NADA House

Ferries to Governors Island can be taken to and from 10 South Street in Manhattan or Pier 6, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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NADA House, the organization’s second off-site exhibition on Governors Island, features 45 artists from NADA Member galleries and non-profits in a new, expanded format across 34 rooms in three historic, turn-of-the-century Colonial Revival houses. The collaborative, public exhibition will be on view every weekend.

NADA House is an opportunity for NADA members to stage a group show in an intimate and unusual setting, with only one or two artists on display in each room. NADA House reflects the camaraderie intrinsic to NADA’s mission, and exemplifies the organization’s adaptive approach to finding new models to present work from its community.

Responding to the unique context of Governors Island and the specific character of these houses, many participating artists will present work that speaks to the island’s changing identity over time – from its origins as Lenape land occupied by Native Americans of the Manhattan region to its role in the Revolutionary War, and later from its use by the US Army and Coast Guard to its current state as a site for artistic, scientific, and urban experimentation.

Eight stately brick mansions define Colonels Row. These former officer’s homes once lined the edge of the Island overlooking the Harbor. Today, over 100 years after the Island was doubled in size using landfill from the construction of the Lexington Avenue subway, these homes look out from a five-foot rise onto a lush two-acre triangular green and are framed by allees of mature London Plane trees.

Governors Island is a 172-acre island in the heart of New York Harbor. Yards away from lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, it’s easily accessible by a very short ferry ride and open to the public from May 1 – October 31.

Since opening to the public in 2005, Governors Island has been a dynamic, unique venue for arts and culture to be both discovered and created in New York City. The Island brings accessible, groundbreaking and experimental arts to New Yorkers through our open and engaging platform that invites organizations from all five boroughs to produce free visual arts exhibitions and performances to annual site-specific commissions in our public open spaces.

This summer there will be additional arts programming around the island, and LMCC has an ongoing artist residency program there. Previous projects on Governors Island include Visitors (2015) curated by Tom Eccles and Ruba Katrib, and PLOT09 organized by Creative Time.