Open Call: Portals

Twelve early-career, NYC-based artists and collectives present new works that harness personal stories and ancestral global history to open portals for passage, transformation, and resistance.

Ranging from painting and film to sculpture and performance, their works explore forces shaping our world: colonialism, migration, and environmental crisis. They search for healing out of historical trauma, investigate the ties between political borders and identity, and embrace the enduring power of generational spirituality in our everyday lives.

Together these artists forge profound connections between the past and present, memory and material, and displacement and belonging to create Open Call: Portals.

Artists featured in the exhibition were selected as part of Open Call, a commissioning program for early-career, NYC-based artists redefining what it means to make art. The exhibition takes place in the Level 2 Gallery and on the outdoor Plaza.