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 …

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones ’17 MFA is one of 9 Yale artists at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Representing Nigeria, Jones’ work is included in the exhibition titled Nigeria Imaginary, where Jones reimagines Nigerian Modernism in a new piece, “Celestial Gathering.” The pavilion can be found Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro 3121 (Rio terà Canal). In a video interview on the exhibit, Jones has said, …

Darja Bajagić ‘14 MFA is one of 9 Yale alumni artists featured in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Her exhibit, It Takes an Island to Feel This Good, is included in Montenegro’s national pavilion, which you can find at Ospedaletto, Castello 6691 (Barbaria delle Tole). In an interview with ArtReview on the exhibit, Bajagić has said My exhibition … presents a critical …

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) ‘14 MFA is one of 9 Yale alumni artists featured in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Puppies Puppies has two pieces on display at the Biennale. Elena Ketelsen González describes: A Sculpture for Trans Women… (2023) is a life-size bronze sculpture taken from a 3-D scan of the artist’s body. Emblazoned with the word “WOMAN”, the …

Lauren Halsey ’14 MFA, one of 9 Yale artists at the 2024 Venice Biennale, has received lots of attention for her contributions to Biennale’s main exhibition. Her “Keepers of the Krown” sculptures are a collection of pillars with hieroglyphs that depict sphinxified portraits of artists and friends from the South Central LA neighborhood from which Halsey hails. Jasmine Sanders with …

In honor of the start of the opening week of the 2024 Venice Biennale, under the theme Foreigners Everywhere, The Yale Alumni Art League, the Yale Alumni Association, the Yale School of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art, hosted Pablo Delano ’79 MFA in conversation with YCBA Deputy Director and Chief Curator Martina Droth. Delano’s exhibition,The Museum of …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …