The Immigrant Artist Biennial [TIAB]

Join Our Patron Circle

The Patron Circle is a dynamic group of supporters who enjoy closer connection to TIAB’s vibrant artistic community.

With your membership, you will receive unparalleled access to immigrant artists and their environment in New York City, including:

-Private tours of artists’ studio
-Meet and greets with gallerists
-Curator-led tours at institutions
-Invitations from our TIAB alum artists to openings and events. 

Yearly Membership $225
Yearly Membership for Artists/Students $175
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100% of your fee will go to The Immigrant Artist Biennial covering fees to artists, art handling, and production for all exhibitions.

Past Events

The Immigrant Artist Biennial Patron Circle Invites you to:

Brooklyn Ballet & The Immigrant Artist Biennial
Art, Cocktails, Conversation & Dance
November 22nd 2022 7pm
Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave S, New York,
NY 10010

The evening featured Unnatural Surrounding performed by immigrant and other dancers from the Brooklyn Ballet against the backdrop of Utopia Process (2018), a video piece by The Immigrant Artist Biennial alumni artist Chen Wang. As Brooklyn Ballet dancers enliven the work in clusters throughout the space, the video uses surreal sets and costumes to splice utopian and dystopian fictional digital spaces. The juxtaposition and melting of these dark yet fantastical scenes acts as a playful mirror to the artist’s rejection of societal norms while constructing a new vision of gender and sexuality.

Dancers: Audrey Borst, ChrissyAnn Carpenter, Bobby “Anime” Major, Aoi Ohno, and Ladell “Mr. Ocean” Thomas.

The event coincided with Fotografiska New York’s largest exhibition to date, make BELIEVE, presenting the photographic oeuvre of David LaChapelle, who is deeply inspired by dance.

Photos: Sachyn Mital

The Immigrant Artist Biennial Patron Circle Invites you to:
A casual evening of studio visits at the Hunter MFA
Friday, Aug 19, 2022 7-9PM
205 Hudson St, New York, NY 10013.

Artists:
Rafael Yaluff
Jared Friedman
Milly Skellington 
Jacob Lay

The Immigrant Artist Biennial Patron Circle Invites you to:
Artist Talk with Negin Mahzoun and Tooraj Khamenehzadeh
in the exhibition "I Shouted My Laughter at the Stars."
July 7th, 2022 6:30-8:30PM
Aicon Contemporary
35 Great Jones Street, NY, NY

Free for Members l $25 for Non-Members

About the Artists

Working with various media and materials like sculpture, installation, painting. printmaking, and photography, Negin Mahzoun focuses on themes of observation, memory and gender in the context of her personal experiences. Her artistic practice draws from layers of history, literature, and the perspective of self portraiture to highlight the cultural identity of women’s bodies as an object and subject. Working primarily with canvas, treads, paper, and water-based pigments, Mahzoun creates a specific space for women to share life experience secluded from the assumptions and oppressive laws governed by society.

Tooraj Khamenehzadeh treats the production of art as a way of exploration, intuition, subjective experience, and immediate perception of reality. I’m Not a Song to Be Sung is a single-channel video representing a multi- channel video installation that concerns a generation of Iranians whose lives have been affected by long years of war, international sanctions, and civil and social pressures after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Each character was asked to stay underwater and recite lines from a Persian poem by Iranian poet Shamlou in English. The duration of each reading ranges from several seconds to over a minute.

Photos courtesy TIAB

Artist Led-Tour: Azzah Sultan
Feb 16th, 2022, 6-8PM 
Trotter&Sholer,
168 Suffolk Street, NY

Open to members of the Patron Circle and ticket-holders.

You are invited to join TIAB's Patron Circle for a fun evening with drinks, conversation, and an artist-led tour of “Batu Belah, Batu Bertrangkup: The Devouring Rock” a solo exhibition of Azzah Sultan’s newest work exploring and re-interpreting the Malaysian folktale by the same name. This oeuvre navigates ideas of domesticity and prescribed roles of mother and daughter within families and marriage. 

Azzah Sultan received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA at Washington State University. She was born in Abu Dhabi and is a Malaysian native. She has had her art exhibited in The New School, S.A.D. Gallery, The Bushwick Collective, BUFU Studios, The Ely Center, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Blackfish Gallery, Chase Gallery, Terrain 12, KMAC Gallery. She was a panelist for Muslim Women Reclaim Their Identities at Amherst College and a guest lecturer at Chautauqua Institution.

Photos: Bianca Abdi-Boragi

2019 Soft Launch and Fundraising

TIAB Kickstarter Campaign Backers Party
December 10th 2019 6-10pm
Performance by Lemon Guo
Artworks by: Yali Romagoza, Keren Anavy, Loretta Lomanto, Liza Sokolovksaya, Sophia Chicuzo, Ana Maria Farina, Sania Samad, Eva Davidova, Gene Tanta, Georgia Lale, Beverly Tu, Gina Goico
Chashama space to present
1 Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn, NY

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB Kickstarter Campaign Launch Party
Katya Grokhovsky: 2019 Kickstarter Creator in Residence
November 8th, 2019, 7-9pm
Kickstarter HQ
58 Kent st
Brooklyn, NY 11222

Performance by Anno Kachina
Panel discussion: Alicia Ehni, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Rachel Gugelberger, Gabriel de Guzman, Arden Sherman
Moderated by: Katya Grokhovsky

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB at Art & Social Activism Festival
Installation by Yale Romagoza
September 26th- October 20th 2019
32 Orchard st, NYC

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB at Art & Social Activism Festival
Performances by Yali Romagoza and Georgia Lale
October 5th 2019 6-8pm
32 Orchard st, NYC

Photos Katya Grokhovsky

TIAB Soft Launch Fundraising
Group Exhibition, Poetry Reading and Silent Auction
September 7th 2019 6-9pm
East Village Art View
111 3rd Ave, NY, NY 10003

Artists: Keren Anavy, Garciela Cassel, Eva Davidova, Ana Maria Farina, Gina Goico, Loretta Lomanto, Sania Samad, Liza Sokolovksya, Tatiana Soteropoulos, Gene Tanta, Beverly Tu, Kohei Urakami, Keiko Nabila Yamazaki
Poets: Marina Blitshteyn, Sokunthary Svay

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB Soft Launch Fundraising
Kathie Halfin: Labor of Love: Iteration II
August 4th 2019 6-8pm
Sidewalk Cellar at Assembly Room
191 Henry st, NY, NY 10002

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB Soft Launch Fundraising
Natacha Voliakovsky: Daily Reflections
July 19th 2019 6-8pm
Sidewalk Cellar at Assembly Room
191 Henry st, NY, NY 10002

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB Soft Launch Fundraising
Katya Grokhovsky: She Came to Stay
June 30th 2019 6-9 pm
Sidewalk Cellar at Assembly Room
191 Henry st, NY, NY 10002

Photos Alex Sullivan

TIAB Soft Launch and Fundraising
Group exhibition, silent auction and performances
May 17th 2019 6-10pm
Radiator Gallery
10-61 Jackson Ave,
Long Island, NY, 11106

Performances: Pei-Ling Ho, Tina Wang
Artists: Yali Romagoza, Daniela Kostova, Elena Chestnykh, Shay Arick, Shayma Aziz, Katya Grokhovsky, Tamas Veszi, Ming-Jer Kuo, Jodie Lynkeechow, Sophia Chicuzo, Nazanin Noroozi, Luisa Valderrama

Photos Alex Sullivan