Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

Ep.284 Bea Scaccia was born in Veroli, Italy, in 1978; she earned her BA and MFA at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome with Gino Marotta. In 2011, she moved to New York City, where she currently lives and works.
In her paintings and animations, Scaccia reworks the elements that collectively give rise to illusions of beauty and constructions of appearance and compresses them into unstable and uncanny compositions. She investigates the cultural links between feminine splendor and monstrosity, emphasizing the absurdity of our social norms.
Solo exhibitions include Gagosian, New York (upcoming); Maruani Mercier, Brussels; Richard Saltoun, Rome; Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier, Brussels (2024); JDJ Tribeca, New York (2022); the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2021); Cuchifritos Gallery, New York (2014): Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome (2010).
Group exhibitions include JDJ Tribeca (2025); Harper’s Singapore (2024); Harper’s, New York (2023); Pm/Am, London (2023); Analog Diary, New York (2023); Sargent’s Daughters West, Los Angeles (2023); Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2022); Magazzino Italian Art, New York (2020); The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg (2020); American University’s Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (2016).
She was invited to the 18th Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome—in the session curated by Francesco Bonami (October 2025)
Her work is present in important public and private collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Portland Museum of Art.
Photo by Toshiaki Noda, 2025

Official artist website: beascaccia-eve.com
Gagosian Gallery: Bea Scaccia – Groomed
Artnet News Bea Scaccia Paints Bodies Made of Everything but Flesh
Artsy 9 Artists Having a Breakout Moment This Fall — by Alina Cohen
Maruani Mercier Gallery: Artist profile and artworks
Richard Saltoun Gallery: Artist profile and artworks
JDJ Gallery: Artist profile
Artnet: Artist information and art market
Artissima: Artist profile
The Art Newspaper — Interview with Beatrice Scaccia by Giorgia Aprosio (2025). Find the interview via the gallery's press archive
METAL Magazine — The Whimsy, the Feminine, the Gross and Everything in Between (2025). Read via METAL Magazine
The Unibrow — The Unsentimental Beauty in the World (2025), interview by Saša Bogojev. Read the interview
Particularly good for understanding her artistic practice
Artnet News — Why Bea Scaccia Paints Bodies Made of Everything but Flesh (2026). Read the article and interview
Artnet News — Rising Talent Bea Scaccia’s Otherworldly Paintings Capture the Harmony—and Tension—Between Beauty and Monstrosity (2023). Read the feature
Juxtapoz — Bea Scaccia: Mood Swings @ MARUANI MERCIER (2025). Read the exhibition feature
Il Giornale dell'Arte — Le maschere e gli artifici di Bea Scaccia (2025), Giorgia Aprosio. Read the interview
Excellent in-depth discussion of identity, ornament, gender and the grotesque.
Artribune — Amare New York. Intervista all’artista Beatrice Scaccia (2021). Read the interview
Flash Art — Beatrice Scaccia / New York (2016), Daniela Trincia. Find the article through Flash Art
Domus — Little Gloating Eve (2014). Domus
NERO Magazine — A Tiny Town South of Rome (2021), written by Beatrice Scaccia. NERO
The New York Times — At Magazzino, Social Distancing Devices Vibrate. So Does the Art (2020), Ted Loos. Search the NYT article
Juxtapoz — Mood Swings exhibition coverage (2025). Read the article

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/

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-

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/