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Category: NYSS in DUMBO
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Narelle Sissons (MFA 2024)
“The residency came afterward as a post-degree, year-long program in the middle of a thriving artist community. It became a bridge between academia and the professional art world.”
November 17, 2025 · Alumni, NYSS in DUMBO
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Sarah Valeri (CERT 2023)
“I’m very grateful for the time and studio space I was able to have as a NYSS DUMBO Artist-In-Residence, which supported experimentation, larger works, and community engagement. After some months of imagining invisible but tactile things in drawings, such as sound and heartbeats, I expanded upon these ideas with multisensory works, handmade instruments, and music and sound-based collaborations.”
October 2, 2025 · Alumni, NYSS in DUMBO
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Paula Querido (MFA 2023)
“The New York Studio School DUMBO Residency was incredibly fruitful. …It afforded me the privilege of erring, navigating, and surprising myself. The privacy and the space to paint is given in accord with the School’s philosophy, which pushes students to spend time with themselves and their work in order to come across their own findings, escaping any outwardly prescribed outcomes.”
December 8, 2024 · Alumni, NYSS in DUMBO
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Anita Trombetta (MFA 2023)
“Embracing this time as a laboratory for trial and error and finding my own rhythm has been key.”
September 2, 2024 · NYSS in DUMBO
DUMBO Artist-in-Residence: Char Healey (MFA 2023)
“Because of this opportunity, I could continue uninterrupted with process-building begun during my MFA: including, but not limited to, plaster work, paper-making, and experimenting with new materials such as expanding foam and concrete.”
June 27, 2024 · NYSS in DUMBO
![[RSVP FULL] We are currently at capacity for Bob Nickas' lecture, "Has Contemporary Art Run Its Course?", happening tonight on October 14th, 2026. There will be overflow space open in the downstairs gallery.
A critic and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than 130 exhibitions since 1984. He was on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993, the 7th Bienal d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2003, and Greater New York 2005, at MoMA/PS1, where he served as Curatorial Advisor between 2004-07. Along with Peter Halley, he was founding Editor of Index magazine, which he helmed between 1996-2000. His writing has been widely published and translated, and five collections of essays and interviews have been published to date: Live Free Or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Komplaint Dept. (2018), and Corrected Proofs (2023). He also published a yearlong daily diary, Yesterworld, (2022). In 2024, he founded the New York Art Critics Association.
At MoMA/PS1, Nickas organized the first U.S. museum survey exhibitions for Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom Sandberg, and Peter Hujar, as well as curated projects with Mike Cloud, Trisha Donnelly and Torbjorn Rodland. A prolific writer, he has authored and contributed to numerous monographs and books, among them for On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Walsh, Stephen Shore, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Collier, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tomma Abts, Robert Grosvenor, Vija Celmins, Salvo, Peter Bradley, and Kathleen Ryan.
Nickas has lectured at many museums, art schools, and universities over the past forty years, and taught at Columbia University and New York University.
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