- Manal Abu-Shaheen
- Vahap Avşar
- Jesus Benavente and Felipe Castelblanco
- Brian Caverly
- Kerry Downey
- Magali Duzant
- Golnaz Esmaili
- Mohammed Fayaz
- Kate Gilmore
- Jonah Groeneboer
- Bang Geul Han and Minna Pöllänen
- Dave Hardy
- Sylvia Hardy
- Shadi Harouni
- Janks Archive
- Robin Kang
- Kristin Lucas
- Carl Marin
- Eileen Maxson
- Melanie McLain
- Shane Mecklenburger
- Lawrence Mesich
- Freya Powell
- Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
- Alan Ruiz
- Samita Sinha and Brian Chase
- Barb Smith
- Monika Sziladi
- Alina Tenser
- Trans-Pecos with 8 Ball Community, E.S.P. TV, and Chillin Island
- Mark Tribe
- Sam Vernon
- Max Warsh
- Jennifer Williams
Queens International 2016 artist Mohammed Fayaz collaborates with IMI Corona (Immigrant Movement International), the Museum’s community outpost in its immediate neighborhood of Corona, Queens for an iteration of The Window Project: Rest in Power, a site-specific window installation and event program series honoring the lives of Black and Brown victims of police brutality with the intention of building solidarity and challenging internalized racism within the immigrant community.
To create With Grace, Fayaz worked together with the Museum’s Queens Teens program to investigate the intersectional politics at stake for transgender detainees being held at ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Detention Facilities. For this installation, the group chose to create a composition honoring activist Grace Lawrence, a transgender woman from Liberia who was incarcerated by ICE for 3 years, and due to her gender identity was held in solitary confinement for the majority of her incarceration. The installation intends to create space for a deeper narrative of Grace’s life, where we not only honor Grace’s struggles within carceral immigration systems, but will also celebrate her life, resilience, and resistance in fighting for other transgender immigrants currently in detention.
Opening Event:
July 1st, 5-7pm
IMI Corona (Immigrant Movement International)
108-59 Roosevelt Avenue, next to the 111th Street Stop on the 7 Train
Special thanks to Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz, Cata Maria Elena Elisabeth, Simone Satchell, Ro Garrido, Dominique Hernandez, and Viviana Astrid Peralta from Immigrant Movement International and the Queens Museum Education department for their tireless efforts in organizing the Queens Teens collaboration and installation for With Grace.
Mohammed Fayaz is a self taught artist who illuminates the otherwise esoteric experience of being a queer person of color in New York. He is intent on documenting his vibrant community through his artwork. He is currently a BA candidate at CUNY Baruch College, and has had exhibits at 41 Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (2015), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2015), and The Freeman Space, Brooklyn, NY (2014). He works as a freelance illustrator and organizes monthly events for the queer and trans community of color in New York City.
- An Itinerary with Notes
- Exhibition Views
- Hidden
- Watershed
- A Distant Memory Being Recalled (Queens Teens Respond)
- Overhead: A Response to Kerry Downey’s Fishing with Angela
- Sweat, Leaks, Holes: Crossing the Threshold
- PULSE: On Jonah Groeneboer’s The Potential in Waves Colliding
- Interview: Melanie McLain and Alina Tenser
- Personal Space
- Data, the Social Being, and the Social Network
- Responses from Mechanical Turk
- MAPS, DNA, AND SPAM
- Queens Internacional 2016
- Uneven Development: On Beirut and Plein Air
- A Crisis of Context
- Return to Sender
- Interview: Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- Mining Through History: The Contemporary Practices of Vahap Avşar and Shadi Harouni
- A Conversation with Shadi Harouni's The Lightest of Stones
- Directions to a Gravel Quarry
- Walk This Way
- Interview: Brian Caverly and Barb Smith
- "I drew the one that has the teeth marks..."
- BEAT IT! (Queens Teens respond)
- Moments
- Lawn Furniture
- In Between Difference, Repetition, and Original Use
- Interview: Dave Hardy and Max Warsh
- Again—and again: on the recent work of Alan Ruiz
- City of Tomorrow
- Noticing This Space
- NO PLACE FOR A MAP
- The History of the World Was with Me That Night
- What You Don't See (Queens Teens Respond)
- Interview: Allison Davis and Sam Vernon
- When You’re Smiling…The Many Faces Behind the Mask
- Interview: Jesus Benavente and Carl Marin
- The Eternal Insult
- Janking Off
- Queens Theatricality