Roger Ferney-Cortés

October 22 – November 22, 2026

In this body of work, the steel rolling gate is transfigured into something humorous, intimate, and welcoming. Bounded up in these artifacts are the social dynamics of urban life – thresholds which simultaneously protect and exclude, exist privately and publicly, remain invisible yet present. Playfully eschewing utilitarian origins, the sculptures will temporarily arrest the ceaseless urban continuum by reinterpreting material thresholds and exposing the interstitial realities of urban life and language.

Roger Ferney-Cortés is a Colombian American interdisciplinary artist, architect, and educator based in New York City. His practice incorporates public art, installation, assemblage and interactive sculpture informed by the dialogues and contradictions of the city street with nuanced attention to our material, political and social realities.

Ferney-Cortés’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, and Kickstarter Arts Features in New York, NY, and at SCI-Arc Gallery and Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA, among other venues. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital x Skoll Creator Fund, SCI-Arc Graduate Design scholarship, and he is a Ryman Arts scholar alumnus. Ferney-Cortés earned a BA in art history from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MA in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

Beyond his studio practice, Ferney-Cortés is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and he is a co-founding member of Brooklyn based design collaborative Stop 1 Projects.