WORKING ARTISTS JOIN STUDIO ARTS FACULTY Interdisciplinary artist and educator Nayland Blake ’82 is the new chair of the Bard Studio Arts Program. Blake is chair of the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, a joint masters program run by Bard College and the International Center of Photography in New York City. They succeed Ellen Driscoll, who returns to the studio arts faculty. Blake, who has a BA in sculpture from Bard and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, has been on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute; California Institute of the Arts; University of California, Berkeley; Parsons School of Design; New York University; School of Visual Arts; and Harvard University Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. A comprehensive survey, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, from September 2019 through January 2020. They are represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.
Tschabalala Self ’12, who says her work “explores the emotional, physical, and psychological impact of the Black female body as icon, and is primarily devoted to examining the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality,” is visiting artist in residence. Self has a BA in studio arts from Bard and an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale School of Art. Her work is in collections from Beirut to Brooklyn, Oslo to Shanghai, Brussels to Seoul, Harlem to Guadalajara, London to Los Angeles, Boston to Beijing, Munich to Miami. Her first solo show was in Berlin; others include Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, in London; Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles; Frye Art Museum, in Seattle; and Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston. She is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, in New York City, where her solo exhibition Cotton Mouth was on view earlier this year. Tschabalala Self ’12, photo by Christian DeFonte ’12
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