UPCOMING EXHIBITION

(Re)assemblage

The 2025 EFA SHIFT Cohort Exhibition

June 12 – July 26, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 12, 6:00–8:00PM

EFA Studios
323 West 39th St., New York, NY, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm

DaeQuan Alexander Collier
Stephen Lau
Hawu Lim
DW Zinsser

Curated by Sophia Ma

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) is proud to present (Re)assemblage, the culminating exhibition of the 2025 SHIFT Residency program. Featuring work by DaeQuan Alexander Collier, Stephen Lau, Hawu Lim, and DW Zinsser, the exhibition will be on view in the EFA Studios Gallery from June 12 through July 26, 2025. Organized by independent curator Sophia Ma in collaboration with curatorial mentee Danielle Mann, this exhibition marks the fifteenth anniversary of the SHIFT Residency. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, June 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.

Named after Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal 1982 film, (Re)assemblage explores the politics of grief, memory, and identity through material fragments, ritual gestures, and poetic systems of making. Each artist approaches their practice as a site of negotiation—with loss, with family, with the violence of assimilation and erasure—transforming everyday materials into deeply intentional acts of assembly. Across sculpture, video, drawing, sound, and soft installation, they offer not answers but openings: spaces to gather, to grieve, to begin again, and to be visible and present.

Now in its fifteenth year, EFA’s SHIFT Residency supports artists working at the intersection of creative practice and social transformation. Designed for artist-organizers, educators, and community builders, SHIFT provides material resources, studio space, and a critical support network within the EFA community. This year's artists embody the program’s ethos through practices rooted in care, collaboration, and cultural memory. In celebration of the milestone anniversary, SHIFT alumni were invited to contribute reflections on their experiences in the exhibition catalog, creating an intergenerational exchange across past and present cohorts.