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Residency Exhibition: 2024-26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship

June 12–August 2, 2026

kiarita, Megan Mi Ai Lee, and Cyle Warner are the 2024-26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows at Abrons Arts Center. Over the past 21 months, they have received studio space and professional mentorship to support the growth of their artistic practices. This exhibition, curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, Abrons Arts Center Director and Henry Street Settlement Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts, features work developed during their fellowship period.

The exhibition opening reception is free and open to the public.

Opening Reception

Megan Mi-Ai Lee, 20 Tourists, 2025. Courtesy of Afternoon Projects.

kiarita

kiarita is a Brooklyn-based artist of Caribbean descent utilizing found furniture to honor moments of intimacy with their found family. Their practice engages with sustainability, rest as resistance, and alternative practices of care. They are a current Bronx AIM and Van Lier Trust fellow, and have received honors from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation & Sylvia Lipson Allen Memorial Fund. They have participated in numerous group shows nationality, although primarily showing in New York.

Cyle Warner

Cyle Warner (2001, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist of Afro-Caribbean descent whose practice engages with space, place, time, and distance in relation to the past and how we choose to move forward outside of contemporary values, an idea he refers to as Dis. Working across fiber, photography, and sculpture; he creates compositions that consider notions of home, care, and the creation & preservation of new myths. Warner attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2022, and he earned a BFA in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts in 2023. Warner has exhibited at Regular Normal, New York, New York (2020, 2021); Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida (2022); Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada (2022); Welencora Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2022, 2023).

Megan Mi-Ai Lee

Megan Mi-Ai Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens whose work explores the ways fantasy diffuses through popular culture. Recent exhibitions include White Columns, online (2024); Cierah, New York, NY (2024); Pumice Raft, Toronto, ON (2024); Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA (2023); the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, NY (2022); and Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lee has held residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, Storm King Art Center, and Smack Mellon, and was the 2018 Curatorial Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park. She is a two-time Canada Council for the Arts grantee and received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2018.

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