What is Lost, What is Held: 2025–2026 artists-in-residence exhibition
Mar 5
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Apr 1, 2026
Location: Small Hall
Opening: Thursday, March 5th from 5pm–8pm
(AiR Conversation Series from 7-7:45pm)
Exhibition runs until April 1st
Viewing Hours:
Weekdays: 9 AM - 7 PM
Weekends: 10 AM - 5 PM
Powerhouse Arts (PHA) presents What is Lost, What is Held: 2025–2026 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, featuring works by residents Grace Lynne Haynes, Nazanin Noroozi, and Ngozi Olojede. Marking the inaugural year of the PHA Artists-in-Residence program, each artist had the opportunity to collaborate with the organization’s fabrication shops to explore themes of water, memory, loss, and what endures.
Expanding her vibrant painting practice, Haynes worked with the Ceramics team to create her first series of large-scale clay vessels. Experimenting with scale and underglaze painting, she transforms her painted visions into 3-D physical forms, creating mythological underwater worlds that imagine expansive futures for Black women.
Drawing on her experimental analog film background, Noroozi collaborated with the Printshop and the MGC Community Print Studio to produce a series of works including large-scale body prints. She examines the refugee crisis along southern European shores using Super-8 family films, found footage, hand-pulped paper, and collograph printing.
Working from an immersive spatial installation practice, Olojede developed architectural rendering skills with the Public Art fabrication shop and The Alpha Workshops to create dynamic projections, models, and seating sketches, alongside hand-drawn imagery and sound. They also experimented with dyeing techniques and a range of fabrics to create large tapestries as a preliminary vision for ITUNU, an installation that offers a shared space to grieve and heal Black loss.
Together, the artists use tactile mediums to explore how memory moves in waves, communal grief sustains unimaginable loss, and imagined futures are shaped over time. Water emerges as a unifying thread symbolizing the fluidity of remembrance, the flow of stories carried across time, and the ongoing process of collective healing across generations.
Images: Installation views of What is Lost, What is Held: 2025–2026 AiR exhibition. Featuring works by residents Grace Lynne Haynes, Nazanin Noroozi, and Ngozi Olojede. On view March 5 - Apr 1, 2026 at Powerhouse Arts. Photo by Xavier Petromelis. Courtesy of Powerhouse Arts.
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