The Artist’s Voice: Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan, and Sneha Shrestha aka IMAGINE

Alison Croney Moses – Born and raised in North Carolina by Guyanese parents, Croney Moses remembers making clothing, food, furniture, and art as part of her childhood. She cares deeply about why and how things are made. She holds an MA in Sustainable Business and Communities from Goddard College and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Croney Moses has been included in group exhibitions at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia; MassArt Art Museum, Boston; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. She is a recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize, the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, and the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. Croney Moses will debut her first public art installation at the Boston Public Art Triennial in 2025. 

Yorgos Efthymiadis is an artist and curator who works in photographic media. In 2015, Efthymiadis created a gallery in his kitchen entitled The Curated Fridge to celebrate fine art photography and connect photographers with established and influential curators, gallerists, publishers, and artists from around the world through free, quarterly curated calls. Efthymiadis has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Kayafas, Boston and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; and has been included in several group exhibitions including at Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA; Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA; and Photographic Resource Center, Boston, among others. Efthymiadis is an awardee of the Artist’s Resource Trust A.R.T. Grant (2024) and a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2017).   

Damien Hoar de Galvan – has developed a unique output of painted sculpture made primarily from recycled wood for nearly 20 years. Hoar de Galvan recently completed a sculpture-a-day series over the 2024 calendar year and plans to incorporate recycled wood from ICA installations into new works. Hoar de Galvan holds a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BA from Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT. He has exhibited in group exhibitions at Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord, MA; Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA; and has had several solo and group exhibitions at galleries in New York, Seattle, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and across Massachusetts.   

Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE) – Shrestha celebrates the beauty and diversity of Nepali language throughout her practice. She received her MA in Education from Harvard University. Shrestha has had a solo exhibition at Cantor Arts Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and participated in group exhibitions at Wrightwood 659, Chicago; Nepal Arts Council, Kathmandu; and Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, New York. Her additional honors include a commissioned 30-foot sculpture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2024); a grant from the Collective Futures Fund (2024); becoming the first contemporary Nepali artist the be included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s permanent collection (2023); inclusion in WBUR The ARTery’s 25 Millennials of Color (2019); and recognition as one of the 100 most influential women in Nepal by the Nepal Cultural Council (2018). Shrestha was selected for a studio residency at Boston Center for the Arts. 

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