
Nothing like it never was
Christian Amaya Garcia (2024-25 Studio Artist)
February 21 – April 6, 2025
Mimo, Bushwick, NY
Mimo is pleased to present Nothing like it never was, a debut solo exhibition by Christian Amaya Garcia.
Amaya Garcia’s practice is an ongoing engagement with performance and the conditions of its presence. Eschewing performance’s corporeality, he induces its fragmentation by suspending. deferring, and refusing to render an ‘act’ itself. By not ‘showing up,’ by negating the participation and ‘liveness’ of performance, he complicates the medium’s promise of being-in-itself and admits, instead, its absence.

Solid At Room Temperature
mujero (2023-24 Studio Artist)
Rebecca Shapass (2018-19 Studio Artist)
January 30 – March 8, 2025
Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present “Solid At Room Temperature” featuring new and recent works by New York-based artists Enrique Garcia, Tamiko Kawata, Athena LaTocha, marlow magdalene, mujero, Kayode Ojo, Kevin Reuning, Irgin Sena, and Rebecca Shapass.
The artists all employ metal as a material in their practice — whether hand-cast, found, appropriated, or augmented with print, dye, scratching, painting or other processes such as anodizing.

Resurrectura
Sasha Fishman (2024-25 Studio Artist)
November 9, 2024 – February 22, 2025
Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Murmurs is pleased to present Resurrectura, a solo exhibition of multimodal, kinetic sculptures by Sasha Fishman opening November 9, 2024 from 6-9pm. The works on view—composed largely of moving image, biomaterials, and running water—exemplify Fishman’s sustained engagement with an aesthetics of transcorporeality. Disgust, pleasure, identification, and desire commingle within the interstices of both Fishman’s material structures and the interspecies encounters they speak of.

Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni announced as NYSCA/NYFA 2024 Artist Fellows!
Jesus Benavente (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2021-22
Rowan Renee (Interdisciplinary Work) – Airport Beach, 2021-22
Itziar Barrio (Interdisciplinary Work) – did not feel low, was sleeping, 2023
Moko Fukuyama (Interdisciplinary Work) – Streaming Surface, 2022
Miatta Kawinzi (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2022-23, Numma Yah, forthcoming 2024
Kiyan Williams (Interdisciplinary Work) – Studio Artist 2022-23
Madjeen Isaac (Painting) – Studio Artist 2023-24, Come as You Are, This Is Our Battle Too, forthcoming 2024

Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni named as 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts!
Itziar Barrio (Film-video) – did not feel low, was sleeping, 2023
Bang Geul Han (Fine Arts) – featured in You’d Think By Now, 2022
Rachelle Mozman Solano (Photography) – Metamorphosis of Failure, 2019; 2011 Artist Studio