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New American Paintings Since 1993, we have collaborated with museum curators to identify exceptional emerging artists and introduce their work to an international audience.

Jordan Seaberry Jordan Seaberry now on view Steven Zevitas Gallery in Primary Sources, a two-person exhibition with Alex...
10/07/2026

Jordan Seaberry Jordan Seaberry now on view Steven Zevitas Gallery in Primary Sources, a two-person exhibition with Alex Jackson Alex Jackson

Work details:
Jordan Seaberry
The Ground I, 2026
oil on canvas
12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20.3 cm)

Thank you to Ian Donnis of Ocean State Media NPR & PBS for a thoughtful discussion about the connection between art and ...
10/03/2026

Thank you to Ian Donnis of Ocean State Media NPR & PBS for a thoughtful discussion about the connection between art and political activism with Jordan Seaberry Jordan Seaberry .

Read or listen to the full discussion at the link in our bio!

You can see the paintings from this interview now on view at the gallery in “Primary Sources: Alex Jackson + Jordan Seaberry”

Mino Shih MINO SHIH featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the ...
10/02/2026

Mino Shih MINO SHIH featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183

The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

We are currently accepting applications for our 2036 MFA Call for Artists! Tap the link in our bio to apply 💙⁠

This issue is FREE AND AVAILABLE ONLINE on our new website newamericanpaintings.com. Tap the link in our bio and discover 40 incredible MFA candidates and recent graduates in the United States.
Untitled, Interior with Folding Screens
Oil, and egg tempera on canvas and paper
77 x 33 inches
“1. images afloat.
2. images for persuasion.
3. images for feedback loop.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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We are thrilled to announce our Annual MFA Call for Artists is now open!Tap the link in our bio to applyJUROR: Lauren Ro...
10/01/2026

We are thrilled to announce our Annual MFA Call for Artists is now open!

Tap the link in our bio to apply

JUROR: Lauren Rosati
Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art

DEADLINE: 10.31.26 11:59 pm (EST)

All current MFA candidates and graduates since 2021 are eligible to apply.

*This is our only open call with any kind of schooling requirement. If you do not qualify for this iteration, please check our website to find info on your regional open call!

For 33 years, we have connected your work with a deeply engaged audience of curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts. Apply to have your work featured in print with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists living and working across the United States.

A $50 application fee is required to apply.
If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.

Emma Schwartz Emma Schwartz ✨🧚🏼‍♀️💖🍉 featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Cl...
10/01/2026

Emma Schwartz Emma Schwartz ✨🧚🏼‍♀️💖🍉 featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183

The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⁠

This issue is FREE AND AVAILABLE ONLINE on our new website newamericanpaintings.com. Tap the link in our bio and discover 40 incredible MFA candidates and recent graduates in the United States.
Red Hair Is A Sign Of Glory; It Is Found On The Path Of Righteousness
Oil on canvas
21 x 21inches
“Emma Schwartz’s work mobilizes explorations of s*x, devotion, and relationships outside of the repressive doctrines of Midwestern Evangelicalism through a contemplative peripheral realm. Her figures are enveloped in purple clouds creating a liminal space for inquiry. Cropped figurative scenes encapsulate Christian stories, iconography, and personal narratives, reimagining their significance through a secular lens. Desire for liberated connection fuels her understanding of community and relationships outside of the sinner/saint binary of the church. Her figures each are adorned with red hair signaling to Mary Magdalene, a biblical character whose continual feminist existence pushes against this binarism.Saturated colors accentuate the immediacy of the desire that appears as she rebuilds a sense of community and self-acceptance. Schwartz challenges the conditioned conceptions of exclusion, inclusion, and authenticity of identity and relationships within religious indoctrination.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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We are thrilled to announce our Annual MFA Call for Artists is now open!Tap the link in our bio to apply💙*This is our on...
09/30/2026

We are thrilled to announce our Annual MFA Call for Artists is now open!

Tap the link in our bio to apply💙

*This is our only open call with any kind of schooling requirement. If you do not qualify for this iteration, please check our website to find info on your regional open call!

For 33 years, we have connected your work with a deeply engaged audience of curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts.

Apply to have your work featured in print with 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists living and working across the United States.

JUROR: Lauren Rosati
Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art

DEADLINE: 10.31.26 11:59 pm (EST)

All recent MFA graduates and current MFA candidates are eligible to apply.

A $50 application fee is required to apply.
If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.

Alizah Sage al featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansj...
09/30/2026

Alizah Sage al featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183

The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⁠

This issue is FREE AND AVAILABLE ONLINE on our new website newamericanpaintings.com. Tap the link in our bio and discover 40 incredible MFA candidates and recent graduates in the United States.

Our MFA Open Call is currently receiving submissions! Tap the link in our bio to apply.

Work details:
Milkweed
Dye on canvas
28 x 24 inches
“My work is shaped by an ongoing interest in systems, language, nature, and psychology, with the grid serving as a framework. I see the grid as an infinite space of rhythm and structure that composes the world and mirrors my fascination with natural and man-made systems. Physics, cities, agricultural plots, chess, and sports all engage with the grid, and through them I’m able to perceive the underlying rhythm of an environment. While painting, observed forms shift and evolve, often being combined, repeated, halved, or rotated. Each action-dyeing, sewing, stretching, ironing, unstretching, deconstructing, and reconfiguring-allows me to approach the paintings as dimensional objects to be constructed and serves as a translation of my thinking.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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D**g Hyun Park 동현 David featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, ...
09/29/2026

D**g Hyun Park 동현 David featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183

The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⁠

This issue is FREE AND AVAILABLE ONLINE on our new website newamericanpaintings.com. Tap the link in our bio and discover 40 incredible MFA candidates and recent graduates in the United States.
Blue Painting
Oil on canvas
27 x 23 inches
“I paint as if I am groping around my surroundings with my hands while blindfolded.

As I paint, I set the elements in the painting that begin to function as anchor points. Then I develop the painting by responding to them step by step. Rather than constructing a planned structure, the process is closer to weaving a web, connecting points that emerge in space within the process, letting one mark call forth another, and allowing the tension and dynamics between them to generate new decisions. I treat painting as an external entity and consider myself as a coordinator of the relationships.

This process oriented approach to painting is a reflection of my way of relating to the world and to others; entities that cannot be fully understood, contained, or made to cohere, but can only be encountered through continuous engagement, negotiation, and care. I embrace traces that are added or left regardless of my initial intention, and through sustained attention I seek to form a loose tie connecting myself and these traces.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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09/26/2026

We are thrilled to announce the release of South Issue # 184! This issue is now available to read for FREE on our new website. Tap the link in our bio to read this free digital issue and discover 40 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists in the southern United States💌⁠
Artist Selections by Angelica Arbelaez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art High Museum of Art

We survey, curate, and introduce the artists shaping contemporary painting. For 33 Years, New American Paintings has introduced exceptional emerging and under-recognized artists to collectors, curators, and art-lovers first.
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A huge thank you to all 40 included artists and to all of the artists who applied and a⁠ heartfelt congratulations to all the incredible artists featured in this issue—welcome to the NAP family.

Cover Artist: Gabriel Pozzo
Back Cover Artist: 𝕭𝖑𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕬𝖗𝖒𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖌🪽

Henry Louris Henry Louris featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard...
09/24/2026

Henry Louris Henry Louris featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183

The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⁠

This issue is FREE AND AVAILABLE ONLINE on our new website newamericanpaintings.com. Tap the link in our bio and discover 40 incredible MFA candidates and recent graduates in the United States.
Wrong Turn
Oil on Canvas
75 x 54 inches.
“My paintings explore psychological fragmentation as a stress response. Figures straddle interior and exterior worlds, unsure whether to remain hidden or engage with reality. Their indecision keeps them stuck in hypnagogic vignettes as a form of dissociation, perpetually searching for solutions and longing for freedom. Moments of magical realism and abstraction reinforce the dreamlike quality of these spaces, as separate events collapse into each other and occupy the same canvas.

My work speaks to the quiet desperation lurking beneath banality. I avoid overt emotion; rather, my figures are often neutral and anonymous. I’m more interested in exploring feelings of unease in seemingly normal scenarios. This allows me to invert symbols of comfort—sunlight can be menacing, domestic spaces can be isolating, and recreational activities can be dangerous. The sense of impending doom amongst the trappings of prosperity is indicative of the modern condition, in which we’ve conquered the dangers of nature while becoming a larger threat to ourselves. My practice helps me process moments of uncertainty and navigate the contradictory experience of being alive.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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