Saturday October 3, 2026 | 2:00 – 4:00pm
Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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Free Workshop
Limited to 12 participants. If you require any accessibility accommodations, please let us know at info@residencyunlimited.org when you RSVP and we will be happy to assist.
RSVP required.
Artist Christopher Udemezue invites you to a workshop, “sharing circle” and meditative performance in collaboration with artist Silas. With a focus on bodily awareness, journaling, meditation and healing participants will be encouraged to “pour into” the experience. In the space we will go over some yoga stretches to center ourselves, journal, mediate to the soundscape in place and manifest a nest of honesty/ remedy.
Udemezue will discuss how this spiritual and mental health work relates back to his practice in community work and visual art.
This initiative is part of a series of 20 workshops designed to provide post residency support to RU’s local alumni artists. Curated by alum curator Hayley Ferber, the workshops are centered on the theme of creative engagement with the natural environment, inviting participants to explore processes of reuse, observation, material experimentation, and collective making.
About
Born in Long Island, NY Christopher Udemezue has shown at a variety of galleries and museums, including the New Museum, Queens Museum of Art, MoMa, PS1 MoMa, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Mercer Union, Recess Gallery, Anat Ebgi Gallery and Ryan Lee gallery in NYC. Udemezue utilizes their Jamaican heritage, the complexities of desire for connection, healing through personal mythology, dream logic world building and ancestry as a primary source for their work. As the founder of the platforms RAGGA NYC & CONNEK JA, they completed a residency with the New Museum “All The Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another” in June 2017. In 2018 Udemezue was on show in the New Museum’s “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” 40 year anniversary show and a part of the chosen artists in The Shed’s Open Call grant program/ group show in 2019. Udemezue served as Co-Chair of the board at Recess Gallery, Brooklyn NY from 2021 to 2022. Udemezue had a solo show at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles, California in 2021. More recently in 2024 Udemezue was in a duo exhibition alongside the acclaimed sculptor Richmond Barthé at Ryan Lee gallery in NYC.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In-kind support is provided by Materials for the Arts.
RU is grateful for the partnership with Governors Island Arts.
