Urban Video Project

Urban Video Project Light Work's Urban Video Project (UVP) presents media art on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art.

UVP offices are located in Light Work on the Syracuse University campus. UVP's exhibition site, UVP Everson, is located at the Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza at 401 Harrison St.

08/21/2026

The 2027 Light Work UVP Regional Commission is open for proposals through 9/21 -- START YOUR APPLICATION TODAY to get email reminders!

Link to apply: https://www.lightwork.org/uvp-commission/

MORE INFO:
The UVP Regional Commission is a non-residential opportunity for artists in Central New York** to produce new, site-responsive film/video/electronic work for public exhibition at our projection site on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art.

The regional commission will be exhibited at UVP during the summer of 2027.

Financial support: $5,000

**Eligible NYS counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Tompkins

Video shows stills from past regional commission projects by Evan Starling-Davis (), Paulina Velázquez Solís, Courtney Rile, and Zelikha Zohra Shoja.

08/07/2026

"Blue tongues are part of a game, but we also watch as language tries and fails to move across distance, between speaker and audience, and through translation and transliteration."

UVP artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja is currently featured on Central Current in a beautiful article by Patrick McGuan!

JOIN US at Light Work TONIGHT for ROADSIDE PICNIC, which will feature "In Search of Bluer Tongues" and other works by Zelikha and her frequent collaborator, Fatemeh Kazemi.

More info: https://www.lightwork.org/event/roadside-picnic-an-evening-at-light-work/

Her video can also be viewed on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art following the program.

Join Light Work for ROADSIDE PICNIC, a summer evening of art and conversation featuring media artists from around Upstat...
07/30/2026

Join Light Work for ROADSIDE PICNIC, a summer evening of art and conversation featuring media artists from around Upstate!

Get more info and add to your calendar: https://www.lightwork.org/event/roadside-picnic-an-evening-at-light-work/

5-6:30 p.m. Gallery Reception
6:30-8 p.m. Screening + Talk

Gallery reception for "Flat Tires" and the 2026 Light Work Grants in Photography, feat. work by Amrita Stützle, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Maureen Beitler, and Patty Tomanovich.

The reception will be followed by a film screening and talk by Fatemeh Kazemi + Zelikha Zohra Shoja in the auditorium.

Following the event, Shoja’s video work "In Search of Bluer Tongues" may be viewed in the nearby Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza.

Light Work UVP is pleased to present IN SEARCH OF BLUER TONGUES, new work by artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja, from July 2 thr...
07/02/2026

Light Work UVP is pleased to present IN SEARCH OF BLUER TONGUES, new work by artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja, from July 2 through September 12, 2026, projected onto the Everson Museum of Art facade at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, New York every Thursday through Saturday from dusk to 11PM. More info: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/zelikha-zohra-shoja-in-search-of-bluer-tongues/

And JOIN US at Light Work on FRI, AUG 7 from 5-8PM for ROADSIDE PICNIC, a special event including an indoor screening with Shoja and her frequent collaborator, Fatemeh Kazemi!

Maia Chao, 1/2 of UVP’s 2026 Residential Commission awardee, has a performance happening in tandem with the 2026 Whitney...
05/11/2026

Maia Chao, 1/2 of UVP’s 2026 Residential Commission awardee, has a performance happening in tandem with the 2026 Whitney Biennial this week!

Maia Chao is a Philadelphia-based artist whose collaborative work spans social practice, performance, and video. Her commissions include The Shed, MoMA Education, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She has also presented work at the RISD Museum, Bronx Museum, Oregon Contemporary, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and Boston Center for the Arts. Chao has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, Fine Arts Work Center, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She was a 2022-23 Pew Fellow and is currently Public Artist-in-Residence at the Times Square Arts. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

In residence this July, Chao and Johnson’s () work will be on view at UVP during our 2026-27 program year.

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401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, NY
13210

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Thursday 7pm - 12:30am
Friday 8pm - 11pm
Saturday 8pm - 11pm

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