EFA Project Space, launched in September 2008 as a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is a curator and artist led exhibition platform advancing experimentation and activation in contemporary art. Through invitation, partnership, and open call exhibitions, robust public programming and the SHIFT residency, we embrace critical new voices with a focus on art processes and community engagement.
Project Space represents a wide range of practices and perspectives of New York based communities and international artists addressing pivotal social and cultural ideas. Our exhibitions and programs provide a welcoming gathering space and are free and open to the public.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) public charity, dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice. We are a catalyst for cultural growth, stimulating new interactions between artists, art professionals, creative communities, and the public.
STAFF
Naomi Lev, Program Director and Chief Curator
naomi@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 229
Danielle Mann, Exhibitions and Gallery Manager
danielle@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 244
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Advisory Committee supports EFA Project Space by participating in the juried processes of the program’s Open Calls and the SHIFT Residency.
Dario Mohr, Artist, Founder and Director at AnkhLave Arts Alliance, SHIFT Alum
Cassandra Mayela, Artist, Nesting Alumna
Isabelle Hui Saldaña, artist, writer, and cultural worker, Senior Manager of Artist & Community Development at The Laundromat Project
Michelle Levy, Former Director of EFA Project Space
Shervone Neckles, Artist, SHIFT residency 2015/16 Alumni
Felicity Hogan, Director of NYFA Learning at New York Foundation for the Arts
Jean Barberis, Co-founder Flux Factory
Chloë Bass, Artist, Alumni: Once More, with Feeling (2016)
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Artist, Alumni: CURRICULUM: spaces of learning and unlearning (2019)
Pablo Helguera, Artist, Alumni: Cultural Transference (2012)
Marie Lorenz, Artist, Alumni: SeaWorthy: An Exhibition, Workshops & Excursions (2011)
Sara Reisman, Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs at National Academy of Design
James Allister, Artist, Alumni: Sprang
Radhika Subramaniam, Curator, Writer, Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School
Sally Szwed, Arts and Culture Director of DVDL
Chen Tamir, Curator
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland and gathering place for many Indigenous nations and beings. When the unceded earth breaths again, there will be Indigenous lives here, as there are now and have always been. It will still be Lenapehoking. We learn from the bedrock and commit to uplifting, honoring, and listening to those who are seen and unseen, present and future.
This Land Acknowledgement was collaboratively written by Christopher Green and Alan Michelson as part of the 2021 exhibition Speculations on the Infrared.
SUPPORT
EFA Project Space has received public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, as well as from generous individuals in our community.
In 2021-22, EFA Project Space's SHIFT: A Residency for Arts Workers is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Teiger Foundation, Willem de Kooning Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
