Summer 2025 New Members
AICA-USA is excited to warmly welcome the newest members to our community!
ÁGNES BERECZ
Ágnes Berecz is an art historian and critic. She is associate professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the author of the monograph, Simon Hantaï (2013) and 100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art (2019).
HANNAH BHUIYA
Hannah Bhuiya was born in London, has lived in Paris and Berlin and is currently based in Los Angeles. With an MA from Goldsmith's College in ‘20th Century Literature and its Contexts,’ her interest in art and artists is lifelong, and both academic and participatory. With her psycho-geographic series of encounters with monumentality amidst desolation published by Purple.fr, she is currently working on a critique of the work of Michael Heizer framed around the experience of visiting his City in the remote Nevada desert.
Instagram: @hannahbhuiya
Website: https://purple.fr/?s=hannah+bhuiya
KATE BONANSINGA
Kate Bonansinga is Director, School of Art, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at University of Cincinnati, where she is also a professor who teaches courses in contemporary art curatorial practice and art in public space. She serves as Faculty Fellow of Cultural Engagement for the university’s International Office of Global Initiatives. Bonansinga was the founding director of Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Art at The University of Texas at El Paso where she curated dozens of exhibitions and established an undergraduate minor in museum studies. She is the author of Curating at the Edge: Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border (University of Texas Press, 2014) and of numerous articles, book chapters and exhibition publication essays, all of which address contemporary art, its meaning, and its purpose. She served as guest curator of Tania Candiani: Sounding Labor, Silent Bodies (Contemporary Arts Center, 2020-21) and American Painting: The Eighties Revisited (Cincinnati Art Museum, 2021-22) and as author of The Performing Jewelry of Rachelle Thiewes: Color, Feminism and the Body for the Metal Museum, 2023.
BIANCA BOVA
Bianca Bova is a Chicago-based curator and cultural critic. As director of her eponymous gallery, she exhibits the work of conceptual artists who utilize research and art historical content in their work.
Instagram: @bova_bianca
Website: biancabovagallery.com
HUGH EAKIN
Hugh Eakin is a journalist and cultural historian with a special interest in the geopolitics of modern and contemporary art. His writing on art, museums, and culture in conflict has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, among other publications. His book, Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America, was a finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is Editor-at-Large at Foreign Affairs and will be a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2026.
ALICIA KISMET ELER
Alicia Kismet Eler (they/she) is a writer, arts journalist and culture critic. She is the author of The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Property, Sex, Consent and Culture. Since 2017, Alicia has worked as the Visual Art Reporter/Critic at the Minnesota Star Tribune, covering the Twin Cities’ vibrant art scene and greater Minnesota visual culture. She is part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the breaking news reporting of George Floyd’s killing. Alicia’s journalism and memoir have been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Markaz Review, and her fiction has appeared in Queen Mobs Teahouse and Projecttile Lit. She is a member of the Arab Middle East Journalists Association (AMEJA), and is based in Minneapolis.
Website: www.aliciaeler.com
Twitter: @aliciaeler
Bluesky: @aliciakismeteler.bsky.social
Instagram: @aliciakismeteler
STEPHEN FRAILEY
Stephen Frailey is a photographer, art writer and educator, and is the founder and editor of Dear Dave, magazine since 2007. A book of his essays about contemporary photography, “Looking at Photography”, was published by Damiani Editore in 2020. His critical writing on photography has appeared recently in Artforum, Aperture, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze and photograph magazine.
He was the Director of the photography program at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College from 1998 to 2004, and was the Chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1998 to 2018.
Frailey is a Chair Emeritus of SVA The School of Visual Arts.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the International Center for Photography, New York, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and Vassar College. Solo exhibitions of his work have occurred at 303 Gallery and Julie Saul Gallery in New York.
He has received two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant.
JENNIFER HUBERDEAU
Jennifer Huberdeau is an arts and culture journalist and critic based in Massachusetts. She is the art critic and features editor of The Berkshire Eagle and a recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism. She is the former editor of UpCountry Magazine and Berkshire Landscapes magazine. Her writing focuses on the intersections of art, place, and identity, with a particular emphasis on contemporary and regional artists. She is committed to making the arts accessible and essential. Jennifer received her bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2000. She resides in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
Instagram: @redqueen1978
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jenniferhuberdeau/
GENEVIEVE LIPINSKY DE ORLOV
Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov is an art historian, critic, and editor based in New York and Berlin, Germany. From 2020 to 2022, Genevieve was an editor at the Berlin–based magazine Texte zur Kunst. In 2023, Genevieve cofounded The Public Review, an online publication for long-form art criticism, which they continue to edit and publish. Genevieve's research and writing focus on art’s relationship to capital and the commodity form, especially through artists that critically engage the conditions of art’s production and circulation.
Website: www.thepublicreview.org
Instagram: @glipinsk
CARA OBER
Cara Ober is an artist, arts writer, curator, and the Executive Director and Publisher at BmoreArt, Baltimore's platform for art and culture, which includes web and print publishing, artist books, a gallery, and events series. She writes regularly about artist, museum, and material culture, with emphasis on context and subtext in the art world.
In 2022, Ober was awarded the Sue Hess Legacy Arts Advocate of the Year Award in MD. In 2019, she was awarded a Rabkin Art Writers Grant and was commissioned by the Warhol Foundation to write "Artspeak and Audience" for Common Field's Field Perspectives Series. In addition to her regular writing and editing for BmoreArt, Ober has published articles in New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Art Papers, ARTnews, and currently writes a monthly art column at The Baltimore Banner. Cara has taught and lectured at MICA, Johns Hopkins, American University, UMBC, and Goucher College. She holds an MFA in painting from MICA and a degree in fine arts from American University. Her newest project is a Medium Spicy Substack newsletter for unfiltered musings on art, culture, and politics.
(Photo Credit: E. Brady Robinson)
BRANDON ZECH
Brandon Zech is the Publisher of Glasstire, the nonprofit online publication for art in Texas. He joined Glasstire in 2015 as an Assistant Editor, and in 2018 he began overseeing the publication’s reporting as its first dedicated News Editor. He was selected to succeed the site’s founding Publisher in 2019. Throughout his time with Glasstire he has produced videos and podcasts about art and artists in Texas, and has also written exhibition reviews, essays, op-eds, and other articles. He speaks at venues and universities about Glasstire's work and Texas' art scene, regularly guest lectures about art criticism in college courses, and also hosts writing workshops for students interested in developing as art writers. He is a graduate of the University of Houston's art history program, where he was a Tier One Scholar, and he is a co-founder of Regional Art Publishers, a collective of regional contemporary arts media platforms across the United States. He lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Website: https://glasstire.com/author/brandon-zech
(Photo Credit: Jennifer Battaglia)