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 …