BAD ACTOR

Cecilia Caldiera, Helen Shu, Myles Starr

April 25 - June 6

This exhibition is about levity. The works are informed by encountered images, chance materials, mid construction. Each artist poses a question about what, how, and when an idea becomes fixed.

Notes:

Autobiographical fragments

Reproduction, repurposing, assembly, reassembly

Levity (content, material, construction)

Personal scraps, accumulation

Temporal, luck, response

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Cecilia Caldeira is a New York City–based artist whose practice is informed by research into thresholds shaped by urban planning, ritual, and language systems that quietly organize bodies and materials in space. She investigates how these frameworks regulate movement and inform navigation of the built environment. In her work, material becomes choreography, emphasizing and extending gestures inherent to spatial perception. This framework allows space to ponder displacement, transformation, and cycles of renewal, and to create systems in which the public is aware that they are both viewers and participants. Cecilia graduated with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2023. She recently had solo exhibitions at Astor Weeks in 2023 and Subtitled NYC in 2024. Cecilia was a Neiman Center Fellow from 2021-2023, an Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program Fellow for the 2023-2024 session, and a resident at the Hercules Art Studio Program from 2023-2025. Cecilia currently teaches at Pratt Institute and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Helen Shu (b. 1996, Shanghai, China) lives and works in New York City. She earned her B.A. from Vassar College in 2019. Her work has been included group exhibitions at Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels (2026), CT State Gateway, New Haven (2025), Swanson Kuball, Long Island City (2023).

Myles Starr lives and works in New York City. He studied in the class of Heimo Zobernig at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, graduating in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include I Can't Read" at Interrobang (2025, Brooklyn) and "Happy" "35th" at Vin Vin (2022, Vienna). He founded the exhibition spaces Louis Reed (New York, 2021-2025) and SORT (Vienna, 2016-2020).