Event
May 4, 2026, 6:30–8:30pm

2026 Annual Benefit

The International Studio & Curatorial Program’s Annual Benefit, powered by Artsy, features over 40 works by ISCP’s international alumni and supporters, with a range of pieces by emerging, mid-career, and world-renowned artists.

This year, ISCP is proud to honor Aruna D’Souza, Laurie Sprayregen, and Frank WANG Yefeng.

WHEN: Monday, May 4 from 6:30–8:30pm

WHERE: SLAG&RX Gallery, 522 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011

ISCP is the largest international artist residency in the nation. To date, we have welcomed over 2,000 residents from 105 countries, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Elmgreen and Dragset, Theaster Gates, and Camille Henrot, offering a critical platform for creative development and exchange. Attending the benefit supports ISCP’s mission to build and sustain a vibrant community of contemporary art practitioners and diverse audiences.

Funds raised through the Benefit directly support ISCP’s residency programs, helping to sustain critical studio space and community for artists and curators in New York.

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Tickets:
Raffle ticket: $25
Sponsor an Artist: $100
Raffle Ticket Bundle (5 tickets): $100
Friend ticket: $150
VIP ticket: $250
Supporter ticket: $500
Patron ticket: $1,500
Champion ticket: $3,000

ISCP’s Annual Benefit Program

Remarks by benefit honorees
40+ artworks on view from ISCP’s benefit auction, powered by Artsy running from April 21–May 5, 2026
Paddle raise conducted by Sarah Krueger of Phillips
Raffle led by 2026 Benefit co-chair Sophie O. Riese
Curated cocktail experience
Light bites and drinks
And more!

PLACE YOUR BIDS!

Auction Artworks by: Brett Angell, Justin Berry, Lynda Benglis, Kadar Brock, Mike Cockrill, Anne Collier, Céline Condorelli, Conrad Egyir, Jeff Elrod, Bryan Fernández, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Matthias Garff, Braxton Garneau, Antonietta Grassi, Katharina Gruzei, Stephanie Temma Hier, James Hoff, Anaïs Horn, Steven Anthony Johnson II, Tommy Kha, Crystalle Lacouture, Angel Lartigue, Laura Lappi, Jamie Lau, Ailyn Lee, Judith Linhares, Firoz Mahmud, Maliyamungu Gift Muhande, Nifemi Ogunro, Ruth Owens, Tamen Pérez, Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Daniela Rivera, Thomas Ruff, John Shen, Oriane Stender, Jeremy Stenger, Tattfoo Tan, Alice Wang, and Cullen Washington Jr.

Annual Benefit Committee: Emily Alli, Audrée J. Anid, Clare Bell, Julia Blaut and Ned Dewees, Kadar Brock, Patricia L. Brundage, Susan Brundage, Elaine Byrne, Celine Collazo, Sarah Duzyk, William Foster, Alexandra Friedman, Barbara Heizer, Sarah Jones, Karen Karp, Houda Lazrak, Thomas Lollar, Maureen Mahony, Samar Maziad, Sophie O. Riese, Aaron Schwarz, Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Doreen Small, Julia Speed, Rachel Tretter, Marianthi Vlachos, Christina Yang

ISCP Board of Directors: Emily Alli, Danny Báez, Patricia L. Brundage, Elaine Byrne, Sarah Duzyk, Dennis Elliott, William Foster, William Harrison, Sarah Jones, Karen Karp, Samar Maziad, Manu Mohan, Sophie O. Riese, Lèna Saltos, Christina Yang, Arthur Zegelbone

ISCP thanks the following donors and supporters: Yuka Anziano, Alexis Azzam, Kadar Brock, Yng-Ru Chen, De Soi, Martha Dixon, Company XIV, Fan Fan Doughnuts, Ann Feldman, Dennis Elliott, Kelly Elkowitz, Laura Franklin, Gallop Hill, Guerra Paint and Pigment Corp., Hellbender, Hey Clay Pottery Studio, International Rescue Committee, Sarah Jones, KL5 Coffee, Kosmo’s Q, Sarah Krueger, Houda Lazrak, Thomas Lollar, Kristen Lorello Gallery, Ella Mark, Inge Meijer, Seren Morey, Grace Mozie, Museum of Arts and Design, Cauvery Patel, Irina Protopopescu, Praise Shadows Gallery, Gabbie Reade, Allison Read Smith, Recess Grove, Sophie O. Riese, Saint Seneca, Lynette Therese Sauer, Jessie Spellman, Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Douglas Walla, The William Vale, Carson Wos, YO BK, Nora Young, Arthur Zegelbone

ISCP is extremely grateful to our event partners and sponsors: Artsy, De Soi, Grimm Artisanal Ales, SLAG&RX Gallery, ISCP Young Patrons, Fuzhou Sisters, Phillips, and The Art Newspaper

Can’t attend? Donate to support ISCP here.

For questions or additional information, please contact benefit@iscp-nyc.org

6:30–8:30pm

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Floral elements of design are by Frank WANG Yefeng, adapted from his "Desert Garden" installation at 2025 Art Basel Hong Kong..

Matthias Garff, Insect case (January XI), 2026, found materials, wire, nails, and object frame, 15¹¹/₁₆ × 11¹³/₁₆ × 1⁵/₈ in. (39.88 × 29.97 × 4.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.

Lynda Benglis, Rainbow Flythrough, 2019, print, epson SureColor print on UltraSmooth 100% cotton, 0 × 36 × 36 in. (0 × 91.44 × 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the Benefit Print Project.

Ailyn Lee, Secret Vanity, 2025, painting. Courtesy of the artist.

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Hans Rosenström: Conspirare

Opening Reception: Jun 30, 2026

June 30–October 9, 2026

Exhibition

Bryan Fernandez: En tránsito

Through August 7

Exhibition

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ISCP Talk
April 28, 2026, 6:30–7:30pm

Kairos TV: On Forecasting Monsters by Marie-Andrée Pellerin and Stanisław Welbel

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Marie-Andrée Pellerin is joined by curator and artist Stanisław Welbel. Together, they will stage a sound performance titled Kairos TV: On Forecasting Monsters, which takes the format of a weather channel’s daily program. This work revolves around the monster, a figure embodying extreme weather phenomena and a metaphor for our unstable sociopolitical climate. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Kairos TV is a collaborative project begun in 2024 by Marie-Andrée Pellerin and Stanisław Welbel that draws on narrative traditions in which atmospheric phenomena mirror psychological states and social crises. They use this framework to connect environmental instability with lived experience and political realities. By invoking the aesthetics of television—an increasingly obsolete medium in the age of internet-based broadcasting—the ongoing project also examines how information is constructed, mediated, and frequently distorted.

Marie-Andrée Pellerin is a pluridisciplinary artist who explores interplays between the realms of society and geology. Her work meanders across media, including video, sound art, installation, performance, and tufting and is informed by collaborations with musicians, meteorologists, linguists, and writers. Her recent work engages with the poetics of weather, exploring how atmospheric phenomena generate soundscapes, mental states, and social narratives. Core to her practice is speculative thinking, and she often invokes fictional institutions, words, and disciplines to mediate her critical inquiries. Pellerin has exhibited work at BPS22 Art Museum of the Province of Hainaut, Belgium; Kunstforum, Austria; Ada X, Canada; and the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Scotland, among others.

Stanisław Welbel is a curator, art historian, artist, and musician working at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, Poland. From 2009 to 2019, he served as curator of film and public programs at the Zachęta—National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. His curatorial focus includes the intersection of visual arts and film, with a particular interest in historical narratives and socio-political contexts in art and cinema. Some of his curatorial projects include Ain’t No Sorry (2008) at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; No Sleep! (2010) at BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra; and Cosmos Calling! Art and Science in the Long Sixties (2014) at the Zachęta. Being a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), he has also curated exhibitions and film programs abroad.

This program is supported by Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport Republic of Austria; the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6:30–7:30pm

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Participating Residents

Marie-Andrée Pellerin

Marie-Andrée Pellerin, Moderate Chaos, 2025, mixed-genre performance.

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Hans Rosenström: Conspirare

Opening Reception: Jun 30, 2026

June 30–October 9, 2026

Exhibition

Bryan Fernandez: En tránsito

Through August 7

Exhibition

Donate

ISCP Talk
April 21, 2026, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Bernd Oppl in Conversation with Mara Mills

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Bernd Oppl will be joined by scholar Mara Mills. Oppl will speak about his engagement with apparatuses, technologies, and spaces that shape human perception. He will then speak to Mills about how visual impairment informs both the making and experiencing of art. Together, they will discuss disability authorship and disability as a framework in relation to Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (2023), co-edited by Mills. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Bernd Oppl is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary artist working across video, photography, sound, and installation. His practice mediates between the visual, auditory, and haptic, destabilizing an oculocentrist experience of reality. He situates the world in an uncanny intermediate space defined by dichotomies: presence and absence, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalized, all-encompassing and radically confined. Oppl is a member of the research group All Disabled Selves and the film cooperative die Regisseur*innen. He has exhibited work at the Georgia Museum of Art, Greece; Greater Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; and Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria, among others.

Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies (CDS), a hub for public humanities and disability arts programming. At CDS, she is currently coordinating the Mellon-funded project ASAP: Access for Small Arts Partnerships. She is coeditor of the collections How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press, 2025) and Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press, 2023). She is also a founding editorial board member of the journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

This program is supported by Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport Republic of Austria; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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To access the freight elevator to the second floor of ISCP, enter through the parking lot and continue toward the back, where the lot curves into a U-shaped area with multiple loading docks. Take the ramp on the right, marked by a yellow pillar. At the top of the ramp, you’ll find the freight elevator directly ahead; it is operated by an attendant.

Please note: the elevator does not have interior walls, it functions as a moving platform operated by the attendant. Let them know you’re going to the second floor.

When you exit the elevator, turn right and continue straight to the door on your right. This leads to a set of double doors into the ISCP lounge. If the door is locked, please call (718) 387-2900.

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April 21, 6-8pm

6:30–7:30pm

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