Teen Art Salon presents Twenty Under 20, a group exhibition featuring new work by emerging artists born & raised across the New York City metropolitan area.

At the tail end of two decades filled with change and uncertainty, these works address topics ranging from world creation to self-preservation, subject matter particularly apt in the context of questions and debates regarding borders, boundaries, past origins, and future outcomes of our present.

Produced at Teen Art Salon’s free open studio program, the artwork presented in Twenty Under 20 is not only an exploration of individual vision, but the result of constant intellectual collaboration and collective feedback. Both in a physical and an abstract sense, these works have been created in a shared context, but only now for the first time are they shown together, for fresh consideration.

Curated by Isabella Bustamante | Text by Devon Ma

Founded in 2015 and directed by Isabella Bustamante, Teen Art Salon is a Long Island City-based organization that supports, develops, and promotes adolescent artists. Teen Art Salon is committed to providing young artists from across the five boroughs the free instruction, space, and materials needed to establish and advance a self-directed studio practice.

The show will include works by: Jasmin Ali, Gabrielle Broome, Ruby Cardozo, Zhixing Che, Henley Childress, Luis Cuesta, Luna Doherty-Ryoke, Dylan Efinger, Jolene Fernandez, Patrick Ferris, Charlotte Friedman, Ana Hanesworth, Daphne Knouse, Isabelle Kwong, Edith Liben, Ronan Madden, Kat Phelps, Aneesa Razak, Sam Rapkiewicz, Alice Rojas, Tara Somer, and Quinn Wilke. 

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Curated by Isabella Bustamante, Founder and Director of Teen Art Salon

Teen Art Salon presents Reprimand, a group exhibition featuring over 30 adolescent artists, who range in age from 13-19 and hail from Brazil to the Bronx. Reprimand will showcase never before seen artwork to the public, as a celebration of Teen Art Salon’s platform to support, develop, and promote the creative pursuits of adolescents.

This selection of close to 100 artworks introduces the newest of newcomers navigating their prelude to a self-directed art practice. Employing humor, dexterity, and uncompromising commitment to craft, the teenagers of Reprimand create compelling content and compositions across a variety of mediums.

The road to the art world has its own challenges, but Reprimand’s art kids employ a reflective & reflexive process of making art & making identity that propels these young artists from the nascent to the next in line.

Alex Arauz, Kira Bentley, Sarah-Lisa Bord, Louise Buckley, Celeste Cares, Danielle Cohen, Matthew Crisson, Tai Cruz, Jensen Foerster, Camilla Frater, Isabella Gomes Dias, Maya Greenberg, Shannon Hanna, Michaela Hosp, Mae Krell, Senna Lauer, Maya Lee, Alice Liu, Selma Lundstrom, Devon Ma, Calla McInnes, Stephen Michaels, Stella Mulroney, Genevieve Nollinger, Taylor Paydos, Rylan Pembroke, James Perry, Olivia Ramo, Samuel Saboia Dos Santos Franco, Eden Taff, Quinn Wilke, Kati Yewell, & Ava Young.

Curated by Isabella Bustamante, Founder and Director of Teen Art Salon

“Juvenilia” is a group exhibition featuring the work of over twenty adolescent artists & poets (aged 13-19) from across North America. This selection of work serves as a living document of the risks, mistakes, delusions, confusion, and triumphs undertaken in pursuit of an artistic practice. By focusing on the early output of future practitioners, we see a formative sensibility that will inform potentially a lifelong practice.

Endeavoring to reclaim contemporary youth culture and defy its two-dimensional portrayal as a time of mere angst, “Juvenilia” surveys how the visual diaries of young creative-types inform a new set of complex social and performative behaviors from the perspective of artists still in transition.

Featuring work from those who have access to the most renowned art schools on the continent, to others who work solely within the confines of their iPhones, the goal of Teen Art Salon, and this exhibition, is to support, develop, and promote the creative pursuits of adolescents.

The show included works by: Megan Benesch, Mithsuca Berry, Celeste Cares, Jensen Foerster, Jack Hjerpe, Jungmi Kim, Senna Lauer, Calla McInnes, Stephen Michaels, Jordan Morales, Stella Mulroney, Genevieve Nollinger, Jessi Olarsch, Megan Schaller, and Lauren Tepfer.