Great Hall Exhibition Series Fall 2026
Public Programming
Screening and Talk with Tith Kanitha and Jeannine Tang
Friday, November 6, 6:00–8:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
In conjunction with the IFA’s Fall 2026 Great Hall Exhibition Tith Kanitha: ស្ដាប់មិនជាក់ កុំអាលញាក់ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity, please join us for a special screening and conversation about Tith’s work in film at NYU’s Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts.
Tith will screen her 2014 experimental short, Boding, with an ensuing conversation discussing her forthcoming film, Crab, ongoing collaborations with the collective Anti-Archive, and contemporary Cambodian cinema’s engagement with community, city, and site in Phnom Penh featuring Professor Jeannine Tang.
Tith Kanitha: ស្ដាប់មិនជាក់ កុំអាលញាក់ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity opens November 4, 6–8pm at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts (1 E 78th Street) and will be on view through May 2027. The exhibition will feature new work—both organic sculptural forms and works on paper—and will be the artist's first solo institutional presentation in the United States and her New York debut.
Event co-sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts and the Asian Film & Media Initiative at the the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts.
Jeannine Tang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Jeannine's writing on contemporary art, exhibition and curatorial histories, queer and trans cultures has appeared in venues such as Art Journal, Artforum, GLQ, Theory Culture & Society, journal of visual culture, Art India, and exhibitions catalogues for museums, galleries and biennials. With Lia Gangitano and Ann Butler, Jeannine co-curated the 2018 exhibition The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, and co-edited the accompanying book. Jeannine received a 2020 Warhol Writer's grant for writing the book Living Legends: An Art and Performance of Trans* History (forthcoming from the ASTERISK series of Duke University Press); and working toward a second book on divinatory arts and practices, with emphasis on experimental artistic uses of the I-Ching, tarot, elemental and geomantic metaphysics.
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Tith Kanitha in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi
Monday, November 9 at 6:00pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The James B. Duke House, 1 East 78th Street
On the occasion of the Fall 2026 Great Hall Exhibition, Tith Kanitha: ស្ដាប់មិនជាក់ កុំអាលញាក់ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity, The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to present Tith Kanitha in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi, Director of SculptureCenter, New York.
The exhibition, featuring new work by Tith, will be her first solo institutional presentation in the United States and her New York debut. Mohebbi was the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International (2022), for which Tith was the first Cambodian artist included in the exhibition’s 126-year history. Tith and Mohebbi will introduce and contextualize her practice, which moves across film, performance, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. Their conversation will address her work’s engagement with specificities of site and questions of ecology; materiality as a way of holding time and history; and the presentation of international exhibitions amid geopolitical strife.
Sohrab Mohebbi is Director of SculptureCenter. Previously he served as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International (2022-23).
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