Chubb Fellows at Art Basel Miami 2021

 

 

 

The Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship is the highest honor the New York Academy of Art can bestow on its students. Under the program, the Fellows have the opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of their artistic prowess while serving as teaching assistants and mentors to a new crop of talented figurative artists. Chubb Fellows also receive studio accommodations, exhibition opportunities, and a stipend.

 

Lydia Baker (b. 1990, Virginia) is a draftswoman, printmaker, and painter.  Baker received a BFA in Communication Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013 and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2020. She is a recipient of the New York Academy of Art’s Post-Graduate Chubb Fellowship, NYFA’s City Artist Corps Grant and an IEA Art Heals Grant. Her work has been featured by numerous publications including Art Maze Magazine, Friend of the Artist, Artsy, and Juxtapoz. Baker has exhibited her work throughout the United States, recently at Sugarlift Gallery and through the Chubb Insurance Viewing Room at Art Basel. In the summer and fall of 2021, she will be an artist-in-residence at the High Line Nine x Sugarlift Gallery in NYC and at the Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, New York.

 

Shiqing Deng (b. 1992, China) is a Chinese painter. She is a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and received an MFA at the New York Academy of Fine Art, where she was awarded the Terra Foundation Artist Residency in Giverny, France. She won first prize in the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon art competition, “Best of Show’’ of International Biennial Portrait Competition, and Honorable Mention of The Bennett Prize. Her work has been exhibited at the United Nations, Sotheby’s in New York, and the National Museum of China in Beijing, as well as in group shows and art fairs in New York and Miami.

 

Hannah Murray (b. 1994, United Kingdom) is a painter from London. She received a B.A. in Fine Art from Leeds Beckett University in 2015, a Certificate in Interior Design from the KLC School of Design and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education from University College London.  In the UK, she has exhibited multiple times with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, as well as at the Tate Modern. Her awards include the Young Artist Award from the National Open Art Competition and First Prize in the Portrait Category of the annual painting competition of Artist Magazine. At the New York Academy of Art, where she received an MFA in Painting in 2021, she was awarded the Academy Summer Residency in Leipzig, Germany and an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, and was named an “Artist to Watch” by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.

 

Wilba Simson (b. 1990, Australia) is an Australian painter, draftsman, video artist and sculptor. In 2013 he received a B.A. in Communication and Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he received the KW Doggett Prize for best folio and HardiGrant Publication Award. After graduation, he worked as a graphic designer and participated in the Summer Undergraduate Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art, which he then attended for his MFA. At the Academy, where he received an MFA in painting in 2021, he was an Academy Scholar and received an Academy Trustee Scholarship.

 

Zachary Sitrin (b. 1992, New Jersey) is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. He received a BFA from Rutgers University in 2014 and worked as a set designer before receiving an MFA in Painting with a concentration in Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art in 2019. Sitrin is a recipient of the Altos de Chavon Artist Residency in the Dominican Republic and the 2020 Chubb Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art. He has participated in projects with Repertorio, a UK based art advisory firm. In January of 2022, Sitrin will be an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. Sitrin’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter. His work can be found in various collections throughout the US and Europe.

 

Jed Smith (1992, Colorado) is a painter and printmaker from Colorado. He received a B.A. in Anthropology and Studio Art from Fort Lewis College in 2015, where he won numerous prizes in art and was awarded the David Olseth Art Scholarship, the Edith McPherson Scholarship and the Division of Wildlife Joe Shoemaker Memorial Scholarship. After his undergraduate studies he worked as a curatorial assistant at the Center for Southwest Studies and Southern Ute Museum, and received a full-tuition scholarship to study at the New York Academy of Art’s Summer Undergraduate Residency Program in 2018. He received his MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2021, where he was awarded the Leslie T. and Francis U. Posey Foundation Scholarship, an Academy Trustee Scholarship and the Academy Summer Residency in Leipzig, Germany. His artwork has been featured editorially in Juxtapoz and ARTSY Magazine.