The third edition of New Wave Art Wknd took place December 4-6, 2020 in a hybrid virtual and socially-distanced in person format. Check back for further information on 2021 dates as December approaches.
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2020 Sponsors
The Theme for New Wave Art Wknd 2020 was Art as Activism: The Fight for Equality and Justice.
New Wave Art Wknd is a non-commercial event featuring robust public programming and a VIP itinerary including private collection visits, lunches and dinners, and gallery and museum receptions designed to showcase the flourishing contemporary art scene in South Florida.
This past year, due to COVID-19, New Wave Art Wknd went virtual! A few in-person socially distanced events took place following all safety guidelines and CDC recommendations.
Public programs included panel and roundtable discussions by renowned artists and art world players. The weekend's VIP itinerary once again included intimate studio and private collection visits, and exhibition previews and tours.
PARTICIPANTS
Danny Baez is the Co-Founder and Director of MECA International Art Fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Co-Founder and Board Member of the ARTNOIR Collective. He firmly believes in the power of building upon community and has organized various exhibitions in New York since 2010; he recently opened REGULARNORMAL in New York City asking the question: But what if "gallery" could mean just a little bit more? A room, building, corner, wall, floor, window, or space; to display ideas and concepts, to share thoughts, to create community, to start dialogue, to nurture culture and collaboration. All of this first and foremost. And then the opportunity to showcase and sell works of art.”
Photo credit: Magdiel Báez
Danny Baez
Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Natasha Becker is an independent curator and writer of contemporary art based in New York. With expertise in contemporary African and African American art, her research, writing, and curatorial practice focuses on politically engaged art.
In 2020, she co-curated "For Which It Stands," launched by the Ford Foundation Gallery and presented by Assembly Room, and "Living in America" at the International Print Center New York; she also organized "A Perfect Storm" as Curator-in-Residence at Faction Art Projects in Harlem, New York. 2019 projects included co-curating the Ford Foundation Gallery’s inaugural exhibitions “Radical Love” and “Perilous Bodies,” and artist LeAndra LeSeur’s first solo show “Girls Girls Girls” at Assembly Room in New York. She also curated “Present Passing” with Patrick Flores for the Osage Art Foundation in Hong Kong.
Becker is one of the founding curators of Assembly Room, a curatorial collective and community that supports the professional empowerment of women curators. She is also a founding member and volunteer mentor at Art for Action South Africa, a student-led organization dedicated to raising funds to support local people making a difference in their communities.
Natasha Becker
Wildcat Ebony Brown is a Brooklyn-based emerging artist, originally from Tulsa Oklahoma raised in southern Maryland. Self taught, she has possessed natural artistic ability her entire life. A more deliberate investigation of her capabilities began during her early 20’s while working as a professional model in Los Angeles. Despite achieving her childhood dream of glitz and glamor, she felt marginalized and objectified in an industry overtly lacking diversity, equity and ethics. Seeking honest, true self expression, she began to explore and cultivate her innate creativity. This journey from subject to visual architect spawned many manifestations along the way. With aspirations ranging from Rockstar to celebrity deejay, her inevitable evolution from girl next door to nightlife enchanteur was no less than an epic adventure. Through authentically embracing her myriad incarnations, she willfully utilizes a multitude of acquired skill sets to navigate, curate and occupy various cultural spaces.
Having spent years in front of the camera, performance art was an organic, experimental process. Relying on an instinctual aptitude for color harmony, her work is vibrant and exhilarating whether it be an installation, painting, collage or up-cycled, garment. A visionary and multi-disciplinary artist by nature, she alone grants her self permission to challenge narrow, monolithic perimeters based on race, gender and socioeconomic standards. Spirituality, Sexuality, Feminism, Adornment, Ritual, Iconography and Worship and are themes frequently presented in her practice.
In the new, contemporary, ideation of The Wide Awakes, her contribution is critical and significant. A key collaborator, she conceptualizes and programs relevant, site specific activations. Understanding the effectiveness of artist led activism to unite, empower and liberate communities and individuals, enables her to produce safe, unconventional forms of civic engagement rooted in diversity, inclusion and collective joy.
A life-long, lover of style and aesthetic, the budding fashion designer incubating in her subconscious was finally ready to blossom and bloom 2020. Wildcat & Angel, a dazzling bespoke collection currently in development, aims to responsibly and sustainably intersect, modern fabrics and materials with bygone vintage silhouettes.
A true Libra, infinitely oscillating between muse and virtuoso, she continues to inspire and be inspired by the serendipitous magic of the universe. Imaginative, magnetic, forever youthful yet complex, she is attracted to and reflective of the symbiotic duality existing in organic and synthetic inconspicuous beauty.
Wildcat Ebony Brown
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, province of Matanzas, in the town of La Vega, Cuba) grew up on a sugar plantation in a family with Nigerian, Hispanic and Chinese roots. Her Nigerian ancestors were brought to Cuba as slaves in the 19th century and passed on traditions, rituals, and beliefs. Her polyglot heritage profoundly influences Campos-Pons’ artistic practice, which combines diverse media including photography, performance, painting, sculpture, film, and video.
Her work is autobiographical, investigating themes of history, memory, gender and religion and how they inform identity. Through deeply poetic and haunting imagery, Campos-Pons evokes stories of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, indigo, and sugar plantations, Catholic and Santeria religious practices, and revolutionary uprisings. In the late 1980s, Campos-Pons taught at the prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and gained an international reputation as an exponent of the New Cuban Art movement that arose in opposition to Communist repression on the island. In 1991, she emigrated to Boston, where she lived until 2017 when she was awarded the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Campos-Pons has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada, among other distinguished institutions. She has presented over 30 solo performances commissioned by institutions including the Guggenheim and The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Dakar Biennale, Johannesburg Biennial, Documenta 14, the Guangzhou Triennial, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA and Prospect.4 Triennial. Campos-Pons’ works are in over 30 museum collections including the Smithsonian Institution, The Whitney, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Perez Art Museum, Miami and the Fogg Art Museum.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Onyedika Chuke (b. Onitsha, Nigeria) lives and works in New York City, NY. He studied at The Cooper Union and has participated in numerous fellowships and residencies, including The Drawing Center (2013-17), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park (2016-17), SculptureCenter (2016), and The Bronx Museum (2019). Chuke conducted research on Rikers Island as a New York City Public Artist in Residence(2018-19). Chuke recently opened an art gallery called Storage in The Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan as an extension of his art practice.
His largest body of work titled The Forever Museum Archive (2011-present) began in Libya and is an ongoing collection of objects, text, and images. Chuke assumes the role of the archivist, researcher, and conservator; all working together within the constructs of a theoretical museum. The mission of this museum is to collect and re-contextualize historical objects as the artist reflects on contemporary theories in politics, culture and architecture. Since 2011, Chuke has worked on the archive in New York, Switzerland, France, and Rome. His work has been included in exhibition venues such as The Shed, SCAD Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, and The American Academy in Rome. His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, BOMB Magazine, Artnet and BLAU International (forthcoming). Chuke’s upcoming projects include a large-scale installation at LMCC's Art Center on Governors Island in collaboration with Pioneer Works.
Onyedika Chuke
Gisela Colón (American b. 1966, raised 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico) has exhibited internationally throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Most recently, Colón presented a monumental site-specific installation in the Land Art Biennial, Desert X AlUla 2020 in Saudi Arabia. Her work was recently included in the exhibition Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and is currently on view in institutional exhibitions In Vivid Color: Pushing the Boundaries of Perception in Contemporary Art at the Mint Museum, North Carolina, and in A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia. In 2021, Colón’s sculpture will be on view in the traveling exhibition Light, Space, Surface: Southern California Art From LACMA’s Collection at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2021), Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2021-2022), and The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2022). Colón’s work resides in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA; Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Grand Rapids Museum of Art (GRAM), Grand Rapids, MI; and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, amongst others. Originally from Puerto Rico, Colón lives and works in Los Angeles.
Gisela Colón
Laura Dvorkin is the co-curator of The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach. She has worked with the Collection for over thirteen years; organizing exhibitions in the US and abroad and managing large presentations of the Collection at institutions. Dvorkin is also the co-curator of 53 West 53, the Residential MoMA Expansion Tower, New York, and consults on acquisitions for private clients. Laura Dvorkin currently lives and works in New York City.
Laura Dvorkin
A private collection visit with Lisa Goodman and Josef Vascovitz is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Lisa Goodman and Josef Vascovitz are active art supporters and collectors. For almost three decades, they have focused their collection on contemporary art of the Africa Diaspora and many of the works center on social justice or gender. Annually, the Collection loans out dozens of works to museums in the U.S. and abroad.
Highlights include Kehinde Wiley’s Young Man Holding a Skull (2013), Amy Sherald’s Saint Woman (2016), Toyin Ojih Odutola’s In This Imperfect Present Moment (2016), and El Anatsui’s Takpeke (Conference) (2006) that was included in the artist’s first solo gallery in New York City. A 2019 acquisition of Betye Saar’s Cage In the Beginning (2006) one of the artist’s first assemblage sculptures using cages, is currently on loan to a museum. Since quarantine began, they have been supporting many young artists, and recent acquisitions include Tiffany Alfonseca, Raelis Vasquez, Kwesi Botchway, Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, Collins Obijiaku, Talia Ramkilawa, Joiri Minaya, Gregory Olympio, and Cassi Namoda.
Lisa works in commercial real estate and serves on several boards including the Seattle Art Museum where Josef serves on the Collections Committee. Josef worked in technology, went back to school for his BFA in Studio Art and has consulted on strategic planning. He is a Trustee at On The Boards and they are also involved with the Tate Africa Acquisitions Committee, Hammer Museum Global Council, and have worked on projects at other museums and art organizations most recently with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Lisa Goodman and Josef Vascovitz
Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and researcher of corporal movement based between New York and Paris. His practice centers around a romanticized exploration of the Black body in space through durational performance, sculptural forms and gestures. His work consists of large-scale sensorially-immersive environments which revolve around the physical body.
At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education and threw himself into a four-year independent research project studying movement and architecture as they relate to the Black body. This spanned a number of solo artistic/research including Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Musée du Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Red Gate Gallery Beijing and Long Island’s Watermill Center. He has a largely self-acquired background in linguistics, perfumery, butoh and physical theatre, and has studied under the direction of various mentors such as Edouard Lock, Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović.
Greenberg’s form is the result of rigorous methodology which resides at the threshold of performance and sculpture. The work follows self-contained, non-linear systems of logic which are best understood in relation to one another.
Miles Greenberg
Carmen Hermo is Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. She curated Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making, formed part of the Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall curatorial collective, and co-organized Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 and Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, among other exhibitions.
Previously, Carmen was Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum. Carmen received her B.A. in Art History and English from the University of Richmond and her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College.
Carmen Hermo
Deborah Kass’s work examines the intersection of art history, popular culture, and the self. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati Museum, The New Orleans Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Fogg/ Harvard Museum, as well as other museums and private collections.
Kass’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The Andy Warhol Museum presented "Deborah Kass, Before and Happily Ever After, Mid- Career Retrospective” in 2012, with a catalogue published by Rizzoli. Her monumental sculpture OY/YO became an instant icon and is now permanently installed in front of the Brooklyn Museum and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
In 2018, Kass was inducted into The National Academy. In 2014, Kass was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame. She was honored with the Passionate Artist Award by the Neuberger Museum in 2016 and was the Cultural Honoree at the Jewish Museum in 2017. She serves on the boards of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Courtesy Grace Roselli Pandora's BoxX Project
Deborah Kass
Demetrio “Dee” Kerrison is a New York bred, South California based art collector, music enthusiast, financial services executive and social activist. While his career is in the financial service sector, his life’s work, along with his wife Gianna, is collecting art, specifically, the work of African Americans and other artists of color. Focusing on art that reflects his experience, it wasn’t only about collecting art but helping artists navigate the intimidating waters of the art world.
Dee Kerrison
Jon Key is a Queer Black man originally from the small rural town Seale, Alabama now living and working in Bushwick, NY. A writer, designer, and painter, his work excavates the lineage and history of his identity through four themes: Southernness, Blackness, Queerness, and Family. Through the process of writing, photography and painting, Jon’s work is portrayed graphically through four colors: Green, Black, Violet and Red. Respectively, these colors intertwine memory and intimate recounting of the four pillars grounding the work.
Key’s work has been showcased in The Armory Show with Steve Turner LA, Carl Freedman Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch NY and included in personal and institutional collections including Yale University, AIEVA Institute, and The Dean Collection. Key’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. Jon was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019.
As an educator, Key has taught at MICA, Parsons, and currently teaches at Cooper Union. He is the Co-Founder and Design Director of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color.
Jon Key
Samuel Levi Jones (b. 1978 in Marion, IN) is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Indianapolis, IN. Jones earned a B.A. from Taylor University, a B.F.A from Herron School of Art and Design in 2009 and an MFA from Mills College in 2012. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include; Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL; Mass Awakening (2019), Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY; No More Tokens (2019), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Let Us Grow (2019), Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris FR; Left of Center (2019), The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN; Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press (2018), Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (2018), Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA; The Edge of Visibility (2018), International Print Center, New York, NY; Sedimentations (2018), 8th Floor Gallery, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY; One Blood, Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles CA, Excerpt (2017) at Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Burning all illusion (2016) at Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, NY, Reciprocity (2016) at PATRON, Chicago, IL; A Dark Matter at Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, IL; Samuel Levi Jones (2016) at The Arts Club in London, UK; Trust Issues (2016) at Ronchini, London, UK; 48 Portraits (Underexposed) (2016) at EXPO Projects, PATRON, Chicago, IL; After Fred Wilson (2015) at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; Unbound (2015) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.
Jones is the recipient of the 2014 Joyce Alexander Wein artist prize, awarded by the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is also the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, the Vivian and Margarita Stephenson Award by Mills College, the Mildred Darby Menz Award, by Herron School of Art and Design Indianapolis, the Junior Bratton Award by the Herron School of Art and Design, and the Evelyn V. Staton Fellowship in Fine Arts by Mills College. Jones' work is in the public collections of The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago IL, Whitney Museum of American Art,New York, NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.
Samuel Levi Jones
A studio visit with Nate Lewis is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, sound and movement, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.
He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from VCU, and practiced critical-care nursing in DC-area hospitals for nine years. Lewis’ first artistic pursuit was playing the violin in 2008, followed by drawing in 2010. Since 2017 he has lived and worked in New York City.
Lewis’ work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Yale Center for British Art; 21c Museum Hotels; with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services.
Past residencies include Pioneer Works and Dieu Donne. Lewis’ work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Austin at Texas, and 21c Museum Hotels. He has lectured at Yale University as part of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, and Paris Photo.
Nate Lewis
A private collection visit with Arthur Lewis is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Arthur Lewis, Creative Director of UTA Fine Arts & UTA Artist Space is a patron of the arts and a significant collector of both emerging artists and Contemporary African American Art.
A well-known and distinguished figure in the art world, Lewis is a member of the board of Prospect New Orleans, a member of the National Advisory Committee for The New Orleans African American Museum, and is a Global Council member at The Studio Museum of Harlem.
Lewis joined UTA after serving as Executive Vice President of the New York Design Office for Kohl’s, where he oversaw product design and development. He also previously held executive leadership roles at HSN, Hautelook, and Gap Inc., where he focused on brand management, merchandising, and product development. Under his tenure, UTA has exhibited diverse showcases including collaborative exhibitions such as: partnering with Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery for a solo show with Arcmanoro Niles, and most recently, a digital exhibition with Galerie Myrtis.
Lewis is a tireless advocate for artists and the arts community at large.
Arthur Lewis
Kilolo Luckett is an art historian, curator, and writer. With over twenty years of experience in arts administration and cultural production, she is committed to elevating the voices of underrepresented visual artists, specifically women and artists of color. She is consulting curator of Visual Arts at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and serves as an Art Commissioner for the City of Pittsburgh’s Art Commission. She is the recent founder and executive director of ALMA|LEWIS (named after abstract artists Alma Thomas and Norman Lewis), an experimental, contemporary art space for critical thinking, dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to Black culture.
Luckett has curated exhibitions by national and international artists such as Peju Alatise, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Amani Lewis, Thaddeus Mosley, Rashaad Newsome, Tajh Rust, Devan Shimoyama, and Stephen Towns. As an art consultant, Luckett was recently curator of Facebook Pittsburgh’s Artist in Residency program. Additionally, she was a cultural consultant for Atelier Ace and worked as the cultural attaché for Ace Hotel Pittsburgh. She created By Any Means, an art series that engages directly with leading cultural figures to broaden the scope and understanding of contemporary art influence by black culture. Luckett also served as managing director of the Homewood Artist Residency and was director of development for The Andy Warhol Museum. She served as the curatorial assistant at Wood Street Galleries, where she helped organize shows by Xu Bing, Louise Bourgeois, Larry Bell, Catherine Opie, Nam June Paik, and Tim Rollins + K.O.S. to name a few.
She is a contributing writer to the exhibition publication Halston & Warhol: Silver & Suede. Luckett is also writing an authorized biography on Naomi Sims, one of the first Black supermodels.
Luckett received her B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a recipient of the 2015 Mayor’s Award for Public Art for the Homewood Artist Residency and Women and Girls Foundation Women in the Material World Award. Luckett was an honoree of the 50 Women of Excellence by the New Pittsburgh Courier. She is a former board member for the Braddock Carnegie Library Association (the first library funded by Andrew Carnegie), YMCA – Homewood branch, and Design Center of Pittsburgh.
She has been featured in national and international publications including Point Line Projects, Hypebeast, Sugarcane, and Black Art in America, where she was named one of twenty curators to follow on Instagram.
In her spare time, Luckett mentors young people, takes advantage of the great bicycle trails of Southwestern PA, and nerds out in libraries and archives.
Kilolo Luckett
Estelle Maisonett investigates how personal relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity, economic status, accessibility, race, sexual orientation, and gender.
Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican Puerto-Rican mixed-media interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2013 and will be attending the Yale School of Art for her MFA in 2021. She was a 2018 Artist in the MarketPlace Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a 2018 BronxArtSpace Summer Artist in Residence. Estelle has exhibited with Chashama, Silent Barn, Field Projects, Bronx Art Space, El Barrio ArtSpace at PS109, Latchkey Gallery, Longwood art Gallery, The Andrew Freedman Home and SUNY Purchase College amongst others.
Estelle Maisonnett
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist whose works destabilize historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Born in New York, she grew up in the Dominican Republic, graduating from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales of Santo Domingo (2009), Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013).
Minaya has participated in numerous residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, BronxArtSpace, Bronx Museum AIM Program, the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Transmedia Lab at MA Scène Nationale, Red Bull House of Art Detroit, Lower East Side Printshop, Art Omi and Vermont Studio Center.
Minaya has exhibited internationally across the Caribbean and the U.S. She is a recipient of an Artadia grant, a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grants, Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Great Prize of the XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, and the Great Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno (D.R).
Photo by Joel Gaal, courtesy Red Bull House of Art 2A studio visit with Joiri Minaya is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Joiri Minaya
Maynard Monrow was born in Hollywood, California and currently lives in New York City. Monrow received his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries including: The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Gavlak Gallery LA and Palm Beach; Booth Gallery, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY and ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005).
He has staged international performances in Rome, Italy, and participated in numerous projects including Ruffian’s Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection and LAX Art’s L.A.P.D. Billboard Project.
Maynard Monrow
A private collection visit with Valeria Napoleone is part of the NWAW VIP program.
Valeria Napoleone is an art collector and patron to a select number of art organizations. For over two decades, she has focused exclusively on the work of female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, Napoleone has provided pivotal support to the careers of many of today’s most critically acclaimed artists including Nicole Wermers, Nicole Eisenman, Phyllida Barlow, Daria Martin, Andrea Buttner, Haegue Yang, Lily van der Stokker, Lisa Yuskavage, Ghada Amer, Margherita Manzelli to name a few.
Napoleone is Head of the Development Committee at Studio Voltaire, a London based not-for-profit gallery; a Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society; sits on the Board of Trustees at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts; is a member of NYU's President's Global Council; is an Advisory Board member of the Association of Women in the Arts and of A.I.R Gallery in NYC. She has been an avid supporter of many UK based institutions such as; Camden Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford, South London Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, ICA London, Milton Keynes Gallery, Glasgow International and Chisenhale Gallery among others.
In October 2012, Napoleone published her first book, an art cookbook, Valeria Napoleone's Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes with the contribution of 50 female artists. In June 2015, Valeria launched 'Valeria Napoleone XX', an umbrella platform for projects and initiatives that work towards increasing the representation of female artists in major public institutions. Named to highlight both collaboration and the female chromosome, this platform has three ongoing initiatives:
Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society is an on-going commitment to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a different UK museum each year. In 2019, she received the prestigious Montblanc Art Patronage Award in 2019 for this initiative.
Valeria Napoleone XX SculptureCenter is an ongoing commitment to underwrite the production of a major commission every 12 to 18 months at this New York-based non-profit art institution dedicated to sculpture.
Valeria Napoleone XX is an ongoing commitment to underwrite the Great Hall Exhibition series at NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Two solo exhibitions a year focus on the work of middle career female artists.
Napoleone received a BA from New York University's Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC. She and her husband Gregorio, co-founder of European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners, have three children; Federico, Gregorio and Letizia, and are currently based in London.
Valeria Napoleone
Renzo Ortega
Gopal Rajegowda has more than 15 years of experience managing all aspects of mixed-use real estate acquisition and development. He led the re-imagination of Rosemary Square, a neighborhood destination in the heart of Downtown West Palm Beach featuring retail, arts & culture, hospitality, and live-work-experience density with programmable public green spaces. Rosemary Square, New Wave Art Wknd's Lead Residency Partner and the location of our resident's studios, features more than 2,000 linear ft of murals by local and international artists, is home to Armory Arts Center Experience and two major public art installations by Jeppe Hein & Symmetry Labs.
Gopal Rajegowda
Arlene Shechet
Oliver Shultz is a curator, art historian, and Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery in New York. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2018 and has held curatorial positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at MoMA PS1, where he was involved in organizing nearly twenty exhibitions between 2015 and 2019.
Oliver Shultz
Jasmine Wahi is the Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Founder + Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a Newark, NJ based non profit organization that supports artists who are interested in social discourse and activism. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of female empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2019, Wahi joined the TED speaker family with her first TEDx talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired. Wahi is a Visiting Core Critic at Yale University, and a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts. Jasmine Wahi received her Masters in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Photo by Dario Calmese
Jasmine Wahi
Nico Wheadon is an arts advisor, curator, educator and writer based in New Haven, CT.
Nico, alongside her partner Malik, is founder and principal of bldg fund, an innovation platform for BIPOC artists, entrepreneurs and neighbors. Her extensive background as an arts advocate, creative producer and cultural strategist supports bldg fund in connecting innovators with the necessary capital and collaborators to transform ideas into impact.
Nico is an adjunct assistant professor of Art History and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Professional Practices at Brown University, and Art & Place at Hartford Art School. She has also guest lectured at Yale, Princeton, Brown, MIT NYU, Pratt, The New School and Howard. Beyond the classroom, Nico has lectured internationally on topics including: the future of museums; art and entrepreneurship; arts-led regeneration in the post-industrial city; and building artist-led institutions.
A regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, and C&, Nico’s first manuscript—On Museum Citizenship: A Toolkit for Radical Art Pedagogy, Practice, and Participation—is slated for publication in Spring 2021. The book brings together over forty pioneering voices from the field to reflect on canon-shifting practice currently taking place within, beyond, and through the museum space.
Nico currently serves on the Board of Governors at the National Academy of Design, and the Advisory Board for the Lubin School of Business Transformative Leadership Program.
In recent posts, Wheadon served as Inaugural Executive Director of NXTHVN (2019-2020); Inaugural Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014-2019); and Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery (2007-2010).
Wheadon holds an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmith's College University of London, and a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University.
Photo © Merik Goma 2019
