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TALK BACK, Flux Factory
co-curated by Lexy Ho-Tai and moira williams 5/9-6/2/19 The New York Times, New York Art Galleries: What To See Right Now. "...a group show at Flux Factory filled with works across media that treat disability not only as subject matter, but also as an aesthetic principle.Take Shannon Finnegan, who has used her art practice to call attention to the physical hostility of cultural spaces. Ms. Finnegan contributed benches that are hand-painted with pointed, pithy texts: “This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long,” one says. While she makes new functional objects, Ezra Benus has taken pre-existing ones, including a shower chair and massager, and arranged them to form “You shall rejoice,” a sculpture of suggestive sparingness." - Jillian Steinhauer Crip Impoderabilia, NYU Gallatin Galleries curated by Bojana Coklyat 4/18/19-5/1/19 Town Hall: Art, Disability, Labor, at Brooklyn Museum In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, a town hall exploring the intersections of art, disability, and labor, organized in partnership with Art Beyond Sight and the Fair Wages Task Force as part of the For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. For Freedoms builds on existing networks of artists and institutions in the United States, producing nationwide public art installations, exhibitions, and local community dialogues in order to inject nuanced, artistic thinking into public discourse in the lead-up to the midterm elections.October 21, 2018. Means of Egress, at Dedalus Foundation, Industry City Curated by Lisa Dent, Means of Egress includes explorations by artists participating in the Art and Disability Residency (ADR) of Art Beyond Sight. The exhibition reveals the breadth of ideas and processes that emerged from the cohort.After making careful aesthetic and technical choices, each artist creates work that emanates from a position of power not paralysis. The resulting exhibition represents the diversity within their community. October 4-November 1, 2018. Locus: Art as a Disabled Space The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and The 8th Floor partnered with 2016 Foundation grantee Art Beyond Sight to present Locus: Art as a Disabled Space. This exhibition featured works by Ezra Benus, Jordana Bernstein, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Shannon Finnegan, Jeff Kasper, and Madison Zalopany, who all participated in Art Beyond Sight’s Art & Disability Residency. Accessibility Workshop for Curators+, York College Fine Art Gallery, organized by No Longer Empty In conjunction with the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points, the 2017 NLE Curatorial Lab has organized an Accessibility Workshop for Curators, Gallery Directors and Arts Organizers. The evening will feature presentations by artist Ezra Benus and Ariel Willmont, Director of Fountain House Gallery. Ezra Benus: Disabilities, Art, & Jewishness, Princeton University Guest lecture at Princeton University, co-sponsored by Alliance of Jewish Progressives and the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Understanding. Access/Points: Approaches to Disability Arts Part 2: Roundtable Discussion on Disability Arts at CUE Art Foundation. NYC. SPARK Disability Arts Festival, 11/27-12/8/2017. Exhibiting at Studio C Gallery and Alberta College of Art and Design, Main Hall. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. “Strijd ∞ - a Performative Exhibition.” Art for the Sake of Democracy, Issue 16 (2017): 133-141. Benus, E., Breugelmans, T., Buta, C., Eckenhaussen, S., Kerchman, A., Lerm Hayes, C.M, Rhodes, E., Smalen, J., Sperling, F., “A Showcase: 12 Jewish Artist-Educators You Should Know”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 18, 2017, Online. “Sculpture, 'Zines, and The Book of Jonah: BIMA’s Artists’ Beit Midrash”, Sight Line Magazine, Covenant Foundation, October 16, 2017, Online. Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability 9/22-24/2017. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Exhibiting artist at the conference; exhibited three works from the Sex/Help series. Per Forma: Transition and Identity 12/8-9/2016. Performance of "לֹך לֹך/Go Forth/Go To Yourself" Collaboration with Anna Korbasova (Proteus Aa) at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. 'Per Forma' was a two–day event exploring the relationship between contemporary performance art, theatre and their audiences. 'Per Forma' was curated by Alice Maselnikova as part of a degree project within Curating Art, International Master's Programme at Stockholm University. The project was presented in collaboration with Europa Direkt Intercult and Fylkingen Studios. Hej Hej PALS Performance Art Festival 10/16/2016. Performance of “Fourth Text” with Anna Korbasova (Proteus Aa) at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. Strijd ∞ (Curator) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2/25/2015-ongoing Art History students added the Strijd ∞ exhibition to the visual culture of the Maagdenhuis protest/occupation until the eviction of all protesters, and afterwards was exhibited throughout Europe. Cult. Magazine, Issue #5 pp. 23, Winter 2014/2015, New York The Doping Agency: Second Show (xWhy Empire) 08/20/2014, Ella Lounge, New York Muse Scholars Showcase (Curator and exhibitor) 03/25/2014, CUNY Hunter College, New York Muse Scholars Inaugural Showcase (Curator and exhibitor) 05/08/2013, CUNY Hunter College, New York SWITCH 05/08-5/17/2012, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Forty exchange students from 13 countries, including two Fulbright Fellows from the US, exhibit the artwork they created over the year at Bezalel in the Academy’s Fine Art Department until May 17, 2012. |
