Mana Contemporary

[2][3] 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.

[4][5] 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 Moishe's Moving Systems.

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);[8][9][10] the archives of the International Center of Photography;[11] 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, as well as the artist Amy Sherald who has her studio there.

[13][14][15] [16] Mana Decentralized is an online and physical platform selling artworks directly to collectors, launched in April 2019.

Opening performance by Shen Wei
Dance studio