Exhibitions
Cecilia Paredes: Not ~ At Home
1912 Gallery
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
October 25, 2023 - April 25, 2024
Not ~ At Home features the work of Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Cecilia Paredes, who explores issues of domesticity, gender, and diaspora through her practice of photography, performance, and bodily coverage via painting and textile. Viewed here in conversation with ceramic, feather, and fabric objects from Peru, Peredes’s work also prompts questions of restitution and repatriation – where home is and might be for these artifacts.
Eating: Otherness
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
EFA Project Space
New York, NY
March 16 - April 29, 2023
The artists of Eating: Otherness explore food, consumption and the body on their own terms, asserting an inedibility and agency beyond colonial definitions. At the heart of this project is also a celebration of food-centered relations via abundance, as well as of intergenerational, ancestral, and embodied knowledge. Works by Destiny Belgrave, May Maylisa Cat, Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Hayoon Jay Lee, and TJ Shin. Co-curated with Danni Shen.
Self Power | Self Play:
50 Years of Erotic Portraiture by Linda Troeller
The museum of SEx
New York, NY
October 19, 2022 - January 9, 2023
Self Power | Self Play highlights half a century of erotic portraiture by Linda Troeller. Now in her 70s, the photographer continues to produce dynamic, provocative portraits that embolden female intimacy, pleasure, masturbation, and orgasm, employing the camera as a tool for sensual empowerment. Co-curated with Emily Shoyer.
For Which It Stands
The Ford Foundation Gallery
New York, NY
October 5 - December 5, 2020
For Which It Stands spotlights contemporary artists who use the American flag to create new symbols of national identity and affirm the multiplicity of the American experience. Co-curated with Natasha Becker and Eileen Jeng Lynch, this independent, activist-oriented initiative features talks, performances, and presentations of artworks in physical and online spaces.
Bling Bound
Artfare and Assembly Room
July 12-25, 2020
An online exhibition of Shoshanna Weinberger’s work exploring the tension between personal expression and social control through jewelry adornment. Viewed amid international protests for Black Lives following the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, these works highlight inherited social systems of abuse and bondage—systems that so often retain their power through the facades of false gold.
Implied Body
Assembly Room Gallery
New York, New york
December 8, 2019 - January 12, 2020
In direct response to the dominance of figurative imagery in conversations about art and identity, Implied Body features abstract work engaging with themes of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Artists Kennedy Yanko, Tariku Shiferaw, Beatrice Modisett, and Yan Cynthia Chen create painting and sculpture with inventive manipulations of material for this muscular, minimalist, and jewel-toned exhibition.
Figuring the Floral
Wave Hill
The Bronx, New York
July 21 - December 1, 2019
Figuring the Floral highlights works by artists using flower imagery in a variety of contexts to explore and visualize identity. The show features work by Derrick Adams, Sanford Biggers, Ebony Patterson, Alexandria Smith, Lina Iris Viktor, William Villalongo, Saya Woolfalk, and others. Co-curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch with contributions by Jennifer McGregor.
Downloading Place
Wave Hill House
The Bronx, New York
May 25 - August 25, 2019
Queens-based artist Christina Yuna Ko reclaims and reasserts cute, feminine icons of East Asian culture as legitimate, artful, empowering subjects of Korean American identity. Painting in bright, pastel acrylic on hand-cut wooden panels, Ko arranges sushi rolls, floral boutonnieres, and frosted desserts with surrealist waterscapes, starry skies, and digital motifs sourced from Tumblr and Facebook.
Folkloric Taxonomy
Wave Hill House
The Bronx, New York
May 25 - August 25, 2019
Painter and illustrator Jia Sung exhibits works on paper and canvas depicting astrological animals, tarot card creatures, Buddhist icons, and Chinese calendar women. The Singaporean, Chinese, Brooklyn-based artist reinvents folklore and cultural codes of higher powers through a queer and zoological lens.
Here We Land
Wave Hill
The Bronx, New York
April 14 - July 14, 2019
Three former artists in residence, Camille Hoffman, Maria Hupfield, and Sara Jimenez, return to Wave Hill to create bold, immersive installations that grapple with land displacement, border crossings, colonialist histories, trauma, and the body. Amazon wallpaper, industrial felt, and archival collage prompt reflection on the relationship between body and land, figure and ground. Co-curated with Jennifer McGregor and Eileen Jeng Lynch.
DREAMERscapes
Wave Hill House
The Bronx, New York
January 20 - May 12, 2019
New York-based artist KangHee Kim creates digitally collaged photographs to juxtapose mundane scenes in New York and natural settings from various locations in the US. Originally from South Korea and living in the US as a DACA recipient, Kim faces numerous visa restrictions, and thus composes surrealist, imagined landscapes as a means of liberation and travel.
The Architecture of Nature
Wave Hill House
The Bronx, New York
January 20 - May 12, 2019
Bronx artist Shelley Haven presents an exhibition of works in ink, graphite, gouache, and oil. Selected from Haven’s series Travel Drawings and Boulders, these expressive, linear renderings of rock and cliff formations sighted in her travels resonate with the grandeur and rugged texture of the Hudson River Palisades visible from Wave Hill’s pergola and grounds.
Achromatic Vibrancy
Elephant Room Inc. Gallery
Chicago, IL
March 6 - 28, 2014
By featuring works in only one color, this group exhibition prompts conversation on the aesthetic strength and complexity of the achromatic elements of art, such as the texture of manipulated plastic, the shadow of cut paper, or the form of a marshmallow grid preserved in resin, enamel, and steel. Co-curated with gallery director and founder, Kimberly Leja Atwood.
Curatorial Research Contributions
P.6, Prospect New Orleans (forthcoming), 2024-2025
Bryn Mawr, 1912 Gallery: Bethany Collins: Tempest, 2023
Wave Hill: Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator, 2018
The Studio Museum in Harlem: Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire, 2018
The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans: Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick: Labor Studies, 2017
CAC, New Orleans: Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, 2017
Pictured: Camille Hoffman’s installation, Las Américas (en el hogar) / Americas (in the hearth), 2019, Acrylic paint, stock aspen forest vinyl ordered from Amazon, wood logs, excelsior anti-erosion blanket, wood chips, for the 2019 Wave Hill exhibition, Here We Land.