The biographies and statements from all 17 artists contributing to the Collective Threads exhibition at The Invisible Dog this January 23 - February 2nd.

The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to present Collective Threads opening Thursday, January 23 to Sunday, February 2nd, an exhibition accompanied by two weeks of textile and fiber-filled workshops, demonstrations, and performances.

The Invisible Dog Art Center and the Fisher Center at Bard are thrilled to present The Search Of Power by Tania El Khoury, as part as Under The Radar Festival 2025.

On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighborhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon.

The Invisible Dog is thrilled to announce it’s 16th season opening with When Lightning Strikes, an exhibition of sixteen new paintings by resident artist Gabe Benzur.

Benzur’s meticulous oil paintings portray colorful, supernatural landscapes devoid of inhabitants, inviting the first-person viewer to be absorbed by another world. Titled after a quote from Seneca about Etruscan religion, each landscape represents a different aspect of their mythology. Gods, sacred places, and the underworld are freely interpreted from their fragmented archaeology and history, separated from the literal, and translated into visual spectacles meant to transport the viewer into a place of superstition and primordial possibility. Here, the imagination gap between what we know and don’t know becomes a rich territory for exploring color and belief.

The Invisible Dog is thrilled to welcome The School of Visual Arts Art Practice MFA Program presenting 2024 MFA thesis exhibition, Evidence of Things Unseen. This exhibition encompasses work by the 8 artists, Melanie Brewster, Dana Donaty, Elena Kalkova, Maria Markham, Grace McCoy, Josh Stein, Melissa Wheeler, and Antonia Wright who will complete the Art Practice MFA Program July 2024.

The unique piece presented in the window of The Invisible Dog is part of Jonathan Michaud’s series handwoven series Nesting (2023), a textile woven in silk, paper, and jute as part as NY Textile Month VIII

The Invisible Dog Art Center and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Crossing The Line Festival are thrilled to present Growing Matter, by resident artist Camille de Galbert.

Coral, humus, underbrush, seagrass, lichen: lifeforms all dependent on symbiotic relationships. Their life ability to regenerate is their intrinsic power. Their removal hinders the possibility of new life, making it nearly impossible to artificially create the conditions of their regeneration. Camille de Galbert creates these same fundamental ecosystems through patient, repetitive and cumulative movements.

During his previous show, Dog Show #1: The Dinner Party, Morrison, like many artists, grappled with constant questions about his future plans for his practice. These persistent questions seemed to him to be driven by a public with an endless appetite for novel ideas, imagery, and content. Morrison, too, felt the nagging urge to constantly ask himself, "What's next?" Responding to this state of internal and external pressure, Morrison has created an installation that takes shape with two connected, central elements…

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Liminal Forms, an exhibition of work by 7 MFA Art Practice thesis candidates: Alison Pasquini, C Fodoreanu, Heather Link-Bergman, Janine Brown, Laura Valentina Cifuentes Almanza, Maria Dolores Gregori, and Maya Ballen

The Invisible Dog is pleased to welcome 3walls for Highlights - A Year of Studio Visits: Tatiana Arocha, Julie Harman Dovan, Susan Homer and Stephanie Snider.

The Invisible Dog Art Center presents an exhibition by artists Steven and William Ladd. The exhibition traces their 16 year history of their community engagement program Scrollathon which was born of their belief in the extraordinary capacity of every human being and the awesome power of community. Steven and William Ladd are proud to launch the National Scrollathon: New York Edition at The Invisible Dog. This engagement with the community will endure as part of New York’s contribution in the National Scrollathon’s effort to illuminate America’s story through collaboration and the presentation of world-class art.

[…] Great art should involve food, I feel, because the gustatory moments of our lives are aligned with both desire and the thwarting of desire. Food is also the crucial sensory aspect of memory. Think of the chocolate you ate right before you decided to leave your lover; the childhood sandwich that your cruel babysitter prepared; the last meal you ever ate with a dead loved one. The memory is locked in by what we consumed during the memory. In the case of the lead of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, of course, a humble madeleine thrusts the lead back into a 3000-page reverie. It’s not that the madeleine itself is particularly remarkable—it’s what it’s associated with, redolent of childhood walks, a beloved grandmother, and the most shameful of secrets. […]

This essay is about NAFAS, a new exhibition about Food from September 10 to October 15, 2022

The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn NY) is thrilled to present Nafas, an exhibition gathering 36 visual artists who are working with and around the theme of food. Nafas is also a five-week festival of performances and events.

In Arabic, Nafas is a breath or a spirit. But in the context of cooking, nafas is much more than that, “It’s the energy some people possess that makes their meals not only good but exceptional”

In their painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, photography, embroidery, writing, cuisine and performance, the artists gathered by Lucien Zayan, director of The Invisible Dog, bring this indefinable breath that makes their art exceptional.

Check out the full program here

The Brooklyn based pop up gallery 3walls is excited to present the recent work of four artists, Jocelyn Fine, Huê Thi Hoffmaster, Nancy Hubbard, and Elise Kaufman in the exhibition, Place of Mind, on view from May 24-26 at The Invisible Dog Art Center.

Earliest Memory Archive is a soundproof booth with a screen where visitors navigate anonymous earliest memories from around the world, and submit their own.

Situated in the middle of the garden of The Invisible Dog, the latest work by Japanese artist Takao Shiraishi serves as a “tea room”.

The Invisible Dog Art Center, located in Brooklyn, New York is holding an Open Call for artists, performers, and chefs whose works are inspired by food, nourishment, digestion, cuisine, and also the art of the table, kitchen, culinary tools, etc.

The Invisible Dog is pleased to present Stephen Morrison’s first solo exhibition. Morrison, a longtime lover of dogs, had an epiphany two years ago while working on a painted portrait of his childhood pet. He realized he could use dogs as a motif to convey the human condition and arrive at more universal emotions than with people. He began creating nothing but art with dogs and has used the culmination of these years to build this installation.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Music and Theater Arts (MTA) presents the Spring Theater Arts production of COLLISION SHOP – an online multimedia exhibit capturing the human beings on the planet right now. Brought to life by a diverse multidisciplinary team of students and professionals and facilitated by New York dance artist and MIT lecturer Dan Safer, the production emerged in response to a call for intimate video self-portraits and is a meditation on the need for human connection and search for joy.

For this public exhibition I invite you to join me in appreciating these artists and enter into the world I typically share with my partner and a few friends. In doing so, I hope to rebuild some of the social connections that we have been deprived of for far too long.

Ahlan Wa Sahlan, Welcome, Bienvenue.

Lucien Zayan

Brothers Steven and William Ladd have been working with inmates in the NYC Department of Corrections for the past nine years as part of their art practice. Their experiences have been humbling, emotional and an incredible way to connect with inmates. “No one’s ever cared about me enough to have a conversation like this,” said one inmate during an interaction. The Other Side is an exhibition of artworks inspired by moments like this.

For one weekend a year, we allow public access to the Invisible Dog studios and invite visitors to come meet our artists face-to-face. Mark your calendars and join us at 51 Bergen to meet the people who make The Invisible Dog the lively and dynamic cultural hub that it is, and see first-hand what they’ve been toiling away at all year!

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Created out of a keen kinesthetic sense, reached trough a lifetime of bodywork, figurines are sliced onto the paper. These one line drawing come improvisational without hesitation straight from the guts.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS

The Invisible Dog is pleased to present a new work by Paz Corona, a Chilean artist who has been living in Paris since 1973. Influenced by Claude Monet’s, Corona presents a new perspective of understanding the history of Chile.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS

Museum Bench #2 is part of a series of benches designed by disabled artist Shannon Finnegan. The benches are a response to the scarcity of seating in art spaces, and New York City more broadly.

In celebration of the Open Studios and Season Ten, The Invisible Dog presents Friend of a Friend: A Group Show Curated by the Creatives of the Invisible Dog, featuring the work of 25 artists, each selected by the 25 artists of the Invisible Dog Art Center.

Artist Anne Mourier designed the Glasshouse in 2013 for her solo show Cleaning It Up. As a temporary structure, the Glasshouse was destined to be ephemeral and to be demolished. We invited Mourier back to do a last show after the demolition…