ICA Benefit 2025 Edition Artist:

JOANNA PIOTROWSKA (b. 1985, Warsaw, Poland; lives and works in Porto, Portugal) examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple “social landscapes” using photography, performance and film. Her first US solo museum exhibition, unseeing eyes, restless bodies, took place at ICA Philadelphia in 2024, curated by Hallie Ringle, Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator. 

Family archives, self-defense manuals and psychotherapeutic methods are used as reference points for Piotrowska’s psychologically charged photographs. Probing human behavior and the dynamics of familial relations, Piotrowska’s work explores intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, and imposed conventions that play out in the domestic sphere.

Her work has been exhibited at ICA Philadelphia (2024); National Museum of Oslo (2023); Le Bal, Paris (2023); FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (2023); Kunsthalle Tübingen (2023); 59th Venice Biennale (2022); 16th Lyon Biennale (2022); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2022); MACRO, Rome, Italy (2020); Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2020); Tate Britain (2019); Kunsthalle Basel (2019); NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (2019); MoMA, New York (2018); Kunsthalle Wien (2018); 10th Berlin Biennale (2018); ICA Singapore (2017); Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan, Italy (2016); Hayward Gallery, London (2014), and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2013). Joanna Piotrowska is a recipient of the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz, 2023.

Piotrowska’s work is held in the collections of POLA Museum, Japan; New South Wales Gallery, Australia; Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate, London, UK; The Art Institute of Chicago, US; Arts Council Collection, UK; FRAC Grande Large – Hauts-de-France, France; FRAC Champagne – Ardenne, Reims, France; FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France; Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; The Perimeter, London, UK; and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

Artist & Curator Guests of ICA Benefit 2025:

DERRICK ADAMS (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness with a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects. Adams’ work celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience. Adams will have a mid-career survey, Derrick Adams View Master, at ICA Boston April 2026. 

He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1996 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2003. Adams’ solo exhibitions include Cleveland Museum of Art (2022); The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021); Hudson River Museum (2020); and Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018). The artist has mounted public installations commissioned through Monument Lab on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. (2023), Art on the Mart, Chicago (2023), Art at Amtrak at Penn Station, New York (2023); MTA Arts & Design at the Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, Brooklyn (2020–ongoing); and RxART at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2019–ongoing). His art resides in the collections of Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, among others.

In 2022, Adams established Charm City Cultural Cultivation, an organization to support underserved communities in Baltimore through a residency program subscribing to the concept of leisure as therapy for the Black creative; a collaborative counter-institutional space for collecting, storing, and safekeeping the data of local archival initiatives; and a community of Black women writers.

Adams is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at CUNY Brooklyn College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Maryland Institute College of Art.

 

 

DAVID ANTONIO CRUZ (b.1974, Philadelphia, PA; lives and works in New York, NY) combines personal history with art historical, literary, fashion, and pop culture references to reinterpret classical modes of figuration. Cruz’s 2023 solo exhibition at ICA Philadelphia, When the Children Come Home, was the result of his ongoing collaboration with curator Monique Long, who also grew up in Philadelphia, PA.  

Centering Black, brown, and queer communities, Cruz’s rich multidisciplinary practice encompasses paintings, drawings, sculpture, and performance. Posing, in particular, is an act of resistance, play, and belonging in many of his dreamlike and stylized paintings. In his work, Cruz embraces a sense of home that defies conventional definitions. For him, home can be conjured through the bonds of community and chosen family, sustained by a sense of possibility and belonging that comes from being among those you love.  

Forthcoming solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA (2025); Halsey Institute of Fine Art, Charleston, SC (2025); and Wave Hill Museum, Bronx, NY (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, NY (2024); Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy (2023); and moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL (2024). His work is in the collections of museums including the Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Cruz is a 2025 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Competition prizewinner. Recent residencies and fellowships include Joan Mitchell Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA (2025); Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Snowmass Village, CO (2024).  

Cruz received his BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, his MFA from Yale University, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Cruz is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts  and Area Head of Painting at Columbia University. 

  

 

ABIGAIL DEVILLE (b. 1981, New York, NY where she lives and works) is an artist working in sculpture, mixed-media, and site-specific installation. In 2012, DeVille exhibited Hooverville Torqued Ellipse at ICA Philadelphia, in partnership with Marginal Utility Gallery, in the exhibition First Among Equals. 

DeVille’s work is keenly attuned to the optimism and endurance embedded within the ongoing struggles of African American communities. Deville often works with objects and materials sourced from the area surrounding the exhibition site, and her theatrical aesthetic embodies the phrase “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” Though collected objects are essential to her installations, DeVille prioritizes the stories her installations can tell. Her large-scale sculptures and site-specific immersive installations are designed to bring attention to the forgotten narratives of marginalized people and places.    

DeVille received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work has been the subject of an Art21 documentary and exhibited at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; New Museum, NY; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others. She has been a Creative Capital grantee, was nominated for The Future Generation Art Prize in the 55th Biennale di Venezia and was artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2017-2018. Her work is in the permanent collections of Pinault; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Kadist Art Foundation; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Studio Museum in Harlem; and Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, among others. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art and Columbia University’s MFA program.

 

 

RICO GATSON is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, video and public art. Over the course of almost two decades, he has been celebrated for politically layered artworks, often based on significant moments in black history. From the Watts Riots, the formation of the Black Panthers, to the election of President Barack Obama are a few subjects touched upon in his work. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum at The University of South Florida, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Essl Museum, Austria, Vienna and The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. In 2019 he completed a commission for the MTA Arts and Design titled “Beacons”; eight permanent large scale mosaic portraits of prominent individuals associated with the Bronx, installed at the 167th street subway station on the Grand Concourse. His work is featured in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Denver Art Museum, The Cheekwood Museum, The Kempner Museum and The Yale University Art Museum, amongst many others. Gatson is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and New York University and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

 

 

ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON (b. 1984, Lexington, KY; lives and works in New York, NY) is an artist and filmmaker who draws on her upbringing in the rural American South in her artistic practice, weaving themes of environmental justice, folklore, and mythology into painting, sculpture, photography, installation and film. Hamilton’s work was included in ICA Philadelphia’s 2024 exhibition, Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard.  

Born in Kentucky and raised in Florida, Hamilton also spent time at her maternal family’s farm and homestead in the flatlands of western Tennessee. In her work, Hamilton creates immersive spaces that consider notions of “Americana” and our relationships to land in the face of a changing climate, particularly in the rural American south. Drawing from folktales, hunting and farming rituals, African American nature writing, and Baptist hymns, Hamilton layers plant matter, landscape, figurative imagery, complex sounds, and animal remains, envisioning what an epic myth looks and feels like in rural terrain. 

Hamilton’s work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and Atlanta Contemporary, as well as a commissioned solo project with Creative Time. Her sculpture, Love is like the sea… (2023) is currently on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition, presented by The Helis Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Work by the artist is held in public collections such as Hood Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, and Speed Museum of Art, among others. Hamilton has participated in a range of fellowships and residencies, including at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; and Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Hamilton holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.  

 

 

DAVID HARTT (b.1967, Montréal, Canada; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) creates photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations which offer sensitive and concise portraits of contemporary post-industrial, post-communist and late-capitalist societies. He is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Hartt studied at the University of Ottawa and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (2023); Cincinnati Art Museum and David Nolan Gallery, NY (2022); The Hammer Museum, LA, and the Glass House, New Canaan (2021); Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago (2020); Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park (2019); The Art Institute of Chicago (2018); Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (2018); Graham Foundation, Chicago (2017); The Art Institute of Chicago (2015); LAXART, Los Angeles (2015); and Or Gallery, Vancouver (2015). He took part in the Rauschenberg Foundation’s residency program (2016), is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant (2015), was named a United States Artists Cruz Fellow (2012), and received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2011). 

Hartt’s work has been included in group exhibitions, including Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, MoMA (2021), Here to Stay, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021), Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, MoMA (2015), America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), and Shine a light/Surgir de l’ombre: Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada (2014). His work is in the public collections of MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Henry Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 

 

 

JOAN JONAS (b. 1936, New York, NY; lives and works in New York, NY and Nova Scotia, Canada) is one of the most significant artists in the history of video and performance art. Her first solo exhibition, Stage Sets, took place in 1976 at ICA Philadelphia. 

Jonas works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, often collaborating with musicians and dancers to realize improvisational works that are equally at home in the museum gallery and on the theatrical stage. By wearing masks in some works, and drawing while performing on stage in others, she disrupts the conventions of theatrical storytelling to emphasize potent symbols and critical self-awareness. Drawing on mythic stories from various cultures, Jonas invests texts from the past with the politics of the present.  

Joan Jonas received a BA from Mount Holyoke College (1958), attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1958-61), and received an MFA from Columbia University (1965). She is Professor Emerita at MIT. 

Among her many honors are awards from Anonymous Was A Woman (1998); The Rockefeller Foundation (1990); American Film Institute’s Maya Deren Award for Video (1989); Guggenheim Foundation (1976); and the National Endowment for the Arts (1974). Jonas has had major exhibitions at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm (2013); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2013); Documenta (2002, 2013); Performa (2013); The Kitchen (2012); Bergen Kunsthall (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Venice Biennale (2009); Dia Beacon (2006); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2006); Jeu de Paume (2005); Renaissance Society (2004); Tate Modern (2004); Queens Museum of Art (2003); Taipei Biennial (2002); and Dia Center for the Arts (2000), among others. 

 

 

 

ANI LIU (b. 1986, New York City, NY; lives and works in Queens, NY) is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & technoscience. Liu has a BA from Dartmouth College, a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab. She is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making and is currently the Carrafiell Assistant Professor at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.  

Liu continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. Integrating emerging technologies with cultural reflection and social change, Liu’s most recent work examines the biopolitics of reproduction, labor, care work and motherhood.  

Liu’s work has been exhibited internationally at Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, Ars Electronica, Queens Museum Biennial, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society.   

Liu is the winner of numerous awards including the Princeton Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, the Virginia Groot Foundation Fellowship, the S&R Washington Prize, the Prix Ars Electronica, the YouFab Global Creative Awards, the Biological Art & Design Award, and the Triangle Arts Residency. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, and her solo show Ecologies of Care was named as a best of 2022 highlight in Artforum. She has been profiled by Science Friday, National Geographic, PBS, MIT Tech Review, BOMB Magazine, VICE, WIRED, TED and Gizmodo, amongst many others.   

Liu has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, and Columbia University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Pratt, Parsons, and The New School.  

 

 

 

MONIQUE LONG lives and works in New York City. She is a writer and arts professional with an interdisciplinary practice. An independent curator of contemporary art, Long interests include Black diasporic narratives and making, popular culture, and fashion history. She has organized exhibitions at institutions including Princeton University Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Guild Hall, Museum of the African Diaspora, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and many others. Prior to working independently, Long held curatorial positions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Arts and Design. Long is also a critic who has contributed to publications widely on contemporary art and personal essays. Her most recent exhibition was on view at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. 

 

 

MICHELLE LOPEZ (b. 1970, Bridgeport, CT; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) explores cultural phenomena, stretching the limits of industrial processes that craft consumerism. She is a builder, conceptualist, and manipulator of materials and Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her 2019 exhibition, Ballast & Barricades, at ICA Philadelphia brought together a selection of sculptures alongside a monumental, site-specific installation. 

Lopez’s examines collapsed political and social structures by inverting cultural tropes through the process of building. Her installations—precarious assemblages of humble yet labor-intensive materials such as hand-twisted steel rope, pulled glass, bent wood, and street rubble—draw from the aesthetic languages and histories of industrialization, art movements, and the built environment to critique the ways in which dominant narratives, power, and authority shape space. Tracing her work alongside queer and feminist lineages of abstraction, as well as a rigorous research process into her materials, Lopez makes a case for the formal and political stakes of a present-day sculptural practice. 

Lopez holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. Other solo exhibitions include: Lasso Reprieve (Commonwealth & Council, LA, 2023);  Halyard (Alt/Protocinema, Istanbul, 2016); Angels, Flags, Bangs (The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, 2014), among others. She has done public projects with The Public Art Fund and “Art Public” in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art (Miami) and has been in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  

Notable group exhibitions include Scratching at the Moon (ICA Los Angeles, 2024);Re-Enactments (Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Manila, Philippines, 2017); and Greater New York (MoMA PS1, NY, 2000). ‍She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2011 and a Pew Fellowship in 2023. 

 

KEN LUM (b. 1956, Vancouver, Canada; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) is an artist best known for his post-conceptual art employing various media—primarily photography, sculpture, film and site-specific installations. Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, his work was included in ICA Philadelphia’s 2023 exhibition Moveables alongside the work of four other artists. 

Lum’s art is concerned with how meanings are assigned to images, texts, and objects throughout everyday life. Lum’s playfully politically oriented practice takes an acerbic but humorous tone as an entry to a myriad of issues including identity, immigration, language, and spatial politics. 

Lum has an extensive art exhibition record that includes Documenta 11, Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Biennial, Shanghai Biennale, Carnegie Triennial, Sydney Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennale and Whitney Biennial. He has had solo exhibitions at The Image Centre in Toronto, CA; Magenta Plains, New York, NY; Remai Modern, Saskatoon, CA and Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, CA, among others. 

Lum’s work is included in permanent collections of Tate London, UK; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE; RISD Museum, RI; Museum moderner Kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, AT; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, CH; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, ES; M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong, HK; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, OT; Fundación AMMA Amparo y Manuel, Mexico City, MX; Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, DE; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, US; FRAC Ile de France, le Plateau, Paris, FR; Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, CN. Lum has also served as curator for exhibitions, including Shanghai Modern: 1919-1945, Sharjah Biennial 7, and Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia, where he is Co-Founder and Chief Curatorial Advisor. In 2023, Lum was the recipient of the 13th annual Scotiabank Photography Award and the subject of a published book distributed worldwide by Steidl. 

Lum has published extensively, including a book of his collected writings issued by Concordia University Press (2020) titled Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018. 

 

 

PEPÓN OSORIO (b. 1955, San Juan, PR; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA and San Juan, PR) is a multidisciplinary artist who pioneered artmaking prioritizing social engagement. Osorio’s residency at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) culminated his 2004 exhibition Trials and Turbulence at ICA Philadelphia. 

Osorio has advanced critical conversations surrounding race, gender, and identity as well as structural inequalities in the United States healthcare, education, and prison systems. Informed by his background in performance and his experiences as a child services case worker and professor, his richly textured sculptures and installations examine political and cultural injustices affecting Latinx and working-class communities in the US. Developed through long-term conversations and collaborations, Osorio’s work is further distinguished by creating and displaying his installations with and in a community before entering an art institution.  

Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, the most comprehensive exhibition of Osorio’s work to date, was on view at the New Museum in summer 2023. In Fall 2024, Philadelphia Contemporary held his solo exhibition Pepón Osorio: Convalescence. He has had other solo exhibitions at Williams College Art Museum, Museo de San Juan, El Museo del Barrio, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), and Museo Alejandro Otero (Caracas, Venezuela) among others.  

His work has been featured in group exhibitions at: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, New Museum,  El Museo del Barrio, MoMA PS1, 2006 São Paulo Biennial, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, 1997 Bienal de Cuba, 1997 Johannesburg Biennale, Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo), Cleveland Institute of Art, and the 1993 Whitney Biennial. His works have also been shown in multiple storefronts, schools, theaters, and other unconventional exhibition spaces.  

Osorio has been awarded: Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasure Artist Fellowship (2022); Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); United States Artists Fellowship (2018); Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association, CAA (2018); Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2001); MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1999), and Alpert Award in the Arts-Visual Arts (1999), among others.  

 

 

FINNEGAN SHANNON (b. 1989, Berkeley, CA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is an artist whose practice experiments with forms of access and intervening in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Shannon’s work was included in ICA Philadelphia’s 2024 exhibition, Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard.  

Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge, an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt-Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don’t mind if I do, a conveyor-belt-centered exhibition that prioritizes rest and play. They have done projects with MUDAM Luxembourg, Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, The High Line, MMK Frankfurt, MCA Denver, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. Their work has been written about in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, the Believer, and Out Magazine. 

 

 

JACKIE TILESTON (b. 1960, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid”, living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. Her paintings are heterotopic spaces in which recombinant strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Tileston is a Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.  

Tileston has a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Art in General, The Painting Center, New York, and Delaware Center for Contemporary Art.  

Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency (1988-90), the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017).