Airco Caravan is artists in residence at ArtCrawl on Governors Island

Sat, May 17 - Sun, Nov 2  2025

ArtCrawl Harlem at 403 Colonels Row, Governors Island, NYC

ArtCrawl Harlem at 403 Colonels Row will be open to the public May 17th - November 2, 2025, Saturday - Sunday, 11:00 am-5:00 pm

ArtCrawl Harlem is proud to announce Airco Caravan as a 2025 Boundaries & Connections Artist in Residence on Governors Island.

Caravan will work on the series If We Could Change History, about the 400-year-old Dutch history of New York. Dutch colonists landed on Governors Island (Paggank or Noten Eylandt) in 1624 and moved to Manhattan in 1625, where they founded New Amsterdam, which later became New York. Saturday, May 17th is the season’s grand opening, all residencies will host Open Studios. Caravan will work on Governors Island until Saturday June 28, which is the Closing Exhibit & Reception. Every weekend in between, you can visit Airco and all the other artists on the island in their studios.

About Airco Caravan

Conceptual artist Airco Caravan (New York, b. the Netherlands) earned a BA at HKU, Academy of Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands. After a career in advertising and graphic design, Caravan returned to art, studied silk screening at MK24 in Amsterdam, and oil painting at The Art Students League of New York. Caravan has participated in exhibitions like Every Woman Biennial in New York, INTO ACTION 2024 in Chicago, Museum de Fundatie, Amsterdam Museum, MOYA Vienna, Arte Museum Korea, and Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City, and artwork was included in several museum collections. Attention-grabbing guerrilla art in the public domain, including an illegal 4ft bronze statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The artist was invited to artist residencies in de Torenkamer, Vondelpark, Amsterdam, and Boeddha in de Linie, in solitude in a bunker. Caravan was the founder and curator of two Nasty Women Amsterdam fundraiser exhibitions and curator of several group shows in Amsterdam.