Water Futures Exhibition — Opening Reception
Water Futures is a solo show, but the artist is water. It emerges from a simple but disarming premise: we are all bodies of water, in constant flow with the world around us. Not discreet. Not contained. Fluid, leaky, unstoppable, interwoven with ecosystems, infrastructures, and histories far beyond our own.
Together with the Hydrocolonialism Institute, tiat is proud to present an exhibition bringing together Bay Area artists, technologists, and cross-disciplinary makers exploring what it means to live and create in a time of accelerating environmental change and shifting water futures. Through immersive, interactive, and multisensory works, the show traces how water shapes bodies, memories, technologies, cities, and shared survival. Visitors will encounter pieces that move, drip, freeze, boil, shimmer, splash, erode, respond, and invite participation.
From meditations on global water flows and unequal access in Kenya, Oaxaca, Michigan and California to reflections on Indigenous stewardship, Hetch Hetchy, the Bay’s shifting shoreline, and nonhuman kinship, Water Futures foregrounds the ways water connects everything: infrastructure to intimacy, climate to care, biology to belonging, and humans to all other living creatures.
Participating artists include Anaya Crouch, Jiabao Li, Asma Kazmi, Greg Niemeyer, Patrick Owuor, Sin Sombras, We the People of Detroit, and many more TBA. We also have an Open Call for new work, deadline Dec 19, 2025.
Join us as we step into an environment of fluid architectures, porous boundaries, and artworks that invite you to think and move like water.
Water Futures will be installed at tiat through January 25th, 2026. Don't miss the other events we're hosting as part of this exhibition, they are tagged "Water Futures" on the tiat calendar!
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The Hydrocolonialism Institute (HI) is a research initiative focused on understanding how colonialism shaped water access, control, and politics, integrating humanities and sciences with Indigenous knowledge to analyze water as a tool for power, resource extraction (like dams, mining, agriculture), and creating inequalities. The HI aims to bring equitable, sustainable solutions by centering affected communities in research and policy. It supports member projects, disseminates findings through various media, and works to make water-related power dynamics visible and uncover water solidarities so we can work towards more equitable and sustainable futures.
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tiat is the intersection of art and technology! tiat is a gallery for artworks using technology as a medium and gathering place for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ We are also a 501c3 nonprofit! Learn more about tiat: https://tiat.place/