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#616
Thursday · 1 hr 5 min
Hew Locke
Episode 542 / Hew Locke Hew Locke OBE RA (b. 1959) received an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1994. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate, London, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and British Museum, London, UK, among many others. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Here’s the Thing which opened at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, in 2019 before traveling to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. In March 2022, Locke presented The Procession, The Duveen Hall Commission for Tate Britain, London, UK, which later travelled to The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Locke unveiled Gilt, the Façade Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in September 2022. His groundbreaking show, Hew Locke: what have we here?,opened at the British Museum, London, UK, in Fall 2024. Hew Locke: Passages, the largest solo exhibition of Locke's work to date, debuted at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, and is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX through September 13. Locke will take part in the 2027 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster with an installation in the Haus der Niederlande at the Krameramtshaus, Münster, Germany. (photo credit: Hugh Glendinning)
#541
August 27 · 1 hr 30 min
Jacob Hashimoto (from 11/2016)
On the occasion of Jacob's show at SFMOMA, we are reissuing his interview from 10 years ago. Jacob Hashimoto: Giant ArcInstallation Opened August 22, 2026 on Floor 1. Jacob Hashimoto creates mesmerizing and intricate installations through repetition and composition. Each work comprises thousands of hand-built kites made of bamboo and Japanese paper, suspended together into complex assemblages that seem to float through the air. Blending sculpture, design, and environment, these kites form clusters, some blank or in solid colors, others layered with colorful collaged-paper graphics. At SFMOMA, Hashimoto will create the largest work of his career, mixing nearly 75,000 elements into a cloud canopy that will cover the Roberts Family Gallery floor to ceiling and wall to wall.
#540
August 20 · 1 hr
Hidenori Ishii
Episode 540 / Hidenori Ishii Hidenori Ishii is an artist born in Yonezawa, Japan, who resides and works in LIC, New York. He holds a BFA from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. His work traverses painting, screen-printing, installation and public art. His solo exhibitions include venues like Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX, C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, MD and Hub-Robeson Gallery in Penn State University, PA. His work has been featured in group exhibitions worldwide, including at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art in TX, Tian Contemporain, Montreal, Canada and Art in Embassies in Ankara, Turkey. He has received awards such as 2024 and 2019 FST Studio Project Funds in NYC, 2024 Finalist in MTA Arts & Design Program and was previously a Keyholder Resident at the LES Printshop in New York City. His work is part of collections such as the Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, TD Bank Art Collection, Morgan Stanley Art Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection and the University Texas Southwestern Medical Center Art Collection.
#539
August 13 · 1 hr 14 min
Adam De Boer
Episode 539 / Adam De Boer Adam de Boer is an artist who graduated with a BFA in Painting from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006) and an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art, London (2012). His work has been exhibited at Plato, New York (2024); Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2024, 2022); The Pit, Los Angeles (2023); Gajah Gallery, Jakarta and Singapore (2023, 2022); Ben Brown Fine Arts, London and Hong Kong (2022); The Hole, New York and Los Angeles (2023, 2022); Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles (2020, 2018); World Trade Centre, Jakarta (2018); and Art Jog, Yogyakarta (2018, 2015). Adam is a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellow and in 2017 was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Java, Indonesia. Other grants include The International Art Prize presented by Winsor & Newton and Paul Smith's Foundation, Arts for India from the University of the Arts, London, and those from The Cultural Development Corporation, The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and The Santa Barbara Arts Fund.
#538
August 6 · 1 hr 40 min
Evan Mast (E*vax/Ratatat)
Episode 538 / Evan Mast On the occasion of Evan's new E*vax album Just Like Fire, we are releasing our past convo with him in 2023. You can stream Just Like Fire on all platforms and check out all of Evan's music wherever you stream or on vinyl at record stores across the globe. https://evax.bandcamp.com/album/just-like-fire
#537
July 30 · 36 min
Guimi You (reissue from 6.7.2018)
Episode 537 / Guimi You We love Guimi's show at Lehman Maupin so much we are re-releasing this episode with her from 2018. (Episode 110)
#536
July 23 · 56 min
Flora Temnouche
Episode 536 / Flora Temnouche Flora Temnouche is an artist who lives and works between Paris and Berlin. She was born and raised in France, studying Modern Literature and Art History in Paris at the Sorbonne, then attending the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until 2023 in the class of Katharina Wulff. Her works have been exhibited in group and solo shows both in Europe and the United States in galleries such as Galerie Elsa Meunier in Paris, Chilly Art Project in London, and Galerie Philia in New York. She has also exhibited in public spaces such as Ghetto Novo in Venice, the Kultur Bahnhof Eller and Kunstpalast Museum in Düsseldorf, Villa Maeterlinck Jean Nouvel in Nice, and has been selected for a residency at Palazzo Galli Talli in Florence. She just recently had a solo show in LA at Megan Mulrooney Gallery called A Room of One’s Own.
#535
July 16 · 1 hr 18 min
Tyreek Morrison
Episode 535 / Tyreek Morrison Tyreek Morrison is an Atlanta-based collage artist born in New Jersey and raised in Atlanta. Tyreek works with collage, found materials, paper, paint, and drawing to explore Black American life through memory, identity, and everyday moments. Tyreek also is an accomplished skateboarder and frequent collaborator with Lil’ Wayne. Shows and venues include Future Fair, Alday Hunken Gallery, Charley Palmer Fine Art, the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum, Scope Fair, and Atlanta Art Fair, with a forthcoming collaboration with his father next spring, among other projects.
#534
July 9 · 1 hr 2 min
Nicole Economides
Episode 534 / Nicole Economides Nicole Economides (b.1992) is an Athens based artist born in New York. She received her BA/BFA from the Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences at the University of Ioannina Greece (2015). She is an MFA Fine Arts graduate at Parsons, The New School (2019). Economides has been an artist in residence at the Agora Collective: WHILE WE WORK in Berlin, Germany (2016) and at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece (2014). She was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Scholarship for Painters (2017) and the Artists’ Grant from the Gerondelis Foundation Inc (2018). She has shown her work in many group exhibitions and workshops in Crete, Ioannina, Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, Berlin, and New York City. She currently lives and works in New York City.
#533
July 2 · 51 min
Rebecca Bonaci
Episode 533 / Rebecca Bonaci Rebecca Bonaci is an artist born and based in Malta who graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art in 2014, after which she pursued a career in tattooing alongside her visual arts practice. Her work is often shaped by immediate experiences, focusing on intimate emotions and personal moments. Bonaci explores how these individual experiences resonate on a broader human level, inviting connection and empathy. Her solo exhibition Ġuf (2023) explored contemporary motherhood through a deeply personal lens. In 2024, she was selected to participate in the Malta Biennale, followed by her solo exhibition Wens: Comfortable Silence at Valletta Contemporary in 2025. She was also a finalist for the Hopper Prize (USA) in Fall 2025. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions in Malta and abroad.
#532
June 25 · 1 hr 37 min
Koak
Episode 532 / Koak Koak is an artist born in Lansing, MI who earned her BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2025, Koak was the subject of a solo exhibition at Charleston, Lewes, UK. She has participated in many institutional group shows, including at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Musées d’Angers, France; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao; and Rudolph Tegners Museum and Statue Park, Dronningmølle, Denmark, among others. In 2020, Koak received a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and completed residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, through the Liquitex Residency program. Koak’s work is part of the permanent collections of the de Young Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musées d’Angers. She lives and works in San Francisco and is represented by Perrotin, Union Pacific, and Jessica Silverman.
#531
June 18 · 1 hr 20 min
Jo Dennis
Episode 531 / Jo Dennis Jo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades, working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our psychological and emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination, surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality. Dennis received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022) and her BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (2002). Recent exhibitions: Never the Straightest Path (solo) Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden 2026: A Letter to my Daughter (solo) Carvalho New York 2025: The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, curated by Phillipa Adams 2025: David Zwirner PLATFORM (group) curated by Elisabeth Johs 2025, A Glass of Absinth (solo) at JO-HS, Mexico City 2025. A Hopper Prize grant winner (2025) and a recipient of an Arts Council England Grant (2023-24), Dennis is the co-founder of several artist lead projects in London; Pigeon Park (2021-22) Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 - current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023) including the launch of her artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’ (2020) Dennis is a trustee and sits on the Artists’ council for the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution. Her work was recently included in The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works, edited by Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific by Tall Poppy Press (2023).
#530
June 11 · 1 hr 26 min
Raul De Lara
Episode 530 / Raul De Lara (Born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México – 1991) Raul De Lara is a sculptor who explores the emotive and storytelling qualities of materials. He is interested in how social, cultural and spiritual qualities can be imbued into wood through the act of carving. He practices traditional hand carving and power carving techniques through the visual language of nature, humor, and magical realism. His research preserves, honors and propels forward traditional uses of wood while combining them with new developments in the global industry of woodworking. Raul immigrated from Mexico to the United States at the age of 12, and has been a DACA recipient since 2012. His work reflects on themes of belonging, queer identity, and his im migrant experience. He is currently living and working in Queens, NY. Raul received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Recent solo exhibition sites include The Contemporary Austin, SCAD Museum of Art and Gaa Gallery. His work has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally at the Tucson Museum of Art, Wharton Esherick Museum, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, The Armory Show, Hermès Paris, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, The Hole, Honor Fraser Gallery, and Reynolds Gallery, among others. Raul ’s selected awards include the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft, the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, and Art in America Magazine’s Top 20 Global New Talent, as well as residencies at Wendell Castle Workshop, Silver Art Projects, LMCC Governor’s Island, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Ox-Bow School of Art, Penland School of Craft, and Chicago Artists Coalition, among others.
#529
June 4 · 1 hr 5 min
Gonçalo Preto
Episode 529 / Gonçalo Preto Gonçalo Preto (b. 1991, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese artist living and working in New York. In 2024, he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, having previously studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, USA, and at Kassel Kunsthochschule, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Recent solo exhibitions include The Ballads of a Sundial (2026), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon; Phantom Limb (2024), Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, USA; A Cadência de uma Chama (2024), Middle Finger Pedestrians (2019) and FRAG-MEN-TO (2017), Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; and LIMBO (2019), Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada (São Miguel), Azores, Portugal, among others. Recent group exhibitions include Out of Frame (2025), Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, USA; what lovers do (2024), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA; Prophetic Dreams (2024), Goldau, Switzerland; BIG OBJECTS (2023), Marvin Gardens, New York, USA; and Silvers in the Void (2023), MAMOTH, London, UK, among others. Gonçalo is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright FCC Grant (2022-2024), a Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship (2022-2024), and a Hopper Prize Finalist (2023).
#528
May 28 · 1 hr 6 min
Marina Adams
Episode 528 / Marina Adams Marina Adams is a painter based in New York, NY, Bridgehampton, New York, and Parma, Italy. She earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Columbia University, New York, NY. Her solo exhibitions include Cosmic Repair at Timothy Taylor, The Art of Living Slowly and Mother Tongue at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Devals x Salon 94, Paris, France, To a World Full of Others, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland; Flower Power at Copenhagen and Deep Breathing at S-Chanf, Switzerland, Stephen Friedman Galleryin London, FOCUS: Marina Adams at The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Anemones and Soft Power at Salon 94 and many others. She is in the public collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Longlati Foundation in Shanghai, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. She is a 2016 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and received the 2018 Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adams has collaborated with poets Norma Cole, Charles Bernstein, Vincent Katz, Leslie Scalapino and Christian Prigent and has published prints with TwoPalms NY, ULAE, Niels Borch Jensen Copenhagen and VanDeb Editions.
#528
May 22 · 1 hr 52 min
Beverly Fishman
Episode 528 / Beverly Fishman Beverly Fishman is an artist born in 1955 in Philadelphia, who lives and works in Detroit. She received her Master of Fine Arts in 1980 from Yale University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1977. Her work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan; Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY; Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH; and Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany. She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Circulo de Bessa Artes, Madrid, Spain; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and White Columns, New York, NY, among others. Her work is in the collections of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; MacArthur Foundation Collection, Chicago, IL; Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, and elsewhere. Beverly was inducted as a National Academician of the National Academy of Design in 2020. She is the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Hassam, Speicher, Betts, & Symons Purchase Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts; and a Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
#527
May 14 · 1 hr 15 min
Erica Westenberger
Episode 527 / Erica Westenberger Erica Westenberger is a New Orleans–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation. Her work builds immersive scenes shaped by apprehension, longing, and care, exploring emotional landscapes through intertwined bodies, objects, and imagined environments. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her MFA from Tulane University in 2023. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Delta Triennial, Field Projects in New York City, and Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, Tennessee. She has presented solo exhibitions at Carroll Gallery and Sibyl Gallery in New Orleans, and at Neue Welt in Nashville. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine and the Nashville Scene, and she has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Oxbow School of Art, and Stove Works. Her work is currently on display in Tinney Contemporary’s booth at Future Fair in New York City from May 13–16.
#518
May 7 · 1 hr 24 min
Xavier Tavera
Episode 526 / Xavier Tavera Xavier Tavera has had a passion for portraiture for most of his life as a way to engage with people and their stories. His work oscillates between documentary and the imagined with the sole purpose of telling a story. After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier has devoted himself to tell the stories of the Latin American diaspora, often recontextualizing with the purpose of providing visibility and fair representation. He has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities, nationally and internationally including Germany, Scotland, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Plains Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota History Center, Ramsey County Historical Society, the Weisman Art Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art. He is a recipient of the McKnight fellowship, Jerome Travel award, State Arts Board, and Bronica scholarship.
#525
April 30 · 1 hr 16 min
Madeline Ludwig-Leone
Episode 525 / Madeline Ludwig-Leone Madeline Ludwig-Leone is a Los Angeles-based visual artist working primarily in painting. She received an MFA in Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design and a BA in Fine Art and American Studies from Yale University. She had a recent solo exhibition at Gattopardo, Glendale, CA and has previously shown at Felix Art Fair with Gattopardo and Tyler Park Presents; Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Light Manufacturing, Portland, ME; The Aster Art Initiative, Los Angeles, CA; Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR; City Gallery at the Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY; and Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, among others. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and SouthCoast Today. She was a recent resident at ChaNorth Artists’ Residency in Pine Plains, NY and at Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency in Gosnold, MA.
#524
April 23 · 1 hr 8 min
Diane Briones Williams
Episode 524 / Diane Briones Williams Diane Briones Williams is an artist born in the Philippines who is based in Los Angeles whose work explores fragmented histories, cultural memory, and diasporic identity shaped by colonization. Her work has been featured in select publications and radio interviews including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Magazine, CBS News, KPCC, Laist, LA Weekly, Artillery, Eastsider LA and KPFK. Williams exhibited in several solo and group shows at the Armory Center for the Arts, 18th Street Art Center, Muzeo, Human Resources, Official Welcome, Museum of Art and History, California State University Northridge, College of the Canyons, Cerritos College Gallery, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University San Diego, Children's Museum of the Arts New York, Berkeley Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and Grafiska Sällskapet Stockholm, Sweden among others. She has works in private and public collections at National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles and Washington DC, Glendale Community College and Azusa Pacific University. Williams earned her MFA at University of Southern California (USC) in 2021 and BFA at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 2013. If you're in New York this May, check out Future Fair, the forward-thinking contemporary art fair returning to Chelsea for its sixth edition, May 13 to 16. We’re proud to be a media partner of this year’s fair, which brings together 68 exhibitors from around the world, with a strong focus on curatorial vision, emerging and under-recognized voices, and a community-driven approach.Sound & Vision listeners can get 30% off tickets with the code SOUNDANDVISION, all one word, at futurefairs.com.

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