Visit our Awards page for this film’s honors and recognition. Nimbly combining the tools of art and science, artist Xin Liu expresses what it means to be human through a diverse body of work that ...

The artists in “Friends & Strangers” are connectors, building upon and supporting the existing groups they participate in and searching for ways to create ever more inclusive forms of community.

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Esteban Cabeza de Baca was born in 1985 in San Ysidro, California, and currently lives and works in Queens, New York. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2010, and his MFA from Columbia ...

Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artist-activists who began working together in 1985. Working across various media, the collective challenges the systems and individuals ...

In their Brooklyn studio, artist Tauba Auerbach uses craft traditions as research methods to deepen their understanding of mathematical and scientific theories. “It seems appropriate to me to work in ...

In the multidisciplinary practice of artist Joiri Minaya, the histories, realities, and fantasies of the Dominican Republic and the wider Caribbean are explored, exposed, and subverted as Minaya seeks ...

Working quickly and intuitively in her studio, Rose B. Simpson shapes her clay sculptures by hand using a technique she developed called “slap-slab.” Each of her clay sculptures is embedded with ...

Following the tradition of American realists like Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, Amy Sherald uses her paintings to tell stories about America. Searching for models, settings, and scenarios that would ...

Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works. Delighting in chance and improvisation, Lau shapes all her clay ...

Azikiwe Mohammed was born in 1982 in New York City, where he lives and works today. In 2004 the artist received his BFA from Bard College. Rejecting the idea that art’s ultimate aim is the expression ...

From his childhood backyard to his grandfather’s grave to Memphis’ famed Elvis Week gatherings, this short documentary film follows Tommy Kha photographing throughout the city, as he tries to ...