Structure, Not Sculpture: Rasheed Araeen 1964-1975 When: October 29, 2026, 6–7 pm ET Where: Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue Register here. About this program In the second lecture of this two-part series, join Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Executive Director Courtney J. Martin as she discusses Rasheed Araeen’s concept of participatory transformation. Central to the seminal artist’s mid-career and …
Sept. 18 Paul Mellon Lecture with Courtney J. Martin ’09PhD | Rasheed Araeen: Modern, Minimal, Practical, and Social
Rasheed Araeen: What is Black Art? When: Sept. 18, 2026 6-7PM ET Where: Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue Register here. About this program In the first lecture of this two-part series, join Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Executive Director Courtney J. Martin for an overview of Rasheed Araeen’s practice from the early 1960s to the present. The lecture will …
Felandus Thames MFA ’10 Featured by ArtNews
Recently, Yale MFA alum Felandus Thames MFA ’10 was interviewed for a feature in ArtNews about his beaded portraits of Black luminaries, some of which were featured in the inaugural Aldrich Decennial, which highlights the work of 40 artists living and working in Connecticut. On his work, Thames says, “I guess part of what I’m trying to express with the …
Yancey Richardson presents Yale ’26 MFA photography graduates in group exhibition
From August 12 through August 28, 2026, Yancey Richardson in New York City is holding “Once More, With Feeling,” a group exhibition which showcases the work of the 2026 Yale MFA graduates in photography: Christian Badach, Chen Xiangyun, Jasmine Clarke, Faith Couch, Christopher Postlewaite, Olivia Reavey, John Shen, Em Wall and Andrew Warner. The exhibit, curated by Archie Caride and …
61st Venice Biennale — Yale Pavilion
Below are the Yale alumni artists represented at this year’s 61st Venice Biennale. Organized around the theme In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, this year’s events will run from Saturday May 9th to Sunday November 22 2026 at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues, and in various locations around Venice. On May 7th, you may like to join Tammy Nguyen MFA …
May 7: Venice Biennale event with Tammy Nguyen MFA ’13 and Martina Droth
When: May 7, 2026 Where: Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, P.za San Marco, 1332, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy When: Conversation 4:00-5:00pm CET Reception 5:00-6:00pm CET Join us for an engaging in-person conversation with exhibiting artist, Tammy Nguyen, MFA, and Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art, Martina Droth at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Nguyen and Droth will …
Meg Webster MFA ’84 featured in The New York Times
In advance of the end of her two-year exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery, The New York Times’ Zoë Lescaze covers Meg Webster MFA ’84 and the transient sculptures that have shaped her career. Zoe writes, Unlike many sculptors who spend their careers crafting objects designed to outlast them, Webster has made an uneasy peace with loss. Many of her …
Taína Cruz MFA ’25 Art Studio Featured in CULTURED Mag
Recently, CULTURED Mag‘s Julia Halperin interviewed Taína Cruz MFA ’25 ahead of Cruz being the youngest artist in this year’s Biennial. Halperin also got a tour of Cruz’s New Haven studio. She writes, The native New Yorker (b. 1998) began making waves in the art world with her paintings of ghoulish, grimacing figures. She managed to secure gallery representation (with …
Antonia Kuo MFA ’18 Awarded 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize
At the end of 2025, New York-based interdisciplinary artist and 2018 Yale MFA graduate Antonia Kuo was awarded the 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize. On Kuo’s work, Foundwork prize judge Hugo Vitrani wrote, “A first inattentive glance might suggest that Antonia Kuo’s pieces have nothing to do with photography—or, conversely, that her pieces contain nothing pictorial. By stretching languages and the very boundaries of …
Jan. 26-Mar. 21: Devan Shimoyama MFA ’14: SHIFT
When: January 26 to March 21, 2026 Where: Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro New Jersey Opening Reception: Wednesday February 4th 2026 at 5-7pm. Alumni artist Devan Shimoyama MFA ’14 will present new work in his regional debut, SHIFT from January 26 to March 21, 2026 at the Rowan University Art Gallery and Museum in Glassboro, New Jersey. An …