Name: Second Sundays: October 2025
Start: 2025-10-12
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Location: Pioneer Works

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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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On Saturday, October 24, the Main Hall will be closed all day, and the building will close early at 4 pm. Raul de Nieves: 

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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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Friday, September 12, 2025, from 7–9 PM

Raúl de Nieves, Tega Brain, and Sam Lavigne

, 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.


. Yong Shin is a Korean-born & Middle East-raised chef, and currently a chef at  neighborhood Korean BBQ restaurant and karaoke bar located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. His nickname “Yongi” means courage in Korean. 


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. 

Second Sundays is funded in part by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation.


This program takes place within artist Raúl de Nieves’s site-specific installation, 

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marks Raúl de Nieves’s first solo institutional show in New York City. The exhibition features a new body of work that transforms the entire Main Hall of Pioneer Works into an immersive, cathedral-like environment that conjures personal reflection and collective imagination.

Known for his use of modest, everyday materials, de Nieves explores aesthetic beauty while challenging its historical and religious underpinnings. His stained glass windows reference Western religious traditions—particularly, those of Catholicism—and ultimately reimagine places of worship as sites of transformation, in spite of their legacies of violence and exclusion. 

 presents the site-specific installation of 50 faux stained glass panels, fitted throughout the windows that line the Main Hall as well as a monumental lightbox mural.

In conjunction with his reinterpretation of Catholic and Mexican folkloric motifs, de Nieves uses tarot’s rich symbolism and archetypes as a framework for imagining new relationships with the future. Unlike traditional religious hierarchies, tarot allows for multiple perspectives and characters to hold equal power. In the same vein, his windows resist rigid meaning by blending figurative and abstract imagery into a dreamlike, open-ended vocabulary. While tarot is a key reference, de Nieves also incorporates text fragments from memory, reflecting his belief in the poetic potential of everyday language. Throughout his works, words function as both image and idea—simultaneously literal and symbolic.

The artist’s process of turning humble materials into radiant artworks mirrors spiritual metamorphosis, offering new ways to experience time and light. Constructed from materials such as paper, wood, glue, tape and, most prominently, colored acetate, his window panels create shifting fields of kaleidoscopic color. As light filters through them, the space becomes dynamic and alive, changing by the hour as the sun moves. This fluidity is central to the work, echoing how we continually revise our understanding of ourselves and the world.

Residing at the far end of the Main Hall, de Nieves’s lightbox mural features three arches, a horse, and a skeleton framed by various portraits. In tarot, the skeleton signifies not physical death but transformation—an end that makes space for renewal—while the horse, a symbol of strength and movement, becomes the force that carries us through change. Together, these archetypes create a sanctuary where personal reflection and shared connection coexist. 

invites viewers to embrace change not as loss, but as renewal—a passage that leads to deeper insight and inner strength.

 (born in 1983, in Michoacan, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a multimedia artist, performer and musician whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on the motifs of classical Catholicism and Mexican vernacular to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments.

Recent solo institutional exhibitions include

, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2023); 

A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder...

, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2023); 

, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL (2021) and 

Reemerge the Zero Begins Your Life, Eternal is Your Light

, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020). De Nieves has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at Hauser & Wirth, The High Line, MoMA PS1, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, K11 Foundation, Documenta 14, Performa 13, ICA Philadelphia, The Watermill Center, The Kitchen, Artists Space and numerous other venues. His work is included in public collections at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

is made possible with generous support by Bruce M. Halpryn and Chas Riebe with additional support provided by 1800 Tequila, 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.

 In Light of Innocence

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES DUE TO PROGRAMMING:
 

Raúl de Nieves: In Light of Innocence

's solo and collaborative practices, which examine the present limits and future possibilities of political agency during our time of climate crisis. Over the past ten years, the artists have worked at the forefront of social critique and participatory art, examining subjects ranging from economic corruption to police surveillance, and from data manipulation to the commodification of everyday life. By repurposing the technologies used to perpetuate these conditions, Brain and Lavigne highlight the underlying conceptual and political frameworks that so often reinforce an unjust and repressive status quo.

—the first-ever survey of their work—will mark the exhibition debut of 

 (2024-present), an ongoing project that encapsulates Brain and Lavigne’s research on the prevalence of market responses to climate change. Accompanied by the creation of a new online marketplace where individuals can purchase carbon credits derived from instances of industrial sabotage, Offset directs money raised from the sale of those credits towards climate activists. The work will lead viewers towards two adjacent installations dedicated to 

(2022), a series of print and video works that archive the artists’ interviews with individuals who have been incarcerated for their climate activism. Another work, 

 (2023), prompts viewers to phone fossil fuel company executives, with the aim of keeping them on the line as long as possible. Unfolding across the second floor gallery of Pioneer Works, these works question our individual roles in addressing this overwhelming crisis.

In the same vein, Brain and Lavigne adopt an experimental view of geoengineering, expanding it to encompass personal and social behaviors alongside large-scale environmental interventions. In the third floor gallery, the multimedia installation 

 (2021) invites participants to experiment with their own sleep cycles, as a way of exploring how lack of sleep and climate change are both products of the same capitalist system that devalues regeneration, rest, and natural limits. This gives way to a constellation of cellular devices that operate 

 (2021), a botnet that inflates the value of climate change news coverage by clicking on ads running alongside these online articles.

These collaborations will be accompanied by a selection of solo projects that further contextualize and expand upon the duo’s work. Lavigne’s video installations 

 (2023) subvert facial recognition and surveillance technologies employed by the police, connecting carceral violence to extractive capitalism. Brain’s 

 (2023) realize alternative digital networks in which environmental intelligences guide technological decision-making. The artists’ provocative interventions expose the insidious ways that computational infrastructure feeds the contemporary climate crisis, while also offering speculative alternatives to our pending planetary collapse.

 is made possible with support from Creative Capital. It is also 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. The exhibition design is by Diogo Passarinho Studio.

How To Get To Zero

DUE TO OCCASIONAL PROGRAMMING, THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE CLOSED ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

THE EXHIBITION WILL ALSO BE CLOSED AT 4PM ON THE FOLLOWING DATE:

Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne: How To Get To Zero

Matt Bruinooge was raised in Manahawkin, New Jersey. He received a BA in Computer Science and Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. His work across digital platforms, 3D scans, prints, and video explores how technology shapes cultural and public experience.

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.

Matt Bruinooge

Peggy Chiang makes images and objects that scratch the laminate of representation. She works by abstracting conventions around value, labor, and material memory. Recent solo exhibitions include Wasted at Laurel Gitlen, New York; Fiend at hatred2, Brooklyn; and spleen and ideal at Prairie, Chicago. She is a 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellow and received an MFA from Rutgers University. Chiang is a Professor of Sculpture at the City College of New York, CUNY and lives in Brooklyn.

Peggy Chiang

 (b.1993, Mumbai, India) is a visual artist based in Mumbai, India. Interested in the overlaps between painting, drawing and sculpture, her work is influenced by forms and language around collapse, uncertainty and impermanence.

She received her MFA from New York University in 2018, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.

, Experimenter, Mumbai, 2022. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Whitewall, ArtIndia Magazine and The Telegraph India amongst others. Dodiya was awarded a residency and fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy, in 2022 and was an artist-in-residence at Rondo in Mexico City in 2024.

Biraaj Dodiya

Cameron A. Granger is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio, and Sandra’s son. A Ohio enthusiast, he makes work about the power structures that shape our cities, and how we make our lives therein. He’s an alumni of Euclid Public Schools. His most recent exhibition “9999” is currently on view at the Queens Museum in Queens, New York.

Cameron Granger

Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, TN) is a photographer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University.

In 2023, Aperture published his first monograph 

 at Higher Pictures and Ghost Bites, curated by Dawn Chan, at Baxter St at CCNY. Má, an exhibition showing the ongoing, decade-long collaboration between the artist and his mother; In addition, he has exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery, Paris Photo’s Curiosa, the Hyères Festival, SFMoMA, George Eastman House, High Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

He is a past recipient of the Hayes Prize, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography and a former resident at Kinosaito, Light Work, Camera Club of New York, and the International Studio and Curatorial Program. His first museum show will open at Addison Gallery of American art in Andover, MA. He currently teaches at Yale University.

Tommy Kha

Alison Nguyen is a visual artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and sculpture. Her practice combines the particulars of personal experience with broader inquiries into forces of history. Through speculative fiction, text, and embodied performance, Nguyen creates works that ask us to reconsider how narratives operate within the individual, the institution, and within the politics of cultural memory.

Nguyen’s work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art; MIT List Center for Visual Arts; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea; Vienna Secession; The Everson Museum; e-flux; The International Studio & Curatorial Program; KAJE; Murmurs LA; Are Basel Hong Kong Encounters; Frieze Seoul Film; Ann Arbor Film Festival; International Film Festival Oberhausen; CPH:DOX; and Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, among others.

The artist received her M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University and her B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a 2023-2024 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as 

Alison Nguyen

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. He is also known for using his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His rhizomatic practice as it stands today broadly encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, and social practice. His artwork is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and complex topics, and its careful details in word, image and sound.
Pinderhughes is also the Artistic & Executive Director of The Healing Project, a community arts organization that creates narrative change and collective healing in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based around healing rather than punishment. Pinderhughes is the first-ever Art for Justice + Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2020 Visionary Award. He has also been designated as a United States Artist awardee, a Creative Capital awardee, a Kennedy Center Social Practice Fellow, and a Sundance Composers Lab Fellow.


Samora Pinderhughes

is a New York City-based Latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit. Reveling in soft chaos, they embrace openness and specificity to create poetic work(s).

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.

Second Sundays is funded in part by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation.

This program takes place within artist Raúl de Nieves’s site-specific installation, In Light of Innocence. Learn more about the exhibition here.