Opening Reception – Reclaiming Death — Art | Ritual | Advocacy, February 28th 5 – 8 pm
Ma’s House is pleased to present Reclaiming Death — Art | Ritual | Advocacy, a group exhibition featuring 20 artists expressing personal and cultural connections to end-of-life practices. The opening reception is Saturday, February 28, 5-8pm. The exhibition will run from Sunday, February 22—Sunday, May 16, 2026.
Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long as people have died, artists have played an integral role in creating cultural death practices. Our collective relationship to death and dying is inextricably tied to our humanity and mending that relationship directly impacts all we experience in life. Reclaiming Death is an ongoing pursuit of this mending which requires the communal effort of every participating artist and their unique approach to deathwork.
Now in its 2nd iteration, Reclaiming Death began as a research project by artist, death doula, and Ma’s House Director of Curation, Brianna L. Hernández as part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators. The series of online articles grew into an in-person exhibition at Ma’s House in Fall of 2024, and most recently hosted an open call for the 2nd show and a printed publication.
During the run-of-show the print publication will debut, launch date TBA. Hernández received a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship grant from the Huntington Arts Council to support the development of the publication. (For the publication: This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.)
Exhibiting Artists: Yoli Alma-Flor, Anjali Benjamin-Webb, Ja’Deana Cognetta-Whitfield, Jade Cruz, Fadl Fakhouri, Maria Flores, Nadira Saara Foster-Williams, Mala (Trishia Frulla), Brianna L. Hernández, Cecilia Lim, Jordan Matthew, Courtney Minor, Keysha Rivera, Gino Romero, Shizu Saldamando, Mangda Sengvanhpheng, Chié Shimizu, Anjli Vaswani, Lauren Grace Williamson, Noah Zhou
Featured image: Yoli Alma-Flor, Miquiztli Tecolote, 2023, Performance still
Reclaiming Death is on view from Sunday, February 22—Sunday, May 16, 2026.
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