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Samora Pinderhughes: Call and Response
January 24, 2026 – February 15, 2026
The Museum of Modern Art
The Kravis Studio hosts Call and Response, an exhibition of new work and live performances by composer, filmmaker, and artist Samora Pinderhughes. His multidisciplinary practice addresses structural violence through sonic layering, choral performance, film projection, and audio testimonial. Relying on improvisation and collaboration, Pinderhughes centers performance as a communal practice that can facilitate healing in the face of oppression, racism, and incarceration.
Pinderhughes is the 2025 Adobe Creative Resident at MoMA and the artistic and executive director of the Healing Project, a community arts organization that works directly with individuals impacted by the prison industrial complex to imagine a world based around healing rather than punishment. While in residence at MoMA, Pinderhughes has expanded on this project to develop sonic healing rooms in collaboration with community-based organizations across New York City. The artist is working with participants at each organization throughout the year, using music, language, and portraiture as tools to reclaim narratives about their lives and envision changes they would like to see in society.
Call and Response will feature a series of evening performances in the Kravis Studio and a public program developed with community partners. An installation of Pinderhughes’s new film, REAL TALK, will remain on view during Museum hours. Pinderhughes’s project asks, How do we survive in America? How do we support each other? What if we built a world around community care?
Performance schedule to be announced.
Organized by Martha Joseph, Associate Curator, with Sibia Sarangan, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance, and Hannah Fagin, Associate Educator, Artist Programs, Department of Learning and Engagement. Performances produced by Kate Scherer, Senior Manager and Producer, with Kayva Yang, Assistant Performance Coordinator, Performance and Live Arts.
Media and performance at MoMA are presented through a partnership with Richard Mille.
Support for Samora Pinderhughes’ Studio project is provided by the Adobe Foundation through the Adobe Creative Residency program.
Annual support for programming in The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio is generously provided by the Wallis Annenberg Director’s Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art and by the Sarah Arison Endowment Fund for Performance.
Images
Samora Pinderhughes. Rituals for Abolition. 2022. Performed at The Kitchen at Westbeth. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
Samora Pinderhughes. The Healing Project. 2023. Performed in the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Lawrence Sumulong
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
Samora Pinderhughes and Christian Padron. Still from REAL TALK. 2025. 35mm and Super 8mm film transferred to 4k video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.