Visiting Artist Speaker Series

william cordova (born in Lima, Peru. Lives /works, Miami, New York). Received an MFA from Yale University and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner interested in the roots of abstraction, history of textile encoding and non-linear narratives. cordova illuminates the synthesis of memory, ritual and mythology to further disrupt, challenge and reassess definitions of our collective landscape.

william has exhibited internationally in venues such as, the 50th Venice Biennial. Prague Triennial, 13th Havana Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Prospect III Triennial, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Prospect III Triennial. He co-curated the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre Centennial in 2021, founded and co-curates the Florida AIM Biennial. Awards include, Creative Capital Award (2024), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021), Art Matters Award (2020), Knight Arts Foundation Award (2022) Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2011). Recent solo exhibitions include, can’t stop, won’t stop: geometra sagrada, Sikkema Jenkins, NY and Avant-Garde and Liberation, Museums Quartier Museumplatz, Vienna, Austria (2024).

Abdi Osman is a Somali-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim and queer identities. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, across Canada and internationally such as at the Berlin Berlinale, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Thames Art Gallery, The National Museum of Kenya (Kenya), Goethe Institute, Johannesburg (South Africa) and Iwalewahaus The Centre for African Contemporary Art and Culture (Germany). His work has been widely written about and published in academic, arts, and cultural studies anthologies, journals, and catalogues including Archi-feministes!; Art contemporain, theories feministes/Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories, Writing Black Canada: Transitions, the Journal of Canadian Studies, Public, Kapsula Magazine and Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, Blackflash and Canadian Art. Osman holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto. He has held fellowships and participated in artist residencies at the Interdisciplinary Center for Culture and Creativity at the University of Saskatchewan, the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, the McColl Centre for Visual Arts in Charlottetown, North Carolina, and most recently, at the Mark Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

Liên Trương’s work blends painting with military, textile, food and art histories to form a diasporic, aesthetic language. Her work has been exhibited widely in venues including the National Portrait Gallery; Nasher Museum of Art; S.E.A. Focus, Singapore; Untitled Art Fair; North Carolina Museum of Art; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. Trương was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award in 2019. She has held residencies at the Oakland Museum of California, Jentel Foundation, and the Marble House Project. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Trương immigrated to the US in 1975. She received her MFA from Mills College and is an Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chris Woebken Studio is a design futures research practice residing on the traditional and unceded land of the Lenape also known as Brooklyn, New York. The studio examines the potential of design for discussing new imaginaries around complex social, technological, and ecological challenges. The studio develops special commissions with cultural organizations including numerous free public programs. 

Chris is currently teaching at Fordham University and Parsons School of Design. Previously he was a research associate at the MIT Media Lab, Original Minds Scholar at Dalton School and a Faculty Fellow at Parsons Urban Systems Lab. He has experience teaching in K-12 contexts up to college-level within public and private schools such as CUNY City Tech, Columbia GSAPP, NYU, RISD, SVA, P.S. 147 and UPenn. Chris earned a Master’s in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London.

Steven J. Yazzie (b.1970) is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, video/film and community. Yazzie is a member of the Navajo Nation and a veteran of the Gulf War, serving honorably with the United States Marine Corps, 1988-92. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia at Arizona State University and named 2014 outstanding graduate for the Herberger Institute for Design and Art; Yazzie was a Community Scholar for the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality, University of Denver, Colorado, 2019-20; Additionally, Yazzie was a founding member of Postcommodity, an indigenous arts collective, and the co- founder of the Museum of Walking. 

Yazzie’s notable exhibitions include the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver Art Museum, Colorado; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Phoenix Art Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona. Yazzie has been selected for the 2025 Sharjah Biennial 16, UAE. 

Yazzie has had residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art Winnipeg, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Social Engagement Residency, Santa Fe, NM; Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, Indianapolis, IN; Native Artist in Residence, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, and is a 2024 Ucross Fellow, Wyoming. He lives and works in Denver, Colorado. 

CHARLENE LIU is an artist born in Taiwan, raised in the American Midwest, and based in Oregon. Liu’s paintings, prints, and mixed media installations weave together familial histories, cultural tropes, and decorative motifs to explore the malleable conditions of memory, heritage, and identity. Her imagery draws freely from nature, food, ephemera, still life paintings, Rococo ornamentation, and East Asian art and design. Liu’s luminous, layered compositions evoke multi-layered realities, fluid states, and imaginative realms through material process, vibrant colors, and playful juxtapositions. Her work has been exhibited at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Umatilla, OR; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, OR. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York and a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Liu is a Professor of Art and Printmaking at the University of Oregon.

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her distinct visual language centers on themes of indigenization and ancestral memory. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Catchlight Fellowship, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant, among others, and she is a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist. Fawundu was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years | 100 Women Project / The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019–2021). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Princeton University Museum, Bryn Mawr College, Montclair Art Museum, The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, The Brooklyn Historical Society, Norton Museum of Art, The David C. Driskell Art Collection, and number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.

Regina Harsanyi is the Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image. She also advises artist studios, art museums, galleries, auction houses, and private collectors on preventive conservation for variable media arts, from plastics to distributed ledger technologies. Harsanyi previously facilitated over 200 exhibitions with a creative technology focus as Director of Programming at Wallplay after working as a Registrar at Sotheby’s. She is a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, and lectures globally. Her most recent curatorial work includes the acclaimed exhibition “Auriea Harvey: My Veins are the Wires, My Body is Your Keyboard” (MoMI, 2024).

LoVid is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist duo working collaboratively since 2001. LoVid’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise. LoVid’s work captures an intermixed world layered with virtual and physical, materials and simulations, connection and isolation.

LoVid’s process includes home-made analog synthesizers, hand-cranked code, and tangible materials; their videos, textile works, performances, net-art, installations, and NFTs have been exhibited worldwide for over two decades. LoVid’s work has been presented internationally at venues including: Museum of Moving Image (NY), Standard Vision X Vellum LA, Wave Hill, Brookfield Arts, RYAN LEE Gallery, Art Blocks Curated, Postmasters Gallery, bitforms Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Tonic.xyz, Expanded.Art, Art Dubai, New Discretions, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, PS1, Issue Project Room, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, The Kitchen, Daejeon Museum, Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute, New Museum, and ICA London. LoVid’s projects have received grants and awards from organizations including: Guild Hall, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, NY Hall of Science, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation. LoVid’s videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Moving Image, The Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, Watermill Center, Butler Institute of American Art, Heckscher Museum, NFT Museum of Digital Art, and many private collections.

Mona Filip is an independent contemporary art curator and writer based in Toronto. Originally from Bucharest, Romania, where she began her artistic education, Mona received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Her curatorial experience spans almost 20 years, over forty exhibitions and site-specific projects, collaborations with guest curators, a broad range of public programs, and innovative educational initiatives. Most recently as Curator at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto and previously as Director/Curator of the Koffler Gallery, she consistently supported the production of new work, introducing national and international artists to Toronto with first local exhibitions, and generating critical cross-cultural discussions on global concerns. With an idea-driven and dialogue-focused approach, Mona collaborates with artists to produce experiential installations that transform the gallery space, respond to unconventional sites, and address the public on sensorial, emotional and intellectual levels. Displacement and adaptation are core concerns of Mona’s curatorial investigations, informed by her experiences of immigration and diasporic living. Bringing together a range of perspectives on memory, place and belonging, her projects examine the relationship between the personal and the political, ways of rewriting and redressing histories, and museum restitution and repair.

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice (DE/US), Dark Study (US), Digital Earth Fellowship (NL), and delivered lectures at Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, and basis voor aktuelle kunst (NL), and University of the Arts Helsinki (FL). As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, and received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He serves on the editorial team of e-flux journal.

Dan Gardner, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Code and Theory Network

Dan Gardner is co-founder and executive chairman of technology-first network Code and Theory. He’s built Code and Theory into the only network with a balance of 50% creative and 50% engineers, and nearly 2,000 employees across the globe. Code and Theory is a trusted, strategic partner to the biggest brands in the world, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, MSNBC and JP Morgan Chase. Some of the most innovative and inspiring work of the last two decades can be credited to Gardner and the Code and Theory team; from designing CNN’s Magic Wall and launching the Daily Beast to the rebranding of the Washington Commanders. 

Gardner founded Code and Theory 23 years ago. Since then he has become a trusted voice at the intersection of digital transformation, emerging tech and AI, and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, MarketWatch and more. Insider named him “One of the top execs leading the AI charge.” His efforts have been recognized in global awards shows, including Cannes Lions, D&AD, The Webbys and the Effies and he’s lectured on global stages like Davos and Web Summit.

He is the co-founder of ON_Discourse and a member of the Stagwell Marketing Cloud.

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NBC’s Big Board is the ultimate data storytelling platform, processing over 10 million election data points in just 4 seconds and displaying them live with flawless accuracy. With zero errors in over 5,000 broadcast hours, its design and technological excellence allow interactive data graphics to transition seamlessly between the studio and multiple network screens, ensuring all viewers have a close-up view on any device. Over the year, continuous testing and digital improvements have established the Big Board as a pinnacle of digital craftsmanship and data-driven journalism. Watch the case video

Gracelee Lawrence’s work explores relationships between food, the body, and technology, residing in the intersection of physical and digital reality. Their art examines how bodies are gendered and fragmented through capitalist desires, physical sustenance, and digital spaces. Gracelee (they/she) has participated in twenty residencies globally and had their second solo show at Postmasters, New York, in June 2022, praised by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Currently, they are the Head of Sculpture Area at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent exhibitions include Peter Gaugy (Vienna), PRIOR Art Space (Barcelona), and Kavi Gupta (Chicago). Gracelee has installed outdoor sculptures at locations such as Wave Hill (Bronx) and Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota). They were a Visiting Professor at Chiang Mai University on a Luce Scholars Fellowship and are a member of MATERIAL GIRLS.  Beyond art, Gracelee is an avid dancer, lifelong equestrian, and dedicated gardener.