NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program
In/Between Exhibition: More-than-human
New York Live Arts, in partnership with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), presents the 6th In/Between exhibition, featuring works by artists in the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
“In selecting and bringing this work together from New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2025 immigrant artist cohort—we were drawn to work of stark and quiet defiance. The works in ‘More-than-human’ evoke power and myth. Hanging on the ropes of the boxing ring, walking slowly across a city street, washing tenderly in a bathroom, suspending a single chokeberry–they summon the gravity and lightness of impermanence. These twenty-one artists, working in a variety of mediums, share the untold/told lore of birth, family, tradition, land, and challenge the structures that police existence,” said Curators Abril, Banyamerian, and Castro.
This year’s exhibit features work by Danielle Alhassid, Jae Hi Anh, Dai Asano, Anahita Bagheri, Kriston Banfield, Karena Bravo, Siyu Chen, Talita do Nascimento Cabral, Liza Domingues, Eli Farinango, Shishir Giri, Pavlos Liaretidis, Qiqing Lin, Elisa Lutteral, Agustina Markez, Rujuta Rao, Mei Seva, Assane Sy, Shu Wang, Michelle Wu, Won Young Chang.
Co-curated by Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, and Zahra Banyamerian, the exhibition will be on view at the Ford Foundation Live Gallery located in Live Arts Lobby.
The full list of artist bios can be found here.
Initiated in 2019 by artist Yanira Castro as part of her Live Feed residency at New York Live Arts, In/Between is an annual immigrant artist group exhibition originally created by artists Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, and Poppy DeltaDawn. The exhibition features and supports participants of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. The name In/Between reflects on the multiplicity of immigrant artists’ experiences, identities, practices, and politics, while also speaking to the liminal experience of home/residence/community.
The mentoring program pairs immigrant artists with mentors who guide them to achieve specific career goals while providing them with broader access to the New York cultural world. It brings mentees together with mentors as well as other program participants to navigate their shared experiences and the challenges of being an immigrant artist.
