Mia Yinxing Liu
Mia Yinxing Liu is an art historian and a film and media historian. She has widely published on Chinese modern art, cinema, and histories of photography in East Asia. Her first book The Literati Lens: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema (1950-1979) (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019) discusses how landscape in Chinese feature cinema in Maoist era were fields of contesting visions. Currently she is completing a book manuscript on the intermedial dialogues between ink painting and photography in modern China. Her research has received many awards, including Postdoctorate Fellow at Yale University, Taiwan Fellow, and Getty residential scholar at Getty Research Institute. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.
Noel W. Anderson
Noel W. Anderson (b.1981, Louisville, KY) received an MFA from Indiana University in printmaking and an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. He is currently the Area Head of Printmaking in NYU’s Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. In 2018, Anderson was awarded the NYFA artist fellowship grant and the prestigious Jerome Prize. His solo exhibition “Blak Origin Moment” debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in February 2017, and the Hunter organized a new version of the exhibit in October 2019.
Anderson utilizes print media and arts-based research to explore philosophical inquiry methodologies. He primarily focuses on the mediation of socially constructed images on identity formation as it relates to black masculinity and celebrity.
In his large tapestries, collaged magazine works, and other historical and contemporary printed media, Anderson distorts and transforms mass media images to demonstrate how symbols and imagery can be manipulated. His works explore how these manipulations can create conflicting definitions of Black people, culture, events, and understandings of identity – both self-understandings and external interpretations. By deliberately showing us distortions, Anderson is asking the viewer how they see things and in what ways are our opinions and perspectives are altered or influenced by what we see.
Seth Cameron
Gabby Collns-Fernández
Gaby Collins-Fernández is an artist living and working in New York City. Her work has been shown in the United States and internationally, including at Rachel Uffner Gallery, Nina Johnson Gallery, anonymous gallery, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama and El Museo del Barrio in New York. Discussion of her work has appeared in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and the Elizabeth Murray Art Residency (Granville, NY), and of a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She was a 2023-4 resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Collins-Fernández is also a writer whose texts have appeared in Cultured Magazine, The Miami Rail, and The Brooklyn Rail. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up. Collins-Fernández currently teaches at Pratt Institute.
Kern Samuel
Kern Samuel (b. 1990, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago) employs painting as a means to explore material, process, and labor. Samuel employs tactile techniques such as sewing, quilting, dyeing, folding, and embroidery to create his geometric and text-based compositions. Additionally, he draws heavily on the linguistic and cultural nuances that emerge in everyday life, using them as a conceptual and visual framework.
Jason Stopa
Josephine Halvorson
David Humphrey
David Humphrey has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psychosocially engaged paintings. Over this time he has continued to transform images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary. Mixing various representational schema with improvisational abstraction, he tells stories of imaginative projections crashing into the real.
Humphrey (b. 1955) has a BFA from MICA and an MA from NYU. He has been the subject of 44 solo exhibitions including those at McKee Gallery, NY; Sikkema Jenkins, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. Humphrey has had five solo exhibitions at Fredericks & Freiser, the last in 2025. His work is in collections including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as the Saatchi Gallery, London. An Anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope in 2009. He currently teaches in the Columbia U. MFA program. Humphrey was awarded the Rome Prize in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.