Artists for a Changing World

ARTISTS FOR A CHANGING WORLD

PACE GALLERY

540 West 25th Street

Seventh Floor

New York, New York

Curator ASYA GEISBERG

Diploma '95, Fifth-Year Certificate '96

Owner of Asya Geisberg Gallery

April 22-24 2026

INTRODUCTION

Curator Asya Geisberg

As an alumna of SMFA, or the Museum School as we called it, I have fond memories of committing myself to studio art, after completing a BA. Although primarily focused on painting and drawing classes, I appreciated the flexibility to also take stained glass, black and white photography printing, and art history writing. One of my favorite classes featured a tag team of professors who travelled to NYC and brought back slideshows of current exhibitions. Compounded by bus trips that took us on a day-long jaunt to museums and galleries, my eyes were opened. The link between Museum School and NYC is symbiotic: students receive the luxury of a topnotch art school and time and space to work, with enough proximity to visit frequently. The talent pool in turn is reflected in the breadth of this alumni exhibition, which I am proud to have curated.

INTRODUCTION

Dean Scheri Fultineer

As one of the four oldest art schools in the United States, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University was founded on a radical and enduring idea: that access to artistic training should be available to everyone. In Boston, that belief was made law through the Massachusetts Drawing Act more than 150 years ago, giving rise to SMFA and MassArt and shaping a city that would become a refuge for artists and designers during times of global upheaval. Many of those artists taught here, transforming the dialogue around art and design. Today, we proudly carry that legacy forward.

As we enter our 150th year, we remain more committed than ever to access, partnership, and impact. We see SMFA’s role as supporting artists across identities while exploring how an art school within an R1 university can meaningfully engage foundations, communities, and global networks to extend the reach of creative practice. Long known for innovative, interdisciplinary pedagogy, SMFA has nurtured artists who challenge boundaries and respond to a changing world. Our deepening partnerships across many sectors, and a conviction that art is not a discrete discipline but a driver of innovation, inquiry, and social engagement, define SMFA’s place within Tufts University, where strengthened career support, student life, and affordability initiatives equip graduates to build sustainable creative lives.

SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World celebrates this legacy and looks ahead. This landmark exhibition of New York–based alumni, hosted at Pace Gallery and curated by alumna Asya Geisberg, brings together artists spanning six decades and six academic programs, from emerging voices to internationally recognized figures. Our first alumni exhibition in New York City marks the beginning of a yearlong celebration of SMFA’s history and its profound impact on contemporary art.

As Dean at this pivotal moment, I am deeply grateful to all those who have shaped SMFA’s history and sustained its values. Honoring that legacy, I look ahead with optimism and excitement as we imagine the future of art, education, and the artists yet to come.

Founded in 1876, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) was shaped by a progressive belief that art education—particularly drawing—should be accessible to all. Closely aligned with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the School emphasized academic realism and close study of the collection, helping define the Boston School of Painting. Artists such as Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and Philip Hale blended European training with American Impressionism, establishing a rigorous and influential model for art education.

In the early to mid-20th century, SMFA became a site of renewal as Boston emerged as a refuge for artists fleeing political upheaval in Europe. These artists brought modernist and expressionist ideas that challenged academic traditions and reshaped the curriculum. Under the leadership of Karl Zerbe, the School embraced abstraction, emotional intensity, and experimentation, influencing figures such as Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine and positioning SMFA at the forefront of American modernism.

Following World War II, SMFA adopted a student-centered, critique-driven pedagogy that prioritized interdisciplinary practice and conceptual inquiry. This shift proved pivotal for photography, which emerged as a vital artistic medium at the school. SMFA played a formative role in contemporary photography, nurturing artists including Nan Goldin, whose deeply personal, narrative work has had a lasting influence on contemporary art.

Now part of Tufts University, SMFA continues its 150 -year legacy—supporting artists across media and identities while responding to the evolving possibilities of art and art education.

LAUREN ADELMAN, BFA

‘98 is an artist, educator and collaborator based in Beacon, NY. She is a consultant for projects within the field of social justice, abolition, youth leadership and the arts, most specifically I Am Why. She co-founded Artistic Noise first in Boston in 2001 and then in New York in 2008. As a social practice visual artist Lauren works in community with others to create transformative spaces and experiences. Lauren has taught and led community-based art projects in many varied settings including schools, museums, detention centers and community organizations both nationally and internationally. She received a BFA from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a MA in Arts Education from NYU. Lauren’s own studio practice explores environmental and social issues through printmaking, drawing, installation and animation.

NICOLE (NIKKI) ARENDT, MFA

‘05 is a New York–based artist working in sculpture and wearable forms that inhabit the space between gender, ceremony and symbolic systems. Their ongoing series Strap ons merges ceremonial aesthetics with playful subversion, creating objects that feel both sacred and mischievous. Through slippery signifiers and hybridized forms, Arendt’s work challenges inherited roles around gender and power while celebrating the fluidity of interpretation.

Arendt holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2005) and a BA in Arts and Performance from the University of Texas at Dallas (1999). Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Hosfelt Gallery (NYC), NURTUREart (Brooklyn), the Gwanja Biennale (Seoul), the Melbourne Next Wave Festival, and was included in the White Columns’ Artist Registry (2018–2020).

CAMERON BARKER, MFA ‘20,

Post Bac ‘18 (he/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work centers around visibility of queer intimacy. Born in Longmont, Colorado, Barker received a BA in art education from The University of Northern Colorado and a MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. As a queer Jew, Barker has been interested in destabilizing cultural systems that force communities to engage in closeting to avoid persecution. His work has been shown internationally, implementing Western traditional rendering techniques and materials, such as the Bargue Drawing Method, intaglio printmaking methods and metalpoint, to represent queer bodies which have been historically absent from these practices. Barker has been recognized as a PostGraduate fellow in curation at Tufts University, a Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellow, an awardee of the Room 68 Artist residency (Provincetown MA), the Maisonette Queer Artist Residency in (San Francisco CA), and a Stone Hill Press Printmaking Residency in (Woburn MA). He is a visiting lecturer at Yale University and editor of the Boston Printmakers Quarterly with print editions represented by Caira Editions.

LAURA BARR, BFA ‘80, BA ‘78

earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BA in Fine Arts from Tufts University and has studied at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Rome, Italy.

Barr has had work exhibited at New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, and other galleries in the northeast, including Concord Art Center, Concord, MA, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Swirlbul Library Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, CT, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT and The Paul Mellon Art Center, Wallingford, CT. She is a member of Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, is an Associate Artist Member, Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT and is an Elected Member of Connecticut Women Artists.

Barr’s work is in many collections including Yale-New Haven Health Services, New Haven, CT, and The Shapiro Center for Writing, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. She currently lives and works as a fine artist, by the Thimble Islands, in Branford, Connecticut.

JANINE BIUNNO, MFA ‘08

is a New York City based visual artist and archivist. Janine’s art practice is centered on analyzing and interpreting the semiotics of the built environment. Her work explores the subjectivity of spatial perception with a focus on architecture as well as the evident and intrinsic infrastructural systems found in urban environments. Janine’s work also addresses how the memory of physical space is continually altered due to the ever-increasing influence of the digital realm.

As an archivist, Janine is interested in the relationship between material and digital culture. Her focus is on the complex collections of varied studio and professional materials belonging to artists, architects, designers, as well as preservation strategy and related initiatives for cultural heritage institutions. She works as the Head of Archives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Janine has attended residencies with the Frans Masareel Centrum in Belgium and ACRE in Wisconsin/Chicago. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the International Print Center of New York, the Center for Book Arts in New York, Transmitter Gallery and Satellite Miami. Her work is in the collections of Tufts University Libraries, San Francisco Public Library, Monserrat School of Art, and has been selected for the flat files at Deanna Evans Projects (2022) and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2018).

Janine received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, GCert. in Museum Studies from Tufts University, and MLS from CUNY Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

MICHAEL BRENNECKE, BFA ‘76

grew up in Westport CT, at a time when it was a favored area for artists, writers and musicians, given its proximity to New York. When he began painting, Winslow Homer’s powerful seascapes were an early influence. After years of working representationally, Michael’s work evolved into abstraction to better evoke the essence of the land and seascapes through more impressionistic compositions of color and texture. He enjoys working non-objectively, leaving his creations open to interpretation.

Michael currently shows at Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan Carriage Barn, Rowayton Art Center, Keyes Gallery, Ridgefield Guild of Artists and The Sheffer gallery among others.

SHANNON CARROLL, BFA

‘10 is an artist based in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Her large abstract paintings explore memory, presence, and loss. Working on raw canvas with acrylic and pigment sticks, she creates luminous color fields, urgent gestural marks, and chalkboard-like erasures. Her paintings invite viewers into charged landscapes that simultaneously form and dissolve. Carroll began this body of work after her husband’s death from cancer in 2025. She recently completed a literary memoir in collaboration with him. He was an English humorist and former academic. The book weaves his wry stories of illness and expat life with her account of loss and aftermath.

Carroll’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections. She has exhibited in New York and has been featured on TODAY.com and Hyperallergic. She runs Vivid Story, a certified B Corporation, and has presented work at SXSW, Skoll World Forum at Oxford University, and Harvard University. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

DAVID CARBONE, BFA ‘71 Professor

Emeritus of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany, SUNY, received his BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He also spent a summer in Maine at the Skowhegan School, and later, earned his MFA at Brooklyn College. He has studied with T. Lux Feininger, Henry Schwartz, Jan Cox, Barnet Rubinstein, Gabriel Laderman, Lee Bontecou, Jacob Lawrence, Jimmy Ernst, Carl Holty, Harry Holtzman, Joseph Groell, Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Russell, and Sylvia Stone. Carbone has had seven one-person exhibitions including shows at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, Zoe Gallery, Boston, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, and HackettFreedman Gallery, San Francisco.

Carbone's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in museums, commercial galleries, and alternative exhibition spaces across the country including The Boston Museum; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Gibbes Museum of Art, The Bayly Museum of Art; The National Academy of Design; The Art Museum, Miami; Provincetown Art Museum; The Brockton Museum; The Soho Center for the Arts; Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston; Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; The Chicago Navy Pier Art Expo; The Federal Hall Gallery, New York; and Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York.

COURTNEY CHILDRESS, Post Bac ‘10

received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase (2011); Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2009); and her BFA from the University of Alabama (2008). Childress had a solo exhibition at Deanna Evans, New York, NY in 2023 and solo exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY in 2021. Her work was included in group exhibitions at Andrea Festa, Rome, Italy (2026); DIMIN NYC, New York, NY (2023); VSOP Projects, Long Island, NY (2023); PLAY at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (2020 - 2021); SPRING/BREAK Big Bang with Eliot Greenwald, New York, NY (2020); Dutch Masters, Mrs Gallery, Maspeth, NY (2018); SPRING/BREAK Black Mirror, curated by Kristen Racaniello, New York, NY (2017); Summer Anagram at Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY (2016); Colors, at Louis B. James Gallery, New York, NY (2015); Mingled Bodies, curated by Jovana Stokic at Vanity Projects, Miami, FL and New York, NY (2015); Four Lives at Field Projects, NY (2013).

Childress received a Tallichet Freedman Foundation Grant in 2026 and City Artist Corps Grant from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2021 and the ACE Grant NYC from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation in 2018.

Her solo show Fuzzy Logic was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail (June 2023) and she was interviewed for Bomb Magazine (June 2023.) Her work was featured in MAAKE Magazine in 2022, curated by Tyler LaFreniere; ART MAZE Magazine in 2021, curated by Julie Curtiss and mentioned in The New York Times in 2018.

HEATHER COX, MFA

‘98 is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She received her early training in book arts and photography at Mills College. She went on to study sculpture at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She currently works at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Heather’s artwork is quirky and seductive. It is often characterized by precisely crafted objects that involve repetition and shifting scale. She employs a variety of materials in her projects to address issues of visibility, discovery and metamorphosis.

SHANNON CURRY HARTMANN,

MFA ‘96 is an artist that lives and works in New York City. She draws and weave figures, movement, tension, and color from a series of performative photographic images into 2-D and 3-D forms. Her work recalls and reinterprets fabric and dress as well as the influence of the digital age on processing the visual world. The act of weaving creates a closeness where these two realities of the human experience co-exist. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 1996.

KRISTA DRAGOMER, Post

Bac ‘05,

BFA

‘04 creates art, writing, and participatory works that move speculatively between complex ecological presents, mytho-poetic origins of life, and possible futures. Her practice operates at multiple scales, spanning drawings, wall sculpture, and interdisciplinary events at the intersection of art, philosophy, and social justice, and she sustains several long-term collaborations across multiple disciplines. Her work has been recently exhibited at the Morgan Paper Gallery in Cleveland, LMCC Art Center on Governors Island, and numerous festivals, academic conferences and international venues. Her collaborative projects have been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, ICA Boston, and Prix Ars Electronica where the soundscape she created for A Father’s Lullaby received the 2021 Award of Distinction in Digital Musics & Sound. She is the ongoing Vunja Artist-in-Residence with philosopher Báyò Akómoláfé’s organizations Dancing With Mountains and The Emergence Network. She creates sound installations with Iranian experimental filmmaker Rashin Fahandej focused on the criminal justice system and feminist histories in the US and Iran, and has co-curated several of anthropologist Eben Kirksey’s Multispecies Salon exhibitions, staging provocative intersections of art, research, and eco-activism. Dragomer’s drawings are published in Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying by Beatrice Marovich (Columbia University Press, 2023) and Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader edited by Eden Pearlstein (Ayin Press, 2026).

AVRAM FINKELSTEIN,

BFA ‘74 is an artist, writer, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. He is a recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital Grant, and a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Grant. His work has shown at MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS 1, David Zwirner, The Shed, the Museum of the City of New York, Smack Mellon, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Grey Art Gallery, the Hirshhorn, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Kunsthal KAdE, and the Migros Museum, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the New Museum, the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the Fogg Museum, the Getty Institute, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is featured in the artist oral history project of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and his book for UC Press, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images was nominated for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, and an International Center Of Photography 2018 Infinity Award in Critical Writing And Research. He has written for BOMB, frieze, Art21, OnCurating and Foam, been interviewed by The New York Times, frieze, Artforum, NPR, Slate, and Interview, and spoken about art, activism, LGBT cultural production, and the American Left at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, NYU, RISD, MassArt, The New School, Parsons, The School of Visual Arts, CUNY, and UMASS.

ODELIA FORMAN, BFA/BS ‘23

is a Brooklyn-based painter raised in Western Massachusetts, where she grew up among woods and swimming holes. Her practice explores cycles of change through layered washes of color and slow, repetitive mark-making. Rooted in an early sensitivity to natural rhythms and informed by a background in clinical psychology, her work considers shifting relationships between people, environments, and internal states. She received a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BS in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University. Her work has been exhibited in New York and Massachusetts.

C’NAAN HAMBURGER, BFA

‘07 was born in Jerusalem, Israel and lives and works in New York, NY. Hamburger is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2025, 2023 and 2022, and the AXA Art Prize honorable mention in 2023 and 2021. She is represented by Charles Moffett Gallery. Her work has recently been exhibited by Kate Werble Gallery in New York, NY. She has held solo presentations at Charles Moffett Gallery, Esther art fair and The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. Her art has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum , and by fellow SMFA alumni Anni Irish (among other publications).

Hamburger has been an outdoor educator for over a dozen years. Before pursuing her artistic practice, she was a World Champion skateboarder, named best female skater of 2001 by Transworld Skateboard Magazine; and in 2000, she won the World Cup of Skateboarding and the Van’s Triple Crown in Women’s Street. Master in Painting Hunter College, 2024. Bachelor, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, 2007.

DANIEL HEIDKAMP, BA/

BFA ‘04 lives and works in New York. Working in the space between realism and abstraction, Heidkamp creates color-saturated paintings that map physical and psychological landscapes. Anchored in direct observation and often developed through en plein air practice, his work distills lived experience, memory, and art-historical inquiry into hypnotic, liminal scenes. Light and color function as transformative forces in his paintings, pushing naturalistic imagery toward heightened chroma and perceptual intensity. Landscapes, interiors, and figures are rendered not as fixed sites, but as mutable environments shaped by time, place, and subjective experience.

Heidkamp frequently travels to locations he describes as possessing “art energy”, that is, sites that have played a formative role in the history of painting, including Cape Ann, Barbizon, the German Romantic landscape, Yosemite, and the French Riviera. By painting these places firsthand and revisiting the movements they inspired, Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and American landscape traditions, Heidkamp explores how modes of seeing can be reactivated in the present. While rooted in observation, his work allows color to assert its own logic, drawing from both nature and the alchemical material vitality of oil paint itself.

Solo exhibitions include Acquavella Galleries (Palm Beach), Half Gallery (New York and Los Angeles), Loyal (Stockholm), Pace Prints (New York), The Journal Gallery (New York), and White Columns (New York). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Almine Rech (New York), Blum & Poe (Los Angeles), SPURS Gallery (Beijing), and The Ranch (Montauk), among others. Heidkamp’s work was featured in Talking Pictures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017 and is included in the museum’s permanent collection.

ROBERT

HERNANDEZ, MFA ‘09 is a mixed-media sculptor whose interdisciplinary practice integrates drawing and paperbased sculpture. His recent exhibition, Never Dreamt Never Known (2025), at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Downtown Gallery, presented a new series of freestanding paper sculptures. In 2023, Hernandez was awarded the Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. His earlier recognition includes selection for the AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2016, culminating in the inclusion of his large-scale paper sculpture El Tigre in the AIM Biennial Exhibition. He is also a recipient of the Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop (2014), where he expanded his work in print-based processes.

His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Governors Island Art Fair, 8 Hour Projects at Allegheny College, Boston Young Contemporaries, the New England Gallery for Latin American Art, and the Boston Center for the Arts.

KATHERINE

JACKSON, Diploma ‘99 is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with drawing, glass and light. Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries, colleges & universities, and public spaces in New York City, elsewhere in the US, Rome, Berlin, and Venice. Two of her large/scale long term public exhibitions celebrated the centennials of two iconic New York structures, the New York Public Library and the Manhattan Bridge. She was awarded a grant to place a six month exhibition addressing immigration in NY’s Tenement Museum. A recent installation was included in both the Venice Architectural Biennale 2021, and the Venice Art Biennale 2022. In 2024, her work was exhibited at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art and the Raynham Hall Museum, and was included in the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th Anniversary Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, which was on view through January 2025.

SEOL KWON, BFA/BA ‘95 is

a contemporary artist who combines traditional and modern techniques in her work and creates non-objective works of nuanced color, dimension and texture. She studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and later completed a postgraduate degree at the Haute École d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva. Her work includes various media, such as drawing, painting and photography.

Originally engaged in figuratively based art questioning identity, her paintings today are abstract, layered and precise, working with ink, pigment, gouache, acrylic and oil. The space in her work does not use the singularvantage point from the Renaissance but a non-linear perspective without a fixed point of entry, encouraging movement and engagement. Her work requires a more universal approach to seeing and asks what it means to see and be seen with an openness that is deliberate.

Seol Kwon’s work has been shown in experimental venues such as: Sang Bleu in London, Beletage, Roehrs & Boetsch in Zürich, Kentler International Drawing Space, and Luis Leu in Karlsruhe, among others. Her work has been published in Public Art and Women in Business and can be found in the private collections of prominent international artists and collectors.

JUYON LEE, MFA

‘22 is a South Koreaborn artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Having grown up between Seoul and the greater Boston area, Lee developed a heightened awareness of the dissonance experienced across time and space. Composed of ethereal elements such as light and air, tangible yet diaphanous materials like glass and silk, and architectural structures, her image-based work traces how ephemerality and ontological residues, such as memory and the subconscious, converge in human experience and perception. Through layered applications of image, material, and light, her multidimensional work reveals the shifting tension between the apparent solidity and underlying instability of matter and being, embodying experiences ranging from grief to the nonlinearity of time.

Lee has exhibited widely, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, Episode Gallery, Tufts University Art Galleries, New Bedford Art Museum and NARS Foundation. She is the recipient of notable fellowships and awards, including the Café Royal Foundation Grant for Visual Art, Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Pilchuck Fellowship, and St. Botolph’s Emerging Artist Award. She participated in artist residencies at LMCC Arts Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Lee holds her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her BA from Wellesley College (summa cum laude).

SU-JUNG LEE, MFA

‘03 currently teaches Vedic Meditation and has a small private concierge practice that integrates her years of clinic Chinese Medicine experience and cultivation of consciousness. Her journey into the depths of Consciousness has reinspired her art and photography as a way to explore the intersection of the known world and the sacred.

Rooted in her personal practice and desire for greater meaning and connection, her work questions how we perceive and experience transcendence in an age increasingly dominated by virtual disconnection. Her photographs serve as thresholds, inviting viewers to consider their own relationship to the sacred and to discover the universal thread that connects us all.

JAI-JEN LIN, MFA

‘07 is a Taiwanese-American artist based in Brooklyn and Berlin. Her installations mediate the body, space, human condition, and our society. Her body of work integrates sculpture, photography, video, sound, text, and performance. Among other places, her works have been exhibited at the Queens Museum in New York, the Hessel Museum of Art in New York, Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei, the National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan, the Brooklyn Rail, Boston City Hall, Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, and Locust Projects in Miami. She was selected as an artist in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in Australia, and the Arctic Circle in Norway.

E. LOMBARDO, MFA

‘13 (she/they) is a Queer American Bronx-based printmaker and painter. Their studio practice explores art historical, news, and pop cultural images to recognize entrenched patterns. Their work examines how the narratives we consume and internalize inform our understanding of identity.

Lombardo earned their MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA. They received a 2021 BRIO award and are a 2021 Bronx AIM Fellow.

Lombardo’s work has shown in galleries. universities, and museums nationwide. Their first solo museum show, entitled The Caprichos: Lombardo and Goya , was at the Academy Art Museum in Maryland in 2017, and featured 80 etchings by both artists. The installation engaged the audience to ponder the congruences of past and present, resulting in an intimate recognition of the historical patterns of human behavior.

Their work is in the permanent collections of The Academy Art Museum in Maryland, The Mead Museum at Amherst College, Boston Public Library, Wheaton College and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

KATRINA MAJKUT (My’kut), MFA ‘13,

Post Bac ‘08, a Ukrainian American visual artist, seeks to understand how social traditions impact identity, bodily autonomy, and civil rights. She pushes the boundaries of observational painting by using embroidery and craft materials. Her most notable series In Control features cross-stitched modern reproductive health medical products. It has been exhibited in solo and group shows over 40 times across America. Majkut exhibits internationally and nationally in both commercial and college galleries, where she lectures on gender, art activism, and textile arts. Majkut was listed as one of four international artists starting a new chapter in feminist art by Mic Media and is repeatedly listed as a must-see artist by Hyperallergic magazine.

Selected group exhibitions include Get in the Game at SF MoMA, Crystal Bridges Museum, Perez Art Museum, Scope Art Fair, AIR Gallery, Spring/ Break Art Show, Bronx Museum Biennial, Every Women Biennial, Dorsky useum, Museum of Craft and Design (CA), Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Dinner Gallery, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. Fellowships include the Wassaic Projects, Forge NYC, and the Bronx Museum AIM program. Residencies include Elizabeth Murray/ Collarworks, MASS MoCA, Jentel, and Project for Empty Space. She is represented by The Contemporary Art Modern Project gallery in Miami.

Her artwork has appeared in The New York Times, Elle Magazine, and The Guardian. Her artwork also made nationals new when it was censored by Lewis-Clark State College (ID) in 2023. Majkut published her first non-fiction book in 2018, The Adventures and Discoveries of A Feminist Bride. She is in many private and public collections including the 21C Museum, Dana Farber, and the library at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C. Majkut earned her BA from Babson College and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

HELINA METAFERIA, MFA ‘15

is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, sculpture, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work incorporates archival research, embodied practices, and dialogical studies, supporting overlooked narratives of intersectional identities.

Metaferia’s solo exhibitions include the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2024-2025); RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI (2022-2023); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022). Her work was included in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2025); Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (2025); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI (2019); and the Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2019). Her work is in institutional collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.

Metaferia received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been supported by several residencies, including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Recess Art, Project for Empty Space, and Silver Art Residency. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Artnet, Artforum, ArtNews, The Art Newspaper, BOMB Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Visual Art, and lives and works in New York City.

AMY MOREL, MFA ‘01

is a visual artist whose welded steel sculptures and paper collages reflect the shapes and tones of the natural landscape, embrace the lyrical movement of the figure, and adhere to the precision of graphic design.

Her larger steel works give the appearance of a drawing in space. Each cut and welded section is affixed to maximize depth and shadow, often echoing the form of a mountain range or the steep dip of a nearby valley. The forms are then complicated by allusions to swirling figures, silhouettes of faces, and dancing bodies. As they intermingle, distinct compositions emerge and recede as the viewer navigates new angles and points of view under, around, and within the sculpture. An application of flat paint in colors evocative of the region helps amplify their sense of place.

While her sculptures command attention through their physical presence, Morel’s works on paper and collages mirror the sculptures’ formal qualities but allow for a more serendipitous result. Their color combinations give a nod to music venue posters inextricably linked to the Pacific Northwest. Her earlier upbringing in the area merges deftly with her more recent decades living in Vermont, two places equally embracing of their natural environment.

Morel was born and raised in the Seattle, WA, area. She received her BA from Dartmouth College, her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and she also studied at the New York Studio School. Morel is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Award. Select exhibitions include the Cue Art Foundation, NY; the Boston Center for the Arts, MA; Burlington City Arts, VT; and CristineRose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, NY. Her work has been shown extensively in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont, and has been placed in several private collections.

MOLLIE MURPHY, MFA ‘97

received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 1997 and a BA in English Literature from George Mason University in 1984. Solo and group exhibition venues include Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC; The Arts Council of Princeton, NJ; the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; CollectiCo Gallery, NYC; Galapagos Artspace, Brooklyn, NY; City Without Walls, Newark, NJ; The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; Phoenix Gallery, NYC; apexart, NYC; and 301 Gallery, Beverly, MA. Mollie has participated in residencies at Cowhouse Studios in Wexford, Ireland, Vermont Studio Center, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the American Academy of Rome, and, most recently, The Siena Art Institute. In 2024, Mollie received a Windgate Fellowship at Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences in Rabun, Georgia and was awarded a 2025 Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She lives and works in Princeton, NJ.

CATALINA PASTRANA ACOSTA, MFA ‘23

is a Colombian artist based between New York and Medellín. Trained in fashion design and fi ne arts, her practice operates at the intersection of textile and painting, using fi bers and color as both structure and language. Working through embroidery, weaving, and constructed surfaces, Pastrana Acosta develops a research-driven practice grounded in both material and conceptual investigation. Her work engages processes of experimentation, examining the behavior, tension, and accumulation of materials to build dense compositions. Through repetition and layering, her pieces register the body as a site of emotional and cultural inscription. She received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2023), where she was awarded the Dana Pond Award and the SMFA Dean’s Research Award. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the Aidekman Arts Center and MassArt x SoWa in Boston, and is held in private collections across the United States and Latin America, as well as in the Tufts University Art Galleries collection.

SHEILA PEPE, MFA

‘95 lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where in 2024 she studied the history of public art. In June of 2023, Sheila installed My Neighbors Garden in the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Manhattan, which received great critical notice, including a profile in The New York Times. Since then, her work has engaged meaning made in a public forum with a family resemblance of methods and materials. Her work is in a number of private and university collections including the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis, Harvard Art Museums, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY and the Des Moines Art Center, IA. Her work is currently on view in the solo exhibition: Sheila Pepe: Where and When We Rest at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. Pepe is represented by Marinaro Gallery in New York.

BIRD PICCININNI, BFA ‘16

is a photographer and curator, holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Masters in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts. They have studied photography for the past decade through commercial, corporate, and fine art opportunities. Their photographs have been exhibited at the Nave Gallery, Somerville; in Genetic Material, SMFA; Altered, William Morris Hunt Library, Boston; and Blurred, Checkpoint Cafe, Edinburgh. Bird travels extensively for her photographic series, each of which examines the facade, internal struggles, decisions, and lifestyles of her subjects. From their experiences Bird pushes their work and efforts towards equity, accessibility, and change in and outside the arts community. Bird is currently the Gallery Manager at Pen + Brush in New York.

LILY PIETTE, BFA ‘24 is an artist and musician based in New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2024. Working primarily in oil painting, her practice explores technological and biological processes, examining systems of information transfer. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Boston and London.

Mary Pinto, Continuing Education ‘90-’92 creates works on paper that explore themes of wonder and and comment on the interdependence of humans and the natural world. Based in Queens, NY, and working with alternative photographic processes, as well as monotype, collage and artist books, she has exhibited her work nationally at institutions including the Steinberg Museum of Art, Culture Lab LIC and Ohio State University. Mary’s practice has been recognized with residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Openings Collective, and she is a two-time recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant in addition to a 2025 grant from the Queens Art Fund.

In addition to her studio practice, Mary curates exhibitions that center community engagement and inclusivity. In 2016, she organized a permanent installation of works by 19 artists for The Fortune Society through Art Connects New York. She studied Photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

MICHAEL POTECHA, BFA ‘10

is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in Brooklyn. Classically trained in drawing and sculpture; his work shows an appreciation for detail, anatomy, subtle color and depth. Earlier in his career Michael assisted artist Ivan Lee Mora and studied with glass artist Ernest Porcelli. As a resident and teacher at AGS studio with B. Jane Cowie he was featured in Singapore Art Gallery Guide. Most recently he was awarded one of the 202324 SMFA at Tufts Traveling Scholars Fellowships for his examination of the gem-like beauty of oysters (and other bivalves) the memories they evoke. Michael’s current work is an examination of the gem-like beauty of bivalves; meditating on their deep, subtle textures and symbolic meaning which he explores through highly detailed, watercolor pencil preliminary drawings and the glass sculptures which follow. He experiments with kiln formed sculpting; creating natural forms by patiently drawing, cutting, painting, kiln casting and cold working sculptures. His primary challenge has been to inspire those who see and hold his work to take a closer look, beyond the obvious form, to actively observe each piece as one might a cloud but through a magnifying glass.

CRATER POWERS, BFA ‘24

is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary sculptor from Cape Cod. His practice seeks to materialize the ephemeral experiences of queer nightlife and subculture. Drawing from the visual languages of raves, furries, drag, and internet culture, he explores how shared experiences of marginalization can act as a pathway to connection and allow queer individuals to defy the suppression of their identities. An interdisciplinary approach to craft is central to their work as a way of resisting the gendered associations of craft and exploring political potential as a mode of queer world-building. His work has been shown in galleries across the East Coast, including Silvermine Art Gallery, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, FX Collaborative, and Satellite Gallery.

MAUREEN RIDGE, Fifth Year ‘89

was born in Boston over 75 years ago and began her career working a variety of jobs in Boston area hospitals. In 1971 while working at Beth Israel Hospital, she was approached by a union organizer and learned about the experiences of workers in New York to win better pay and working conditions. This inspired Maureen to join with other hospital employees to try and form a union, an effort that ultimately proved unsuccessful in 1974. From that point on Maureen spent most of her working life organizing and representing workers.

Maureen has always been an artist and remembers the first time she was given a box of very large crayons and a big piece of drawing paper by her kindergarten teacher. In the 1980s, she attended School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Univeristy (then known as the Museum School) and for many years since then her work has been sold at the School’s Art Sale, its annual scholarship fundraiser, as well as other online forums raising money for economic, racial and social justice efforts. Currently she spends much of her time at The Art Student League of New York and at the New York School of Art painting under the tutelage of artists Elizabeth, Allison and Arslan.

Over the years Maureen has taught art to children in public schools and summer camps and to older folks in senior living. She exhibits her work in places that are accessible to everyone and believes that we all should have access to experience art as art makes life better.

DEBRA ROTH, Diploma ‘80, Fifth

Year ‘81, a visual artist, has made sculptures in many different mediums and continues to be an artist in industry. Fantastical fabric sculptures, and decorative tension fabric structures, create large scale eye-popping installations that get you to feel. You may have an experience or a reaction when seeing her work—perhaps you spontaneously speak to a stranger or snap a photo to capture the moment. As a lifelong entrepreneur, she has won many awards and invented products for the event industry and design world. Debra’s first company, Pink Inc art-in-motion, had much success traveling the world in many festivals. Front page press was the norm with her stand-out visuals.

Today, working as an artist in industry with her company The Originators, co-owned with Marc Posnock, she continues to serve up art and design. Debra still loves a parade and you may find her dancing in the streets. Costuming and clothing as personal expression has always had her style eye out and about in her beloved NYC. As a 1980 graduate and 1981 5th Year Fellowship recipient, Debra is super happy to be included in this gallery show of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University co-graduates.

SUSAN SCHAPIRA,

BFA ‘81 has been a painter and Urban Sketcher for over 40 years and earned a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. Her creative processes are a contemporary trompe l’oeil, engaging the viewer to closely examine the depicted visual reality. Presently, Susan serves on the Board of the Art League of New Britain, CT, the Programming Committee for Ball and Socket Arts, Cheshire, CT and is the Administrator for Urban Sketchers of Central Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with Arthur Yanoff, curated by Kenworth Moffett and she has also exhibited in juried shows throughout the United States. In Canada, she was an invited guest artist of the Conseil des Arts du Canada at the Symposium of Baie St. Paul. Susan has been an artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Arts and the Edna St. Vincent Millay artist’s colony. Her works are in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and in private collections worldwide.

YORIKO SHIRAISHI, BFA ‘00 is an artist/illustrator originally from Tokyo and now based in New York City. For two decades, she has worked with clients such as Airbnb, Mercator, Nihon Vogue-sha Co., and Kaiju Big Battel. Her personal work is a visual journal; she translates fleeting moments, emotions, mood, memories, and concepts into a visual language, oftentimes in the forms of self-portraits, still lifes, and abstract landscapes. She uses a wide variety of styles and techniques, yet is able to make each piece distinctively her own. Her visual language evokes emotions within the viewers, providing a fresh perspective or nostalgia. In the present society which tends to push people to think dualistically and bigotedly, she explores the possibilities of ambiguity through her work, to gain personal freedom.

GESSICA SILVERMAN, Diploma

‘11, Post Bac ‘10 is an abstract painter. Her work employs formalist strategies to convey human connection. She is a native of Boston, MA and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Silverman has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC, Tufts University in Massachusetts, Brodsky Center at Rutgers, and the Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University, among others. She was awarded the 2023 School of the Museum Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship to visit Spain and was a board member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Silverman is in the collection of Tufts University. She now lives and works in Queens, NY.

ANN SLAVIT, MFA ‘83, BFA ‘70

is best known for the temporary, air-filled sculptures she created for Stephen Sondheim’s productions of Into the Woods, The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Boston’s Faneuil Hall as well as smaller, peripatetic forms: traveling acrobats, caricatured female legs, and an inflatable pig costume for the dance stage. Her 20-foot tall, pneumatic sculpture Della (Waiting) will be on view June through February at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach. Ann’s 1970’s works, like Della (Waiting) and Della (Street) ironically address feminist and other social issues and attitudes hidden within mainstream culture. Her traditional training in painting, photography and figurative sculpture prepared her to use non-traditional media to create vinyl and fabric pneumatic forms, which are sewn, welded and memorialized in her photographs and drawings. While playfully experimenting with alterations of scale and placing highly recognizable subjects in unlikely sites, she has not veered away from the figure.

Ann is currently finishing a book titled My Little Sculpture Stories, a collection of short, illustrated narratives recalling the challenges and pleasures of making public art during a time when both pneumatic sculpture and work by women artists remained peripheral. As a special needs parent interested in greater accessibility and cultural participation for disabled and other marginalized people she has organized public art projects and studio opportunities through which their talents have shined.

STEVE SNIDER, Diploma ‘65

is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, from which he received the Senior Design Award. Over the course of his 50-year career, Steve owned and operated his own design studio, served as Art Director of The Atlantic, Design Director of Arnold Worldwide, Art Director of Little, Brown and Company for 9 years, and Vice President, Creative Director of St. Martin’s Press for 18 years. He is the recipient of over one hundred design awards. He has also taught Graphic Design at the New England School of Art and Design. Steve retired in 2015 to focus on fine art, making analogue collages. His collage art has been featured in such magazines as Contemporary Collage, and the book Glue. In May, 2025, Steve was an artist-in-residence at the London Collage Project. This May he will be artist-in-residence at the Berlin Collage Expedition.

DOUG AND MIKE STARN, Diploma ‘85, Fifth Year ‘86

are identical twins. First having received international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial working conceptually with photography, they have defied categorization having effectively combined traditionally separate disciplines such as photography, sculpture, painting and architecture over the past five decades. They inaugurated their Bambú series on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum in 2010 where it was the 9th most attended exhibit in the museum’s history. Subsequently it was shown at the Venice Biennale and 5 museums internationally and experienced by over 2 million visitors. In 2017, the Starns completed a 90-ft long glass wall façade for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Major artworks by the Starns are represented in museum collections including MoMA (NYC); Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (NYC); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Ordrupgaard Museum (Copenhagen), Yokohama Museum of Art (Japan); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); amongst many others.

KELLI THOMPSON, MFA ‘09

received her Master’s of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Orleans. Thompson has been the subject two solo exhibitions, the first at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2009 and the second at Shelter Gallery in New York, New York in 2023. She has been included in group exhibitions throughout the United States and has been an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and the DNA Residency (Provincetown, MA). Thompson’s work has been published in The Northeast Editions of New American Paintings #86 (2010) and #170 (2024), Art Voices Magazine, and Art Maze Magazine.

ANA MARIA VELASCO, MFA

‘99, Post Bac ‘98 is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Colombia whose practice explores the interdependence of culture and living systems. Working across ceramics, painting, and installation, she creates immersive still lifes that trace cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Her dreamlike landscapes merge spiritual and scientific perspectives, inviting viewers into tactile environments where storytelling unfolds in space as much as on the painted surface.

Velasco holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, and studied at the Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes in Colombia. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Colombia; the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society; Symbiosis, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Berkshires; A Still Life, Clubhouse Gallery, Wellington; Awaken: Conjuring Our Tomorrow, Salem University; Ríos Intermitentes, Cuba; and Homecoming, Oh Gallery, Seoul, among others. Her work is held in collections including the Harvard University Kennedy School, Museo La Tertulia Colombia, the Jean Pigozzi Collection, and the Becky Gochman Collection.

Velasco has taught at the Rubin Museum of Art, the SMFA Boston, and the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cuba. She launched SCIART at the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, and participated in United Artists for Climate during the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), fostering collaborations between artists and scientists. She has also taught yoga and meditation for more than two decades, including programs for communities affected by armed conflict in Colombia.

REI XIAO, BFA

’23 is a painter and tattoo artist based in Brooklyn NY. Her work delves into psychological states rooted in her upbringing in Istanbul as a Chinese-Turkish minority and her later immigration to the US. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University with additional studies at Central Saint Martins at the University of Arts London, UK, and has exhibited her works at September Gallery, Kinderhook, NY: Fragment Gallery, New York, NY; Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain; CerModern, Ankara, Turkey; and Mamut Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey. Rei has participated in artist residencies at ChaNorth, Vermont Studio Center, The Macedonia Institute, and Fountainhead Residency. She is also a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2022) and a finalist for the Bennett Prize (2025). Photo credit Karli Evans.

SUNG WON YUN,

MFA ‘10 is a visual artist working in New York City. Sung Won Yun was born in Seoul, Korea in 1977. After completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Fine Arts in painting in 2000 and 2003, respectively, in Korea, she came to the U.S. and earned her second Master’s of Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2010. She has had thirteen solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1999. Her recent solo exhibitions include Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (2026), Harold J Miossi Art Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (2025), Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA (2021), Helen J. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021), and Narthex Gallery at St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY (2019). Her artistic achievements include the Traveling Scholarship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2012), Artist Fellowship from the Terra Foundation for American Art (2010), and the first prize in Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography (2010). She was awarded artist-in-residency fellowships from PLAYA (2017), The Cooper Union School of Art (2015), The Helen Wurlitzer Foundation (2013), Terra Summer Residency (2010), and several other organizations.

Sung Won Yun’s artistic journey started from her curiosity about the continuous cycle of life. She grew plants from the seed in Petri dishes, recoding changes from germination to death. The organic shapes from the record were the central motifs in her early works. Then, she became interested in the dynamism created by the recurring cycle of life and death. Her works aim to revoke congeries of beings by the dynamisms of organisms, as the congeries represent a homogenization of heterogeneous beings; upon accumulation, individual heterogeneity is melted into the inseparable whole, while at a microscale preserves its own meaning.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Lauren Adelman, BFA '98

Nicole Arendt , MFA '05

Cameron Barker, MFA '20, Post Bac '18

Laura Barr, BFA '80, BA '78

Janine Biunno, MFA '08

Michael Brennecke, BFA '76

David Carbone, BFA '71

Shannon Carroll, BFA '10

Courtney Childress, Post Bac '10

Heather Cox, MFA '98

Shannon Curry Hartmann, M FA '96

Krista Dragomer, Post Bac '05, BFA '04

Avram Finkelstein, BFA '74

Odelia Forman, BFA/BS '23

C'naan Hamburger, BFA '07

Daniel Heidkamp, BA/ BFA '04

Robert Hernandez, MFA '09

Katherine Jackson, Diploma '99

Seol Kwon, BFA/BA '95

Juyon Lee, MFA '22

Su-Jung Lee, MFA '03

Jia-Jen Lin, MFA '07

E. Lombardo, MFA '13

Katrina Majkut, MFA '13, Post Bac '08

Helina Metaferia, MFA '15

Amy Morel, MFA '01

Mollie Murphy, MFA '97

Catalina Pastrana Acosta, MFA '23

Sheila Pepe, MFA '95

Bird Piccininni, BFA '16

Lily Piette, BFA '24

Mary Pinto, Continuing Education '90-'92

Michael Potecha, BFA '10

Carter Powers, BFA '24

Maureen Ridge, Fifth Year '89

Debra Roth, Diploma '80

Susan Schapira, BFA '81

Yoriko Shiraishi, BFA '00

Gessica Silverman, Diploma '11, Post Bac '10

Ann Slavit , MFA '83, BFA '70

Steve Snider, Diploma '65

Doug + Mike Starn, Diploma '85, 5th Year '86

Kelli Thompson, MFA '09

Ana Maria Velasco, MFA '99, Post Bac '98

Rei Xiao, BFA '23

Sung Won Yun, MFA '10

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