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Meet the Artists: Tarik Jeremiah Brown and Camille Cooper

When

Sun, Oct 4, 2026 2:00PM – 4:00PM

Where

Glyndor Gallery

Price

Free

with admission to the grounds

Join us for a Meet the Artist program with Van Lier Community Trust Fellows Tarik Jeremiah Brown and Camille Cooper. At 2PM, Brown will lead visitors through his site-responsive installation, Hush Harbor, through the act of listening. Incorporating sculpture, moving image, and sound, Hush Harbor transforms the Sunroom into a contemporary interpretation of an antebellum hush harbor—a secret gathering place where enslaved people could seek refuge, worship, and community. Through storytelling, fragments of sound, documentary voiceover, and music—including gospel, contemporary music, and recordings from his family archive—the artist will guide visitors through themes of Black survival and faith, exploring embodied belief and the relationship between spirit and land.

At 3PM, Cooper will introduce his Sun Porch exhibition, SHOWPIECE, which takes entomological study as a metaphor for the ways trans and gender-variant people are scrutinized and classified by society. The artist has transformed the Sun Porch into an insectarium filled with sculptural bugs inspired by species found on the grounds of Wave Hill, fabricated from hormone replacement therapy packaging and other trans ephemera. Following the introduction and exhibition viewing, Cooper will join Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger and visitors for a conversation about his use of materials, the entomological lens through which he explores the scrutiny and classification of transgender people, and the connections between his practices as a puppeteer and visual artist.

Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists, the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests at Wave Hill. As part of the Sunroom Project Space, this program is designed collaboratively with the artists and takes various forms. Meet the Artist offers visitors, the artist's community, and others an opportunity to gain insight into the artist's creative process and the themes present in their work.

Registration encouraged but not required, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251.

Tarik Jeremiah Brown

Tarik Jeremiah Brown

Tarik Jeremiah Brown is a 2026 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill. The Van Lier Fellowship, funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund through the New York Community Trust, provides early-career support to artists from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. As part of this fellowship, Brown will participate in Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace residency from February 24 to April 12, 2026, and present a site-responsive solo exhibition as part of the 2026 Sunroom Project Space.
Brown works across analog film practices, collage, sculpture, and digital image-making to interrogate the resonances and tensions that surface as the past, present, and futures of the Black diaspora fold into one another. He has presented his work internationally at Koppel Project Bank and Central Saint Martins in London, UK, as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brown is the recipient of the 2024 Henry & Adeline Collins Prize for his 16mm film installation Blow Your House Down. He earned a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK.
Photo: Tarik Jeremiah Brown. Courtesy of the artist.
Camille Cooper

Camille Cooper

Camille Cooper is a 2026 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill. The Van Lier Fellowship, funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund through the New York Community Trust, provides early-career support to artists from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. As part of this fellowship, Cooper will participate in Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace residency from February 24 to April 12, 2026, and present a site-responsive solo exhibition as part of the 2026 Sunroom Project Space.
Cooper has performed as a puppeteer with The Human Beast Box, Meow Wolf, The New Mexico Museum of Art, and PASEO Project, all in New Mexico; and at Snake in The Boot Collective, Pinc Louds, Foreshadow Co., Concrete Temple Theatre, and Fictionville Studios, in New York. Recent performances include Song of The North at the New Victory Theatre, New York, NY, as well as touring internationally in Guanajuato, Mexico and Charleville-Mézières, France, with PACKRAT, a Concrete Temple Theatre production. Cooper earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, New York.
Photo: Zoe Zimmerman.