2025-2026 in-person Cohort

Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026

Saturdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea


Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025-2026 year of The Canopy 2.0 Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentors, Jennifer Coates and Victoria Roth, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy 2.0 Program is a two-semester commitment, this Cohort will meet virtually for two semesters, with a winter session set aside for independent studio work. Their experience will culminate with a panel review - an opportunity, like in grad school, to share development in the program and receive constructive feedback from three esteemed critics.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, this Cohort will recieve Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

Mentor Bios

Jennifer Coates


Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. She will have a solo presentation at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami with High Noon Gallery in December 2022. Her work will be featured in “And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy” a group show centered around the drawings of Marsden Hartley, opening October 2022 at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, ME. Recent solo shows include Para Pastoral at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Lesser Gods of Lakewood PA at High Noon Gallery, NYC; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University. Recent group shows include Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach, FL, curated by Todd Bradway. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019). Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys, and Two Coats of Paint, among other publications.


Victoria Roth


Victoria Roth is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her biomorphic abstract paintings sit on the edge of recognition— a meaty shape expands like a muscle, a gnarled form morphs into a heart, that bulbous symbol. Through her imagined and high keyed compositions, she explores ideas of queer abstraction and desire as embedded in bodily forms that appear to constantly transform. While her paintings are loud and visceral, they resonate on a psychological level, revealing themselves over time. Victoria Roth (b. 1986, Paris, FR) is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2014 and a BA in History of Art & Architecture and Visual Arts from Brown University in 2008. She has held recent solo exhibitions and presentations with Broadway Gallery, NY (2023, 2022), Brennan & Griffin, NY (2019, 2017), fAN Kunstverein, Vienna, AT (2017), Lulu, Mexico City, MX (2016). Roth’s work has been included in numerous group shows at various galleries and institutions such as Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, ES (2024); Hesse Flatow, NY, (2024); Hales Gallery, NY (2023); Kate Werble Gallery, NY (2023); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE (2022); 1969 Gallery, NY (2021); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2019); The Pit, Los Angeles (2018); Helena Anrather, NY; Lulu, Mexico City, MX and more. In addition to her studio practice, Victoria Roth is an arts educator in New York City.