Image by Miles Pettengill
October 17, 7pm
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013
Last Art School, a project by Lindsey White is thrilled to present a performance by Dynasty Handbag as part of the exhibition programming series taking place within the gallery’s Chat & Chew lounge space.
Dynasty Handbag presents an evening of disreputable performance pieces, disappointing songs, and accurate observational entertainment, designed especially for the Hunter College fiefdom.
Artist Bio
Jibz Cameron is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles, performing multimedia work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag. Over the last 15 years, Cameron has combined tragedy and comedy, at such institutions as MOCA, PS1, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen, REDCAT, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, and the New Museum, among others. The New York Times has heralded her as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and New York Magazine has called her “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.”
Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her film Weirdo Night, directed by Mariah Garnett is an official 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection. She released her first comedy record, The Bored Identity, on Wacky Wacko records in November 2023. Her latest evening-length performance Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works curator David Everitt Howe.
Cameron has written and produced seven evening-length performance pieces and countless short works that have been performed in clubs and venues internationally. She also has produced multiple video works and two albums of original music. Cameron also produces and hosts Weirdo Night!, a monthly experimental comedy and performance event in Los Angeles. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught as a visiting professor at California Institute of the Arts and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She has presented workshops and curated events at institutions including University of Pennsylvania, SFMOMA, The Jewish Museum (New York), Wendy’s Subway (New York), The Broad Museum (Los Angeles), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), MOCA (Los Angeles), and The Lab (San Francisco).
On view: August 27 - November 22, 2025
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In Fall 2025, the Hunter College Art Galleries will present Last Art School, an exhibition and programming series curated by Lindsey White, Arthur & Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator and Artist in Residence. Last Art School offers a platform for investigating and documenting the current crisis moment within higher arts education. As educators, researchers, and students across the United States have been silenced, reprimanded, fired, and even deported, this project emphasizes the power of personal networks and structures of connectivity, calling upon socio-cultural histories of activism and mutual aid in a search for community empowerment and fellowship.
In Hunter College’s 205 Hudson Gallery, White creates a theatrical environment for the presentation of her own artworks, alongside those of her peers. The works draw from the artists' prismatic experiences within institutions of higher learning as both students and faculty. While many explicitly engage the complex dynamics of art school as subject, others more irreverently and obliquely contend with hierarchy, transformation, utopia, and the classroom.
Participating artists and collections: Mario Ayala, Alex Bradley Cohen, Dewey Crumpler, Henry Fey, Nicole Hayden, Whitney Hubbs, Alicia McCarthy, Sandra Ono, Ralph Pugay, Jon Rubin, Maryam Yousif, Rhoda Kellogg Children’s Art Collection, and the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation and Archive.
In addition to artworks by White’s friends and colleagues, Last Art School features a collection of finger paintings from the Rhoda Kellogg Children’s Art Collection and materials from the San Francisco Art Institute Legacy Foundation and Archive (SFAI LF+A). A pioneer in the field of child art, Rhoda Kellogg believed in the fundamental role visual language plays in the emergence of consciousness and proposed that the aim of art education should be independent and spontaneous. Archival documents and images from the SFAI LF+A serve as a case study on how creative communities can collaborate, resist, and take action in unstable political and economic moments. One of the oldest fine art schools in the country, SFAI closed its doors in 2022 after 151 years.
The lower gallery of 205 Hudson will host a community gathering space modeled after a cozy local restaurant. An integral part of White’s residency will be dynamic collaborations with student fellows and the development of free public programming, including lectures, screenings, conversations, performances, and other unusual and unexpected events. This space is also available for the MFA and MA community for class meetings, events, and hangouts. White will serve lunch one day a week for Hunter students, faculty, and staff throughout the run of the exhibition.
Last Art School also contains a recording studio and interview archive. In response to the active erasure of records and archives by the United States government, White will conduct interviews with arts educators in and around the New York City area to document the complex and critical moment facing higher education. Gallery visitors will have the chance to hear these interviews in the space.
Lindsey White is an artist and curator in San Francisco who left academia in 2023. She is the 2025 Arthur & Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator and Artist in Residence at the Hunter College Art Galleries. This exhibition model establishes a platform for long-term visiting artist engagement and represents the start of an experimental collaboration between the galleries and the MFA Studio Art program.
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Last Art School is made possible by The Foundation To-Life, Inc. and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Fund. The exhibition is curated by Lindsey White and organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries, with Phi Nguyen, Tara Ohanian, Aleeq Kroshian, and Amy Tidwell, and student curatorial fellows Andee Berberich and Rebecca Miralrio. Special thanks for fabrication support from Caitlyn Galloway, Nicole Hayden, Don Miller, Hunter College Art Galleries, and Cushion Works. Additional thank yous to Terry Swords and New York Jukebox, Jennifer DiGioia, Brian Belott, Aaron Rodriguez, Susan Schroder, Gary Ellis, Becky Alexander, Jeff Gunderson, and Jordan Stein.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. The 205 Hudson Gallery on the department’s MFA Studio Art Campus in Tribeca is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programming that engage issues critical to contemporary art and artists. In Spring semesters, the gallery also hosts a series of MFA thesis exhibitions. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, located in the Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and 3rd Avenue, is dedicated to collaborative social practice and art and artists engaged with issues relevant to the East Harlem community and to the city more broadly.
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
