Visual Arts

Visual Arts Faculty News & Exhibitions

2025-26

Tina Campt

Christopher Harris

Gi (Ginny) Huo

Pam Lins

Nicolás Pereda

James Welling

Jeff Whetstone

  • I hold it towards you; October 24, 2025, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Isovist Gallery. Opening Reception: October 24, 2-8 PM.

 

 

2024-25

Christopher Harris

Nicolás Pereda

 

 

2023-24

Martha Friedman

Deana Lawson

James Welling

  • Five prints displayed in New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching — Through March 23, 2024, second floor Paul J. Sachs Galleries (Floor 2, 2 South), MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, NYC.
  • Thought Objects — January 11 – February 9, 2024, at David Zwirner Gallery, 533 W 19th Street, New York City. Opening Reception: January 11, 2024, from 6-8 PM.
  • May 20 – June 16, 2024 — Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer in Residence at American Academy in Rome

 

2022-23

Lex Brown

  • Carnelian — April 4-July 16, 2023, at MIT List Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15, Cambridge, MA.
  • Residency at Celebration Barn, staging Carnelian — Aug. 25-26, 190 Stock Farm Rd, South Paris, Maine.

Moon Molson

  • Moon Molson’s new screenplay Hyper/Space won Best Screenplay at the 2022 Urbanworld Film Festival — October 2022
  • Moon Molson (feature film project Hyper/Space) selected as a finalist in the AT&T Untold Stories competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

James Welling

  • Dark Matter. Thomas Ruff, James Welling — Through March 5, 2023, at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

 

2021-22

Martha Friedman

  • “Everywhere and Here” — Artists Respond to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Collection, September 17 – November 20, 2021, Artspace, New Haven, CT
  • “Body Matters” — Art@Bainbridge, Bainbridge House, Princeton, NJ, May 20 – July 10, 2022

Deana Lawson

 

2020-21

Eve Aschheim

Deana Lawson

Ani Liu

  • Receives 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Arts
  • Her exhibition, “Pixelated Slaps to the Heart (Remnants of A Search for Ghosts in the Meat Machine),” opens December 5, 2020 – January 2021 at Elijah Wheat Showroom as part of the NADA 2020 art fair.

Moon Molson

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

  • Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement III: The Triple Deities — June 23-28, 2021, 12-6 PM, at Globe Dye Works (4500 Worth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124)

James Welling

  • Archaeology at Regen Projects, Los Angeles
  • Watch “Street View”, 2020, by James Welling, on David Zwirner Gallery’s Instagram account
  • Metamorphosis — April 1 – May 8, 2021, David Zwirner Gallery, 5-6/F, H Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

 

Spring 2019

Eve Aschheim

  • At the Core: New Members of the National Academy of Design, Core Club, NYC
  • Eve Aschheim (with Ashwini Bhat), Lacoste Keane Gallery Concord, MA
  • FAWC, Berta Walker Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
  • Salon, Galerie Berthet-Aittouares, Paris

Moon Molson

  • Johnny Ace, Quarterfinalist, Best Feature Screenplay, 2019 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition

James Welling

  • David Zwirner: Transform, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC, Jan. 10 – Feb. 16, 2019
  • Panel Discussion on Sarah Charlesworth with Jennifer Blessing, Margot Norton, and James Welling, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC, March 7 at 5:00 PM

 

Fall 2018

Eve Aschheim

  • Lines Without Outlines, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Sept. 10 – Oct. 14
  • Polarities, Totah Gallery, NYC, September 6 – Oct. 14

Colleen Asper

Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons Garage, Far Rockaway, New York, Aug. 11-12

Su Friedrich

  • Odds of Return: The Films of Su Friedrich; Women Make Waves, International Film Festival, Taiwan, Oct. 4 – Nov. 4

Daniel Heyman

  • Fall: Artist Eats Pho, (2011 Intaglio, aquatint, drypoint, gouache monotype) acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, and New York Public Library

Pam Lins

  • tears, then holes — Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC, June 29 – Aug. 3

Moon Molson

  • Feature film screenplay Johnny Ace, Honorable Mention, Best Screenplay Award, 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival
  • Feature film screenplay Johnny Ace finalist for the Best Screenplay award, 2018 New Orleans Film Festival

Mario Moore

David Reinfurt

  • Adam Pendleton, David Adjaye, David Reinfurt – Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Memorial, Boston Common, Boston; Public presentation and feedback, Boston Art Commission, Sept. 2 – Nov. 19

Jess Rowland

  • Life This In Find We – An Interactive Piano Roll, Harvestworks on Governor’s Island, NYC, Sound Installation, Sept. 8 – Oct. 21, and Performance, Sept. 22
  • Wallwarts, Performance with Meg Schedel and Sofy Yudeskyia, Outpost Artists Resources, NYC, Sept. 27

Lynne Sachs

Film Screenings:

  • Tang Art Museum, Skidmore College, Sept. 13
  • Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, Sept. 25
  • Metrograph Cinema, NYC, Sept. 2018
  • Vancouver International Film Festival, Oct. 4 – 6
  • James M. Stewart ’32 Theater, Princeton University, Oct. 23
  • Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, Oct. 24
  • Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Nov. 1 – 2

Tim Szetela

  • A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, Sept. 14, 2018 – Mar. 10, 2019

Adam Welch

  • Brick By Brick, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, New York, Sept. 30, 2018 – Jan. 19, 2019
  • On Differentiation and Affinity, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Jan. 25 – May 6, 2019

Jeff Whetstone

  • Batture Ritual, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC, Sept. 6 – Oct. 27

Amy Yao

  • Eckhaus Latta: Possessed, Whitney Museum, New York City, Aug. 3 – Oct. 8

 

2017-18

Eve Aschheim

  • Aschheim elected member National Academy of Art, New York
  • Lines Without Outlines, ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY, Aug. 12 – Sept. 30
  • ‘T’ Space Paintings, Silas Von Morisse Gallery, Bushwick, NY Feb. 1 – 25

Colleen Asper

  • Sumbody, Stellar Projects, New York, NY, March 21 – 31
  • Caixa Preta, Galeria Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 11 – Feb. 17

Fia Backström

  • Semeion (with Marcel Duchamp, Sten Hansson, Jenny Holtzer, and Carl Fredrik) Reuterswärd Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Aug 24 – Sept 17
  • A Vaudeville on Mankind in Time and Space, Calicoon Fine Arts, NYC, Feb. 23 – April 8, 2018

Nathan Carter

  • The Dramastics: A Punk Rock Victory Twister in Texas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Oct. 26 – Jan. 28, 2018

Martha Friedman

  • Lecture by Martha Friedman, CalArts, Valencia, California, December 5
  • Martha Friedman: Castoffs, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA, June 2018 – Feb. 2019
  • Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY,  Feb. 17 – May 20

Su Friedrich

Su Friedrich: A Mini-Retrospective, New Haven Documentary Film Festival, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, New Haven, CT, June 10, 2018

Daniel Heyman

  • Master Drawings New York 2018, Cade Tompkins Projects at Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York City, Jan. 28 – Feb. 3

Kurt Kauper

  • Women, Almine Rech Gallery, New York City, Jan. 20 – Feb. 24

Deana Lawson

  • Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York City, March 1 – April 7

Pam Lins

  • she swipes shallow space by the slide drawer, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York City, March 4 – April 22
  • Other Hours, 601 Artspace, New York City, Dec. 9 – Feb. 18, 2018

Mario Moore

  • “A Painter Reflects on When Black Men Get to Rest” — a profile of Mario Moore in Hyperallergic

Afia Nathaniel

  • From Pakistan: Women storytellers changing the face of the game, one film at a time — Afia Nathaniel, Lecture, MMEG, Washington, D.C., March 21, 2018

Demetrius Oliver

  • Pneumato, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York City, Jan. 5 – Feb. 11

David Reinfurt

  • Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017), Book launch at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 19 and Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex, Monday, Nov. 20, 6 pm
  • “Meet the Tetracono …” — lecture on Reinfurt’s Rome Prize work, Picture Room, Brooklyn, Sept. 29. Watch David Reinfurt’s lecture on YouTube
  • “A Post-Industrial Postscript” — lecture, MIT program in art, culture and technology, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 20
  • *a graphic design exhibition*, Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex, Nov. 14 – Dec. 29
  • David Reinfurt, A *New* Primer of Visual Literacy, 18 hour Lecture / Performance / Graphic Design Intensive
    Richard Neutra Institute, Los Angeles, July 13 – 15
  • Dexter Sinister, How to design (multiples), Colli Independent, Rome, April 7 – June 9

Joe Scanlan

  • Chest Painting: A Talk in the form of a Misunderstanding, performance lecture, List Center, MIT, Nov. 2

Amy Yao

  • Weeds of Indifference, 47 Canal, New York, Sept. 9 – Oct. 8
  • Medusa, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, May 19 – Nov. 5

Adam Welch

  • Chawan’ya: Maker of Tea Bowls — text for Tom Sachs, Chawan, Greenwich House Pottery (May 2018)
  • “Svend Bayer: The Humble Narcissist” — Review in Ceramics Art + Perception #107 (Jan. 2018)
  • Ceramics Now 2017 —  text for Greenwich House Pottery exhibition catalog (April 2018)

James Welling

  • David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC, Jan. 13 – Feb. 17
  • James Welling and Zoe Leonard, Tate Modern, Boiler House Level 4 West, Jan. – Dec. 31, 2018

 

Summer 2017

Eve Aschheim

  • American Abstract, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY, July 15 – Aug. 3

Fis Backström

  • From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds of the Word, Karl Holmquist exhibition, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Finissage performance: August 24 

Nathan Carter

  • The Dramastics & The Fascinators, Casey Kaplan Gallery, NY, June 23 – July 28
  • The Dramastics are Loud screenings: The Chimney NYC, Brooklyn, July 19 and Casey Kaplan Gallery, NY, July 27

Pam Lins

  • Surfacing, curated by Cameron Martin, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, April 6 – May 13
  • 99 Cents or Less, Mocad, Detroit, May 19 – Aug. 6

James Welling

  • Seascape — David Zwirner Gallery, 519 West 19th Street, New York, July 10 – August 4
  • The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, NY, March 17 – Aug. 6
  • James Welling and Zoe Leonard, Tate Modern, Boiler House Level 4 West, through Dec. 31, 2018

 

Spring 2017

Eve Aschheim

  • Split, Zürcher Gallery, New York, Jan. 19 – Feb. 23, 2017

Fia Backström

  • Finesse, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, Jan. 18 – Mar. 11, 2017
  • WOE MEN – keep going, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, Mar. 3 – April 29, 2017

Martha Friedman

  • Dancing Around Things, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Feb. 9 – Mar. 11, 2017
  • Performances of “Two Person Operating System” by Susan Marshall & Company: Feb. 18 and Mar. 4, 2017, 2-6 pm
  • Some Hags, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Great Hall, New York, Oct. 2016 – Feb. 2017

Francesca Grassi

  • “How to Design for Art Fairs, Longevity, Experimentation + Railing Against the Logo”, Emily Gosling, AIGA, Jan. 17, 2017

Daniel Heyman

  • Impressions of War, St. Louis Art Museum, Aug. 5, 2016 – Feb. 12, 2017

Deana Lawson

Demetrius Oliver

  • Explode Everyday: An Inquiry Into the Phenomena of Wonder, Mass Moca, North Adams, MA, May 28, 2016 – April 3, 2017

David Reinfurt

  • American Academy 2016-2017 Rome Prize – Design
  • Winding Up The Last ShOt Clock, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Jan. 19, 2017, 8:00 PM

Lynne Sachs

  • Tip of My Tongue in Doc Fortnight, MOMA, Feb. 16 – 26, 2017 (Includes footage of photographer Accra Shepp ’84)

Adam Welch

  • Brick, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey, Jan. 15 – April 30, 2017
  • 12th Annual Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, Jan. 5 – Feb. 5, 2017

James Welling

  • Metamorphosis, S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium, Jan. 28 – April 16, 2017
  • Metamorphosis — James Welling, Quentin Bajac, Robert Slifkin: An Art Book Series Event, New York Public Library, May 23, 2017. Free; RSVP required.

Jeff Whetstone

  • Crossing the Delaware, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, January 7 – March 11, 2017
  • Jeff Whetstone in conversation with James Welling, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Jan. 14, 2017

 

Fall 2016

Eve Aschheim

  • The Great California Art Movement, 1960s-1990s: UC Davis Fine Art Alumni Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, Oct. 26 – Nov. 27, 2016
  • Drawings and Photograms, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, Sept. 8 – Oct. 15, 2016
  • Interview with John Seed, Huffington Post, Sept. 20, 2016

Nathan Carter

  • Nathan Carter: Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Dramastics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Oct. 24, 2016 – Jan. 29, 2017

Martha Friedman with Susan Marshall

  • “Two-Person Operating System” Debut performance
  • NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Great Hall, Nov. 16, 6 pm

Su Friedrich

  • I Cannot Tell You How I Feel (2016) B.A.M. Premiere and discussion with Friedrich, Nov. 17, 7:30 pm

Francesca Grassi

  • Brno Biennial 2016, The International Jury Award
  • Whitney Museum of American Art: New Building Materials
  • Katarina Burin, Book launch and conversation, P!, New York, Dec. 15, 2016

Daniel Heyman

  • Daniel Heyman: Dartmouth Collection and Native Impressions, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI, Sept. 10 – Nov. 5, 2016
  • “A Chance, A Voice”: Daniel Heyman Reimagines American Narratives, Elizabeth Maynard, Hyperallergic, Oct. 29, 2016

Afia Nathaniel

  • Dukhtar, Netflix Premiere, North America, Sept. 1, 2016
  • Dukhtar, Japanese Premiere, Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2016, Nagoya, Japan, Sept. 8, 2016 Screening and discussion with filmmaker
  • Motherhood and Filmmaking, Film Fatales panel, SoHo House, New York, Oct. 3, 2016, 7 – 9pm
  • Filmmaking, Featured Speaker, Asian American Arts Alliance, New York, Oct. 18, 7 – 9 pm
  • Dukhtar, Screening and discussion on forced and child marriages, Unchained At Last, Short Hills, New Jersey, Oct. 30, 2016, 5-9 pm

Demetrius Oliver

  • Darkwater Revival: After Terry Adkins, Arthur Ross Gallery, U. Penn, Philadelphia, curated by Dejay Duckett and Demetrius Oliver, Aug. 27 – Dec. 11, 2016

David Reinfurt

  • Clock (2016), International Center of Photography Museum, New York, June 21, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017
  • It’s About Time: a conversation between Karel Martens and David Reinfurt, moderated by Prem Krishnamurthy, MoMA / PS1, New York Printed Matter Art Book Fair, Sept. 18, 2016
  • Launch of Karel Martens’ screensaver “Three Times (in Blue and Yellow)”, available through the O-R-G software store, Nov. 6, 2016
  • In *Real-Time*, Lecture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 8, 2016

Lynne Sachs

  • Your Day is My Night (2013), Screening and lecture by Sachs, Digital Media Center for the Arts, Department of Film Studies, and Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University, Oct. 6 – 7, 2016

James Welling

  • In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, Oct. 1, 2016 – Jan. 29, 2017
  • Promesse du Bonheur, by Michael Fried ’59, with 33 Welling photographs (David Zwirner Books, Fall 2016)

Jeff Whetstone

  • Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum, Durham, North Carolina, Sept. 1, 2016-Jan 8 2017
    Participant and author, “Southern Mountain Time”