Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), has named artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty as the inaugural Ruth Stanton Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and artists A.K. Burns and Steve Locke as Co-Directors of its MFA in Studio Art program.
Steve Locke comes to Hunter from Pratt Institute and will begin as Professor and MFA Co-Director in Studio Art in fall 2025. He was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has also received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Art Matters. Locke’s solo exhibition, the fire next time, is on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams through November 8, 2025. Locke has also held solo exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, among others. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, The Boston Globe, and The New Yorker, and his writing has been published in Artforum and several museum catalogues.
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