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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Brut. journalist Fatima D. spoke with rising art star Alteronce Gumby about repurposing broken glass in his latest work ahead of his show at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. A graduate of Yale’s prestigious MFA program in art, his work has since appeared in institutions like the National Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The …

Vani Bhushan, who graduated in 2025 from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in photography was recently featured in Aperture’s “Introducing” Series, which highlights exciting new voices in photography. Bhushan spoke with Kamayani Sharma about her MFA project, which includes a collection of photos of Delhi, India. One untitled series and another called Waiting on images that won’t …

Interdisciplinary artist Marie Watt MFA ’96 was recently named one of two winners of the 2025 Heinz for the Arts award, given by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and which comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000 for the winners. 2025 marks the 30th year that the Hertz Family Foundation has offered the award in honor of US Senator …

Jennifer Packer MFA ’12 was recently named one of two winners of the 2025 Heinz for the Arts award, given by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and which comes with an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000 for the winners. 2025 marks the 30th year that the Hertz Family Foundation has offered the award in honor of US Senator John Heinz …