CFGNY

CFGNY is included in the Costume Institute's exhibition "Costume Art," opening at the Met on May 10, 2026 and on view until January 10, 2027.

The spring 2026 exhibition explores depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.

Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art presents connections between garments from The Costume Institute and objects from the Museum’s other collecting areas. Pairings between fashions and artworks will present a spectrum of connections and experiences: from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound. These pairings are organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their pervasiveness and endurance through time and cultures.

Amant presents a new commission by CFGNY: Puddles into Pond

Curated by Tobi Maier & Ian Wallace
Opening reception, March 19th
6-9 PM .arts
315 Maujer St. Brooklyn, NY

Puddles into Pond takes its conceptual point of departure from the No Name Painting Association (无名画会 Wuming Huahui), an amorphous group of self-taught artists active in Beijing between 1973 and 1981. Working during the Cultural Revolution, in a political climate where art was expected to conform to Socialist Realist depictions of revolutionary subjects, Wuming met covertly in the suburbs and outskirts of Beijing to practice landscape painting en plein air. Their practice represented not only an aesthetic refusal, but a subversive reconfiguration of collectivity away from the centralized planning of institutional sanction.

At Amant, CFGNY pays homage to and builds on this legacy as a framework for thinking about collective practice under conditions of constraint. The collective has constructed an artificial landscape traversed by a bridge clad in stuffed animal fur. This environment is ornamented with dish-like ceramic tiles produced by thirteen invited friends, peers, and long-standing collaborators. Mounted together on a shared armature, these vessels together suggest an abstracted pond, each functioning as an individual receptacle that contributes to a larger, composite surface. The gatherings, conversations, and shared labor that produced the tiles are an integral component of the resulting sculpture itself; in this way, the installation extends CFGNY’s ongoing interest in collective production, echoing the Wuming group’s creation of landscapes as a quietly radical communal act.  radical communal act.  

In the rear gallery five water clocks, powered by a central water source and electric pumps, mark different temporal rhythms operating alongside and against standardized clock time. Rather than measuring productivity or efficiency, these clocks suggest durational experiences shaped by maintenance, circulation, and dependency—modes of being together that resist capitalist quantification.

Stitched into every garment: labor, error, memory, desire, history. 🧵 Opening Saturday, January 24, 2026, The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin considers Asian fashion production and textile trades as a living archive across local and transnational contexts.

Curated by , the group exhibition builds on an 2021 exhibition installed at Beijing’s and a special issue of . The exhibition features work by Serena Chang (), Chang Yuchen (), CFGNY (), Huang Po-Chih (), and Shanzhai Lyric (), and is accompanied by a new, titular book by Shanzhai Lyric—published by Pioneer Works Press—marking a decade of the artists’ archival project through the lyricism of fast fashion and global clothing culture.

Join us for the free opening reception on Friday, January 23, 7–9pm. Learn more and RSVP at the link in bio. 🔗

📸 CFGNY, Studio Quý Nguyễn (I), 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Model:

Thank you to everyone who shared 2025 with us!
A year of growth and bigger dreams, deepened friendships both old and new ^_^

Some highlights:
🐎 Visiting Houston with Asia Society / Rice University and the CORE Program (and the Rodeo)
🍁 An exhibition with Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
🏎️ Our show in London with the one and only Hot Wheels Gallery
🛵 The first time everyone went to Vietnam together to produce a new collection!
💋 First time being Covergirls on BOMB Magazine
🏓 Showing with Hua International in Beijing

And all the projects in between, meals shared, smiles exchanged, spreadsheets and Google Docs, shopping sprees, group chats…..

wishing you a
🍒Cheery 🧧Fortuitous ☃️Gay 🕯️New 💎Year!❄️