Exhibitions & Events
Legacy in Motion
RIVAA Celebrates Black History Month
February 4th - March 1st, 2026
Exhibition on view: February 4 – March 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7, 6–9 PM
Location: RIVAA Gallery, 527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, NY 10044
Legacy in Motion offers a glimpse into the work, process, and innovation behind the craft, seen through the lens of Black creators and artists. This exhibition highlights the tools shaped by Black hands, the techniques refined through lived experience, and the creative labor that has often gone unseen. While masterpieces born from Black artistry are too often overlooked, the recognition of the tools, methods, and makers behind those works is acknowledged even less.
This exhibition brings that history forward, honoring both the creations and the creators, and illuminating the foundational contributions that have given rise to so many of the artistic mediums we celebrate today.
--
RIVAA’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Tony Vita: Smoke and Mirrors
Solo Exhibition @ RIVAA
On view: January 8 – February 1, 2026
RIVAA starts the New Year off with a bang in Smoke and Mirrors, a solo exhibition of new artwork by Tony Vita running from January 8–February 1, 2026.
He moves through many forms as a multimedia artist, weaving photography, animation, video, and sound with a hand shaped by a lifetime in traditional media. His work emerges less from planning than from a stream of consciousness, unfolding intuitively as it takes shape. It is more a way of seeing than a style- a point of view that quietly insists upon itself. Each piece becomes a metaphor, an attempt to give visual presence to ideas and feelings that language cannot express.
The opening reception takes place at RIVAA Gallery, 527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island on Saturday, January 10, from 5–7PM.
Start your year off in the best possible way by coming to the opening of this exciting exhibition. See you at RIVAA!
Anne-Marie Dannenberg: A Certain Slant of Light
Solo Exhibition @ The Octagon
On view: December 22, 2025 - March 22, 2026
RIVAA presents Anne-Marie Dannenberg’s Solo photography Exhibit at The Octagon “A Certain Slant of Light” beginning on December 22, 2025 to March 22, 2026.
​
“Using the unpredictable alchemy of light as her primary medium, Dannenberg’s photographs are visually rich and poetically resonant. They transform ordinary experience into images that hover between recognition and ambiguity.” Fran Kaufman Nyc Dec. 2025.
​
Join us for the reception in the New Year on January 17th, 2026 from 5- 8 pm at the Octagon, 888 Main st. Roosevelt Island, NY 10044