S&D Rubin Foundation / The 8th Floor

🌸“Romance, Regret, and Regeneration in Landscape” opens 1 week from today!🌸 Join us Thurs 9/18 to celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition, featuring 15 artists whose work explores nature from the poetic to the political. Learn more & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/romance-regret…

Announcing: “Romance, Regret, and Regeneration in Landscape” opening 9/18 at The 8th Floor 🍃  The exhibition features 15 artists exploring nature from a range of aesthetic and theoretical approaches. Learn more and RSVP for opening night! the8thfloor.org

A few glimpses of the many brilliant artists who lit up our space in recent months ✨ Come by the gallery by tomorrow, June 14 from 11am-6pm for the last day of Joiri Minaya’s “Geographic Bodies” – we’ll be back with a new slate of programming this fall!

Reflecting on "Geographic Bodies" in @TheBrooklynRail, Elizabeth Wiet writes: "Minaya lays bare the neocolonialism buried beneath the accoutrements—vivid flowers, bursting fruits—that represent the Caribbean in the Northern imagination." Continue reading: brooklynrail.org/2025/06/artsee…

6/12: Joiri Minaya will be joined by academic Ashleigh Deosaran, writer of the exhibition’s catalogue essay, and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs at the Bronx Museum, for a discussion in the final week of Geographic Bodies: the8thfloor.org/newevents/mina…

📢 Announcing Dr. Gervais Marsh as the recipient of our 2025 Curatorial Open Call! Marsh will curate “An Inherent Undoing," a group exhibition planning to examine the im/possibility of reparation in a world shaped by violent fissures. Learn more: the8thfloor.org/sp26

Don’t miss Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez’s “Essential Tremors” on 5/15 – reflecting on the extractive realities of digital life, the material legacy of colonial neoliberalism, & the potential of vibration as an interpretive instrument of history. Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/trem…

5/15 “Essential Tremors” by Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, a piece of live cinema that traces the knotted influences that surround a single vibrational nexus: a phone call between a boy & his father on 9/11/1973, the day of the coup d'etat in Chile. Info & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/trem…

On the occasion of the current show “Joiri Minaya: Geographic Bodies” @RubinFoundation, María Elena Ortiz provides a Spotlight on the artist’s embodied critiques of colonial legacies in the Caribbean. artforum.com/features/joiri…

Performing this Thursday at The 8th Floor, Kevin Quiles Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through photography, performance & installation, his works explore ideas around power, colonialism, & history. Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/piles

Joiri Minaya’s Artforum feature in print ✨ Visit Thurs-Sat 11-6 through June 14!

4/17: Kevin Quiles Bonilla presents a new iteration of his lecture-performance “Study of Piles," exploring various moments, places, and people, specifically imagery from Puerto Rico's political history. Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/piles

María Elena Ortiz reflects on “Geographic Bodies” at The 8th Floor in @Artforum's April print edition – or, continue reading here: artforum.com/features/joiri…

Tomorrow at The 8th Floor, Marcelline Mandeng Nken will premiere the second of three acts of “Rush Hour"! Her practice draws from concepts of syncretism, non-human intelligence, and the labor traditions of the Global South - details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/rush…

6-8pm tonight, join us to celebrate the opening of Joiri Minaya’s “Geographic Bodies,” presenting multiple series from her rich practice over the past decade. Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/mina…

Thurs 3/20: Marcelline Mandeng Nken's "Rush Hour," a performance-installation that unfolds inside a moving train 🚂 Exploring migration, displacement, and time travel 🌀 Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/rush…

Opening next Thurs 3/13 6-8pm, Joiri Minaya’s “Geographic Bodies” spans over a decade of the artist’s multimedia practice, which plumbs the legacies of exotification and commodification wrought by global imperialism – RSVPs encouraged here: the8thfloor.org/newevents/mina…

#AshleighDeosaran has penned an invigorating essay for #JoiriMinaya’s “Geographic Bodies,” opening 3/13 – building out the material history of botanical motifs among many other themes in the exhibition. RSVP: the8thfloor.org/newevents/mina…

Announcing spring 2025 programs at The 8th Floor, featuring Joiri Minaya, Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez, Ashleigh Deosaran & Eileen Jeng Lynch! Details & RSVP: the8thfloor.org/events

Our fourth annual open call for curators to stage an exhibition at The 8th Floor is accepting applications thru 2/28! Group show proposals with an experimental and/or pedagogical approach to our mission of art and social justice can be submitted here: sdrubin.org/curators