Event
March 9, 2025, 5–7pm

ISCP’s 30th Anniversary Benefit Auction

The International Studio & Curatorial Program’s 30th Anniversary Benefit Auction, powered by Artsy, features over 45+ works by ISCP’s international alumni and supporters, with a range of pieces by emerging, mid-career, and world-renowned artists. The selection was curated with input from over one hundred of ISCP’s international community of artists, curators, connoisseurs and cultural workers.

This year, ISCP is proud to honor Remy Jungerman, Humberto Moro, Mimi Thompson and the James Rosenquist Foundation.

WHEN: Sunday, March 9 from 5–7pm

WHERE: Almine Rech, 361 Broadway, New York, NY 10013

ISCP is the largest international artist residency in the nation. To date, we have welcomed over 2,000 residents from 105 countries, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Elmgreen and Dragset, Theaster Gates, and Camille Henrot, offering a critical platform for creative development and exchange. Attending the benefit supports ISCP’s mission to build and sustain a vibrant community of contemporary art practitioners and diverse audiences.

Partial proceeds from the benefit will go towards ISCP’s Vision Fund.

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Tickets
-Raffle ticket: $25
-Sponsor an Artist: $50
-Raffle Ticket Bundle (5 tickets): $100
-Friend ticket: $100
-VIP ticket: $250
-Supporter ticket: $500
-Patron ticket: $1,500
-Champion ticket: $3,000

ISCP’s 30th Anniversary Benefit Program
-Remarks by benefit honorees
-45+ artworks on view from ISCP’s 30th Anniversary Benefit Auction, powered by Artsy running from February 24-March 10
-Live auction of experiences conducted by Sarah Krueger of Phillips
-Raffle led by 2025 Benefit co-chairs Patricia L. Brundage and Sophie O. Riese
-Cocktails curated by Chiarina Chen
-Light bites and drinks from our sponsors Grimm Artisanal Ales, Isle of Harris, NY Distilling Company’s Jaywalk Rye, WAVA Water, and Summer Water
-And more!

30th Anniversary Benefit Raffle Prizes and Experiences
-Rebecca Chamberlain regenerated garment
-Trenton Doyle Hancock Basketball
-JEFFOUNET Jacket
-POWArts Membership
-Monographs of Agnes Martin and Mark Rothko
-Weekend in the Catskills for four
-Set of eight Loie Hollowell Artist Plates
-VIP walkthrough of Arrival Art Fair in North Adams, Massachusetts
-Overnight stay in the countryside of Marrakech, Morocco
-And more!

Auction Artworks by:
Alchemyverse, Bianca Argimón, Itziar Barrio, Catalina Bauer, James Beckett, Laura Bernstein, David Byrne, Elaine Byrne, Cody Choi, Vincent Chong, Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz, Billy Copley, Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan, Laura Fitzgerald, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Verónica Gaona, ektor garcia, Michaela Gleave, Jude Griebel, Sandra Hamburg, Pablo Helguera, Anaïs Horn, Anthony Iacono, Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Lauren Kelley, Felix Kindermann, Sean Mellyn, Michail Michailov, Azita Moradkhani, Devin N. Morris, Sandra Mujinga, Marie Munk, Carolina Muñoz, Hayal Pozanti, Joshua Thaddeus Rainer, Dana Robinson, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Theodore Roszak, Yoshie Sakai, Abed Elmajid Shalabi, Pauline Shaw, Dannielle Tegeder, Michael Tsegaye, Ai Weiwei, Elias Wessel and more!

30th Anniversary Benefit Committee:
Emily Alli, Audrée Anid, Clare Bell, Emma Bowen, Patricia L. Brundage (Co-chair), Susan Brundage, Elaine Byrne, Celine Collazo, Eden Deering, Sarah Duzyk, Alexandra Friedman, Karyn Issa Ginsberg-Greenwald, Cristina Gómez, Barbara Heizer, Sarah Jones, Karen Karp, Houda Lazrak, Jeffrey Lee, Thomas Lollar, Maureen Mahony, Samar Maziad, Rene Melchor, Rusudan Melikishvili, Sophie O. Riese (Co-chair), Lucia Roldan, Hannah Root, Lèna Saltos, Aaron Schwarz, Julia Speed, Mimi Thompson, Rachel Tretter, Marianthi Vlachos, Lauren Wolchik, Christina Yang, Richard Zakin

ISCP Board of Directors:
Emily Alli, Danny Báez, Patricia L. Brundage, Sarah Duzyk, Dennis Elliott, William Harrison, Sarah Jones, Karen Karp, Samar Maziad, Manu Mohan, Sophie O. Riese, Lèna Saltos, Marjorie Welish, Arthur Zegelbone

ISCP thanks the following donors and supporters:
Audrée Anid, Patricia L. Brundage, Elaine Byrne, Yng-Ru Chen, James Cohan Gallery, Celine Collazo, Dennis Elliott, Gagosian, Cristina Gómez, Barbara Heizer, Jay Hines, ISCP Young Patrons, Sarah Jones, Sarah Krueger, Houda Lazrak, Luce Productions, Lucy Lydon, Maureen Mahony, Rene Melchor, Audrey-Anna Oliveros, Pace Gallery, Sophie O. Riese, Hannah Root, Julia Speed, Rachel Tretter, Christina Yang

ISCP is extremely grateful to our event partners and sponsors Almine Rech, Artsy, Grimm Artisanal Ales, Govino, Isle of Harris, Jaywalk Rye, Phillips, WAVA Water and Summer Water.

Can’t attend? Donate to support ISCP here.

For questions or additional information, please contact benefit@iscp-nyc.org

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David Byrne, The Couple, 2021, fadeproof waterproof ink on archival paper, 0 × 9 × 12 in. (0 × 22.86 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of Hannah Root.

Claire Fontaine, Society of the Spectacle Brickbat, 2006, brick and brick fragments, digital archival print and glue, 4 × 8 × 2¹/₂ in. (10.16 × 20.32 × 6.35 cm).

ektor garcia, cabeza güera, 2019, glazed ceramic and crochet cotton, 10 × 7 × 7 in. (25.4 × 17.78 × 17.78 cm).

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Nardeen Srouji in Conversation with Sara Reisman

February 18, 2025, 6:30–7:30pm

ISCP Talk

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7

Exhibition

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls

Opening Reception: Feb 25, 2025

February 25–June 6, 2025

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Exhibition
February 25–June 6, 2025

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition. Through surreal, assemblage compositions, Bravo explores ideas around inheritance, memory, and biography. Fusing family history and mythology, she creates deeply personal works that question and reinterpret the stories passed on to her. The artist’s paintings, drawings and sculptures take shape as symbolic portraits, invoking the psychic impact of generational conflict and connection.

Bravo’s rich visual language is informed by her family’s past, including her grandparents’ life as cattle ranchers in Cuba, a place she is culturally tied to yet geographically distant from. In slowly unfolding, dreamlike narratives, she envisions a fictionalized bucolic Cuban landscape where queer female warriors and family archetypes converge with deities from the Afro-Caribbean Santería religion. Bravo’s figures are presented with a profusion of motifs. References to boxing, her father’s highschool sport, and rooster- and bull-headed figures symbolize defiance and stubbornness. These are traits the artist shares with the patriarchal members of her family across generations. She highlights these traits in her work as a means to move through the world with more power. For Bravo, her practice of storytelling has offered her a way to reflect on, in her words, how “machismo is inherited and alchemized into empowerment when wielded by the feminine.”

This exhibition presents a group of new works made during Bravo’s recent residency at ISCP. Inspired by memories of her grandparents’ home, she transforms the gallery into an uncanny domestic interior. Bravo conflates past and present in these works as she points to the fragmented and imprecise nature of ancestral histories.

Born in New Jersey, Bravo is a New York-based artist from a Cuban and Italian family. Her work combines symbolism from Cuban culture with hyper-personal stories to create her own vision of a queer afterlife universe. She has exhibited work at Semiose Gallery, Paris; Swivel Gallery, New York; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York; and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, among other venues. Her work will be featured in an upcoming group exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Bravo is a recipient of The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund Residency at ISCP.

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls is curated by Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions. It is supported by The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund Artist; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; 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 Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.

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Accessibility information: 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.

Opening Reception: Feb 25, 2025

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Amy Bravo

Amy Bravo, From His Rib, 2024, canvas, acrylic, wax pastel, graphite, epoxy, thread, lace, found object and frame, 80 × 42 in. (203.2 × 106.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Cary Whittier.

Amy Bravo, Where Sleeping Bulls Lie, 2024, wood, acrylic, foam, epoxy, wax, synthetic hay, thread, and found object, 70 × 24 × 24 in. (177.8 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Cary Whittier.

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Nardeen Srouji in Conversation with Sara Reisman

February 18, 2025, 6:30–7:30pm

ISCP Talk

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through March 7

Exhibition

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls

Opening Reception: Feb 25, 2025

February 25–June 6, 2025

Exhibition

Donate

ISCP Talk
February 18, 2025, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Nardeen Srouji in Conversation with Sara Reisman

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Nardeen Srouji will be joined by curator Sara Reisman. Srouji will present on her practice and speak with Reisman about her engagement with the dualities of material and site, and the ways she challenges perceptions of history and form through her site-specific architectural interventions. They will also discuss Srouji’s recent, ongoing Re-Thread-ing project that investigates the visual culture of embroidery to understand the complex nature of cultural memory, and how it is simultaneously and continually being dismantled and rebuilt. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Nardeen Srouji, a Palestinian artist, delves into the gaps between stability and instability, placement and displacement, familiarity and estrangement. Transitioning between sculpture and installation, she appropriates familiar objects, images, and sounds from her surroundings, transforming them into interventions that challenge viewers to reconfigure their understanding and relationship with the world. Recently, her focus has shifted to site-specific art, exploring how processes take form within the multilayered dynamics of the body in relation to place, space, and time. Srouji has exhibited work at A M Qattan Foundation; Haifa Museum of Art; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, all in Israel and in Palestine, among others.

Sara Reisman is a curator, educator, and writer based in New York City, currently working since 2021 as Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design. From 2014 to 2021 she was Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and from 2008 to 2014, she was Director of New York City’s Percent for Art program at the Department of Cultural Affairs. She has curated exhibitions for the Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Cooper Union School of Art, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Momenta Art, Smack Mellon, and LaMaMa Galleria, among others. Reisman has taught art history and contemporary art issues at the University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Purchase School of Art + Design, and, since 2016, is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts’ Curatorial Practice Masters Program.

This program is supported by Artis; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: 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.

6:30–7:30pm

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