About this Event Join Yale alumni and friends for an engaging afternoon with world class alumni and specialists in the Arts as we get an in-depth look into the contemporary arts scene during the internationally acclaimed Art Miami. Whether you are a seasoned collector, avid art enthusiast, practitioner, or just beginning your artistic journey, this event is for you. The …
Hrvoje Slovenc MFA’10 releases DIS/Inheritance: New Croatian Photography
Hrvoje Slovenc MFA’10, along with Don Mengay and Linda Mateljan, released DIS/Inheritance: New Croatian Photography, a collection of contemporary photography from nine Croatian photographers, including Slovenc himself. The photography comes from a variety of backgrounds, from academic to professional, all united under a Croatian heritage. The book features some photography which “emphasize[s] formal, aesthetic concerns related to framing, light, and …
April 18: Venice Biennale event with Pablo Delano MFA ’79 and Martina Droth
When: April 18th, 2024 Where: Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, P.za San Marco, 1332/1238, 30100 Venezia VE, Italy When: 4pm-6pm Join us for an engaging in-person conversation with exhibiting artist, Pablo Delano, MFA and Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art, Martina Droth at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. They will share their insights and experiences in the Biennale …
9 Yale Alumni Artists at the 60th Venice Biennale
The 60th exhibition of the Venice Biennale opens on April 20th. This show’s theme Foreigners Everywhere, takes the term “foreigner,” to refer broadly to all manner of marginalizations from mainstream society. With 331 artists represented in the main exhibition (including 3 Yale alumni artists) and many more in simultaneous national exhibitions around Venice (including 3 more Yale alumni artists), the …
Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 Designed 2023 Paris Fashion Week Stage for Dior
Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 created the backdrop stage design for Dior’s 2023 Paris Fashion Week show. ArtNews’ Angelica Villa writes, “Mounted on the walls surrounding the museum’s runway floor were collaged black and white images of 13 Black female performers, Josephine Baker, Diahann Carroll, Marpessa Dawn, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone being among them. Their images, which were overlaid with …
March 23-April 27th: Henry Finkelstein MFA ’83: Paintings
From March 23 to April 27th, 2024, head over to Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas to see the work of Henry Finkelstein MFA ’83. Of the exhibition, Finkelstein says, “These are paintings I did mostly in France over the last two years; first in the town of Sainte-Alvère in the Périgord, and more recently in Northern Brittany near Pommerit-le-Vicomte. …
April 5-July 27, 2024 Suzanne Chamlin MFA’89: Studies in Color
From April 5 to July 27th, head over to Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries to see the recent work of Suzanne Chamlin MFA ’89. On April 4th, the exhibit’s opening night, hear a lecture from Chamlin herself. From the exhibit’s website: “In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape …
Melinda Blauvelt MFA ’73 Photography Featured in Brantville
Recently, Blind Magazine‘s Max Hirschfield wrote a feature on Melinda Blauvelt MFA ’73 and the 2023 Brantville, which includes photos Blauvelt took in Brantville, New Brunswick in the summer of 1972. Blauvelt, the first woman graduate of Yale’s MFA photography program, trained under the renowned rural chronicler Walker Evans, the legacy of which you can see in the photos included …
“Shining Light on Truth” Exhibit Designed by David Jon Walker MFA’23 on Display in New Haven until Sept. 1, 2024
Last week, New Haven Museum’s newest exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery” opened to the public. You may visit for free until September 1, 2024. The exhibition, designed by David Jon Walker MFA ’23, celebrates Black resistance and community. Curators Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr excavated from the archive of New Haven and …
Ana Benaroya MFA ’19 Featured on Art Basel
Art Basel’s Chloë Ashby recently featured the work of Ana Benaroya MFA ’19 in a piece titled, “Transcending gender with muscles and manicures.” In it, Ashby highlights Benaroya’s aesthetic trajectory from Renaissance art to depicting women that embodied both hyper-masculine and hyper-feminine traits. You can find the full feature here. Photo Credit: Ana Benaroya. The Devil May Care, 2023. Courtesy …
Awol Erizku MFA ’14 featured in Blind Magazine
Awol Erizku MFA ’14 was recently featured in Blind Magazine celebrating what Miss Rosen calls a “groundbreaking…monograph” whose “sparkling phantasmagoria…brings to mind the riddle of a Sphinx.” You can find the work, Mystic Parallax, here. You can read the full news feature here. Photo Credit: Awol Erizku. Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009. from Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax (Aperture, 2023). …
Yale 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions, January 20-May 21, 2024
The Yale School of Art annually hosts an MFA thesis exhibition that showcases the culmination of two years of intensive work from all its 2024 MFA candidates, from painting /printmaking to graphic design, from sculpture to photography. You can see the work of the newest soon-to-be Yale alumni artists at the dates below. All thesis exhibitions and receptions are held …