Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

  1. 6d ago

    Taj Poscé

    Ep.283 Taj Poscé (b. 1995, Philadelphia, PA) is based in Baltimore, MD. His work was most recently included in Fade at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the latest installment in the institution’s influential “F” exhibition series highlighting emerging artists of African and Afro-Latin descent. Last year he was awarded a residency at the Last Resort Artist Retreat (T.L.R.A.R.) founded by acclaimed artist Derrick Adams. In 2024, Poscé presented Just on the Other Side, a solo with DIMIN — his first solo exhibition in New York, which received a review in Artforum. Poscé received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA), achieving the highest merit scholarship, the Leroy Hoffberger painting program, and the Congressional Black Caucus Visual Artist Award. He holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Arts (Philadelphia) where he studied under Odili Donald Odita and received numerous awards, including the Yale Norfolk Summer Residency and a studio abroad in Rome, Italy, with Italian-American papermaker Roberto Mannino. Artist https://tajposce.com/ DIMIN https://www.dimin.nyc/artists/76-taj-posce/biography/ Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.studiomuseum.org/events/artist-panel-with-fade-artists MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10002 Gallop https://gogallop.app/exhibitions/f17cb1c1-392e-4cfb-a477-b0273911fdce INERTIA https://inertiastudiovisits.com/2024/12/04/studio-visit-taj-posce/ Artwrld https://www.artwrld.com/exhibit/looking-up-from-here Canvas Rebel https://canvasrebel.com/meet-taj-posce/ Maryland Insitute College of Art (MICA) https://www.mica.edu/art-articles/details/taj-posce-web/ East City Art https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/posce/

    Taj Poscé

  2. Oct 13

    Jeanne Barral

    Ep.282 Jeanne Barral is a curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, in Paris, France. She has curated several exhibitions, such as Fabrice Hyber's "La Vallée" at the Fondation Cartier in 2022 and in 2025 at the PSA in Shanghai, and « The Harvest Season » in 2026 in the new building of the Fondation in Paris. Prior to that, as an artist liaison at gallery Mennour in Paris, she has organized solo shows of Ann Veronica Janssens, Huang Yong Ping, Petrit Halilaj, and Bertrand Lavier, while while fostering their artistic development. As an independent curator, she co-curated Sophie Calle's 2017 retrospective, "Missing," in San Francisco as well as numerous group and thematic exhibitions at le DOC, Le Consulat, the Chloé Salgado Gallery, and in rural settings. Barral has a Masters in Curating Contemporary Art from La Sorbonne, Paris. Alongside her independent curatorial practice, she is also a published arts writer. Her work explores the relationship between art and personal experience. Her book, Actéonne - Naissance d'une statue (2022), reflects her collaboration with Martial Raysse and the ambivalent roles of model and artistic subject. She played a key role in the campaign to save the Lilas maternity hospital, a feminist institution in Seine-Saint-Denis known for its progressive approach to women's rights and healthcare. Photo Credit © Thibaut Voisin Fondation Cartier https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/program/exhibition/ibrahim-mahama-the-harvest-season Sortiraparis https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-visit-in-paris/exhibit-museum/articles/346597-harvest-season-the-major-exhibition-to-discover-this-autumn-at-the-cartier-foundation Paris je T’aime https://agenda.parisjetaime.com/en/harvest-time-exhibition-fondation-cartier-2026/ Unidivers https://unidivers.fr/paris-ibrahim-mahama-recoltes-fondation-cartier/ Hube Magazine https://hubemag.com/fondation-cartier-will-present-ibrahim-mahama-project LinkedIn https://fr.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-barral-1a001150 Prazzle Arts https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/1898/fondation-cartier-paris-to-host-ibrahim-mahamas-the-harvest-season-exhibition-october-2026 Mennour https://mennour.com/ SciencesPo https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/events/exceptional-masterclass-with-artist-fabrice-hyber-and-curator-jeanne-barral/ Museum Connections https://www.museumconnections.com/en/articles/b3eb2b71-9886-f111-b337-000d3a3a1397/interview-with-jeanne-barral-fondation-cartier-

    Jeanne Barral

  3. Oct 6

    Anina Major

    Ep. 281 Anina Major (b. 1981, Nassau, Bahamas; lives and works in Upstate New York) holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including being a 2026 USA Fellow, finalist in the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize, winner of The Armory Show Pommery Prize 2024, The Future Perfect Prize 2024, the 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship and an artist residency at EKWC, the European Ceramic Workcentre. Major's work has been exhibited throughout The Bahamas, Europe, and the United States, and is on permanent display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of The Bahamas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art; the RISD Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. Photo by Melissa Alcena Artist website https://www.aninamajor.com/ Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/ 2026 Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) — Anina Major: The Sacred Mangrove PAMM exhibition Artsy — Anina Major’s Giant Woven Ceramic Pots Rethink Bahamian Craft Traditions Artsy article United States Artists — 11 Questions with 2026 USA Fellow Anina Major United States Artists interview United States Artists — Anina Major — 2026 USA Fellow USA artist profile Larkin Durey — Anina Major: Tender Seedlings Larkin Durey exhibition Shoshana Wayne Gallery — Anina Major: Moments of Being Shoshana Wayne Gallery 2025 The New York Times — From Basketry to Clay, the Bahamas to New York New York Times article Observer — Artist Anina Major Is Recontextualizing the Bahamian Narrative One Clay Plait at a Time Observer article Vogue — In Madrid, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Has a Homecoming—and Opens a New Chapter Vogue article LOEWE Foundation — Anina Major — Sandcastle LOEWE Craft Prize Ford Foundation Gallery — Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art Ford Foundation Ceramics Now — Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art Ceramics Now Cabana Magazine — Anina Major | Ceramicist Cabana Magazine Wallpaper* — Five artisans from the Caribbean diaspora to have on your radar Wallpaper* 2024 The Armory Show — Revealing the 2024 Prize Winners — Pommery Prize, $25,000 The Armory Show Joan Mitchell Foundation — In the Studio: Anina Major Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) — Unruly Navigations MoAD exhibition Pamela Salisbury Gallery — Anina Major: All Us Come Across Water Pamela Salisbury Gallery Whitewall — 7 Standouts from Design Miami 2024 Whitewall Phaidon — Great Women Sculptors Phaidon

    Anina Major

  4. Sep 23

    Jiab Prachakul

    Ep.280 Jiab Prachakul (b. 1979) is a figurative painter who lives and works in Vannes, Brittany, France. Known for her luminous autobiographical paintings, Prachakul portrays her community and surroundings in quiet scenes shaped by close observation and restraint. Prachakul was born and raised in Nakhon Phanom, a small town in northeast Thailand. She studied film and journalism at Thammasat University in Bangkok and worked as a casting coordinator for Big Blue Production, where she spent her time observing people and discovering talent. In 2007, she moved to London and taught herself to paint after seeing an exhibition of David Hockney’s work at the National Portrait Gallery. She subsequently lived in Berlin, where she met many of the figures who populate her paintings. There, she turned her focus to representing the Asian diaspora, seeking to amend a lack in the Western canon. In 2020, Prachakul won the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has had solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Austin (2025), Timothy Taylor, New York (2023), and Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco (2023, 2021); and her work belongs in the collections of the Roberts Institute of Art, London; the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Profile image by Guillaume Bouzige Artist https://www.jiabprachakul.com/ Timothy Taylor https://www.timothytaylor.com/artists/jiab-prachakul/ New Exhibitions https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/68671 Austin Film Society https://www.austinfilm.org/series/sweet-solitude/ Glasstire https://glasstire.com/2025/04/21/jiab-prachakuls-sweet-solitude-explores-identity-culture-and-place/ Do512 https://do512.com/events/2025/2/7/jiab-prachakul-sweet-solitude-tickets Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jiab-prachakul-up-next-2626722 Micki Meng https://mickimeng.com/artists/jiab-prachakul Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/jiab-prachakul-dreamy-surreal-paintings-explore-identity-representation/ Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/09/07/jiab-prachakul-timothy-taylor-solo-show/ Gillian Jason https://www.gillianjason.com/artists/45-jiab-prachakul/ The Genius List https://www.thegeniuslist.com/interview/jiab-prachakul/ The Contemporary Austin https://thecontemporaryaustin.org/exhibitions/jiab-prachakul-sweet-solitude/

    Jiab Prachakul

  5. Sep 8

    Kyla McMillan

    Ep.279 Kyla McMillan is the Director of The Armory Show. McMillan has a wide range of experience in the art world, having experience as an art dealer, gallerist, and consultant. In 2021, she founded Saint George Projects, an itinerant gallery and consultancy, organizing exhibitions and programming in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Kingston, Jamaica, and Johannesburg. Prior to founding Saint George Projects, she was a director at David Zwirner, New York and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York where she focused on artist management and sales. McMillan also has extensive experience in cultural communications, developing strategy and content for organizations including, Spotify, Adidas, and BMW. Through this work she gained international experience, working with clients in the US, Austria, Germany, and South Africa. Photo by Alexandra Genova, courtesy of Frieze The Armory Art Fair https://www.thearmoryshow.com/article/kyla-mcmillan-speaks-armory-show-about-her-vision-2025-fair Frieze Art Fair https://press.frieze.com/the-armory-show-returns-as-new-yorks-meeting-point-for-contemporary-art-in-the-americas-and-beyond/ | https://www.frieze.com/article/kyla-mcmillan-announced-new-director-armory-show Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-armory-announces-230-exhibitors-2026-edition The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/20/armory-show-unveils-230-gallery-line-up-after-moving-fair-to-late-september | https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/09/kyla-mcmillan-the-armory-show-director FAD Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2026/08/21/armory-show-2026-programme/ The Observer https://observer.com/2025/08/interview-kyla-mcmillan-armory-show-2025-new-york-art-fairs/ News Tank Culture https://culture.newstank.fr/article/view/331673/etats-unis-kyla-mcmillan-directrice-armory-show.html Artformum https://www.artforum.com/news/kyla-mcmillan-named-director-armory-show-556529/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/market/armory-show-names-new-director-kyla-mcmillan-2509444 Ocula https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/armory-show-returns-2026/ Whitewall Art https://whitewall.art/art/the-armory-show-2025/ Heni News https://heni.com/news?artist=Kyla%20McMillan ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/kyla-mcmillan-armory-show-director-1234711648/ Art Review https://artreview.com/kyla-mcmillan-to-direct-new-yorks-armory-show/ Glasstire https://glasstire.com/2025/09/09/recapping-the-2025-armory-show/

    Kyla McMillan

  6. Sep 1

    Tahnee Lonsdale

    Ep.278 Tahnee Lonsdale is an artist rendering emotional divinity through the use of layered oil paints and ethereal, intuitive compositions. Born in 1982 and raised in Sussex, UK, Tahnee attended the University of the Arts in London where she primarily studied painting, graduating with a BFA in 2007. After moving to LA in 2015, her practice evolved to embrace large-scale painting, soft sculpture, ceramics and works on paper. Recent solo exhibitions include Walk With Us Into The Forest at Alexander Berggruen in New York, NY; A billion tiny moons at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Not Ghosts, But Just As Loud at MASSIMODECARLO’s Pièce Unique in Paris, France; and Our Humans at Fabian Lang in Zurich, Switzerland. Recent group exhibitions include Bodies of Becoming and Lovers at Main Projects in Richmond, VA; Painting All Together IV at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Raul De Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, Tahnee Lonsdale at Alexander Berggruen in New York, NY; and Observation at Perrotin in Dubai, UAE. Prominent acquisitions of Tahnee’s work include the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY; the X Museum in Beijing, China; Fundación MEDIANOCHE0 in Grenada, Spain; and Dragon Hill in Mouans-Sartoux, France. She’s participated in artist residencies at Dragon Hill and Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico with Exhibition A. Tahnee Lonsdale lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Katrina Dickson Artist https://tahneelonsdale.com/ Night Gallery https://www.nightgallery.ca/artists/tahnee-lonsdale | https://www.nightgallery.ca/news/night-gallery-to-represent-tahnee-lonsdale Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/four-artists-dismantle-the-boundaries-of-immigrant/ | https://hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows-to-visit-in-los-angeles-september-2024/ Galerie Magazine https://galeriemagazine.com/october-gallery-shows-2024/ Whitewall https://whitewall.art/whitewaller/best-la-shows-alice-neel-tahnee-lonsdale-lita-albuquerque-and-more/ Superfuture https://superfuture.com/2024/09/upcoming-events/los-angeles-a-billion-tiny-moons/ Observer https://observer.com/2024/08/artist-interview-tahnee-lonsdale-spiritual-feminine/ | https://observer.com/2024/08/arts-interview-timothy-tan-contemporary-art-philippines-manila/ Wallpaper https://www.wallpaper.com/art/los-angeles-art-exhibitions-guide Creative Boom https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/tahnee-lonsdale/ Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tahnee-lonsdale-2112333 Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/05/10/artist-tahnee-lonsdale-gets-spiritual-in-the-studio-with-emcultured-em

    Tahnee Lonsdale

  7. Aug 25

    Gustavo Nazareno

    Ep.277 Gustavo Nazareno is a Brazilian artist whose practice explores portraiture, spirituality, mythology, and Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions. Through painting and drawing, he investigates themes related to the African diaspora, the cosmologies of Candomblé and Umbanda, and the Yoruba pantheon of orixás, with a particular focus on Exu as a recurring symbolic figure. Nazareno has presented solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries including the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araújo, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), Recife; Opera Gallery, London, Miami, and Bal Harbour; Cassina Projects, Milan; Gallery 1957, London; and Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo; Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca; and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville. His works are included in the collections of Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araújo, MAMAM – Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Instituto Collaço Paulo, Projeto Afro, and Cornell University. In 2024, the publication Bará received the 66th Jabuti Prize in the Graphic Design category. Gustavo Nazareno Portrait_photo Ana Beatriz Silva Opera Gallery https://www.operagallery.com/artist/gustavo-nazareno PIPA https://www.pipaprize.com/gustavo-nazareno/ Cassina Projects https://www.cassinaprojects.com/artists/59-gustavo-nazareno/ Guzangs https://guzangs.com/gustavo-nazareno-has-nothing-to-explain/ Le journal des arts https://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/evenement/2026/gustavo-nazareno-how-grow-flower-supernova-183945 Artnet https://www.artnet.fr/galeries/opera-gallery/gustavo-nazareno-how-to-grow-a-flower-from-a-supernova-/ Cultures de mode https://culturesdemode.com/timeline_expositions/gustavo-nazareno-how-to-grow-a-flower-from-a-supernova/ Prazzle Arts https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/shes-hiding-from-her-groom-jupiters-coming-to-save-her-in-conversation-with-gustavo-nazareno-at-the-opera-gallery-paris Fonts in use https://fontsinuse.com/uses/57825/bara-by-gustavo-nazareno Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/gustavo-nazareno-how-to-grow-a-flower-from-a-supernova-opera-gallery-paris/#google_vignette Art Paris https://www.artparis.com/en/artist/110379 Heni News https://heni.com/news?artist=Gustavo%20Nazareno Gallery1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/43-gustavo-nazareno/ WePresent by WeTransfer https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/gustavo-nazareno-painting-candomble all set concierge https://allsetconcierge.com/2026/06/29/the-alchemist-gustavo-nazareno-has-arrived-in-paris/ FCVM https://fashioncvmag.com/gustavo-nazareno-opera-gallery-paris/ Acuman https://magazine-acumen.com/en/Article/the-pictorial-fables-of-Gustavo-Nazareno/ Fashion Trendsetter https://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/v2/2026/04/20/exhibition-gustavo-nazareno-how-to-grow-a-flower-from-a-supernova/

    Gustavo Nazareno

  8. Aug 18

    Johanna Mirabel

    Born in 1991 in Colombes, France, Johanna Mirabel is a French artist of French Caribbean descent living and working in Paris. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she has developed a distinctive pictorial language at the intersection of figuration, abstraction and memory. Drawing on her Guyanese heritage and on Édouard Glissant's concepts of creolisation and opacity, Mirabel creates paintings in which suspended figures, fragmented architectures and intimate interiors evoke the instability and plurality of identity. Her work explores questions of memory, transmission and cultural experience through a vivid palette marked by deep reds and ochres that recall both the laterite soils of French Guiana and the history of European painting. Recent projects have expanded these concerns through new materials and forms. In Adieu la chair (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, 2024), she explored the Guyanese carnival as a metaphor for transformation, while I Wish (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2025) drew on the tradition of ex-votos and devotional paintings, introducing works on aluminium and copper supports. Mirabel is the recipient of the CPGA–Étant donnés Prize (2024) and the Villa Albertine residency (2025). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections in Europe and the United States. Artist https://johannamirabel.com/ Galerie Natalie Obadia https://www.nathalieobadia.com/fr/artists/93-johanna-mirabel/overview/ Villa Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/va/fr/residents/johanna-esther-mirabel/ Fondation H https://www.fondation-h.com/exhibitions-fr/residence-de-creation-et-exposition CPGA https://www.comitedesgaleriesdart.com/actualites/johanna-mirabel-et-sa-galerie-nathalie-obadia-remportent-le-prix-cpga-etant-donnes-2024-a-art-basel-miami-beach/ Connaissance des arts https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-expositions/art-contemporain/les-maisons-mysteres-de-johanna-mirabel-11195472/ Les Frac https://lesfrac.com/item/johanna-mirabel-habiter-le-chaos/ Frac Auvergne https://fracauvergne.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DOSSIER-PEDAGOGIQUE-Johanna-Mirabel.pdf Centre national des arts plastiques https://www.cnap.fr/johanna-mirabel Lagora des arts https://lagoradesarts.fr/-Johanna-Mirabel-Habiter-le-chaos-.html

    Johanna Mirabel
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The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

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