Category Archives: Lectures

  Eric Fischl (b. 1948, New York City) is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. His paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well… Read More

Melissa Smith is an arts writer based in Brooklyn. She graduated from NYU with a B.A. in Fine Arts before working for nearly a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After getting her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia, she launched her writing career, contributing profiles, reviews, and think-pieces on all things art to publications such as the New… Read More

Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part… Read More

Image / photo Credit: Sean Donnola   Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels is a Director at the Jack Shainman Gallery where she manages artists within the gallery roster including Hank Willis Thomas, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nina Chanel Abney and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. She is also the founder of We Buy Gold, a roving gallery. She is also on the curatorial team of The… Read More

Barnaby Furnas is a contemporary American painter known for his gestural paint handling and chaotic imagery. In his portrayals of violent battlefield scenes, the artist melds the formal virtuoso of historical painting techniques with emblems of American history, as seen in his Untitled (Antietam) II (2008). “Paintings don’t just show one minute happening. They can show an hour of things… Read More

David Antonio Cruz is a multidisciplinary artist. Cruz fuses painting, video, and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black, and queer bodies. Cruz received a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Yale University. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and completed the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Recent residencies include… Read More

Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and a 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, Saltz had been art critic for The Village Voice since 1998, and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize during his tenure there. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken… Read More

Eddie Arroyo (b. 1976, Miami) documents the effects of gentrification through landscape paintings. He received a BFA in Painting from Florida International University and has exhibited at the Girls’ Club Collection, Bridge Red Studios, Spinello Projects, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida Atlantic University, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Arroyo solo exhibitions… Read More

Larry Ossei-Mensah, MOCAD’s Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator 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 such artist as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan… Read More

Mark Rosen is the Associate Director of Marketing at Artsy, overseeing social media and contributing to consumer marketing strategy for the world’s largest online database of contemporary art. Based in New York City, he and his team regularly engage over 3.5 million followers across platforms and develop strategies to acquire and retain consumers on Artsy.net. Lecture Video   www.artsy.net /… Read More