Penumbra Foundation is pleased to announce
the 2023 Workspace Program artists

US-Based Artists:

Harlan Bozeman
William Camargo
Priya Suresh Kambli

New York City-Based Artists:

Naima Green
Lauren Orchowski
Sophie Schwartz

NYC-Based Finalists:

Jan Rattia
Derick Whitson

The 2023 jury included Darla Migan (Art Critic and Philosopher, New York), Clément Chéroux (Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris) and Kim Beil (Art Historian and Writer, San Francisco). Full Juror bios are below.

Press Release

  • DescriptionDarla Migan, Ph.D is an art critic and philosopher. In 2021 Darla began teaching the online course “Philosophy for Artists” and curating @variableterms. She has been invited to visits and discussions with artists at UCLA, the Städelschule, Wassaic, KADIST, The Flag Art Foundation, Artists Alliance Inc, and NARS. She has written gallery essays in support of artists in Berlin, Kampala, San Francisco, and New York; lectured at the American Society for Aesthetics; and published reviews of solo presentations by Faith Ringgold, Abigail DeVille, Ryan Kuo, and Akeem Smith. She is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, an alumnus of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a Lecturer at The New School for Social Research. Her criticism on the conditions of contemporary art and visual culture can be read in ArtForum, Art in America, Art News, Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured Magazine, MOMUS, ShiftSpace, Spike, Sugarcane Magazine, and Texte zur Kunst. 

    https://linktr.ee/dmigan text goes here

  • Clément Chéroux is the director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. Prior to that he held positions at MoMA (Chief Curator: 2020-2022) at SFMOMA (Senior Curator: 2017-2020) and Centre Pompidou (Curator and Chief Curator 2007-2016). Chéroux is a photo-historian and holds a PhD in Art History. He has curated 30 exhibitions and published more than 40 books about photography and its history, including “La Voix du voir: Les grands entretiens de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson,” “Vernaculaires, essais d'histoire de la photographie,” “The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult” and “Since 1839…Eleven Essays on Photography.”

  • Kim Beil is an art historian who teaches at Stanford University. Her book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, tracks 50 stylistic trends in the medium since the 19th century. Much of the research was drawn from vintage how-to manuals. Alec Soth said Good Pictures “opened my eyes to the enormous value these books hold for our critical understanding of the medium.” Beil’s research has taken her from flea markets to far-flung peaks, but she loves libraries too. She’s written about photography and climate change for the Atlantic, on screenshots for the Believer, Google streetview for Cabinet, and most recently, for the New York Times, about hiking 50 miles to track down a little-known Ansel Adams photograph in the High Sierra. She also writes about contemporary art and artists for Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, and Photograph magazines.

    www.kimbeil.com

 

SPONSORS

This program is supported by Henry Nias Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, The Ruth Foundation for the Arts, and Roz Leibowitz. 

 
 

Thanks to the following artists for their support to Penumbra Foundation and in particular to the 2023 Penumbra Workspace Program:

Cynthia Johnston, Dawn Kim, Donavon Smallwood, Dylan Hausthor, Emiliano Zuñiga, J Carrier, Jenia Fridlyand, Kate Ovaska, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, and Tim Carpenter.