FONOTECA: Bring Records, Take Art
With artist Pablo Helguera
Presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Time: 6:00–8:00 pm

Join us in the gallery for an evening of music, drinks, and collective archive building in support of FONOTECA, a new public vinyl library by artist Pablo Helguera devoted to Latin American and Latinx music. The project is commissioned by The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center as part of their Historias initiative.

The project invites attendees to donate or lend Latin music records across all genres, including salsa, bolero, cumbia, merengue, tango, Latin jazz, spoken word, and experimental music. In exchange for contributions, Helguera will trade limited-edition works and original drawings created specially for the occasion.

Fonoteca builds a public record of Latinx New York through music and the listening histories of the people who contribute to it. The resulting vinyl collection will be permanently housed at The Clemente on New York’s Lower East Side as an accessible public resource.

The event is free, and all are welcome. Please feel free to bring records you would like to donate or lend to the project! RSVP here.

About the Artist
Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York-based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art, and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory, and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied, including lectures, museum display strategies, musical performances, and written fiction.

About the Partner
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center is a Puerto Rican and Latinx cultural space rooted in the Lower East Side. The Clemente connects and co-creates with contemporary artists, cultural workers, and small arts organizations by offering subsidized studios, exhibition, rehearsal, office, and venue spaces. The Clemente also produces its own programming in a spirit of responsiveness, heritage conservation, and provocative collaboration.

Space Meal
An earthly dinner of interplanetary provocations

Presented during Climate Week NYC
Menu and food by Tessa Liebman
Vinyl DJ set by Pedro Motta
In conversation with The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars by Mari Nagem

Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Time: 6:00–9:00 pm
Tickets: $60–$100 sliding scale (see below); free for CUE members (see here)

Tickets for this event are almost sold out! If you don’t see any available spots and would like to join the waitlist to buy a ticket, please email us at rsvp@cueartfoundation.org with your full name.

Join us in the gallery for Space Meal, a roving multi-course dinner by artist and chef Tessa Liebman during Climate Week NYC. The program, which kicks off with a vinyl DJ set by Pedro Motta, is presented in conversation with the work of artist Mari Nagem to mark the closing of her solo exhibition at CUE, The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars.

Space Meal does not propose a menu for outer space. Instead, it begins here on Earth, where changing environments, new technologies, and inherited knowledge continually shape and reshape what we consume. Nagem’s exhibition moves between a hyper-heated Earth and speculative environments on the Moon and Mars, considering transformations to bodies, materials, and living systems as they encounter new conditions. Space Meal brings these provocations to the table; food is equally adaptive: it can be preserved and dried, carried from one context to another, altered by heat, shaped by available resources, and informed by the tastes and habits we acquire along the way.

Developed through conceptual and textural responses to works in the exhibition, the menu draws from homegrown culinary traditions alongside ingredients and techniques that evoke changing landscapes, imagined ecosystems, geological time, and new and longstanding technologies. Each dish will be situated in direct relationship to the spatial and conceptual environment of the exhibition, temporarily transforming the gallery and offering a sensory and embodied exploration of taste, texture, and place. Throughout the evening, questions of preservation, migration, and survival ground our perceptions of ecological change.

The conditions of life on Earth are already shifting. What foods and practices might endure? And even as we imagine new futures, both here and elsewhere, what familiar tastes, desires, and contradictions will we insist on bringing with us?

Tessa Liebman is an artist and chef who has been cooking in her hometown of New York City for over twenty years. Through her work as a chef and caterer, she began to recognize the power of the senses to guide perception, elicit memory and emotion, and introduce new information, channeling these observations into a multidisciplinary art practice. She works extensively with the olfactory, and has collaborated with artists and perfumers as a “sensory translator,” interpreting their materials and stories through forms she knows well: food and drink.

Liebman develops conceptual, multisensory, and interactive installations, gatherings, and experiences. Her practice considers how small and subtle shifts in where we place our attention might change our relationships to our bodies and surroundings. She engages participants in sometimes “sneaky” ways, using sensory encounters to draw attention to their own reactions, associations, and cultural biases. Drawing on longstanding interests in sociology, psychology, and art history, her work explores the senses as tools for presence, curiosity, and connection, particularly within our current attention economy.

Liebman’s many projects include workshops on food, the senses, and storytelling; Methods & Madness, a ticketed dinner series developed through collaborations with artists, designers, perfumers, baristas, foragers, printmakers, and other creative practitioners, with menus informed by their processes (their “methods”) and inspirations (their “madness”); and Scents of Plates, a project that uses food and fragrance to translate stories, ideas, and memories from one sense to another. Her ongoing Multisensory Experience Kits offer playful tools for engaging the senses while thinking about our personal and collective past, present, and future. Led by intuition and curiosity, Liebman often follows questions and ideas, allowing one project or encounter to generate the next. Across these forms, she is interested in what can happen when we redirect our attention toward our own senses, one another, and the world immediately around us, and in the possibilities for connection and agency that might follow.

Mari Nagem (b. Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist conceptually driven by the relationship between nature and technology. She has been awarded numerous international fellowships, commissions, and residencies, including: S+T+Arts Buen-TEK Residency (Rome, IT and Fortaleza, BR, 2026); a public commission for COP30 by the Tomie Ohtake Institute for the Emílio Goeldi Zoobotanical Park and Museum (Belém, BR, 2025); commissions for Mostra 3M (São Paulo, BR, 2024) and SFER IK Museion (Tulum, MX, 2024); the Celia and Wally Gilbert Fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US, 2024); the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program (US, 2024); and the Ox-Bow Program Fellowship (US, 2022). She has been nominated for and received awards from Ars Electronica (S+T+Arts, 2026 and CIFO, 2024), the Pipa Prize (2024), and the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize (2021).

Nagem has participated in Latin American biennials, including Bienal Sur at the Macro Museum (Argentina) and the Digital Art Biennial (Brazil). She has had solo exhibitions at Cave Galeria (Fortaleza, 2026), Galeria Lume (São Paulo, 2024), and Paço das Artes (São Paulo, 2022), among others. Her work has been shown at Tomie Ohtake Institute, SESC, Oi Futuro, MAC Niteroí, the Museum of Image and Sound (BR); MESH Art Center, Selva, Berry Campbell Gallery, Flatiron Project Space, New York Live Arts (US); Savvy Contemporary (DE); Sea Foundation (NL); and festivals such as FILE, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and Athens Digital Arts Festival.

Nagem’s projects and exhibitions have been featured in Art Dialogues Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Arte!Brasileiros, Estadão, Revista Select, and Brazil-based cultural television network Arte1, among others. She holds an MFA from the Haute École d'Art et Design de Genéve, and currently lives and works between New York and Brazil.

Related Exhibition
Learn more about The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars, a solo exhibition by Mari Nagem, here.

Curated Selects with Interspecies Library 
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Time: 12:00–6:00 pm (12–5 pm book browsing, 5–6 pm presentation and happy hour)

Please join us to kick off Climate Week NYC with a pop-up selection of books curated by Interspecies Library founder Oscar Salguero, along with a presentation and happy hour from 5–6 pm.

Interspecies Library is the first archive dedicated to the curation and advancement of artists’ books focused on alternative interspecies futures. The growing collection aspires to reflect our changing attitudes and acknowledgment of more-than-human worlds. Salguero presents a selection of books from the library that explore speculative geological, oceanic, vegetal, and animal relationships, expanding on the themes and concepts present in The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars.

Books will be on view for facilitated browsing throughout the day. At 5 pm, refreshments will be served during a happy hour presentation in which Salguero will share more about the library and the curated selection.

The event is free, and all are welcome. RSVPs are encouraged but not required.

RSVP here. Read more about the exhibition here.

About the Curator
Oscar Salguero is an independent curator and researcher based in Queens, New York. He is the founder of Interspecies Library. Salguero curated Interspecies Futures [IF] at Center for Book Arts (2021) and NEO MINERALIA at Center for Craft (2023). His latest curatorial work is Journal of Therolinguistics, an exhibition exploring the poetic study of nonhuman languages, which was shown at Descanso Gardens in California from March 25 to July 5, 2026,

Interspecies Library, initiated by Salguero in 2019, is the first archive of artists' books exploring alternative interspecies futures. The collection is a physical, tangible, living archive, and Salguero often hosts activations and exhibitions that draw from its expanse of knowledge and references.

Antenna
An electromagnetic jewelry workshop with Thiago Hersan

Date: Saturday, August 22, 2026
Time: 3:00–6:00 pm
Cost: $10, to go toward materials; participants will make 1-2 pieces of jewelry to take home

Join us for Antenna, a workshop led by multimedia artist, engineer, and educator Thiago Hersan in conversation with the solo exhibition The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars by Mari Nagem. 

We’re swimming in signals: WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, 5G…at this very moment, there are approximately 15,000 active satellites orbiting our planet, 10,000 of which were launched within the last six years by technology tycoons as part of their plans for populating space. There are so many artificial satellites around us that we could potentially read them like stars in divinations about our uncertain futures.

Antenna draws inspiration from the interplanetary provocations in The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars to explore other astronomical connections between humans, technology, and the environment. Themes of cycles and rhythms will guide participants through the science and technology for mapping various electromagnetic signals emitted from telecommunications infrastructure, and in making their presence more sensibly felt.

Hersan will offer context on signals and systems, and lead attendees through the design of wearable antenna jewelry to measure and visualize transmissions from satellites and related technologies. The design process will inform discussions about underlying scientific concepts, experimental electronics, and cultural implications of communications technologies.

About the Artist
Thiago Hersan is a multimedia artist, engineer, and educator. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Data Visualization program at Parsons School of Design, and has been a technical advisor for cultural institutions such as the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Marginalia+Lab in Belo Horizonte, and FACT in Liverpool. He is also a founding associate member and technical advisor for the non-profit organization Silo in Rio de Janeiro.

Hersan has been part of many projects at the intersection of the arts and technology. He has been a member of the Astrovandalistas collective, received a VIDA 15.0 award to develop an interactive and autonomous robotic sculpture called memememe, and was a resident at FACT in Liverpool during which he created FACTLab, a space for collaboration and experimentation with technology and art. He was also recently nominated for a S+T+ARTS award at Ars Electronica 2026, a collaboration with Mari Nagem.

Hersan has been a resident at Impakt in Utrecht, the Delfina Foundation in London, and Autodesk in San Francisco; and has participated in exhibitions such as Mirror Mirror in Lausanne, Humans Need Not Apply in Dublin, Unsettled Artifacts in Los Angeles, Follow in Liverpool, and Multitudes in São Paulo.

Opening Reception:
The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars by Mari Nagem

Saturday, July 11, 2026 from 3–6 pm
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
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Please join us for the opening reception for The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars, a solo exhibition by Mari Nagem. Nagem is an awardee of CUE’s open call for solo exhibitions.

The opening reception will feature music by Fernanda Steinmann, bites by Brigadeiro Bakery, and a custom cocktail made possible through the generous support of Cappelletti. The reception is presented as part of West Side Fest, a celebration of arts and culture featuring exhibitions, performances, and special programming across Manhattan's west side.

RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.

This exhibition will remain on view until September 26, 2026. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.

Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.

About the Artist
Mari Nagem (b. Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist conceptually driven by the relationship between nature and technology. She has been awarded numerous international fellowships, commissions, and residencies, including: S+T+Arts Buen-TEK Residency (Rome, IT and Fortaleza, BR, 2026); a public commission for COP30 by the Tomie Ohtake Institute for the Emílio Goeldi Zoobotanical Park and Museum (Belém, BR, 2025); commissions for Mostra 3M (São Paulo, BR, 2024) and SFER IK Museion (Tulum, MX, 2024); the Celia and Wally Gilbert Fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US, 2024); the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program (US, 2024); and the Ox-Bow Program Fellowship (US, 2022). She has been nominated for and received awards from Ars Electronica (S+T+Arts, 2026 and CIFO, 2024), the Pipa Prize (2024), and the Marcantonio Vilaça Prize (2021).

Nagem has participated in Latin American biennials, including Bienal Sur at the Macro Museum (Argentina) and the Digital Art Biennial (Brazil). She has had solo exhibitions at Cave Galeria (Fortaleza, 2026), Galeria Lume (São Paulo, 2024), and Paço das Artes (São Paulo, 2022), among others. Her work has been shown at Tomie Ohtake Institute, SESC, Oi Futuro, MAC Niteroí, the Museum of Image and Sound (BR); MESH Art Center, Selva, Berry Campbell Gallery, Flatiron Project Space, New York Live Arts (US); Savvy Contemporary (DE); Sea Foundation (NL); and festivals such as FILE, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and Athens Digital Arts Festival.

Nagem’s projects and exhibitions have been featured in Art Dialogues Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Arte!Brasileiros, Estadão, Revista Select, and Brazil-based cultural television network Arte1, among others. She holds an MFA from the Haute École d'Art et Design de Genéve, and currently lives and works between New York and Brazil.

Support
The opening reception for The Tropics, The Moon and Mars is supported by an in-kind donation of drinks from Cappelletti.

Opening Reception:
Datos Helados | Soft Tidal by Federico Bolagno-Romero & Mathías Chumino
Curated by Will Rubenstein

Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 6–10 pm (performances from 8–10 pm)
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
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Please join us for the opening reception for Datos Helados | Soft Tidal, an exhibition by Federico Bolagno-Romero & Mathías Chumino, curated by Will Rubenstein. The event presents performances by Yellow Tears, Imminent Death, and Daren Ho beginning at 8 pm.

RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.

This exhibition will remain on view until June 27th, 2026. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.

Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.

About the Artists
Mathías Chumino / C03RA (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice explores territories where the human, the non-human, and the machinic intertwine within an accelerated present shaped by technology. Through a critical, experimental, and poetic approach, his work creates immersive and conceptual spaces that expand forms of perception and question the hierarchies between matter, information, and agency. His trajectory includes exhibitions, residencies, and live performances in museums, biennials, and international festivals such as Ars Electronica, MUTEK, and Mapping Festival, as well as presentations in Argentina, Chile, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, the United States, and beyond.

Federico Bolagno-Romero (Montevideo & New York) is a sound and media artist whose work explores acoustic space, electronic synthesis, and the somatic dimensions of frequency. His practice extends into sculpture, where infrasonic and ultrasonic audio lives as physical material. Through the real-time integration of multiple sound sources and live urban data, his work moves between composition, performance, and object-making; tracing the threshold between designed and lived acoustic experience. For the last fifteen years, Bolagno-Romero has been embedded in New York’s audio culture, working across institutional and underground contexts alike. His work has been presented at Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires; Subte, Montevideo; Ochiai Soup, Tokyo; and at numerous venues and galleries throughout New York.

About the Curator
Will Rubenstein is a producer and curator based in Queens, New York. He is the founder of Vial, a music label and residency program dedicated to experimental electronic music and media art. Rubenstein’s recent projects include cofounding DUST (2021–2024) and organizing Hope Is Not (2024) by Stefan Alexandrej Cvitanic at Mery Gates Gallery.

Opening Reception:
203 / H The Collector
An exhibition of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program
Organized by Oorja Garg and Ridwana Rahman

Saturday, May 23, 2026 from 6–9 pm
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
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Please join us for the opening reception for 203 / H The Collector, a group exhibition organized by Oorja Garg and Ridwana Rahman after a year of collectively reading Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project with the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program.

RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.

This exhibition will remain on view until May 29, 2026. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.

Read more about the exhibition and the artist list here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.

Graphic Design: Ridwana Rahman

dirt earth
A one-night dinner work with artist Tsohil Bhatia at Peel, with music by Formosa

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Time: 8:00–11:00 pm
Location: Peel | 5806 Forbes Ave. | Pittsburgh, PA
Reserved Seats: $50 per person (see below); free for CUE members (see here)

dirt earth is a one-night program by Tsohil Bhatia, presented by CUE Art and Peel, a Pittsburgh-based artist-run teahouse, during the Carnegie International. Guests gather for a shared eight-course meal in which the table becomes a site for speculation on the practices that have shaped what we consider to be either palatable or objectionable.

Drawing upon ingredients and methods that have existed for centuries—ash, clay, salt, grain, fruit, char, fermentation—the menu acts as a set of relations to land across geographies and over time. Recipes carry evidence of the propositions of the land. They draw from histories of accident, spoilage, and contamination, often incorporating ingredients that we have learned to distrust.

That which is trampled upon, discarded, exploited, and disparaged is reoriented as ground; it is worked with, cared for, and shared in circulation. Dirt recedes; earth remains. Through vocabularies of refusal and relation, the work reconsiders our prevailing conceptions of value and sustenance.

The meal will be followed by a set by multi-disciplinary Pittsburgh-based DJ, artist, and designer Formosa.

Tsohil Bhatia (b. New Delhi, India) is an artist, homemaker, and educator currently based in Lenapehoking, now known as New York City. They received their MFA at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University (2020), and completed their undergraduate studies in product design and performance in Bangalore, India. Their work draws on vocabularies of sculpture, performance, and the kitchen. With homemaking as its everyday practice, Bhatia’s work emerges from contemplations on the latencies of mundane objects, daily rituals, and images—bringing together the complexities of the everyday and of the body’s relationship with time and the space it inhabits. 

In some of their older work, they have counted their breath, drawn a continuous line that is 58,600 inches long, drooled for four hours, mapped light from a window, collected and evaporated water from the five oceans, swam towards the setting sun, and intuitively counted the seconds of a clock. 

Bhatia co-founded Red Flower Collective, a communal eating and food research collective that hosts multicourse meals as their primary activation. They have been a resident at the Fire Island Artist Residency (2024), Center for Book Arts (2022), Oxbow Summer Residency (2021) and Chautauqua Artist Residency (2021).

Peel (est. Feb 2026) is an artist + chef-run teahouse and project space founded by Clarice Du and Rongji Fang in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Peel emerged from a shared curiosity about the origins, migrations, and histories of the tea leaf as a diasporic subject. Through its physical space, menu, and activations, tea serves as both nourishment and grounds for experimental art and food praxis with and in diasporic, queer, and translocal contexts. Peel continues to develop collaborations, expanding into broader investigations of foodways with artists and researchers who share these values and perspectives.

Formosa is a multi-disciplinary Taiwanese-American DJ, artist and designer who performs both solo and as half of regular Pittsburgh queer party and music duo Jellyfish. Behind the decks from Pittsburgh to New York, London, Mexico, and Taipei, their sets range from italo disco to electro, jackin' house, drum and bass, breakbeat, minimal, and more.

Support
This program is made possible through essential support from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Brian Wongchaowart, Chris and Dawn Fleischner, and JADED.

Public Gathering: What’s Left in the Remaking
An evening in the gallery with artist walkthroughs, music, and refreshments

Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Time: 7:00–9:00 pm

Join us in the gallery for an informal public gathering to celebrate the thirty-one alumni artists and mentors whose work is presented in What’s Left in the Remaking. Participating artists will lead a walkthrough and speak about their ideas, practices, and contributions to the exhibition. The evening will continue with conversation, music, dancing, and drinks as we gather to mark the end of the year.

Refreshments will be served. This event is free and all are welcome. RSVPs are encouraged but not required.

RSVP here.
Learn more about the exhibition here.

About the Exhibition:
What’s Left in the Remaking is a group exhibition that brings together works by NYC-based alumni artists and mentors who have shaped and been shaped by CUE’s exhibition program over the past decade. It doubles as a benefit, raising crucial funds at a moment of urgent risk. The works on view are offered for sale, directly supporting CUE’s deeply relational and robust model—one that centers the mentorship and agency of underrepresented artists and is driven by a sustained and energetic commitment to their work, ideas, careers, and livelihoods. The exhibition is simultaneously a return and a proposition: a collective gesture of generosity and advocacy by artists who take risks and challenge existing boundaries of practice—and who have defined the spirit of the organization over its 23-year history.

Learn more here.

Opening Dinner: What’s Left in the Remaking
A dinner at CUE organized in partnership with Off-Menu
Food by chefs Annie Faye Cheng, Srishti Jain, and Shauna Saneinejad
Drinks by Drink Dio, Mai Vino, Màkku, De Soi and Less Than 0.5

Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2025
Time: 6:00–10:00 pm
Tickets: Sliding scale, $50–$250 (see here and below)

Join us in the gallery for a special dinner event in collaboration with Off-Menu, a publication centering behind-the-scenes voices in food, to celebrate the opening of What’s Left in the Remaking. This group exhibition, which doubles as a benefit initiative, brings together the work of thirty NYC-based alumni artists and mentors of CUE from over the past decade. 

All works in the exhibition offered for sale. The event and exhibition come at an urgent moment, and raise crucial funds for CUE’s deeply relational and robust model supporting emerging and underrepresented artists who take risks and challenge existing boundaries of practice. The dinner will be the first chance to reserve works in the show.

Chefs Annie Faye Cheng, Srishti Jain, and Shauna Saneinejad, brought together by Off-Menu, will present a collective, site-specific, multi-course meal inspired by the exhibition. Guests will have a first look at the artwork, enjoy food and drink, and gather with our community of visionary alumni artists and mentors who are contributing their work and energy in solidarity with CUE. 

See the full list of participating artists here.

About the Event Partner
Off-Menu is an independent, community-driven magazine exploring the world of food and drink with a focus on storytelling. Through intentional visual narratives, we aim to highlight the people working behind the scenes–producers, chefs, baristas, front of house, back of house and beyond.

About the Chefs
Annie Faye Cheng is a cook and writer based in Queens, NYC. She currently works as a whole-animal butcher. Learn more about her work at @achg.kitchen and www.anniefayecheng.com.

Srishti Jain is a Californian-Indian author, recipe-developer, and pastry chef. Her first cookbook, Make It Plant Based!, was released by Artisan in Spring 2025, and focuses on the produce-forward nature of Indian and Californian cooking. She is known for her supper clubs and pop-ups in San Francisco, New York, London, and beyond, as well as her work as a chef at various New York restaurants. She lives in New York with her fluffy black cat, Clam.

Shauna Saneinejad is the culinary producer and food artist behind Joon Eats, focused on connecting cultures and communities through dinners and edible tablescapes for both brands and individuals. She has collaborated with Diane von Furstenberg, J. Crew, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, MAC Cosmetics, Care of Chan, and more. Her personal project, Joon Dinner, tells the story of the brand’s beginnings and purpose. Her German-Jewish grandfather (on her mother’s side) taught her how to make pickles. Her Iranian-Muslim grandmother (on her father’s side) made torshi (Iranian mixed pickles). Both embraced the merging of families—and their pickling styles merge in Joon Eats’ Persian Pickles. Joon Eats’ goal is to remind diners that we have the capacity to live together, from all origins, when given the opportunity to learn from one another.

Graphic Design: Yuha Lotus Cho

Related Exhibition
To learn more about What’s Left in the Remaking, a group exhibition and a benefit with NYC-based alumni artists and mentors of CUE, see here. 

Support
Drinks for this event are generously donated by Drink Dio, Mai Vino, Màkku, De Soi and Less Than 0.5%.

Closing Program: Boomerang by Jairo Sosa
With tarot readings by Rei, food by Chef Tamarindo, and drinks by The Bronx Brewery
+ the unveiling of Flashback, a new limited edition sculpture by Jairo Sosa

Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Time: 2:00–5:00 pm

Join us in the gallery for a closing program that marks the final week of Boomerang, a solo exhibition by Jairo Sosa at CUE. Culinary worker, storyteller, and ethnographer Chef Tamarindo (@papitropical) will serve small bites that draw upon the themes of resilience and legacy present in the show. Chef Tamarindo’s dishes fuse Caribbean and coastal Ecuadorian traditions with inventive touches. His food carries stories of migration, resilience, and survival, honoring the people and practices that sustain these cultures.

During the afternoon, tarot reader and experienced astrologer Rei (@morethansunastrology) will offer free readings. Rei’s intuitive practice brings a layer of reflection to the space, inviting guests to consider the cycles of return, memory, and transformation that echo through the show. Her readings extend the themes of the exhibition into personal practice, translating Sosa’s exploration of resilience into moments of individual insight and connection.

Throughout the event, guests will enjoy drinks generously provided by The Bronx Brewery, whose mission is rooted in community, creativity, and inclusivity, reflecting the rich creative scene of The Bronx and inspiring connection across New York City.

At the event, we will unveil Flashback, a new limited edition of thirty ceramic basketballs by Jairo Sosa commissioned by CUE. Cast and glazed in one of nine different metallic glaze combinations, each carries subtle variations in surface finish and tone. These intimate works extend the vocabulary of Sosa’s installation beyond the gallery. The basketball, a recurring motif in the artist’s practice, becomes a compact vessel of resilience, memory, and material alchemy—at once familiar and transformed. Proceeds from the edition support both CUE’s program and the artist’s practice.

This event is free and open to the public. Food will be available for sale, with all proceeds supporting ingredients and labor by Chef Tamarindo.

To RSVP, see here.
Read more about the exhibition here.

About the Participants
Chef Tamarindo (@papitropical) is a Brooklyn-born Ecuadorian-Dominican chef and storyteller behind Papitropical. His cooking blends the tropical flavors of the Caribbean and the coast of Ecuador with the vibrancy of New York street food, creating tapas-style dishes that are both rustic and refined. Through pop-ups and residencies across the city, he treats food as a form of cultural memory and community care.

Rei (@morethansunastrology) is an intuitive tarot reader and experienced astrologer. She started her career in finance, dabbled in data science, engaged in research and marketing in blockchain technology, and is now focused on bartending and tarot reading. She enjoys doing event photography, nannying, reading, and practicing French, Chinese, and data science in her free time. Rei does individual sessions with clients and can be contacted directly via DM or email.

The Bronx Brewery (@thebronxbrewery) builds community, using beer brewed in the borough to bring people together while celebrating the rich and diverse creative scene across New York City. The brewery seeks to create a diverse, vibrant culture through beer, art, food and music that inspire, unite, and drive positive change in the world.

About the Artist
Jairo Sosa is a Dominican-American multidisciplinary artist born, raised, and based in New York City. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He went on to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement for Science and Art in New York (2017), during which he studied abroad at the Universitat de Barcelona Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona, Spain (2016). He also received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (2023). 

Sosa’s work has been presented in the solo exhibition Be True To The Game at Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA (2024), as well as several group exhibitions, including: Dark Matter at Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY (2023), Stand-outs: Selections from the Columbia MFA Program at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Miami, FL (2023); 11:11 at At Peace Gallery, New York, NY (2020); and Traces at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ (2017), among others.

About the Mentor
Hugh Hayden nominated Jairo Sosa for this opportunity. Hayden’s practice considers the anthropomorphization of the natural world as a visceral lens for exploring the human condition. Raised in Texas and trained as an architect, Hayden transforms familiar objects—often using wood with layered histories such as discarded trunks, rare timbers, or Christmas trees—into composite forms that reflect complex cultural narratives. His work challenges perceptions of identity, social structures, and our relationship to the environment.

Hayden was born in Dallas, Texas in 1983 and lives and works in New York City. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Recent solo exhibitions include Gulf Stream at the Boston Public Art Triennial's Lot Lab (2024), Huff and a Puff, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2023), and Brier Patch at Madison Square Park Conservancy (2022), later shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art (2022) and Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (2022-23). Other solo exhibitions include shows at the Rose Art Museum, Nasher Sculpture Center, Lisson Gallery (NY, LA, London), Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Blaffer Art Museum, C L E A R I N G (Brussels), and Princeton University Art Museum. Hayden’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Met, LACMA, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Support
This event is supported by a donation from The Bronx Brewery.

Food Activation by Tsohil Bhatia x Red Flower Collective
at NADA House on Governors Island

Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 2–4 pm
Nolan Park House 17, Governors Island
Accessible by ferry from Manhattan and Brooklyn
See directions to Nolan Park here, and ferry info here.

Please join us for a special food-based activation by Tsohil Bhatia for Red Flower Collective, a communal eating and research collective of which they are a co-founder. The event is hosted by the New Art Dealers Alliance as part of the programming for NADA House, where CUE presents a new sculptural work by Bhatia, Untitled (Rano) in conjunction with their solo exhibition This Fire That Warms You, mentored by Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo).

The menu for the event will consist of aloo kachori, dahi bhalla papdi chaat, and masala peanut chaat. Come try it all! Food will be available until it runs out.

Red Flower Collective collaborates with artists, chefs, and curiosities-in-residence, and affirms queer and diasporic identities as they manifest themselves through food. The collective explores the kitchen as a forum in which to receive generational knowledge, and prioritizes the recipes derived from this research.

The event is free and all are welcome (donations are appreciated and support the work of Red Flower Collective). Bhatia’s sculpture, Untitled (Rano), will be on view at NADA House through October 27th, with public hours Friday–Sunday, 11 am–5 pm. No registration is required to attend either the event or public hours.

Register for updates via Luma here. (Please note that registration does not guarantee food—come early to ensure it’s still available!)

Read more about the work at NADA House here.

Related Exhibition
Learn more about This Fire That Warms You by Tsohil Bhatia here.