Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Ep.224 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Carbon 12, Dubai; John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; the Queens Museum, New York, and other galleries and institutions. His work has been featured in group shows at the Guggenheim, New York, NY; Hauser & Wirth, New York and Los Angeles; Pace...

Ep.223 Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counter narratives that draw out threads of complicity between incidents, ideologies and people. Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, where the artist was born and raised...

Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architecture and advertisements. His works poetically challenge ideas about language, politics, identity, and how we define places and spaces. Parlá’s relationship with ma...

Ep.221 Shinique Smith. Known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage, Smith’s personal histories and belongings intertwine with thoughts of the vast nature of ‘things’ that we consume, cherish, gift, and discard and how these objects resonate on intimate and social scales. Over the last twenty years, Smith has gleaned visual poetry from textiles and e...

Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019).Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange,...

Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA) in Istanbul, Turkey in 2007. Sora’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Baltimore Art Museum, Balt...

Ep.218 Ibrahim Mahama was born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana. He lives and works in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale. Solo exhibitions include Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); Barbican Centre, London (2024); Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2023); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2022); Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2022); The High Line, New York (2021); University of Michigan Museum of Art (2020); The Whitwort...

Ep. 217 Beverly McIver (b. 1962) is a Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, a role she assumed after 12 years of teaching at Arizona State University. Recently, McIver was elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Design. In 2017, she was honored with the lifetime achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation in a ceremony hosted by her mentor, Fai...

Ep.216 Kemar Keanu Wynter (b. Brooklyn, NY) holds a BFA from the SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design. His work was the focus of solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (2023), Encounter, Lisbon, Portugal (2023), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Queens (2021). He has exhibited in several group shows including Mama’s in the Kitchen, Anat Ebgi, New York; Visible World, Halsey McKay...

Ep.215 María Elena Ortiz is curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she curated Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible (2023) and Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 (2024). Previously she was curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she curated group shows Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pére...

Ep. 214 Kim Dacres is a first-generation American sculptor of Jamaican descent, who lives in Harlem and practices her studio work in the Bronx. She primarily uses rubber from recycled tires to create sculptures celebrating the influential forces in her life such as family, friends, artists and musicians. Dacres was born in the Bronx and has a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Political Sc...

Ep.213 SARAH LEWIS is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Simon & Sch...

Ep.212 Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021; an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum and was granted artist residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a recipient of “Anonymous Was A Woman” grant in December 2023. She was award...

Ep.211 Justine Ludwig currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative Time. Recent curated exhibitions include Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Walk the Line, Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara, Pedro Reyes: For Future Reference, and Laercio Redondo: What ends every day. Her research interests include architecture, economics, and the aesthetics of globalization. Ludwig has an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths U...

Ep.210 For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell’s monumental portraits depict loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. Lovell’s portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative co...

Ep.209 Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. She uses paint and mixed media to explore selfhood and her own positioning as the daughter of a gynecologist. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy. She explores a critical understanding of the past while also...

Ep.208 Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She graduated from Barnard College in 2007 with a BA in Ancient Studies. She thought she would become a Classics Professor but fell in love with Byzantine art and archaeology her senior year during a study abroad program on an excavation in...

Ep.207 David Huffman (b. 1963, Berkeley, CA) has work in the collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum, Harlem; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; Palo Alto Art Center, CA; Eileen Norton Collection, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; Frederick...

Ep.206 Andrea Grover is the Executive Director of Guild Hall, the cornerstone cultural institution of East Hampton that combines a museum, theater, and education center. Guild Hall is completing a facility-wide renovation to restore the 1930s-era building and grounds to state-of-the-art performance and functionality. Grover has over 25 years of experience in curatorial and nonprofit leadership, fo...

Ep.205 Kahlil Robert Irving was born in San Diego, in 1992, but spent most of his youth in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he received his BFA, and earned his MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Irving’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mass M...

Ep.204 Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Harvey, IL) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2022;traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019–21); Pal...

Ep.203 Emanuel Aguilar is a gallerist and independent curator living and working in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he founded PATRON, a contemporary art gallery with a focus on emerging artists and conceptual practice. Previously he was a director at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Berlin and a founder of the arts and culture magazine Jettison Quarterly. Aguilar serves on the board of Chicago Artist Coali...

Ep.202 Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992 in Livingston, NJ) is a multidisciplinary artist working with paper, ceramics, sound, and film, exploring Gbadebo explores the archival record of her family’s ancestry. Through her research, material selection, and technical process, the artist emphasizes the prejudice of the historical record, activating her practice to restore Black subjectivity. She received a B...

Ep.201 features Lindsay Adams (b. 1990, Washington, D.C.) , an Artist working across traditional mediums. Embracing her intersectional identity, Lindsay’s work serves as both a reflection and extension of self, challenging narratives of both race and representation, reflecting on personal and collective histories and memories, while simultaneously mining through the complexity of the black experie...

EPISODE 200 Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education. Ms. Joyner is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Trust and the San Francisco Museum of M...