Alumni News

Awards

 

Melissa Joseph awarded a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture (New York, NY)

Derrick Adams named a 2026 Pratt Legends honoree (New York, NY)

Lauren Halsey named TIME100 Art 2026

Museum Exhibitions

 

Leilah Babirye opens Leilah Babirye: Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki) at ICA Boston (Boston, MA) 

Sarah Zapata opens Against A State of Malevolence at The Bass Museum of Art (Miami, FL)

Ornella Pocetti opens Curada de Espanto at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires ( Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Studio Lenca opens Hacer Lugar at LagoAlgo (Mexico City, Mexico)

Yashua Klos opens Cornerstones at Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture (Charlotte, NC)

Yashua Klos acquired by The Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, IN) and by The Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (AMOCA) (Cardiff, Wales)

Yashua Klos and Derrick Adams  included in Rise Through Everything: Geometry, Rhythm, and Gesture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, IN)

Emily Velez Nelms included in CCAM Thinking at Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (New Haven, CT)

Zoe Walsh opens Gathering at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  (Los Angeles, CA)

Adama Delphine Fawundu opens We be the luminous blues… at Lenfest Center for the Arts (New York, NY).

Pacifico Silano opens Undercover Pleasures at Biennale Images Vevey 2026 (Vevey, Switzerland)

Kennedy Yanko opens Ce qui nous rassemble at at Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, France)

Portia Munson included in Sequesterings at the Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver (Denver, CO)

Joiri Minaya included in Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)

Ad Minoliti included in Una Obsesión por las Flores at LagoAlgo (Mexico City, Mexico)

Autumn Knight opens I Can’t Complain at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK)

Malaika Temba included in Fade at The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY)

Sagarika Sundaram opens Reservoir at the Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, UK)

Miles Greenberg presents Douze études académiques at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris, France)

Tariku Shiferaw opens Hulet Semāi (Two Skies) at the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV)

Antonius-Tín Bui acquired by The Block Museum of Art and included in The Block Collects 2026 (Evanston, IL)

Nao Bustamante included in Telenovela at Art at Americas Society (New York, NY)

Renée Cox included in Visible Fictions: Photography and Artifice at the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL)

Monsieur Zohore included in Material Witness at the Rubell Museum DC (Washington, DC)

Sagarika Sundaram opens Reservoir at The Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Joiri Minaya aquired by The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)

Joiri Minaya included in Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)

Sonya Blesofsky included in How We Work: Smack Mellon at 30 at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY)

Shepard Fairey creates two permanent murals, Nadya Power & Equality and Cultivate Peace, at the Artemizia Foundation (Bisbee, AZ)

Adama Delphine acquired by the Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH)

Patricia Ayres opens three permanent public sculpture commissions on the High Line (New York, NY)

Miguel Braceli presents Flagpole Piñata Party, a participatory performance at Governors Island (New York, NY)

Sable Elyse Smith opens Clockwork at The FLAG Art Foundation (New York, NY).

Derrick Adams, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Nate Lewis, Kambui Olujimi, and Deborah Roberts included in Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz at the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY).

Leilah Babirye participates in To Pass from One Dream to Another at the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (Lyon, France)

Press

 

Maya Weishof featured in Hyperallergic

Adama Delphine Fawundu published in Black Copper Arts, Sacred Roots: Unveiling the Mystical Tapestry of Ancestry, Issue No. 4.

Marcela Cantuária featured in Veja Rio

Rashid Johnson Featured in Time 

Studio Lenca published in The Unibrow, Issue 3

Melissa Joseph published in BOMB Magazine and featured in CULTURED 

Sagarika Sundaram featured in The Times

Guillermo García Cruz featured in El Economista

Patricia Ayres featured in The Art Newspaper

Leilah Babirye‍ ‍featured in The New York Times

Francesca DiMattio featured in hube magazine

Helina Metaferia is featured in ESSENCE.

Exhibitions

 

Mira Dayal opens Nets at Print Center New York (New York, NY)

Devin B. Johnson included in In Good Company at GYRE Gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo)

Hew Locke opens The Wanderers at P·P·O·W Gallery (New York, NY)

Christiane Peschek opens PHOENIX CASTLE at SANATORIUM (Istanbul, Turkey)

Miguel Braceli included in Ejercicios de Permanencia at Sorondo Projects (Barcelona, Spain)

Guillermo García Cruz opens 𝘐𝘮𝘢́𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘴 at Proyectos Monclova Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico)

Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo included in fèy palmis at 5-50 Gallery (Long Island City, NY)

dach&zephir open SOUVENANCES at Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées (Paris, France)

Sarah Zapata opens In escape from the vices of idleness at Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY) 

Marcelo Canevari opens Fuerza mayor at COTT Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Melissa Joseph opens Casserole Culture at Charles Moffett (New York, NY)

Anthony Akinbola included in The Second Body  at Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA)

Tommy Kha opens Facades at Candela Photographic Arts (Richmond, VA

John Edmonds opens The Space Between at Company Gallery (New York, NY)

Gabriel Chaile opens Volverme Pequeño para habitar lo Grande at Cecilia Brunson Projects (London, UK)

Umar Rashid opens There are other worlds than these at Tokyo Gendai as the inaugural AMA Artist Award recipient (Yokohama, Japan)

Patricia Ayres included in Nocturnal at David Zwirner (Hong Kong)

Mira Dayal included in By Ear at RAINRAIN (New York, NY)

Narsiso Martinez opens Eat Happy at Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

Olivia Jia opens Faun at The Approach (London, UK)

Bridget Mullen opens Who Needs Muscles If Nothing Is Heavy? at Nazarian / Curcio (Los Angeles, CA)

Didier William included in WITNESS at Inman Gallery (Houston, TX)

Ato Ribeiro included in Material Poesy at Spruill Gallery (Dunwoody, GA)

Maya Weishof opens Room of Masks at Almeida & Dale (São Paulo, Brazil).

Regina Durante Jestrow opens Strips, Stripes, Pieces, Parts at Ivester Contemporary (Austin, TX).

Deana Lawson opens‍ ‍Deana Lawson at Gagosian (New York, NY).

Meet the current Artists-in-Residence

Lihi Turjeman shot by Alex Nuñez