At Sky High Farm's New Biennial Show, Artists Rally Around Food Justice

Summary

• Sky High Farm, an artist-founded food justice non-profit, has lifted the veil on its inaugural art biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END.
• On view through October 2025 in Germantown, New York, the exhibition brings together a lineup of 50 international artists whose works explore themes of ecology, industry and memory.
• The exhibition celebrates the farm’s expansion onto a new 560-acre site, and introduces a new artist-driven fundraising model which benefits Sky High’s programming surrounding climate justice, sustainable agriculture and distributing nutrient-dense food.

Sky High Farm is entering a new era with the debut of its first-ever biennial exhibition. Curated by artist and founder Dan Colen, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END marks a creative milestone for the artist-founded food justice non-profit, ringing in the next chapter on a new, 560-acre home in Germantown, New York.

Staged in an apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River, the exhibition draws an impressive roster of 50 artists from around the globe, including Anne Imhof, Nan Goldin, Lauren Halsey, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Alvaro Barrington. Bound by explored themes of ecology, industry and memory, their works take cues from the region’s layered histories and its links to New York City.

Featured works can be seen mounted across the walls and hung from the ceiling, bringing attention to the space’s raw, unaltered beauty, while other works serve as an experiential conduit: Imhof’s labyrinth of industrial water containers create intimate corridors to showcase other artists’ works, while Rudolf Stingel contributes his largest-ever mirrored floor installation, acting as an immersive plinth for the artworks that lay above.

The biennial pays tribute to the late Joey Piecuch, one of the farm’s original team members, whose guerrilla-style artistry and commitment to land stewardship shaped the Sky High many know and love today. The title of the exhibition nods to one of Piecuch’s discovered works — poetic phrase and symbol of hope and resistance.

Alongside the exhibition, the farm is also piloting an artist-led fundraising model that replaces traditional auctions with flexible, values-aligned contributions. All proceeds go toward the farm’s mission: producing nutrient-dense food, supporting climate education, and advancing food justice nationwide.

“The problems we work to address—food insecurity, unequal resource distribution, climate change — will require broad-based participation work to solve,” Co-Executive Directors Josh Bardfield and Sarah Workneh expressed in a recent statement. “We are so moved that so many artists, curators, advisors, and so many others in the art world see the urgency in the work we do and have made these generous commitments as a way of joining us.”

The exhibition is now on view through October 2025. Head to Sky High Farms’ website for more information, and scroll to view the full list of featured artists:

Autumn Ahn
Alvaro Barrington
Lauren Bon
Lizzi Bougatsos
Pia Camil
Anne Collier
CAConrad
Ann Craven
Sean Desiree
Natalie Diaz
Norman Douglas
Carroll Dunham
rafa esparza
Peter Fend
Yatika Starr Fields
Aaron Gilbert
Nan Goldin
Mark Grotjahn
Wade Guyton
Chase Hall
Lyle Ashton Harris
Harrison Studio
Roni Horn
Anne Imhof
Brian Jungen
Nance Klehm
Maia Ruth Lee
Stephen Lichty
Nate Lowman
Ryan McGinley
Mark Armijo McKnight
Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Andrew Moore
Paulo Nazareth
Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies Puppies)
Grace Rosario Perkins
Utē Josephine Petit
Joey Piecuch (Family)
Thiago Rocha Pitta
Myron Polenberg
Richard Prince
Sarah Rara/Lucky Dragons
Em Rooney
Marcos Saavedra
Michael Sailstorfer
Salem
Tschabalala Self
Marcus Leslie Singleton
Rudolf Stingel
Elaine Stocki
quori theodor
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Banks Violette
Charline von Heyl
Mary Wigfall
Ben Wigfall and Communications AVillage with Lauren Halsey