> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.kinoki.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Immigrant Artist Biennial reveals title and artist list - URL: https://www.kinoki.co/the-immigrant-artist-biennial-reveals-title-and-artist-list/ - Published: 2026-07-24T22:13:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-24T22:12:59.000Z - Description: The third edition of TIAB is titled Identity Card. The biennial unfolds as a series of screenings, performances and panels throughout October-November 2026. - Author: Team Kinoki - Tags: Notices **New York, July 2026** — The Immigrant Artist Biennial announces the title and thematic of it’s third edition: *Identity Card*. Unfolding as a series of 7+ screenings, performances, panels, workshops, and a potluck taking place throughout October and November 2026, the Iana Safina Co-Curator Sanna Almajedi, Lesley Bodzy Co-Curator Sofia Thiệu D’Amico, Bailey Coleman Co-Curator Eva Mayhabal Davis, and co-curator Anna Khimasia frame individual but interconnected programs as a temporary space of rupture and fugitivity. In a moment marked by artistic suppression and a global rise of fascism, the biennial concept evokes the “identity card” as issued to fix us within regimes of nationality, immigration status, occupation, criminalization, and class—simultaneously enabling and restricting mobility, determining who may pass, who is detained and who remains unrecognized. > “The Immigrant Artist Biennial was founded to create a space where immigrant artists can be seen, heard, and celebrated. As an immigrant, I know that belonging is something we build together. With *Identity Card*, we continue that mission by convening artists, audiences, and communities in conversation, affirming that immigrant voices are an essential part of the cultural fabric of our past, present, and future.” - Founding Artistic Director, Katya Grokhovsky > “I am extremely excited that our incredibly talented curators have shaped a powerful new space across multiple nodes in the city to explore migration, technology, and human rights with their event-based format. In a city like New York, which is saturated with great exhibitions, it is exhilarating to be inviting audiences to gather around a series of time-based media presentations, conversations, and parties. Right now, New Yorkers crave community.” - Director, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand Artists, activists, and organizers will explore collective memory, institutional censorship, embodied forms of knowledge, territorial sovereignty and mutual aid—conditions continually denied by occupying authorities as the capacity for mobility—whether physical, cultural or conceptual—remains unevenly distributed and violently policed. A PDF catalog, designed by Alice Herbert and featuring newly commissioned essays and republished texts, will accompany Identity Card to further envision resistance to indexing as a means of asserting individual and collective insurgence against dehumanizing global forces. > “Write down! > I am an Arab > I have a name without a title > Patient in a country > Where people are enraged > My roots > Were entrenched before the birth of time > And before the opening of the eras > Before the pines, and the olive trees > And before the grass grew.” > "Identity Card” by Mahmoud Darwish Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish’s poem "Identity Card," the 2026 biennial invokes states of being neither here nor there; with or without a land, home, citizenship, roots, or community. **Artists** Bahar Behbahani Rawya El Chab Stephanie Comilang Ivana Dama Rachelle Dang Tasha Douge Bel Falleiros Maya Jeffereis Andrew Yong Hoon Lee Pearlynn Lii Sujin Lim Simon Liu mandla LuLu Meng National Coalition Against Censorship Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi Lita Vinueza Anh Vo Layqa Nuna Yawar **Catalog Contributors** Judith Butler Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley and the Hannah Arendt Chair, European Graduate School Natalie Diaz Pulitzer Prize winner and Associate Professor, ASU Rebecca Ruth Gould Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics, SOAS London James Hoff Artist and Member, Primary Information Elizabeth Larison and Minji Lee Director and Associate, Arts and Culture Advocacy, National Coalition Against Censorship Summer Kim Lee Assistant Professor of English, UCLA Sarah Rifky Independent Curator and the curators of TIAB 2026: *Identity Card*. **Venues** BRIC Brooklyn Art Haus Essex Street Market Residency Unlimited Nguyen Wahed Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice **Partners** Accent Sisters (Publisher) ArteEast Asia Art Archive in America Cultbytes IMPULSE Kinoki Matka Rethink Food The Here and There Collective UBS Wealth Management **Designers** Alice Herbert (Catalog) Anders Newman (Visual Identity) **Creative Video Producer** Shuran He ![A man and a woman stand over a circular tub with concentric cirlces as grooves on it, with the woman holding an instrument that reads the grooves.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2026/07/BRIC_Dama_Echoes-of-Urgencies_Oresti-Tsonopoulos--1-.jpg) Ivana Dama. **Echoes of Urgencies*, 2025\. Photographed by Oresti Tsonopoulos. Courtesy of the artist and The Immigrant Artist Biennial. **VISIT US** The full program for The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2026: *Identity Card* will be released in September 2026 on our website. Everyone is welcome. **ABOUT THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST BIENNIAL** The Immigrant Artist Biennial is a nomadic platform that presents the work of immigrant artists across diverse formats, including exhibitions, public programs, and publishing. It engages broad national and international audiences while maintaining a strong presence in New York. Through its multi-venue and interdisciplinary approach, the biennial creates space for dialogue, visibility, and exchange, amplifying immigrant voices and fostering connections between artists, institutions, and the public. Founded in 2019 by Katya Grokhovsky, TIAB has showed more than 175 artists including Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Blanka Amezkua, Felipe Baeza, Marcelo Brodsky, Esperanza Cortés, Linnéa Gad, Maria Kulikovska, Raul de Lara, Jiaoyang Li and Jinjin Xu, Anina Major, Ana Mendieta, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Anna Ting Möller, Yali Romagoza/Cuquita the Cuban Doll, Nida Sinnokrot, and Tariku Shiferaw. [**theimmigrantartistbiennial.com**](https://us.list-manage.com/eChQ9NIZNk%5F?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co) **/**[ **@theimmigrantartistbiennial**](https://us.list-manage.com/fr0wuxyUOWk?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co) **PRESS INQUIRIES** Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, [info@cultbytes.com](mailto:info@cultbytes.com). [All presskits](https://us.list-manage.com/iPzO6pXcHns?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co). **SUPPORT** To support the 2026 biennial, please consider donating through [PayPal](https://us.list-manage.com/kd8Kawru8Hq?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co) or [NYFA](https://us.list-manage.com/lC3TIoUp7eS?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co). Follow [@theimmigrantartistbiennial](https://us.list-manage.com/IZXa1XimENS?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co) and review past editions at [theimmigrantartistbiennial.com](https://us.list-manage.com/11kzC4vleeY?e=8030357817&c2id=ceea8a075222a898089fdbee2677d96a&ref=kinoki.co). **IMAGES** Ivana Dama. *Echoes of Urgencies*. Photographed by Oresti Tsonopoulos. Courtesy of the artist and The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Maya Jefferies. *Land of Eternal Summer*. Photographed by Martin Parsekian. Courtesy of the artist and The Immigrant Artist Biennial.