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Welcome

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Mission

KODA is a nonprofit arts organization based in New York dedicated to mid-career artists of diverse backgrounds. We grant residencies to allow for experimentation and facilitate creative projects through strategic partnerships with socially engaged partners. We are the go-to thinking spot and serve the community through exhibitions of contemporary art, events and outreach to strengthen art education.

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Artists

Residencies and exhibitions

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Community

Programs and education

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Partners

Socially engaged businesses

Events

  • Artist Tour of Sa'dia Rehman: Desire Lines
    Jun 03, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    KODA House #404B on Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
    Tour with Sa'dia Rehman of solo exhibition with new body of work tracing their family’s displacement from village in Pakistan in 1968-1976.
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  • KODA Professional Development for Artists Symposium 2023
    Practical seminars for artists to maintain a successful art career by Cynthia Tobar, Eva Mayhabal Davis, Hayley Ferber, and Renée Cox.
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  • Empowering Immigrant Stories of Labor
    Nov 07, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
    Zoom
    Online talk with Cynthia Tobar, Julia Justo and Rochelle Kwan honoring stories of immigrant New Yorkers to win racial & workplace justice.
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  • Opening Reception: Mildred Beltré: Working to get there
    Aug 20, 2022, 12:00 PM – Aug 21, 2022, 6:00 PM
    New York, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
    Working to get there’ takes its title from pre-figurative and abolitionist writing and presents prints, drawings, crochets, and human hair installations created between the years of 2002-2022 that represent a powerful struggle for racial and gender equity that is crucial to hope and joy.
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  • Tour + Garden Tea
    Aug 13, 2022, 2:00 PM – Aug 14, 2022, 4:00 PM
    New York, 168 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002, USA
    Exhibition tour with Bahar Behbahani and tea with the artist
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  • Tour of Rowan Renee: Solo Exhibition + Picnic on Governors Island
    Aug 06, 2022, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    KODA House #404B on Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
    Join us for an exhibition tour with artist Rowan Renee, followed by a picnic on Governors Island, NY
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  • Bahar Behbahani: 'Water binds me to your name' Opening Reception
    Jul 28, 2022, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Trotter&Sholer Gallery, 168 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002, USA
    This exhibition presents works anchored in the politics of water stewardship, and dares to reclaim a new mythical form of architecture that holds the water ecosystem.
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  • Rowan Renee: Solo Exhibition
    Jun 25, 2022, 12:00 PM EDT – Jul 24, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT
    New York, KODA House 404B on Colonels Row on Governors Island, New York
    No Spirit For Me (2019) and Bodies of Wood (2016).
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  • Closing Reception: Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine
    Mar 05, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10035, USA
    Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine is a survey exhibition of the artist’s work spanning the last eighteen years and created mostly during her time as an East Harlem resident.
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  • KODA’s Professional Development for Artists Symposium
    Feb 23, 2022, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
    Zoom Webinar
    Seminars by Fabri, Scenna, Goldbeck, & Perez, upskilling professional artists with practical competences to maintain a successful art career
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  • Exhibition Tour: Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine
    Feb 19, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10035, USA
    Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine is a survey exhibition of the artist’s work spanning the last eighteen years and created mostly during her time as an East Harlem resident.
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  • Tree Care and Art-Making Workshop with Sari Carel and Trees New York
    Nov 07, 2021, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
    Brooklyn, 558 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA
    Join KODA and Trees New York for a tree care and art-making workshop with artist Sari Carel.
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  • Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine
    Oct 13, 2021, 12:00 PM – Feb 05, 2022, 6:00 PM
    New York, 2180 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10035, USA
    Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine is a survey exhibition of the artist’s work spanning the last eighteen years and created mostly during her time as an East Harlem resident.
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  • Zine Making Workshop with Drew Brown
    Sep 25, 2021, 8:00 PM – 8:05 PM EDT
    Zoom
    Join KODA in this artist-activist workshop led by photographer Drew Brown through the process of zine creation.
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  • Maple Tree of Love Tapestry: Public Art Installation by Lina Puerta
    Jul 20, 2021, 7:00 PM
    Montefiore Hospital, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
    An outdoor art exhibition co-organized by KODA and Montefiore Fine Art Program and Collection is being displayed outside the Montefiore’s Moses Campus, in the Bronx.
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  • Performance: Earth Day Embodied Activism
    Apr 22, 2021, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
    Brooklyn, 157 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
    KODA presents Embodied Activism on the occasion of Earth Day
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  • Artist Talk: Farideh Sakhaeifar & Regine Basha
    Apr 13, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Webinar
    Artist talk with Farideh Sakhaeifar and Regine Basha, as part of the exhibition You are in the war zone.
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  • Performance: Amir ElSaffar
    Apr 03, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
    New York, 168 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002, USA
    Accessible outdoors—performance by Amir ElSaffar, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Farideh Sakhaeifar: You are in the war zone.
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“...a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and everyone. Real curiosity, I now know, doesn't leave much room for judgement.”

Marcia Tucker, the Founder of the New Museum

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