Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Zoe Pettijohn Schade

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS), Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture by artist Zoe Pettijohn Schade, organized by the MFA Painting program.

Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s gouache paintings explore the philosophical, social, and psychological implications inherent in differing forms of repetition and their histories. A graduate of Cooper Union, she received a 2012-2013 Fulbright Research Scholars Grant to Paris and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her work was featured in a 2013 solo show at the Mona Bismarck American Center for Art and Culture in Paris, and in 2019, she participated in the deCordova New England Biennial at the DeCordova Museum. At the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, her work was also included in the 2019 exhibition Less is a Bore, and a large painting was recently acquired into the permanent collection. Schade has been represented by Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts in New York since 2015, with her most recent solo exhibition, Attempts at Self-Organization: The Grand Sorting, which is on view until January 2026. Her paintings have been discussed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Purple Magazine, Nylon Magazine, W Fashion Magazine, Bomb Magazine, New York Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Hyperallergic.

Image: Attempts at Self-Organization: Prevailing Bonds, 2022-2024. Gouache with dyed silver leaf, toned aluminum leaf, copper leaf, gold leaf, and palladium leaf on paper, 49 7/16 x 36 3/4 in.

Portrait: Courtesy of the artist