THE ARTIST PROFILE ARCHIVE: SNEAK PEEK OF UPCOMING PROFILES, FESTIVAL FILMS, AND SCENES FROM PICTURES OF PICTURES: THE METRO YEARS

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The Artist Profile Archive

Be the first to preview scenes from The Artist Profile Archive’s latest festival films, artist profiles, and in-process clips from the upcoming feature-length documentary,Pictures of Pictures: The Metro Years featuring Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Larry Gagosian and other art world luminaries.

Followed by a conversation and Q&A with TAPA director Sophie Chahinian, artists Robert Longo and Arcmanoro Niles, and Independent Curator and Deputy Director of Artists Space, Kelly Taxter, moderated by art critic and journalist, Linda Yablonsky.

  • Sophie Chahinian

    As the Founding Director of The Artist Profile Archive (TAPA), Sophie Chahinian, a Los Angeles native and East Hampton resident, launched TAPA in 2015 as a free, multi-media platform on contemporary art, allowing its audience the opportunity to learn about art in the artists' own words. Sophie hopes that by sharing these films of working artists discussing their personal backgrounds, creative challenges, sources of inspiration, and artistic practices,  more people will discover contemporary art and its capacity to unite people through the exploration of the parameters of the human experience.

    Photo: Robert Longo

  • Robert Longo

    Robert Longo (b. 1953) is a New York-based artist, working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and film to create visualizations of power, protest, and hope. His large-scale, labor-intensive charcoal drawings form a searing portrait of our time. Robert Longo lives and works in New York and is represented by Pace Gallery and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. 

    Photo: Robert Longo Studio

  • Arcmanoro Niles

    Arcmanoro Niles (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.; lives and works in New York, NY) received his B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 and his M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art in 2015.

    Niles has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; The MAC, Belfast; and Lehmann Maupin, with solo shows in New York, London, and Los Angeles.

    His work is held in major public and private collections, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Miami; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM); The Studio Museum in Harlem; Dallas Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and the Yuz Museum and Pond Society, both in Shanghai.

    Photo: Frank Rothenberg

  • Kelly Taxter

    Kelly Taxter is an Independent Curator and the Deputy Director of Artists Space. She is the Curator, with artist Amy Sillman, of the forthcoming survey Betty Parsons, an Artist with a Gallery, which will open at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College in 2026. From 2013 to 2021 she was the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum, New York, where she organized major surveys of  Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Rachel Feinstein,  Jonas Mekas and Isaac Mizrahi; projects with Math Bass, Eliza Douglas, Eva LeWitt, Willem de Rooij, Valeska Soares, and Vivian Suter; and thematic group exhibitions including The Wild, Take Me I’m Yours (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist) and Unorthodox (co-curated with Daniel S, Palmer). In 2003, she co-founded Taxter & Spengemann (with Pascal Spengemann), a gallery where she represented artists Lutz Bacher, Frank Benson, Xavier Cha, Matt Johnson, Kalup Linzy, Wardell Milan, and A.L. Steiner, among others. She earned her master of arts degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. 

    Photo: Jason Nocito

  • Linda Yablonsky

    Linda Yablonsky is an art critic and journalist renowned for her commentary and reporting on exhibitions, artists, and the art world internationally. Over the last forty years, her byline has appeared in The New York Times and T Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Bloomberg, ArtNews, W Magazine, and Wallpaper among many other publications. She is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, and numerous critical essays as well a producer of live literary events in New York, where she lives. Currently, Ms. Yablonsky is writing the biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

    Photo: Grace Roselli for the Pandora’s BoxX Project

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