The Art Students League of New York: Juried Selection Exhibition, Pt. 1

Kate Aguirre, Jonathan Andrews, Carlos Arteaga, Connor Barre, Judah Bines, Laura Bleau, Evan Branco How, Judy Chen, Guada Cruz, Thomas Daskam, Anastasiia De la Fuente, Karen, Kettering Dimit, Lawrence Ellenberg, Barbara Foley, Paul Hampton, Harper Harrison- Whidden, Will Heydecker, James Hyland, Darrell Jones, Zekiye Karaca, Scott Kling, Pema Kongpo, Marina Korenfeld, Andrea Kornbluth, Zhi Li, Jonathan Lopatin, Antonio Mirabal, Katie O'Dea, Aitana Perlmutter, Vernon Pouncey, Stephen Rosenthal, Joseph Sauto, Yakub Shalmiyev, Cheryl Sims, Ingrid Songster, Chiva Soriano, Allan Tarantino, Jonathan Taub, Howard Temner, Rafael Eugenio Trujillo, Shoshana Vidra, Don Ward, Wei Wei, Jacob Wood

The Art Students League of New York proudly presents its annual Juried Selection Exhibition at Gallery Onetwentyeight, an alternative art space owned and operated by artist and League alumna Kazuko Miyamoto. Between 1964 and 1968, Miyamoto took over a dozen classes at the League in subjects from sculpture and textile design to life drawing with some of our most well-regarded instructors, including Charles Alston and Theodoros Stamos. Dedicated to exhibiting cutting-edge art by local and international artists since 1968, Miyamoto’s gallery is a mainstay in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. This exhibition features juror-selected works from the nearly 100 Student Salons or student showcases that were held at the League between January and May 2024. Displaying a myriad of techniques and styles across mediums, the over 80 works on display across this two-part exhibition are a testament to the caliber of League artists past and present. It is organized by the League’s Gallery Director and Curator Ksenia Nouril, PhD and Curatorial Assistant Esther V. Moerdler.

“The Juried Selection Exhibition has a long and storied history here at the League,” reflects Moerdler. “We are very excited to be sharing it with a new audience on the Lower East Side. It is an incredible opportunity for League students to expand their reach and develop their practice, which will hopefully lead to many new opportunities as they continue their careers as artists.”

The League’s Student Salons is an annual series of exhibitions featuring recent student work across all disciplines taught at the League. The Student Salons are open to any student who chooses to display their work. Juried by invited guests—prominent artists, curators, or scholars within the artworld—the Juried Selection Exhibition presents artwork chosen from the open Student Salons and represents the independent jurors’ favorite student artworks. Here, the best of the best come together in one exhibition, providing a picture of the League today.

Nouril comments, “It is the highest honor to host this exhibition of ‘red dots’—best in show artworks—at Gallery Onetwentyeight. It acknowledges the special connection between the League and the gallery’s owner Kazuko Miyamoto, a League alumna. It is wonderful to think of these current students continuing in her footsteps.”

Ksenia Nouril has been the Gallery Director and Curator of Exhibitions and Programs at the Art Students League of New York since September 2022. Previously, Nouril was the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). She also has worked at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT); Lower East Side Printshop (New York, NY); Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); and Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, New Jersey). Nouril is co-editor of and contributor to Carmen Winant: A Brand New End (The Print Center, 2022); editor of and contributor to Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves (Rutgers University Press, 2019); and co-editor of and contributor to Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA, 2018). Nouril received her BA in Art History from New York University and her MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

Esther V. Moerdler is the League’s Curatorial Assistant. She holds a BA in History and Art History from Barnard College and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.

The Art Students League of New York was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who had the revolutionary idea that a fine art education should be accessible to all. In the nearly one hundred and fifty years since, the League has built a legacy as a school where a diverse community of artists are inspired to produce work that reflects their full potential. Hundreds of history-making artists studied or taught at the League, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Hans Hoffman, Charles White, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Al Hirschfeld, Barnett Newman, Norman Lewis, David Smith, Mavis Pusey, Roy Lichtenstein, Romare Bearden, James Rosenquist, Adrian Piper, Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Pacita Abad, Lee Bontecou, Ai Weiwei, and more.