Canal Janchi 잔치 2
Martina Cox + Joiri Minaya + Azita Moradkhani
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 4-6pm
We welcome you to join us for the second Canal Janchi 잔치 gathering! This program invites a trio of artists - Martina Cox , Joiri Minaya and Azita Moradkhani - who incorporate garments and textiles in their practice to present a PechaKucha lecture on how these textiles hold meaning in their work. This event takes inspiration from our exhibiting artist Jakkai Siributr’s frequent use of garments to interpret family stories and political histories of Thailand.
To start the lecture series, artist Christina Yuna Ko will guide a somatic and writing exercise to open the Janchi 잔치.
Driven from research into ritual and its role in the diasporic home, Canal Janchi 잔치 conceptualizes the Korean word for town festivals/feasts as a framework for gathering, creating space to share and reflect on the material, spiritual and political life of garments.. Christina will adorn the space with hanging textiles reimagining Janchi 잔치 from her archives and memories, while also drawing on the Buddhist framework of ritual adornment janguhm (장엄) to help us carry conversations that center the experience of garments as embodied and beyond the self.
Three New York artists will join us for this iteration: Martina Cox, Joiri Minaya and Azita Moradkhani. We are excited to learn about their practices and a little bit about each other
organized by Christina Yuna Ko & Caroline Taylor Shehan
Martina Cox is an artist based in New York City. Her work examines the intersection of textile history, craft, and fine art–recent drawings depict carefully rendered fabrics interrupted with actual needle and thread. Martina also co-hosts a monthly mending club called Darn it! with artist Hekima Hapa and historian Kate Sekules. For Martina, mending club is an extension of her drawing practice: it redefines craft and offers an opportunity to heal our relationships with objects often deemed disposable.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Waist Management at Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY (2024). Recent group exhibitions include The Museum at FIT, Jarvis Art, New York, NY (2025); 12.26, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (2025); Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (2023); among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Textile Arts Center in 2022-2023. Her work has been featured in several publications including The New York Times, Elephant Magazine, Interview Magazine, LVL3, Coeval, and Sleek Magazine.
Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she was exposed to Persian art and culture, as well as recent Iranian politics, and that double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and power that she now investigates in her art.
She received her BFA from Tehran University of Art (2009), and both her MA in Art Education (2013) and her MFA in drawing, painting and sculpture (2015) from Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.
She has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Traveling Fellowship (2025); NYFA City Artist Corps Grants (2021); the Young Masters Art Prize (London); the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize (London); and the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Grant (2017). The Financial Times (London) reviewed her series of drawings Victorious Secrets, and the Boston Globe (MA) published reviews of her collaborative performance piece Irezumi, and her curated exhibition Echo over the past few years.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally many times, including at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK), Newport Art Museum (RI, USA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yinchuan, China), and Jane Lombard Gallery (NYC, USA). She has also been a visiting lecturer at universities such as New York Academy of Art (NY) and Lesley University (MA) as well as a panelist at Harvard University and MIT. She is currently teaching at Rhode Island School of Design (RI) and Parsons School of Design (NY). She has been granted numerous residencies, including Yaddo, MASS MoCA, LMCC, and ISCP.
