The Latinx Project at New York University announces Escenas featuring the work of seven emerging lens-based artists. Activating the third floor gallery space of 20 Cooper Square, the exhibition debuts with a public opening celebration on September 5, 2025 and closes on December 04, 2025
“Escenas features the work of seven contemporary photographers—Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras—based across New York, Georgia, California, and the Dominican Republic. Utilizing performative self-portraiture, anthotype, feminist archival practices, and other strategies, the lens-based artists explore the embodied and relational texture of documenting life as they maneuver racialization, migration, and diaspora. By repurposing material, space, and time, Escenas invites us to contemplate how we hold and are held by the past through practices that allow us to sense, activate, and revere connections with moments that have presumably expired. Escenas presents scenes of life unfolding—a room where personal and collective histories touch and move across times and geographies. ”
- Orlando Ochoa, Jr.
Escenas spotlights the vibrant work of Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras.