CURRENT:
Ulises: Assembly, TUAG, August 13–November 10, 2024.
New Relicism (featuring Fred Schmidt-Arenales and Maia Chao), Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts and Oregon Contemporary, forthcoming 2025.
an archive and/or a repertoire (working title), TUAG, January 29–April 19, 2025.
Mira Dayal: conjunctions (working title), Fuller Rosen Gallery, February 07–March 16, 2025.
Guest Critic and Essayist, Low-Residency MFA Program, MICA, 2024.
ARCHIVE:
in collaboration with curator Jackson Davidow, As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston at TUAG, January 24–April 21, 2024.
in collaboration with Jackson Davidow and Noam Parness, Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant at TUAG, January 24–April 21, 2024.
Magical Thinking, November 10–12, 2023, co-convened with manuel arturo abreu and Director of Public Engagement Lisa Dent, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, May 12–August 20, 2023, supported by Maya Brooks, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.*^
Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, February 23–April 21, 2023, supported by Anne Thompson, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.*^
Press:
Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington College welcomes multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas (4/5/2023).
[Voicings], February 11–April 15, 2023, featuring the work of Mira Dayal, Dominique Duroseau, JJJJJerome Ellis, Nikita Gale, Gordon Hall, Joseph Keckler, Matthew Keegan, Christine Sun Kim, Amiko Li, Sahra Motalebi, Artspace New Haven, CT.^
Press:
New Haven Independent, Artists Find And Lose Their Voices, Brian Slattery (3/23/23)
Ilana Harris-Babou: Revelations, September 17–December 3, 2022. Support for this exhibition came from Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund.*^
Press:
Yale Daily News, Artspace’s New Exhibitions Set Out to Challenge the Status Quo, Fatou M’Baye (10/13/22)
New Haven Independent, Artspace Dives Below the Surface, Brian Slattery (9/22/22)
Against the General Good/ Contra el Bien General, featuring the work of Bergman & Salinas, September 17–December 3, 2022, Artspace New Haven, CT. Support for this exhibition came from Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund.*^
Press:
Yale Daily News, Artspace’s New Exhibitions Set Out to Challenge the Status Quo, Fatou M’Baye (10/13/22).
New Haven Independent, Artspace Dives Below the Surface, Brian Slattery (9/22/22)
Supported guest curators Michael Ipsen and Saskia Globig of Lino Kino with Completely Familiar, Entirely Free, July 16–September 10, 2022, featuring the work of Lani Asunción, Amira Brown, Saskia Globig & Michael Ipsen, Kyuri Jeon, Micah Lat, Matt Lavine, Anna Lindemann, Shelby Meier, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Jessica Smolinski, and Sonnie Wooden, Artspace New Haven, CT. Support for this exhibition came from Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund.^
Installation view, Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, September 21–November 6, 2022, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College, Boston, MA. Photo: Jim Manning.Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, September 21–November 6, 2022, featuring a survey by Emilio Rojas, supported by Leonie Bradbury, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College, Boston, MA.*^
Press:
Boston Globe, Things to do around Boston this weekend, Cate McQuaid (9/22/22)
Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, September 2–November 13, 2021, featuring a survey by Emilio Rojas, supported by Michiko Okaya, Néstor Armando Gil Carmona, and Rico Reyes, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. The exhibition will travel to Emerson Contemporary, Boston in Fall 2022; Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT in Spring 2023; SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC in Summer 2023; and Artspace New Haven in Fall 2023.*^
Press:
Title Magazine, tracing a wound through my body: Interview with Emilio Rojas, Steph Garcia (9/21/21)
The Lafayette, ‘Tracing a wound through my body’ encourages students to think critically about the US-Mexico border, Beatriz Brait Amorosino (10/1/21)
Installation view, throwntogetherness, August 6, 2022, Bok Building, Philadelphia, PA. Photo: Laurel V. McLaughlin.throwntogetherness, August 5–6 and 12–13, 2022, in collaboration with curator Jaleesa Johnston, and new media collectives Lino Kino of Philadelphia, PA and Mobile Projection Unit and Portland, OR, featuring the work of Sarah Brahim, Mel Carter, Daniel Coka, Fernanda D'Agostino, Satpreet Kahlon, Jaleesa Johnston, ariella tai, Sarah Turner, Sam Dellert, Zoe Chronis, Sim Hahaha, Bambi Haggerman, Hook + Loop, John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez, George Shands, and Guava Rhee. Support for this exhibition was provided by grants from the Sachs Foundation for Innovation in the Arts, the Ford Family Foundation, and in-kind sponsorship from the Bok Building, Philadelphia, and NW Marine Works Building 5, Portland.
Dyschronics, February 11–April 16, 2021, featuring Carolina Caycedo, Baseera Khan, Emily Jacir, Tsedaye Makonnen, and Dawit L. Petros, Artspace New Haven, CT. Support for this exhibition came from Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund.*^
Press:
Arts Paper, At Artspace, Artists Unfix Time, Al Larriva-Latt (2/16/22)
New Haven Independent, Artspace Steps Outside of Time, Brian Slattery (2/17/22)
Yale Daily News, An Exhibition Against Time, Olivia Charis (2/18/22)
Footnotes and other embedded stories, April 30–June 25, 2022, featuring the Yale University Art Gallery- and Artspace-funded 2021–2022 Happy and Bob Doran CT Artists in Residence: Leonard Galmon, Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez, Allison Minto, Julia Rooney, and Joseph Smolinski, Artspace New Haven, CT. Support for this exhibition comes from Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, the VIA Art Fund, and the Yale University Art Gallery.*^
Press:
WPKN, Footnotes and Other Embedded Stories (5/22)
Arts Paper, In ‘Footnotes,” Artists’ Research Leads to Risk-Taking, Al Larriva-Latt (5/16/2022)
New Haven Independent, Artspace Reads Under the Lines, Brian Slattery (5/17/2022)
Every Corner is Alive, July 3–August 18, 2022 with artist Simone Fischer, supported supported by Pacific Northwest College of Art Low-Residency in Visual Studies Chair and Associate Professor Aeron Bergman, featuring Visual Studies MFA students, Stashia Cabral, Elán Chardin, Laura Jean Foster, Amy Gibson, Ondrea Levey, Kelly Marshall, Lynn Stephens Massey, Devon Pardue, Jenny Wilde, and Ahuva Zaslavsky, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
Installation view, DADDY, May 5–30, 2022, after/fime, Portland, OR. Photo: Mario Gallucci.DADDY, May 5–30, 2022, co-organized with Graham Feyl, featuring recent and new work by Jenn Sova, after/time collective, Portland, OR.*^
Press:
Oregon ArtsWatch, Ties that bind: “Daddy” at after/time collective, Hannah Krafcik (5/24/2022)
Installation view, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz: The Longest Leg, November 11, 2021–January 9, 2022, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Mario Gallucci.The Longest Leg, November 11, 2021–January 9, 2022, of recent and new work by Emmanuela Soria Ruiz at Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland, OR, and a performance, Private Speculations, featuring Emmanuela Soria Ruiz and Allie Hankins at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR. The exhibition was accompanied by a programming series, and supported by a 2021 Make/Learn/Build grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and a 2021 Acción Cultural Española PICE Mobility Grant.^
Press:
Oregon ArtsWatch, Viz Art Monthly: Exploratory work in fresh spaces, Lindsay Costello (11/2/21)
Portland Mercury, Portland Winter is Coming. Brighten Your Days with these Vibrant Visual Art Experiences, Ashley Gifford (10/1/21)
Oregon ArtsWAtch, Performance: Emmanuela Soria Ruiz’s ‘Private Speculations’ is a study in candor, animality, and architecture, Amy Leona Havin (10/4/21)
OFFAL, November 13–December 1, 2021, featuring the work of Simone Fischer, Astoria Visual Arts, Astoria, OR.^
Press:
Oregon ArtsWatch, Art Review: Simone Fischer at Astoria Visual Arts, Kyle Cohlmia (11/24/21)
some rites from a spring reckoning exhibition series, July 20–August 22, 2021, supported by Pacific Northwest College of Art Low-Residency in Visual Studies Chair and Associate Professor Aeron Bergman, featuring Visual Studies MFA students, Kelsey Hamilton, Ryan Kitson, Madison Queen, Wade Schuster, and Douglas Wiltshire, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
Press:
Oregon ArtsWatch, Spring and other cycles: Thesis exhibitions from PNCA’s Low-Residency Visual Studies, Lindsay Costello (8/27/21)
Installation view, Networks of (Be)Longing, October 16–December 6, 2020, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.Photo: Mario Gallucci.
Networks of (Be)Longing, October 16–December 6, 2020, featuring the work of Canaries (Carolyn Lazard and Taraneh Fazeli), Rami George, Tabitha Nikolai, and Mengda Zhang, and Rami George, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.^
Installation view, Rami George: and one day will tell you so many
stories, September 25, 2020–May 3, 2021, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Mario Gallucci.Rami George: and one day will tell you so many stories, September 25, 2020–May 3, 2021, Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR.^
Press:
Oregon ArtsWatch, VizArt Monthly: Flexible viewing options for unusual times, Lindsay Costello (10/5/20)
Art&About, Rami George in “and one day will tell you so many stories,” Lindsay Costello (2/9/21)
Art Papers, Rami George: The Tangents, Pivots, and Slants of Artistic Research, Laurel V. McLaughlin (4/21/21)
out of actions, April 6, 2019, co-organized with Isabelle Lynch of The Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, featuring the work of Jane Fentress, Austin Fisher, Evan Curtis Charles Hall, Zach Hill, Valentina Soto, Danielle Kovalski-Monsonego, Jessi Ali Lin, Rebecca Naegele, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, and Emmanuela Soria Ruiz in collaboration with Arthur Ross Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Installation view, SWARM., June 28–September 9, 2018, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Photo: PAFA/Barbara Katus.SWARM., June 28–September 9, 2018, co-organized with Mechella Yezernitskaya, featuring the work of Didier William and Néstor Armando Gil/Taller Workshop, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.*^
Press:
Broad Street Review, SWARM. at PAFA says there’s only one way to overcome colonial narratives, Helen Walsh (6/25/18)
Artblog, SWARM. a suffocating history at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jessica Rizzo (7/8/18)
KYW Newsradio, “SWARM.” presents the work of Didier William and Nestor Armando Gil (8/10/18)
The Philadelphia Tribune, PAFA exhibit showcases 2 artists with Caribbean roots, Bobbi Booker (7/14/18)
WHYY, Art of the Caribbean diaspora come together at PAFA, Peter Crimmins (7/6/18)
The Philadelphia Inquirer, At PAFA, Two Wildly Different Shows Get to the Heart of How Art Works its Magic, Thomas Hine (8/2/18)
The Haitian Times, Haitian and Cuban Artists Share America’s Immigrant Story w/ New Exhibition, SWARM., Kai Coe (8/7/18)
Time Out, SWARM., Karen Chernick (5/8/18)
Al Día, Nestor Armando Gil: ‘Cubans alone, we are nothing. We have to act like a swarm.’, Andrea Rodés (6/18/2018)
Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA’s Permanent Collection, June 28–September 9, 2018, co-organized with Mechella Yezernitskaya and Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.^
Press:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, At PAFA, Two Wildly Different Shows Get to the Heart of How Art Works its Magic, Thomas Hine (8/2/18)
Art Daily, Pafa will feature latest additions to permanent collection in future exhibitions (2018)
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PAFA acquires California Press’ prints by African American artists, Stephan Salisbury (7/5/18)
Playing the Rules, March 22, 2018, co-organized with Jessica Hough of The Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, featuring the work of Danièle Dennis, Adrienne Hall, and James Allister Sprang at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
Installation view, Flooding, January 26–February 23, 2018, AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Photo: Jeff Katzin.Flooding, January 26–February 23, 2018, co-organized with Tamir William of The Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, , featuring the work of Danièle Dennis, James Allister Sprang, Monika Uchiyama, and Eric Yue at AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Installation view, Beyond
Boundaries: Feminine Forms,
September 15, 2017–March 18, 2018, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Photo: PAFA/ Barbara Katus.Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, September 15, 2017–March 18, 2018, co-organized with Mechella Yezernitskaya, supported by Carrie Robbins, featuring works from Linda Lee Alter Collection of Work by Women and the William at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women Artists at the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, dual-sited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.*^
Press:
Broad Street Review, PAFA presents ‘Graphic Women’ and ‘Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms,’ Pamela J. Forsythe, December 4, 2017
The Bi-College News, Beyond Boundaries: Female Artists Reconfigure Traditional Gender Norms, Julia Hablack (November 9, 2017)
Hyperallergic, Explore Art in Philadelphia with Hyperallergic, Saturday, October 14 (September 29, 2017)
Art Daily, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Bryn Mawr College partner to exhibit art by women
Visit Philadelphia, 15 Major Philadelphia Art Exhibitions for Fall, (July 26, 2017)
Jiwon Woo, Mother's Hand Taste (son-mat), 2017. Living hand yeast and bacteria, Nuruk fermentation starter, synthetic biology, social research, video in passages, March 3–31, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.passages, March 3–31, 2017, co-organized with Francesca Ferrari of The Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, , featuring the work of laura carlson, Yaochi Jin, Jeremy Jirsa, and Jiwon Woo at FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
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^ Indicates accompanying program series