Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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/

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

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/

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

Ep.275 Boluwatife Oyediran (b. 1997, Ogbomoso, Nigeria) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He holds an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship. He is currently an MFA in fiction candidate and Sonny Mehta Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Oyediran’s multidisciplinary practice combines painting, creative writing, and photojournalism. His painting practice is committed to reimagining and reorienting Black identity within the canons of history, religion, and western art. His original, self-devised concept “inverted blackness” features portraits of Black migrants in the United States, depicted in luminous, photonegative paintings, visualizing their mutative and otherness identity. His practice centers on the Black diasporic experience in the United States and his vision is to elevate and insert this experience into the canon of art history.
Oyediran’s “inverted blackness” series was the subject of a solo exhibition at the AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, in 2024, titled “Inverted Blackness” and accompanied by a publication of the same name. In 2025, following his MFA at RISD, Oyediran started Inverted Blackness, a Substack Photoblog that publishes photographs and oral accounts of the experiences of Black migrants in Rhode Island. In 2026, Oyediran’s work was acquired by Mattatuck Museum, and in the same year he becomes the first African writer awarded a Sonny Mehta Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he’s at work on a novel.
Oyediran’s work has been exhibited at the Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria; FLAG Art Foundation, USA; RISD Museum, USA; Fondation Blachère, France; Mattatuck Museum, USA; Gallery 1957, Ghana; UTA Artist Space, USA; Featherstone Center of the Arts, USA; Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Israel; Twelve Gates, USA; and many more. His works can be found in the collections of Mattatuck Museum, David Adjaye, Fondation Blachère, Kutlesa, Serge Tiroche, Amir Shariat, and so many more. You can find him on Instagram @boluoyediran.

Photo credit: Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi

Artist https://www.boluoyediran.com/
Substack https://invertedblackness.substack.com/
Iowa Writers Workshop https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/news/2021/06/iowa-writers-workshop-announces-sonny-mehta-fellowships-creative-writing
AFIKARIS https://afikaris.com/exhibitions/44-inverted-blackness-boluwatife-oyediran/
Gallery1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/85-boluwatife-oyediran/
Overblog https://cultureetplus.over-blog.com/2026/06/boluwatife-oyediran.html
Collatar. al https://www.collater.al/en/boluwatife-oyediran-inverted-blackness-chromatic-inversion-identity/
onart media https://www.onart.media/events-centered-on-contemporary-african-art/chromatic-deconstruction-and-identity-the-nuances-of-african-identity-in-america-through-the-art-of-boluwatife-oyediran/
OLYM https://www.olymcollection.art/artists/51-boluwatife-oyediran/biography/
r.public https://rpublc.com/author/boluwatife-oyediran