Artists Space

Calling all artists!
Continuing our program of Survival Skills Workshops we are pleased to offer the following FREE talks.

Born and raised in New York, Renee Riccardo is an independent curator, art advisor, and lecturer. A former Adjunct Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA P.S.1), she started organizing exhibitions in 1985 and opened ARENA gallery in SoHo in 1991. She co-organized the renowned Art Exchange Show, an art fair held across nine floors of two abandoned Wall Street office buildings in 1996 and 1997, while continuing to run ARENA as a salon in Cobble Hill and as galleries in Williamsburg and Chelsea, supporting many celebrated artists early in their careers.

Austin Thomas is an artist, educator, and curator whose multidisciplinary practice blends drawing, printmaking, and community engagement. She holds a BFA in Psychology and Women's Studies and an MA in Studio Arts from NYU. For over two decades, she has shaped the New York art scene through nonprofit spaces, galleries, and museums. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Hyperallergic. It is included in collections such as Grinnell College, The Corcoran Legacy Collection, the Hoggard Wagner Collection, the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Thomas lives and works in New York City.