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A women-founded art organization that supports artists across all disciplines. We reject the notion that great artists prosper in isolation.

BACKGROUND
The Art Vacancy is a women-founded art organization, based in New York, that supports artists across all disciplines. Founded in March 2017 by Sáng Huynh and Lindsey Puccio, TAV aims to encourage creatives by shaping unique opportunities for them to expand their craft and network of resources. As a group of artists ourselves, we felt disheartened by a reoccurring disconnect we’d see bet

ween curators and artists. We saw that for our artist peers, opportunities to showcase their work were either very exclusive, and guarded by an elite niche, or inconsiderate pop-up shows where the art simply serves as a backdrop to a party, yielding them little recognition or potential to sell. We felt a balance of access and excellence could be struck; where artists would not be vetted based on institutionalized limitations shaped by a dominate culture, but rather their dedication to the craft, and their ambition to be impactful. We chose to start an organization that was for artists, by artists because we believe the strongest advocates for a culture are its own. MISSION
Across time and place, artists have interacted with the world in unique ways. Their potential for greatness lies in their ability to reshape another’s thinking, be it an individual or society at large. Rather, we believe that a strong community is the cornerstone of progress. For this reason, TAV provides consistent spaces for artists to connect and reflect on the work they do through exhibitions and mentorship. Art does not exist in a vacuum, and an artist does not thrive by happenstance. We utilize our exhibitions as platforms to communicate this truth. "We are an inclusive art community— we support artists across all disciplines, from all backgrounds." - Sáng Huynh, Founder

09/09/2025

Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday closed this past week at Satellite Art Show Gallery in New York.

Artworks by Ioana Aron
Curated by Sáng Huynh

At its center stood a multilayered 8.5’ sculptural installation, integrated with anonymous voices from around the world reflecting on both the tensions and the quiet joys of partnership. The work surfaced the accumulations of daily life, where domestic routine encapsulates memory, care, negotiation, burden, apology, and love.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and took part in the experience.

Presented in collaboration with Paired, with support from the Romanian Cultural Institute.

09/04/2025

In the studio with Aron as she preps for Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday.

Join us for the opening reception tonight, 6–9 PM at Satellite Gallery, 270 Broome St., NYC. Link in bio.

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“I want people to walk away with the understanding that they don’t have to carry everything alone—that true love and freedom come from expressing your needs, being seen for who you really are, and allowing yourself to be loved without compromise.”

This new installation extends Aron’s ongoing exploration of intimacy and vulnerability: Confession (2022), where she shared the raw truth of her first sexual experience; Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2023), a sanctuary of paper and light born from heartbreak; and Our Dirty Bedroom (2023–24), a charged experiment in intimacy, trust, and vulnerability.

For Aron, Our Dirty Dishes is distilled into three words: Burden. Hope. Healing.

08/18/2025

In the studio with Ioana Aron as she assembles an early study for Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday—a towering installation of plates, pots, and utensils carrying the residue of daily life.

Artist Ioana Aron reflects:
“I want my art to remind people that their unwashed dishes, the note on the refrigerator, and the wine stains on the carpet are all art – and more. Seen together, they reflect our privacy: a mirror of our inner lives.”

Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday is presented by The Art Vacancy, in collaboration with —the app that brings couples closer. Supported by

Opening Reception: September 4, 6–9 PM
Satellite Gallery, NYC
RSVP via link in bio

07/25/2025

OPEN CALL
Lend Your Voice to Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday

We’re inviting anonymous voice recordings from the public to be featured in a sculptural sound installation for Our Dirty Dishes: Echoes of the Everyday—commissioned by and presented by The Art Vacancy.

Some silences take the shape of objects—amassed slowly, left behind, and stacked between people. This exhibition renders the intimate architecture of modern relationships through care, conflict, and the emotional residue of everyday life.

Your voice—intimate, unfiltered, anonymous—will be woven into the immersive soundscape that anchors the work.

Location: New York, NY
Exhibition Dates: September 4–6, 2025
Deadline to submit: August 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Submit your 1–2 minute recording via the link in bio.
Submissions are anonymous and open to all.

07/01/2025

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHER – NEW YORK

The Art Vacancy is seeking a photographer to document an upcoming art installation and exhibition taking place September 4, 2025 in the Lower East Side (LES). We’re looking for someone with a sharp eye for natural light, detail, and capturing both intimate behind-the-scenes moments and final installation views.

Ideal candidates have experience with:
• Art exhibitions or installations
• Process/behind-the-scenes documentation
• Portraits in natural light or gallery settings

Shoot Date: September 4, 2025
Location: Manhattan (LES)
Compensation: $600–800 flat rate, based on experience and final deliverables
Application Deadline: July 15, 11:59 PM EST
To apply: Email your portfolio to [email protected]
Questions: [email protected]

06/03/2025

DES COLLISIONS FORTUITES
Œuvres de Ioana Aron
Commissariat de Sáng Huynh | Présenté par The Art Vacancy

Comment des rencontres éphémères peuvent-elles transformer nos trajectoires ?

Cette exposition explore la force discrète des croisements humains—un regard échangé, une parole partagée, un moment suspendu. Dans la pratique d’Ioana Aron, ces collisions deviennent des marqueurs d’intimité, de mémoire et de présence.

Entre hasard et destin, chaque œuvre trace une cartographie sensible des liens invisibles qui nous modifient—parfois à peine perceptiblement, mais toujours profondément.

📍 Vernissage
05.06.25 | 18h–21h
51 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris
🗓 Exposition visible jusqu’au 26.06.25

EN: OF SERENDIPITOUS COLLISIONS
Works by Ioana Aron
Curated by Sáng Huynh | Presented by The Art Vacancy

How can fleeting encounters quietly alter our paths?

This exhibition explores the subtle power of human crossings—a glance, a shared word, a suspended moment. In Ioana Aron’s practice, these collisions become markers of intimacy, memory, and presence.

Some feel like chance, others like fate. Each work maps the invisible ties that shape us—sometimes imperceptibly, always profoundly.

📍 Opening Reception
June 5, 2025 | 6–9PM
51 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris
🗓 On view through June 26, 2025

05/26/2025

DES COLLISIONS FORTUITES
Œuvres de Ioana Aron
Commissariat de Sáng Huynh | Présenté par The Art Vacancy

Comment des rencontres éphémères peuvent-elles transformer nos trajectoires ?

Cette exposition explore la force discrète des croisements humains—un regard échangé, une parole partagée, un moment suspendu. Dans la pratique d’Ioana Aron, ces collisions deviennent des marqueurs d’intimité, de mémoire et de présence.

Entre hasard et destin, chaque œuvre trace une cartographie sensible des liens invisibles qui nous modifient—parfois à peine perceptiblement, mais toujours profondément.

📍 Vernissage
05.06.25 | 18h–21h
51 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris
🎶 DJ set par AL’
🗓 Exposition visible jusqu’au 26.06.25

EN:
OF SERENDIPITOUS COLLISIONS
Works by Ioana Aron
Curated by Sáng Huynh | Presented by The Art Vacancy

How can fleeting encounters quietly alter our paths?

This exhibition explores the subtle power of human crossings—a glance, a shared word, a suspended moment. In Ioana Aron’s practice, these collisions become markers of intimacy, memory, and presence.

Some feel like chance, others like fate. Each work maps the invisible ties that shape us—sometimes imperceptibly, always profoundly.

📍 Opening Reception
June 5, 2025 | 6–9PM
51 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris
🎶 DJ set by AL’
🗓 On view through June 26, 2025

05/20/2025

Rencontre avec l’artiste | 28.05.25
À l’occasion du finissage de Un corps en transit culturel, Ioana Aron reviendra sur les inspirations derrière Dans Ma Rue—un projet qui explore la mémoire incarnée, le déplacement et la transformation à travers le corps. De son voyage à Cuba à son retour à Paris, elle évoquera comment les géographies vécues imprègnent durablement la pratique artistique.

La rencontre sera suivie de la projection de son mini-documentaire, une œuvre intimiste capturant son expérience à La Havane en 2024.

📍 18h30 - 20h
28 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
🗓 Finissage

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EN: Artist Talk | May 28, 2025
For the closing of Un Corps en Transit Culturel, Ioana Aron will reflect on the inspirations behind Dans Ma Rue—a project that explores embodied memory, displacement, and transformation through the body. From her journey to Cuba to her return to Paris, she will discuss how lived geographies leave a lasting imprint on artistic practice.

The conversation will be followed by a screening of her short documentary—an intimate visual essay capturing her experience in Havana in 2024.

📍 6:30 - 8PM
28 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
🗓 Closing reception

04/16/2025

UN CORPS EN TRANSIT CULTUREL
Œuvres de Ioana Aron
Commissariat de Sáng Huynh | Présenté par The Art Vacancy 
Que signifie porter la culture dans son corps—non seulement à travers les frontières, mais aussi par la mémoire, l’émotion et le rituel ?

Cette exposition retrace un moment charnière de Dans Ma Rue, le projet en cours de Ioana Aron qui explore la présence, le déplacement et la transformation incarnée. Son voyage à Cuba en 2024 devient un tournant spirituel : une confrontation avec la rareté, la générosité et la résistance.

De retour à Paris, son corps porte les résidus de cette expérience—superposés aux vies passées vécues à travers l’Europe et au-delà. Son installation vidéo devient un portail vers ce voyage incarné, où le corps devient à la fois archive et antenne.

C’est une histoire non seulement de mouvement, mais aussi de la manière dont les lieux, les personnes et les histoires que nous portons nous façonnent—silencieusement et irrémédiablement.

📍 Vernissage
03.05.25 | 6–9PM
28 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
🗓 Exposition visible jusqu’au 28.05.25

EN: What does it mean to carry culture in the body—not only across borders, but through memory, emotion, and ritual?

This exhibition traces a pivotal moment in Dans Ma Rue, Ioana Aron’s ongoing project exploring presence, displacement, and embodied transformation. Her 2024 journey to Cuba becomes a spiritual turning point: a confrontation with scarcity, generosity, and resistance.

Back in Paris, her body holds the residue of this experience—layered with past lives across Europe and beyond. Her video installation becomes a portal into that embodied journey, where the body becomes both archive and antenna.

It is a story not only of movement, but of how we are shaped—quietly and irrevocably—by the places, people, and histories we carry.

04/14/2025

Serapis, He/She, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, image courtesy of the artist.

This work presents a hybrid visage—one that seamlessly merges masculine and feminine characteristics to quietly, yet pointedly, question the notion of gender as a fixed essence. The fluidity of its form and the intentional ambiguity of its features gesture toward an identity that resists categorization, occupying a space beyond binary constraints. In doing so, the piece becomes an invitation: to reconsider the assumptions we carry about the soul, the body, and the language we use to define them. It calls for a more expansive, inclusive understanding of selfhood—one that honors complexity over conformity.

He/She is part of Chirurgie Poétique, on view through 27 April 2025.

📍 51 Avenue Gambetta, 75020 Paris

04/14/2025

The Art Vacancy (TAV) is seeking a part-time curatorial intern to support three upcoming projects beginning in May. This opportunity is open to students seeking academic credit and recent graduates looking to gain hands-on experience in contemporary art, and in producing and curating exhibitions in Paris and New York.

The intern will work closely with our founder and director and a range of collaborators across all phases of curatorial development—from early-stage research and artist correspondence to logistical coordination and public programming.

Strong organizational skills and clear communication are essential. Familiarity with curatorial writing or prior arts administration experience is a plus, but not required. Speaking French is also a plus.
This is a remote, credit-eligible position with flexible hours. We aim to offer a meaningful learning experience for someone eager to deepen their engagement with curatorial practice.

To apply, please send a short statement about your background and why you’d like to join us, along with your CV, to: [email protected]
Deadline: 22.4.25 at 23h59 CET

04/11/2025

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Dirty Dishes
We’re looking for one artist, or an artist duo, to bring a bold, emotionally resonant vision to life.

Dirty Dishes is a sculptural installation that explores the invisible weight of domestic labor, emotional tension, and the quiet complexities of modern relationships.

This is a paid opportunity to develop a central work for a conceptual exhibition, with the option to exhibit additional pieces that align with the theme. The exhibition will take place in New York City, coinciding with The Armory Show and other major art fairs this fall.

Exhibition Details
Location: New York, NY
Dates: September 4–6, 2025
Artist Fee: $3,000
Materials Budget: Up to $1,300

Deadline
April 30, 2025, 11:59 PM EST
To apply, email your artist bio, project proposal + statement of intent, and portfolio to [email protected]
Link in bio for full details.

Collaborative submissions are welcome. Please note that the stipend and materials budget are fixed and would be shared among collaborators.

We’re seeking proposals that are conceptually sharp, materially considered, and deeply engaged with themes of care, conflict, and emotional infrastructure within relationships.

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