Living

On View: January 23, 2026 – February 23, 2026 

Curated by Dario Mohr

Presented on behalf of AnkhLave Arts Alliance

Living marks AnkhLave Arts Alliance’s 2nd Biennial exhibition, uniting two vibrant cohorts of AnkhLave Garden Project artists, 2024 and 2025, into a single, expansive conversation. Across disciplines, geographies, and lived experience, ten artists present work that asks not simply what it means to live, but how life expresses itself, transforms itself, and remembers itself.

All exhibiting artists are alumni of AnkhLave’s flagship initiative, the AnkhLave Garden Project, an annual fellowship and public art exhibition for BIPOC artists. The program was created to bring art directly into the public realm: gardens, parks, and open green spaces where audiences of all backgrounds can encounter creativity without the barriers of traditional art institutions, which have historically underrepresented communities of color. Public art is for the world, and the Garden Project centers artists who continue the legacies of their Indigenous and diasporic heritage through contemporary practice.

The 2024 fellowship marked the 6th annual Garden Project, presented at The Artist Gardener Community Garden in Harlem. The 2025 cohort followed as the 7th, installed across the green lawns of AnkhLave’s Art Residency campus on Governors Island.

Representing the 2025 group are Yupin Pramotepipop (Public Artist-in-Residence), of Chinese descent raised in Thailand; Tijay Mohammed, of Ga descent from Ghana; Kevin Gordon, of Jamaican descent; and Hong Wu, of Chinese heritage. The 2024 artists include Kraig Blue, an African American artist and Public Artist-in-Residence; Damali Abrams, of Trinidadian descent; Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, from Cali, Colombia; Diego Espaillat, of Dominican descent; Xiong Wei, of Chinese descent; and Chihiro Ito, from Japan.

Together, their works traverse the full spectrum of existence: human and more-than-human, earthly and ethereal. They explore living as a continuum connecting breath and spirit, ancestry and futurity, identity and ecosystem. The exhibition moves fluidly through animal, plant, and fungal realms, invoking wisdom embedded in biological form as well as metaphysical dimensions that cannot be measured, only felt.

Beneath its surface, Living proposes that life is not an isolated condition but a relational act. The exhibition imagines existence as an ecology of mutual influence where identity is shaped through ancestry, where culture is transmitted through making, and where the human body participates in a broader field of shared life with plants, animals, ancestors, and spirit. In this way, the works do not merely depict life—they contribute to the ongoing creation of cultural, biological, and spiritual continuity.

Living challenges the notion that existence is singular or static. Instead, it proposes a vibrant, ever-shifting network where memory becomes matter, where culture and environment intermingle, and where human and nonhuman bodies participate in the same vital choreography. Through sculpture, installation, painting, and multimedia expression, the artists expand the question of what it means to be alive, offering narratives grounded in resilience, interdependence, and creative force.

In this shared space, Living reveals itself not as an endpoint, but as an unfolding field of possibility.

Curated by AnkhLave Founder and Director Dario Mohr, with gratitude to Old Stone House for providing space to celebrate two years of extraordinary artistic practice.

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Featured Image by Hong Wu.

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