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Friday, October 3 at 4:30 PM EST
Talk begins promptly at 5PM
Cynthia Lin is an artist living and working in New York City.Her work has been exhibited at DeCordova Museum, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, The National Academy of Design, Drawing Center, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, and Pierogi Gallery. Collections include Minneapolis Institute of Art and Dallas Museum of Art. Lin is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and recognition as a Finalist from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Dora Maar House, the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome, and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus II in Schwandorf, Germany, among others. She earned her BA from University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from The University of Iowa. Lin currently teaches at Purchase College, State University of New York, as Associate Professor of Painting + Drawing. Born in Taiwan, Lin grew up outside of Chicago and now lives in Brooklyn.
Josephine Halvorson makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. Halvorson received her MFA from Columbia University, her BFA from The Cooper Union, and attended Yale Norfolk. She is the recipient of a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson’s work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. Her work has been shown at the Storm King Art Center, the ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. Her work and practice have been written about widely in online and print periodicals such as The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Artforum, and Hyperallergic, and books such as Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson, Vitamin P2 edited by Barry Schwabsky, and Prints and Their Makers by Phil Sanders. Halvorson is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. Halvorson is currently Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She has also taught at The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Columbia University, and Yale University.