A.I.R. GALLERY

A.I.R. GALLERY Advocating for women in the arts since 1972. Supporting women in the arts since 1972.

There's one week left to see our current exhibitions: "Outcropping" by Erica Stoller (.stoller)⁠⁠ and "Ineffable Touch" ...
11/03/2024

There's one week left to see our current exhibitions: "Outcropping" by Erica Stoller (.stoller)⁠⁠ and "Ineffable Touch" by Robin Dintiman ()!⁠
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To learn more about both exhibitions, stop by today from 12-6pm, or visit the link in our bio.

Submissions are open for the 2025 A.I.R. Biennial, "Find the Body," curated by Patricia Margarita Hernández () through O...
09/11/2024

Submissions are open for the 2025 A.I.R. Biennial, "Find the Body," curated by Patricia Margarita Hernández () through October 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM ED! ⁠
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"Find the Body," invites artists to engage with the nebulous boundary between performance and daily life, a line increasingly destabilized by the confusion inherent in our hallucinatory media landscape. We often find ourselves caught between the tension of digital entanglements and analogue experience. Find the Body is an opportunity to reflect on the contradictory confluence of reality and artifice—and how we present our most vulnerable selves on and offline.

2023–2024 Fellow Denisse Griselda Reyes has partnered with the Rural Women’s Association () to raise funds for Palestini...
05/13/2024

2023–2024 Fellow Denisse Griselda Reyes has partnered with the Rural Women’s Association
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The Rural Women’s Association is a grassroots organization founded in 2015, formed to organize educational, artistic, and cultural activities aimed at empowering children, youth, and women. Donations support crucial initiatives such as educational workshops, literacy classes, and psychological services that uplift Palestinian communities, and also aid in promoting sustainable income projects like traditional crafts and agriculture, empowering women to not only support their families but also to become leaders in their communities. These programs are vital in overcoming the challenges faced in rural areas, enhancing children’s wellbeing, and providing women with the tools they need for economic independence.

Join us on Saturday, April 6, from 2–4pm for a workshop on traditional Chinese water-based woodcut printmaking with 2023...
03/19/2024

Join us on Saturday, April 6, from 2–4pm for a workshop on traditional Chinese water-based woodcut printmaking with 2023–2024 Fellow Xinyi Liu ()!⁠⁠
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The workshop will cover fundamental aspects, including historical context, material selection, carving methods, ink preparation, and printing processes on mulberry paper.⁠ No prior experience is necessary.⁠⁠
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Space is limited. To RSVP, please visit the link in our bio.

Join us at A.I.R. Gallery on Saturday February 3 at 6PM for "Expression and Power", a panel presented by A.I.R. Gallery ...
01/21/2024

Join us at A.I.R. Gallery on Saturday February 3 at 6PM for "Expression and Power", a panel presented by A.I.R. Gallery and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) in conjunction with "CURRENTS: Free Expression and the Inexpressible"!

This panel brings together three artists from the 2024 CURRENTS exhibition, Avram Finkelstein, Viva Ruiz( ), and Asia Stewart (), as well as NCAC’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program Director Elizabeth Larison and exhibition curator Aliza Shvarts, to discuss censorship as well as the state-mandated silencing, medically enabled violence, cultural gatekeeping, and mediatized overexposure that circumscribes what we can and cannot express.

To learn more or RSVP, click the link in our bio.

Image: Asia Stewart, FAH, 2023. Enlarged polaroid print. 20 x 20 inches.

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed from December 20, 2023 through January 5, 2024. We wish you all a happy and restful holida...
12/20/2023

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed from December 20, 2023 through January 5, 2024. We wish you all a happy and restful holiday season!⁠⁠
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Regular gallery hours will resume on Saturday, January 6 with the opening of two new exhibitions, a solo exhibition by Carolyn Martin in Gallery I, and "Free Expression and the Inexpressible," the 2024 iteration of our CURRENTS exhibition series, curated by Aliza Shvarts, in Gallery II & III.

Join  at A.I.R. on Wednesday, November 29 7 to 9PM for a special screening and discussion of the landmark 1982 documenta...
11/21/2023

Join at A.I.R. on Wednesday, November 29 7 to 9PM for a special screening and discussion of the landmark 1982 documentary "La Operación." Directed by Ana María García, the film explores the impact of US-imposed population control efforts in Puerto Rico, focusing on mass sterilization, or as it's commonly known, "la operación," that affected a staggering 1/3 of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s.

Post-screening, NWL will lead a discussion regarding the power structure’s motivations behind historical and contemporary population control policies and how individual interests in family planning are often exploited to achieve the goals of capital. Consider this: What role does the power structure play in shaping policies around population, migration, and labor, and how do these policies impact targeted communities?

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed today, Thursday June 8, due to air quality conditions in NYC. Stay safe!
06/08/2023

A.I.R. Gallery will be closed today, Thursday June 8, due to air quality conditions in NYC. Stay safe!

In honor of our 50th anniversary we asked members of the A.I.R. community what the organization means to them! ⁠💙⁠For th...
05/19/2023

In honor of our 50th anniversary we asked members of the A.I.R. community what the organization means to them! ⁠
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For the seventh iteration of this series we are thrilled to feature artist and current A.I.R. Fellow Asia Stewart () who's solo show "dreamgurl" is currently on view. Stay tuned over the next couple months for more!

Join  at  on March 29 at 7 PM for a special public talk organized to celebrate Women’s History Month and learn about NWL...
03/23/2023

Join at on March 29 at 7 PM for a special public talk organized to celebrate Women’s History Month and learn about NWL’s campaign to get the Morning After Pill available over the counter!
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During the event, a NWL activist and plaintiff in the case against the FDA (Tummino v. Hamburg) will discuss the tactics used to win the fight to make emergency contraception available to all without a prescription.
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RSVP and learn more via the link in our bio!

DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.SZN 1 was a fantastic experience! I learned a lot and was able to connect with my immediate ...
03/17/2023

DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.

SZN 1 was a fantastic experience! I learned a lot and was able to connect with my immediate community of Black women. I wanted to see their work remembered and have our ideas recorded for the future so that history reflects them wholly. The artists featured in SZN 1 were: Ariel René Jackson, Ellesse Nyree Garvin, Bianca Fields, Kristen McKinney, and Keli Safia Maksud. SZN 2 recently began and included Kelli McKinney and Isabel Alicia Baptisa.

I want to take into consideration those who don’t use IG to provide a means of wider access. I can’t wait to share how it will unfold with you throughout 2023. Yes these are conversations about art, but they are also conversations about home, space, belonging, health, and more. The project is growing beautifully and I can’t wait to see how it blooms! Thank you to the A.I.R. community for letting me spend these last few weeks with you.

🔺DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.🔺Episode NMBR 5 featured 2022-2023 A.I.R. Fellow Keli Safia Maksud! I had met Keli through ...
03/10/2023

🔺DSCNNCTD Presented by A.I.R.🔺

Episode NMBR 5 featured 2022-2023 A.I.R. Fellow Keli Safia Maksud! I had met Keli through Blackburn and had done a studio visit with her. As the project developed, I reached out to her and she agreed to participate. During her episode, we talked about how sound shapes space. I didn’t know that Keli was a fellow at A.I.R. until after her episode. One day I entered the gallery, and they were preparing for their fellowship opening program, and Keli was presenting. It was kismet! Take a listen. I enjoyed and learned so much from our conversation.

DSCNNCTD is a podcast dedicated to exploring the practices of Black and POC artists across disciplines. These discussions decenter the sociocultural lenses of trauma and violence to allow for conversations on aesthetics, fun, history, craftsmanship, and ingenuity to thrive.

Hi A.I.R. Community! It’s Stephanie E. Goodalle here to talk about my podcast DSCNNCTD. I started DSCNNCTD for several r...
03/03/2023

Hi A.I.R. Community! It’s Stephanie E. Goodalle here to talk about my podcast DSCNNCTD. I started DSCNNCTD for several reasons. I was already in conversation with my Black women friends at the time. This screen cap is from SZN with Atlanta-based photographer Kelli Jai McKinney.

Many Black arts professionals can speak to the sudden boom of business or interest in their work after the events of 2020. The spectacle of Black trauma is profitable and I felt that I was being approached solely to engage with this. It's tiring, limiting, and unchallenging and others share my sentiments. DSCNNCTD is that space that decenters that trauma and violence. Yes, it exists, but it doesn’t have to consume every thought.

These discussions are an archive for artists as they develop in their careers. It’s important that there are immediate resources both for an artist and their audience. DSCNNCTD allows for artists to talk and allows for listeners to revisit the discussion at a later time. I don’t want history to have to play catch up with Black and POC artists this time around. I want the record, artistically, historically, and socially to demonstrate that they, we, are here.

12/27/2022

For ✨50 years✨ has provided an essential alternative space for artistic risk-taking and feminist solidarity in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. From challenging the inequitable representation of women and non-binary artists to championing reproductive justice and fostering international feminist community, A.I.R. has long been a platform where the arts and activism intertwine.

As 2022 comes to a close, your tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫

Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.

Images: How to Perform an Abortion, “Trigger Planting” (2022); “CURRENTS: Abortion” (2018); “CHOICE” (1992); “Sleepless in Warsaw” (2022); [A.I.R. + BATURU] (2020-21); “Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together?” (2018); “Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States” (1980).

12/15/2022

As celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever. The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 to address the lack of support for emerging and underrepresented artists in NYC and has since enabled more than 110 women and non-binary artists to realize their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community.

Your end-of-year tax-deductible contribution of ✨any size✨ to the will help ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for generations to come. 💫To support us, click here: www.airgallery.org/donate💫

Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.

Images: A.I.R. Fellowship Exhibitions: Maya Jeffereis (2022), Bat-Ami Rivlin (2021), Sareh Imani (2020), Macon Reed (2019).

11/29/2022

For 50 years has provided an essential alternative space for artistic experimentation and rigor in the face of patriarchal and market-driven interests. While much has changed since A.I.R. was founded in 1972, our mission to provide vital resources and opportunities to women and non-binary artists is more urgent than ever.

Your contribution to the Campaign ensures that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫 To support our work, visit www.airgallery.org/donate 💫

Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.

Image 1: Women, Art, & Revolution, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 97 Wooster St, 1980, design by M. Field; image 2: Who Cares About Feminism?, promotional flier for event at A.I.R. at 63 Crosby St, 1991.

11/21/2022

This year celebrates ✨half a century✨ of feminist solidarity and mutual empowerment! Always at the heart of our work at A.I.R. is the model of the cooperative—a collective venture built through shared space, support, and purpose.

As a member of our community, we invite you now to join us as we collectively shape the next 50 years of this radical feminist experiment. Your tax-deductible contribution of any size to the will ensure that we can continue championing women and non-binary artists for many years to come. 💫To support us, click the link in our bio!💫

Together, we recast art history. Together, we are forging feminist futures.

This week at A.I.R. Gallery: As part of her exhibition "SOCIAL PORTRAIT," Finnish artist .haikala will be holding durati...
10/20/2022

This week at A.I.R. Gallery: As part of her exhibition "SOCIAL PORTRAIT," Finnish artist .haikala will be holding durational drawing performances each day from 4-6 PM. Haikala will draw two portraits of each sitter, and in the end, they will be able to choose which of the portraits they would like to keep for themselves.⁠
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Join us at the gallery from 4-6 PM on one of the following dates to participate: Thursday, October 20, Friday, October 21, Saturday, October 22, Sunday, October 23. ⁠
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Haikala's exhibition is the latest iteration of the artist’s ongoing "Social Portrait" project, in which she aims to equalize the art canon by drawing one-thousand portraits of everyday women around the world.⁠
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