Experience Virtual Tour of Contemporary Reuse exhibition at MFTA

[Image Description: In this detail of Tijay Mohammed’s installation piece at MFTA made from Tempeh cloth batik and African wax. A monochrome cutout portrait of a woman smiling is nestled into multiple differently shaped, highly colored sections of cloth sewn together.]

Ongoing Virtual Video Tour

Experience a guided tour of, Contemporary Reuse 2020, the MFTA Gallery’s latest exhibition. Contemporary Reuse is an annual exhibition showcasing artists who make creative reuse a central part of their practice. 

This year’s exhibition features the unique work of six artists: Cecile Chong, Lars Fisk, Howard Lerner, Tijay Mohammed, Carolina Peñafiel, and Jason Rohlf.

This tour, led by MFTA Education Associate Omar Olivera, will provide insight on the exhibition works, themes, and artists.

You can watch a video tour with Omar here.

You can learn more about Rubin Foundation grantee Materials for the Arts here.

Biography of Artist Tijay Mohammed

Ghanaian-born artist Tijay Mohammed has exhibited his work national and internationally, including features at the Longwood Art Gallery (NY), Green Drake Art Gallery (PA), Katonah Museum of Art , Hudson River Museum NY, The National Museum of Ghana, and Ravel D’Art (Côte d’Ivoire). Tijay has also organized workshops and community based projects with numerous organizations including the Studio Museum Harlem, Wallach Art Gallery (NY), University of Ghana Performance Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, and Pinto Road Community Centre (Arima, Trinidad and Tobago). In addition, he has received numerous accolades, residencies and grants and is a recipient of the Arts Fund and Artist for Community grant and New Work from the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Create Change Artist through The Laundromat Project (NY), Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and the Spanish Embassy Ghana Painters Award. He participated in the Global Crit Clinic, Asiko Artist Residency (Ghana), Harmattan Workshop (Nigeria), and Community Workers Training (NY). Tijay currently lives in the Bronx.