ONVIEW:In Plain View, Parsons School of Design, 5th Avenue Gallery, NYC, January 27–March 2, 2025.
I've a new video from The Same Sun series in this group exhibition. More to come for Same Sun in 2025!
485 Ma premiers at In Plain View, group exhibition
In Plain View, group exhibition banner and 2 screenshots of 485 Ma - Freshkills, Memphis, Lago de Texcoco
485 Ma - Freshkills, Memphis, Lago de Texcoco, a new video from the The Same Sun /Calendar series is premiering in In Plain View: Transforming Frshkills from Landfill to Lanfscape, a group exhibtion at Parsons School of Design in New York City. It is a follow up to the original project The Same Sun / Calendar which debuted at @tsa_ny in 2018. This new series takes as a departure point my residency with Freshkills Park: Field R/D at @freshkillspark in 2018-2019. While at the residency, we explored various aspects of the landfill. I did propose several other project which I still have sketches of and might post later. But in the end, I decided to express my experience at Freshkills Park residency through the format of The Same Sun/ Calendarˆ, which if you recall, is a video series that explore various sites on deep-time maps.
Documents of Resistance - 10 Years Discussion at Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC), Taipei
ABOVE: (detail) Moving Forward Together, Digital print, 30 x 45 in. 2023
Open Contemporary Art Center (OCAC) Presents: Antonio Serna - Documents of Resistance, 10 Years
Join us on Sunday, August 19th for a discussion with Mexican-American artist Antonio Serna about Documents of Resistance, his art project that focuses on the history of art and activism of people of color in the USA.* Started over 10 years ago, Documents of Resistance began as an onsite art protest teach-in focusing on protests against racism in the museums of New York City and has slowly evolved to include workshops, installations, advocacy work, archive, and database set to launch in 2024.
I've donated artwork to raise funds for Blue Mountain Center, a very special sanctuary space in upstate New York that is a year-round host to many artists/activist/organizers seeking refuge, rest, and time for self-care, healing, re-energizing, and even strategizing. (As a lead up to organizing with People's Cultural Plan-I've workshopped ideas on how to address the lack of diversity in NYC's museums and also on creating a commons of art and culture with other residents during my stay! ✊👀 )
