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Anna Betbeze, Rochelle Feinstein: The Independent New York 2025

May 8th - May 11th, 2025

Booth 511A

Nina Johnson is thrilled to be exhibiting works by Anna Betbeze and Rochelle Feinstein at this year’s edition of The Independent. Join us at Booth 511A from May 8th-11th at Spring Studios in New York.

This presentation marks the first time the artists have exhibited together, after more than a decade of close friendship.

About Anna Betbeze

Anna Betbeze (b 1980, Mobile, Alabama) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She most recently presented In The Quarry, a solo exhibition at Nina Johnson, Miami, in January 2025. Betbeze has also had solo exhibitions at MassMOCA, Utah MOCA, The Atlanta Contemporary, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Luxembourg & Dayan London, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, and Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles. 

Betbeze’s work has been shown at institutions such as MOMA PS1, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Hessel Museum at Bard College, and The Power Station, Shanghai and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Modern Painters, New York Magazine, Frieze, and The Los Angeles Times. She was a 2013–2014 recipient of the Rome Prize, the 2020 recipient of the Headlands Chiaro Award, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.

About Rochelle Feinstein

Born in 1947, Rochelle Feinstein is a longstanding and deeply respected member of the New York art community. A major survey exhibition of Feinstein’s work originated at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2016), and subsequently traveled to Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016), Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2017), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018–2019). “The Today Show”, a presentation of recent and new works (2019-2024),was first presented at Secession, Vienna (2024), and followed by successive exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (2025), The Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2025), and The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2026). Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Feinstein is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, among those are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Anonymous Was a Woman, John Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and in 2017-2018 the American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts. She earned her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, New York, and her M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University.

  • Studio view of Anna Betbeze, Anna Betbeze, Untitled (Tent) #4 and Untitled (Tent) #3