A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much
Kevin Quiles Bonilla (2022-23 Studio Artist)
June 20, 2024 – July 31, 2024
Baxter St, New York, NY
Curated by Ezra Benus, Baxter St’s 2023 Guest Curatorial Initiative Recipient, the presentation explores themes of colonialism and diaspora. The exhibition will feature photographic installations that invite audiences to consider the role of colonialism in perpetuating states of debility and disablement through cultural extraction, exploitation, and geopolitical instability.
Summer Camp
mujero (2023-24 Studio Artist)
June 5 – July 31, 2024
Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Camp is an over-the-top, aesthetic sensibility that transforms morality, solemnity, and good taste into vulgarity, artificiality, and extravagance, animated by a sly sense of humor. For the inaugural exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters new Tribeca location, Summer Camp is an exuberant celebration of Camp aesthetics, curated by Allegra LaViola, Christine Nyce and Sofia Love.
There is No Sincerity Without Irony
Kyoung eun Kang (2023-24 Studio Artist)
May 11 – June 8, 2024 at the AHL Foundation Gallery, NY
The group exhibition explores how sex is inherently intersectional, necessarily seen through race and feminism. Featuring seven Asian and Asian American female artists whose works address specific female body parts and corporeal experiences.
2024 Artadia NYC Awards Finalist
American Artist (2021-22 Studio Artist)
Artadia, Brooklyn, NY
American Artist is a 2024 New York City Artadia Awards Finalist.
Using the media of sculpture, video and digital art, much of Artist’s work over the past several years has been rooted in Black Studies, referencing scholars such as Fred Moten and Simone Browne. Many of their works are what the artist calls “speculative artifacts,” resembling devices, tools, or video evidence of real world events but are clever fictions, subtly posing questions such as “is this real??” Artist uses this strategy to spin their own narratives that expose the truth of history and are more wild than fiction.
Congrats to the Smack Mellon alumni named as 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in the Creative Arts!
Itziar Barrio (Film-video) – did not feel low, was sleeping, 2023
Bang Geul Han (Fine Arts) – featured in You’d Think By Now, 2022
Rachelle Mozman Solano (Photography) – Metamorphosis of Failure, 2019; 2011 Artist Studio
Conversations
Kyoung eun Kang & mujero (2023-24 Studio Artists)
February 8-April 5, 2024
Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Goucher is pleased to present Conversations, a group exhibition featuring the work of 15 artists working in video, film, installation, drawing, and sculpture.
Utilizing a wide range of formats—casual verbal exchange, interview, monologue, letters, redacted or reconstructed words, formal presentation—Conversations is a group exhibition that engages the notion of dialogue in contemporary art. While many artists use human discourse as the centerpiece of their work, others explore conversation more abstractly, engaging an imagined viewer, inanimate object, historical archive, person, or legacy, internet-fueled data, or philosophical entity.
Whitney Biennial 2024
Kiyan Williams (2022-23 Studio Artist)
Jes Fan (2019-20 Studio Artist)
Sharon Hayes (2005 Studio Artist)
March 20-August 11, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The artists and collectives in the latest chapter of the exhibition—Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing—will follow in the footsteps of hundreds of Biennial artists before them to interpret our current landscape and tell stories, spark discussion, and comment on issues across a variety of media and disciplines.
BAX 2024-25 Artists in Residence
Ogemdi Ude (2022-23 Studio Artist) named a Brooklyn Arts Exchange 2024-25 Artist in Residence
The Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) welcomed Cheri Stokes, Elisabeth Motley, and Ogemdi Ude as their artists in residence for the the 2024-2025 season.
Each artist will receive 450 hours of free rehearsal space over an 18-month period, an $8000 stipend, and advisory, marketing, and production support to develop their artistic practice.
2023-24 Rome Prize
Zachary Fabri (2015-16 Studio Artist), Dread Scott (2014-15 Studio Artist), Jeanine Olsen (2010-11 Studio Artist) named 2023-24 Rome Prize Fellows
The American Academy in Rome announced the winners of the 2023–24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the Rome Prize—the gift of “time and space to think and work”—was awarded to 36 American artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, starting in September 2023.