Clark MFA in Visual Arts

June 2024 Residency thematic: “A Fresh Start”

Art Talks Speaker Bios

Abigail Winograd

Abigail Winograd

Co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennial featuring Jeffrey Gibson, the first ever indigenous American artist featured, Winograd has held positions at the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, D.C., the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dana Hoey

Dana Hoey

A photographer who examines contemporary female identity through staged and directed photographs and videos, Hoey’s solo projects include those at MOCA Detroit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, D.C., Petzel Gallery, NY, and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMB, Baltimore. Hoey is currently pursuing an MDiv at the Harvard Divinity School.

Luis Croquer

Luis Croquer

Originally from El Salvador, Croquer has been a curator at El Museo del Barrio in NYC, deputy director at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, director and chief curator at MOCA Detroit, and director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham. Now in academia, Croquer will be our inaugural visiting faculty at Clark MFA in Visual Arts.

Sreshta Rit Premnath

Sreshta Rit Premnath

Premnath is a mixed media artist whose works explore the relationship of power exerted over marginalized communities. Solo exhibitions include those at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, ICA San Diego, CAM St. Louis, Nomas Foundation, Rome, and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. Premnath is an associate professor at Williams College. 

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