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Dia Talks

Tiona Nekkia McClodden on Melvin Edwards

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event details  Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea  537 West 22nd Street  New York, New York  Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Recent solo exhibitions include MASK / CONCEAL / CARRRY, 52 Walker, New York (2022); THE POETICS OF BEAUTY WILL INEVITABLY RESORT TO THE MOST BASE PLEADINGS AND OTHER WILES IN ORDER TO SECURE ITS RELEASE, Kunsthalle Basel (2023); and A MERCY | DUMMY, White Cube, London (2024). Recent group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019); Hardcore, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023); and Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023–24). Her writing has been published in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, and Triple Canopy, among other publications. She is the founder and director of the exhibition space and library Conceptual Fade, Philadelphia.

Members’ Event

Members’ Tour of Times Square and Magic Grasshopper

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 5:30 pm
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Event detailsThursday, November 13, 20255:30–6:30 pm Triangular pedestrian plaza at Broadwayand 7th Avenue south of 46th StreetNew York, New York For all members. Join or renew today. Join us for a private tour, hosted in partnership with Art on Broadway, of Max Neuhaus’s Times Square (1977) and Times Square Arts’ latest commission, Yvette Mayorga’s Magic Grasshopper (2025). Randy Gibson, Dia’s manager of exhibition technology, will walk us through Neuhaus’s sound work, a rich harmonic texture emerging from the north end of the triangular pedestrian plaza at Broadway and 7th Avenue. Times Square Arts staff will then lead a tour of the nearby Magic Grasshopper. To celebrate this special Members’ Event, attendees will receive an exclusive 20% discount on tickets to Art, the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award–winning play by Yasmina Reza. Starring Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris and directed by Scott Ellis, this sleek comedy runs for 17 weeks only. This event is open to all members. We invite you to join or renew today! Spaces are limited. Please RSVP at membership@diaart.org.

Screening

Duane Linklater: Film Work

Wednesday–Saturday, November 14, 2025–February 21, 2026, 12–6 pm, Dia Chelsea
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Event details Wednesday–Saturday, November 14, 2025–February 21, 202612–6 pm Program 1: The Place I Seek to GoNovember 14–December 6, 2025 Program 2: Primary UseDecember 12, 2025–January 10, 2026 Program 3: Modest LivelihoodJanuary 14–February 21, 2026 Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free; no registration required. In conjunction with Duane Linklater: 12 + 2, Dia presents a three-part survey exhibition of Linklater’s moving-image work in Dia Chelsea’s program space. Three consecutive programs highlight formal strategies and recurring themes in Linklater’s practice and place his work in dialogue with that of other artists. The first installment, titled The Place I Seek to Go (after a 2012 film of the same name), groups four works by Linklater spanning a decade that reveal how the artist has employed close-up, replay, and stationary camera to explore notions of erasure, dissemblance, and political stalemate. Primary Use, the second installment of the survey, features Linklater’s primaryuse (2020) alongside works by artists James Luna and Alanis Obomsawin. These poetic works, each in their different way, resist, enact, or reflect on the enduring effects of colonialism on contemporary Indigenous life. The final installment showcases the work Modest Livelihood (2012), which Linklater realized in collaboration with artist Brian Jungen. The feature-length film follows the two artists on a hunting trip across Northern British Columbia, Treaty 8 territory. Here, Linklater redeploys the documentary genre as a site of self-representation, where even waiting in the tall grass is a reparative act of relation to land. Exhibition brochure and full schedule Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation) was born in 1976. He received a BA in Native Studies and Fine Arts from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and an MFA in Film and Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Through sculpture, photography, moving image, installation, and text, he explores the physical and theoretical structures of the museum in relation to current and historical conditions of Indigenous peoples, their objects, and their approaches to materials. Linklater’s collaborative endeavors have included the Wood Land School (2011– ), a shape-shifting project critically engaging with the realms of representation, land, and politics. A mid-career survey of his work, mymothersside, was presented at the Frye Museum, Seattle (2021–22), and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023) and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2023–24). Recent solo exhibitions were held at Mercer Union, Toronto (2016); Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario (2023); and Camden Art Centre, London (2025). His work was featured in international group exhibitions, including Documenta, Kassel, Germany (2012); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); and Bienal de São Paulo (2023); in addition to Artists Space, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (both 2019–20). Dia’s engagement with Linklater began in 2019 with an invitation to take part in the institution’s Artists on Artists Lecture Series, which resulted in the debut performance of his musical project, eagleswitheyesclosed. Linklater lives in North Bay, Robinson Huron Treaty territory. Brian Jungen was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, in 1970 to a Dane-Zaa mother and Swiss Canadian father. Jungen’s artistic practice consists of challenging and merging the boundaries between Indigenous and popular cultures, often by incorporating mass-produced objects such as furniture and sports equipment to evoke Indigenous masks and animals. In doing so, Jungen foregrounds the complex dynamics of appropriation, adaptation, and cultural identity. Most recently, his work has been included in the Shanghai Biennale: Does the flower hear the bee?, Power Station of Art (2025–26), and presented in venues such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Jungen lives in the traditional territory of the Dane-Zaa Nation within Treaty 8 in Northern British Columbia. James Luna was born on the La Jolla Reservation, California, in 1950 to a Luiseño mother and a Mexican father. Working across installations of altered found objects and performances both live and recorded, Luna addressed the stereotypes that construct and define Indigenous people in mainstream culture. With dramatic precision and lightness of touch, his work has uniquely explored Western notions of the American Indian and the enduring effects of colonialism on contemporary Indigenous life. Luna received a BFA from the University of California Irvine and a MA in counseling from San Diego State University. He worked as an academic counselor at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and taught studio art at the University of California Davis, Irvine, and San Diego. Luna died in New Orleans in 2018. Alanis Obomsawin was born near Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1932. An artist, activist, filmmaker, and musician, she has received international acclaim for her documentary-style films. These include Incident at Restigouche (1984), which chronicles the 1981 raid on the Restigouche Reserve by the Quebec provincial police restricting the fishing of salmon, a traditional source of food and income for the Mi’kmaq people, and Kanehsatake: 270 years of Resistance (1993), which charts the Mohawk resistance against the expansion of a golf course onto sacred burial lands. A retrospective of Obomsawin’s work, The Children Have to Hear Another Story, has toured from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2022), to the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2023), Vancouver Art Gallery (2023), and MoMA PS1, New York (2025). Obomsawin lives in Montreal.

Learning Program

Activations: Adornment Arena with Lucas Yasunaga

Friday, November 14, 2025, 5–7 pm
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Activations

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Event detailsFriday, November 14, 20255–7 pm Chelsea Recreation Center 430 West 25th Street New York, New York Free. RSVP recommended; register here. What would a designed object do if it were absolved of the requirement to perform? How would it navigate the world, and what kind of life would it choose to live? Experimenting with acts of gift giving and the Japanese concept of 装置 (sōchi)—apparatus, outfit, or device—Adornment Arena converts the Chelsea Recreation Center’s basketball gymnasium into a space of speculative service. Guided by artist Lucas Yasunaga, participants are invited to converse with and create sculptural offerings for recreational equipment used throughout the center’s facilities. By encouraging participants to contemplate the alternate lives and possible desires of these heavily used objects, Yasunaga’s workshop practices an imaginative, reciprocal approach to caretaking. Lucas Yasunaga is a sculptor and experimental musician based in Philadelphia. He makes time-based sculptures, synthetic organisms, and musical instruments and devices to explore parasitic companionships and custodianship in the form of improvisational music, installations, and performances. About the program seriesActivations is a series of interdisciplinary public programs designed by artists in response to civic spaces in New York. Each activation invites participants to encounter a ready-made site through the lens of an artistic practice, reimagining them as spaces of creative possibility. All are welcome to participate.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Sol LeWitt

Saturday, November 15, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, November 15, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On November 15, Dia educators will focus on the work of Sol LeWitt. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Book Launch

Senga Nengudi: Populated Air Book Launch

Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Book Launches

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Event details Wednesday, November 19, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Please join a celebratory evening to launch Senga Nengudi: Populated Air. Senga Nengudi as well as collaborators and friends will read from the publication and respond to its many offerings. Moderated by Dia curator and co–department head Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Dia editor Svetlana Kitto, participants include artists and writers Jonathan González, Steffani Jemison, yuniya edi kwon, T Lax, A. B. Spellman, and the book’s designer, Bobby Joe Smith III, alongside Nengudi joining via live stream. Senga Nengudi: Populated Air radically expands our understanding of Nengudi’s art, featuring never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry that span six decades of her practice. Since the 1960s, Nengudi has realized a remarkable body of work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture and performance, fine art and ritual, individual authorship and collective energy. Made of everyday materials, Nengudi’s installations are at once proxies for bodies and sites for performance. Characteristic of her openness to multiplicity, the artist, born Sue Ellen Irons, has assumed pseudonyms that inflect her creative identities as sculptor (Senga Nengudi), draftsperson (Harriet Chin), photographer (Propecia Leigh), and writer (Lily Bea Moor). Senga Nengudi: Populated Air is the first book on the artist that is devoted to all of her creative identities. Senga Nengudi: Populated Airis made possible by major support from Susan and Larry Marx. Generous support by Every Page Foundation and James Howell Foundation. Additional support by Adam Pendleton. Jonathan González is a choreographer, writer, and educator living in Brooklyn. Steffani Jemison is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. yuniya edi kwon is a violinist and performer living in Brooklyn. T Lax is a curator and writer who supports artistic processes and enjoys working with others. Bobby Joe Smith III is a designer living in Los Angeles. A. B. Spellman is a poet and jazz critic living in Washington, D.C. Senga Nengudi was born in Chicago in 1943. Her work spans sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and poetry. She completed a BA in fine arts with a minor in dance in 1966 and an MFA in sculpture in 1971, both at California State University, Los Angeles, and spent the year between her undergraduate and graduate studies enrolled at Waseda University, Tokyo. Her foundational training in dance included classes in the Horton technique in Los Angeles and in Kabuki theater in Tokyo. While a student, Nengudi served as an educator at the Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles, with artist Noah Purifoy and at the Pasadena Museum of Art (now Norton Simon Museum), where early Happenings would occur. In 1977, Nengudi’s first solo exhibition took place at Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York. In 2019–21, a retrospective of her work was organized by the Lenbachhaus, Munich, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and traveled to the Denver Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The artist was awarded the Nasher Prize in 2023. Dia’s engagement with Nengudi began in 2017 with an invitation to participate in the institution’s long-running Artists on Artists Lecture Series, and an exhibition of her sculptures and installations of six decades is on long-term view at Dia Beacon. Nengudi lives in Colorado Springs.

Dia Talks

Sam Gilliam Award Program: A Conversation with Sheela Gowda and Rattanamol Singh Johal

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event details Thursday, November 20, 2025 6 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Sheela Gowda, the 2025 Sam Gilliam Award recipient, discusses her evocative, process-oriented practice with art historian and curator Rattanamol Singh Johal. Rooted in her observations of urban and rural life in South India, Gowda’s practice investigates issues of labor, gender, and the sociopolitical conditions shaping contemporary society. Through her poetic yet politically charged installations, she transforms humble materials—such as cow dung, hair, incense, and tar drums—into powerful reflections on resilience, ritual, and the interconnectedness of human experience. Sheela Gowda was born in Bhadravati, India, in 1957. Recent solo exhibitions include Of All People, daadgalerie, Berlin (2014); Sheela Gowda, Para Site, Hong Kong (2015); And That is No Lie, Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2015–16); Sheela Gowda, Ikon, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2017); Remains, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2019), and Bombas Gens Centre d’Arts Digitals, Valencia (2019–20); and It.. Matters , Lenbachhaus, Munich (2020). Group exhibitions include Indian Highway, Serpentine South Gallery, London (2008–09); In Order to Join – The Political in a Historical Moment, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, (2013–14); A Beast, a God, and a Line, Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2018); When Faith Moves Mountains , Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv (2022); and The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2024–25). Her work has been included in Documenta, Kassel, Germany (2007), as well as in numerous biennials, such as Venice (2009), Singapore (2011), and São Paulo (2014). She lives in Bengaluru, India. Rattanamol Singh Johal is an art historian and curator. He is the inaugural holder of the Shireen and Afzal Ahmad Professorship in South Asian Arts as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he was the assistant director of the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, where he contributed to a number of collection acquisitions, managed the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives initiative, and the Primary Documents publication series. Also at MoMA, he co-curated the exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP (2025) as well as the contemporary collection displays War Remembers Me (2024–25) and Staging Selves (ongoing), and was a member of the curatorial team for Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023). He was a curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, and a fellow at the Tate Research Centre: Asia, London. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (2017) and holds a doctorate from Columbia University, where he curated the exhibition Homage: Queer lineages on video (2025) at the university’s Wallach Art Gallery, all in New York.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Roni Horn

Saturday, November 22, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, November 22, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On November 22, Dia educators will focus on the work of Roni Horn. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Mire Lee on Louise Bourgeois

Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, November 22, 20252 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. Seating is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Mire Lee reflects on Louise Bourgeois’s work, a selection of which is on long-term view at Dia Beacon. Lee’s multimedia presentation explores how the complex feelings stirred by Bourgeois’s work entwine with the affective tensions that have long inhabited her own practice. Held in the Bourgeois galleries, the talk is presented through spoken and written words and in collaboration with Soje, a New York–based poet and translator, following an introduction by Min Sun Jeon, Dia’s assistant curator. Mire Lee was born in Seoul in 1988. Lee’s sculptures and environmental installations dwell between the organic and the mechanical, decay and aliveness, horror and arousal, evoking visceral, unspeakable sensations. Recent solo presentations include Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love, Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2022); Black Sun, New Museum, New York (2023); and Open Wound, Tate Modern, London (2024–25). Lee’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams (2022); Busan Biennale: We, On the Rising Wave, South Korea (2022); Carnegie International: Is it morning for you yet?, Pittsburgh (2022–23); and Site Santa Fe International: Once Within a Time (2025–26), among others. Lee lives in Seoul and Amsterdam.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Jack Whitten

Saturday, November 29, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, November 29, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On November 29, Dia educators will focus on the work of Jack Whitten. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Special Event

Hudson Valley Free Day

Sunday, November 30, 2025, 10 am–5 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSunday, November 30, 202510 am–5 pm Dia Beacon3 BeekmanBeacon, New York Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. To get tickets for Hudson Valley Free Day please fill out our free-admission request. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Tehching Hsieh

Sunday, November 30, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSunday, November 30, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On November 30, Dia educators will focus on the work of Tehching Hsieh. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Play Sets: Andy Warhol

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10:30 am
Dia Beacon

Play Sets

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Event detailsSaturday, December 6, 202510:30–11:15 am Dia Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free. Spaces are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Explore the galleries through in-depth engagements with a single artist or artwork. Each program includes hands-on exercises that invite participants to see, think, and imagine in new ways. On December 6, Dia educators will focus on the work of Andy Warhol. Recommended for families with children ages five and up. All families participating in the Play Sets program receive free admission to Dia Beacon for the day. For more information, please contact learning@diaart.org.

Members’ Event

Curator-led tour of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 11 am–12 pm
Dia Beacon

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Event detailsSaturday, December 6, 202511 am–12 pm Dia Beacon3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York For all members. Join or renew today. Join us for a private tour of the recently opened Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999 led by Humberto Moro, co-curator of the exhibition and Dia’s deputy director of program. This presentation marks the first retrospective of the artist’s groundbreaking durational works. It brings together all five of Hsieh’s One Year Performances and includes “Rope Piece” and “Thirteen Year Plan,” which have never been shown before. RSVP at 212 293 5520 or membership@diaart.org.

Dia Talks

Simon Leung on Tehching Hsieh

Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 6:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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Event details Wednesday, December 10, 20256:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; register here. Simon Leung was born in Hong Kong in1964. Since the 1990s, Leung has used the squatting body to create projects that engage in concepts of nationalism, property, labor, identity, and protest in the public space. Working across video, performance, sculpture, drawing, critical theory, fiction, and opera, Leung often links his work to context-specific sites, notably Hong Kong, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Recent presentations include the group exhibitions Another Beautiful Country, the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena (2024); Scratching at the Moon, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024); and Countering Time, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2024–25); as well as My Friend the War, a performance with Jim Fletcher at Cabinet, Brooklyn (2022). Leung teaches at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a professor of art, Asian American studies, and critical theory.

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