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05/30/2026

Meet Zain Alam () is an artist and composer of Hindustani origin born in Flushing, Queens and raised outside of Atlanta. As an artist who works across video, sound, performance, and installation, he draws on contemporary forms to reanimate the idea of “ritual,” particularly in Muslim life. Meter and Light: Day, on view on our second floor as part of Mad World, comes from a series of immersive installation works which posit a distinctive sense of time in Islam through the tempo of its embodied practice.

Ninety-nine rosary beads (or each finger and its phalanges, three times over) keep count in reciting the ninety-nine names for the Divine in dhikr meditation, and daily prayers are marked by the five (or three) positions of the sun in the sky. The piece convenes these measures into a single, interlocking experience.

05/29/2026

Tomorrow is the FINAL day to see our experimental film loop & video installations on the 2nd floor! 📽️⚡️The 2nd floor will close at 4:30pm in preparation for the meditation, and the 3rd floor with remain on view through June 13.

Join us for a full day of FREE programming:

— Running all day: Thank You, Come Again weaving with Regan de Loggans
— 1pm: Exhibition tour with
— 2:30pm: Collage workshop with +
— 4:30pm: Poetry reading with , whose work gave the show its name
— 5pm: Guided meditation with +

Drinks will be available throughout the day plus treats by Bibingka Mama. See ya there! ⭐️🌳

Installation Photography by

05/27/2026

SO MAD SO Q***R SO CHIC SO FIERCE SO FAB SO LUSH SO GAY SO MUCH SO FREE SO LIGHT SO HOT SO REAL SO TIGHT SO PROUD SO FULL OF ZEAL

An immersive dance party channeling the experimental, radical, and hyperreal club culture of the 80s & 90s curated by ; Surprise performances by , , , , and & .girl.1.2.3; DJ sets by & ; Hosted by & ; And treats by

⭐️🪩Get your early bird tix by 6/7 🫦🍸

05/21/2026

Perry Picasshoe () is a trans, Mexican American artist working at the intersections of participatory practice, q***r world-making, and Chicanx spatial politics. Their work delves into the enduring impact of fleeting temporal experiences. When ICE raids transform marginalized communities’ gathering spaces into ghost towns, they enact spatial violence—what geographers call “deterritorialization”, the severance of social or cultural practices from their native place. With the help of their father, they placed thirty-six 25lb ice blocks throughout the Inland Empire; the melting of the ice served as ephemeral monuments to state-sanctioned kidnappings.

Images of three ICE blocks from this series are on view as part of Mad World: A Bag to Breathe Into. Visit the exhibition during SoMad’s gallery hours now through June 13th.

Perry Picasshoe — “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” (2025), archival print, reclaimed wood, 21.5 × 17.75 in · “Executive Order 14341” (2025), archival print, distressed wooden frame, 15 × 12 in · “Home Depot Kidnappings” (2025), archival print, distressed wooden frame, 19 × 15 in

05/20/2026

Anna Dossmann () lives and works in Brussels as a film editor with a particular interest in projects with feminist and q***r perspectives. Their three-episode miniseries, Wildlife Leaflets, is on view as part of Mad World: A Bag to Breathe Into. The videos subvert wildlife documentaries, with an angle as though animals were learning to communicate with humans. Wildlife Leaflets aims to blur the boundaries between human and non-human, to imagine inter-species alliances.

Catch this video work on our third floor gallery Mon-Friday from 12-6pm 🐙⭐️

Installation Photos by .studio

05/19/2026

We have 1 (just one!) final event for Mad World: A Bag to Breathe Into that we’d love to see you next Saturday May 30 at SoMad. This will be your last chance to catch the experimental film loop and video installations though the third floor gallery will remain on view until June 13. The gallery is usually only open on weekdays, so this is a great opportunity for anybody who can’t swing it during the week. Some things we have planned:

— 1pm: Exhibition tour led by
— 2:30pm: Collage workshop with exhibiting artists and
— 4:30pm: Poetry reading with , whose work provided the namesake for this show
— 5pm: Guided meditation with and
— All day: Thank You Come Again weaving with Regan de Loggans
— Drinks will be available throughout, as well as treats by

Free RSVP at the link in our bio! 💚🌏

05/18/2026

Eleanor Mahin Thorp is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her large-scale paintings engage directly with the physicality of stone, emulating its weight, texture, and material presence. In “Downswing,” on view at Mad World: A Bag to Breathe Into, the yellow lithium brine in a mine resembles a stock market graph — visual evidence of the collision between geology and capitalism. The transmuted earth becomes a fluctuating digital abstraction.

Come see this piece and all of the others in the show at SoMad through June 13. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 12-6pm.

Eleanor Mahin Thorp, “Downswing,” 2025, Oil and stone on panel, 40 x 30 x 2 in

05/17/2026

If you had to choose, which of these tees would you grab for a grocery run?

NADA NY ends *today*! Last chance to visit booth B29 to see all of Keith Lafuente’s works and chat us up. Pop by!

Keith Lafuente, “T-Shirt Study 1,5, & 6”, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8 in

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