Eve Biddle visiting Anna Sophia Vukovich's studio
Each month, our residents make group visits with Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom of Ghost of a Dream and one-on-one studio visits with Co-Director Eve Biddle and our Director of Artistic Programming, Will Hutnick. We also bring in 2–3 guest critics per month — curators, artists, critics, professors — to give small, conversational lectures on their work. Afterwards, they make one-on-one studio visits with our residents — from which more than a few collaborations, group shows, and exhibitions have emerged.
Susan Cross is Senior Curator at MASS MoCA, where she has organized solo exhibitions, major commissions, and performances by Sarah Crowner, Alex Da Corte, Liz Deschenes, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, Spencer Finch, Liz Glynn, Katharina Grosse, Allison Janae Hamilton (co-curated with Larry Ossei-Mensah), Steffani Jemison, Ledelle Moe, Richard Nonas, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Cauleen Smith, and Simon Starling, among many others. Group exhibitions include Ceramics in the Expanded Field (2021), The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night (2018), In the Abstract (2017), The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor (2014), Invisible Cities (2012), and The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility (2011), co-curated with Carla Herrera-Prats. Cross edited the first monographs on Da Corte, Crowner, Finch, and Glynn and is the co-editor of Sol LeWitt: 100 Views. Previously, she was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She has been a visiting lecturer in the art department at Williams College and serves on the board of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and on the advisory board of the Journal of the Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. She received an MA from Williams College and was a 2019 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.
Paul Efstathiou is the Director of Contemporary Art at Hollis Taggart Gallery in New York City and CT. Efstathiou is a second-generation art dealer and curator with 20 plus years of experience. Efstathiou has developed a well-trained and prescient eye, making him a successful dealer and curator of contemporary art. Paul is on the board of directors at the MoCA Westport Museum in CT. He has worked closely with 60 plus emerging and contemporary artists to date. Efstathiou is based both in New York City and Connecticut. He currently resides in Southport, CT with his wife and two children.
Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead; The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a blue-ribbon winner of the Montgomery Place Pie contest. She has been a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is mother to three, sister to five. She is a gardener and beekeeper; a singer and forest enthusiast in upstate New York.
Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York. He has organized numerous exhibitions including Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75, Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, and John Cage: The Sight of Silence, among others.
Amy Smith-Stewart is Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Since 2013 she has organized forty-two exhibitions and projects at the Museum. Her unique perspective has brought artists to The Aldrich during important stages of their careers including first time solo museum presentations with artists Milano Chow, Lucia Hierro, Genesis Belanger, Eva LeWitt, and Jessi Reaves, and survey shows with Jackie Winsor, Ruth Root, Suzanne McClelland, Harmony Hammond, and Karla Knight. Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art was named one of the best exhibitions of 2019 by the New York Times. The show traveled to the Sarasota Art Museum and was accompanied by the artist’s first monograph. Her current curatorial project is 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone (cocurated). It revisits the historic exhibition, Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard in 1971 and joins it with a new roster of twenty-six female identifying and nonbinary emerging artists to track the evolution of feminist art practices over half a century. Upcoming exhibitions include Hangama Amiri: A Homage to Home; Raven Halfmoon co-organized with Rachel Adams at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; and Chiffon Thomas.
Smith-Stewart has organized more than eighty exhibitions in museums, collections, galleries, and temporary spaces. She is founder of the eponymous nomadic curatorial project, Smith-Stewart, previously located on the Lower East Side from 2007–2009. She began her career as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), where she mounted nineteen exhibitions and projects including first time solo museum presentations with artists Adrian Paci, Mika Rottenberg, Taryn Simon, and Aleksandra Mir, as well as group exhibitions including Day Labor and Greater New York 2005 (cocurated). From 2006–2007, she was a Curatorial Advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery, where she organized a series of group exhibitions introducing a new generation of artists to the Gallery. She has organized exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum and was the 2006–2008 Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection. She has served on faculty at the School of the Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts department, and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art MA Contemporary Art program. Her writing has appeared in books and catalogues published by Taschen, Gregory R. Miller & Co., Revolver Publishing, Bates College Museum of Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Charta, Perrotin, among others.
In 2010, Douglas Turner began writing art journalism, beginning with his culture blog, “The Architecture of Tomorrow”. His art and culture writing has appeared in numerous independent print and digital publications. His essays can be found in catalog essays, collections, and in the form of book introductions as well. In 2014 he launched AOT Project Salon and began curating salon-style exhibitions in his home in Brooklyn, New York, and the Lower East Side until 2019. Douglas is a Resident Curator with Standard Space, a contemporary gallery in Sharon, CT, exhibiting contemporary works by emerging and mid-career artists across diverse media. His most recent project is the creation of the Black Femme Residency. The Spring 2021 residency was hosted by Wassaic Project in historic Dutchess County, upstate New York. He serves as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the M. Spencer Foundation.
douglas-turner.comCarolina Wheat (b.1974, Detroit, MI) received her BFA in textiles from University of Michigan Stamps School and MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written extensively about art, politics and culture, and has curated numerous socially conscientious large-scale exhibitions and events in Detroit, Berlin, London, Chicago, and New York. Wheat is co-founder and director of Elijah Wheat Showroom and is one of the founding members of the Nasty Women Exhibition movement. Her curatorial work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, Vulture, Hyperallergic, Fast Company, MAAKE Mag, The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, and China Daily, among others. Wheat has assisted The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, liaising with institutions on reproduction of Garbage Wall, 1970. As Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Parsons (NYC and Paris), SAIC, University of Michigan, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Cornish, etc., Wheat focused on strategic enrollment management, portfolio development, art-writing and professional practices. As radio producer and activist for Low-Power FM, Wheat collaborated with WCBN, FreeRadioSAIC, Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP), and the online platform Artfare where she broadcast 80+ weekly artist interviews. Carolina is now also Director at Fridman Gallery on the Bowery in NYC. In her role, she manages the gallery's program, liaising with incredible artists, and leading art-fair presentations.
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (b. 1992, Puerto Rico) is a curator and writer of contemporary art and craft interested in advocating for underrepresented communities, stories, materials, and approaches. She has curated and juried exhibitions across the United States, including at the Crocker Art Museum, CA, Mindy Solomon Gallery, FL, the Center for Craft, NC, Jane Hartsook Gallery, NY, and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), NY, among others. Vizcarrondo-Laboy has written for multiple exhibition catalogs and publications such as Cultured, American Craft magazine, and the Journal of Modern Craft. She is the creator and co-host of the Clay in Color podcast. Her upcoming exhibition Funk You Too!: Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, opens in March 2023 at MAD Museum.
Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies; Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile; and Su Shi’s East Slope. He is the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief, a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle, and an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life: An Autobiography. Yang has received fellowships from the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation. He edits books for New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.
Catalina Acosta-Carrizosa
Director of Collection Management and Special Projects at sokoloff + associates llc
Jenna Bond
Writer
Amie Cunat
Artist
de cabeza
Curators
Eden Deering
Curator and Director at PPOW
Marissa Del Toro
Curator • Art Historian
Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University
Alexandra Foradas
Curator at MASS MoCA • Art Historian
Jenny Gheith
Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Pablo Helguera
Artist • Educator
Hilma's Ghost
Artists
Jamillah Hinson
Curator
Taraka Larson
Musician • Artist
Jeff Kasper
Artist • Writer • Educator
Jova Lynne
Artist • Curator
Ryan Massey + Garrett Klein
Co-Directors + Co-Curators at Massey Klein Gallery
Emily McElwreath
Art Adviser • Independent Curator • Educator
Tracy McKenna
Independent Curator
Darla Migan
Art Critic • Philosopher
Nadiah Rivera Fellah
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Niama Safia Sandy
Cultural Anthropologist • Curator • Producer • Multidisciplinary Artist
Steven Sergiovanni
Curator • Art Advisor
Chris Bogia
Artist
Travis Chamberlain
Executive Director of Queer|Art
Jennie Goldstein
Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Michelle Grabner
Artist • Writer • Curator • Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kamra Sadia Hakim
Founder of Activation Residency
Katherine Hill
Writer • Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University
Roxanne Jackson
Artist
Ramsay Kolber
Curatorial Research Associate at Whitney Museum of American Art
Jared Ledesma
Senior Curator at the Akron Art Museum
Eileen Jeng Lynch
Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill
Max Marshall
Founder and Director of Deli Gallery
Rebecca Matalon
Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Leah Newman
Assistant Director at Thierry Goldberg Gallery
Celine Mo
Managing Partner of Dinner Gallery
Larry Ossei-Mensah
Curator • Critic • Co-Founder of ARTNOIR
Noam Parness
Assistant Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Kris Rac
Partner at Field Projects
Jennifer Rizzo
Director of Hashimoto Contemporary
Legacy Russell
Executive Director at The Kitchen
Yasmeen Siddiqui
Founding Director of Minerva Projects
James Williams II
Curator • Artist
Horace D. Ballard
Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art
Deanna Evans
Curator at Deanna Evans Projects
George Ferrandi
Artist
Paulina Ascencio Fuentes
Curator • Writer
Lauren Haynes
Senior Curator at Nasher Museum of Art
Junho Lee
Director/Founder of NARS Foundation
Eileen Jeng Lynch
Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill • Founder of Numeraki
Fabienne Laserre
Artist
Courtney Maum
Writer
Liz Nielsen
Artist • Co-Founder of Elijah Wheat Showroom
Paola Oxoa
Artist • Founder of MOTHER Gallery
Georgie Payne
Curator • Co-Founder of Dirt
Sheetal Prajapati
Artist • Educator • Founder of Lohar Projects
William J. Simmons
Writer • Curator • Art Historian
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
Assistant Curator at Museum of Arts and Design • Writer
Carolina Wheat Nielsen
Co-Founder and Director of Elijah Wheat Showroom
Gee Wesley
Founder and Co-Director of Ulises
Katie Angermeier Haab
Writer • Founder of The Second Shelf
Horace D. Ballard
Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art
Michael Barraco
Curator • Artist • Director of Programs and Education at Fairfield Museum
Giampolo Bianconi
Curator • Writer at MoMA
Barbara Bourland
Writer
Mike Calway-Fagen
Artist • Writer • Curator • Educator
Douglas Degges
Artist • Assistant Professor of Art at University of Connecticut
Alexandra Foradas
Curator at MASS MoCA • Art Historian
Hanna Girma
Senior Editor and Curator of Editorial Projects at Serpentine Galleries
Enrico Gomez
Artist • Curator • Director of The Dorado Project • Founder and Director of PROTO GOMEZ
Gabriel de Guzman
Curator • Director of Arts at Wave Hill
Larissa Harris
Curator • Executive Director at Teiger Foundation
Anna Harsanyi
Curator • Educator • Arts Manager
Pablo Helguera
Artist • Educator
Carmen Hermo
Associate Curator at the Brooklyn Museum
Lauren Hirshfield
Curator • Gallerist • Co-Founder of PARADICE PALASE
Richard Klein
Curator • Artist • Writer • Exhibitions Director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Oshun Layne
Consulting Curator at the Wassaic Project • Director of Operations at Dashboard
La Keisha Leek
Writer • Grants Management at MacArthur Foundation
Shaun Leonardo
Artist
Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres
Curators • Directors at LABspace
Ashley Mayne
Writer
Celine Mo
Curator • Managing Partner of Dinner Gallery
Lisa Panzera
Curator • Director of the Shirley Fiterman Art Center
Noam Parness
Assistand Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Sarah Potter
Founder and owner of SP Projects
Lauren Powell
Curator
Sharmistha Ray
Artist • Writer • Educator
Prerana Reddy
Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum
Ali Rosa-Salas
Director of Programming at Abrons Art Center
Daniel J. Sander
Assistant Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Artist
Jennifer Schmidt
Artist
Jason Stopa
Artist • Writer
Danielle Tegeder
Artist
Jasmine Wahi
Curator • Activist • Founder and Co-Director of Project For Empty Space
Gee Wesley
Arts organizer • Program Director of Recess
James Williams II
Curator • Artist • Faculty at MICA
Rebecca Wolff
Writer
Brian Alfred
Artist • Host of SOUND & VISION
Amara Antilla
Assistant Curator at The Guggenheim
Regine Basha
Curator • Residency Director at Pioneer Works
Mary Birmingham
Curator at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Adam Frelin
Artist • Educator
Jenny Gerow
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at BRIC
Enrico Gomez
Artist • Curator • Director of The Dorado Project • Founder and Director of M E N Gallery
Katherine Gressel
Artist • Curator at the Old Stone House
Shanti Grumbine
Artist
Rosario Güiraldes
Assistant Curator and Co-Director of Open Sessions at The Drawing Center
Gabriel de Guzman
Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon
Nicole Hayes
Curator of The Fields Sculpture Park and Gallery at Art Omi
Katerina Lanfranco
Artist • Educator
Oshun Layne
Curator • Director of Galleries at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
Taraka Larson
Artist • Prince Rama
La Keisha Leek
Curator • Manager of the Kenan Project: Public Programs & Creative Practice at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ace Lehner
Artist • Scholar
Sara Pasti
Neil C. Trager Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz
Sarah Potter
Curator • Founder and Owner of SP Projects
Sheetal Prajapati
Artist • Director of Public Engagement at Pioneer Works
Jess Wilcox
Curator • Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park