“In/Between 2026: reclamation mirrored” Exhibition

New York Live Arts, in partnership with NYFA, will present the 7th annual “In/Between” exhibition featuring works by artists in the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.

It will be on view in New York Live Arts’ Ford Foundation Live Gallery from 10:00AM-9:00PM ET daily from April 6-June 14.

Initiated in 2019 by artist Yanira Castro as part of her Live Feed residency at New York Live Arts, In/Between is an annual immigrant artist group exhibition originally created by Castro, Martita Abril, and Poppy DeltaDawn. Since 2023, the exhibition has been curated by Castro, Abril, and Zahra Banyamerian. It is developed in partnership with New York Live Arts and NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, with a commitment to increasing the visibility of, and conversation around, the work of immigrant artists. The name In/Between reflects on the multiplicity of immigrant artists’ experiences, identities, practices, and politics, while also speaking to the liminal experience of home/residence/community.

“In selecting work from New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2026 immigrant artist cohort—themes of portraiture and land emerged repeatedly. The assertion of self, place, and story rang to us as powerful testimony. The works in ‘reclamation mirrored’ are declarations of the complexity of belonging to ourselves, to the land, to one another. Through their work in a variety of mediums, these 17 artists arrest and hold us in their reflections, in the reality of being,” said Curators Abril, Banyamerian, and Castro.

This year’s exhibit features work by Patrícia Colmenero, Yoojung Hong, Mona Karami, Entung Liu, Hiroshi Masuda, Luisa Mantelli, Avani Patel, Malte Sänger, Shaheen Salehi, Heriberto Sanchez, Celine Mai Seehase, Jing (Ellen) Xu, Sixing Xu, Vasudev Vashisht, Jimena Vega, Voyo Woo, and Sachigusa Yasuda.

Images L to R – Row 1: Shaheen Salehi, Céline Mai Seehase, Hiroshi Masuda, Patrícia Colmenero, Sachigusa Yasuda, Malte Sänger, Sixing Xu; Row 2: Jing (Ellen) Xu, Luisa Mantelli, Mona Karami, Vasudev Vashisht, Jimena Vega; Row 3: Heriberto Sanchez, Entung Liu, Voyo Woo, Yoojung Hong, Avani R Patel