Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

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

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/

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/