Recently, Vogue ran a feature of 29 must-see art exhibitions in America this fall. 2 Yale artists, Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 and Barkley L. Hendricks BFA/MFA ’72, and their fall 2023 exhibitions made it on the list. Learn more about the two exhibitions and artists below: Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space “The present confronts the past in …

Genevieve Gaignard MFA ’14’s photography is currently on display at a temporary exhibition at Los Angeles’s 7th Street / Metro Center Station. Part of the LA Metro Lightbox Exhibition Program, the untitled exhibition intertwines issues of race, class and gender, and “is an investigation of the aesthetic and cultural divide between white and black, a chasm as palpable as it …

Recently, The New York Times‘s Aruna D’Souza profiled Wangechi Mutu MFA ’00 in the leadup to her New Museum exhibition, “Intertwined,” an ambitious survey of the artist’s prolific career. The profile, titled “An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny” explores how Mutu blends evolutionary history, science fiction, and her bicontinental life experience into sculpture. …

Prem Krishnamurthy BA ’99 was recently featured in ArtNews for his part in curating Cleveland’s FRONT Triennial, whose theme this year is healing. The exhibition, “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” was also organized by Art21 chief curator Tina Kukielski. According to ArtNews, the exhibition “sprawls across Cleveland and the nearby cities of Akron and Oberlin—a region whose primary industry, …

At the end of March, Pauli Murray College unveiled a mosaic mural by Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02, that, as Tina Lu, head of Pauli Murray College put it would be “monumental,” “enduring,” and “challenging.” Made with thousands of varying-sized enamel tiles, the mural features a giant black-and-white image of a smiling Pauli Murray as a young adult, gazing out toward …

Recently, Alteronce Gumby MFA ’16 was interviewed by Ashley Tiner at Vice’s I-D on the cosmic influence on his work. Tiner describes how, “Alteronce pushes colour theory into a liberatory space — troubling colour’s use as a tool to interpret human value, and instead using it to transport us past social structures into subconscious territories.” We radicalize color for our own intention. …

The New York Times Style Magazine recently featured an article, What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now? , which centered around a photo and video shoot that Shikeith MFA ’18 organized and shot. On the project, Shikeith says, I pitched this idea in May 2021, [after] the 30th anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s “Tongues Untied.” …

Recently The Cut‘s Art and Soul writer Anna Furman interviewed Christina Quarles MFA ’16 about “becoming a mother, measuring success in the art market, and traveling around Europe with her unconventional queer family.” Quarles, best known for her fantastical and prismatic paintings with impossibly contortioning racially ambiguous characters, has quickly risen to fame after debuting at the 2022 Venice Biennale …

Howardena Pindell ’67 MFA is among the artists featured in the MOMA’s exhibition, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, which runs through February 18, 2023. As New York Times reporter,  Aruna D’Souza notes that the exhibition honors JAM, a gallery space “founded by the artist and social activist Linda Goode Bryant in 1974 at 50 West 57th Street. Over the next 12 years …

YAAL would like to kick off the new year honoring 3 Yale MFAs included in Artsy‘s “10 MFA Grads on the Rise in 2022.” Rachael Anderson MFA ’22, Bhasha Chakrabarti MFA ’22, and athena quispe MFA ’22. Read more at the Artsy article here. Photo Credit: Portrait of Bhasha Chakrabarti by Merik Goma. Courtesy of Bhasha Chakrabarti.