Jon Beer

Jonathan Beer was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1988 and received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2010 before attending the Academy. Beer has had solo shows at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Albany Molecular Corporation, and Bethlehem Public Library in Albany NY. In September 2012 Beer presented his first solo show in New York City, Happening & History at Kathleen Cullen Fine Art in Chelsea. He is also working towards a two-venue, two-person exhibition with Marin de Jong in the Netherlands and New York in 2012. Group exhibitions include shows at Sotheby’s, Sloan Fine Art, Boltax Gallery, Flowers Gallery, MUSE Center for Photography and the Moving Image, Theaterlab, The Puffin Room, and the ArtNow Fair.
In addition to his career as a fine artist, Beer has been pursuing a career in critical writing. In 2010 he co-founded Art-Rated, a blog dedicated to articles and interviews on contemporary art. In addition to Art-Rated, he is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail, ArtWrit, and Art Observed. He was recently awarded a two-month painting residency at the prestigious Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig, Germany.
Jonathan Beer creates paintings that examine how the human mind constructs its own versions of reality. His art is a hybrid of representational forms and abstract components. Beer’s work combines art historical imagery, diagrams, architectural spaces, landscape forms, and patterns, bringing together a myriad of highly charged, culturally symbolic components in one space.

Aleah Chapin

Aleah Chapin grew up on an island north of Seattle and received her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 2009. She attended a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in Germany and has been the recipient of several awards including the Posey Foundation Scholarship, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and first place in the BP Portrait Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The subjects in Aleah's current series are people that she has known since birth. “Through a collaboration with the individuals who have shaped my life, I want to discover stories beyond my own."

Nicolas Holiber 

Born in 1985, Nicolas enjoyed a raucous childhood growing up alongside his two brothers in a small town outside of New York City. After attending the University of Vermont where he studied painting and ceramics, Nicolas moved to NYC to pursue his MFA degree. First enrolling as a continuing education student at the Academy, he was accepted into the Graduate Program in 2010. Holiber was awarded a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme and the Vasari Classic Artist’s Oil Colors Prize in 2011. He has exhibited in New York and Germany, and his work has recently been published in LUUPS Frankfurt, Alt. Variety Magazine, and American Artist. Holiber’s art encompasses a wide range of materials including oil paint, wax, wood, ceramics, animal hides, and found objects. Having a poignant interest in post-war cultural phenomena, his work explores contemporary issues of identity; particularly ideas of gender, family, heroism and victimization.

2011 - 2012 FELLOWS

Emily Davis Adams

Born and raised in Northern California, Emily Studied art at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco City College. She earned a BS in Environmental Policy from UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and lived in the Southwest before moving to New York City. The art she encountered in the desert, from earthworks to Minimalist painting, has continued to influence her own work, which examines particular locations in the country through detailed representation of infrastructural elements, formalist statements of color and light, and the way in which the two interact to give the sense of familiarity and place.

Ian Healy

A Rockland County, New York native, Ian graduated with a degree in Marketing from Pace University.  Ian's initial interest in art brought him to a local tattoo shop where artist JR Maloney took Ian in as a drawing student.  Later on Ian was introduced to former New York Academy of Art faculty Hong Nian Zhang and Louis Woolley. Both had a strong impact on Ian’s Growth as an artist.  Ian was encouraged to develop his skills and talents in graduate school, being pushed to apply at the New York Academy.
Ian's interest in "raw animals and dead meat" emerged during a residency in Giverny between his first and second year of graduate study. There he witnessed "life turning to death" in the butcher shops and open-air markets of the region. He returned to New York with an intense interest in death, decay, and the decomposition of life, a perspective you can see in his current fellowship work.
"Ian's paintings are a process of intimate contemplation and investigation.  The disturbing expression in these pieces derives in part from his honesty in the experience and representation. These paintings are about food and life, how we deal with and deny the physical substance of being."

Aliene de Souza Howell

I think that animals and the objects we use in our daily lives can provide openings for us to access our own humanity.  I strive to be analytic but also empathetic in searching for these aspects of makes us human.
I was honored to be chosen for a funded two month residency in Leipzig, Germany in 2010 which has had a significant impact on my work. The fellowship at the New York Academy has provided me time to emerge as a printmaker from a background in painting.
I received my BFA from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was born and raised in Nashville, TN to a Brazilian Physical Education teacher and a Welsch pyschologist. I have also studied in London and Rome. Currently, I reside in Ridgewood, NY.

2010 - 2011 FELLOWS

Maya Brodsky

Born in Belarus and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, Maya received Bachelors degrees in painting and philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008 before attending the Academy. Her paintings are inspired by notions concerning the connection between past and present and how one’s memory of the past is formed and changed visually. She hopes to allow viewers a glimpse into her personal vision and depict that which she considers ephemeral and therefore precious. By depicting the specific form of her personal experience, she hopes to protect it from the obscuring effects of time, as well as to imply the existence of something that transcends the particular forms of her subjective reality.

John O'Reilly

From Columbus, OH, O’Reilly received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. After a year of attending New York Academy of Art, he was awarded the Leipzig International Program in 2009 and exhibited internationally there. John has exhibited in group shows at galleries including Danese in Chelsea NYC. O’Reilly’s work focuses on universal parallels. His work explores a wide range of issues from comparative vertebrate anatomy to sociology, psychology, genealogy and familial development.  Through the manifestation of drawing and sculpture, his work asks theviewer questions of perception in how we as human beings relate to one another.

Austin Park  

Austin Park grew up in Ft. Pierce, Florida and received his BFA from the University of Florida in 2003.  He has always been interested in how we adapt to society over time and  the modern rituals we create for ourselves   His recent work is influenced from his time spent living and working in the Miami area , enamored by the collision of nature and the modern artificial world.  He prefers the use of acrylics  and mediums for the sense of immediacy and constructs images  in plastic that reflect this dual reality.  During the course of his fellowship he intends to continue using environment and figure as symbols in dialogue with each other, while still exploring the vast technical possibilities acrylics and mixed media can offer.

2009 - 2010 FELLOWS

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer was raised in Southern Germany in a small town near Stuttgart. In 2003, he completed courses at the Technisches Gymnasium BSZ Öde Göppingen. From 2004 to 2007, the artist studied at the Johannes Steinhäuser in Lasa, South Tirol, Italy, where his practice in "lasa-marble” earned him degrees for both Stonemason and Stonecarver. In May 2009, Mühlhäußer received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, graduating cum laude and earning the Walter Erlebacher Award for excellence in anatomy, in addition to the Postgraduate Fellowship.

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Panni Malekzadeh

Panni Malekzadeh was born 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Her work has always been about things in herself that she feels incredibly uncomfortable with and embarrassed by. She explores the vulnerability, shame and isolation of the adolescent girl in herself and ones around her. She exploits what's dangerous and what scares her about herself. She collects, she hoards, her work has some kind of delicate profanity, and a certain over-passivity… including a jade dildo, this beautiful new pearl cock ring… and butterflies and kittens too of course. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Will Kurtz 

Will Kurtz was born in Flint, Michigan and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1981. He practiced as a landscape architect until he began creating art as a self-taught artist at the age of 40. He recently returned to school, graduating magna cum laude with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art at the age of 51. Often drawing upon memories of his past, Kurtz's work is highly personal, and seeks out a certain sincerity and rawness of human beings in a tender and humorous way.

2008 - 2009 FELLOWS

From Lancaster, PA, Miller received his BA from Messiah College before attending the Academy. He has been actively showing for the last two years in New York, and worked as assistant to the director at Pocket Utopia, a project space in Brooklyn. He also works part time for the Judd Foundation and teaches a CE course at the Academy. In his work, Miller channels the theatrical pretense of portraiture through a provincial American painting sensibility. His figures direct their deadpan gaze at the picture plane, the site of the methodological drama, where the portrait’s shallow space and the panel’s surface break into dialectical interplay.

Phillip Thomas

From Kingston Jamaica, Phillip Thomas received his BFA in 2003 from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, where he was awarded the Albert Huie award for painting. He has been involved in numerous group shows, including the 2008 Jamaica National Biennale, where he received the Aaron Matalan award. For education he was given grants from CHASE and the Cobb Family Foundation. In his work Phillip intends to manufacture cultural reliquaries of the Caribbean and the wider “new world”, using mediums and other agents of the old world.

Annie Wildey

Born in the UK, Annie earned her BA from Kingston University and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the New York Academy of Art. She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Nominee, and received residencies in Balleroy, France, and St. Barths, FWI. Most recently, she was awarded a year-long residence at the William Steeple Davis House in Orient, Long Island. Ms Wildey's current work looks for elements of the sublime within the voids, underpasses and accidental environments created by urban commercial architecture.