In the summer of 2023, Antônia de Oliveira Bara (MFA 2023), Santiago Galeas (MFA 2021), Ciara Rafferty (MFA 2016), and Lucy Kay Simoneit (MFA 2023) participated in a one-month Artist-in-Residence program hosted by the Kylemore Abbey Global Centre Residency in Kylemore, Ireland. The residency is made possible by Jaclyn Dooner (MFA 2015) and the New York Academy of Art... Read More The post 2024 Kylemore Residency Exhibition appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

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 Featuring Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Zoey Frank, & Amy Sherald moderated by Noah Buchanan and Carl Dobsky Against the backdrop of the Big Stories exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, four of the nation’s leading figurative painters meet to discuss The Narrative in art, and its evolving role in today’s world. Reserve Tickets Bo Bartlett (b. 1955,... Read More The post Big Stories Panel Discussion appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

  Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New... Read More The post Senior Critic Dexter Wimberly in Conversation with Artist Aleah Chapin appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

An artistic maverick, Neil Jenney is committed to exploring, and ultimately transcending, realism as both style and philosophy. Having designated his early work “Bad Painting” and his post-1970 output “Good Painting,” he challenges models of taste and subject matter while pursuing an idiosyncratic approach to depicting culture and place. Jenney characterizes his current work as “painted sculpture,” and uses handmade... Read More The post Neil Jenney in Conversation with Linda Yablonsky appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

William Keller (son of Deane Keller Sr. and brother of the late Deane G. Keller (former NYAA faculty)) is an historian of architecture with an interest in cultural landscapes, borderlands, and human geography. Keller graduated from Yale and concentrated on Northern Renaissance art at Columbia University, earning his PhD in art history at the University of Delaware. Keller was on... Read More The post Drawing with Bridgman, Keller, and Keller: Craft, Art History and the Figure as Representation and Metaphor appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

Ruth Adams Co-Executive Director of Art Omi Ruth Adams is Co-Executive Director of Art Omi in Ghent, NY, where she provides leadership for the multi-faceted contemporary arts center’s 120-acre Sculpture and Architecture Park and Gallery, five international artist residencies, arts events, and education programming. Together with a Board of Trustees and Program Advisory Boards, totaling 90 people from the arts... Read More The post Artist Residencies Panel Discussion appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

  Kate Capshaw’s portrait of Toddrick Brockington honors the intergenerational work of Henry Street Settlement, a social services organization that has served Manhattan’s Lower East Side for 130 years, helping 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Brockington joined Henry Street’s staff after serving 26 years in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, having earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral... Read More The post Kate Capshaw appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

  The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present its renowned exhibition series “Eye to Eye,” featuring the collection of Anne-Marie and Pierre Trahan, owners of Arsenal Contemporary. Now in its fifth iteration, “Eye to Eye” asks a prominent collector to select works by Academy MFA students, which are then exhibited side by side with pieces from the... Read More The post Eye to Eye appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present “Big Stories,” a group exhibition featuring large-scale, contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition. Curated by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan, and Carl Dobsky, Big Stories travels to New York after its initial showing at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. From Homer to Shakespeare... Read More The post Big Stories appeared first on New York Academy of Art ..read more