As part of the exhibition, Friends & Lovers, FLAG will host an artist panel discussion featuring Marilyn Minter, Aliza Nisenbaum, Billy Sullivan, and D’Angelo Lovell Williams, moderated by FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman.
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About:
Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, Shreveport, LA) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Minter earned a BFA in 1970 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and later obtained an MFA in 1972 from the Syracuse University, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Marilyn Minter, LGDR, New York, NY (2023); Marilyn Minter, Lehmann Maupin, Beijing, China (2021); Marilyn Minter, Montpellier Contemporain (Mo.Co), Montpellier, France (2021); Marilyn Minter: Smash, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT (2021); Fierce Women, The Cube, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (2020); Nasty Woman, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah GA (2020); among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2023); Selected Parkett Editions 1984-2017, David Zwirner, New York, NY (2022); Color Code, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2022); Women Painting Women, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (2022); among others. Minter is in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among many others. Minter has been an honoree of awards and grants such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1998); Visual Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts (1992); Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (1989); among others.
Aliza Nisenbaum (b. 1977, Mexico City, Mexico) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Nisenbaum studied psychology at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, from 1997-99, and earned a BFA in 2001 and an MFA in 2005 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Recent solo exhibitions include Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2023); The Ones Who Make it Run Delta Terminal C, LaGuardia Airport, Delta Airlines x Queens Museum, LaGuardia Airport, NY (2022); AQUÍ SE PUEDE (HERE YOU CAN), Atrium Project, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (2021); Aliza Nisenbaum, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2020); Flora, Drawings by Aliza Nisenbaum, Anton Kern Gallery, NY (2020); among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Reflections on Perception, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2022); Picturing Motherhood Now, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2021); 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2020); Nine Lives, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2020); among others. Nisenbaum is a current Artist-in-Residence at the Queens Museum and has attended residencies at the Minneapolis Institute of the Art, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2015-2016); SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Institute for Contemporary Boston, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Tate Britain, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among others.
Billy Sullivan (b. 1946, New York, NY) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Studio Visit, kaufmann repetto, New York, NY (2023); Flowers & Birds, The Madoo Conservatory, Sagaponack, NY (2021); Muses, kaufmann repetto, Milan, Italy (2019); Love Letters, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2018); Billy Sullivan, Montverdi Art Gallery, Sarteano, Italy (2016); Summer Diaries, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY (2015); among others. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Like a Good Armchair: Getting Uncomfortable with Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (2023); Flora & Fauna, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (2020); Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (2020); among others. Sullivan’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Norton Museum, Palm Springs, FL; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Sullivan was a recipient of the Painting/Drawing Individual Grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation in 2021.
D'Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, Mississippi) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Williams received their BFA in 2015 from the Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN and their MFA in 2018 from Syracuse University, New York. They participated as an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Papa Don’t Preach, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (2020); Extensions, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (2019); Only in America, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (2018); and D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Trust Me, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2023); Intimate Strangers, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY (2023); Contemporary Visions: 30 Years of Highlights, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Young Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin Bocuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL (2021); On The Road: Chocolate Cities, TONE, Memphis, TN (2021); among others. Williams has published with the International Center of Photography and MACK.
Glenn Fuhrman is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners (New York, NY) and is the Founder and CEO of Virtru Investment Partners (New York, NY). Prior to launching Tru Arrow and Virtru, he co-Founded MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and from 1998 thru 2019 served as its co-Managing Partner. Glenn is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art, and The TATE Americas Foundation; he is a Board member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y in NY and the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Glenn is also on the board of Gagosian Gallery. In 2008, he founded The FLAG Art Foundation, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary year.