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2023 Staff Exhibition

 

2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Click here to view the 2023 Thesis Exhibition Catalog.

 

Submissions // Take Home a Nude

TAKE HOME A NUDE®

to benefit the Academy and its artists

 

Celebrating over 30 years of artists supporting artists,
this year’s auction will be the best one yet!

We are currently planning to hold this critical fundraiser
in-person during the Fall of 2025,
and we cannot do it without your help.

We look forward to seeing your submissions and thank you for your support!

 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

 

ELIGIBILITY FOR SUBMISSION

Open to all artists. All artwork must be original, and must be available for purchase.

 

MEDIA / SPECIFICATIONS

  • Paintings, drawings, unique prints, sculpture, and photography are eligible
  • Each artist may submit up to five works for consideration
  • Artists must state the estimated value upon submission
  • Even though the auction is called “Take Home a Nude,” we prefer a variety of artwork in the auction – the artwork does not need to be of a nude

 

PRESENTATION & SELECTION

Accepted artworks do not need to be framed. If the selection committee chooses work that is unframed, a team of Academy graduates will frame it using archival materials and donated frames.

 

ENTRIES

  • All works must be submitted in .jpg format. Do NOT submit HEIC or PNG files!
  • Each artist may submit up to five works for consideration
  • Please submit one form per artwork.
  • Submissions will be accepted online only; any submitted work that differs from the digital entry guidelines below may be disqualified.
  • All image files must be named exactly as follows: Lastname_Firstname_Titleofwork.jpg
  • IMPORTANT: The names of your image files must not contain spaces or special characters – ‘/’, ‘.’, ‘#’, “-“, etc., (Underscores, ‘_’, however, are fine.)
  • Files cannot be larger than 1 MB. The submission site will not accept jpegs over 1 MB.
  • Submissions must be entered no later than June 26, 2025 (11:59pm).
  • Submissions will only be accepted through the online submission site. Click here to access the online form.

 

DELIVERY OF ACCEPTED WORK

  • All artists/lenders are responsible for transportation of the work to the Academy
  • Deliver all accepted works to:

New York Academy of Art
ATTN THAN
111 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013

than@nyaa.edu / 212.842.5961

  • If delivering by hand, please do so Monday through Friday, 10am-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm-6pm
  • C.O.D. deliveries will not be accepted
  • NO PACKING POPCORN

 

SALES

Artists have the following options upon submitting their work:

  • Donate 100% of the sale to benefit the Academy’s educational mission and scholarships
  • Receive some of the proceeds of the sale. If the work is accepted, you will be emailed a donation form where you can select the following amount of the proceeds (after 3-10%* of online platform fees are removed):
      • Up to 25% of the proceeds if the artwork sells for under $5,000
      • 50% of the proceeds if the artwork sells for over $5,000

*If the artist has special framing requests and the Academy has to pay for framing outside of its own frame shop then the artist will receive the commission percentage after framing costs are removed from the final sale price

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Submissions must be entered no later than June 26, 2025 (11:59pm). By submitting your artwork, you confirm that you understand and agree to the entry guidelines as stated above and that you are agreeing to donate your artwork to benefit the New York Academy of Art. This artwork may be used for Take Home a Nude, an art auction and sale to benefit the New York Academy of Art and its educational mission. If selected for inclusion in the auction, the artwork may be used for promotional purposes of the New York Academy of Art, and it may be posted to a global online auction and sales platform. Due to limitations of space and the discretion of the auction’s curators, not all submissions will be selected for inclusion and that selected work may be online-only and not included in the in-person auction. If work is unsold at the close of the auction, donating artists have the option of donating it for a future auction or sale or retrieving it from the Academy within three weeks after the auction closing date. All works left after this date will become the property of the New York Academy of Art to be used to benefit the Academy.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION


212-842-5961 (office)

than@nyaa.edu

 

Thank you for your support of the

New York Academy of Art!

 

 

2023 Kylemore Residency Exhibition

 

Student Curatorial Committee Exhibition: Beautiful Brief Existence

 

The Student Curatorial Committee is a group of student volunteers that organizes onsite Academy exhibitions twice a year.

Prior experience is not required to participate, and it is a great opportunity to learn about how to produce an exhibition from start to finish. All students are encouraged to participate in the SCC that meets as needed during the year.

 

On view February 9 – February 26, 2023

Closed to the public

 

Spring 2023 Members

Judith Greengus, Fatema Halvadwala, Jonathan MacGregor, Arwa Mahmoud, John Metido, Jamie Owens, Nicola Russell, Stefania Salles Bruins, and Megan Zappulla

 

Click Here to view the Fall 2022 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Walls”

Click Here to view the Spring 2022 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Hiraeth”

Click Here to view the Fall 2021 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Inside Out”

Click Here to view the Spring 2021 Student Curatorial Exhibition “Treading Lightly”

Click Here to view the Fall 2020 Student Curatorial Exhibition, “Parallels”

 

 

New York Academy of Art

111 Franklin Street

New York, NY 10013

inquiries exhibitions@nyaa.edu

In the Studio: New York Academy of Art Faculty Exhibition

 

“In the Studio: New York Academy of Art Faculty Exhibition” presents 42 works of art from the Senior Critics, Full-Time Faculty, and Adjunct Faculty at the New York Academy of Art. This exhibition displays the breadth and complexity of the work produced by the creative community of the Academy’s faculty. From the meticulous and melancholy renderings of Michael Grimaldi to the mind-boggling bas reliefs of Jiannan Wu and the poetic abstractions of Sharon Butler, this display puts beyond question the value of studying with the world’s artistic masters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eye to Eye

 

 

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present its renowned exhibition series “Eye to Eye,” featuring the collection of New York realtor Jonathan Travis and Wolf Hill. Now in its fourth iteration, “Eye to Eye” asks a prominent collector to select works by Academy MFA students, which are then exhibited side by side with pieces from the patron’s own collection, selected by the student artists themselves. In previous years, the series has featured the collections of Laura Skoler and John L. Thomson and exhibited artists ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Marlene Dumas alongside student works. The exhibition acts as a reflection of the collector’s eye and a commentary on artistic influence and relative value in the contemporary art world.

 

Jonathan Travis and Wolf Hill’s collection as selected by New York Academy of Art students (left column) and New York Academy of Art student works selected by Jonathan Travis (right column)

 

Click here to read about the exhibition featured in Artnet.

 

 

Chloe Wise in conversation with Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), the Jewish Museum, New York (NY); the Neues Museum, Nuremberg (DE) and a career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL). Her work is included in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (DC); the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (MA); the International Center of Photography, New York (NY); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (NY); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY).

 

 

 

Chloe Wise was born in Montréal, Canada in 1990. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Québec, Canada.

Wise’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2022); “In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds” at Blouin Division in Montréal, Canada (2022); “Spite Unseen” at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva, Switzerland (2022); “Thank You For The Nice Fire” at Almine Rech in New York, New York (2021); “Second Nature” at Almine Rech Online in New York, New York (2020); “And Everything Was True” at HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark (2019); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2019); “Not That We Don’t” at Almine Rech in London, United Kingdom (2019); “Chère” at Arsenal Contemporary in New York, New York (2018); and “Of False Beaches and Butter Money” at Almine Rech in Paris, France. (2017).

Chloe Wise lives and works in New York, New York.

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen and gallerists Wendy Olsoff and Brigitte Mulholland


Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thingthat are important to them. The result?Surprising stories from great talkers.

Click Here to Reserve a Ticket

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, “Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything,” was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

 

Courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. Photo by Grace Roselli.

Wendy Olsoff co-founded P·P·O·W alongside Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, exhibiting politically and socially conscious contemporary work in all media. P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists including the estates of Hunter Reynolds, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and Jimmy DeSana as well as representing the work of contemporary artists such as Guadalupe Maravilla, Robin F. Williams, Hew Locke, Carlos Motta, and Chiffon Thomas to name a few.

An alumna of William Smith College (1978), Olsoff has lectured extensively throughout the United States at universities and museums. In 2012, Olsoff was a recipient of the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award for the gallery’s dedication and support of artists in the LGBTQ+ community and her ongoing leadership in the fight against censorship. She is a founding Charter member of the Feminist Art Council at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum and served on the Board of Directors of the Art Dealers Association of America as well as Visual AIDS.

 

Brigitte Mulholland is a Senior Director at Anton Kern Gallery, where she has worked since 2017. She is also sometimes an independent writer and curator. Mulholland has been working in New York in the art world since 2006, and holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Hunter College.

Pricing your Artwork: A Primer for Emerging Artists

Pricing Your Artwork:
A Primer for Emerging Artists

Join us for an informative panel discussion about how artists can determine and rationalize the prices of their artwork, even at the early stages of their professional career. Moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, this panel will explore some of the key factors artists should consider when thinking about pricing, as well as some of the psychological hurdles they may encounter during the process. Be sure to also register for our upcoming February 22 panel, Resale Royalties For Artists.

Click Here to Register

 

Hilary Burt
Managing Director
SOCO Gallery

Hilary Burt is the Managing Director of SOCO Gallery, a contemporary art space based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before moving to Charlotte, Hilary worked as an Account Director and Strategist in design and branding, both in London, England and New York City, and was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute of Art & Design (New York, NY). In 2013 Hilary became an Adjunct Professor of Art History and Arts Leadership & Administration at Queens University (Charlotte, NC) and in 2017 she founded “The Sphere Series”, an organization dedicated to bringing global leaders in the arts to Charlotte to engage in thoughtful and relevant discussions on how arts and creativity can spark dialogue and promote social change. Hilary has a BA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a MPS from the Pratt Institute of Art & Design, (New York, NY).

 

Schwanda Rountree
Contemporary Art Consultant/Advisor, Rountree Art Consulting

Schwanda Rountree is an attorney and independent art consultant. Schwanda has worked with galleries domestically and internationally in placing contemporary art in museums and private collections. She currently serves as National Advisory Council Member of Creative Capital, Professional Arts Consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Collections Committee Member of the Ackland Art Museum, National Advisory Board Member at the Ackland Art Museum, and Accessions Committee Member of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has also served as Advisory Panel Member of CulturalDC, an Executive Board Member of the Porter Colloquium on African American Art, and a member of ArtTable. She has been featured in Artsy’s “Inside My Collection” editorial profile and Artnet News.

 

 

Steven Sergiovanni
Founder
Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory

Steven founded Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory in 2015, focusing on living Contemporary artists in all mediums.  With over 20 years’ experience in the gallery world Steven was the former Director of Mixed Greens, a gallery established in the late 1990s to support emerging artists so they could gain a wider audience. Mixed Greens had a reputation as an approachable and inventive gallery where artists were given their first New York solo exhibitions. It was also a gallery who pioneered promoting artists online and in experimental spaces.

He is the co-founder of The Remix, a project-based curatorial team established to exhibit the work of underrepresented artists. The Remix’ first podcast will be released in Summer 2018. Sergiovanni’s experience as director, gallerist and dealer hinges on a continued methodology of transparency.

Steven started his career at Jack Shainman Gallery, and has since worked for several galleries including Charles Cowles, Holly Solomon and Andrea Rosen. He was the former Vice President of the Board of Directors for Visual AIDS, a Contemporary arts organization committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness. He regularly speaks at institutions such as Yale, Brown, FIT, NYU and New York Academy of Art. He is currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute, teaching Artist as Curator to MFA’s. Steven is a member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA). Steven holds a BA in Art History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and a MA in Arts Administration from New York University.