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  1. SHOUTER! (w.i.p.) - 2026
  2. Uptown  Voices - 2025
  3. Beauty & Splendor - 2025
  4. Undercurrents - 2025
  5. Shifting /\ Gazes - 2025 
  6. adrift: the bayou project - 2024
  7. FBF MA 10YR - 2022
  8. Center Focus - 2021
  9. Imagined Encounters - 2020
  10. Facing Forward - 2019
  11. Black Women: seen it before - 2017







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Shifting /\ Gazes Season I, 2025 International Residency Exhibition

‍With works by Tisha Benson, Ye Cheng, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Gloria Fan Duan, Inbar Hagai, Kei Ito, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Jung Won Lee, Karine Locatelli, Grace Qian, Romilly Rinck, Jiyoung Song, and Thomas Tait.

The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to present Shifting /\ Gazes, a group exhibition featuring work from the Season I, 2025 International Residency Artists: Tisha Benson, Ye Cheng, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Gloria Fan Duan, Inbar Hagai, Kei Ito, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Jung Won Lee, Karine Locatelli, Grace Qian, Romilly Rinck, Jiyoung Song, and Thomas Tait, curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Joyous R. Pierce.

How do we come to know space, not as something fixed, but as something we feel, move through, and reshape in real time? What happens when space is not just a container but something that shifts beneath us, unsettles us, or invites us to play?

Shifting /\ Gazes brings together new and developing works from artists who question the ways we navigate the world, the histories we carry, and the environments we move through. Through brushstrokes, installation, sculpture, breath, and material exploration, their works reorient passive observation, drawing us into a frame of more active engagement. Some pieces make the familiar feel strange, nudging us to look twice. Others play with time, memory, and perception, offering quiet disruptions that ask us to reconsider what we take for granted. Each work invites us to pause, step back, and shift our way of seeing.

The connecting undercurrent of these works is a deeper undoing—a gentle but deliberate unraveling of the systems that shape our understanding of space, identity, and power. The structures we inherit, whether built, social, or biological, are rarely neutral. Here, they are stretched, fractured, and rearranged. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with quiet defiance and always with curiosity. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, Shifting /\ Gazes opens portals of possibility, asking: What else might we see if we allowed ourselves to look differently



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