Explore/Archive
Opens May 14, 2026
Bel Falleiros
A project that calls us, in this moment of social and environmental collapse, to make space to be with nature.
Opens March 22, 2026
Zeelie Brown
The artist will compose and premiere a new sonata exploring the links between music, ecology, and spatial justice
Opens January 14, 2026
Kriss Li
A circle of creative exchanges between Assembly youths and 3 incarcerated participants from Parole Prep’s Archive-Based Creative Arts program
Opens November 13, 2025
Anna RG
An experimental research, development, and community space exploring and supporting Sick Listening and Music
Opens September 14, 2025
Portals: Traversing Black Continuums
Kendra Bostock, Ziedah Diata, and Pia Murray
This work uses dance, sound, participatory art, and multi-sensory stimulation to examine everyday items in our lives that serve as portals.
April 3, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00pm
Game Night: A Spades, Tarot, Uno Kickback
Cleo Reed
A night to explore Black & Indigenous mysticism, communion, and fun.
March 29, 2025, 12:00 – 6:00pm
Labor is a Moving Image: Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Cleo Reed
films centered around workers’ unions and anti-capitalist movements throughout history
Opens March 15, 2025
CUNTRY: Always the Horse, Never the Jockey
Cleo Reed
A set of musical works, sculptures, and performances working to protest against the demand of labor and productivity in the US.
March 15–April 26, 2025
What Does A More Restful CUNTRY Look Like?
Cleo Reed
Unreleased snippets from Cleo Reed’s forthcoming album, a library of books curated by Cleo representing rest, labor, capitalism, black art, and more.
Opens February 13, 2025
A.K. Burns
After months of research & collaboration with a screenwriter, the artist will stage public screen tests that will be used to develop a new video work.
On view: December 12, 2024–February 12, 2025
Deli Radio
By merging these two concepts, Deli Radio reimagines familiar, everyday interactions as catalysts for community-building and collaboration.
October 5–November 23, 2024
Zain Alam
Enacts in miniature and in music the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset.
July 16–August 18, 2024
The Forever Museum Archive: Circa 2020_An Object
Onyedika Chuke and Assembly
a series of events, political polls, and artistic gestures chronicling events of 2020 in hindsight
May 9–June 19, 2024
Helina Metaferia
A site for transformative gatherings by and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)
March 7–April 19, 2024
E. Jane
fueled by a reverence for the artistic legacy of Black American R&B divas
November 11, 2023–January 25, 2024
Session & Assembly Collaboration: BARRO
Marcela Torres and Assembly
Torres in collaboration with Assembly will explore the history of New York through its soil and natural clay deposits.
September 14–November 10, 2023
Conjuring the Past, Marking the Present: Ancestral Healing Through Shamanic Reiki, Tattoo, and Sound
KING COBRA and Hue Hallums
Combining the sacred power of tattoo and shamanic reiki healing during this year's harvest and initiation season.
July 8–August 12, 2023
Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation
SFPC
The Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation (ECPC, pronounced easy-peasy) is an internet cafe being developed in real time.
May 20–June 13, 2023
Akeema-Zane and A. Sef
Void Spa aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry.
March 23–April 29, 2023
AYDO
Several total transformations, as each selection of dreams adapted into performance-based videos are situated in different imagined worlds.
January 26 – March 4, 2023
Suhyun Choi
The public is invited to donate their broken personal devices and write loving farewell letters to acknowledge their relationships
November 17, 2022–January 14, 2023
Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
The question of what to do with monuments that have potentially outlived their ideological usefulness
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo
using perception neuron motion-capture suits to witness signature movement vocabularies across the Black diaspora
May 20–June 25, 2022
Caroline Garcia
I Woke Up and Chose Violence is a response to the murders and deaths of BIPOC people inflicted by the hegemonic systems.
May 20–June 25, 2022
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
Francheska Alcántara
This session is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap.