Joey Enríquez
Joey Enríquez is an artist, designer, and educator based in the Washington, DC-area, who uses image-making, sculpture, and community work to unearth historicities of land claim and displacement as a practice of undoing. They focus on the politics of land, body, occupation, and reclamation of their own Indigenous lineage. Enríquez earned their MFA in Fine Arts from the George Washington University, Washington, DC (2020), and BA in Art–Design from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA (2018). As an emerging professional, they’ve been awarded fellowships and residencies at Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC (2020–22); the Studios at MASS MoCA (2021), and MoCA Arlington, Arlington, VA (2022–23, 2024–2026), and have exhibited at the Kreeger Museum, MoCA Arlington, Hamiltonian Artists, Culture House, and Edge on the Square. Enríquez’s practice extends beyond fine art into curatorial support for exhibitions, such as dancer Maida Withers’ retrospective LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge (2022), and graphic design for the collective Related Tactics for projects, such as with Monument Lab, Philadelphia, PA, and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. They are currently an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, George Mason University, and American University.
Kyle Hackett
Kyle Hackett earned his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Hackett has received numerous honors and awards, including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship and Grant, the Civil Society Institute Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center Residency, The Ruth Katzman Scholarship at The League Residency in New York, Best in Show at the 2014 Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibition. He was honored at the 2019 Art Olympia International Competition (Tokyo), was a finalist in the 2020 Prisma Art Prize (Rome) and the Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting in 2021, and was selected for the ArtFields Competition in 2022 and 2023. Hackett is a finalist in the Herbert Smith Freehills 2024 Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Hackett’s work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, the Washington Post, Aesthetica Magazine (UK) and distinguished as “Ten Memorable Paintings of 2014” in the Huffington Post. Hackett received A Mayoral Salute from the City of Baltimore for his solo exhibition and artist talk “Rate of Contingency” at Baltimore City Hall. Hackett’s work is represented by Goya Contemporary Gallery (Baltimore, MD) and notably collected by Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York), Wangechi Mutu Studio, University Museums at the University of Delaware, University of Maryland, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Capital One Lounge permanent collection at the Washington Dulles International Airport, the Trawick Foundation and more.
Recent exhibitions include the Herbert Smith Freehills 2024 Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK); Revisit/Reimagine: The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today at Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis, MD) and Circular Narratives at Vinegar Projects (Birmingham, AL). Hackett is an Assistant Professor of Art and the acting MFA Graduate Program Director at American University (Washington, DC).
Blair Murphy
Blair Murphy is a curator based in the DC area and the Curator of Exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington in Arlington, VA. At MoCA Arlington, she shapes the vision for the exhibitions program and has curated numerous exhibitions, including An Adventure of Being, Take a Number: Artists and Bureaucracy, Stretched, Applied Forces, Transitional Objects, Over, Under, Forward, Back, and By Proxy, the museum’s first virtual exhibition. She launched the museum’s biennial exhibition series, Assembly, in 2019 and Global Spotlight, a new series focused on international artists, in 2022. She also served as Acting Executive Director of the Museum from October 2020 to May 2021.
Her previous curatorial projects include exhibitions at The Kitchen (New York, NY), Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Field Projects (New York, NY), VisArts Rockville (Rockville, MD), and with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
She was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program and holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA from Georgetown University.
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