To celebrate their six-month residencies in the Museum’s Artist Studios, resident artists Joel Gaitan, Nima Jeizan,a nd Jayoung Yoon will each speak about their respective practices in The Theater at MAD. Following the talks, the artusts will welcome visitors in their studios to view work created at MAD.
SCHEDULE
6:00–6:45 pm: artist talks
6:45–8 pm: open studios on Floor 6
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born in Miami, Florida, Joel Gaitan is a first-generation Nicaraguan American ceramic artist. He received his associate’s degree in art education from Miami Dade College in 2014. He has had solo exhibitions at Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France (2025); Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY (2023); NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2023); Fairfax Dorn Projects, East Hampton, NY (2022); 56 Henry, New York, NY (2022), and KDR, Miami, FL (2024, 2021). His works have been in group shows at Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (2023); Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2023); El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2022); and The Pit LA, Los Angeles, CA (2022). Gaitan has been featured in Four Seasons Magazine (2025), Elle Decor(2025), W magazine (2023), The Center Magazine (2023), Cultured magazine (2022), artnet.com (2022), and others. He was an artist in residence at The Residency Lefebvre et Fils, Versailles, France, 2025, and at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2023, and is a resident artist at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. He was 2023's Art Production Fund Artist in Focus for the public art program at Rockefeller Center, NY. He is a 2024 USLA Forum Latinx Artist Fellowship recipient. His work is in the public collections of the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; The Bunker, Palm Beach, FL; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. Joel Gaitan is represented by KDR, Miami, FL, The Pit, Los Angeles, and Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France.
Raised in Tehran and Virginia, Nima Jeizan blends inherited traditions with contemporary practice. Across sculpture, craft, fashion, and performance, Jeizan works with materials ranging from pistachio shells and dried pomegranates to wood, horsehair, brass, leather, and glass—objects that carry the histories of exile and belonging. Through deconstruction, mending, and transformation, Jeizan creates forms that exist between the living and lamented, the natural and artificial, and familiar and foreign. He holds an MFA from Columbia University, a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Jayoung Yoon received her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 2009 and her BFA from Hongik University in Korea in 2004. She has participated in exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA; Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA; Here Arts Center, New York, NY; Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, and Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, among others. She was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Franklin Furnace Fund. She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Millay Arts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Sculpture Space. Yoon currently lives and works in Beacon, NY.
