Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Kandy G Lopez

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

​Kandy G Lopez (b. 1987, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portrai...

Trevyn McGowan

02 Dec 2025

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Ep.254 Trevyn McGowan is the co-founder of Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town and Los Angeles, representing contemporary artists from Africa and its ...

Jules BE KUTI

19 Nov 2025

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Ep.253 features Jules BE KUTI, a young emerging artist born in 1993. His art reflects his experience as a Black person living in France, as well as hi...

Howardena Pindell

06 Aug 2025

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Ep.252 Howardena Pindell was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lives and works in New York. She has exhibited extensively, including sele...

Cheryl Pope

16 Jul 2025

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Cheryl Pope is an interdisciplinary visual artist who questions and responds to issues of identity as it relates to the individual and the community, ...

Valerie Francis

02 Jul 2025

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Ep.250 Valerie A. Francis is the Founding Director of Knowhere Art Gallery, an independent gallery based on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to showcasin...

Onay Gutierrez

24 Jun 2025

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EP.249 Onay Gutierrez is a multifaceted artist, collector, and preservationist with a rich background that spans education, ceramics, and historic pre...

Adrienne L. Childs PhD

06 Jun 2025

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Ep. 248 Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection. Her cur...

Jas Knight

27 May 2025

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Ep.247 Jas was born in Hartford CT. His talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. He sold his first painting at age seven and had his first o...

Kelly Sinnapah Mary

20 May 2025

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Ep.246 Kelly Sinnapah Mary (b. 1981, Saint-François, Guadeloupe) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrel...

Natia Lemay

14 May 2025

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Ep.245 Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her Interdiscipl...

Tomokazu Matsuyama

06 May 2025

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Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in 1976 in Gifu, Japan, Matsuyama is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work spans painting, sculpture, and installat...

Jose Duran

29 Apr 2025

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Jose Duran (b. 1979, Moca, Dominican Republic) is a painter, designer, and sculptor creating fantastical worlds of cosmopolitan opulence and sumptuous...

Shaunté Gates

22 Apr 2025

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Ep.242 Shaunté Gates (b. 1979) lives and works in Washington, D.C. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Early ...

Dora Jeridi

16 Apr 2025

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Ep.241 Dora Jeridi's work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive approach to painting, blending intense emotion with powerful physicality. She cont...

Rujeko Hockley

09 Apr 2025

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Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current pr...

Tyler Ballon

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Ballon (b. 1996, Jersey City, NJ) creates monumental works inspired by the lives of people in his community. His artistic journey was shaped ear...

Dr. Monique Y. Wells

22 Mar 2025

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Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist...

Amanda Coulson

16 Mar 2025

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Ep.237 Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer, having collaborated with artists and instituti...

Ebony L Haynes

09 Mar 2025

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Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner ...

Alicia Knock

28 Feb 2025

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Ep.235 Alicia Knock Head curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at Centre Pompidou. Alicia Knock seeks to develop a transnat...

Diana Sinclair

16 Feb 2025

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Ep.234 In a wide-ranging practice that encompasses photography, sculpture and painting, Diana Sinclair (b.2004) probes the material, spiritual and soc...

Mario Joyce

15 Feb 2025

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Ep.233 Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and storie...

Will Maxen

07 Feb 2025

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Ep.232 Will Maxen (b. Waterbury, CT) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas, who works primarily in the language of painting. His wor...

Lina Iris Viktor

05 Feb 2025

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Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural tradition...

Carl E Hazlewood

29 Jan 2025

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Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Conte...

Na Kim

17 Jan 2025

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Ep.229 Na Kim b.1986 Seoul, South Korea Na Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her mimetic portraits set against polychromatic backgr...

Elliott Barnes

12 Jan 2025

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Ep.228 ELLIOTT BARNES A Los Angeles native, Elliott Barnes graduated from Cornell University in New York State in 1985 with a Bachelors and a Masters ...

Zohra Opoku

08 Jan 2025

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Ep.227 Zohra Opoku examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in t...

Edra Soto

15 Dec 2024

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Ep.226 Edra Soto (b. 1971) is a Puerto Rican-born artist, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful,...

Mario Moore

06 Dec 2024

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Ep.225 Mario Moore, a Detroit native, received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale S...

Anthony Akinbola

04 Dec 2024

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Ep.224 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger,...

Pio Abad

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ep.223 Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work,...

José Parlá

18 Nov 2024

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Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration ...

Shinique Smith

13 Nov 2024

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Ep.221 Shinique Smith. Known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage, Smith’s personal histories and ...

Jake Troyli

06 Nov 2024

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Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball...

Vian Sora

30 Oct 2024

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Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Bag...

Ibrahim Mahama

23 Oct 2024

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Ep.218 Ibrahim Mahama was born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana. He lives and works in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale. Solo exhibitions include Fruitmarket Gallery...

Beverly McIver

15 Oct 2024

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Ep. 217 Beverly McIver (b. 1962) is a Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, a role she assumed after 12 years of teach...

Kemar Keanu Wynter

09 Oct 2024

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Ep.216 Kemar Keanu Wynter (b. Brooklyn, NY) holds a BFA from the SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design. His work was the focus of solo exhibitions at...

Maria Elena Ortiz

02 Oct 2024

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Ep.215 María Elena Ortiz is curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) ...

Kim Dacres

25 Sep 2024

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Ep. 214 Kim Dacres is a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who lives in Harlem and practices her studio work in the Bronx. She pr...

Sarah Lewis

18 Sep 2024

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Ep.213 SARAH LEWIS is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African an...

Erika Ranee

11 Sep 2024

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Ep.212 Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Art...

Justine Ludwig

04 Sep 2024

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Ep.211 Justine Ludwig currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative Time. Recent curated exhibitions include Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Walk the Lin...

Gerald Lovell

24 Jul 2024

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Ep.210 For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell’...

Debra Cartwright

17 Jul 2024

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Ep.209 Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. She uses pai...

Andrea Myers Achi

10 Jul 2024

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Ep.208 Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeas...

David Huffman

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ep.207 David Huffman (b. 1963, Berkeley, CA) has work in the collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio...

Andrea Grover

26 Jun 2024

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Ep.206 Andrea Grover is the Executive Director of Guild Hall, the cornerstone cultural institution of East Hampton that combines a museum, theater, an...

Kahlil Robert Irving

19 Jun 2024

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Ep.205 Kahlil Robert Irving was born in San Diego, in 1992, but spent most of his youth in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Instit...

Nina Chanel Abney

05 Jun 2024

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Ep.204 Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Harvey, IL) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2023); the ...

Emanuel Aguilar

29 May 2024

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Ep.203 Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery...

Adebunmi Gbadebo

22 May 2024

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Ep.202 Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992 in Livingston, NJ) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring Gbadebo ex...

Lindsay Adams

15 May 2024

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Ep.201 features Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) , an Artist working across traditional mediums. Embracing her intersectional identity, Linds...

Pamela J. Joyner

08 May 2024

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EPISODE 200 Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertis...

Luke Agada

01 May 2024

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Ep.199 Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist living and working in Chicago. His practice examines themes of globalization, migration and cultural dislocatio...

Allison Janae Hamilton

23 Apr 2024

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Ep.198 Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984 in Kentucky, raised in Florida) has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been the subject ...

Peter Uka

17 Apr 2024

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Ep.197 Peter Uka (b. 1975,Nigeria; lives and works in Cologne, Germany) devises figurative paintings which draw from his childhood memories...

Jacob Mason-Macklin

10 Apr 2024

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Ep.196 Jacob Mason-Macklin lives and works in Queens, New York. Mason-Macklin graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He is a 201...

Connie Butler

03 Apr 2024

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Ep.195 Connie Butler is the Director of MoMA PS1 in New York. Prior to her arrival in September 2023, since 2013, she was Chief Curator at the Hammer ...

Tiana Webb Evans

27 Mar 2024

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Ep.194 Tiana Webb Evans is the Founder ESP Group LLC, a brand strategy and communications consultancy supporting international clients across art, des...

Helina Metaferia

20 Mar 2024

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Ep.193 Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integra...

Allison Glenn

13 Mar 2024

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Ep.192 Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special proje...

Christine Berry

06 Mar 2024

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Ep.191 Christine Berry earned her Bachelors of Art in Art History from Baylor University and her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies from the Un...

Uman

28 Feb 2024

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Ep.190 Uman’s dazzling visual vocabulary reflects her life and expansive cross-cultural experiences. Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, she migrat...

Cierra Britton

21 Feb 2024

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Ep. 189 Cierra Britton (b.1996, Baltimore, MD) is a curator and art dealer living and working in New York City. As the director of the Cierra Britton ...

Demetrio "Dee" Kerrison

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ep.188 Demetrio "Dee" Kerrison. Born in Harlem, NY, he now resides in Los Angeles. In 2001 after a visit to the Studio Museum of Harlem to view an exh...

February James

07 Feb 2024

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Ep.187 February James currently lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she was born, after living in Los Angeles for fifteen years. She received h...

Loie Hollowell

31 Jan 2024

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Ep.186 Loie Hollowell was born in 1983 and raised in Woodland, California. She currently lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA at Unive...

Tariku Shiferaw

24 Jan 2024

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Ep.185 features Tariku Shiferaw, a New York based artist who explores mark-making through painting and installation art, addressing issues around spac...

Courtney Willis Blair

17 Jan 2024

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Ep.184 Courtney Willis Blair the US Senior Director in White Cube’s first public gallery in New York City. She joined in 2023. Courtney will be resp...

Leasho Johnson

10 Jan 2024

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Ep.183 features Leasho Johnson. Born in 1984, he is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego...

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

03 Jan 2024

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Ep.182 features MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN. Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearw...

Lily Wong

20 Dec 2023

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Ep.181 features Lily Wong, a figurative painter whose nuanced narratives invoke a sense of complex yearning and curiosity around the conditions that i...

Kaveri Raina

13 Dec 2023

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Ep.180 features KAVERI RAINA (b.1990, New Delhi, India). She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maryland I...

Basil Kincaid

06 Dec 2023

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Ep.179 features Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collagi...

Deborah E. Roberts

29 Nov 2023

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Ep.178 features Deborah Roberts (American, b. 1962) a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited...

Kendra Jayne Patrick

22 Nov 2023

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Ep.177 features gallerist Kendra Jayne Patrick. Her art gallery operates between Switzerland and the USA. Its programming is focused on the twenty-fir...

Gisela McDaniel

15 Nov 2023

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Ep.176 Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, Indigenous Chamorro artist who explores the effects of trauma, displacement and colonisation through portraitur...

Calida Rawles

08 Nov 2023

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Ep 175~ The paintings of Calida Rawles (b. 1976, Wilmington, DE; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) merge hyper-realism with poetic abstraction. Situ...

Yvette Mayorga

01 Nov 2023

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Ep.174 Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to co...

Katerina Olschbaur

25 Oct 2023

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Ep.173 features Austrian-born and based in Los Angeles where she relocated in 2017, Katherina Olschbaur (b. 1983) was emboldened by her move to push t...

Leslie Smith III

15 Oct 2023

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Ep.172 features Leslie Smith. He lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin. | He was a 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow and earned a BFA at the Maryla...

Demetrius Wilson

11 Oct 2023

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Ep.171 features Demetrius Wilson. His work stems from a place of personal biography and collectively shared experience. Finding both moments of stilln...

Maren Hassinger

04 Oct 2023

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Ep.170 MAREN HASSINGER (b. 1947) has built an interdisciplinary practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choo...

Alexis McGrigg

27 Sep 2023

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Ep.169 features Alexis McGrigg, a contemporary artist who examines themes of Blackness, space, spirituality, identity, and collective consciousness. H...

Chase Hall

20 Sep 2023

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Ep. 168 features Chase Hall’s (b. 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota). His paintings and sculptures respond to generational celebrations and traumas encoded ...

Ayana V. Jackson

13 Sep 2023

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Ep.167 features Ayana V. Jackson, (b. 1977 in East Orange, New Jersey; lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Johannesburg, South Africa) she uses a...

Lari Pittman

06 Sep 2023

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Ep.166 features Lari Pittman. Over the course of his decades-long career, Lari Pittman (b. 1952, Los Angeles, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) ...

Harmonia Rosales

30 Aug 2023

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Ep.165 features Harmonia Rosales. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is an Afro-Cuban American artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her exqu...

Chidinma Nnoli

16 Aug 2023

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Ep.164 features Chidinma Nnoli (b. 1998 Enugu), a visual artist working primarily with painting. Her practice contemplates the importance of a single ...

Jammie Holmes

16 Aug 2023

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Ep. 163 features Jammie Holmes. Born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Jammies Holmes (b. 1984) is known for his paintings that portray intimate and...

Hank Willis Thomas

09 Aug 2023

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Ep.162 features Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976 Plainfield, NJ). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a conceptual artist working primarily with themes r...

Charles Gaines

02 Aug 2023

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Ep.161 features Charles Gaines. A pivotal figure in the field of Conceptual Art, Charles Gaines’ body of work engages formulas and systems that inte...

Tunji Adeniyi -Jones

19 Jul 2023

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Ep.160 features Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London, United Kingdom), an artist living and working in New York, NY. Adeniyi-Jones received a BFA from...

Oscar yi Hou

12 Jul 2023

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Ep.159 features Oscar yi Hou, an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England. He received his BA from Columb...

Thomas Jean Lax

28 Jun 2023

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Ep.158 features Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Curator, Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. T. is a writer and curator specializin...

Karen Navarro

14 Jun 2023

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Ep.157 Karen Navarro is an Argentinian-born multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Houston. Navarro works on a diverse array of medi...

Thaddeus Mosley

07 Jun 2023

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Ep.156 features Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, New Castle, PA), a Pittsburgh-based artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of ...