Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in B…

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, USA). Select…

Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, C…

Influenced by her upbringing in Japan and her current home in New York City, Shino Takedaʼs ceramics embody her sensory experience of sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell. Most of her works are hand-built using the coil method, and incorporate several different types of clay, making each piece one of a kind.Takeda uses her own memories, reflection…

Born in Oneonta, New York in 1984Sam Friedman is an artist who lives and works in Pleasant Valley, New York. Sam has had solo exhibitions at The Mass in Tokyo, Gana Nineone in Seoul, Harper’s Chelsea in NYC, Library Street Collective in Detroit, WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, Over The Influence in Hong Kong and many others. His work has been covered by…

Jansson Stegner (b. 1972, Denver, CO, US; lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA, US) received his MFA from the University of Albany, New York. Stegner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions with Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Bellwether Gallery, New York; Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, and most recently, Almine Rech Gallery, New York. He wa…

Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Drawing Room at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Blue Setting, Charles Moffett, New York, NY; Look Out, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA…

Andrew Paul Woolbright is an artist, gallerist, and Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Andrew is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in painting and is the director of the Lower East Side Gallery Below Grand. He currently teaches at Pratt and School of Visual Arts in New York. He has shown h…

Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006.Keltie has had recent solo shows at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Morán Morán, Klemm’s Gallery, Gana Art Sounds, the Speed Museum in Louisville…

Alicia Adamerovich (B. 1989, Latrobe, PA) is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Bachelor's of Design from Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Adamerovich has been a recipient of several residencies including the Del Vaz Projects Residency (Los Angeles); Moly Sabata Artist Residency, Albert Gleizes Foundation (Sablons, FR); and Pa…

Jess Xiaoyi Han is an artist born Dalian, China) has lived between New York and China for most of her life and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts (SVA) with a concentration in illustration. Working with alkyd paint, Jess utilizes an expressional color palette to create soft, organic shapes, ref…

Lauren Quin draws from a pool of the unformed and the entropic to render shapes caught in a process of emergence or recession. Parts grow out of other parts. And like bacteria, material starts to infect and invade. Her mark-making implies a passage between dimensions that generate sensuality and movement. Quin holds an MFA from the Yale School of A…

Leonard Baby was born in 1996 and grew up in Manitou Springs, Colorado. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has a current show at Half Gallery in LA called “LA, Baby” and has shown work with Andrew Edlin Gallery in NYC, Carl Kostyal Gallery in Milan, The Artist Room in London Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY, Kutlesa Galler…

Rudy has a show up and we are releasing this episode for 2016 on the occasion. KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is delighted to present Rudy Shepherd's first solo exhibition with the gallery, THE GOLDEN AGE, from April 3 to May 5, 2024, with a reception on Friday, April 5, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at their 561 Grand Street space. This collection of acrylic on c…

Samantha Thomas (b. 1980, McAllen, Texas) received her BFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles/New York; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Maccarone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY.Her work has been covered by the LA Times, the…

Roy Dowell (b. 1951 in Bronxville, NY) received his Master of Fine Arts and his Bachelor of Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. Roy has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at The Landing, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Bols…

The vibrant style Ali Smith has brought to her writing and photography—featured regularly in The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications internationally—was forged in New York’s underground music scene where she played bass in the seminal punk / blues / avant-garde band, Speedball Baby. After touring worldwide and recording several alb…

Brian Calvin b.1969Lives and works in Ojai, CA.Calvin studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at The Art Institute of Chicago. He received the California Arts Council Fellowship and an art residency from Art Production Fund, Giverny, France.Calvin has exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Corvi Mora, London; Cabinet, Milan; Almin…

Ojo Ayotunde b. 1995, Lagos, Nigeria Lives and works in LagosAyotunde graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from Yaba College of Technology in 2018. He worked as a junior art director with Rosabel Advertising for a year and a half after which he decided to focus on his practice as a full-time studio artist.Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden …

Stuart Snoddy was born inHonduras and lives and works in Indianapolis, IN. He holds an MFA from Northern Illinois University and a BFA from the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Stuart has had shown his work at Massey Klein, Edington Gallery, Future Fair, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Cat Head Press, Farmer Family Gallery at Ohio State, Trest…

Yuan Fang (b. 1996, Shenzhen, China) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the School of Visual Arts in 2019 and received Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement and several scholarships. She received her MFA from the same institution in 2022. Her works have been acquired…

Ryan Steadman was born in 1974 in Greenville, SC, and lives and works in Delhi, NY. He has shown his work at galleries such as Karma in New York, NY; Halsey McKay Gallery in Brooklyn & East Hampton, NY; Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, NY; and others. He earned his BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and his MFA from Pratt Institute…

Alejandro Cardenas is an artist who lives in NY’s Hudson valley,Primarily focusing on Painting, Sculpture, and drawing.He graduated with a BFA in fine art from Cooper Union.He has had solo exhibitions at BFI Miami, James Fuentes Gallery,Anat Ebgi Gallery, Harper’s Books, Stems Gallery and Almine Rech.His current exhibition titled “Porta-Mantis” is …

Youngmin Park is a painter from Seoul, currently working and living in New York. Her works explore the unstoppable and competitive struggle within the vertical system through different forms of life. Elements such as power, movement, and consumption are shown through the tense relationships between the figures. Dislocated from their original functi…

Barbara Campbell Thomas is a North Carolina based painter who has exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum (NC), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Painting Center (NY), the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), the North Carolina M…

Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born London-based multidisciplinary artist. His undergraduate degree was in civil engineering, after which he received a Masters degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art.Ken was awarded the prestigious The Future Awards Africa in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community. His works have been…

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019 and 2022. Yuan’s work has be…

Kirsten Deirup (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) graduated from The Cooper Union in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Guild and Greyschul, New York, NY; and Rare, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Jeff Bailey G…

Alina Zamanova (b. 1993) is a figurative multimedia artist who lives and works in Ukraine, Kyiv. Her paintings and sculptures reflect the complexities of the human condition, exploring themes such as identity, mortality, search for meaning and purpose in a conflict-thorn world, that is often filled with trauma, suffering and tragedy but also persev…

Francesca DiMattio is an artist born in NYC who lives and works between Manhattan and Upstate New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Wedgwood at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (UK), Sèvres at Nina Johnson, Miami (FL), Boucherouite at Salon 94 Bowery, New York (NY); Francesca DiMattio: Housewares at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (TX) and Ver…

Martha Atienza (b. 1981, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Bantayan Island, Philippines) has moved between the Netherlands and the Philippines throughout her life. Constantly oscillating between these two cultures has had a profound influence on Martha’s focus as an artist.Her practice explores installation and video as a way of documenting a…

Tschabalala Self is an artist born in Harlem who lives and works in Upstate New York. She received her undergraduate degree at Bard and her MFA from Yale. Recent solo exhibitions and perfiormances include Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Le Consortium in Dijon, Performa 2021 Biennial in NYC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the ICA in Boston, the Hammer Museum …

Allison Miller was born in Evanston, Illinois and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, NY and has had solo shows at The Pit, Los Angeles, The Finley, Los Angeles and AC…

A reissue pod from June 2016 with Matt on the occasion of his opening tonight at Anna Zorina. MATT PHILLIPSHold Tight Horizon EyesAnna Zorina Gallery | New YorkNovember 30, 2023 - January 13, 2024MATT PHILLIPS received his BA in Art History from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and his MFA in Painting from Boston University. His work has featured i…

Joelle Dietrick's paintings, drawings, and animations explore infrastructure, particularly housing, and its manipulation by automated, global economic systems. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Transitio_MX in Mexico City, TINA B Festival in Prague and Venice, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA San Diego, …

Nat Meade is a Brooklyn-based painter and educator who uses his work to reflect on the complex feelings that surround the experience of moving through different phases of life. Nat received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally…

Martyn Cross (b. 1975, Yate, UK) holds a BA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University. He lives and works in Bristol, UK. Martyn has exhibited work at many galleries, nationally and internationally, including Hales London, UK; Marianne Boesky, New York, NY, USA; Ratio 3, Los Angeles, CA, USA; OSHSH Projects, London, UK; Modern Art, London, UK; Oceans Ap…

Corri-Lynn Tetz was born in Calgary, Alberta and lives and works in Montreal. She studied at Red Deer College, Emily Carr and graduated from the MFA program at Concordia University. Tetz has received project support from the Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and in 2016…

Tammy Nguyen was born and raised in San Francisco, and received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2007, and an M.F.A. from Yale in 2013. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2023); Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan…

Jeremy Sorese is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, he was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs, a residency program in Angoulême, France, where he worked from 2012 through 2013. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. …

A reissue of a classic episode with Inka from 2016.By Brian Alfred

Erin Armstrong is a contemporary figurative artist working and living in Toronto, CA. Her work has been exhibited extensively across North America and Europe, with recent shows at Hashimoto Gallery LA, BEERS London, and Duran Mashaal in Montreal. Her next solo exhibition will open Oct 31st in Milan, Italy at Alessandro Albanese Gallery, closing out…

On the occasion of The Pollinator, Tracy Thomason’s fourth exhibition with Marinaro gallery, inhabiting both of their gallery spaces, we are reissuing this conversation with Tracy from over six years ago. Tracy Thomason is an artist born in Maryland who received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a BFA from the Maryland Institute …

Sam Dunson is an artist born in Dayton, Ohio who is a professor in art at Tennessee State Univeristy. He recieved his BS in studio art there before getting his MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has received several awards including 100 under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art Selected By Peers of Oxford American Magazine, the O…

Hiejin Yoo is a German born, Korean artist currently living and working in Los Angeles Her work has been shown at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Half Gallery, Frederic Snitzer, Blum & Poe, Almine Rech, Konig Gallery, Loyal Gallery, Stems Gallery, The Pit, Spurs Gallery in Beijing and many others. Her work has been covered in Galerie Magazine, J…

SHULING GUO is an artist born in Guangdong Province, China who graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BFA in 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2019, and now lives in Philadelphia and aboard the Sailing Vessel Selkie. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition Secret Fragrance in Beyon…

Janina Myronova is a Ukranian ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework,…

Tahnee Lonsdale is an artist rendering emotional divinity through the use of layered oil paints and ethereal, intuitive compositions. Born in 1982 and raised in Sussex, UK, Tahnee attended the University of the Arts in London where she primarily studied painting, graduating with a BFA in 2007. After moving to LA in 2015, her practice evolved to emb…

Jodi Hays is a painter who has had recent solo shows at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). Brooks Museum, Fisk University, and Devening Projects, among others. She was a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize and the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundat…

This week we are releasing a classic episode. This is one of the first podcasts we released from 2016. Robin is an amazing artist who shares her process and insights.By Brian Alfred