SHED Projects reopens for our 2026 season on Saturday, March 7
SHED Projects:
visual culture and
experimental projects
Upcoming Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
My Father’s Smile
Kim Bissett
March 7 - 28
Opening on Saturday, March 7 from 5 - 9 PM
Archival Unboxing/Conversation with the artist on Thursday, March 19 starting at 6PM
My Father’s Smile is the presentation of an ongoing body of work that explores memory, labor, inheritance, and the emotional landscapes that shape how we understand family and place. Rooted in research and photojournalistic documentation of Orange Dog Studio—Bissett’s self-built studio and gallery in rural western Pennsylvania—the project traces the artist’s relationship to her father through acts of making, archiving, and storytelling. Through image, installation, and collected material, Bissett examines how creative practice can function as both personal reckoning and preservation.
Presented as the inaugural show to our 2026 season, My Father’s Smile marks an important moment within a project that has unfolded over more than eight years and continues to evolve. The exhibition reflects SHED’s commitment to long-form, research-driven artistic practices and artists whose work engages deeply with lived experience, regional histories, and the complex intersections between domestic space, creative labor, and legacy.
A conversation with Kim Bissett, in the form of an “archival unboxing” will take place on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 6 PM.
Eighth Turn
Malena Grigoli + Celia Romanoski
Saturday, April 4 at 2pm at Orange Dog Studio in Rimersburg PA
As an extension of the exhibition, My Father’s Smile will culminate in a site-responsive dance performance titled Eighth Turn. The work invites audiences into the architecture Bissett has excavated and built over many years.
Eighth Turn will be performed by Malena Grigoli and Celia Romanoski and conceived as an invocation—a christening of the space that treats the building not as a backdrop, but as a living body, responsive to weight, thresholds, and material presence. This performance marks the first formal activation of Orange Dog Studio as a site for public engagement in 2026, situating the structure itself as both collaborator and subject.
Current Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Considering the Ear
EDITIONS 2025
This year’s EDITIONS takes the form of a portable, collapsible exhibition housed in a box. Produced in an edition of 33 (including 3 artist’s proofs), each box invites the possibility of 33 exhibitions to be re-staged wherever the boxes travel.
Each box is available for $100, with all proceeds directly supporting SHED’s 2026 artists and programming.
Institutions interested in acquiring one of the limited Artist Proof (AP) boxes at the institutional price point may contact gabrielle@shed-projects.org for details.
Boxes will be available for purchase through our SHED Shop.
