KODA

Found­ed in 2019, KODA is a nomadic non­prof­it arts orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to mid-career artists. KODA grants social jus­tice res­i­den­cies to allow for exper­i­men­ta­tion and facil­i­tates cre­ative projects through strate­gic part­ner­ships with social­ly engaged part­ners. KODA fos­ters dia­logue and intel­lec­tu­al exchange, and serves the com­mu­ni­ty through exhi­bi­tions of con­tem­po­rary art, events and out­reach to strength­en art education.

On View

Nyamekye ​“Edmond” Buc­knor’s The Sixth Day, May 17-August 24
This solo exhi­bi­tion is Edmond’s first major insti­tu­tion­al exhi­bi­tion, show­ing pho­tographs from 2019 to 2025. Edmond is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing his MFA at Brook­lyn Col­lege and holds a BA from The City Col­lege of New York. The Sixth Day, curat­ed by Farideh Sakhaei­far (KODA ​’21), is part of When Artists Curate—KODA’s new cura­to­r­i­al series inspired by Ali­son Green’s book When Artists Curate: Con­tem­po­rary Art and the Exhi­bi­tion as Medi­um (2018).

Maryam Mon­al­isa Ghar­avi: Yet Where the Dan­ger Dwells, July 19-August 24
This solo sur­vey exhi­bi­tion by artist Maryam Mon­al­isa Ghar­avi spans high­lights from a decade of work in film/​video, per­for­mance, draw­ing, sculp­tur­al instal­la­tion, and text. Fea­tured works were often pro­duced in ​“soft” non-hier­ar­chi­cal series – where a film/​video becomes a draw­ing sequence which becomes an artist book. Gharavi’s prac­tice has inno­vat­ed with­in three ele­ments of human knowl­edge sys­tems — vis­i­bil­i­ty, lan­guage, secu­ri­ty — because their con­tra­dic­tions, mys­ter­ies, and betray­als have a capac­i­ty to make a dou­ble move.