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ArtistNayland Blake

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 06/16/2009

Nayland Blake (b. 1960, New York, NY) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include Matthew Marks Gallery, NY; Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Rhodes and Mann, London. His survey exhibition "Some Kind of Love" appeared at the Tang Teaching Museum in 2004. Group exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Australia; the Baltimore Museum; the Whitney; and the Venice Biennale. Blake lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is the Chair of the ICP/Bard College Masters program in Advanced Photographic Studies.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, 08/12/2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.