EFA OPEN STUDIOS 2026
Schedule
Friday, October 9
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Professional Preview (by RSVP)
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Opening Night Registration encouraged
Saturday, October 10
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA
organized by SAWCC
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Open Studios
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
Location
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
Free and open to the public.
EFA OPEN STUDIOS
We welcome the public to explore 80 artist studios, along with a host of arts programming and exhibitions, all located in the EFA building in Midtown Manhattan. This event offers a rare opportunity to witness the creative process up close and engage with a vibrant community of professional artists. Our internationally recognized members, each with established studio practices and career honors, will open their doors to showcase their most recent works. Additionally, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will be open for special events and tours, providing firsthand experiences of the transformative power of art.
Image: Yu-Wen Wu, Scholar's Rock I, 2024
Participating Studios
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Study Center | Archive | Printshop
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310 A young Yu
311 Yali Romagoza
312 Kosuke Kawahara
313 Regina Parra
314 Jia Sung
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401 Cecil Howell
402 Annette Cords
404 Patricia Leighton
405 Edgar Jerins
406 Nazanin Noroozi
411 Sarah Leahy
412 Heather Renée Russ
412 Cadence Gierbasch
413 Tamiko Kawata
414 Del Geist
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501 Greg Kwiatek
502 Amy Hill
503 Alex Schweder
505 Elizabeth Colomba
506 Hayoon Jay Lee
507 Jason File
509 Akira Ikezoe
510 Whitney Oldenburg
511 Sean Fader
512 Armando Cortés
513 Lise Kjaer
514 Jan Mun
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601 Maria D. Rapicavoli
602 Guido Garaycochea
603 Keren Anavy
604 Thomas Pihl
605 Yu-Wen Wu
607 Watson Mere
608 Camille Eskell
609 Allen Thomas Ball
610 Bundith Phunsombatlert
611 Liselot van der Heijden
612 Cheryl Molnar
613 Pablo Helguera
614 Kate Hopkins
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701 Fanny Allié
702 Melissa Joseph
704 Fei Cui
705 Samira Abbassy
707 Shimon Attie
708 Yongjae Kim
710 Mahmoud Hamadani
711 Finnegan Shannon
712 Cecile Chong
713 Janet Loren Hill
714 Noormah Jamal
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801 Armita Raafat
802 Keren Benbenisty
804 Sally Egbert
805 Carlos Motta
806 Javier Romero
807 Vidal Mouet
810 Pablo García
811 Michael Mandiberg
813 Rhona Bitner
814 Laura Anderson Barbata
International Residency ArtistsElfreda Dali
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901 Susan Silas
902 Dana Levy
903 Marjorie Welish
904 Wafaa Bilal
905 Xin Song
907 Justin Kim
908 Nazli Efe
910 Howard Smith
911 Michael Eade
912 Dena Sturm
913 Karina Skvirsky
914 m Burgess
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1000 Negin Mahzoun
1002 Billy Gerard Frank
1004 Vicky Colombet
1005 Carlos Vega
1006 Mattia Casalegno
1007 Calvin Kim
Explore
Master printer Jazmine Catasus printing with EFA member artist Melissa Joseph.
Regina Parra and a guest at her studio during EFA Open Studios 2024. Photo by Lucas Hoeffel.
Programming
Pathways
Open Studios 2026 introduces a series of thematic pathways that transform the building into a network of interconnected exhibitions. Each pathway brings together artists across disciplines, studios, and floors through shared ideas, materials, processes, and points of inquiry. Visitors may follow these routes digitally, through printed guides, or by scanning QR codes throughout the building, creating opportunities for deeper engagement with individual artists and broader connections across the program. Every participating artist is featured within at least one pathway, allowing audiences to experience Open Studios as both a self-guided exploration and a cohesive exhibition unfolding across the building.
Saturday, October 18, 12–1 PM
Panel Discussion: South Asian Womxn at EFA
EFA Gallery | 3rd Floor
Join us for an engaging artist panel featuring Samira Abbassy, Noormah Jamal and Melissa Joseph, three visionary artists whose work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through diverse mediums and perspectives.
The conversation will be moderated by Shilpi Chandra, whose thoughtful facilitation will guide a deep dive into the artists’ creative processes, influences, and the personal and political themes that shape their work.
Sponsored by The South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective (SAWCC) in collaboration with EFA.
The South Asian Womxn's Creative Collective (SAWCC) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian womxn artists and creative professionals by providing a physical and virtual space to profile their creative and intellectual work across disciplines.
Saturday, October 18, 2–3 PM
Print Demo: Closer Look with Devin N. Morris
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | 2nd Floor
Join artist Devin N. Morris in discussion with RBPMW Artistic Director/Master Printer Jazmine Catasús for an in-depth look at his stencil monotype collage technique. Devin's work will be featured at NADA Miami as part of the Workshop’s presentation this fall.
Devin N. Morris (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD; lives and works in New York) collapses memory and space to envision delicate new realms of existence. Through collage, painting, photography, physical assemblage, and video the artist considers the statement ‘use what you have to make what you need.’ Recent exhibitions include: And Ever an Edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY(2023); Portrait of an Unlikely Space curated by Mickalene Thomas & Keely Orgeman, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven (2023); Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Museum, Nashville, (2023) and Copy Machine Manifestos: Artist Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2023).
