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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. 

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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.

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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 

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Pioneer Works will close at 4 pm on Thursday, April 10th in preparation for the 

15th Annual Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation

Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community members, Second Sundays features open studios, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food—with programming across all three floors and in our garden. 

Food and drink by Pioneer Works Bar. More details to be announced!

Pioneer Works is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

is an immersive audio installation by artist and composer 

. Rooted in the creative subcultures of the Lower East Side, Hprizm’s practice spans a wide array of genres, including music, performance and multimedia installations. He is a co-founder of the seminal hip hop group Antipop Consortium, an experimental collective known for their lyrical approach to electronic music.

Centered on a sonic score that moves between abstract noise and melodic interludes, 

 collapses vinyl records, tape loops and granular synthesis with audio footage captured by Hprizm over the past few years. Wielding his phone as a primary recording device, the artist took notice of his sonic environment while traversing New York City and western Pennsylvania, where he partially resides. In his own words, “The sound of the city, in a literal sense, is dense. Buried histories rumble beneath the foundation of brick. Crate digging and knowledge of self unearthed a cultural medium that informs my process.”

For Hprizm, sound carries strong implications—not only about personal narrative, but about socioeconomic conditions and resources as well. He writes, “Within the throughline for most of my work is an interrelation between memory and sonic imprints. Over the course of the last few years, with global events in mind, I noticed how much the sonic landscape changed. During the pandemic, the streets were quiet. Then there was the sound of unrest and protest. Things went silent again, and then there was a slow crescendo back to normalcy.”

 is a meditation on migration and gentrification while also historicizing moments in time that exist auditorily. Among the noises heard within the work are soul records that the artist and his father once listened to during long road trips, heavily gated drums echoing off New York City Housing Authority tiles and the mechanical grinds of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania steel factories, to name only a few. These components are then processed and reinterpreted through tape loops and Ableton Live, both of which are widely accessible tools that helped liberate musical production from corporate and academic infrastructures.

This work was originally inspired by the curriculum that Hprzim taught at William Paterson University, which encouraged students to document their environment and, in turn, introduce themselves through sound. The coursework tapped into early electronic music—where tape, voice and environment each factored heavily—and later evolved into 

, a multimedia work that was first presented as a work-in-progress by ISSUE Project Room (2013) and then more formally by Penn University (2018) and The Kitchen (2019). Whereas these prior iterations presented a visual component as its centerpiece, 

 isolates and concentrates viewers’ attention on a score. In doing so, the work amplifies our awareness of the ways in which noise shapes memory, identity and perception.

, the creative moniker for Kyle Austin, is an American avant-garde artist and composer whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Formally trained as a visual artist, he developed his practice from the axis of poetry, Hip hop and the experimental arts community of the Lower East Side during the early 1990s. Noted for evoking images of “Sun Ra and Afrika Bambaataa at once” (Jesse Sewer XL8R Magazine), Hprizm—also known as High Priest—is a founding member of the critically acclaimed, hip hop collective Antipop Consortium, as well as a cited figure in the Afrofuturist canon. Over the past two decades, he has shared stages with a wide array of artists, including The Roots, Radiohead, MF Doom, DJ Shadow, Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer, and Steve Lehman. As a composer, his works have been presented at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, the Walker Museum, the New Museum, SXSW and CalArts. As the creative director of PRIZMLABS, his client base includes Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh, Moor Mother, Ursula Rucker and Meredith Monk, among many others.

is a creative strategic agency founded by Remi Abbas and Nan Collymore. Their collaborative practice is dedicated to realizing ambitious artistic visions across all scales and mediums, by providing promotional, creative, and production support to help artists bring their ideas to life.

 is organized by Material. It is made possible, 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.

Sound of the City

DUE TO OCCASIONAL PROGRAMMING, THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED AT 4PM ON MARCH 29. 

THE EXHIBITION WILL ALSO BE CLOSED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Hprizm: Sound of the City

is the first institutional solo exhibition by 

, a PW resident alum known for creating websites which critically reshape the ‘user-friendly,’ yet ultimately hostile, interfaces that have overtaken the internet at the expense of genuine agency or freedom.

Through a disorienting installation comprising video projections and kinetic sculptures that have been placed within clusters of grid-like structures, 

suggests that the internet is no longer a space designed for users or attentive to their needs. Instead, it has evolved into a closed, self-reinforcing system fueled by corporate interest while imposing surveillance and control upon individuals. Song explores the transformation facing modern internet users, who now rely heavily on platform-driven algorithms and looping, targeted content as opposed to exercising genuine agency. This interface contrasts starkly with earlier iterations of the internet that were less obviously shaped by state and corporate interests, which allowed users to more freely ‘surf’ the web.

Fascinated by the way water is often used as a metaphor for the internet, Song investigates how terms such as ‘web surfing’, ‘port,’ ‘stream’ and ‘cloud’ work to mythologize the technology while perpetuating illusions of anonymity, freedom of speech and limitless exploration as well. Unlike traditional user-interactive installations, the artist’s work is self-driven and autonomous. 

generates its own inputs, materializing the stagnant and confined experiences beneath the idealized surface of the web. Whirlpools—holes where water is trapped without forming waves—appear here in conglomerations of screens. Water drips from copper pipes, while projected websites trigger the movement of the two, creating a dizzying, closed feedback loop.

The intentional flow of the whirlpool, designed to serve commercial interests, mirrors the web’s disregard for individual agency. This installation does not listen to or rely on the user—it is neither user-built nor user-controlled. Instead, it embodies the self-sustaining, algorithmic system intentionally designed to immerse, stagnate and overwhelm.

 is a Korean-born web artist who specializes in the creation of anti-user-friendly, non-user-centric, unconventional, and diverse independent websites. Her work—spanning virtual spaces, physical installations, web tools, and user interfaces—satirizes and critiques the overgeneralization of users and the prevalence of templated websites. The primary focus of Song's artistic endeavors lies in exploring the discomfort and insecurity experienced by marginalized users hidden beneath the facade of technological utopianism, excessive comfort, speed, and ease of use. Her practice attempts to address digital discomfort stemming from a lack of consideration for diversity and a dearth of empathy. Through the act of exposing this discomfort and crafting non-generic web interfaces, Song aims to shed light on the inequalities pervasive within the digital environment.

is curated by Gabriel Florenz. It is made possible, 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.

Are We Still (Surfing)?

DUE TO OCCASIONAL PROGRAMMING, THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED AT 4PM ON MARCH 29 AND APRIL 10. 

Yehwan Song: Are We Still (Surfing)?

is a Palestinian-American composer, producer, DJ and sound artist. He is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist whose desire to derive the essential elements of sound has grown towards found-sound immersions, globally-influenced musical storytelling, and lush atmospheric compositions. He has been a stalwart member of the underground Brooklyn electronic scene for many years and has been a guest performer with Radio Alhara, The Lot Radio, Karachi Community Radio, and more.

 was released in 2023 by AKP Recordings to a wide spectrum of praise, including Electronic Sound, Bandcamp’s Best Ambient Music, and DJ Mag’s “Eight Emerging Artists You Need to Hear.” A full remix album entitled 

 was released in 2024 with contributions from Tammy Lakkis, Sam O.B., Otodojo, and more. Ahmad has not rested in his support of sonic resistance and collective liberation through the Palestinian lens via live performances and new improvisations, and his single 

 was highlighted on Resident Advisor through PTP's Palestinian Resistance compilation and featured via The Wire.

Alongside Alicia Coleman (Sweet Kicks) Ahmad is co-founder of a recurring global music series called Ūmboma, which emphasizes the complementary nature of African, Arab and Latin American contemporary sound. He is also a contributing DJ at Laylit, the largest and fastest-growing contemporary Middle Eastern and North African music community in New York.

Omar Ahmad

Maya Jeffereis is an artist and filmmaker whose work in video, performance, and installation seeks to expand upon overlooked histories and acknowledge archival gaps through counter narratives, personal histories, and speculative fictions. Jeffereis’ work has been presented in the United States and internationally, most recently at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Noguchi Museum, among other institutions. Jeffereis has been a Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellow, an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC), Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, and Cisneros Initiative for Latin American Art. She teaches art, art history, and Asian American Studies at Parsons School of Design at The New School and Hunter College (CUNY). She earned an MFA from Hunter College and BA and BFA from the University of Washington.

Maya Jeffereis

Armando Rosales is a sculptor and experimental percussionist whose work explores the intersections of the intimate, institutional, and political. Through sculpture and installation, he examines materiality, sound, and performance, questioning how forces shaping behavior connect to the body as a site of learning and transformation. Drawing from psychology, science, sound, kinetics, and textiles, his practice investigates self-representation and its ties to cultural frameworks, creating spaces of fusion, tension, and speculation.

Born in Cabimas, Venezuela, Rosales studied Design at the University of Zulia and participated in programs such as SOMA (2016), the Art & Law Program by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento at AAP Cornell (2019), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024). He has exhibited internationally at venues such as Westwerk in Hamburg, TEA Tenerife in Spain, Museo de Chopo, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, N.A.D.A. in New York and Miami, NASAL, Abra Caracas, and Oficina #1. His residency experiences include the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2024) and Westwerk BKM (2022), among others. Since 2015, he has lived and worked in Mexico City.

Armando Rosales

Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Artists Space in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, the National Gallery of the Bahamas and the National Gallery of Jamaica. She currently holds a Chalmers Fellowship with the Ontario Arts Council and is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.

Kara Springer

Ping Wang is a Chinese mixed-media artist based in New York, working with ceramics, textiles, and digital media to explore themes such as identity, feminism, and cultural alienation. By deconstructing and distorting motifs of the human body and cultural symbols, she creates conceptual portals that bridge the unseen forces shaping both internal and external realities—emotions, memories, and cultural histories.

, Ping integrated light, sound, and motion into sculptural forms to explore the state of being in-between, embodying a continuous process of manifestation and transformation. This experience expanded her creative approach beyond traditional mediums, inspiring her to develop more interactive, multi-sensory installations.

This residency is organized in collaboration with Brooklyn College. Since 2022, Pioneer Works has partnered with Brooklyn College to select one recent graduate from their MFA program, with the aim of supporting an intergenerational cohort of emerging artists who demonstrate artistic excellence in work outside existing models and norms of their fields.

Ping Wang

Yujie Zhou (b. CN; they/them) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Their practice navigates performativity and a decoded notion of language through photography, textiles, video, and publishing. Drawing on the juxtaposition between their nationalist upbringing and their current life in Finland, Zhou interrogates dominant historical narratives and power structures while reframing collective individuality.

Zhou completed a Master’s Degree in Arts with a Major in Photography and a Minor in Textiles—Materials and Structures at Aalto University in 2023. They have exhibited their works internationally, including in Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Singapore, and the UK. Zhou has been awarded the FUTURES Photography Talent 2024 nomination by Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway; the Finnish Art Society’s Young Artist Grant (2023); shortlisted for the PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant’s Main Prize; and nominated artist for Plat(t)form 2023 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Zhou’s selected residencies include the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residency Fellowship (2024) and an 11-month Artist-in-Residence program at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) in 2024.

This residency is organized in collaboration with the

Yujie Zhou

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