Dear Friends,

As we reflect on 2024, I am deeply grateful for your unwavering support, which has fueled a year of bold ideas and transformative initiatives at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Together, we’ve expanded the boundaries of art and architecture, engaging new audiences and deepening vital conversations about the spaces we share.

This year, we:

  • Launched the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, to honor practitioners doing important work at the intersection of art, architecture, and politics today. 
  • Convened a multidisciplinary group of artists, architects, curators, poets, activists, biologists and historians in the Yucatán Peninsula to launch our research theme called Swamplands, which explores the material politics of water.
  • Presented exhibitions of newly commissioned work by Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Imani Jacqueline Brown, and Gala Porras-Kim, whose work is rooted in the place where water meets land. 
  • Expanded our public programming with collaborations like our Swamplands Broadcasts series with Montez Press Radio and our international Open Call with Frieze Magazine.
  • Unveiled a new mural on our facade by artist Guadalupe Rosales with Lokey Calderon called Tumbados.
  • Advanced publications, including an upcoming MIT Press book on Amanda Williams’s What Black Is This, You Say? And launched the first Storefront Reader for On the Ground, which expands on the research on New York City’s ground floor we held throughout 2023–2024. 
  • Strengthened partnerships with institutions like Cooper Union, extending our impact far beyond our iconic gallery. We look forward to co-hosting a symposium on Tumbados with them in early 2025.

As we plan for 2025, we’re embarking on our most ambitious projects yet—from large-scale public art commissions across New York City to new collaborations with major cultural institutions.

Your support is essential to making these visions a reality. Every contribution helps commission new work, sustain free public programming, and empower artists and architects doing important work at the intersection of these disciplines. 

Join us in making these ideas possible by making a year-end gift today.

With gratitude,
José Esparza Chong Cuy
Executive Director and Chief Curator
Storefront for Art and Architecture