Far Afield

Next month the dancer and choreographer Brenda Way will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame. Way, a 2009 Resident at the Academy, is the founder and artistic director of the San Francisco–based Oberlin Dance Collective, better known as ODC.

The landscape architect Walter Hood (1997 Fellow) is showing his oil paintings and an installation in a solo exhibition, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones, at Auburn University’s June Collins Smith Museum of Art in Alabama.

Fatma Bucak (2024 Italian Fellow) talks to Artribune about the historical, political, and environmental stories that inform her interdisciplinary work in sculpture, performance, photography, and video.

The 21C Music Festival in Toronto will premiere a work by Sebastian Currier (1994 Fellow), titled Ongoingness. The composer wrote the piece for harpist Bridget Kibbey, who will perform it with the Calidore String Quartet.

James Welling, who will be the Academy’s Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer in Residence this May, explores digital processes in his latest solo exhibition, Thought Objects, at David Zwirner in New York.

Michael Rakowitz (2023 Resident) follows up The Monument, The Monster and The Maquette, his 2022 exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, with Listening Back to Fragments, on view through March 2.

The artist Todd Gray (2023 Fellow) and the curator Ekow Eshun will meet at Vielmetter Los Angeles tomorrow to discuss the artist’s current exhibition of Rome Work at the gallery, as well as future projects.

For the exhibition harmony is fraught, Regen Projects in Los Angeles will debut over sixty photographs by Catherine Opie (2021 Resident) that have never been shown publicly. The presentation features images taken over the last thirty-plus years.

Paintings by Sharon Horvath (1997 Fellow), appearing in Small Myriad at Bookstein Projects in New York, “convey the feeling of deep water that contains both one’s reflection as well as the void.” The exhibition opens on January 11, 2024.

John North Hopkins (2009 Fellow) surveys four centuries of art and architecture in Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 650–250 BCE, his new book from Yale University Press.

Elliott Green (2012 Fellow) calls his new paintings Imaginary Landscapes. See them in a solo show at Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans through February 9.

The artist Abigail DeVille (2018 Fellow) will be a Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts during the 2024–25 academic year.

Pamela Hatchfield (2007 Fellow) was recently named 2023–24 Judith Praska Visiting Distinguished Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Joyce Kozloff (2000 Fellow) showed new and recent work in a solo exhibition, Uncivil Wars, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York.

Katie Kitamura, our current Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow in Literature, has reviewed Marie NDiaye’s new novel, Vengeance Is Mine, in the December issue of the Atlantic.

Germane Barnes (2022 Fellow) has installed a temporary pavilion Ukhamba outside Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design, on view on the Wolfson campus through February 24, 2024. The work then moves to the school’s North Campus for display between March 11 and May 26.

The novelist Alexandra Kleeman (2021 Fellow) examines the complicated depictions of sex in recent contemporary films—including May December, Oppenheimer, and Saltburn—for the New York Times Magazine.

The Crossing, a choir dedicated to new music, will perform the world premiere of poor hymnal by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident). The concert will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Iron Gate Theatre in Philadelphia on December 15.

James Siena (2013 Resident) is presenting drawings at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York. “Each line moves in a similar—not identical—manner over and over, across the page, wryly imitating itself,” writes Laura Bannister in the catalogue. The exhibition opening is December 14.