O-1 VISA TIPS & TRICKS Workshop
Free public program of the exhibition The Extraordinary.
Weds, January 15, 2020
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Ave
New York, NY 10035
Visitors are invited to gather and meet with likeminded artists who have been through this O-1 Visa process. We will discuss tips, tricks, and how to maintain a healthy outlook during the challenging and time consuming visa waiting period.
SPEAKERS:
Artist, Zhiyuan Yang will present on the journey for Chinese artists, since strict rules impose challenges on immigrants from China, especially in Trump administration.
Zhiyuan Yang is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Beijing, China. She received an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Her recent exhibitions include: A Family of Three, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NY, 2019; The Way It Is, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2019; Aka the Backroom, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, 2018; UPROOT, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2017; Biennial 29 (Juror’s Award), South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 2017; Yang’s photography works are in the institutional collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, and published by AINT-BAD Magazine: Issue No.12: Curator’s Choice, 2017. She has been a participant of The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2018; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2017, LMCC Workspace Program, NY, 2018-2019.
Curator, Dino Dincer Sirin will share his experience from an art administration perspective applying and obtaining an O-1 Visa.
Dino Dincer Sirin is the Assistant Curator at Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College. He contributed to Martin Wong: Voices at P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, Pictures, Before and After – An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp, Galerie Buchholz, New York, among other exhibitions. He authored for exhibition catalogues Who the f*ck is Halil Altindere? (Kunstpalais, 2015), Kiblenuma (Palais de Tokyo and Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2013), Mom, Am I Barbarian? (13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013), and his writings have been published in AnOther Magazine, The Exhibitionist, as well as other periodicals and publications.
Fellow at the Center for Art Law, and NY Attorney, Angela Dimery will talk about the legal resources for immigrant artists at the Center for Art Law, including how you can be matched with an immigration attorney for artists.
The Center for Art Law is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that offers educational resources and programming for the advancement of a vibrant arts and law community.
Angela Dimery is the Center’s 2019-2020 Fellow. An attorney from New Zealand where she practiced in-house and at private firms, Angela holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemporary Dance and an Honor’s Degree in Law from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Angela was admitted to practice in New York in December 2019.
OPENING of GALLERY CUBED: NEA: Part IV
Opening Reception of GALLERY CUBED: NEA
Let My Country Die For Me
by artist Jeffrey Meris from Bahamas.
Artist Jeffrey Meris lives with a constant sense of displacement. Continuously bombarded with questions about his identity—who are you? where are you from? and what are you doing here?—Meris tries to transform these affronts into something concrete. Born in Haiti, raised in the Bahamas and, now living as an immigrant in America, the artist is in a constant state of crisis of identity. Working through metaphor, Meris’s artistic practice offers iterative attempts at unraveling these immense questions of identity, belonging, and self. When the ripple settles does the ocean remain the same? What happens to the water level when it too is displaced? Meris’ sculptural work, Mouth to Mouth (2019) circulates around ideas of the breath, buoyancy, and displacement. In the work, Where The Line is Drawn (2018), the artist attempts to empty the ocean of its water, mending the geographic fracture that runs through his ancestry. Working across sculpture, video, drawing and performance, Meris’ work considers the impacts of naturalization and displacement while seeking out spaces of transcendence.
Jeffrey Meris holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (New York), a BFA in Sculpture from Temple University (Philadelphia) and an AA in Arts and Crafts from the College of The Bahamas (Nassau, Bahamas). Meris is a Harry C. Moore Lyford Cay Foundation Scholar and an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
