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The Suzy Greenberg MFA Juried Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday, July 19, 2025 from 6-9 PM
Exhibition Runs: July 20 – August 24, 2025
Work by Malini Basu, Elizabeth Blackwell, Aja Bond, Anissa Cavazos-Rodriguez, Matthew Clara, Graciela DeAnda, Isabela Escalona, Devin Gallucci, Ranran Hu, Camila Leiva, Nelson Liu, Whalen Polikoff, nouf saleh, Angela St. Vrain, Hayden Teachout, and Mai Tran.
This exhibition marks the second year that SooVAC will showcase MFA graduates from both the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota. It honors SooVAC's founder, Suzy Greenberg, for her vision and commitment to supporting emerging artists. Given the limited opportunities for these artists to showcase their work, we are excited to highlight their talents as they embark on their professional careers in the arts. The exhibition was juried by Trina Fernandez and Prerna.
About the Jurors:
Trina Fernandez is a visual artist and researcher from Sacramento, California, exploring the edges of vulnerability and media. Graduating with a BA in Photography just before Instagram, and an MFA in Visual Studies during the pandemic, Trina uses satire to expose life under capitalistic extremes. Drawing on the multiple layers of current understanding, Trina comments on digital versus real, personal versus private, and Filipino versus American dichotomies through essay and photography. ‘Souvenir’ style ephemera takes the form of zines and merchandise, reminiscent of being a perpetual tourist looking for signs of home. Visual work and research on photography and social media have been presented at PCA/ACA, SECAC, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and published by Birchwood Palace Industries and MNartists. Trina produces socially engaged and practically aware photography workshops under the Center of Photography for Non-Photographers, bringing accessibility to the medium at the intersection of social/practice. Follow her on social media: @trinatr0n
Prerna is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mumbai, India. In her most recent works, she engages with familial archives and governmental documents to discern the overlapping elements of bureaucracy and superstition, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin. She is interested in her relationship to being the subject and being subjected, using the materials and language found in government buildings, airports, classrooms, and other spaces, where the body undergoes categorization and evaluation. Through these actions, images and objects blur the lines between the domestic and the institutional, the intimate and the formal, the hand and the machine. Prerna received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She has been awarded global opportunities and residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Artists for Artists Edition 4: Language Is Never on the Ground. Prerna has exhibited nationally at SooVAC, LUMP Gallery, SNAG Gallery, and Papa Projects. Her work has been published in The Other Way Around, a catalog of artists at the University of Minnesota and the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin, as well as in the visual art magazine FAKE. Prerna most recently was a 2023/24 Jerome Fellow.
