Interviews by Brainard Carey

Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Begum lives and works in London. In 1999, Begum graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, and in 2002, she earned an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art. Begum has exhibited in museums and biennials worldwide and created public art commissions in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Notable museum presentations include her participation in Is this Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, as well as her site-specific installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which remains on permanent view. Her work has also been featured in numerous biennials around the world, including the Taipei Biennial in 2026, Desert X in Coachella Valley in 2023, and the 11th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea in 2016, among others.

Her work is held in numerous international public and private collections, including the Museum ofFine Arts, Boston; the Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh; The Farjam Foundation, Dubai; the Ashmolean Museum, UK; Sainsbury’s Visual Art Centre, UK; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India; and Wanas Konst, Sweden. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2020.

Loren Erdrich (b. 1978) lives and works in New York City. Her undergraduate degrees include a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (2000) and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2005).

In 2007 she received her MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Erdrich’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at SHRINE New York (2022, 2023, 2026); SHRINE Los Angeles (2024); and Bricks Gallery Copenhagen (2024, 2025).

She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Harper’s (New York, NY); Massey Klein (New York, NY); Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI); Soho Revue (London, UK); Saint Cloche (Sydney, AUS); and Kotaro Nukaga (Tokyo, JP). Erdrich has been awarded residencies at Yaddo; The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts; Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency; Jentel Foundation; Santa Fe Art Institute; Sculpture Space; Vermont Studio Center; and Art Farm Nebraska. Her work has been written about in publications such as Cultured, DNA Mexico, FAD, ArtMaze, Maake, The Chicago Tribune and Il Giornale Dell’Arte. She frequently collaborates with the poet Sierra Nelson, co-authoring the award-winning I Take Back the Sponge Cake (published by Rose Metal Press, 2012) and Isolation (limited edition artist book, 2020). Erdrich is currently represented by SHRINE (New York, NY) and Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, DK).

Jenna Gribbon is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, a comprehensive survey of 25 years of painting. She was also the subject of a solo exhibition at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2022–2023). Recent group exhibitions include She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists, Akron Art Museum, OH (2025); From Dawn Til Dusk: The Shadow in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2025); Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aïshti Foundation, Rome (2024); Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York (2023); Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, The Frick Collection, New York (2022); and Paint, also known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland (2019). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including Kunstmuseum The Hague, Netherlands; Brooklyn Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Honolulu Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany; and Rubell Museum, Miami. Gribbon lives and works in New York.

Annie Hémond Hotte (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2009, where she was awarded the Warden Purchase Prize. In 2023, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Margot Samel, New York (2026); The Pit, Los Angeles (2025); Marvin Gardens, New York (2024); Centre Clark, Montreal (2017); and Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York (2024); The Pit, Los Angeles (2024); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2024); Marvin Gardens, New York (2023); Dimin Gallery, New York (2023); The Low Museum, Atlanta (2015); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (2014); and Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (2014).

Ana Segovia produces images through paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular imaginaries. The artist revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, reconfiguring their hegemonic role as idealized models of masculinity. An intimate connection to cinema constantly inspires and drives him to transgress norms. Segovia takes familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, intervening in their forms, altering their tonalities, and dislocating them. It’s in this disruption where he reveals the montage, artifice, and the performativity in constructing gender and national identities.

Segovia’s paintings confront viewers with undefined faces, strident color palettes, and scenes infused with humor that juxtaposes the serious. His work positions playfulness as a political tool, challenging and creating tensions in a dialogue between the norm and the unconventional. Segovia rewrites our visual models, inviting us to reconsider them, and offers the possibility of encountering the familiar from a perspective that questions and blurs its contours.

Ana Segovia received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), specializing in painting and drawing. In spring 2020, he participated in the Casa Wabi Residency, Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

Segovia lives and works in Mexico City.

Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Studio E, Seattle; Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle; Cob Gallery, London; Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

Milez’s work is included in an upcoming group exhibition at Lazy Mike, Seoul in November 2026. The artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2021 and 2024. Milez lives and works in Seattle, WA and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

She was interviewed previously in 2023, that interview can be found here.

Janet Biggs’s work focuses on extreme landscapes and situations, drawing connections between physical terrains and psychological, societal, or political dynamics. She has had solo exhibitions, film screenings, and performances at the SCAD Museum of Art, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Jeu de Paume, Taubman Museum of Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Blaffer Museum of Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tampa Museum of Art, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among many others.

Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants, including the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, Moore College of Art & Design 2022 Visionary Woman Award, Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, Media Arts Assistant Fund Grant, Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Art Matters, Inc., Wexner Center Media Arts Program Residency, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award. Her works are in the collections of the SCAD Museum of Art, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Ruhr Kunst Museen), Tampa Museum of Art, High Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of Art. Biggs lives and works in New York.

She was interviewed previously on Yale University radio in 2021.

Wade Schaming (b. 1984; Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in New York City.  He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (BA 2006) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 2010).

Residency awards include the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Bronx, NY (2012), the Lower East Side Printshop’s Keyholder Residency, New York, NY (2015), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2016), Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2017), The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2017), Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY (2018) and Art & History Museums – Maitland, Maitland, FL (2020).

“EASY FEELINGS,” a solo exhibition of new work opens September 10, 2026, at Equity Gallery, New York, NY, and is on view through October 10, 2026.

Julian MacMillan (b. 1992) lives and works in New York. Working across painting, printmaking and sculpture he creates works that resemble mythical landscapes, mysterious figurations, and funerary objects. Through his multidisciplinary practice, which also spans carpentry and metalworking, MacMillan is able to combine and compress these genres, and make images that are both sensitive and other-worldly. Born and raised in Washington DC, MacMillan studied art at Dartmouth College prior to receiving his MFA in painting at Boston University. Recent exhibitions include Left Tower at Atlantic Mills (Providence, RI), Do It Again at East Manning Projects (Providence, RI), The View From Mars at Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA) and Tell The Devil I’m Coming As Fast As I Can at Outlet Manhattan, New York, NY.