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2024 Lecture Artists

The 2024 Artist Lecture Series Club provides artists with exclusive access to a series of Zoom Artist Lectures + Q&A with 6 acclaimed artists, plus resources for your art career + practice, and NYC Crit Club discounts.

2024 Artist Lecture Series Club

$120.00

$120

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2024 Lecture Club Membership Benefits:

Exclusive access to 6 live 2024 Zoom Artist Lectures + Q&A
Access to Members Only Resource area, featuring:
- Access to the Lecture Archive of recorded lectures
  - 2023 Lectures: Isabella Segalovich, Daisy Parris, Judy Glantzman, Nikki Maloof, Hilary Doyle, Hannah Beerman, Amir H. Fallah, Soumya Netrabile
  - 2022 Lectures: Danielle McKinney, Sun You, Dominique Fung, Kour Pour, Gina Beavers
- A Virtual Library of recommended books + essays
- 5% discount code for any NYC Crit Club course (online or in-person)
- $10 off code for Plum Lime Residency applications

2024 Lecture Artists

Linus Borgo

Lecture Date: January 29, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Linus Borgo’s (b. 1995; Stamford, CT) work deals with themes of spiritual elevation, identity, and reclamation of the body. Immersive in both scale and content, his paintings oscillate between sublime depictions of the aftermath of trauma and quotidian moments of daily life in the city. Much of Borgo’s work is grounded in a formative experience he encountered at the age of 18. Having just begun his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design, Borgo was in a life-altering accident: after climbing to the top of a building with his friend, he made contact with electrical generator equipment and was shocked with 11,000 volts. Following the accident, he underwent 11 surgeries, including the amputation of his left hand. In the years since he has developed and deployed his painting practice as a means of grappling with the new physical and metaphysical limits of the body he lives in, a journey that echoes his experience as a transgender man.

Sharmistha Ray

Lecture Date: April 29, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Sharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist, art critic, curator, and educator. Their artistic practice delves into the complex inheritance of multiple cultures through their queer identity and modes of abstraction. Working primarily in painting and drawing, they have also made work in sculpture and installation, curated projects, and written prolifically on art. In addition to their solo work, they co-founded the spiritualist feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost which acts as a collaborative model for research, artistic production, pedagogy, and community. Ray’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions and projects internationally at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Galería RGR, Mexico City; Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, NY; The Parallax Center, Portland, OR; The Armory Show, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India, among many others. Ray is the recipient of the Montblanc Young Artist Worldwide Patronage Award, TED Fellowship, and Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and has been an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; and Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY. Reviews of their work have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art India, Take on Art, and TimeOut Mumbai. Ray received a dual degree MFA in Painting and MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute and BA from Williams College.

Hanneline Røgeberg

Lecture Date: July 22, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Hanneline Røgeberg (b. 1963 Oslo, Norway) is a painter whose work engages material processes to override the representational and knowable. She holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale School of Art. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally at institutions such as Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, Museion Bolzano, Italy, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Spain, the Whitney Museum, the MIT List Center, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aldrich Museum, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati and Vancouver Art Gallery. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, an Anonymous Was A Woman grant, Westaf/NEA grant and grants from OCA and the Norwegian Cultural Council. She is a full professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Art, and lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Brooklyn, NY.

Polina Barskaya

Lecture Date: August 26, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Polina Barskaya (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based Ukrainian-born artist who received her BA in Fine Arts from Hunter College in 2007, and an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2010. Barskaya’s confessional portraits have a diaristic quality to them. Barskaya’s paintings hone in on the psychological intensity of their subjects and tell stories about the human condition. Typically depicting herself, her husband or her child within a domestic space, Barskaya employs windows and light to create a sense of disconnect and isolation within her works. She has recently been the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has exhibited extensively throughout the US.

Sarah Faux

Lecture Date: November 18, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings that embrace unabashed sensuality and pleasure. Faux's compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux has held solo exhibitions at Hales New York (2023), M+B, Los Angeles (2021, 2019), Capsule Shanghai, China (2020, 2018) and Stems Gallery, Brussels (2016), among others. She has been included in many group shows, including Sim Smith, London (2023), Lyles & King, New York (2022) and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2020). Faux has received numerous residencies and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023), a fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York City (2018-19) and artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2017, 2012). Faux's paintings have been written about in Cultured Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, i-D Vice and Artsy, among others. Faux holds an MFA from Yale University.

Hayley Barker

Lecture Date: December 16, Monday, 7-8pm (EST)

Hayley Barker (b. 1973, Oregon) has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SHRINE, New York, NY; CVG Foundation, Beijing; and BozoMag, Los Angeles, CA. She has participated in group shows at Acquavella, New York, NY; Harper’s, East Hampton, NY; Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and SHRINE, New York, NY among others. Barker has been featured in several publications, including Artforum, Artillery Magazine, ArtNet, BOMB Magazine, Forbes, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, LA Weekly, The New York Times (China), and W Magazine. Her work belongs in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; CVG Foundation, Beijing; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; New York Public Library Collection, New York; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; and the Yageo Foundation, Taiwan. Barker lives and works in Los Angeles.