|
Zoe Leonard Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute 47- 49 E 65th Street Wednesday, October 8, 2025 7 PM click HERE to RSVP
Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an artist working with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Leonard reframes the act of looking itself as a complex and consequential process and questions how photography shapes our perceptions. Taking a conceptual approach and engaging with materiality and formal composition, Leonard works across a range of themes such as gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, and displacement. Her work invites us to contemplate the ways photography can be used to construct both public and private narratives and histories. In recent years, her work has focused on photography’s roles in claiming territory and building nationalist narratives about land, possession, identity, and belonging. To quote the artist; “I am considering how photography can chart a new path of counter-narratives and liberatory gestures of un-building, re-thinking, and re-making how we see and engage with land, history, and each other.” Leonard has exhibited widely since the early 1990s. Her recent work Al río / to the River is on view at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas through June 2025. A retrospective exhibition was presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2018. Other solo exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY, Museo Reina Sofia, Kunsthalle Basel, and Vienna Secession. Leonard has participated in international group shows such as the Carnegie International in 2018, Documenta 9, Documenta 12, and Whitney Biennials in 1993, 1997 and 2014. Leonard has been the recipient of awards and grants such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, Graham Foundation Grant, the Bucksbaum Award, Anonymous was a Woman Award, and Creative Capital Grant. Leonard taught at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College where she served as Co-Chair of Photography from 2011-2015. She is a founding member of the queer artist collective fierce pussy, which has been active since 1991.
|
2024-2025 Master’s Thesis Showcase
MASO and the Department of Art and Art History are thrilled to announce the 2024-2025 Master’s Thesis Showcase, an event designed to spotlight the research of Master’s graduates in Art History.
The evening will feature presentations by Coty Heinz, Yuya Kawata, Antonia Machado Oliver, Nico Poblete, Jessie Polk, Ava Romano, Mary Thompson, and Julie Treumann, as well as faculty and student discussions moderated by event chair Nick Bennett. Download the full program here.
2024-2025 Master’s Thesis Showcase
Friday, May 9
6:00-8:00pm
Kossak Lecture Hall (1527 HN)
695 Park Avenue
Open to the public; RSVP essential.
Hosted by MASO and the Department of Art and Art History.
MASO Conversations: Jovanna Venegas
MASO Conversations: Jovanna Venegas
Friday, April 11
5:00-6:30pm
Kossak Lecture Hall (1527 Hunter North)
695 Park Avenue
Friday, April 11
5:00-6:30pm
Kossak Lecture Hall (1527 Hunter North)
695 Park Avenue
Please join us for a conversation with SculptureCenter’s Jovanna Venegas on her recent projects and current research. Venegas currently serves as curator of SculptureCenter in New York, where she has organized projects and exhibitions with Alexa West, ASMA, and Luana Vitra (upcoming). From 2017 to 2023, she was at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ending her tenure as associate curator of contemporary art. During her time there, she curated exhibitions with Fernando Palma Rodríguez (2023) and Liz Hernández (2021) and co-organized New Work: Wu Tsang (2021); Shifting the Silence (2022); the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales (2023-2024). Additionally, she served as curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022 on the U.S./Mexico border region.
Full Moon, Walking / Opens March 6
Lauren Orchowski: Full Moon, Walking
Curated by Virginia Inés Vergara
March 6, 2025 to April 10, 2025
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 4:30 pm-7:00 pm.
Sweet Flypaper Gallery, 11th floor Hunter North
Visitors are asked to obtain a pass from the security desk on East 68th Street between Lexington and Park Ave.
Sweet Flypaper Gallery, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History is proud to present “Full Moon, Walking” a survey exhibition of Lauren Orchowski’s artwork spanning over twenty years, curated by Virginia Inés Vergara. Orchowski’s large format photo-based processes use lived experiences to conjure up otherworldly landscapes. Images of Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds, constructed throughout the United States, and photographed through cross country road trips, are displayed next to mural size nightscapes, mixing alternative photographic methods, painting, and sculpture to leave the viewer immersed in her sublime creations. “Full Moon, Walking” will include an artist talk on April 1, 2025 at 5:45PM, in room 1604 of Hunter North, sponsored by the Sainsbury Initiative.
Lindsey White: What? Is? Higher? Arts? Education?
Lindsey White: What? Is? Higher? Arts? Education?
Join us for an artist talk and book launch with San Francisco-based artist and educator Lindsey White on Thursday, February 13th, 7-8:30pm. White will be joined in conversation by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Professor of Art and Ruth Stanton Chair, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History. What? Is? Art? (Colpa Press, 2024) is a collection of photographs made on the pandemic-empty campus of the San Francisco Art Institute, where White taught for over a decade as an Adjunct, Assistant, and Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair. What? Is? Art? also includes writings by nine professors who teach in private art schools or public art departments across thecountry. The texts and images memorialize and contemplate the complexity ofarts education in this protracted moment of instability while cementing theimportance of building collective support systems within institutions.
Flex Space / 205 Hudson Street
Thursday, February 13, 2025
7–8:30pm
MFA Thesis Part III Opens December 12
December 12–22
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 12, 6–9pm
Tucker Claxton
Paula De Martino
Stevie Knauss
Nicki Koning
RIDIKKULUZ
Aldrin Regina Valdez
MFA Thesis Part II opens November 21
Perfume of a Thousand Things
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
November 21–December 3
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 21, 6–9pm
Danielle Alhassid
Jennifer Blaine
Maja-Lisa Flodin-Ali
Eunha Kim
Jin Mateo Kim
Noa Raviv
MFA Thesis opens November 8
November 7–17
Opening Reception: Friday, November 8, 6–9pm
Catie Dillon
James Elam
Hwi Hahm
David Moy
Michael Anthony Simon
Byungsuk Yoon
https://www.huntermfastudio.org/fall-2024-thesis-exhibitions
Acts of Art in Greenwich Village / Opens November 7
Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
November 7, 2024 – March 29, 2025
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Public Opening Reception – RSVP HERE
Thursday, November 7, 6-8pm
The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, the first comprehensive account of the six-year history of Acts of Art, a gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of Black artists in downtown Manhattan.
Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Reginald Gammon, Harlan Jackson, Nigel Jackson, Ben Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Enid Richardson Moore, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, Hale Woodruff
Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art.
Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar.
This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund Endowment. The exhibition’s catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
Amy Sillman Zabar Visiting Artist Lecture / October 23
Amy Sillman
Zabar Visiting Artist Lecture
Wednesday, October 23, 7pm
Flex Space at 205 Hudson
Andrea Blum Lecture / October 9
Andrea Blum: ROOTS/ROUTES
2nd Floor Flexspace, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013
Wednesday, October 9, 7–8:30pm
RSVP
Join us at 205 Hudson’s Flex Space on Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm for a lecture presented in conjunction with current exhibition Andrea Blum: BIOTA. The presentation will cover Blum’s works made for public spaces throughout the United States and Europe beginning in the 1970s, as well as more recent works including sculpture, video, and digital images. A conversation with exhibition guest curator Jenny Jaskey and a Q&A will follow the talk. RSVP at the link HERE.
The lecture will be held in the 2nd floor Flex Space at the Hunter MFA Building (205 Hudson Street), which is accessible by elevator through both the gallery and the main building entrance. Staff will be present to guide visitors. For questions about accessibility, please email hcag@hunter.cuny.edu. A recording of the this event will be available on the exhibition website following the discussion.
Andrea Blum: BIOTA is on view through October 26. 205 Hudson Gallery is open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm. All Hunter College Art Galleries events are free and open to the public.
Fall 2024 Judith Zabar Visiting Artist: Suzanne McClelland / September 18, 7pm
Suzanne McClelland
Judith Zabar Visiting Artist / Fall 2024
Artist Lecture
September 18, 7pm
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY 10065
RSVP to: spevents@hunter.cuny.edu
Suzanne McClelland has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad since the early 1990s. Her practice includes large-scale paintings, works on paper, and books. These often extract fragments of speech or text from various political or cultural sources, explore the social, symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language, and celebrate the physicality of speech and sound. McClelland parses such issues as the limitations and malleability of communication, the impact technology has on interpreting information, and the mechanics of translation. Her works are infused with social commentary, underscoring the way in which language itself is gendered and politicized by its context.
McClelland is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC. She has participated in the 1993 and 2014 Whitney Biennials and has been the subject of solo presentations at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart; The University of Virginia Museum of Art, curated by Jennifer Farrell; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris branch, curated by Thelma Golden. Her paintings are held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Albright-Knox Gallery, and The Walker Art Center. Awards and residencies include Guggenheim Fellowship, PS1/ Clocktower Artist Residency, Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Lab Grant Residency with Dieu Donne Papermill Lab Grant, Visiting Artist with Urban Glass and Resident Artist in 1999 and 2022 with Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she has served on the board of governors since 2000. Recent publications include the monograph “Suzanne McClelland: 36-24-36” with an essay contribution by Thierry de Duve, published by team (gallery, inc.) distributed by D.A.P.
About the Judith Zabar Visiting Artist Program
In November 2007, Hunter College received a generous commitment to establish the Judith Zabar Visiting Artist Program Fund. The Fund has allowed Hunter to bring a series of internationally recognized artists to campus to work directly with students in the MFA program, in master classes, critical seminars, and private tutorials, providing students with the unique opportunity to interact with top practitioners in the field. Zabar Visiting Artists also present public lectures where they discuss their work, engage in conversation with members of Hunter’s faculty, and with Hunter’s broader student community and the general public.
Past Zabar artists have included: Vito Acconci, Janine Antoni, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Ault, Kevin Beasley, Robert Barry, Dawoud Bey, Tania Bruguera, Patty Chang, Mel Chin, Peter Doig, Charles Gaines, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, Joan Jonas, Jeff Koons, David Lamelas, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Lockhart, Marie Losier, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Tracey Moffatt, Wangechi Mutu, My Barbarian, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Sondra Perry, Elizabeth Peyton, Paul Pfeiffer, William Pope L., Walid Ra’ad, Yvonne Rainer, Doris Salcedo, Shahzia Sikander, Cauleen Smith, Frances Stark, Fred Tomaselli, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, and Stanley Whitney.
Andrea Blum: BIOTA / September 4 – October 26
Andrea Blum: BIOTA presents the culmination of a 40-year body of work by New York-based artist—and former Hunter College art professor—Andrea Blum. Designed as a tableau vivant, the exhibition includes sculpture, video, and images that center on constructions of the natural world and relations between humans and non-humans. An illustrated monograph to accompany the exhibition will be published in early 2025.
Andrea Blum: BIOTA is guest curated by Jenny Jaskey and organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries. Graduate curatorial fellows: Haley Kane and Antonia Oliver.
This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop Fund, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the Red Painters Fund, Jill Brienza, Agnes Gund, Jane Katcher, and other private donors. The publication has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Estate of Tony Feher, and a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
SAVE THE DATE
Andrea Blum Public Lecture: October 9, 7pm
2nd Floor Flexspace, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal)
New York, NY 10013
RSVP Here
Andrea Blum will speak about her work from the 1970s to the present, covering works for the public space throughout the United States and Europe, as well as more recent works including sculpture, video, and digital images. The talk will be followed by a conversation with guest curator Jenny Jaskey.