Cycol Gallery Presents: Biz Markie x Bisco Smith - Broome Street Gallery Night
Join us for a special evening uniting and celebrating the hip hop icon that is Biz Markie, the artistic powerhouse that is Bisco Smith, and the web3 community at large as we team up with HEFT Gallery for Broome Street Gallery Night after the conclusion of NFT NYC.
Cycol Gallery 6-10pm (91 Allen Street)
Heft Gallery 5-9pm (300 Broome Street)
* There will be stations for sticker creation and swapping upstairs. Bring your sharpie, your tag, and connect with others.
Following a private opening hosted by Tara Hall on August 31 in celebration of Biz Markie Day in New York City, The Biz Markie Experience × Bisco Smith opens to the public at Cycol Gallery beginning September 1, 2026, for a limited time.
The Biz Markie Experience × Bisco Smith brings contemporary work by New York artist Bisco Smith into the same space as photography, personal artifacts and archival material from the life and career of Biz Markie.
At the center of the exhibition is SELECT CUTS, a limited edition fine art photography series featuring images of Biz photographed by legendary hip hop photographer George DuBose during the 1986 Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz sessions.
The photographs are some of the earliest professional studio portraits of Biz Markie. Taken before Just a Friend and the international career that followed, they capture Biz at the very beginning, when the personality and visual identity the world would come to know were first taking shape.
Produced from the original photographic archive and presented with the authorization of the Biz Markie Estate, SELECT CUTS makes this early body of work available as strictly limited fine art editions.
INSIDE THE ARCHIVE
Alongside SELECT CUTS, the exhibition opens up a portion of Biz Markie’s personal collection, with artifacts and objects that offer a more intimate look at the person behind the records.
Rather than presenting Biz solely through his music, the experience gives visitors a chance to encounter pieces of the world he actually lived in, collected and created around.
Bisco Smith’s work adds another layer to the exhibition, placing a living New York artist in conversation with the archive and creating a connection between different generations of the city’s creative culture.