Untitled Art Podcast

With speakers Benton C Bainbridge, Co-Founder of Lonely ROCKS, Linda Loh, curator of Lonely ROCKS' presentation at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022, and curator Ana María Caballero. Moderated by Fanny Lakoubay.

Lonely ROCKS decentralizes the process of curating fine art, reconsidering the self-portrait via emergent Web3 systems. How do digital artists portray themselves in the context of selfie and PFP culture? Do contemporary media artists echo early video artists, who often used themselves as readymade subject matter in the studio? What are the new forms of storytelling emerging from Web3 native communities? Do Web3 poets and writers represent an evolution of, or a break from their traditions? What is the tension between creating art to permanently inscribe on the blockchain and the promotion of such artworks via the social media-dependent Web3 communities? Can crypto art exist independently of Web2?

About Benton C Bainbridge:

An ethereal figure in decentralized art since 2014, Bainbridge co-founded MovingPictures.Gallery. In 2015, he worked with ConsenSys to develop on-chain provenance. Best known for two world tours as VJ with Beastie Boys.

About Linda Loh:

Linda Loh is an Australian visual artist working between New York City and Melbourne, Australia. Her multimedia works navigate the elusive form and materiality of digital space with transformed sources of light. In 2012 she received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practice) from the RMIT University, Australia. She has had solo and group exhibitions around Australia and in the USA, with works curated into projection festivals, public LED billboard projects, online events, screenings, art galleries and more. She has undertaken several artist residencies around the world, including Arteles in Finland and NARS in New York City, both in 2018. In 2021 she completed a Master of Fine Art in Computer Arts, at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since then she has participated in many exhibition projects, in both physical space and online, in Australia, the USA, Switzerland and the UK. She is active in the Blockchain space and is currently a curator for this innovative Lonely Rocks project, here at Untitled 2022.

About Fanny Lakoubay:

"I am a French-born, New York-based digital art advisor and curator with 14 years of experience in art, technology and finance. With my team at LAL ART Advisory, I support institutional, corporate, and private clients, who want to enter or better navigate the NFT space. I am also involved in many NFT community projects, such as The Blockchain Art Directory (BAD 2.0), We Are Museums, GreenNFT and more. Prior to this, I took part in some of the pioneering NFT projects (MoCDA, New Art Academy, CADAF, Editional App, Snark.art) and worked with larger organizations (RadicalxChange Foundation, Christie’s Auction House, Artnet, Societe Generale Bank)."

About Ana María Caballero:

Ana Maria Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package women’s sacrifice as a virtue. She is the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Her work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, most recently at Gazelli Art House in London and at L’Avant Gallerie in Paris. She has two books forthcoming in 2023, both written in the hours before the world wakes up. Much of what she writes in the dark can be read at anamariacaballero.com. Believing that poems are works of art, she co-founded digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse.com.

Presented by Library Street Collective.

Alongside Jason REVOK’s current exhibition at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) (November 5, 2022 - March 25, 2023), this Untitled Art podcast features a conversation between the artist and independent curator Pedro Alonzo, who is currently the Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. The conversation addresses the notion of automation in industry and how factory-based or hard labor is experienced across the United States, suggesting that mechanization informs artistic practice. Considering the relationship between humans and technology, REVOK has created a unique series of instruments that act as an extension of his body, utilizing these apparatuses and complex tools in concert with his hands to conceive his distinctive compositions. REVOK and Alonzo call the contemporary value system of traditional paintings into question as REVOK creates a new frontier on how an artist might practice in the age of machines.

Jason REVOK: b. 1977, Riverside, CA, lives and works in Detroit, MI.

Entirely self-taught, Jason REVOK is known for pushing creative boundaries that began in the street. Although his story begins with graffiti, the artist has spent the last decade focusing on his studio practice and the evolution of process and concept. Refusing to be limited by his early recognition, REVOK allows only certain elements from graffiti culture to transition to his contemporary work — modest materials and industrial tools, ingenuity, his name — but his proclivity towards minimalism and post-painterly abstraction has become the driving force behind his practice. Examining the question of authorship from start to finish, REVOK has developed systematic yet imperfect tools to carry out his vision and has created a number of unmistakable bodies of work. His bold, balanced geometry is heightened by the personal and imperfect slight of the human hand. REVOK has a solo exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles as well as the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art; in galleries and special projects in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Dubai; and is in important private collections worldwide.

Pedro Alonzo

Pedro is an independent curator and art advisor who specializes in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of museum walls. He has worked extensively with a variety of organizations to develop complex public art projects and helped build several notable collections of contemporary art. Pedro is currently an adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary, and was formerly an adjunct curator at the ICA, Boston.

Presented by Laney Contemporary.

Join us for a conversation with Atlanta-based sculptor Curtis Patterson (b., Shreveport, LA, 1944) and Aaron Levi Garvey, the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. The talk will touch on Patterson's legendary impact as a professor—including on painters Radcliffe Bailey, Fahamu Pecou, and illustrator Thomas Blackshear—and the development of his artistic philosophies and influences since the mid-1970s. The discussion will also highlight Patterson's numerous public sculptures, including those in Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, Shreveport, and St. Paul, and invite his thoughts on historic and contemporary monuments. Finally, as an important platform of visibility, this program will position Patterson in the pantheon of black sculptors including Richard Hunt, Melvin Edwards, and Martin Puryear, and serve as an introduction to his prolific studio practice highlighting recent sculptural series which have captured the attention of museums, collectors, and a new generation of artists for whom he is a formidable example of professional tenacity and boundless creativity.

Curtis Patterson: Born in Shreveport, LA, Curtis Patterson’s upbringing fostered a deep affinity for working with his hands and instilled a strong sense of discipline, balance, and spirituality. Patterson earned his BA in Art Education from Grambling State University, an HBCU listed on the African American Heritage Trail, and his MFA from Georgia State University and was the first African American to receive an MFA in Sculpture from GSU in 1976. His practice has moved from painting, wood, and ceramics to cast iron and large-scale, bronze and fabricated corten steel sculpture. Patterson was a faculty member at The Atlanta College of Art from 1976 to 2007. His work entered the realm of large-scale, public sculpture with Cometh the Sun commissioned by the City of Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs in 1977. Since, Patterson has been commissioned for permanent public installations in prominent cities throughout the United States. His recent solo exhibition, A Notable Journey, at Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA, was pivotal to bringing Patterson's sculpture to a broader audience. His work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA, on view through January 8, 2023.

Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American curator working in contemporary arts and culture and is the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. Recent exhibitions and projects include: The Hudson Eye a 10-day and 27-venue arts and humanities focused program in Hudson, New York, which has featured the work and performances of notable artists such as David Hammons, Allora and Calzadilla, Terence Koh, Marina Abramović, Shikeith, Rachel Libeskind, Jeffrey Gibson, Jonah Bokaer and Emily Ritz; the co-founding and directing of Long Road Projects Foundation an organization which focuses on supporting artists with residency, edition publishing and exhibition opportunities; Flashing the Leather at Alabama Contemporary in Mobile, Alabama; Ephemera Obscura at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet's MEMO and Shikeith’s notes towards becoming a spill, both at Atlanta Contemporary, and Invisible Thread at The Baker Museum – Artist Naples.

Moderated by Brandi Redick, Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, in conversation with artists involved in the City's No Vacancy initiative where artists from throughout the region are invited to create site-specific work in hotels throughout the area: Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, Brookhart Jonquil, and Edouard Duval Carrie.

About Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares

Over the past ten years, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares have developed an extensive and experimental body of work. Through a multidisciplinary practice of video, performance, sculpture, sound, and light, Wright Millares’ work physically embodies the mechanics of power dynamics to challenge the absurdity of the hegemonic world order. Their projects are uniquely informed by Wright’s background in poetry and Millares’ foundation in music. Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares are Cuban-American artists born in Miami, FL.

About Brookhart Jonquil

Brookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984. He lives and works in Miami. Jonquil’s projects have been commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art, the De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, and the Cornell Art Museum. Jonquil received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship. He earned both a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona.

About Edouard Duval Carrie

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié fled François Duvalier’s regime with his family to reside in Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal and Paris before settling in Miami Beach. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami Beach.

About Brandi Reddick

Brand Reddick is a recognized public art curator and arts administrator. With over 20 years of experience in the field, she has developed nationally recognized programs and launched policy-setting initiatives that have substantially increased funding and support for arts and culture throughout the municipalities for which she has served. Ms. Reddick is currently the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to her time at the City of Miami Beach, Ms. Reddick served for 13 years as the Curator for Art in Public Places in the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

Presented by Auttrianna Projects and The55Project.

With speakers Yelaine Rodriguez and Rafael Rg, moderated by Auttrianna Ward.

Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator, publisher, multilingual writer, cultural producer and co-founder of Mare Projects. Born and raised in San Francisco, Ward has lived in New York City Chicago and Salvador, Brazil. She is currently based between London and Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2020 MFA Curatorial Practice graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She received her BA in History from Manhattanville College in 2011. Ward is the founder of Mare Residency and now Auttrianna Projects, a multidisciplinary art firm that supports Latin American, African and Asian artistic production through publications, grants, residencies and special projects. Through MARE Projects, she also recently published The Guard, a publication featuring prose and poetry engaging themes around the value of the arts.

Rafael RG (1986) lives and works between Guarulhos and São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. RG is a visual artist and writer. His practice focuses on sexual and affective relationships and their political implications as well as issues of racial identity. Working with institutional and personal archives, he presents his research through workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects. The materials he works with are often closely associated with narratives that involve himself or an alter ego in some way and the resulting projects that are close to or resemble fiction. He received, among other awards, the 1st Foco ArtRio Award, the Honor Award for Art and Heritage Merit/IPHAN, Centro cultural São Paulo Acquisition Award, Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), Pampulha Scholarship for Residency at Arte da Pampulha (MG). Among his current residences, Gasworks in London (2018), Black Rock Senegal in Dakar (2019), Triangle France - Asterides in Marseile (2020), YBYTU (2021), and FAAP Artist Residency (2022), both in São Paulo.

Yelaine Rodriguez (b.1990) is an Afro-DominicanYork artistic scholar, curator, and writer. Rodriguez conceptualizes fiber art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between Black cultures in the Caribbean & the United States. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design | The New School (2013) & her MA in Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies from New York University (2021). She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Parsons Textile (MFA) & NYU Department of Photography & Imaging (DPI). Rodriguez has exhibited in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio's (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, FotoFocus Biennial, Photoville, Mexic-Arte Museum, American Museum of Natural History, & Wave Hill in the United States, El Centro Cultural de España & Centro León Biennial XXVII in the Dominican Republic, SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators in Canada, Wereldmuseum in The Netherlands, & La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain. Rodriguez's works appeared on CNN, Artsy, EnFoco, Hyperallergic, Vogue, Aperture, and Elle Magazine. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews and academic journals like Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture.

2022 programming by Auttrianna Projects is sponsored by: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), The55project, The Last Resort Artist Retreat, and Kalpa Art Advisory.

Join artist Devan Shimoyama in a timely conversation with Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, Omar López Chahoud. The talk will cover Shimoyama’s current series, "The Tarot," paintings from which will be on view at De Buck Gallery. In Devan Shimoyama’s Tarot series, the artist takes inspiration from the centuries-old divination practice of card reading. For Shimoyama, the Tarot represents how we look to mystical practices to help sustain ourselves through difficult times.

About Devan Shimoyama

Devan Shimoyama is a Philadelphia-born visual artist whose works investigate the politics of queer culture using the male form. Inspired by mythology and allegory, Shimoyama depicts the Black queer male body as something that is both desirable and desirous while contemplating the relationship between celebration and silence in queer culture. His use of lustrous materials such as costume jewelry, glitter, rhinestones, and sequins masterly captures the beauty and alienation of these forms by defying and questioning Black masculinity. Shimoyama was born in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a BFA in Drawing/Painting. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2014. While there, in 2013, he was awarded the Al Held Fellowship. Devan Shimoyama’s work has been exhibited around the world. His solo exhibition Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, in 2018 placed his paintings in dialogue with a selection of Warhol’s portraits of drag queens, giving new agency to Warhol’s subjects and continuing the conversation on sexuality, race, and queer performance. Shimoyama’s works have also been included in the following exhibitions: Make-Believe, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; All the Rage, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, Curated by Monique Long, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Oh Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT International Triennial, Cleveland, OH 2021; Futures, The Smithsonian Institution, Arts + Industries, Washington, D.C., VA; Fictions, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

About Omar López Chahoud

Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Join us in conversation with the esteemed representatives of selected Premier Prize Partners of Untitled Art this year: Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator for the 21c Museum Hotels; Jackie Herbst, Coordinator and Art Manager of CCA Andratx; and Derrick Adams, Founder of the Last Resort Artist Retreat. Moderated by Sarah Arison, President of the Arison Arts Foundation and Chair of the Board of YoungArts. This dynamic panel discussion aims to shed light on the importance of generating support for exhibitors, artists, and the larger art ecosystem beyond the traditional fair model, and will discuss each of the panelist's individual missions and visions.

About Sarah Arison, Moderator

Born and raised in Miami, Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, YoungArts, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors. Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is Chair of the Board of YoungArts, where she has developed strategic partnerships with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Jacob’s Pillow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival and more to provide aspiring talent with presentation and mentorship opportunities. Arison is also the Chair of the board of MoMA PS1; a trustee of MoMA; Board President of American Ballet Theatre; a trustee of Lincoln Center; a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Chair of the Education Committee; a trustee at New World Symphony; a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts; and a trustee of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries. Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser known aspects of the arts. In 2015, she produced her first feature film, Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. She later went on to co-produce The First Monday in May, a documentary film chronicling the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blockbuster exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. She co-produced The Price of Everything which was acquired by HBO and she most recently served as an executive producer for the film Aggie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Untitled Art's 2022 Exhibitor Prizes are:

The Nest Prize by Vortic

21c Museum Hotels Acquisition Prize

Colección Solo Acquisition Prize

CCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence Prize

Fountainhead Arts Residency Prize

The Last Resort Artist Retreat Residency Prize

The Pébéo Production Prize

Oliver Miro, founder of Vortic Art, in conversation with artist Gretchen Andrew, discussing the impact of XR (extended reality) technologies on the art world and bringing their complementary perspectives to the table. Together, they will discuss how digital and VR exhibiting solutions can encourage new dialogues between artists, galleries and collectors in a sustainable and accessible way. As Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022 digital partner and the leading sustainable digital platform for the arts, Vortic is committed to providing the highest quality virtual viewing experiences for galleries, collectors, and institutions. Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code, and glitter. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In 2018 the V&A Museum released her book Search Engine Art. Starting in 2019 she became known for her vision boards and associated performative internet manipulations of art world institutions of Frieze Los Angeles, The Whitney Biennial, The Turner Prize, and The Cover of Artforum.

About Oliver Miro

Oliver Miro is co-Founder of Vortic, an art led platform that aims to create a connected, collaborative conversation around immersive 3D, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) exhibitions from the world’s leading galleries and institutions.

The impetus behind the founding of Vortic was a moment where, after more than a decade spent in the sales team of a leading international gallery, Oliver Miro became acutely conscious that the art world lacked a truly high quality way of presenting artworks digitally that would be engaging enough to captivate collectors, inspire artists, and help move galleries and institutions towards a more sustainable future.

About Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, glitter and code. She is best known for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and 2020 American Presidential Results. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In response to her appropriation of Facebook and Instagram tracking technology, Fotomuseum Winterthur curator Marco De Mutiis said, "Her practice & approach is particularly significant because not only does she have a deep understanding of the logics and strategies of algorithmic systems of powers, she finds subversive ways to reclaim these tools and flip them against themselves." She trained in the studio of Billy Childish from 2013 - 2018.

Over the last several years, we have seen statues commemorating formerly venerated, now reviled, figures destroyed or removed from view, while the number of those honoring neglected (primarily Black and female figures) has increased. Must artists creating public monuments today think about their future as well as their significance to contemporary culture? Does advocacy have an aesthetic? How do the political beliefs of the commissioners and the artists intersect with their personal histories? Here are two artists whose work speaks volumes to these questions.

About Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and abroad, including the International Center of Photography, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Musée du quai Branly, and the Witte de Witte Center for Contemporary Art. He is a cofounder of For Freedoms, now the largest community of citizen artists in America engaged in forging new paths to social justice “by any medium necessary.” In 2019, Unity, a public sculpture commissioned by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, took up its permanent home in downtown Brooklyn. This January, on Boston Common, Thomas will unveil “The Embrace,” a monumental bronze he created as a permanent memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King for the city of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and Embrace Boston. Thomas is the recipient of fellowships from the Gordon Parks Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Pace Gallery, Los Angeles; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; Goodman Gallery, South Africa; and Marauni Mercier, Belgium.

About Dara Friedman

Dara Friedman is a German born artist and filmmaker working in Miami. Reducing the materials of her chosen medium to its essentials, her films, which often portray ritual actions and sounds, are both sensual and serene. Last summer, she exhibited a new work, The Tyger’s Tale, in San Cremona, Italy, and in 2017, the Perez Art Museum in Miami staged a mid-career survey, “Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger.” Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the French National Collection and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin. This year she went into production with ecologist Josh Smith on: River Hill, Silo City, University of Buffalo on a monumental garden and labyrinth transforming a quarter acre of post-industrial turf along the Buffalo River with hardy pollinators that will open to the public next spring. Among Friedman’s honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and residencies at the Hammer Museum and at Everglades National Park.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

Ostensibly based on factual events, the narrative of American history often depends on who is telling the story and in what medium. Take our flag -- please. Once an emblem of unity, it is now a symbol of division. Art may not have to function as anything other than art, but let’s see what happens when the nation’s social fabric is its canvas.

About Dread Scott

Dread Scott is an artist based in New York who has a history of social activism going back to 1989, when he joined a flag-burning ceremony on the steps of our nation’s Capitol that led to a landmark decision by the Supreme Court protecting free speech. His work in performance, photography and sculpture has been exhibited at MoMA/PS1, the Walker Art Center, CAM St. Louis, and street corners across the country. It is also in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2021, Scott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 2019, he was named an Open Society Soros Equality Fellow. He also has won fellowships from United States Artists and Creative Capital. In 2019, his restaging, in New Orleans, of this country’s largest slave rebellion won widespread attention, as did his NFT video, White Male for Sale, when it was successfully auctioned at Christie’s last year.

About Rujeko Hockley

Rujeko Hockley is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-curated its 2019 biennial and organized the acclaimed exhibition, “An Incomplete History of Protest (2017), as well as solo exhibitions by Jennifer Packer, Toyin Ojih Odutola and (with LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim) curated the Whitney’s 2021 Julie Mehretu retrospective. Previously, she was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, where her credits include “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (organized with Catherine Morris), and work on shows by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kehinde Wiley. She also has served as a curatorial assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is on the board of Art Matters. Born in Zimbabwe, Hockley grew up in Washington, D.C. and is married to the artist Hank Willis Thomas.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.