2025-2026 in-person Cohort

Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026

Saturdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea

With Canopy Mentor

Jessica Dickinson

Artist

Based in New York


Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025-2026 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Jessica Dickinson, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).

Cohort Exhibition

Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.

GRID GRIT GRACE

Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

July 16-18, 2026

GRID GRIT GRACE is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 11 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Jessica Dickinson, as part of the 2025 Canopy Program. Beyond their individual practices, the artists’ work suggests that even as they pursue divergent paths and subjective concerns, they remain engaged with shared underlying questions. Across media and approach, creative problem-solving reveals striking similarities. Whether working in video, drawing, or silk, discussions of materiality frequently became central to how each work communicates with its viewer. This held true across digital processes, internet based subject matter, and practices rooted in the physical mark of the hand. Taken together, the works reflect a concern for sustained attention and the slow pace of presence.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, Jessica Dickinson's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

Canopy Mentor Jessica Dickinson

Jessica Dickinson is a Brooklyn based artist whose work is primarily situated in painting and encompasses drawing, writing, and installations. Exploring durational shifts in light, matter, consciousness, and perception, she works to create space for a slowed down encounter within our world of increasingly accelerated exchanges. Dickinson is represented by James Fuentes in New York/Los Angeles and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Solo exhibitions include James Fuentes NY, Altman Siegel, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis and Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. Numerous group exhibitions include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Katzen Arts Center at The American University Museum, Washington D.C.; Gladstone Gallery, New York; The Warehouse, Dallas; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, and The Kitchen, New York. Dickinson’s work has been reviewed and included in Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New Yorker, among others. Awards include Steep Rock Arts Residency, a Belle Foundation individual grant, Farpath Residency in Dijon, France, Change Inc. Grant, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program residency. Public collections include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas. Dickinson received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught extensively, including Cooper Union School of Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, and Yale University School of Art.