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New Red Order (Adam Khalil, Jackson Polys, Zack Khalil)

Adam Khalil: He // Him // His
Zack Khalil: He // Him // His
Jackson Polys: He // Him // His

Artists and Filmmakers

New York, New York

Three Indigenous male figures — two with dark hair and one with a baseball cap — stand in front of a brick wall at night. Each figure holds a slab of stone in their right hand, obscuring their faces.

Photo courtesy of the artists.

“We aim to collectively advance understandings of how identity is conveyed and configured within contemporary art practices in order to create sites of acknowledgment that promote solidarity and shift obstructions to Indigenous growth.”

New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) that collaborates with informants to create exhibitions, videos, and performances that question and rechannel subjective and material relationships to indigeneity. New Red Order calls attraction toward indigeneity into question yet promotes this desire and enjoins potential non–Indigenous accomplices to participate in the examination and expansion of Indigenous agency.

They have presented their work with Art Sonje, Artists Space, Creative Time, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Lincoln Center, Momenta Biennale de l’image, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the New York Film Festival, Sharjah Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Biennial 2019, the Walker Arts Center, and the Whitney Biennial 2019, among others, expanding the public secret society network across numerous institutional platforms.

Donor -This award was generously supported by Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.15.2024

Visual Art
A display booth with a table, monitor, and banners. The red plastic tablecloth has white text that reads, "WHAT ARE SAVAGES FOR?" and "THE URGE TO MERGE." The monitor shows an image of a pale child resting their head on their arms. White letters read, "ALIEN NATION EXISTENTIAL DREAD.” Behind the monitor three banners have a jumble of words and illustrations including a beaver holding a flower and a bald eagle breaking the globe over a frying pan. Behind the display booth are red-tinted windows.

Recruitment Station by New Red Order, Gaile Pranckunaite, Inpatient Press, and Emmett de Muzio; 2020–21. Nylon banners, polyester tablecloth, foam board, video monitors, cut white vinyl over red translucent window covering, dimensions variable.

Photo by Yann Chashanovski, courtesy of EFA Project Space, NY.

Never Settle: Calling In by New Red Order thumbnail.

Never Settle: Calling In. Promotional recruitment video for New Red Order.

Video courtesy of the artists.

A gallery installation with objects placed around the floor. Lawn chairs are decorated with the Canadian, American, and Mexican flags. In the center, a black-and-white striped baby pool is filled with green grass and an alligator. Red, green, and yellow plastic balls have texts that read, "give it back." On the walls of the gallery hang stylized drawings and photographs of stereotypical portrayals of indigenous folks, oversaturated photographs of oceans, and posters advertising “1-888-NewRed1.”

Cover the Earth by New Red Order, 2021. Painted mural with cut vinyl, Dibond prints, kiddie pool, sod, inflatable alligator, turtle sandbox, beach towels, towel racks, beach balls, beach chairs, beach umbrella, real estate lawn sign, cooler, and pool noodles, dimensions variable.

Photo by Filip Wolak, courtesy of Artists Space, New York.