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New York-based artist Matthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, Kentucky) is best known for his chromatic, handmade wood sculptures that suggest unearthly landscapes with futuristic architectures and bodily processes like digestion and aging. His fourth solo exhibition at Casey Kaplan, Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season; is on view through Saturday, October 24th. 

Peter Halley, born in 1953, New York City, came to prominence as a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. He uses his visual lexicon to examine the technological forces that regulate daily life. Known for his use of fluorescent colors and synthetic Roll-a-Tex surfaces, Halley embraces materials that are anti-naturalistic and commercially manufactured.    Halley is currently presenting new paintings at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena, Italy, as well as Exploding Cell, a new series of digital prints, at Triennale Milano in Milan. This month, he has also created site-specific installations for Le Consortium (Dijon) and the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), extending his ongoing exploration of architecture, materiality, and pictorial space.  

Christopher K. Ho (b. 1974 Hong Kong) is a speculative artist based in New York and Hong Kong. He is a maker, organizer, and teacher. His current solo exhibition Waterloo! at Ellie Rines Gallery draws parallels between the Biedermeier period and today, and extends his decades-long interest in what politics in art can look like.   

Alice Tippit is an artist who lives and works in Chicago, IL. Embracing ambiguity and contradiction, Tippit invites viewers to consider the myriad ways in which we construct meaning through language and form as well as the coexistence of multiple interpretations. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at  Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York in 2026, Rodolphe Janssen Galerie, Brussels in 2025, and Patron Gallery, Chicago in 2024. Her first institutional solo exhibition was mounted in 2026 by the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago.

Jerry Blackman (b.1984, Brooklyn) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has had several solo shows of his work in New York City and is looking forward to his forthcoming exhibition at Peninsula where he is represented. Blackman has also participated in numerous group shows nationally and internationally in cities including Taipei. Vienna, New Haven, and others. Additionally, Blackman has also curated several group shows online and in New York City. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2006, and his MFA from Yale in 2014.

James Hyde is a practicing painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s. His recent book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), is the first critical study of “pictorial space” as a historical construction. Hyde’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC). He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.

Claire Downes Whitehurst is a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work explores the intersections of botanical form, religious iconography, and the abstract relationship between image and object. 

Deeply rooted in a conceptual framework, Tony Oursler conjures multimedia and immersive experiences which combine traditional art making tools with new technologies. Oursler is known for his work with moving images, installation and projection. He draws inspiration from wide ranging pop cultural phenomena including telecommunications, narrative evolution, conspiracy, social media, facial recognition, mysticism and environmental concerns.

Deeply rooted in a conceptual framework, Tony Oursler conjures multimedia and immersive experiences which combine traditional art making tools with new technologies. Oursler is known for his work with moving images, installation and projection. He draws inspiration from wide ranging pop cultural phenomena including telecommunications, narrative evolution, conspiracy, social media, facial recognition, mysticism and environmental concerns.

Heidi Hahn is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  She received a BFA at Cooper Union and MFA at Yale, and has shown her work extensively in NYC and beyond.   

Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She collaborates with researchers to create media that are often inherently political, and delves into the cultural conditioning of sense and perception in a way she describes as a "biopolitics of the senses." Her diverse installations, which draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, ask incisive questions about human psychology and the workings of society.  

Jesse Greenberg is an artist, curator, and cultural advisor whose work connects artists, institutions, businesses, and communities through contemporary art. Working across exhibitions, artist studios, corporate collections, and cultural programming, he focuses on building creative ecosystems and expanding how art is experienced both inside and outside traditional art spaces.

Oliver Wasow is a fine art photographer currently living and working in Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BA from Hunter College and his MFA fom the Transart Institute in Austria. His photographs are included in a number of private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, ArtNews and The New York Times.

Betsy Sussler attended Newcomb, the women’s college of Tulane University in New Orleans and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in 1974. She co-founded BOMB Magazine in 1981 to publish conversations between artists and writers that reflected the way they spoke about the work among themselves and has been its Editor in Chief ever since. Sussler has edited five anthologies: BOMB Interviews, City Lights (1991); BOMB: Speak Art! (1997), Speak Fiction and Poetry! (1998) and Speak Theater and Film! (1999), published by Gordon and Breach; and The Author Interviews (2014) published by Soho Press.  Station of the Birds is her first novel, written in the mid-1990s. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her two felines, Calliope and Woody Ray. 

Michael David lives and works in New York. He has exhibited most recently with solo exhibitions at Private Public Gallery, Hudson (2025) and Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta (2024). He has exhibited internationally since 1981, first with the renowned Sidney Janis and then with M. Knoedler & Co., Kasmin Gallery in London and he has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen. David has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the Edward Albee Foundation.

Guggenheim Award winner Katherine Bradford (1942) is a New York based painter.  She is best known for her large paintings of swimmers under dramatic skies of planets and stars. In her 40’s she moved from her home in Maine to New York City bringing her school age twins with her as a single mother. She taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1997-2012) and was Senior Critic in the Yale MFA program (2016-2017). Now in her 80’s she paints full time in a studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn where she was among the first group of artists to move there. This past season she has had solo shows at her New York gallery, Canada, at Hyundai Gallery in Seoul Korea, and at Haverkampf Gallery in Berlin. Museum survey shows include the Portland Museum of Art, the Frye Museum in Seattle, Modern Museum at Fort Worth Texas and Kunsthaus Graz Contemporary Museum, Austria. Groups shows include David Zwirner, the ICA Boston, and Anton Kern Gallery. She is also represented by Kaufman Repetto in Milan, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Matthew Brown in LA.  Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in DC, and the Menil Family Collection in Texas, among others. Her glass mosaic murals can be found in the L line subway stop at First Ave in New York City.

Melissa Attebury was appointed Director of Music at Trinity Church in December of 2023, as the first woman in this role in Trinity’s long history. Previously, she served as Director of Music Education and Outreach, a program she built upon since 2011, serving over 1200 school-age children in the public schools, as well as training many young singers in the Trinity community as director of the Trinity Youth Chorus. During her next chapter at Trinity, she will continue her work in music education, creating educational offerings with Trinity’s collaborative partners and fostering the next generation of young musicians. She is an advocate of lesser-known composers and creating space for new works and revitalizing a culture of congregational singing within the Trinity community. Attebury serves as principal conductor of the Trinity Choir, NOVUS, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Roberto Lingard is a curious man. Cooking since the age of 8, he's founded and constantly curates what he describes as the only gastro-endemic experience in Mexico, where his house, a design work of art tucked in the middle of the woods, becomes a curated experience where culture, food, and history give birth to Cubo. He's hosted over 50 different top chefs from all around the world and more than 5000 guests in the last 7 years, making sure everyone feels at home. With a background in arts, cooking, entertainment, and many more, Cubo's experience is a reflection of who he is, where he comes from, and where he envisions the future for him, his family, and his community.

Todd Bienvenu is a prolific, seriously brilliant painter whose uniquely prolific brilliance is most exuberantly expressed when he succeeds in keeping his creative seriousness in check. At times, this regard entails cheesiness, cheekiness, tongue-in-cheek-ness, or simply butt cheeks. Bienvenu has shown extensively worldwide and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Nick McPhail (b. 1982, Laingsburg, MI) is an artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation. He is known for vivid landscapes, inventive experiments with perspective, and explorations of light, space and color that utilize multiple mediums. He has exhibited internationally, including recent solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, and San Francisco, and his works are held in collections worldwide. McPhail lives and works in Los Angeles.