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October 10, 2026–February 21, 2027 | “Susan Chen: Rooms by the Sea”
📍 Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center

In summer 2024, I spotted a handful of landscapes in @susanmbchen’s studio that buzzed with the warm, wistful charm that has always drawn me to Susan’s work. It has been a privilege to see this series expand, and, through dialogue with both Edward and Josephine Nivison Hopper, evolve.

Thank you to @kayembenne, @lizleggettart, @charisjcarmichaelbraun, and all at @edwardhopperhouse for running with this idea—and for all of the work and care that has gone into this exhibition. Thank you as well, @champagneandvitamins, for your contribution to the show’s catalogue.

For your immense support, gratitude to you all:
@pamelahornik and @davidhornik
@carlapshen
@the_eden_arts_foundation
@sohoartmaterials
@williamsburgoilpaints
@uffnerliu
@alejassanstudio

Most of all, thank you, Susan, for your trust and partnership!

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Opening Reception:
EHHM - Nyack, NY
Saturday, October 17, 2026
3:00-5:30 PM

Link in bio to learn more This exhibition is named after a painting of Susan and her husband having breakfast by the window. Here, their dog—white and fluffy—sits beside the table, on which playing cards, a vase of hydrangeas, a bowl of fruit, and a plate with a sunny side up egg, sliced avocado, and bacon sit drenched in sunlight. taken in Edward Hopper House by @i_abiskaroon

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It is a profound honor to share that I have joined @thhmuseum as Creative Director and Director of Curatorial Affairs.

Stepping into this role is a singular experience in the simplest and truest sense. To be invited to help open a NYC museum—a new cultural institution with the expressed intention to honor, study, and preserve Hip Hop into the future—alongside the practitioners who originated the culture is the stuff of dreams.

Having entered my second decade as an arts worker and my third as a born-bred-and-never-left New Yorker, it feels as if all that I am and all that I’ve learned have led here. In service of a culture whose creative output has inspired the world over, I approach the task at hand grateful for the trust instilled in me.

I’ll see you in the Bronx.

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📷 by: @albertvecerka News clipping with the headline, “The Hip Hop Museum Appoints Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena as Creative Director and Director of Curatorial Affairs.” Below, there is an image of the museum at dusk with cool blue skies and lit overhead incandescent lights around the building perimeter. They shine on bright images of Missy Elliot, Biggie Smalls, Run DMC, and Kendrick Lamar. taken in The Hip Hop Museum by @i_abiskaroon

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🥂 This Saturday, join us for the Opening Reception of Susan Chen: Rooms by the Sea and meet artist Susan Chen.⁣⁣
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Marking Chen’s first museum solo exhibition, Rooms by the Sea brings her vibrant, contemporary view of Cape Cod into conversation with the work and legacies of Edward Hopper and Josephine Nivison Hopper.⁣⁣
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At the center of the exhibition is Chen’s large-scale double portrait Rooms by the Sea (2026), a direct tribute to Edward Hopper’s iconic 1951 painting of the same title and his Truro studio.⁣⁣
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Chen has spent summers on Cape Cod for the past decade. What began as an annual getaway evolved into an immersive project, yielding nearly 40 canvases painted outdoors across Truro, Eastham and Provincetown. As a first-generation American artist, Chen explores this familiar landscape through questions of memory, belonging, assimilation and the American Dream.⁣⁣
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“Where Hopper’s Cape Cod is one of a quiet hum, Chen’s rumbles,” notes exhibition curator Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena.⁣⁣
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Join us Saturday to meet Susan and celebrate this extraordinary new exhibition.⁣⁣
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📅 Saturday, October 17⁣⁣
⏰ 3–5:30 PM⁣⁣
📍 Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center⁣, Nyack, NY⁣
🎟️ RSVP required. Register at the link in bio.⁣⁣
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Susan Chen: Rooms by the Sea is on view through February 21, 2027.⁣⁣
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*Susan Chen, Rooms by the Sea, 2026, Oil on linen, 64 x 72 in., Photo Credit: JSP Art Photography⁣⁣
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*Installation images photographed by Stan Narten⁣
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#SusanChen #EdwardHopper #JosephineNivison #RoomsByTheSea #Nyack @susanmbchen @i_abiskaroon @nyscouncilonthearts @uffnerliu @the_eden_arts_foundation @williamsburgoilpaints @sohoartmaterials by @i_abiskaroon

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I’ve always had a complicated relationship with “never forget”—increasingly so as I fight to retain my own memories of 9/11 against the algorithm’s annual torrent of that day’s most agonizing footage.

I remember attending daycare in the North Tower when my father worked at Merrill Lynch some years prior.

I remember my third-grade teacher telling us the towers fell and a classmate crying more heavily than I’d ever seen anyone cry before. I remember my concern for whomever she knew who worked downtown and my own selfish relief that my parents didn’t.

I remember my father telling me years later that he spent that day driving strangers home to their families while hoping others were doing the same for ours.

I remember the names of three of the 343 firefighters who passed that day—Joseph Agnello, Lt. Brian Ahearn, Eric Allen—whose photos I wore behind my ID from sophomore to senior year of high school as part of a multi-year remembrance project.

I remember the first time I took a photo of the Tribute in Light from my parents’ old apartment and realized that countless insects flitter within their beams every night they shine.

I remember 2016–2020, living and then working in FiDi, wondering if I’d ever walk by the memorial without flashes of what used to be.

I remember my husband sharing with me that he had a clear view of lower Manhattan from his bedroom window, one of innumerable things that changed that day.

For all I remember there’s much I don’t.

When did the new skyline begin to feel so familiar? When did I start to use One World Trade as a marker for how close I am to home? When did the full memory of that day slip beyond my immediate grasp?

25 years is a long time to hold a collective memory so easily reshaped by the trauma in its wake.

I think often of what we really remember and what we hold for others. What archives preserve and what they transform over time.

What time holds and elides despite our best efforts to never forget.

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#NeverForget Warm sunlight and green-blue tint a cloud-soaked sky beside and reflected in a prism viewed in part taken in New York, New York by @i_abiskaroon

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a summer of witness I take a photo of one of the windows of The Hip Hop Museum’s photo windows, the reflection of the Bronx caught beneath a smiling man’s face. I am in the corner in a hi-vis vest and hard hat. taken in New York City by @i_abiskaroon

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details of “transversals” @3rdstorygallery | @t______s_______

#DanielMeloMorales

#LeaBertucci

#MuyassarKurdi

#DerekBeaulieu A partial view of the exhibition shows the top of the printout with the exhibition title, dates, and curator name on three lines: transversals (in italics and lowercase)
August 2-31, 2026
Curated by Talia Shiroma

The background is out of focus, but just clear enough to perceive the shapes and colors on small screens above headphones, and a handful of prints in a grid, all on white walls, two permanent one temporary on wooden legs. The ground is gray and lived in, the way you expect from a hallway between artist studios. by @i_abiskaroon

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05.2026 a long Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia spent thinking about civics, the care of anticipating and exceeding needs, cross-industry lessons to inform museum-making, and collective yearning for a more stable future Fly Guy’s “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” lights up a platform on which a metal stanchion keeps visitors from getting too close to the character’s outfit designed by Ruth Carter: a bright yellow, animal print fur trimmed suit and cape and aquarium platform boots. The words are so bright you can read their reflection on the floor. taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @i_abiskaroon

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🌘 I take a selfie barely perceptible amid the window grid and its reflections, lines on lines against lines, from an escalator that is slightly too steep an incline for me to be using two hands for this photo without my stomach turning, for fear of falling backward. taken in New York City by @i_abiskaroon

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⁣Light took over the Edward Hopper House on Friday night! ☀️⁣
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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of 55 × 2: Part 2 “Light.” It was such a pleasure to see the galleries filled and to spend time with so many of you.⁣
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Congratulations to the 55 artists included in this exhibition, and thank you to Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena for her thoughtful curation. The work on view brings so many different interpretations of light into the space, and it’s been wonderful to see how it all comes together.⁣
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We’re so grateful to our community of artists and their family and friends for attending and celebrating with each other and supporting the museum. 55 x 2 has been a really special way to launch our 55th anniversary year.⁣
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If you weren’t able to join us Friday night, the exhibition is on view through April 26. We hope you’ll come by. ✨⁣
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Artist photos #3)-16⁣
Eric S. Horn⁣
Roxanne Rubell ⁣
Marc Gooderman
Sam Kaplan ⁣
Sandra Ryan⁣ ⁣
Mike Dowley⁣
Teresa Ryther⁣
William Jobson
Richard Wilshe⁣⁣
Violet Yin ⁣
Michael Knutson ⁣
Chloe Sikirica ⁣
Tere Sanz ⁣
Jordan Moss ⁣
Barbara Cantatore ⁣
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#edwardhopper #edwardhopperinspired #juriedexhibition #artexhibitionsg @ericscotthornart @samuelkaplanpainter @roxyrubell @marcgooderhamartist @dowleymike @billjobson @michaelknutsonart @violet_tree_person @chloesikiricastudio @teresanzart @jordanmossbx @barbaracantatoreart @i_abiskaroon @kayembenne taken in Nyack, New York by @i_abiskaroon

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It takes a community to bring an exhibition to life, and tonight it shows. ✨

We’re so grateful to our Nighthawks Teen Leaders, Eleanor Kaufman, our new Nighthawks Manager, Angela Caramenich, our new Education Associate, and to Sierra Iturrino, Kristie Siegal, and Caterina D’Alessio for her tireless work with all the exhibiting artists.
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In celebration of our 55th anniversary as a museum, this two-part juried exhibition features 55 artists selected by juror Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena. The works reflects a strong throughline of line and light, elements that played such a formative role in Edward Hopper’s artistic development.⁣
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55 x 2: Part 2 “Light” Opening Reception
Fri, March 27, 5–7 PM
82 N Broadway, Nyack, NY⁣
Free admission; reservations recommended
See the Book Now link in our bio or visit edwardhopperhouse.org by @i_abiskaroon

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This Friday, February 20, our galleries will be filled with work by 55 artists; the opening of the first of two juried exhibitions celebrating our 55th anniversary year at the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center.⁣
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The galleries will be filled with work by artists selected through our national open call and juried by Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena.⁣
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This first exhibition, “Line,” marks the beginning of a two-part presentation, offering visitors a rare opportunity to experience the depth, range, and distinct voices of this year’s selected artists. Seeing the work together in the house where Edward Hopper first found his way as an artist creates a powerful and unexpected dialogue.⁣
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We invite you to come spend time with the work, move through the galleries, and experience this moment with us.⁣
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“Line” Opening Reception⁣
This Friday, Feb 20, 5-7pm⁣
📍 82 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY⁣
Free. RSVP at the link in our bio or “Book Now” at edwardhopperhouse.org⁣
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🖼️Images: Artworks featured in “Line,” Part I of our 55x2 exhibition⁣
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#edwardhopper #edwardhopperinspired #juriedexhibition #edwardhopperhouse @i_abiskaroon @nyscouncilonthearts @explorerocklandny @explorenyack @visitrockland by @i_abiskaroon

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