March 13-15, 2026 Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden is a public symposium that poses questions for our ecological future: How do we tend the garden into co-becoming with the earth and all that it embodies? How can artists help us understand the interdependence between nature and humanity? Artists, scholars, and students convene to share their experiences…
On view March 6–April 11, 2026 107 W. 86th StreetWed–Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 1pm-6pmOpening reception March 6, 6-8pmArtists’ talk March 18, 6:30pm RSVP Vernal explores how artists return to the natural world as a site where memory, meaning, and material change converge. Featuring work by Rebecca Allan, Hon Eui Chen, Grace DeGennaro, Christy Gast, Grace Hager, Stephen…
Review – Nov 12 2025 – Written By Camila Marambio Tucked inside a modest annex at Nina Johnson, Cruising // the stacks, Christy Gast’s most recent exhibition, offers a tender and tactile meditation on queer desire, material kinship, and feminist world-building. While the setting evokes the casual accessibility of a bookstore or gift shop, the richness of…
Nina Johnson is pleased to announce Cruising // the stacks in the Exhibition Library. Cruising, New York–based artist Christy Gast’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery, is paired with // the stacks, curated by Gast and featuring a selection of works by Constanza Alarcón Tennen, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, F Taylor Colantonio, Rachel Owens, agustine zegers, and…
The surface pattern on “Four Button Fly” was directly printed from plants and flowers growing just outside of my studio. I cut the pieces first, then prepped the denim with various mordants. Then I laid the wet pieces flat on the work table and arranged sumac, coreopsis and other flora on them before binding the…
Christy Gast: Cruising // the stacks, with the artist’s selection of works by Constanza Alarcón Tennen, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Rachel Owens, agustine zegers, and Charlap Hyman & Herrero September 4th – November 15th, 2025 Nina Johnson is pleased to announce Cruising // the stacks, opening September 4th in the Exhibition Library. Cruising, New York–based artist Christy Gast’s fifth solo…
Presented on the occasion of Flora Fauna & Fur at Geary Contemporary with the performance Silver Dagger / Mussel Bed, a rapid-fire, cabaret-style ode to the sex lives of freshwater mussels. Mussel Bed / Silver Dagger (2025) Cotton, silk, wool, fiberfill, shell, zinc, pigment, wrought iron 57 x 44 x 9 in.
THE BODY POLITIC: Women, Earth, and the Environment Ellen Driscoll, Mary Frank, Rachel Frank, Christy Gast, Nikki Lindt, Seema Lisa Pandya, Linda Stillman, Barbara Syrenka, Hanae Utamura, Faith Wilding, Jo Wood-Brown Curated by, Hallie Cohen and, Kallie Cassidy March 3 – May 6, 2025. OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, March 5, 6-8 pm THE HEWITT GALLERY OF…
Christy Gast at Nina Johnson By Maximilíano Durón February 20, 2025 12:04pm Below, a look at the best booths on view at Felix LA, which runs through February 23. Denim is in at Nina Johnson’s booth. Spread across the cabana hotel room and patio are three soft sculptures by Upstate New York–based artist Christy Gast. Implicit in…
Felix Los Angeles 2025February 19th – February 23rd, 2025Cabana 123 Nina Johnson is delighted to present a selection of works by Christy Gast, Jasmine Little, and Tara Walters. About Christy Gast Christy Gast is an artist whose work across media stems from extensive research and site visits to places she thinks of as “contested landscapes.”…
Editorial @ www.ninajohnson.com The works in this series began as drawings, visions of entwined bodies superimposed on the very basic structure of cloth: twist, warp and weft. Loose fibers bound together through a twisting motion form a line, a thread. As warp and weft, a grid, the line can be manipulated into a plane, a…
January 25 – March 23, 2025 Geary is thrilled to present our first exhibition of 2025, Fauna, Flora and Fur.Featuring work by artists Jennifer Dwyer, Nic Dyer, Rachel Frank, Christy Gast,Greer Howland Smith, Linda Stillman, KT Taylor, and Erik Daniel White, Fauna,Flora and Fur explores the sensuous variety of textures and colors inherent inthe natural…
October 12 – November 16, 2024 Opening Reception Saturday, October 12, 4 – 6 pm, 107 Main Street, Falls Village CT Materiality and The Print brings together artists who have sculpture-based practices and use printmaking as a way of mark making, organizing concepts, recording. When one says the word print, what most often comes to…
An audio poem released on the occasion of the Raíz Común zine launch. Raíz Común is engaged in slow sisterly translation. Meetings begin with study of the Selk’nam language (indigenous to and re-*emerging * in Tierra del Fuego) led by poet and Selk’nam woman Hema’ny Molina. This common root connects sentipensares about care, ecology and…
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 245:30 – 8:30pm @ Storm Bookstore, 118 Norman Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11222 Join us for the launch of the zine Raíz Común, there will be live storytelling by Melissa Carmody (Director Karukinka Park Tierra del Fuego, WCS-Chile), Carla Macchiavello (Art Historian, BMCC CUNY), Christy Gast (Artist) and Camila Marambio (Curator of New Perspectives,…
“Reflection / Landscape”, a video program coinciding with Marie Lorenz’s exhibition “CONFLUENCE” at Le19, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain in Montbéliard, France from September 21, 2024, through April 1, 2025. The video program features nine artists whose work informs Lorenz’s study of our relationship with territories, histories, ecosystems, habitats, and structures. Each artist pursues a unique…
hotelpupik 35th anniversary exhibition, August, 2024 Since 1990, the association O(ffen).R(eal).F(undamental). has been organizing symposiums and artist residencies in the Schwarzenberg’sche Meierei in Scheifling, Styria. During this time, ± 500 artists from all areas have been guests at hotelpupik. Seit 1990 veranstaltet der Verein O(ffen).R(eal).F(undamental). Symposien und Artist Residencies in der Schwarzenberg’schen Meierei in Scheifling,…
15. June – 01. September 2024 Artists Curator Opening on 14 June. In the second project of the EKKM’s 2024 season Down in the Bog – Sporulation, the Norwegian curator with Estonian roots Karolin Tampere together with artists, musicians and scientists will take a deep dive into the specific ecosystems of the peatlands. The exhibition that will open…
Join us on April 27 for an introduction to our publication Odorant Peatlands / Turberas Olorosas: an edition representing the wetlands and peatlands of Karokynká, Tierra del Fuego; Bog Hollow, New York; Bogerudmyra, Oslo; and Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country. The edition includes four scent vials representing each location as well as a booklet with texts by Camila Marambio and…
Opening Friday March 22, 2024, 6 – 9pm Open March 22 – May 12 With exhibited works by Ingrid Bjørnaali, Fabian Lanzmaier & Maria Simmons, Ensayos, Søssa Jørgensen, Concordia Klar, Enn Kärmas & Villu Järmut, Kristina Norman, Randi Nygård and Laura Põld, in addition to a discursive program with a range of Peatland workers from…
WHEN February 10 – 19, 2024 WHERE Borikén, Puerto Rico WHAT Editing, organizing, laughing, remembering. For the past few months, Puerto Rican filmmaker Llaima Sanfiorenzo has led Ensayistas through an intensive and comprehensive film workshop where each participant embarks on a reflective journey to tell the story of their part in the collective work. Sanfiorenzo’s…
Deconstructed, reconstructed garments. Kin (2018), Valentine (2018), My Suit (2019), Work Shirt (2022), Untitled with Zipper (2022)
I contributed writing and images to Turba Tol Hol-Hol the book, which is available now. Edited by Carla Macchiavello Cornejo and Camila Marambio Turba Tol Hol-Hol-the book is a compendium of the extensive eco-cultural thought of Latin American and Caribbean authors who center their attention on struggles, ways of doing, and experiences of care from the…
October 4, 2023 at 5PM in the Perception Lab (VAB 1016) at SUNY Purchase in Purchase, NY Camila Marambio and Christy Gast of Ensayos will share their perspectives, expertise, and current work, and give insight into contemporary issues in their work with Ensayos.
Camila Marambio and Christy Gast of Ensayos presented a seminar called “Turba de Mangle” at the ICA in Miami for their Swamp Ecologies seminar. The seminar drew on the creative practices and research methodologies related to Ensayo #6 on peatland conservation. We spent three afternoons diving deep into tropical mangrove peatland ecology and sharing writing, mapping and movement methodologies…
Ensayos is proud to be an Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Environmental Art Grants recipient, and excited to continue the work on Humedales Olorosos | Odorant Wetlands, which aims to create a scent-based publication that expands access to the smell of peatlands—offering a somatic immersion into their carbon-capturing depths. The project builds on the Gift of Scent that…
When: June 29–30, 1-5 pmWhere: Wassac Project / Maxon Mills, 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY 12592Who: Adults and teensCost: FreeRegister Here Fens & Friends is a series of workshops about art and ecology inspired by The Venice Agreement’s ethics of local wetland management. Fens & Friends combines walks with scientists and ecologists with hands-on…
Exhibition at the Deering Estate, Miami, FL April 15 – June 11, 2023 The Deering Estate’s Spring Contemporary exhibition Closer to Nature explores concepts of queer ecofeminism: intersections of queer theory, feminism, race, science, and nature. The exhibition shares works that deal with experiences of looking for/finding oneself in nature and expanding the environments for…
The Sappho Room hosted a residency with Ensayos collaborator Agustine Zegers of Agar Olfactory to develop a scented insert on paper produced with water, Sphagnum moss and phragmites from New York peatlands. The insert will be included in the forthcoming publication Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol the book.
Four Dozen Artists Explore Intimate Queer Relationships in Exhibitions at Two New York City Galleries Lehman College Art Gallery, February 14 – April 28, 2023 La MaMa Galleria, February 18 – April 6, 2023 The works featured in this two-part exhibition celebrating queer carnality,camaraderie, and passion—are not rigid interpretations of our existence culled from the heterosexual imagination, but…
Dear friends, Please join me in supporting Shandaken Projects’ on their 10th anniversary! I’m grateful for my residency with Shandaken, which opened new pathways in my thinking and my work. I donated a work to their benefit exhibition, opening with a ticketed reception on November 16, and on view through December 14. I hope you…
A Collection of Writings / by Jonas Mekas and His Friends EDITED BY: Charity Coleman PRINTED BY: Calipso Press PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH: Center for Book Arts Risograph printed by Calipso Press. Saddle stitch (staple bound). Cover letterpress printed by Anne Muntges. Contributors: Jonas Mekas, Gabriela Galvan, Christy Gast, Luba Drozd, Nathlie Provosty, Lynne Tillman,…
A collection of writings from Jonas Mekas and his friends. Reading on October 8 from 3-5pm at Mana Contemporary on the 5th floor, book will be available. Accessibility info: Mana Contemporary has a wheelchair accessible entrance on the west side of the building. Service dogs are welcome. There are all gender bathrooms and ADA compliant…
I’ll be presenting on solo and collective work as part of this seminar hosted by the Institute for Post Natural Studies and the Institute for Queer Ecology during the fall of 2022. The speakers in this seminar series will consider the influence of mutability and mutualism on their work in the fields of visual art,…
Jarrett Earnest’s essay about my early work with Cloud Seeding Circus is out now in the journal public: Vol. 33 Issue 65, which is also available as a gorgeous hardcover book entitled Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive.
Works that are a part of Ensayos ongoing inquiry into peatland protection can currently be experienced at University of Queensland Art Museum (Brisbane, Australia) as a part of a group exhibition Oceanic Thinking (19 July–17 December 2022). Ensayos works, including posters, scents and audio are exhibited alongside artworks by Amrita Hepi, Madison Bycroft and Angela Tiatia.…
Goldenrod Transect (2021) 15-minute performance commissioned for Cecilia Vicuña’s “Insectageddon” event on the High Line in New York, NY in September of 2021. The sculpture is canvas, latex paint, wool and Poly-fil, 15’x6’x8”.
Dr. Lisa Blackmore, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Global Studies & Latin American Studies, School of Philosophy and Art History/Interdisciplinary Studies Centre at Essex University has just published an article in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies that considers Camila Marambio’s and my early Ensayos projects about beavers in Tierra del Fuego. The PDF…
Olga Korper Gallery is pleased to present The Formless Body, curated by Jarrett Earnest. On view from June 4-July 2, 2022, the exhibition invites artists, poets, scholars, and archivists to reflect on the process and materiality of archival work, and their dedication to the stories that archives enable. The focus was on the artistic, intellectual, emotional…
Christy Gast’s research project “Fens & Friends” has been awarded a 2022 NYSCA Support for Artists award. These grants showcases the power of the individual by enabling them to successfully realize their visions. NYSCA supports the creation of new work by New York State artists through artist-initiated projects across a wide range of areas.
I spent most of March and April of 2022 in Venice, Italy weaving a 60-square-meter carpet of living Sphagnum as part of Ensayos’ contribution to “Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol” for the Chilean Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale. Read an account of the residency and project here.
Three-week residency at Greifswald Mire Centre in preparation for Ensayos’ contribution to “Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol,” the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Beinnale.
Video presentation for MEANDER presents: Ecological Thinking and Artistic Practice By Caitlin Franzmann, Christy Gast and Randi Nygård Ensayos is a collective research practice initiated on the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in 2010. Ensayos’ issue-based research methodologies arise from archipelagic delirium and are characterized by their sensuality and precariousness. In partnership with the existing ecological…
Goldenrod Transect performance at 4PM Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 3 – 6pm; film screenings at 3pm and 8pm LOCATION Various locations on and around the High Line Insectageddon is a collective performance and call to action presented by artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña. The event addresses the devastating loss of insect populations around the…
Loss and Wonder at the World’s End by anthropologist and writer Laura A. Ogden has been published by Duke University Press. In a chapter on “Speculative Wonder,” Dr. Ogden discusses collaborating with Ensayos on Ensayo #2: Asunto Castor. From Duke University Press: In Loss and Wonder at the World’s End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers,…
Who Owns the Earth?This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art. by Louis BurySeptember 8, 2021
Roots will take place at Granja Paraiso, a small herbal garden, farm and chicken coop where artist and curator Katiushka Melo Green resides, located in Germantown, NY. PRESS RELEASE + INFO ROOTS The exhibition, Roots, will feature more than 20 artists from around the world working in different mediums including on-site installation and performance art.…
Upstate Art Weekend 2021 Friday August 27-Sunday August 29, 11 AM to 6 PM Christy Gast and Rachel Owens are sculptors who both recently moved to Victorian houses two doors down from each other at the center of Amenia, NY. For UAW, they will team up to present open studios and group shows on their…