Summer 2026 Visiting Artists All lectures are held in the Fred Lazarus IV Center Auditorium (115) and begin at 6pm.
06/15 - Brian Zegeer
Brian Zegeer is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Kentucky, his works explore the Appalachian and Lebanese landscapes of his heritage as highly-charged networks of collective hallucination. His animations and sculptural installations reorganize environments to expose the fictions spun up from spaces by the people who inhabit them. Zegeer worked with archivists and community activists to recover the story of ‘Little Syria’, Manhattan’s first Arabic enclave. In a 2-year residency at the Queens Museum, he explored this history against the backdrop of Robert Moses’ profound and problematic impact on NYC. Zegeer received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited in galleries and museums in the NYC region and abroad.
Image: Nearnesses and Normals, cycle of cg animations, 2020 - 2023
06/22 - Hai-Wen Lin
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist from Elk Grove, California, currently working somewhere beneath the Chicago sky. Their work addresses autobiographical narrative and constructions of the body, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day in your favorite dress. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. They are a recipient of the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Visual Arts Award, and a Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship. Lin has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. Recent solo exhibitions of their work have been held at the Museum of Art and Design, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, the Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices, and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. Lin is one half of medium-sized, a collaborative practice with the poet Margaret Wright.
06/30 - Annette Wehrhahn
Annette Wehrhahn (b. 1976 River Vale, NJ; lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley) Annette Wehrhahn’s work draws on her wide ranging interest in various ritual forms of image making across time. Cave Paintings, Italian Ex-Votos, and most recently spirit guides in the form of chickens serve as inspiration for Wehrhahn’s paintings. She considers paint to be the most immediate and reliable medium for expressing thought. Her works use color registers in a way that resonates emotionally and an expressionistic primal handling of paint. The works are often adorned by their own unraveled edges, a natural evolution in the work which begins unstretched. Wehrhahn’s work has been exhibited internationally in Copenhagen, Denmark, Milan, and Luxembourg at the Ceyson & Benetiere Gallery. She has had numerous exhibitions across the United States, Canada, Horton Gallery, Safe Gallery, Halsey McKay in East Hampton, NY and recently at Tappeto Volante Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. In 2010 Wehrhahn was a founding member of the artist run space SOLOWAY(soloway.info) in Brooklyn New York. She served as a managing director until 2021.
07/06 - Abigail Lucien
Abigail Lucien (b.1992, from Cap-Haitien, Haïti) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, writing, and time-based media. Implicating our relationship to material and place through an architectural vernacular, Lucien uses formal poetics to ponder concepts such as loss, love, and grief as fluid processions rather than states to reach or become. Lucien’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Frieze Magazine, and Art in America. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Center for the Arts (VT), and Nicola Vassell Gallery (NY). National and international exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), MoMA PS1 (NY), SculptureCenter (NY), MAC Panamá (Panamá City, PAN), Tiwani Contemporary (London, UK), and the Institute for Contemporary Art (RVA). Awarded fellowships and residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Madison, ME), Amant Studio & Research Residency (NY), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), Santa Fe Art Institute NM), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI). Lucien is based in New York where they are an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Sculpture at Hunter College.
07/14 - Koyoltzintli
Koyoltzintli is an interdisciplinary artist from the Pacific coast of Manabí, Ecuador, territories her ancestors have inhabited for millennia. Working across sound, performance, and sculpture, she creates hand-built clay instruments and ritual-based installations that explore material memory, cosmology, and embodied knowledge. Rooted in research on Indigenous epistemologies of the Americas, her practice approaches clay as both sonic vessel and archival medium.
Her work has been nominated for the Prix Pictet, presented at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Parrish Art Museum, Queens Museum, the Aldrich, and the International Center of Photography, among other venues. She has held solo exhibitions at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery and Leila Greiche Gallery in New York.
She is the recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Latinx Artist Fellowship from the US Latinx Art Forum, NYSCA and NYFA fellowships, We Women, and a residency at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Her work was featured in the Native issue of Aperture. She participated in Flow States – La Trienal 2024 at El Museo del Barrio. in 2026, her work is included in Musical Bodies an exhibition and publication from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she will present a solo exhibition at the Al Held Foundation through River Valley Arts Collective and a three-person exhibition at Autograph ABP in London.
Her performances have been staged at the Whitney Museum, Dia Chelsea, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Wave Hill, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Performance Space New York.
07/19 - Kris Grey
Kris Grey is a New York City-based transgender artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores how histories are carried, embodied, erased, and reanimated. Working across sculpture, performance, installation, and social practice, Grey engages archives both institutional and personal, transforming found materials, collective memory, and the body itself into sites of inquiry and cultural agitation. Their work investigates the relationship between material evidence and lived experience, asking how objects, stories, and communities preserve traces of the past while generating new possibilities for the future. Grey has been a resident artist at the Wave Hill, Bronx Museum, Fire Island Artist Residency, ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art, International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson. Grey's writing, Trans*feminism: fragmenting and re-reading the history of art through a trans* perspective, was published by Manchester University Press in Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories. Grey earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Ohio University. They perform, teach, and exhibit work internationally.
