Storefront commissions a new exhibition by Alia Farid, opening in May 2027, that explores the relationship between the Arab diaspora and the urban fabric of the Americas. The exhibition is part of Homelands, a year-long cycle of exhibitions, public programs, research, and publishing examining questions of belonging, displacement, memory, and the ways diasporic communities shape and are shaped by the built environment. Farid's installation also serves as the setting for a two-day closing summit that brings together participants from across the cycle to reflect on themes developed throughout the year. The cycle culminates with the Homelands Reader, distributed by Inventory Press, and a fellowship supporting original research on memory as a tool for reclaiming space and asserting or resisting power.

Alia Farid lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. She has had solo exhibitions in Chisenhale Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; and CAC Passerelle. Recent and upcoming group shows include the Whitney Biennial, Diriyah Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, MoMA PS1, Yokohama Triennale, and Asia Pacific Triennial. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Contemporary Art Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute and Detroit Institute of Arts. Alia Farid has a bachelor’s in fine arts from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), an MS in visual studies from the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), and an MA in museum studies and critical theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona).

José Esparza Chong Cuy is a curator, writer, and architect from Mexico and the executive director and chief curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Prior to arriving at Storefront in 2018, he was associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Between 2007–12 he lived in New York and held positions as curatorial associate at Storefront for Art and Architecture, research fellow at the New Museum, and contributing editor at Domus magazine. In 2013 he was cocurator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial.

Guillermo Ruiz de Teres a is a curator, editor and researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of space, care, and power. Ruiz de Teres operates across disciplinary boundaries to interrogate the way in which art, design, and politics shape each other. Trained as an architect and urbanist at the Architectural Association and Universidad Iberoamericana, Ruiz de Teres received a master’s in design studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is Stavros Niarchos Foundation PhD Scholar at the Royal College of Art where he was also a visiting lecturer and researcher. He serves as deputy director and curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Storefront for Art and Architecture amplifies the understanding of the built environment through artistic practice. Founded in 1982 by artists and architects in downtown New York, Storefront has chronicled the changing landscape of the city for over forty years and remains committed to producing and presenting work about diverse notions of place and public life.