Opening Reception: Friday, November 14, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 15, 1–6pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art by the 33 artists and curators from 22 countries in residence. Guest speaker artist Martha Wilson will make remarks at 7pm during the opening reception.

This event is free and open to the public.

Three times a year, ISCP invites the public to engage with its cohort of international artist and curator residents in their individual studios. Residents present recent projects, work in progress, site-specific installations and their archives to a large audience of professionals and art enthusiasts from New York and beyond. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building in East Williamsburg, ISCP supports the creative advancement of artists and curators from around the world, presents exhibitions and talks year-round, and fosters cultural exchange. From 1994 to the present, ISCP has hosted over 2,000 alumni hailing from more than 105 countries. Today, ISCP’s Open Studios, a three-decade tradition, continues to be the organization’s signature event.

Visitors can also explore two exhibitions at ISCP: Carried Over, guest curated by TK Smith, and Maya Jeffereis: Land of Eternal Summer, curated by Melinda Lang, Director of Programs and Exhibitions. Carried Over explores the creative strategies of Braxton Garneau, Remy Jungerman, and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, three ISCP alumni with African and Indigenous roots, who tell profound stories of place and displacement, of resilience and resistance. Ground Floor resident Maya Jeffereis debuts a new video installation for her exhibition that reframes overlooked histories of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil through a poetic blend of archival documentation, firsthand accounts and experimental film techniques.

Open Studios participating artists and curators:

Hissa Al-Khuzaei (Qatar); Ghazaleh Avarzamani (United Kingdom/Canada); Arini Byng (Australia/United States); Irène Mélix (Germany); Karin Fisslthaler (Austria); Rafaela Foz (Brazil); Ella Gonzales (Canada); Antonietta Grassi (Canada); Katharina Gruzei (Austria); Hermann Grüneberg (Germany); Ronald Hall (United States); Hong Seon Jang (South Korea/United States); Maya Jeffereis (United States); Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (Denmark/Germany); Manjot Kaur (India/Canada); Gunilla Klingberg (Sweden); Ailyn Lee (South Korea/United States); Kris Lemsalu (Estonia); Sujin Lim (South Korea/United States); Simon Liu (Hong Kong/United States); Abirami Logendran (Norway); Umber Majeed (United States); Wendimagegn Belete (Ethiopia/Norway); Inge Meijer (The Netherlands); Eva Richardson McCrea (Germany/Ireland); Grace Rosario Perkins (United States); Neda Saeedi (Iran/Germany); Keli Safia Maksud (Tanzania/Canada); Swapnaa Tamhane (Canada/India); Clio Van Aerde (Luxemburg); Marianne Villière (France); Sasha Wortzel (United States); Sarah Zapata (United States)

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors:

Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Associação dos Artistas e Produtores do Centro de São Paulo (ASP); British Columbia Arts Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Canada Council for the Arts; Creative Australia; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Danish Arts Foundation; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Hartfield Foundation; Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; KdFS – Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt; Leon Polk Smith Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This program is also generously supported, in part, by the Austrian Cultural Forum; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Consulate General of Sweden; Consulate General of the Netherlands; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; Royal Norwegian Consulate General; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Barbara van Beuren, Younghee Kim-Wait, Doreen Small, and Laurie Sprayregen.

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Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email programs@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.