(No) Recess
S Emsaki (2025-2026 Studio Artist)
May 14, 2026 – June 20, 2026
Microscope Gallery, New York City, NY
Microscope is excited to present “(No) Recess,” a group exhibition opening Thursday May 14 featuring mostly new and recent paintings, sculptures, single and multi-channel video, installation, photography, and drawings by a selection of emerging to established artists including those from our roster with works by Peggy Ahwesh, Ina Archer, Lili Chin, S Emsaki, Copper Frances Giloth, Narcisa Hirsch, Chihiro Ito, Hey-Yeun Jang, Marni Kotak, Jahi Kijo Lendor, Jeanne Liotta, Rachel Phillips, Yao Qingmei, Kevin Reuning, Lamar Robillard, Joel Schlemowitz, and Matt Town.
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni named as 2026 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts!
American Artist (Fine Arts) – 2021-2022 Studio Artist
Cate Giordano (Film-Video) – 2016-2017 Studio Artist
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni announced as Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2026 Grantees!
Ogemdi Ude (Dance) – 2022-2023 Studio Artist
Nyeema Morgan (Visual Art) – 2015-2016 Studio Artist
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni announced as The Bronx Museum 2026 AIM Fellows!
Maya Dixon (2025-2026 Studio Artist)
mujero (2023-2024 Studio Artist)
Kevin Quiles Bonilla (2022-2023 Studio Artist)
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni selected for Greater New York 2026
María Elena Pombo (2025-2026 Studio Artist)
Chang Yuchen (2023-2024 Studio Artist), For those who share mornings and evenings, 2025
fields harrington, featured in 10 Billion Barrels, 2023
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (Studio Artist, 2016-2017)
G. Rosa-Rey, featured in Spiral Time, 2024
Cinthya Santos-Briones, featured in Spiral Time, 2024
Cici Wu, featured in To trace the line where your body cut the air, 2024-25
April 16, 2026 – August 17, 2026
MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
I Want to Know, I Need to Know
Andrius Alvarez-Backus (2025-2026 Studio Artist)
February 21, 2026 – May 9, 2026
Eli Klein Gallery, New York City, NY
Eli Klein Gallery is honored to present “Andrius Alvarez-Backus: I Want to Know, I Need to Know,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, debuting six major multimedia sculptures and a series of works on panel. Emerging from a series of health incidents experienced by the artist and his family over the past year, the exhibition examines the intersection of the artist’s primal pursuit of self-knowledge and the denial of a fully transparent answer in its process.
ORDINARY IMPERMANENCE
Andrius Alvarez-Backus (2025-2026 Studio Artist)
October 23, 2025 – November 22, 2025
MAMA Projects, New York City, NY
Their duo show thus becomes an experiment in shared sensibility–perhaps a breaking-out of sensorial isolation. For viewers accustomed to the constant pulse of overstimulation, the quiet charge of visual intimacy these works offer may feel revelatory. Despite belonging to a generation often defined by impermanence and individualism, Park and Alvarez-Backus remind us that even fleeting connections leave a lasting impression.
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni announced as NYSCA/NYFA 2025 Artist Fellows!
Chat Travieso (Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design) – Studio Artist 2015-2016
Ogemdi Ude (Choreography) – Studio Artist 2022-2023
Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano (Photography) – Studio Artist 2011-2012, Metamorphosis of Failure, 2019
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni named as 2025 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts!
Ira Eduardovna (Film-video) – 2014-2015 Studio Artist
Charisse Weston (Fine Arts) – featured in The Dissolution caus’d by Fire is in all Bodies, 2022