Artist Discipline: Visual Arts

Barbara Schreiber’s works on paper appear lighthearted at first glance but often have disturbing undertones. Schreiber’s exhibitions include the High Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, SPACE Pittsburgh, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, McColl Center, Telfair Museum of Art, Mint Museum of…

Amy Hicks is an artist, educator, and member of the Philadelphia-based collective Grizzly Grizzly. Working in video, 16mm film, and rudimentary animation, she investigates how extractive industries and inherited ideologies shape environments, bodies, and systems of meaning. Grounded in research and site, Hicks often films at contaminated or abandoned places such as landfills, shuttered factories, and…

Rowan Haber (they/them) is an accomplished writer and director whose work spans narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking. An MFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, they have been recognized as a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a New Frontier Lab and Art of Practice Fellow, and an advisor for Sundance’s first Trans Possibilities Lab. They…

Chambliss Giobbi is an artist based in New York City. He has a BFA in Music Composition and Theory from Boston University. Having composed classical music for 18 years, he switched to visual art at age 35. As a composer, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA, and The Guggenheim…

Narcissister, a performance character, employs humor and spectacle to explore gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Narcissister wears masks, pneumatic breasts, outlandish wigs, and trompe l’œil costumes to deconstruct stereotypical representations. By opening up and turning against themselves “fixed and closed stereotypical representations,” she exposes, in live performance, video, film, sculpture, and collage, the practice of…

Julia Weist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The Jewish Museum, among other collections. She has recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art,…

Sunhee Kim Jung is the 2019 recipient of the AHL–Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Grant. In 2023, she established the Mural Project in Thailand, a non-profit organization that houses rescued trafficked children. Jung has been selected by the US Department of State’s Art in Embassy Program three times. Her paintings were shown at the American…

Kate Rusek assembles highly tactile sculptures, textile, and installation with an emphasis on craft and materiality. Her work transmutes wasting and waste matter into abundant, maximalist, composite forms and dynamic biophilic textures that interrogate assigned value, material narrative, and a rigid binary of ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’. Kate’s research, writing, and artwork examines the connective edges…

Nisa Ojalvo is an installation artist with a focus in durational performance art and photography, stemming from archival research. She has exhibited internationally, including at ChangJiang Contemporary Art Museum (China), Kunstgarasjen (Norway), Plas Bodfa (Wales, United Kingom), Objectifs – Centre for Photography (Singapore), and NOoSPHERE Gallery (New York), among others. Ojalvo’s images have been published…