Justine Kurland MFA ’98 was recently interviewed by The Guardian about her new book, SCUMB Manifesto, a collection of collaged images from renowned books by white male photographers. The project, Kurland notes, is inspired by Valeria Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. The acronym for Kurland’s project is the same, with the addition of “B” which stands for …

As a burgeoning collector, Vaughn Spann ’18 constantly on the lookout for promising young talents gathering momentum, and older artists whose flowers are long overdue. Since he started acquiring works in earnest in 2018, Spann’s collection has grown to include more than 150 works—many of them by an intergenerational swathe of Black artists that includes Alteronce Gumby, Stanley Whitney, Titus Kaphar, and Otis Kwame …

The Yale Center for British Art Director Courtney Martin ’09 PhD organized the first American museum survey in more than 20 years of Bridget Riley, an artist who has been celebrated in Britain as a national treasure.  The exhibition, Bridget Riley: Perpetual Abstraction, is on display at the YCBA until July 24, 2022. Britain’s pre-eminent abstract painter looks anew at …

On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2500 applicants, these successful applicants were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. Listed below is 7 …

Kehinde Wiley MFA ’01, the official portraitist of former president Barack Obama, fills the London National Gallery’s Sunley Room with five paintings and a six-channel digital film. For his film, Prelude, Kehinde “cast” a group of black Londoners whom he met in Soho, taking them to the north of Norway. Shooting began just as the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The film is …

Stanley Whitney MFA ’72 is another Yale artists featured at the 2022 Venice Biennale. His exhibition, ​​the Italian Paintings, is organized by Buffalo AKG Art Museum and on display until November 27 2022.  Co-curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, …

Kehinde Wiley MFA ’01 is another Yale artist featured at the Venice Biennale. His exhibition, An Archaeology of Silence, is organized by Musée d’Orsay and is on display until July 24, 2022.  Curated by Christophe Leribault, An Archaeology of Silence includes a collection of new monumental paintings and sculptures, expanding on Kehinde Wiley’s body of work DOWN from 2008. Initially …

Aki Sasamoto is one of 5 Yale artists featured at the 59th Venice Biennale. Sasamoto is a New York-based, Japanese artist who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues in New York and abroad. Besides her own works, …

Christina Quarles  is one of 5 Yale artists being featured at the 59th exhibition of the Venice Biennale. She received an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 2016 and holds a B.A. from Hampshire College. Quarles was a 2016 participant at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. She paints bodies that are subjected not only to the …

Elle Pérez is is one of 5 Yale artists being featured at the 59th exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Since receiving their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015, Pérez has worked primarily in photography, depicting the intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details of their subjects and landscapes. Based in the Bronx, Pérez lives and works in New …