Project for Empty Space is located in Newark, NJ, and Chinatown, NYC, and has various programs that serve creative communities. PES centers culture makers and firmly believes that Artists Make Futures.


Exhibitions On View

  • Lives in Translation: A Feeling of Itself

    800 BROAD ST, NEWARK - A Feeling of Itself‍ ‍is an exhibition presented in collaboration with Lives in Translation (LiT) and the Design Consortium at Rutgers University–Newark, led by designers Chantal Fischzang and Gisela Ochoa.

    This exhibition is part of a three-part program unfolding across multiple sites throughout Newark from March through June 2026.

  • David Antonio Cruz: black/backroom

    128 BAXTER ST, NYC - David Antonio Cruz’s black/backroomat PES Futures considers future-making through the lens of both personal and collective historical precedence. As part of a continuation of Cruz’s unveiling of Queer-Brown-Histories, the artist shapes potentialities through intersecting themes of loss, desire, and the legacy of Cruz's grandparents' land - Puerto Rico. black/backroom is on view from March 17, 2026 through June 5, 2026.


Our Locations

PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE @ 800 BROAD
800 Broad St, Newark, NJ 07102

PES STUDIOS
800 Broad St, Newark, NJ 07102

PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE @ IRONSIDE NEWARK
110 Edison Pl, Newark, NJ 07102

PES FUTURES
128 Baxter St, New York, NY 10013

NEWARK GROUNDS
Edison Pl, Newark, NJ

BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) MOBILE EXHIBITION
Nationwide

Above image: Helina Metaferia, The Work (Meeting Table), Detail, 2024.