Every Woman Biennial

Techspressionist Salon 105

April 2, 2026

The Every Woman Biennial, the world’s largest women and non-binary biennial, presents its 6th edition – SPECTALiA – this spring. SPECTALiA will feature art and performance by over 400 artists at its new location Pen + Brush, the non-profit organization that has been an advocate for creating equitable opportunities for women and gender-expansive visual and literary artists since 1894. For the first time, the Every Woman Biennial will be on view for an extended month-long exhibition, opening on March 8, coincident with International Women’s Day and The Whitney Biennial, and running through April 11, 2026. The eclectic salon will feature painting, photography,video installation, sculpture, mixed media, music, dance, and performance.

Inspired by the Dada, Surrealism, and Cabaret movements, born from the social and political unrest of post WWI Europe, Every Woman Biennial put out an open call to artists to embrace these movements and respond to the prompt: What are we creatively building in a troubled world that’s moving at a speed we can hardly grasp?

This 2026 Edition of the Every Woman Biennial includes work by Techspressionists Angela Ferarriolo, Galina Shevchenko, Renata Janiszewska, Verneda Lights,  Susan Detroy, Cynthia Di Donato, Erin Ko, Randi Matushevitz, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Carla Gannis, Laura Splan, Nina Sobell, Naz Karagöz, Anne Wichmann / She’s Excited! and Clara Francesa.

This Salon was a hybrid event, taking place at the PEN + BRUSH Gallery at 29 E 22nd St, NYC and the rest of the world on Zoom!

Co Hosted by Renata Janiszewska and Erin Ko.

Panelists

Tassneen Bashir – NYC, NY USA  

Tassneen Bashir is a game designer, educator, and visual artist that is dedicated to creating upbeat interactive experiences, positive gameplay, and representative stories. She explores the intersections of play, education, and exuberance through a femme, South-Asian, and Muslim lens. She is currently a professor of game design at CCNY and actively develops games as part of her studio, pineapple staircase.

Adelle Lin – NYC, NY USA

Adelle Yingxi Lin is a Malaysian artist and technologist whose work bridges performance, language, and emerging technologies. Through installations, participatory systems, and embodied research, she explores how cultural memory, technology, and collective experience shape meaning. Her practice examines cosmologies for algorithmic life and rituals against optimization, developing forms that foreground care, presence, and relation. Lin is a member of NEW INC and Onassis ONX, and has presented work at SIGGRAPH, the New Museum, and the Changwon Sculpture Biennale.

Yiting Liu – NYC, NY USA 

Yiting Liu — founder, performer, and builder whose work lives at the intersection of code and feeling. She’s the creator of Vibes, an AI-powered visual system that makes technology respond to music in real time, and performs as Cathartic Queen, a psybient artist and VJ whose sets blur the line between software and ritual. An MIT Reality Hack Wellness Prize Winner with work currently shown at the Everywoman Biennial, Yiting is exactly the kind of artist-engineer this community was made for.

Nina Sobell – NYC   

Nina Sobell began exploring interactivity with throwable foam sculptures in 1967 and the many facets of collaboration in 1969. In 1972, she first conceived of making nonverbal communication and the synchrony of two people’s brainwaves visible, an inquiry that led to her BrainWave Drawings series and, more recently, GammaTime. Her work continues to explore time, space, and consciousness as a spiritual continuum, linking inner experience, human interconnectedness, and the larger cosmos.

Moderators

Erin Ko – NYC 

Erin Ko is an artist, futurist, and mystic storyteller.

Her practice consists of layers; splicing art, technology, and satire to explore the changing nature of our world.

Her current passion project is an immersive XR rock opera, called “The Verse” ⚡️Learn More⚡️

Renata Janiszewska – Lion’s Head, Canada  

Renata Janiszewska is an artist who thrives across disciplines. She creates digital and analog works, brings still images to life, and composes music to accompany her visuals. As a moderator, she connects scholarly inquiry to studio practice. As well, she organizes salons and exhibitions. At The Dreamer’s Lair Studios, she’s at work on Artless, a forthcoming book of her artworks, which is anything but.