Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast

The Cerebral Women media platform presents Cerebral Women Art Talks, a podcast that is an extension of @cerebral_women. Conversations offer insights into the visual art world from artists, mainly artists of color, and female artists who freely articulate what inspires their creativity. In addition, you'll hear interesting perspectives from dedicated art professionals who work with artists and the art institutions that feature them. Art Advisors, Art Critics, Collectors, Curators, Gallerists, Museum Professionals.

Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Phyllis Hollis, with 277 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Phyllis Hollis hosts Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast, a arts show with 277 episodes published.

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  Johanna Mirabel

  Aug 18, 202629 min

  Born in 1991 in Colombes, France, Johanna Mirabel is a French artist of French Caribbean descent living and working in Paris. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she has developed a distinctive pictorial language at the intersection of figuration, abstraction and memory. Drawing on her Guyanese heritage and on Édouard Glissant's concepts of creolisation and opacity, Mirabel creates paintings in which suspended figures, fragmented architectures and intimate interiors evoke the instability and plurality of identity. Her work explores questions of memory, transmission and cultural experience through a vivid palette marked by deep reds and ochres that recall both the laterite soils of French Guiana and the history of European painting. Recent projects have expanded these concerns through new materials and forms. In Adieu la chair (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, 2024), she explored the Guyanese carnival as a metaphor for transformation, while I Wish (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2025) drew on the tradition of ex-votos and devotional paintings, introducing works on aluminium and copper supports. Mirabel is the recipient of the CPGA–Étant donnés Prize (2024) and the Villa Albertine residency (2025). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections in Europe and the United States. Artist https://johannamirabel.com/ Galerie Natalie Obadia https://www.nathalieobadia.com/fr/artists/93-johanna-mirabel/overview/ Villa Albertine https://villa-albertine.org/va/fr/residents/johanna-esther-mirabel/ Fondation H https://www.fondation-h.com/exhibitions-fr/residence-de-creation-et-exposition CPGA https://www.comitedesgaleriesdart.com/actualites/johanna-mirabel-et-sa-galerie-nathalie-obadia-remportent-le-prix-cpga-etant-donnes-2024-a-art-basel-miami-beach/ Connaissance des arts https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-expositions/art-contemporain/les-maisons-mysteres-de-johanna-mirabel-11195472/ Les Frac https://lesfrac.com/item/johanna-mirabel-habiter-le-chaos/ Frac Auvergne https://fracauvergne.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DOSSIER-PEDAGOGIQUE-Johanna-Mirabel.pdf Centre national des arts plastiques https://www.cnap.fr/johanna-mirabel Lagora des arts https://lagoradesarts.fr/-Johanna-Mirabel-Habiter-le-chaos-.html

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  Boluwatife Oyediran

  Aug 3, 202641 min

  Ep.275 Boluwatife Oyediran (b. 1997, Ogbomoso, Nigeria) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He holds an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship. He is currently an MFA in fiction candidate and Sonny Mehta Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Oyediran’s multidisciplinary practice combines painting, creative writing, and photojournalism. His painting practice is committed to reimagining and reorienting Black identity within the canons of history, religion, and western art. His original, self-devised concept “inverted blackness” features portraits of Black migrants in the United States, depicted in luminous, photonegative paintings, visualizing their mutative and otherness identity. His practice centers on the Black diasporic experience in the United States and his vision is to elevate and insert this experience into the canon of art history. Oyediran’s “inverted blackness” series was the subject of a solo exhibition at the AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, in 2024, titled “Inverted Blackness” and accompanied by a publication of the same name. In 2025, following his MFA at RISD, Oyediran started Inverted Blackness, a Substack Photoblog that publishes photographs and oral accounts of the experiences of Black migrants in Rhode Island. In 2026, Oyediran’s work was acquired by Mattatuck Museum, and in the same year he becomes the first African writer awarded a Sonny Mehta Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he’s at work on a novel. Oyediran’s work has been exhibited at the Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria; FLAG Art Foundation, USA; RISD Museum, USA; Fondation Blachère, France; Mattatuck Museum, USA; Gallery 1957, Ghana; UTA Artist Space, USA; Featherstone Center of the Arts, USA; Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Israel; Twelve Gates, USA; and many more. His works can be found in the collections of Mattatuck Museum, David Adjaye, Fondation Blachère, Kutlesa, Serge Tiroche, Amir Shariat, and so many more. You can find him on Instagram @boluoyediran. Photo credit: Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi Artist https://www.boluoyediran.com/ Substack https://invertedblackness.substack.com/ Iowa Writers Workshop https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/news/2021/06/iowa-writers-workshop-announces-sonny-mehta-fellowships-creative-writing AFIKARIS https://afikaris.com/exhibitions/44-inverted-blackness-boluwatife-oyediran/ Gallery1957 https://www.gallery1957.com/artists/85-boluwatife-oyediran/ Overblog https://cultureetplus.over-blog.com/2026/06/boluwatife-oyediran.html Collatar. al https://www.collater.al/en/boluwatife-oyediran-inverted-blackness-chromatic-inversion-identity/ onart media https://www.onart.media/events-centered-on-contemporary-african-art/chromatic-deconstruction-and-identity-the-nuances-of-african-identity-in-america-through-the-art-of-boluwatife-oyediran/ OLYM https://www.olymcollection.art/artists/51-boluwatife-oyediran/biography/ r.public https://rpublc.com/author/boluwatife-oyediran

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  Siri Devi Khandavilli

  Jul 1, 202623 min

  Ep.274 Siri Devi Khandavilli is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fluidly bridges tradition and innovation, drawing deeply from Indian artistic legacies while engaging in a broader contemporary dialogue. Working across sculpture, painting, and printmaking, she dissolves boundaries between disciplines to explore themes of cultural migration, feminism, ecology, mythology, and the nature of reality. Khandavilli’s artistic foundation was shaped from an early age at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, where she began her artistic journey, learning Mysore Traditional Painting under the tutelage of her aunt, Susheela Devi. She also holds a BFA and an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University, as well as another MFA in sculpture from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. This diverse education informs a practice that is both meticulous and experimental, embracing elements of chance while also reflecting history, tradition, and transformation. A recurring motif in her work is the act of mirroring, both literally and conceptually. Her pursuit of the “perfect image” led her to invent a mirror finish on her canvases, blurring the distinction between painting and reflection. The image on the canvas is constantly being created in the present yet carries memories and imprints of the past. She also engages in an ongoing exploration of the tension between control and unpredictability, a theme that permeates her sculptural practice. Her methods, mediums, contexts, and surfaces destabilize singular readings, inviting layered interpretations that oscillate between the apparent and the subversive. She believes that an artwork is never about just one thing but rather about everything happening in the world at the time of its creation, as the artist is thinking and experiencing it all. Her works have been shown and are also held in major institutional collections, including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Private Collection, the Albertina Museum, Durham University Museum, the Fidelity Art Collection, ASU Art Museum, and the Queens Museum, among others. Splitting her time between New Delhi and New York, Khandavilli navigates a transnational space where many experiences overlap, creating a body of work that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Photo Credit Manoj Kesharwani 2024 Lisa Sette Gallery httpswww.lisasettegallery.comartists41-siri-devi-khandavilliworks Gallery Ragini httpsgalleryragini.comsiri-devi-khandavilli BOMB Magazine httpsbombmagazine.orgarticles20260311siri-devi-khandavilli-by-melissa-joseph Art Centrix Space httpswww.artcentrix.com Meer httpswww.meer.comen88201-40-year-anniversary-exhibition-shaping-a-life-of-curiosity India Art Fair httpsindiaartfair.inexhibitors Scale Magazine httpsscalemag.onlinedesignhighlights-from-the-india-art-fair-2025 Artwork Archive httpswww.artworkarchive.com

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  Ruba Katrib

  Jun 2, 202625 minS0

  Ep.271 Ruba Katrib is Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1 in New York, where she steers the museum’s program and is a member of the leadership team. At PS1 she has curated exhibitions such as The Gatherers (2025), Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancers Codex (2025), Sohrab Hura: Mother (2024), Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE (with Yasmil Raymond, 2023), Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally (2022), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: Autonomous Drive (2022), Greater New York (2021), Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life (2021), Simone Fattal’s retrospective in 2019, and solo shows by Edgar Heap of Birds (2019), Karrabing Collective (2019), Fernando Palma Rodríguez, and Julia...

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  Ayotunde Ojo

  May 26, 202621 minS0

  Ep.270 Working primarily within the medium of painting AYOTUNDE OJO is a Nigerian artist whose practice explores the emotional intensity of human relationships and experiences. Born in 1995, Ayotunde Ojo is a Nigerian artist whose practice explores the emotional intensity of human relationships and experiences. Working primarily within the medium of painting, his work draws inspiration from the intimate moments in daily life, the unspoken language of bodily gestures and the hidden tranquillity of interior spaces. “I am interested in making paintings that contemplate the silent conversations that go on between self and space, pivoting between scenes of everyday life,” he has...

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