Open Air: Artist Talk with Tajh Rust

Open Air is a monthly series of intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe, hosted by the Gantt. July's iteration of Open Air features New York visual artist Tajh Rust.

This program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Tajh Rust is a visual artist based in New York. He received his MFA from Yale in 2019 and BFA from Cooper Union in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Reflections, Palm Springs Art Museum (2023); Somewhere in Between, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022); and Where We Meet, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020).

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.