STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY.

Exhibitions

Abstract mixed media piece featuring gray background with yellow oval in center. Above there is a blue diamon and two light blue lines on each side.

Image: Hawu Lim, 2714 Norris Avenue - 62 (흔들리는 유령의 집), 2023

(Re)assemblage
The 2025 EFA SHIFT Cohort Exhibition

June 12 – July 26, 2025

EFA Gallery
323 West 39 Street, FL 3, New York, NY

EFA Studios is proud to present (Re)assemblage, the culminating exhibition of the 2025 SHIFT Residency program. Featuring work by DaeQuan Alexander Collier, Stephen Lau, Hawu Lim, and DW Zinsser, the exhibition will be on view in the EFA Studios Gallery from June 12 through July 26, 2025. Organized by independent curator Sophia Ma in collaboration with curatorial mentee Danielle Mann, this exhibition marks the fifteenth anniversary of the SHIFT Residency. 

Named after Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal 1982 film, (Re)assemblage explores the politics of grief, memory, and identity through material fragments, ritual gestures, and poetic systems of making. Each artist approaches their practice as a site of negotiation—with loss, with family, with the violence of assimilation and erasure—transforming everyday materials into deeply intentional acts of assembly. Across sculpture, video, drawing, sound, and soft installation, they offer not answers but openings: spaces to gather, to grieve, to begin again, and to be visible and present.

EVENTS

SHIFT 2025 Catalog Launch

July 16, 6:30-8:30 PM

Come celebrate the 2025 SHIFT Cohort as we commemorate 15 Years of SHIFT and launch the (Re)assemblage catalog.
RSVP Here

Grief Circle

Saturday, July 12, 1-3 PM

EFA Shift Artists in Residence DaeQuan Alexander Collier and Hawu Lim invite participants to join their grief circle for anyone who’s grieving any kind of loss — recent or long ago, messy or quiet, clear or complicated. All identities, backgrounds, and stories are welcome. 


Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship Exhibition

June 7 - July 13, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 4-6 PM

EFA RBPMW Study Center
323 West 39 Street, FL 2, New York, NY

Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project (SIP) Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation.

This intensive studio fellowship, running from February to May, is designed to fully immerse eight artists in the art of printmaking. SIP Fellows learn new printmaking techniques, refine existing skills, and participate in a culminating exhibition. The exhibition wraps up the fellows' immersive experience in exploring printmaking.


RESIDENCIEs + FELLOWSHIPS

2025 SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers

EFA Studios Program Artists-in-Residence

DaeQuan Alexander Collier
Hawu Lim
Stephen Lau
DW Zinsser

Since its inception in 2010, SHIFT Residency has been providing peer support, mentoring, studio spaces, and exhibition opportunities for over ninety artists who work in various arts organizations (as curators, educators, administrators, etc.), to advance their creative practices and to support the balance of their careers. SHIFT recognizes the contribution of arts workers to the art community, providing other individuals and the public with opportunities for growth and expansion. The SHIFT residency honors these artists’ commitment with a supportive, enriching, and collaborative environment.

SHIFT hosts a cohort of artists working in a range of media each year, from sound and installation to painting, performance, and social practice. In addition to its role as a support network, SHIFT promotes advocacy for arts workers and seeks to increase equity and representation within the field.

SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers 2025 is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.


Zven Balslev, Uneasy Lies the Crown

Summerworks
in partnership with Art Hub Copenhagen

Javier Alvarez Sagredo
Zven Balslev
C Clement
Henriette Heise

Summerworks is month-long residency supported by Art Hub Copenhagen and Bikuben Foundation NY. This year, four jury-selected artists will work in shared studios at EFA and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.

Open Studio: July 23, 5-8 pm
Summerworks residents will host an open studio reception to the public to share their works and research.

2025 Kahn | Mason Studio Immersion Project SIP) Fellowship

EFA RBPMW

Artists: Carly Mandel, June Canedode Souza, Anna Ting Moller, Zalika Azim, E Jane, Anne Wu, Elle Perez, and Serafina Ariel

This intensive fellowship is designed to introduce artists from multiple disciplines to printmaking. Fellows are artists seeking creative exploration through printmaking, regardless of expertise, to apply their creative knowledge and conceptual goals to the print medium. The fellows are each provided access to a community and professional printmaking workspace, a stipend, three printmaking workshops, and assistance from EFA RBPMW staff.

The Kahn | Mason SIP Fellowship is named in honor of avid printmakers and educators Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, with partial funding provided by the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation and the Wolf Kahn Foundation.

 

Photo of red castle sculpture.

Ziyi Zhang, Hold on my Last Castle, 2025

ALT Alliance Residency

Wei-chen Lou
Cherilyn Tan Qiao Lyn
Ziyi Zhang


We are excited to debut a residency for AAPI artists in partnership with ALT Alliance. The residency cohort will focus on healing, sustainability, and cultural memory and will culminate in an exhibition opening September 3rd.



THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS