While Congress debates immigration reform, an influx of foreigners continue to make Brooklyn their home, adding new accents, flavors, and art to the neighborhood cultural landscape. Non-Native New York is an art exhibition curated by Linn Edwards and Brian Bell, celebrating the cultural contributions of international artists living in Brooklyn. This exhibition examines the artwork that results when an artist is uprooted by moving to a new country, leaving behind a social support system, cultural commonality, and first language…

Non-Native New York is a selection of fifteen artists who embody almost every region on the globe, representing studio practices that are equally diverse. The thread that unites the selected artwork is the const

While Congress debates immigration reform, an influx of foreigners continue to make Brooklyn their home, adding new accents, flavors, and art to the neighborhood cultural landscape. Non-Native New York is an art exhibition curated by Linn Edwards and Brian Bell, celebrating the cultural contributions of international artists living in Brooklyn. This exhibition examines the artwork that results when an artist is uprooted by moving to a new country, leaving behind a social support system, cultural commonality, and first language.

Non-Native New York is a selection of fifteen artists who embody almost every region on the globe, representing studio practices that are equally diverse. The thread that unites the selected artwork is the constant presence of the artist’s hand in the work. There is a common impulse to explore the social and urban environment, collective experiences and individual memories.

Non-Native New York features: Mahtab Aslani, Jaclyn Conley, Francisco Correa-Cordero,

Emile H Dubuisson, Yuhi Hasegawa, Hai-Hsin Huang, Jee Hwang, Gautam Kansara, Maria Kondratiev, Olek, Lothar Osterburg, Jung Eun Park, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Minori Sanchiz-Fung, and Taganyahu Swao.
ant presence of the artist’s hand in the work. There is a common impulse to explore the social and urban environment, collective experiences and individual memories.

Non-Native New York features: Mahtab Aslani, Jaclyn Conley, Francisco Correa-Cordero,

Emile H Dubuisson, Yuhi Hasegawa, Hai-Hsin Huang, Jee Hwang, Gautam Kansara, Maria Kondratiev, Olek, Lothar Osterburg, Jung Eun Park, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Minori Sanchiz-Fung, and Taganyahu Swao.