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Ciaran Short
(he/him)

Ciaran Short is an artist and writer based in New York City.

Ciaran Short is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and activist born and raised in NYC. His work explores New York culture and often tackles issues of race and masculinity. He is a co-founder of All Street Gallery, an art collective and community art space with two locations in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, exhibiting work by emerging and underrepresented artists. He holds a masters degree in Media Studies from The New School.

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Essay

Black Survival and Cyclical Fate in Hang Time

4 June 2026

Zora Howard’s Hang Time demands a deep contemplation of empathy. Ciaran short discusses the way the play’s warping and flattening of time creates space to explore Black men’s capacity for gentleness, intimacy, and the mundane—even when forced into a suspended state. 

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