News from Our Fellows
June 2025
Alexandria Bingham (2022 Fellow, Capital One Art Projects) joined the David Kordansky Gallery as the Gallery Manager in May 2024.
Emily Hanako Momohara (2004 Fellow, Freer & Sackler Gallery) will begin August 1 at MICA as Professor and Chair of Animation and Media Arts.
May 2025
Sarika Sanyal (2021 Fellow, Public Art Fund) is currently on the Gala Host Committee for the Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW) and is working full time as Senior Director at CCS Fundraising.
Emy Kim (2001 Fellow, Wave Hill) recently completed her PhD in the History of Technology at the University of Toronto and promoted to Associate Professor of Artifacts Conservation in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University (in Canada). She is still interested in the conservation of public art, thanks to the guidance of former supervisor, Jennifer McGregor.
Tschabalala Self (2014 Fellow, Artspace) is now being represented by Petzel Gallery in collaboration with Pilar Corrias, London, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. In Fall 2026, Self will mount her first solo exhibition with Petzel.
The New Museum has also announced that Tschabalala will create a new sculpture for its facade, which will be unveiled in the fall, to coincide with the museum’s reopening.
March 2025
Nidhi Gandhi (2021 Fellow, The Brooklyn Museum) recently joined the Oakland Museum of California as the Curator of California Art.
February 2025
Chenoa Baker (2024 Fellow, Tephra ICA) curated a recent exhibition, “We Dwell in Between,” a solo show, on display through June 29, by Northern Virginia-based artist Marie B. Gauthiez, at its satellite gallery in the Signature Apartments. The exhibit features “mixed media drawings, grid paintings, brick-sized wall fragments, and an immersive plaster wall installation. Learn more about the exhibit here.
Victoria Campa (2024 Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) recently joined the Community Partnerships & Initiatives team at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jenay Meraz (2011 Fellow, Otis College) accepted a role as Senior Registrar at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She will be working on moving into the new building, installing the first exhibitions, and other registration projects.
Erica Rawles (2020 Fellow, The Laundromat Project) joined Lord Cultural Resources, a global cultural consultancy, as a Senior Consultant in March 2024. She is now going into her second year in this role. In this role, she has worked with the City of Tucson to develop a cultural heritage strategy that supports the preservation and growth of its vibrant history, heritage, arts, and culture sectors. The plan was unanimously adopted by the Tucson Mayor and Council in January.
January 2025
Sarika Sanyal (2021 Fellow, Public Art Fund) was recently nominated and joined the Board for Level Ground. This Los Angeles arts organization is an artist collective and award winning production company supporting Black, Brown, Queer and Trans visual artists, and filmmakers led by two women Co-Directors.
December 2024
Alana Hernandez (2015 Fellow, Phoenix Museum of Art) has held her position as Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum since September 2023. She is now working on a major contextual retrospective of Carmen Lomas Garza that will open in Spring 2026.
Heather Hughes (2016 Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) has held her position as the Kathy and Ted Fernberger Associate Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2022. She is now co-curating with Chika Okeke-Agulu on an exhibition devoted to El Anatsui’s works on paper planned for 2026.
September 2024
Cambria Kelley (2023 Fellow, New York Studio School) has had her work selected for the 2024 New York Studio School Faculty Exhibition, running from September 15–October 30.
August 2024
Marcela Guerrero (2005 Fellow, Catharine Clark Gallery), alongside Drew Sawyer were named as the curators of the next edition of the Whitney Biennial.
July 2024
Alitzah Oros (2021 Fellow, Social and Public Art Resources Center (SPARC)) celebrated a year as the Public Programming Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). She is also a regular writer/contributor to the West Coast digital art publication, Variable West and serves on the editorial team of ACID-FREE magazine, a digital publication by the LA Archivists Collective.
June 2024
Libbi Ponce (2023 Fellow, Chrysler Museum of Art) will be starting an MFA at UCLA in Sculpture. She also has 13 artworks on view in a group exhibition called ‘Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration’ at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art from May 25, 2024 – January 26, 2025.
Sarika Sanyal (2021 Fellow, Public Art Fund) has moved on from her role at Los Angeles Nomadic Division as Associate Director to the Senior Director at CCS Fundraising. She now supports nonprofits across all sectors in their philanthropic efforts.
September 2023
Kayla Coleman (2015 Fellow, Studio Museum in Harlem) became the Executive Director of New England Museum Association or NEMA. She is the first Black Executive Director in the history of the organization.
Nadia Ramirez Estrada (2023 Fellow, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)) is continuing to work with LACE in their LACE Postgraduate Fellowship, PST ART Research Assistant role.
Sophia Bae (2023 Fellow, Capital One Art Collection) has been hired to continue her work on the creation of a printed catalog highlighting select pieces in the Capital One Center permanent art collection.
June 2023
Stella Yoon (2004 Fellow, The Museum of Craft and Folk Art) began her role as Executive Director of CREATE Council on the Arts – a tri-county arts council in Upstate New York.
November 2022
Larissa Nez (Diné)(2021 Fellow, Montclair Art Museum) has joined the team at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics as their Borderlands Curatorial Fellow.
September 2022
Stefanie Jason (2022 Fellow, Amant Foundation) will continue working with Amant Foundation as a Research Fellow after the end of her fellowship.
Larissa Nez (Diné)(2021 Fellow, Montclair Art Museum) has joined the team at the Forge Project as their Digital Indigenous Storytelling Fellow, where she writes, designs, and produces content regarding Turtle Island and Indian Country.
July 2022
Alejandra Lopez Oliveros (2021 Fellow, Project for Empty Space) is starting a Ph.D. Program in Art History at Rutgers University.
June 2022
Andrea Lewis (2021 Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art) is the new assistant to the Global Editorial Director of Architectural Digest.
April 2022
Kendra Greendeer (2021 Fellow, Portland Museum of Art) has been featured in the article Ho-Chunk graduate students elevate Native voices in their studies, highlighting the work that she and three other Ho-Chunk graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are doing to elevate the voices and experiences of Native American people, and to make academic and cultural spaces more accessible and beneficial to the Ho-Chunk community.
January 2022
Frances Melgarejo (2021 Fellow, AMERINDA) is guest curating an exhibition featuring Indigenous contemporary art in Pompano Beach, Florida. She was presented with this opportunity by another ArtTable member, whom she met through a virtual networking event.
Frances will also be participating in The Aspen Institute’s 2022 Spring Workshop Series: Building DEAI Capacity to Host BIPOC Internships/Fellowships.
Nidhi Gandhi (2021 Fellow, Brooklyn Museum) has joined the team at the San Jose Museum of Art as the Curatorial and Programs Associate.
October 2021
Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros (2021 Fellow, Project for Empty Space) is the new Gallery / Collection Assistant at Another Space, a gallery in New York, NY established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Family Foundation to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America.
August 2021
Sarika Sanyal (2021 Fellow, Public Art Fund) is the new Associate Director at Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND).
May 2021
Marcela C. Guerrero (2005 Fellow, Catherine Clark Gallery) has been promoted to Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
April 2021
Jewel Ham (2020 Fellow, The Arts Student League) is curating a virtual exhibition entitled “Wrist Game.” This collaborative digital experience will feature a roster of Black visual artists and musicians, as so often one genre influences the other.
Jewel says, “This will be my first independent curatorial role and, although this project will be available to engage with entirely online, I am looking forward to sharing its community nature with you.” Wrist Game will open officially on April 14, but in the meantime, please enjoy the Pre-site – featuring the “set list” of artists, a few upcoming events, and a written overview of the show by clicking here.
“As a curator, Jewel aims to reimagine the traditional gallery space, amplifying the work of powerhouse Black artists. Inspired by her own studio practice as well as the idea of “curating a mood” and the music video feeling that comes with finding your song, she came into this project wanting to visualize a vibe. Although not personally musically inclined, the unapologetic nature of Black femme rap and other lyrical genres has fueled Jewel’s artistic practice from the start.
“After interning for Spotify in 2019 and going viral for my experiences there, it became clear that the system for giving visual artists and designers credit where due on major projects simply did not exist. As the Black experience and its accompanying culture continue to define popular and consumer culture alike, Jewel felt it was time to create a table of our own. In partnership with Treble, a community-driven virtual music resource space, she hopes to further amplify the work of Black contemporary artists across the world, as they set today’s cultural stage.”
February 2021
Alana Hernandez (2015 Lila Harnett ArtTable Diversity Fellow) will join the CALA Alliance in Phoenix, AZ as Executive Director & Curator on March 1, 2021.
Sua Mendez (2020 Fellow, The Morgan Library & Museum) is the new Collections Management & Archives Intern at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York.
Chelsea Adewunmi (2020 Lila Harnett ArtTable Diversity Fellow, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum) has applied her love for art, culture, and African American studies to the role of Associate Producer for the new HBO documentary film, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” (2021).
October 2020
Carola Reyes (2020 Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) recently joined the team at Sotheby’s in New York as Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary Art Day Sale.
June 2020
Get to know Erica Rawles (2020 Fellow, The Laundromat Project) in this new profile from The Laundromat Project.
Nana Yoshida (2018 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation ArtTable Diversity Fellow) has started blogging about fashion, culture, and social changes of New York City, as part of larger book project on “Designing in Brooklyn: 20 years of Fads, Fashion, and Social Change, 1997-2017.”
Jovanna Jones (2017 Elaine Goldman ArtTable Diversity Fellow) reached her PhD candidacy and has begun working on her dissertation project, currently titled “American Gothic: Housing, Visual Culture, and the Aesthetics of Black Space,” that will be examining the image and politics of housing in documentary photography, architectural plans, and American painting from the Depression Era to Postwar Renewal. In addiiton, most recently she received a special citation for the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize at Harvard for my paper entitled “Social Photography and the Racial Politics of Place.” As a graduate intern at the Harvard Art Museums, Division of European and American Art, under the supervision of Ethan Lasser, Curator, she has been working on text for the museum’s upcoming Winslow Homer (Fall 2019,) and contributing early research for a retrospective exhibit on Dave Drake, an enslaved potter in South Carolina in the 19th century.
Kimberly Jacobs (2016 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art) was appointed in September 2018 as the first Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
Alyssa Velazquez (2016 Kress Foundation Fellow, Columbia Museum of Art) is leaving her position as a Curatorial Research Associate at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, a position which she was offered after completion of her felllowship, has just been appointed as the Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts and Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA beginning this summer.
Ashley DeHoyos (2015 Arttable/Kress Fellowship, Philadelphia Museum of Art) was appointed in Fall 2018 as the Assistant Curator, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas.
Erika Hirugami (2015 ArtTable/Kress Foundation Fellow, Columbia Museum of Art ) has accepted the position of Curatorial Director at the KNOW Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. This coming Fall, she will also be beginning her Ph.D. studies in Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. Her thesis will focus on the convergence of aesthetics and transnationalism, with a special concern for undocumented Mexican experiences. Her ultimate academic goal is to generate resources about, for, and with undocumented Latinx artists.
We wish all of our past and present Fellows continued success with their achievements and look forward to following their career paths!