Announcing our
2025-26
First Ten Artists
Emily Davidson
Victoria Fu
Kate Liebman
Kirsten Leenaars
Charlotte Hallberg
Nyeema Morgan
Emily Davidson
Emily Davidson (b. 1987, Indianapolis, IN) is a painter and writer living in New York, NY.
Davidson makes paintings rooted in observation. She depicts landscapes as seen through a logo, sign or window, glimpses to another place she first locates in her neighborhood. In her recent ‘Twin paintings’ series, the artist makes double versions of the same composition, a concept she arrived upon after the birth of her identical twin sons. Painting these scenes twice invites close noticing – a skill shared among artists, children and caregivers alike.
Davidson has held solo exhibitions at Olympia, San Francisco, 2025; and GERTRUDE, Great Barrington, 2020. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Mrs., Maspeth, NY; Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, NY; Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY; Dunes, Portland, ME; Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY; David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis; Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia; among others. Davidson holds an MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She has also studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich and in the New York Studio Program at Parsons, The New School.
Victoria Fu
Victoria Fu (b. Santa Monica, California, USA) is a visual artist who received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan.
Fu has received grants from Art Matters, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Fu is Professor of Visual Arts at University of San Diego.
Charlotte Hallberg
Charlotte Hallberg lives and works with her small family in the Catskill Mountains in New York. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2010, and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2007.
She was an Annenberg Fellow in Visual Arts from 2010-2012, has been in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, and is on the Board of the Zadock Pratt Museum in Prattsville, NY. Recent exhibitions include Three Painters, Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Touch Every Flower (solo) Hesse Flatow, NY, NY. She has also shown at Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Hesse Flatow, NY, NY; Hesse Flatow East, Amagansett, NY; Ortega y Gasset, NY; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; MASS Gallery, Austin, TX; CRUSH Curatorial, NY and many others.
Kirsten Leenaars
Kirsten Leenaars (NL/US) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary video artist whose work dissolves the boundaries between documentary and social practice. Known for her deeply collaborative approach, she invites communities and individuals—often those whose voices are marginalized—into a shared process of making. In her projects, participants become co-authors, shaping narratives that challenge dominant media portrayals and ask the enduring question: Who are we to each other?
Born and raised in the Netherlands during a time of intense public debate around immigration and asylum, Leenaars was drawn early to the power of personal storytelling as a counterpoint to reductive narratives. This impulse continues to drive her practice, whether working with Chicago youth, neighborhood residents, or international collaborators.
Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (Lansing), Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); MAI Montreal and Kamloops Art Gallery (CAN), Museo del Chopo (MEX) and the Eye Film Museum (NL). Leenaars is currently a professor at the Department of Contemporary Practices, SAIC. Through her lens, collaboration is an act of care—an optimistic gesture that invites vulnerability, trust, and shared imagination, cultivating moments of empathy in an increasingly fractured world.
Kate Liebman
Kate Liebman is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work circles themes of memory, fragmentation, and history—often through the lens of Jewish identity as both presence and echo. Rooted in drawing and layered processes, her paintings and works on paper evoke unstable architectures of perception and time.
Liebman earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2019) and her BA in Arts and Humanities from Yale University (2013). She has participated in residencies including Art Cake, Works on Water on Governors Island, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Program, AZ West: Investigative Living, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her recent solo exhibition at D.D.D.D. was named a “Must See” by Artforum. She has also exhibited works at 15 Orient, Tutu Gallery, Subtitled, Management, among others. Internationally, she has shown in Italy, South Korea, and Serbia. Her work has been covered by Artforum, The Yale Review, Whitehot Magazine, and Two Coats of Paint. In addition to her studio practice, Liebman has written on contemporary art for publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, and has taught at Columbia University, University of Connecticut, and Sussex County Community College. She was a 2023 finalist for the Print Center New York’s “New Voices” award and a 2022 nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Liebman’s work is held in private and corporate collections including Soho House, Brookfield, and the Lower East Side Printshop.
Nyeema Morgan
Nyeema Morgan (b. Philadelphia, PA) is a contemporary visual artist working in sculpture, drawing and print based media. Morgan's solo exhibitions include Soft Power. Hard Margins. (2022), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME; The Set-up, PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL; Like It Is, The Philadelphia Art Alliance at the University for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and THE STEM. THE FLOWER. THE ROOT. THE SEED. (2020), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Marlborough Gallery Viewing Room, NYC, NY; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Galerie Jean Roch Dard, Paris, France, and The Drawing Center, NYC, NY. Morgan earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco CA, a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, NY and is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
