Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Arts

About

The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

Episodes

  • Laurena Finéus

    This episode features Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist Laurena Finéus, whose work explores representations of black geographies, maroon thought, and migratory histories. Finéus discusses how the teachings of Michel-Rolph Trouillot…

  • Modou_Dieng Yacine

    Modou Dieng Yacine, an artist born in Senegal who studied in Dakar and San Francisco, lives and works in Chicago. His work, which includes painting, photography, collage, and mixed media using non-traditional materials, explores themes of…

  • Anthonia Nneji

    Tonia Nneji, a contemporary artist from Nigeria, discusses her artistic practice. Her work, known for bold colors and intricate patterns, delves into the relationship between trauma and the female body, confronting societal suppression aro…

  • Bisa Butler

    Bisa Butler creates quilted portraits of African descent, exploring portraiture's role in Black history. She uses textiles with a painterly approach, influenced by AfriCOBRA and family sewing traditions. Her work has been exhibited interna…

  • Aïda Muluneh

    Episode 264 features photographer Aïda Muluneh, detailing her background, education at Howard University, and extensive international recognition, including works in MoMA and the Smithsonian. Muluneh is noted for her advocacy through commi…

  • Mickalene Thomas

    Mickalene Thomas is a globally celebrated multidisciplinary artist renowned for her dazzling, rhinestone-studded portraits that boldly reimagine the representation of Black women in contemporary art. Working across painting, photography, c…

  • Kathia St.Hilaire

    Ep.262 Kathia St. Hilaire. Born in West Palm Beach, USA, Lives and works in New York. Informed by her experience growing up in Caribbean and African American neighborhoods in South Florida, the artist seeks to memorialize the communities t…

  • Tiffanie Delune

    Tiffanie Delune. Born in Paris, France in 1988 and living now in Montpellier in the South of France, she has exhibited internationally in Europe, North America, West Africa and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include “The Geography of Feelings”…

  • Stephanie Sparling Williams

    Ep.260 Stephanie Sparling Williams is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Before coming to the Brooklyn Museum, she was the Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and a Visiting Lecturer…

  • Ep.259 April Bey

    Ep.259 April Bey by Phyllis Hollis

  • Ep.258 Yulia Bas

    Ep.258 Born in Moscow in 1986, Yulia Bas pursued fine art studies from an early age. After earning her architecture diploma, she made the move to Western Europe. Today, she resides in Barcelona, Spain. In 2008 she and her partner establish…

  • Robert Garland

    Ep.257 Robert Garland is currently the Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director. Mr. Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Ar…

  • Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe

    Ep.256 Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe is a Ghanaian-born, Portland-based painter whose work moves quietly but with immense presence. Born in Accra in 1988, he trained at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Ghana before relocating to Portland…

  • Kandy G Lopez

    ​Kandy G Lopez (b. 1987, New Jersey) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring cultural identity, representation, and power through fiber art, portraiture, painting, and mixed media. Born to Dominican parents, she draws from her experience n…

  • Trevyn McGowan

    Ep.254 Trevyn McGowan is the co-founder of Southern Guild gallery in Cape Town and Los Angeles, representing contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. Over the past two decades, she has dedicated her career to provoking and propel…

  • Jules BE KUTI

    Ep.253 features Jules BE KUTI, a young emerging artist born in 1993. His art reflects his experience as a Black person living in France, as well as his reflections on the challenges faced by Black individuals in society. Growing up in Fran…

  • Howardena Pindell

    Ep.252 Howardena Pindell was born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and lives and works in New York. She has exhibited extensively, including selected solo exhibitions at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK, touring to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge,…

  • Cheryl Pope

    Ep. 251 Cheryl Pope is an interdisciplinary visual artist who questions and responds to issues of identity as it relates to the individual and the community, specifically regarding race, gender, class, history, power, and place. Her practi…

  • Valerie Francis

    Ep.250 Valerie A. Francis is the Founding Director of Knowhere Art Gallery, an independent gallery based on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to showcasing emerging and mid-career artists from diverse backgrounds. The gallery champions inclusive…

  • Onay Gutierrez

    EP.249 Onay Gutierrez is a multifaceted artist, collector, and preservationist with a rich background that spans education, ceramics, and historic preservation. Born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1977, Gutierrez began his career as an early eleme…

  • Adrienne L. Childs PhD

    Ep. 248 Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection. Her current book is an exploration of Black figures in European decorative arts entitled Ornamen…

  • Jas Knight

    Ep.247 Jas was born in Hartford CT. His talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. He sold his first painting at age seven and had his first one-man show at the age of eight. He went on to receive numerous awards and later went to…

  • Kelly Sinnapah Mary

    Ep.246 Kelly Sinnapah Mary (b. 1981, Saint-François, Guadeloupe) creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinn…

  • Natia Lemay

    Ep.245 Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her Interdisciplinary autoethnographic practice reflects her lived experience. Through personal stories, s…

  • Tomokazu Matsuyama

    Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in 1976 in Gifu, Japan, Matsuyama is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work spans painting, sculpture, and installation, organically blending and reimagining diverse elements–such as ancient and modern, fi…

  • Jose Duran

    Jose Duran (b. 1979, Moca, Dominican Republic) is a painter, designer, and sculptor creating fantastical worlds of cosmopolitan opulence and sumptuous, even dangerous foliage. Duran’s practice is anchored in extensive research of practices…

  • Shaunté Gates

    Ep.242 Shaunté Gates (b. 1979) lives and works in Washington, D.C. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Early in his career, Gates trained in oil painting and portraiture. His past experience as a tat…

  • Dora Jeridi

    Ep.241 Dora Jeridi's work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive approach to painting, blending intense emotion with powerful physicality. She continuously adds to her compositions until they take on a spirit of their own, like painterl…

  • Rujeko Hockley

    Ep.240 Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Her current project at the Whitney is Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Other projects include Inheritance…

  • Tyler Ballon

    Tyler Ballon (b. 1996, Jersey City, NJ) creates monumental works inspired by the lives of people in his community. His artistic journey was shaped early on by his grandmother, a community activist and school lunch lady who embodied service…

  • Dr. Monique Y. Wells

    Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, travel professional, writer, speaker, and mentor, she embraces and har…

  • Amanda Coulson

    Ep.237 Amanda Coulson has worked for three decades as a scholar, critic, curator and cultural producer, having collaborated with artists and institutions, private and corporate colleagues, in the US, Europe, and various sites in the Caribb…

  • Ebony L Haynes

    Ep.236 Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto, Canada. She is presently based in New York where she is senior director at David Zwirner and leads the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists…

  • Alicia Knock

    Ep.235 Alicia Knock Head curator for the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at Centre Pompidou. Alicia Knock seeks to develop a transnational history of art. Her acquisitions and exhibitions – Ernest Mancoba, 2019; Chine-Afri…

  • Diana Sinclair

    Ep.234 In a wide-ranging practice that encompasses photography, sculpture and painting, Diana Sinclair (b.2004) probes the material, spiritual and social resonance of water. As a former competitive swimmer, Sinclair experienced the way tha…

  • Mario Joyce

    Ep.233 Mario Joyce’s work is rooted in his genealogical research of his family, going back to the 1600s. Incorporating imagery, memories, and stories from his familial research, Joyce incorporates vintage collage materials and soil from th…

  • Will Maxen

    Ep.232 Will Maxen (b. Waterbury, CT) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas, who works primarily in the language of painting. His work blends personal and historical imagery into partially abstracted scenes that explore th…

  • Lina Iris Viktor

    Ep.231 Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian- artist who lives and works in Italy. Influenced by architecture, archaeology, West African sculptural traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy and European portraiture, her painti…

  • Carl E Hazlewood

    Ep.230 Carl E. Hazlewood (b. 1951) was born in Guyana, South America. Parallel to his studio practice, Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ in 1983. Steeped in modest materials, such as polyester, push p…

  • Na Kim

    Ep.229 Na Kim b.1986 Seoul, South Korea Na Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her mimetic portraits set against polychromatic backgrounds, Na Kim’s paintings depict figures but are conceptually abstract. Her imagined subj…

  • Elliott Barnes

    Ep.228 ELLIOTT BARNES A Los Angeles native, Elliott Barnes graduated from Cornell University in New York State in 1985 with a Bachelors and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning. In 1984 the AIA member architect began his career wit…

  • Zohra Opoku

    Ep.227 Zohra Opoku examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Opoku's explorations have primarily been expressed thro…

  • Edra Soto

    Ep.226 Edra Soto (b. 1971) is a Puerto Rican-born artist, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations surrounding socioeconomic and cultural oppre…

  • Mario Moore

    Ep.225 Mario Moore, a Detroit native, received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2013. He is a recent Kresge Arts Fellow (2023) and a recip…

  • Anthony Akinbola

    Ep.224 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola (b. 1991, Missouri) has had solo exhibitions at Sean Kelly, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Carbon 12, Dubai; John Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan; the Queens Museum, New York…

  • Pio Abad

    Ep.223 Pio Abad (b.1983) is an artist whose work is concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects. His wide-ranging body of work, mines alternative or repressed historical events and offers counter narratives that draw…

  • José Parlá

    Ep.222 José Parlá (b.1973) creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architectu…

  • Shinique Smith

    Ep.221 Shinique Smith. Known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage, Smith’s personal histories and belongings intertwine with thoughts of the vast nature of ‘things’ that we consume, cherish…

  • Jake Troyli

    Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan S…

  • Vian Sora

    Ep.219 Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq) has lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009. She received a BS from Al Mansour University in Baghdad, Iraq in 2000 and studied printmaking at the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Art (IMOGA)…