STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY.
Exhibitions
Image: Hawu Lim, 2714 Norris Avenue - 62 (흔들리는 유령의 집), 2023
(Re)assemblage
The 2025 EFA SHIFT Cohort Exhibition
June 12 – July 26, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 12, 6–8 PM
EFA Gallery
323 West 39 Street, FL 3, New York, NY
EFA Studios is proud to present (Re)assemblage, the culminating exhibition of the 2025 SHIFT Residency program. Featuring work by DaeQuan Alexander Collier, Stephen Lau, Hawu Lim, and DW Zinsser, the exhibition will be on view in the EFA Studios Gallery from June 12 through July 26, 2025. Organized by independent curator Sophia Ma in collaboration with curatorial mentee Danielle Mann, this exhibition marks the fifteenth anniversary of the SHIFT Residency.
Named after Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal 1982 film, (Re)assemblage explores the politics of grief, memory, and identity through material fragments, ritual gestures, and poetic systems of making. Each artist approaches their practice as a site of negotiation—with loss, with family, with the violence of assimilation and erasure—transforming everyday materials into deeply intentional acts of assembly. Across sculpture, video, drawing, sound, and soft installation, they offer not answers but openings: spaces to gather, to grieve, to begin again, and to be visible and present.
Private Curator Walkthrough with Sophia Ma
Wednesday, June 18, 6:30–8:30 PM
EFA Studios is proud to present(Re)assemblage, the culminating exhibition of the 2025 SHIFT Residency program. As we celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the SHIFT Residency, we invite you to join us for a private curator-led tour with independent curator Sophia Ma on June 18.
Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship Exhibition
June 7 - July 13, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 4-6 PM
EFA RBPMW Study Center
323 West 39 Street, FL 2, New York, NY
Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation.
This intensive studio fellowship, running from February to May, is designed to fully immerse eight artists in the art of printmaking. SIP Fellows learn new printmaking techniques, refine existing skills, and participate in a culminating exhibition. The exhibition wraps up the fellows' immersive experience in exploring printmaking.
Artists, from all media, interested in making printmaking a regular part of their creative practice are invited to apply.
RESIDENCIEs + FELLOWSHIPS
2025 SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers
EFA Studios Program Artists-in-Residence
DaeQuan Alexander Collier
Hawu Lim
Stephen Lau
DW Zinsser
Since its inception in 2010, SHIFT Residency has been providing peer support, mentoring, studio spaces, and exhibition opportunities for over ninety artists who work in various arts organizations (as curators, educators, administrators, etc.), to advance their creative practices and to support the balance of their careers. SHIFT recognizes the contribution of arts workers to the art community, providing other individuals and the public with opportunities for growth and expansion. The SHIFT residency honors these artists’ commitment with a supportive, enriching, and collaborative environment.
SHIFT hosts a cohort of artists working in a range of media each year, from sound and installation to painting, performance, and social practice. In addition to its role as a support network, SHIFT promotes advocacy for arts workers and seeks to increase equity and representation within the field.
SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers 2025 is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Sadia Fakih, Untitled (the Meena-birds Journey Through and Recline in the Seven Valleys), 2022
Open Studio Sadia Fakih
Supported by The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
EFA Studios Program International Artists-in-Residence
Open Studio: Tuesday, June 3, 5–8 PM
Artist Talk: 6:30 PM
Sadia Fakih lives and works in Calgary, Canada. Her parents immigrated to Canada from Karachi, Pakistan, in the mid-1970s. Through assemblages and collage, she seeks to visually reconfigure the hierarchical social constructions of South Asian and Western cultures. Influenced by classic Indo-Persian miniature painting, Sadia explores her own myth-making in the transitional spaces that erupt when imposing identities collide.
Fakih received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement. She has exhibited work at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (New York), the School of Visual Arts Flat Iron Gallery and Nuit Blanche (Toronto). She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2021 and at El-Sur in Mexico City in 2023. Her work is in the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Global Affairs Canada collections.
2025 Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project SIP) Fellowship
EFA RBPMW
Artists: Carly Mandel, June Canedode Souza, Anna Ting Moller, Zalika Azim, E Jane, Anne Wu, Elle Perez, and Serafina Ariel
This intensive fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. Fellows are artists seeking creative exploration through printmaking, regardless of expertise, to apply their creative knowledge and conceptual goals to the print medium. The fellows are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA RBPMW staff.
The Kahn | Mason SIP Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation and the Wolf Kahn Foundation.
Open Studio Premio New York
EFA Studios Program International Artists-in-Residence
Open Studio: Tuesday, June 24, 6–8 PM
Artist Talk: 6:15 PM
Join us for a special evening at EFA with the Italian Cultural Institute featuring New York Prize winners Adji Dieye and Eleonora Luccarini. Adji Dieye’s work centers on photography as both a versatile medium and a tool to question representational “knowledge,” while Eleonora Luccarini’s interdisciplinary practice explores the performative potential of language through fiction. This annual prize is awarded to Italian artists to develop creative skills in contact with the cultural and artistic environment of the United States and in particular New York.
THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS
