Mana Contemporary is a cultural center in

Jersey City Jersey City is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, second-most populous

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

, United States with affiliated centers in Chicago and Miami.

History and Founder

Opened in May 2011, the center was founded by moving company mogul Moishe Mana. Shai Baitel and the artist Yigal Ozeri are among the co-founders. The one million square foot facility in Jersey City is situated in a 1920s-era brick former manufacturing building in the city's Marion Section near Marion Junction that is also an extension of the fine arts transportation department of

Moishe's Moving Systems Moishe's Moving Systems is a New York-based moving and self-storage company. The founder, Moishe Mana began as a “man with a van.” By 1990, it had become the largest independent moving company in New York City. By 1995, they were the larges ...

. In 2021 Mana Contemporary's Executive Director Eugene Lemay was placed on administrative leave due to his indictment of tax fraud and conspiracy for evading to pay nearly $8 million to the IRS while helping to run

. In February 2022, Kele McComsey was appointed Mana's new director. McComsey was the President and Senior Partner of SurroundArt prior to joining Mana Contemporary in 2015.

Art Center

The center provides services, spaces, and programming for artists, collectors, curators, performers, students and community. It includes artist studios, exhibition spaces, and storage, and is home to the Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA); the archives of the

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jer ...

; the estates of Jonas Mekas, Walter de Maria, Irving Penn, and Dan Flavin among others; the Magnum Foundation; and foundations established by Eileen S Kaminsky (ESKFF) and

Carole Feuerman Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and author renowned for her Realism (arts), superrealist art. She is recognized as one of the pioneering artists of the superrealism movement in the late 1970s and is best known for her figu ...

, as well as the artist Amy Sherald who has her studio there.

Richard Meier Model Museum

The building is also home to the Richard Meier Model Museum, an exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by

Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings ...

Mana Decentralized

Mana Decentralized is an online and physical platform selling artworks directly to collectors, launched in April 2019.

History and Founder

Art Center

Richard Meier Model Museum

Mana Decentralized

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