(68) Artist Talks

Lyric Shen is an artist and writer. Solo exhibitions include There is an occlusion at Silke Lindner (2025) and Biscuit at Canada (2022). Recent group exhibitions include From Being Jealous of a Dog's Vein at Kiang Malingue; SL x RE at Rose Easton; Contemporary Fossil Record at Jack Hanley Gallery; The Petal at Et al.; and Reciprocity at Marinaro. She has been an artist-in-residence at Shandaken Projects (Storm King) and Taipei Artist Village, and interned at the Toshiko Takaezu Studio and the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts.

She received an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2022, where she was awarded a Director's Fellowship, and a BA in Book Arts from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014, where she received the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grants. Her work has been featured and reviewed in publications including Impulse, Flash Art, Basta, Cultured, and Artforum, and the print edition of Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art.

Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, a New York Times Editors' Choice, one of The Atlantic's ten best books of 2023, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Couplets has been (or will be) translated into six languages and published in seven countries.

​Maggie's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at Yale University and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.

Hannah Kingsley-Ma is a writer and audio producer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in publications like The Drift, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The New Republic, Joyland, ZYZZYVA, The Guardian, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories 2025.

She was the 2020-21 Axinn NYU Writer-in-Residence, and awarded honorable mention for the 2021 The Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her work has been supported by the Corporation of Yaddo, Millay Arts, Marble House Foundation, and the Norton Island Residency. She teaches creative writing at NYU.

Flanagan is an artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her practice traces interconnections between environment and self, moving across drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore subjects of materiality, presence, and precarity. Flanagan holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin from 2022 and a B.F.A. from Montana State University from 2015. Her work has been exhibited at Visual Arts Center in Austin, TX; North Loop in Williamstown, MA; NON STNDRD in St. Louis, MO; GrayDUCK in Austin TX; Tinworks Art in Bozeman, MT, among others. She has participated in artist residencies at SOMA Summer in Veracruz, MX, Orein Arts in Elmira, NY, and Mildred’s Lane in Narrowsburg, NY (2016). She has written for arts publications including Incandescent and served as visual art co-editor for the Bat City Review. She currently teaches Drawing in the Expanded Field at Amherst College.