Image in header: “Watching Fog”, courtesy of Robert Dieboll from the 2022 Members Prize Show
Saturday, March 19, 2022 – 10am-4pm
Sunday, March 20, 2022 – 10am-2:30pm
Registration is open until March 11, 2022 at 5:00PM EST
This event will be conducted on ZOOM
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2022 PORTFOLIO REVIEWERS
Lynne Cooney
Director of Exhibitions & Galleries, Montserrat College of Art
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Lynne Cooney (she/her), Ph.D., is a curator, art historian, and educator with over fifteen years of experience working in art institutions and cultural non-profit organizations. She is currently the Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She previously served as the Artistic Director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Galleries where she curated numerous group and solo exhibitions for the Stone and 808 Galleries including solo projects by artists Willie Cole, Raul Gonzalez, Geoffrey Chadsey, Alexandria Smith, and Sheila Pree Bright. Lynne received her M.A./Ph.D. in art history from Boston University’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Her dissertation, “From the Gertrude Posel Gallery to the Wits Art Museum: Exhibiting African Art at a South African University,” focuses on collection and exhibition practices in South Africa in relationship to colonial histories and decolonization theories. In 2014, she was the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship to South Africa.
Lissa Cramer
Managing Director, Boston University Art Galleries
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Lissa Cramer (she/her) is the Managing Director of the Boston University Art Galleries. She received her MS in Arts Administration from Boston University and a BA in Art History from the University of Kansas. She has previously worked for The Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, and Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, MA. Cramer has achieved success with multiple exhibitions and publications throughout her career, including Shahzia Sikander: Parallax, Josef Albers Formulations: Articulation, and Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection. Cramer also teaches Modern Art 1860-1970 for the Boston University MET College.
Aynel David Guerra
Curator + Gallery founder, Á R E A Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Aynel David Guerra (he/him) is an independent curator, lecturer, and the owner/founder of Á R E A, a multi-format and interdisciplinary gallery that organizes exhibitions and projects. David has organized exhibitions at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, the Boston Center for the Arts, Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (VVCA), MIT Hacking Arts and The Yard. Invited by Montserrat College of Art, he curated a site specific project at Gallery 301 during the month September, 2019. The project featured the work of Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez Milanes. He also has experience activating alternative spaces where he has hosted interdisciplinary projects. David was the guest curator of the 2019 edition of the Illuminus Festival, which showcased the work of 17 artists working on new media technologies and focusing on social, political and environmental issues. He is currently a professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where he teaches curatorial thinking in contemporary art. He studied law at the University of Havana, Oxford and Harvard. He also holds a degree in International Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations in Havana, Cuba where he worked as a diplomat for four years.
Sharon Haggins Dunn
Professor Emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Sharon Haggins Dunn (she/her) is a mixed-media artist/educator who employs photography, drawing, painting, and digital imagery to create temporary site-specific installations, mixed-media environments and virtual immersive landscapes. She explores the concept of sacred space, referencing unknown ancestors, lost histories, forgotten narratives and rituals of passage. Dunn first traveled to Cuba in 1979 with anthropologist Johnnetta Cole to research the African base of Cuban culture. She has continued researching transcultural arts traditions in Cuba, as well as in Nicaragua, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Ghana. This research continues to inform current studio investigations and new research. In 2007 Dunn was awarded a residency at the Hasselblad Digital High Resolution Center of the University of the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, UK. Dunn is currently revisiting ideas explored in the Black Woman mural she completed in 1979, which has recently been featured in several exhibitions, including at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and the Tate Modern, London, UK. Sharon Haggins Dunn is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.
Caitee Hoglund
Gallery Director, 13 Forest Gallery
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Caitee Hoglund (she/her) joined 13 Forest Gallery as the Director in 2017, where she has been curating a dynamic program of exhibitions and events with a wide variety of Boston’s finest artists. Hoglund has also served as a juror for several local arts institutions, including the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and the Arlington Center for the Arts. Before her time at 13 Forest, Hoglund earned her Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
Megan Horn
Curatorial Assistant, Newport Art Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Megan Horn (she/her) is the Curatorial Assistant at the Newport Art Museum. Collaborating with the curatorial team and exhibiting artists, she helps to realize the Newport Art Museum’s exhibitions. While working with the Museum she has curated Light and Presence: Richard Benson’s “The Touro Synagogue,” co-curated Donna Ferrato: Selections from “Living with the Enemy” with Senior Curator, Francine Weiss, and most recently curated Above/Below. Megan earned her BA in art history from Vassar College in 2019 and previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the 12-Month Internship program.
Rachel Kay
Founder, RSK Artworks
Reviewing: Sunday
Rachel Kay (she/her) is an art advisor and artist representative based in Boston, MA. Since launching RSK Artworks in 2020, Kay has advised private clients around the United States on art acquisitions and collection management, as well as partnered with emerging and established artists on strategy, sales and exhibitions. Previously, Kay held artist liaison and sales roles at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen, CO. She began her career at Pace Gallery, New York, after graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture.
LaiSun Keane
Owner + Director, LaiSun Keane Gallery
Reviewing: Sunday
About | LaiSun Keane (she/her) is the owner of an eponymous gallery in Boston’s SoWa Arts District, which specializes in contemporary works of art by American and International artists. LaiSun graduated with a Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. After graduating, she was involved with the non-profit gallery, the National Art School Gallery, and a commercial art gallery, AAG, which specialized in Australian Aboriginal Art. She moved to Boston in 2013 and in her indefatigable fashion, dived straight into the local art scene volunteering with many film festivals and non-profit art establishments. It ultimately led to her involvement with a long established ceramic gallery in Concord for five years, of which the final two years she was a partner. In April 2020, LaiSun started her own gallery, and has since staged ten exhibitions focusing on emerging artists, women, minorities and the overlooked.
Conor Moynihan
Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Conor Moynihan (he/him/they/them) is the Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. His curatorial and research work focus on contemporary art with special interests in photography, printmaking, performance, art and identity, LGBTQIA+ topics, and critical disability studies. His most recent exhibitions, Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability and Perception and Presence in Contemporary Drawing, are now on view at the RISD Museum.
Kaitlyn Ovett Clark
Manager of Exhibitions, Tufts University Art Galleries; Managing Editor, Boston Art Review
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Kaitlyn Ovett Clark (she/her) is the Manager of Exhibitions for Tufts University Art Galleries. She has been with the galleries since 2016, previously holding roles as Preparator, and Exhibitions Coordinator. Kaitlyn also serves as the Managing Editor for Boston Art Review. Her administrative work has driven her interests in community, education, space and access inclusion within the arts. Kaitlyn received her BA from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she double-majored in Studio Arts and Art History. She later obtained a BFA in Ceramics from Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis. In 2015, Kaitlyn earned a MFA at Tufts University in conjunction with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Hadley Powell
Founder, Powell Fine Art Advisory
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Hadley Powell’s (she/her) expertise spans from Old Master prints to Contemporary Art. She started her career at Christie’s, New York as a specialist in the Prints & Multiples Department where she researched and cataloged prints from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg. Subsequently in the Impressionist & Modern Art department, she worked on the high profile evening sales where she advised clients buying and selling at auction and assisted in private collection management and fine art appraisals. After moving to Boston, Hadley worked at the intersection of arts and technology at the online auction platform, Invaluable. As a Senior Product Manager at Invaluable, she optimized the buying and bidding experience, both on mobile and desktop. Hadley launched her full service art advisory business, Powell Fine Art Advisory in 2016, where she helps clients buy, sell and manage their art collections. She has just completed a two-year term as Chair of the Museum Council, the young patrons group of the MFA, Boston and sits on the Leadership Council Steering Committee of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA.
Juan Omar Rodriguez
Curatorial Fellow, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Juan Omar Rodriguez (he/him) is a curator of contemporary art. He is a Curatorial Fellow at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA. Juan Omar’s recent projects include Linger and Flow at PAFA, TBD at Boston CyberArts in collaboration with the Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance, and SMFA at Tufts: Juried Student Exhibition 2019–2020 at the MFA Boston. He received an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University in 2019 and a B.A. in Neuroscience from Oberlin College in 2017.
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Associate Curator + Director of Programs, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Caitlin Julia Rubin (she/her) is the Associate Curator & Director of Programs at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Since joining the Rose, she has organized and co-organized exhibitions and projects by Mark Dion, Rosalyn Drexler, Jennie C. Jones, JJ PEET, Tuesday Smillie, and Caroline Woolard, among others; collaborated with visiting artists to foster new, site-responsive initiatives; and curated numerous collection-focused presentations. She earned an undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Chicago and an MA in Art History from the University of Texas, Austin.
Mallory Ruymann
Managing Partner + Head of Curatorial Projects, art_works
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Mallory A. Ruymann (she/her) is a curator and art advisor. She is the Managing Partner and Head of Curatorial Projects at art_works where she builds and manages collections of contemporary art for corporations and individuals across the United States and Canada. She has worked at many art institutions, including Tufts University Art Galleries, MassArt Art Museum, Institution of Contemporary Art/Boston, Acadia Summer Arts Program, Fabric Workshop and Museum, and the Chinati Foundation. Her writing has appeared in academic journals and The Rib, Big, Red + Shiny, and Boston Art Review. She has an MA in Art History from Tufts University.
Lauren Szumita
Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Lauren Szumita (she/her) is the Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum where she oversees a rotating exhibition schedule featuring contemporary artists from New England as well as the permanent collection. Previously, she was the Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Worcester Art Museum. She received her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon and BA in Art History from Boston College.
Sam Toabe
Gallery Director, University Hall Gallery at University of Massachusetts Boston
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Sam Toabe (he/him/they/them) is a curator and art historian based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Gallery Director at the University Hall Gallery for the Art Department, as well as the Director of Arts on the Point, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Toabe received his M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture and Museum Studies from Boston University in 2015 and a B.F.A. from the Studio for Interrelated Media at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. His research and writing focus on alternative curatorial practices across a variety of periods and geographies (looking specifically at artist curated exhibitions and events), non-canonical art histories, and the advancement of cultural plurality in our global, visual lexicons. Between 2013 and 2016, Toabe acted as the Assistant Director and subsequent Associate Director at Samsøñ – an internationally recognized commercial art gallery in Boston’s South End. He has contributed to over 50 exhibitions, with supporting roles at institutions such as the Yuan Art Museum in Beijing, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and Brandeis University, among others.
Paula Tognarelli
Independent Curator; Former Executive Director at Griffin Museum of Photography
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Paula Tognarelli (she/her) recently retired as a cultural administrator and curator, working as the Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography producing on average 54 exhibitions a year. She frequently reviewed at national and local portfolio events and jumpstarted hundreds of photographers’ careers. She holds an M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University, BA from Regis College, is a graduate of the New England School of Photography and is still on her never-ending journey for her Masters in Education from Lesley University.
Leah Triplett Harrington
Curator, Now + There
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Leah Triplett Harrington (she/her) is a curator, writer, and editor. As curator for Now + There she facilitates the Public Art Accelerator and organizes large-scale public art commissions, most recently What Do We Have in Common? by Janet Zweig, Ambrosia by Cicely Carew, The Shape of Play by Sari Carel, and ¡Provecho! by Justin Favela. She is also a founding editor of publication and platform The Rib and editor-at-large for Boston Art Review. Her writing has most recently appeared in those publications and Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, WBUR’s The Artery, Big Red & Shiny, and The Brooklyn Rail. As an independent curator, she has organized projects for Boston University Art Galleries, Trestle Gallery, Herter Gallery, and others. In 2021, she was the inaugural curatorial mentor for Praise Shadows Art Gallery and taught in the MFA program in Painting at Boston University.
Shari Weschler
Owner + Director, Coastal Contemporary
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Shari Weschler (she/her), branded as Sumo Bunni, is a figural narrative painter who exhibits nationally and internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, with concentration in painting and art history. While attending MICA she also studied drawing, printmaking, and gelatin silver photography. Weschler has had over thirty solo exhibitions, participated in over forty group shows and has been published extensively. As the owner and director of Coastal Contemporary Gallery, founded May of 2018 in Newport, Rhode Island, her greatest passion lies within the process of curating and writing. The gallery represents over thirty artists with an expanding list of national and international guest artists.