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Pioneer Works will be closed for normal gallery hours this October 14 & 15 for Ragas Live Festival 2023, learn more 

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Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

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We're pleased to announce the first major renovation of Pioneer Works! To accommodate the first phase of our construction, we're temporarily relocating to 133 Imlay Street opening in Spring 2022.

Early Closure 5/10/23

Due to programming, Pioneer Works will be closed to the public on Wednesday, May 10. We will be open from Thursday through Sunday for the remainder of the week. Learn more and plan your visit 

Winter Break Closure

Pioneer Works will be closed between December 16, 2024–January 24, 2025 for a winter break.

Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, our free monthly open house featuring live music, food and workshops that activate our campus in partnership with artists-in-residents and community members in Red Hook. 

Food and drink by Little Egg in partnership with FIG and Pioneer Works Bar. Delicious Churros from Churrero!

 is a community restaurant that aims to contribute meaningfully to the world through food and gathering. We bring people together to share transformative meals and to seed a more sustainable food system. Learn more at www.eggrestaurant.com and follow @eggrestaurant.

 is a grassroots collective of small food businesses that works with community organizations  to transform the food system from within, including by collaborating on our monthly Community Lunch program!

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF THE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AND THEIR STUDIOS WHILE VISITING PIONEER WORKS.
TO HELP US PROTECT THE ARTISTS’ SPACE AND WORK, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH ARTWORK WITHOUT CONSENT, AND ONLY ALLOW FIVE PEOPLE IN A STUDIO AT ONE TIME.

co-presented by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works, marks the first institutional survey of New York-born artist Aura Rosenberg. This two-venue exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory from early paintings of the 1970s to her more recent endeavors in photography, film, sculpture, and installation. Throughout her five decades long career in New York and Berlin, Rosenberg has moved through diverse styles, preferring to work thematically and serially while often returning to ideas from past projects. The exhibition also includes several previously unseen works, and Rosenberg’s collaborations with artists like Ei Arakawa, Mary Heilmann, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, and Haim Steinbach, all of which chronicle the breadth of her multifaceted career.

Rosenberg’s practice challenges how images produce and reproduce notions of spectatorship, gender, family, and history—that is, the conditions of everyday life. In this way, she examines how vernacular images naturalize and normalize meanings through which people understand themselves in the world.

Several series on view in the exhibition, such as 

 (1991–96), involve feminist gestures of convening communities, be it the children of her friends or the men in her social circles. Others, like 

(1989–93), comment more broadly on collective memory and the shifting, socially produced meanings of public space and the bodies that inhabit them. Her series 

 (2013–ongoing) reference Walter Benjamin’s as well as her family’s history of exile from Nazi Germany, as well as more recent histories of exile worldwide.


 co-published by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works Press and designed by Daniel Kent. The publication pairs full-color plates of the artist’s work alongside newly commissioned and archival texts penned by a dynamic roster of artists, historians, and curators that includes Lena Dunham, Alaina Claire Feldman, Matt Keegan, Claire Koron Elat, Laura López Paniagua, Tim Martin, John Miller, Bob Nickas, Barbara Piwowarska, Lumi Tan, and Alexandra Tell. Notably, this publication will be the first to engage with Rosenberg’s entire oeuvre to date.

Please note that this exhibition contains nudity and adult content.

(b. 1949, New York, NY) received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1971, and received an MA from Hunter College (CUNY) in 1974. She currently lives and works in New York and Berlin. Rosenberg has held solo exhibitions including: 

, Studio Teatr Galeria, Warsaw, Poland (2017); 

, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2022) and Meliksetian Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles (2015). Recent group exhibitions include 

Up To and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneeman

, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany (2019). Rosenberg’s works are included in the permanent collections of The Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Germany; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; and Lhoist Collection, Brussels, Belgium.


 is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery.

is curated by Alaina Claire Feldman. The exhibition at Mishkin Gallery is supported by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College (CUNY) and Friends of the Mishkin Gallery. The exhibition at Pioneer Works is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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What Is Psychedelic

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College (CUNY)

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Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic

Mimi Bai was born in Xi’an, China, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, and film and her work draws connections between labor, assimilation, camouflage, and survival as both a lived reality and fantasy. Bai has presented work at Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her films have screened at Rooftop Films, the Rockaway Film Festival, and the Maryland Film Festival. Bai was a SIP Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work. Bai attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a graduate of Alfred University (MFA Sculpture) and Wesleyan University (BA Sociology).

Mimi Bai

Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (B. Puerto Rico) is a theater artist, filmmaker, performer and visual artist. Melding theatrical performance, intuitive experimental ethnography, and collaborations with non-professional performers, Natalia’s practice centers on excavating imagined and archived history, decentralizing canonical narratives through embodied reenactments, and challenging the prioritization of written history by foregrounding instead the creation of new mythologies.

Natalia earned an MFA in Theatre Directing from CalArts and a BFA in Drama from the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. Residencies and fellowships include: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Amant Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Mass Moca Studio Residency & Fonderie Darling in Montréal, QC. Her work is part of the KADIST collection, and her films, installations, & performances have been presented in museums, festivals, performance venues, and unconventional spaces, internationally. She teaches Film & Video at MICA.

Natalia Lassalle-Morillo

Finnegan Shannon is an artist. They experiment with forms of access that intervene in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge, an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; and Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY.

Finnegan Shannon

Le’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. LeSeur’s body of work, a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity, seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance. Through the insertion of her body and voice into her work, she provides her audience with an opportunity to contemplate themes such as identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman—a rejection of the stereotypes which attempt to push these identities to the margins.

Le’Andra LeSeur

Angelo Madsen Minax is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire. Madsen's works have shown at Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, BAM CinemaFest, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and others. He is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Sundance Film Institute, BAVC Media, New York State Council on the Arts, LEF Foundation, and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others. His film, "North By Current" (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes. A New York Times Critics Pick, "North By Current" has been called "A beautiful, complex wonder of a film," by Rolling Stone and "A titanic work" by Criterion. Angelo Madsen is currently an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont, a Queer|Art Mentor, and a current Guggenheim Fellow.

Angelo Madsen Minax

Jamaal Peterman (b. 1990, Fort Lauderdale, FL; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY/MD) received his MFA at Pratt Institute (2019) and BFA from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (2014). He has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), Public ArtFund, New York; the University of Chicago; Kavi Gupta, Chicago; James Fuentes, New York and Vigo Gallery, London.
Peterman has been awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant, commissioned by MoMA PS1 and has undertaken residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project Residency, Fountainhead Residency.

Jamaal Peterman

Yehwan is a Korean-born web artist and designer. Yehwan's work centers on finding the discomfort hidden in the excessively comfortable web environments in order to address systemic inequality. The work reveals the inconvenience that users who do not belong to the main user group experience and criticizes the overgeneralization of user groups and the oversimplification of web interfaces that pursue excessive comfort and consistency only. Yehwan creates anti-friendly websites and satirizes web conventions by undermining the general understanding of web design and subverting common user-experience behaviors. She pursues diversity above consistency and efficiency.

Yehwan Song

Or Zubalsky is an artist and educator based in a part of Lenapehoking also known as Brooklyn. They explore how coding participates in practices of political resistance. Or’s projects originate in software and are encountered as digital platforms, physical objects, installations, gatherings, and performances. Their work is compelled by curiosity regarding the ways in which the composition and execution of code manifest as political action, capable of both healing and shifting power relations. With a commitment to unlearn and resist settler-colonialism, they engage the complexity that software-based systems afford in order to reflect on, criticize, and intervene in existing systems of power.

Or Zubalsky

Sage Vousé is a self-taught multimedia artist based in Brooklyn who deals in otherness, physicality, and transformation by way of ceramics and virtual environments.

In sculpture, they combine experimental and flesh-like designs with profiles that evoke the classic and the antique; the decanter crumbling and covered in flowering warts, the bouquet banished to the bottom of the sea. These sculptures are captured as digital objects which form a language with which to build out immersive worlds and expand on emotive moments.

They enjoy mixing textures, materials, scale and reality.

Sage Vousé

HxH is the improvisatory electro-acoustic duo of Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams. The duo utilizes a mix of trumpet, cello and electronics to build worlds traversing through acoustic sound, grainy textures, expansive pools of sounds, breaks, cuts and beats. The approach is conceived as an expansiveness that holds a personal intimacy. HxH wants to bring the listeners in, tune them to the experience and take a long trip. HxH functions as a vehicle to bring together the mass of references and influences Chris and Lester share and create ways to crystalize those ideas in real, expanded time to an experience over minutes or hours.

Alumni residents in collaboration with the Learn and Engage team have partnered with Red Hook public schools to show students the beauty of artmaking and science. Come view the work of our young artists and scientists! Thank you to our artists alum Robin Pak and Umber Majeed, community leader Marisa Prefer, the education department and our brilliant students for another successful school year!

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Celebrate Pride month and self love with Drag Artist and Storyteller/Poet Sitanya. Watch a master at work with a live lip sync and poetry reading followed by storytime. Afterwards Sitanya will teach a poetry writing workshop focused on self acceptance and love. Open mic will be available to anyone wanting to share their poem before the grand finale; Sitanya will grace us with one final performance! 

Pride Connection and Poetry with Sitanya

Le'Andra LeSeur (PW Resident) and Soboleva are collecting heartbr(ache) stories from their queer community to be woven into a live broadcast of 8Ball Radio. Do you have a heartbr(ache) story you'd like to share? Please record 1-2 min. audio track and submit it to programs@pioneerworks.org  It can be as abstract, poetic, literal, or specific as you'd like. We want to hear from you! Tune in at: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/8ballradio/

Queer Heartbr(ache) with Le'Andra LeSeur and Ksenia M. Soboleva Live on 8Ball Radio

MUSE(O)FIRE, is a Maryland born, Brooklyn based DJ and Interdisciplinary artist with a love for booty shaking beats and world rhythms. MUSE(O)FIRE embraces Black Indigenous forms of musical expression with a focus on Black Queer and Trans artists and audiences; and sees the dancefloor as a needed space of liberation. Their infectious smile and energy will lift your spirits and command you to the dance floor. Muse has played both local and internationally at venues including NoBar, Mood Ring, H0L0, MOCADA, The Shed, The ARoS Museum (Denmark) Basquiat's Bottle, The Bush, The Pinhook (Durham), Starr Bar, 3 Dollar Bill, Starr Bar and The Black Cat (D.C.). Tune in at: https://www.mixcloud.com/live/8ballradio/

MUSE(O)FIRE (DJ set) Live on 8Ball Radio

On the occasion of Alexandra Molotkow's essay "Hopeless Romantic, Seeking Treatment" published on Pioneer Works's Broadcast, editors Minh Nguyen and Leon Dische Becker discuss with Molotkow the fine line between an innocent crush and a clinical disorder. 

Tune in at : https://www.mixcloud.com/live/8ballradio/



 PW BROADCAST RADIO HOUR LIVE ON 8BALL RADIO

Join the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York at the PW Garden for solar viewing. Telescopes will be provided between 1:00 and 4:00 pm. *Weather permitting*

SOLARGAZING WITH THE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK

Get your bike fixed by staff mechanics and volunteers, who will provide free direct repairs, maintenance, and diagnostic services.

POP-UP BIKE REPAIRS WITH MECHANICAL GARDENS BIKE COOP

In an effort to better understand and contextualize the various environmental sensor data being collected at different locations throughout Red Hook, RHAP youth leaders have started a community map to collect all the different important spaces in Red Hook. Join us as we populate our map in an effort to show how the changing Red Hook landscape impacts these important spaces in Red Hook.

RE-DRAW RED HOOK WITH RHAP

Get to know our current artists-in-residence in their work through Open Studios.

OPEN STUDIOS

Live from the Main Hall, PW welcomes these Brooklyn-based purveyors of cumbia and surf for a special early evening set. labandachuska.bandcamp.com<br>
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Boston Chery is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer originally from Boston, MA. Her mission is clear: pumping energy into any room, moving the crowd with dynamic sets complete with original productions and remixes of her own. IG: @bostonchery<Br>
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