A House Divided / Mac Premo / 2025
The Invisible Dog and Hashimoto Contemporary are thrilled to present a group exhibition featuring artists and the collection of The Invisible Dog, co-curated by Lucien Zayan, founder-director of The Invisible Dog and Risa Shoup.
During the exhibition, we will present a series of events: performance, reading etc etc. Subscribe to The Invisible Dog Substack letter to receive invitation.
Ideas don’t belong to a place. They are never rooted, only found, and belong only to the mind that’s willing to see and embrace them.
Now that the invisible Dog has closed its doors on Bergen Street, and it has decided to go for a long walk, many of the artists have been reminded the important lesson of anyone who moves away from their childhood home; that a house is just bricks and mortar, but home is memories in the mind and the continuation of living breathing family wherever they may be. It is an idea.
In the early days of The Invisible Dog, when the building still felt like a secret—raw floors, dusty ceilings and shifting light, a small group of us were trying to understand what we were becoming together. Over the years, more artists arrived. Some stayed, some circled through, some left pieces of themselves in the rooms we shared. Slowly, what began as a space became a community, and what felt temporary became something lasting.
Now, as The Invisible Dog steps into a new life without a fixed place, we gather together again with an exhibition that brings this wide and layered family back into one moment. It gathers the artists who kept studios there (some still do), the ones who drifted in and out of its realm, and the ones whose work remains part of its permanent collection—all the threads that wove the place into what it was, all curated and within the orbit of Lucien, whose idea gave birth to the place that is no longer fixed.
Presented by Lucien Zayan at Hashimoto Contemporary, this show is not a farewell to the building we once called home. It is a recognition that the true center of The Invisible Dog -the heart of the place -was never the place at all. It was the people. It was the noticing. It was the sharing. It was an idea that kept moving, even when we didn’t realize we were moving with it.
This exhibition is a map drawn from memory. It is a reunion of wanderers. It is a tribute to the new nomadic existence of a legacy stretching its legs.
In the words of another wandering dog “Maybe tomorrow I’ll wanna settle down, until tomorrow, I’ll just keep movin’ round.”
Oliver Jeffers
Featured Artists
Doug Adesko, Vanessa Belli, Meriem Bennani, Gabe Benzur, Liz Burrow, Chong Gon Byun, Simon Courchel, André Da Loba, Adam Dalva, Camille de Galbert, Danielle Durchslag, Shannon Finnegan, Ryan Frank, Divya Gadangi, Nemo Hoffman, Oliver Jeffers, Steven and William Ladd, Stephen Morrison, Anne Mourier, Keun Young Park, Mac Premo, Aaron Ruff, Alana Salguero, R Justin Stewart, Anita Sto, Nicolas Touron, Ian Trask, Peter Treiber, Kevin Waldron, Susan Weinthaler (more to be announced)
Lucien Zayan is a renowned Artistic and Executive Director with a rich history of contributions to the arts and cultural institutions. His career has spanned various roles in cultural organizations across France, Egypt and the United States. Zayan's journey in the cultural sphere began in 1988 when he served as a Cultural Producer at the French Institute in Alexandria, Egypt, under the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Egypt. This early experience laid the foundation for his commitment to fostering cultural exchange and collaboration. Read more
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Risa Shoup (they/them/theirs) is a Co-Executive Director of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, a non-profit cultural services organization representing non-profit theaters throughout New York City and State. Risa has worked as an administrator, curator, and leader in the arts in New York City since 2005 focusing on the development of affordable artist workspace. They were the Associate Director of the Invisible Dog Art Center from 2012-2015, and they have been the President of the Board since 2016. In addition to extensive project-based work focusing on the intrinsic and instrumental impact of the arts on community development, Risa was a consultant on CreateNYC, New York City’s first-ever cultural plan, developed in concert between a team of consultants led by Hester Street Collaborative and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
They studied City and Regional Planning at Pratt Institute and are also on the board of the SeaChange Capital, The American LGBTQ+ Museum, Rendezvous Arts, and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts—NY.
Hashimoto Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery originally founded in 2013 by Ken Harman Hashimoto. After joining the team in 2017, the gallery announced Jennifer Rizzo as a partner in 2023. Our roster consists of an eclectic blend of emerging and established contemporary artists working primarily within our respective local communities. Hashimoto Contemporary provides a dual platform to both marginalized and mainstream voices. You can find us at the Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco) and the Lower East Side (New York City) where our spaces put on new exhibitions monthly.
Location
Hashimoto Contemporary
54 Ludlow St
New York, NY 10002
Admission:
Free
Dates
January 10 - 31, 2026
Opening Reception
Saturday January 10, 2026
6-8pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 6pm