CHEENY CELEBRADO-ROYER
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 11:00 AM EST
EDGAR ARCENEAUX
Wednesday February 17, 2021, 11:00 AM EST
YANNIS ZIOGAS
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:00 AM EST
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Yannis Ziogas’ main visual practices are painting, installation work, and the walking prοcess. He has participated in numerous solo shows nationally and internationally, including the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (2002), Collegium Artisticum (Sarajevo, 2018), and group shows at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2018). He is Dean and Associate Professor at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Visual Arts, University of Western Macedonia, where he has organized International Encounters/Conferences on Contemporary Aesthetics, more recently with an emphasis on Walking Art.
ABIGAIL DEVILLE
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:00 AM EST
Abigail DeVille creates large sculptures and installations, often focusing around themes of the history of racist violence, gentrification, and lost regional history. Her work often involves a performance element that brings the artwork out of its exhibition space and into the streets. Solo shows include the ICA, Los Angeles (2019), the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and Madison Square Park Conservancy, and New York
AYISHA ABRAHAM
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 11:00 AM EST
Bangalore-based Ayisha Abraham is a visual artist who does installation art and mixed media work. She has made a series of short digital films crafted out of found footage. Her films and videos have been screened at the South Asian Film Festival for Documentary, Kathmandu, Nepal, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Pompidou Center, Paris, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.and at the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works as a visual arts consultant at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India.
Born in Colombia in 1947, Juan Manuel Echavarría lives and works between New York and Bogotá. For the past two decades, Juan Manuel Echavarría's work addresses the dread and human tragedy of the endless drug war in Colombia. Echavarría’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including in an expansive 20-year career survey exhibition at MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Bogotá, 2017-2018), in the Artist and Society wing at Tate Modern (London, 2020), North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, 2019), Centro Cultural Salmona (Manizales, 2018), Hemeroteca Nacional Universitaria Carlos Lleras Restrepo (Bogotá, 2016), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, 2013-2014), Museo Amparo (Puebla, 2014), Musée du quai Branly (Paris, 2013 – 2014), Kunstmuseum Bochum (Bochum, 2014), Casa Daros (Rio de Janeiro, 2013), Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2013), Museo de Antioquia, (Medellin, 2013 - 2015), 18th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2012), Universidad de los Andes, (Bogotá, 2012), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, (Mexico, D.F., 2012), Phoenix Art Museum, (Phoenix, 2012), Bienal Do Mercosul (Porto Alegre, 2011), Museum of Contemporary Art (Karlsruhe, 2010), Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2006), Venice Biennale (Venice, 2005).
ADDITIONAL CRITIQUES WITH VISITING ARTISTS:
CARMEL BUCKLEY
Born in Derby, England, Carmel Buckley, Full Professor, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (United Kingdom) in 1978. She continued her studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Madrid University from 1979-80 and, with a Mexican Government Scholarship, at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City from 1983-84. In 1988 she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, New York as a Fulbright Fellow. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Art Sculpture Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award.
In 1994 she had a solo exhibition at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Recent solo exhibitions
include The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (2009), Clay Street Press, Cincinnati (2011), and The Center For Recent Drawing, London, England (2012); two-person show at Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England (2016-17); public art projects “Cloud’s Gold” & “Inhuman Colors,” Camp Washington, Cincinnati, OH, 2020. Group shows include Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (2005); Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (2006); E:vent Gallery, London, England (2009); Sculpture Key West, Key West, Florida (2011); “Women to Watch” at the Riffe Center, Columbus (2018); Columbus Museum
of Art, (2018); Anytime Dept., Cincinnati (2019).
FRANCISCA CARVALHO
Francisca Carvalho was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1981. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2004 she completed the Advance Course in Visual Arts at Ar.Co. In 2009 she graduated in Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (FCSH-UNL); In 2016 she completed an MFA in Multidisciplinary Studies at the Mount Royal School of Art – MICA. In 2014 she received a Fulbright/Carmonae
VISTING CURATORS
LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH
Larry Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernades, Ebony G. Patterson, Modou Dieng, Glenn Kaino, Joiri Minaya and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.
A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a 501(c)(3) and global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. ARTNOIR endeavors to celebrate the artistry and creativity of Black and Brown artists around the world via virtual and in-person experiences. Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first-ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Ossei-Mensah is the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD in Detroit. Ossei-Mensah currently serves as Curator-at-Large at BAM, where he curated the NY Times heralded the exhibition Let Free Ring in January 2021.
Ossei-Mensah has had recent profiles in such publications as the NY Times, Artsy, and Cultured Magazine, and was recently named to Artnet’s 2020 Innovator List.
SARAH NEWMAN
Sarah Newman is the James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; she joined the museum staff in September 2016. She curated the exhibitions “Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue” (2019), “Do Ho Suh: Almost Home” (2018) and “Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)" (2017). She served as the guest curator for “Theaster Gates: The Minor Arts” (2017) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Before SAAM, Newman was curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from 2006 to 2014. She has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, George Mason University and Georgetown University. Newman earned a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
ELYSE GOLDBERG
Elyse Goldberg, is currently an Independent curator and Art Advisor specializing in contemporary art, focusing on diverse visions of emerging and established artists, developing public commissions and special projects, as well as mentoring artists.
Goldberg, brings more than 30 years experience in the contemporary art community, as former co-director of the John Weber Gallery from 1988-1997. Among the many seminal conceptual, minimal and landwork artists represented by Weber, she worked with, to name a few, Nancy Holt, Sol LeWitt, the Estate of Robert Smithson, Alice Aycock, Mel Kendrick, Allan Mccollum, Adrian Piper, Barbara Kasten, and Charles Gaines, Luca Buvoli. Upon leaving John Weber, she worked as an independent curator and art advisor, 1997-1999, curating shows such as Story for AC projects and Souvenirs/Documents 20 Years, PS122,NY. Goldberg joined the James Cohan Gallery in 1999-2020 as the Liaison of the Estate of Robert Smithson, after which her role expanded at the gallery as Director and developed programming, worked directly with represented artists such as Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Roxy Paine, Jesper Just, Fred Tomaselli, Yinka Shonibare, Ingrid Calame and Trenton Doyle Hancock, Simon Evans™. Goldberg collaboratively and individually organized in-house solo and group exhibitions, such as A Brighter Day, Cosmologies, Masks, Tell-Tale Heart (part two) White Noise, Sages’ Sayings, (2nd Iteration) Wang Xieda, The Big Id, Object Fictions, Balls, engaged with curators internationally on exhibitions as well as worked with private collectors and museums to acquire works for both private and public collections.
Having a strong interest in all film genres, in 1995, initiated and co-produced a feature length Indie film titled Luminous Motion, along with Good Machine producers Ted Hope and Anthony Bregman, Executive Produced by Fiona Films, directed by Bette Gordon, which premiered in 1999, showcased at the Locarno Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and premiered in New York City at the Angelika Cinema. Curated, Unseen, Fountain House, NY, a Not-for Profit Foundation, Gallery and Studio which provides an environment where artists living with mental illness can express their creative visions and exhibit their work. Embracing artists who are emerging or established, trained or self-taught, Fountain House Gallery cultivates artistic growth, makes a vital contribution to the New York arts community and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness.
KRISTEN HILEMAN
Baltimore-based independent curator Kristen Hileman spent nearly two decades organizing exhibitions and building collections at museums, first as a curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC and more recently as the Head of the Contemporary Department at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Among her current projects is a survey of female-identifying artists working in abstraction across the Mid-Atlantic region, which will be presented at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington in late 2021 and at the American University Museum in Washington, DC in early 2022. During spring 2021, Hileman is visiting faculty at UMBC; she has previously taught courses on contemporary art and theory at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University.
CECILIA WICHMANN
Cecilia Wichmann is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has worked on major exhibitions, including Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art and Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963−2017. Her own curated exhibitions include Tschabalala Self: By My Self, SHAN Wallace: 410, Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young: Back and Song, Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist and Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott, among others. Before joining the BMA in 2017, she led the Stamp Gallery and Contemporary Art Purchasing Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she completed her MA in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in 2015. She began her museum career at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
VESELA SRETENOVIĆ
Vesela Sretenović has been a senior curator of modern and contemporary art at The
Phillips Collection since 2009. Upon her arrival to the Phillips, she initiated a series of
ongoing art projects called Intersections, inviting contemporary artists—national and
international, emerging and established—to engage with the museum permanent
collection and architecture and present or create new work. Additionally, Sretenović had
organized numerous solo exhibitions of prominent artists including Robert Ryman,
Ellsworth Kelly, Antony Gormley, Richard Tuttle, Los Carpinteros, and most currently a
first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez. She is currently preparing two
other projects by an Australian artist Marley Dawson and Harlem-based Sanford
Biggers. Prior to joining the Phillips, Sretenović spent ten years as curator at the David
Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, while also teaching contemporary art and art
theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. Earlier in her career, Sretenović worked
for the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She holds a BA
from University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, an MA from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, and a Doctoral degree in Humanities from Syracuse University.
BÁRBARA PEREA
Bárbara Perea is an independent Media and Sound Art curator and writer. She was director
Montréal, for 2014. She was on the curatorial team for TX 13, the Texas Biennal (2013).
KATHEEN LYNCH
Kathleen Lynch joined the Art Production Fund team in 2012 as Project Manager and currently holds the position of Director of Operations. In her time at APF, Kathleen has developed an expertise in assisting artists in production from the early planning stages to the realization of public artworks. During her tenure at Art Production Fund, Kathleen has worked on major public projects including Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains, Jeff Koons' Seated Ballerina, Zoe Buckman’s CHAMP, and Sanford Biggers’ Oracle. Previously, Kathleen worked for Galerie Jocelyn Wolff in Paris. Kathleen graduated from Rutgers University in 2010 with a Bachelor of the Arts in both Art History and French. Kathleen has participated as a guest lecturer at Parsons School of Design, The Fashion Institute of Technology, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
DR. FRANCESCA PIETROPAOLO
Dr. Francesca Pietropaolo is an Italian-born art historian, curator, and critic based in Venice, Italy.
Roth Time. A Dieter Roth Retrospective (2004), Plane Image. A Brice Marden Retrospective (2006)
McCall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Lawrence Weiner. Her projects as independent curator include
CORNELIA LAUF
Cornelia Lauf is an art historian and curator, living in Rome. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and B.A. from Oberlin College, Ohio. Her award-winning exhibitions and publications include Artist/Author, Contemp
EVELYN C. HANKINS
Evelyn C. Hankins has been a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 2008. While at the Hirshhorn, she has also organized an array of projects, including Pat Steir: Color Circle (2019); Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection (2019); Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes (2018); Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge (2017); Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (2016) Susan Philipsz: Part File Score (2016); At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection (2014) (co-curated); Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance (2013); Over, Under Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present (2013); ColorForms (2010); Walead Beshty: Legibility on Color Backgrounds (2009); and The Panza Collection (2008).
In addition to her exhibition responsibilities, Evelyn provides curatorial oversight for the Hirshhorn’s