2024 In-person Cohort

Spring 2024 | Summer 2024 | Fall 2024

Met in-person at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea (NYC)

With Canopy Mentor

Sara Jimenez

Artist

Based in New York

Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Sara Jimenez, the artists developed their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort met in-person at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea (NYC) for three consecutive semesters. Their experience culminated with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Melanie Brewster
Hollie Heller
Aaron Cohen
Sima Schloss
Siyu Chen
Christine Zheng
Dany Green
Jessica Elena Aquino
Kaitlin Santoro
Dante Migone-Ojeda
Gino Romero

Cohort Exhibition

Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.

When we gather

Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

November 21-23, 2024

Opening

Thursday, November 21, 6-8 pm

When we gather is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Sara Jimenez, as part of the 2024 Canopy Program. Through their collaborative journey in the Canopy Program, a year-long residency, these artists have fostered critical dialogues and mutual inspiration, further developing their exploration of critical themes including the remembered and forgotten, the sublime, and the fractured.

Working across an array of mediums including sculpture, painting, and printmaking, these artists examine unseen realities through acts of collection, fragmentation, and conjoining. Dante Migone-Ojeda, Dany Green, and Melanie Brewster probe hidden worlds and build new mythologies by reconstructing–sometimes fraught–relationships to religion and spirituality. Jessica Elena Aquino, Gino Romero, and Kaitlin Santoro highlight the invisible, ancestral ties that bind us across time using performative interventions and nontraditional methods of printmaking. Sima Schloss, Christine Zheng, Aaron Cohen, and Siyu Chen employ additive and reductive collage techniques to process our collective reality, exploring the impact of material and emotional accumulation.

By breaking down and reconfiguring concepts, memories, and material, the artists in this exhibition uncover and weave new connections between the tangible and intangible. When we gather celebrates the expansive possibilities of joining together and creating in community.

Canopy Mentor Sara Jimenez

Sara Jimenez (she/her) received her BA from the University of Toronto and her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Selected exhibitions include Rachel Uffner Gallery, El Museo del Barrio, Morgan Lehman Gallery, BRIC Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, and Smack Mellon, among others. She has performed at numerous venues including The Dedalus Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, Jack, The Glasshouse, and Dixon Place. Selected artist residencies include Brooklyn Art Space, Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace, the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Yaddo, BRICworkspace, Art Omi, Project for Empty Space, LMCC’s Workspace and Bemis. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Selected awards and grants include NYFA’s Canadian Women's Artist Award, Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create and Travel Grants, and BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize. Jimenez is represented by Chozick Family Gallery.