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 …

From October 27 to December 12, 2025, Yale School of Art alumna Daphne Arthur MFA ’09 has an ongoing solo exhibition, Fragile Intangibilities at Washington and Lee University’s Stanier Gallery. On the exhibition: Fragile Intangibilities “features 11 hand-sewn silk organza camping tents. Each tent bears ink drawings inspired by interviews Arthur conducted with fellow first-generation immigrants and migrants in New …

Alongside LaKela Brown, Yale School of Art alumnus Mario Moore MFA ’13 is showcased in the Detroit exhibition “Beneath Our Feet,” on view at the Library Street Collective, 1274 Library Street, Detroit, through July 30, 2025. As K.A. Letts with New City Arts describes the exhibition: “In ‘Beneath Our Feet,’ Detroit-born artists LaKela Brown and Mario Moore engage in an …

Fatimah Tuggar ’95 MFA is one of 9 Yale artists at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Representing Nigeria, Tuggar’s work is included in the exhibition titled Nigeria Imaginary, where she uses AI and AR (augmented reality) to present a utopic vision for a new Nigeria. The pavilion can be found Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro 3121 (Rio terà Canal). On the exhibit, the Yinka …