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.
The Faraway Nearby
Kyoung eun Kang (2023-24 Studio Artist)
February 10-18, 2024
A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce The Faraway Nearby, a relay exhibition that features the works and exchanges of eight Asian women artists who engaged in a five-month-long dialogue project curated by Jiyeon Paik.
Week 1: Yasi Alipour and Kyoung eun Kang share their thoughts and experiences on sisterhood, language, and their everyday life through letters, photos, and videos. The two artists braid a scarf’s fringe and hair in their respective locations—New York and Jinhae—as a gesture of intimacy and care in Braid (2023), and capture their reunion and dance together in the sculpture garden at MoMA in New York in Dancing with Yasi (2023).
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.
Lets Grow!
Madjeen Isaac (2023-24 Studio Artist)
November 28-December 17, 2023
NYC Culture Club, New York, NY
Featuring artists Saks Afridi, Steven Baboun, Ryan Bock, Sanié Bokhari, Lucas Bononi, Neena Buxani, Kestin Cornwall, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Morel Doucet, Sidney Etienne, Laurena Finéus, Samip Gandhi, Terrick Gutierrez, Asif Hoque, Madjeen Isaac, Misha Japanwala, Kavi, Charles Jean-Pierre, Zahyr Lauren, Ella Mahoney, Anina Major, Milo Matthieu, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Jeffrey Melo, Watson Mere, Farah Mohammad, Mafalda Mondestin, b. Moore, Alejandra Morales Garza, Cora Nimtz, Leila Pinto, Rajni Perera, Na‘ye Perez, Naderson Saint Pierre, Rain Spann, Lanecia A. Rouse, Nyugen Smith, Khari Turner, and Cyle Warner. Curated by Sadaf Padder with support from PXP Contemporary.