosystem are large in spite of the space’s modest size.” --- Organized by Howie Chen, Curator at 80WSE, Jayne Cole Southard, PhD., CUNY, and christina ong, PhD. Produced by Jon Huron, 80WSE. Gini Yu Pei Lee, Curatorial Assistant. Gracia Brown and Daniella Occhineri, Research Assistants. Kate Edelson, Exhibition Registrar. The exhibition’s presentation is made possible by Teiger Foundation. Special thanks for the support of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Squid Frames, chenzo.studio, and Fales Library and Special Collections. Equipment provided in part by Lower East Side Ecology Center and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

NYU Steinhardt | MFA Project Space Mélanie Dumas Stiff Stiff Dec 3 – 6 Opening Dec 3, 5 – 7PM _____________________ Stiff Stiff considers how built structures can imply life without containing it. The work turns toward openings, airflow, enclosure and access: pipes without lungs, vessels without occupants, cavities that invite inspection but never satisfy it. An architecture pared to control, emptied of comfort, but ready to contain. @melaniedumas__

On view, “Beetles, Cats, Clouds" Sept 10, 2025-Jan 24, 2026 Curated by Ryan Holmberg @mangaberg “Beetles, Cats, Clouds” features three women manga artists—Tsurita Kuniko, Yamada Murasaki, and Kondoh Akino—whose work defied the reigning gender conventions within Japanese comics 1960s into 2000s.

NYU Steinhardt | MFA Project Space Roselynn Sadaghiani Show Runners Nov 19–22, 2025 Opening Nov 19, 5–7PM _____________________ Show Hunters begins from the premise that the historical persists through mediated forms, that every event in the present arrives, already framed, edited, and circulated. Within this endless mediation, the images become indistinguishable from their consumption; memory and catastrophe are aestheticized into apathetic spectacle. Show Hunters traces this erosion of immediacy into archive, asking what remains of experience once it is formatted for recollection. A staged hunt unfolds: a plastic predator and its plastic prey, cradled in the palms of a child, or sealed away in some dark storage room of a museum collection. Roselynn Sadaghiani (B. 2000), an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, was born in the backlot city of Vancouver, Canada, to Iranian parents. She has exhibited at 80WSE, the West Vancouver Art Museum, North Van Arts, Hatch Art Gallery, Audain Art Centre, and the Ferry Building Gallery. She holds a BFA (Hons) from the University of British Columbia and is currently a MFA Studio Art Candidate at NYU (2026) @roselynnsadaghiani