25East Gallery is dedicated to highlighting the voices of emerging artists and building connections between artists and curators. We provide opportunities for learning and professional growth while championing artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our mission is to create a vibrant platform where creativity knows no boundaries and innovation flourishes, shaping a supportive community for the next generation of artists. Located on the 5th floor of 25 E 13th St, New York, we invite artists and audiences to explore, connect, and inspire.
2024-2025 Members:
Hannah Bang, MFA 25, Fine Arts
Based in New York, interdisciplinary artist Hannah (Jeong-Hyeon) Bang explores themes of existence and human consciousness by asking the question, ‘Do I truly exist?’ Through her alter ego, ‘Curator Hannah,’ she seeks evidence of existence in human relationships and is especially drawn to creators who passionately pursue what they love. She finds and follows artists based on words or phrases that come to mind, discovering and revealing their journey as artists. Currently pursuing her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons, she is also the founder of IN 3SECONDS, a web magazine featuring interviews with artists and art events.
Danielle Sargeant, MFA 25, Fine Arts
Danielle Sargeant is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator from the UK, now living and working in New York City. Her practice is primarily concerned with nature, materiality, mundanity, and environmental decay, working to highlight the significance of perception, pattern, and perspective as she routinely reimagines the familiar. She is drawn to the understated and sublime, looking to showcase works that balance softness with fortitude. Her curatorial debut is titled ‘Common Ground’, a group show at 25East Gallery in February, 2025.
Juana Vargas Moreno, MFA 26, Fine Arts
Juana Vargas Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist working in the realms of painting, sculpture and text. Interested in how language shapes the way we interact with the world and affects our body, Juana uses text, images and fragments from books and films in exercises of translation–moving from point A to point B– and repetition, reflecting on the slippery nature of memory. Currently pursuing her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons, she defines herself as an spectator and lover of life and its images.
Shangari Mwashighadi, MFA 25, Fine Arts
Shangari Mwashighadi is a Kenyan-American anti-disciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice currently is concerned with analyzing how value is assigned to certain aspirational experiences, objects, and resources. How the sense of sight is manipulated in the process of making something perceived as valuable or valueless. They investigate how time shifts value and how its passing can magnify or diminish it. Their curatorial work is an extension of their art practice and is interested in how curating can be a tool of community building, and further conversations from different perspectives each artist contributes. In 25 East Gallery they curated Spatiotemporal: Meditations on Space and Time, January 2024.
Kaci Walfall, BA 27, Screen & Visual Studies
Kaci Walfall is an actress, director, and curator based in New York City. Kaci is a film and visual studies student at The New School. Captivated by visual culture she explores the connections between cinematic art and visual art. Kaci is especially interested in abstraction and unconventional art work along with investigating how art is used as a form of generational and collective healing.
