2025 in-person Cohort
Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025
Wednesdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea
With Canopy Mentor
Amy Lincoln
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Amy Lincoln, 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).
Caroline Heffron
Myles Hunt
Sierra Iturrino
Anna Kiljunen
Laura Mychal
Krithika Sekar
JBH Scholarship Recipient
Varsha Suresh
Eden Taff
Noelle Timmons
Ana Wieder-Blank
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
The Dualists
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
January 8-10, 2026
OpeningThursday, January 8, 6-8 pm
NYC Crit Club is excited to present The Dualists, (or alternatively: The Duelists), a group exhibition featuring the 10 artists in Amy Lincoln’s Canopy Program cohort. The exhibition culminates a year of group critiques, discussions, and studio visits, as each artist challenged and supported one another while deepening their own studio practice. The artists in this exhibition examine the dynamic relationships between humans and nature, as well as between interior worlds (both psychic and architectural) and exterior ones.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Amy Lincoln's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Hein Koh
Studio Visit
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Virtual Color Theory Lecture
Maria Calandra
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Rico Gatson
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Haley Shaw
Visiting Critic
Director at Timothy Taylor (New York)
Kevin Curran
Visiting Critic
Director of Sperone Westwater
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Amy Lincoln
Born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1981, New York-based artist Amy Lincoln paints dream-like scenes of imagined landscapes, atmospheric activity and vibrant, fantastical foliage. Recalling her upbringing in Oregon, where beach visits under overcast skies were frequent, Lincoln’s paintings explore the phenomena of light reflection and refraction. She completed her MFA at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in 2006 and her BA at University of California, Davis in 2003. Lincoln’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sperone Westwater (2024, 2023, 2021), Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022), Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (2018; 2016) and Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint Augustine, FL (2016), among others. Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA (2024), Columbus Museum of Art, OH (2023), The Hole, New York (2022), Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2018), and Regina Rex, New York (2017), as well as internationally at Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (2020) and Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022; 2021). Lincoln has been awarded residencies at the Wave Hill Winter Workspace program, the Inside Out Art Museum Residency in Beijing, and a Swing Space residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.