Art from the Outside

This episode we are so excited to be joined by an amazing gallerist and dear friend, Kavi Gupta. Kavi is the founder of the Kavi Gupta Gallery, which opened in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood in 2002.

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This episode we are delighted to be joined by one of the most hard-working, inspiring people we know - the Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist and activist - Amy Khoshbin. Amy’s practice pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of art-making to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, rap music, installation, tattooing, teaching and writing. 

She has shown at venues such as The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, Times Square Arts, and Socrates Sculpture Park - just to name a few. In addition, Amy has received residencies at The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Anderson Ranch. 

Amy has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Tina Barney, and Anne Carson - among others. she received a Master's Degree from New York University and Bachelor’s degrees in Film and Media Studies from University of Texas at Austin. You can follow her on Instagram @tinyscissors. 

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This episode, we speak to Tina Kukielski, the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Art21, one of the leading global producers of films and content about contemporary artists. Each month, more than 300,000 people from around the world tune in to Art21 to watch their Peabody Award Winning films with artists including Zanele Muholi, Theaster Gates, Luchita Hurtado, Jordan Casteel, and Pedro Reyes. 

In addition to leading Art21, Tina is also an active and widely respected curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries, including Sarah Lucas, Phyllida Barlow, Mark Leckey, and Nicole Eisenman. During her time at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2002–2010, she worked to acquire and mount exhibitions by a wide range of celebrated contemporary artists.

As lead curator on the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Kukielski launched a number of digital initiatives and films series. In 2014, Kukielski co-produced a documentary film about Andy Warhol in partnership with artist Cory Arcangel documenting a digital conservation project which brought renewed attention to nearly forgotten artworks that Warhol made on an Amiga personal computer in 1985.

She is now working on the upcoming Front Triennial in Cleveland Ohio, which will open slightly delayed in 2022. The Triennial's title, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, is derived from a Langston Hughes poem. 

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This episode we have a fantastic conversation with the talented artist Camilo Godoy. Camilo is an artist whose practice is concerned with the construction of political meanings and histories. His work engages with conceptual, photographic, and choreographic strategies to analyze and challenge past and present historical moments to imagine different subversive ways of being.

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Wendy Olsoff is the co-founder of P.P.O.W. an incredible gallery in New York that she opened in 1983. Today, the gallery represents the estates of David Wojnarowicz, Carolee Schneeman, and Martin Wong, as well as contemporary artists like Carlos Motta, Betty Tompkins, Robin F. Williams, and Judith Linhares. 

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This episode, we speak to the amazing Boon Hui Tan. Boon Hui is Vice President for Global Arts and Cultural Programs, and Director, of Asia Society Museum, New York, where he leads the organisation’s global arts and cultural activities spanning visual arts, performing arts and film. Previously, he was Director of the Singapore Art Museum from 2009 - 2013. In 2015, Boon Hui was Artistic Director for Singapour en France, le Festival, the largest multidisciplinary presentation of contemporary culture from Singapore and Southeast Asia in France. He is also co-curator of the inaugural Asia Society Triennial, which is slated to run October 27, 2020 through June 27, 2021. 

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Dr. Zoé Whitley is the Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery. Prior to that, she’s held positions at the Hayward Gallery, the Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Studio Museum in New York. Zoé was also the co-curator of the widely acclaimed Soul of a Nation exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2017. She curated the British Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale and, in September, her show Elijah Pierce’s America will open at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Some of the artists discussed in this episode:

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