A Land and 河/River explores the powerful and intricate relationship between place, our histories, and imaginings of self. Artist Kimberly M. Becoat uses acrylic paint, sumi ink, and watercolor as well as tar paper, candy wrappers, and other detritus to investigate the idea of urban displacement. Her series, Seneca Village – Everywhere explores the idea of Seneca Village; a 19th Century free-black community of landowners in New York City that was removed for the construction of Central Park. Learn more about Seneca Village here.

Hong Hong’s work 河/River is her first thematic, research-based project that considers her personal relationship with water. The paper-based installation imagines and presents water as a long-form poem, documenting the river as meteorological occurrences, the artists’ birth, her family’s immigration process, and texts she and her mother both love. Hong Hong (whose last name means flood) makes no distinction between our symbolic understanding of water, its nurturing properties, or its ability to destroy or divide.

Kimberly M. Becoat

Kimberly M. Becoat is a contemporary mixed media artist whose work is a stylistic abstraction with a conceptual investigation of new materials and visual experiences with social commentary.

She uses a variety of art materials including acrylic paint, sumi ink, and watercolor as well as less conventional items like sand, tar paper, foil, candy wrappers and other detritus. Her most recent abstract & conceptual work is an investigation of urban environments meant to create “urban displacement”, such as in public housing - aimed to surgically remove “massive amounts of Blacks and Latinos” into designated forgotten pockets of city landscapes.

Kimberly has been featured in a number of exhibits including her current solo exhibition; URBANIA, at MoCADA Museum in New York, Welcome to Urbania, at RUSH Arts Gallery NY (solo exhibit), New Abstractions, at Essie Green Galleries (solo exhibit), Capital One Bank in NY, BAM -art at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and Deutsche Bank as well as the television shows, Insecure on HBO, Netflix Original Series Luke Cage and the FX series, The Americans.

A few other exhibitions include: Last Supper, Latchkey Gallery, NY; Creative Climate Award Art Nominee, Human Impacts Institute, NY; Prizm Fair, Miami, FL; In Plain Sight/Site, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; Pressure Points, Art on the Vine, Martha's Vineyard; Dadaesque, 701 CCA Gallery, Columbia, SC; Respond, SMACK Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Honoring Romare Bearden, The Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn; and Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of the New American Black South, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY.

Kimberly is a native New Yorker, born in Harlem NY - and presently resides and works as an artist in Brooklyn, NY.

Hong Hong

Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Hong Hong works with image-making and language through repetition, disruption, movement, accumulation, limitation, translation, evaporation, and dispersion. She considers the field of painting, the materiality of the body, the semiotics of poetry as well as the histories of craft in relation to identity, memory, nations, and land. Hong’s practice centers the creation and preservation of a Chinese-American subjectivity rooted in largeness, multiplicity, power, opacity, self-definition, and self-determination.

Hong Hong is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts (2025), Chiaro Award in Painting at Headlands Center for the Arts (2025), Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024 - 2026), United States Artists Fellowship in Craft (2023), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting (2023), Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020), Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2019), and Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019). She has participated in residencies at McColl Center for Art + Innovation (2022), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020 - 2021), Yaddo (2019), and I-Park (2018). 

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City, OK), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York, NY), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA), Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art (Reston, VA), San Francisco Center for Book Arts (San Francisco, CA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH), Texas Asia Society (Houston, TX), and University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, TX), among others. 

Hong Hong currently lives and works in Oklahoma.