Keith Timmons Lecture Series
Organized by Clifford Owens, Director of Critical Studies, New York Academy of Art
This lecture series is supported by Keith Timmons, a Baltimore-based art collector, to convene Black artists, scholars, curators, and critics at the New York Academy of Art during the 2024 – 2025 academic year.
Abigail DeVille’s most recent solo exhibitions, Prospect 6, The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, New Orleans (2024) In the Fullness of Time, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (2024) In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers. JTT NYC, (2023), Original Night at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY (2022-23), Bronx Heavens, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2022-23), Light of Freedom, organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY (2020-21), and traveled to the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021) Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021-22), Kenyon College (2023-24) The American Future, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland OR (2018-19); Empire State Works in Progress (2017) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; No Space Hidden (Shelter) Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017-2018) DeVille is a 2024-25 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Award recipient, 2018 United States Artists Fellow, 2017-2018 Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in Rome, 2015 Obie Award for Design, 2015 Creative Capital grantee, 2014-15 fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, 2013-14 Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient. DeVille received her MFA from Yale University and BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Monique Long lives and works in New York City. She is a writer and arts professional with an interdisciplinary practice. An independent curator of contemporary art, Long interests include Black narratives and making, popular culture, and fashion history. She has organized exhibitions at institutions including Princeton University Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Guild Hall, Museum of the African Diaspora, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and many others. Prior to working independently, Long held curatorial positions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Arts and Design. Long is also a critic who has contributed to publications widely on contemporary art and personal essays. Her most recent exhibition is on view at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.
Photo credit: Kyle Dorosz for New York Magazine, 2019