Image (detail) © Hannah Brancato, Summer 2024 MassArt Visiting Artist and Critic

MFA SUMMER LECTURE SERIES

VISITING SPEAKERS

Each summer, the MFA Low-Residency program hosts a Summer Lecture Series featuring artists, curators, and scholars who present their work to our community–many of whom also meet with our students for one-on-one and group critiques. From emerging to mid-career to well established artists, we seek out voices and perspectives that have the potential to open new worlds for our students and shift the way they view their own practice. These lectures are open to the MassArt community and to the general public.

SUMMER 2025 LINEUP

THATIANA OLIVEIRA | July 03 | 12:00pm, DMC Lecture Hall

Thatiana Oliveira is a Brasilian multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator. Current projects include co-founding Snake House VT, a non-profit arts collaborative, establishing Gilfeather an artists’ critique and discussion group, as well as creating ex-girlfriend a ‘zine/artist-book and curatorial adventure. Oliveira holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, a curatorial internship fellow from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and was a resident at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Umbria, at the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE), and at the Vermont Studio Center. Oliveira has continually worked in higher education as a teacher and administrator at Syracuse University, Champlain College, Vermont College of Fine Arts and presently at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Thatiana seeks to be a conscientious rabble rouser, a dedicated dance machine, and always a friend to cats.

GABO CAMNITZER | July 10 | 12:00pm, DMC Lecture Hall

Gabo Camnitzer is an artist and educator working across experimental pedagogy, installation, and video. Camnitzer’s work revolves around questions of education and knowledge exchange, often focusing on childhood to examine the societal structures that surround and shape subjectivity. Camnitzer is Associate Professor of Art Education and Director of the Saturday Studios Program for children at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. He has previously held teaching positions at UMass Dartmouth, Columbia University, Valand Academy, Sweden, as well as public elementary schools in New York City. He has presented projects at venues such as Creative Time, New York, Pivô, São Paulo; PPOW, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Momentum Biennale, Moss, Norway; Hacer Noche, Oaxaca; Kunstsaele, Berlin; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA. He sits on the editorial board of the Swedish Art Journal, Paletten. 

TYANNA J. BUIE | July 17 | 12:00pm, DMC Lecture Hall

A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Tyanna J. Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Project 1612 AIR, Morton, IL, and Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria.

Her accolades include the 2012 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.

Buie has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI, Materia Gallery, Detroit, MI, and cam.contemporarie Gallery, Chicago, IL.

ZOILA ANDREA COC-CHANG | July 24 | 4:00pm, DMC Lecture Hall | *keynote lecture

Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang is a Chinese-Guatemalan mixed-media artist and educator from Miami. Her work interrogates the complexities and intimacies between and within Asia and the Americas to not only reveal and work through the nuances of where and when these geographies collide, but in hope of forging new possibilities for existing beyond histories of struggle and territorially-bounded cultural representations. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: 193 Gallery (Paris, FR and Venice, IT), ArtNexus Space (Miami, FL), WhiteBox (New York, NY), Jamestown Art Center (Jamestown, RI), XXIII Bienal de Arte Paiz Guatemala (GUA), The Arsenal at Central Park (New York, NY), Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY), Lycoming College Art Gallery (Williamstown, PA), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown Boston (MA) and more.

Coc-Chang holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BA in Studio Art and Education Studies from Brandeis University. She completed an apprenticeship at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore and was an artist fellow at A.I.R Gallery in New York in 2022-23. Currently she is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at Brown University and Yale University.

LECTURE SERIES ARCHIVE

To view passcode-protected recordings, please contact the Graduate Programs Team (gradprogram@massart.edu).