Lily Cox-Richard and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University is thrilled to welcome two new faculty members—Lily Cox-Richard and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste—to its cohort of diverse, practicing artists/teachers. They have joined the department this academic year as Associate and Assistant Professors respectively. 

Both Cox-Richard and Toussaint-Baptiste’s work and pedagogy build upon the Sculpture + Extended Media Department’s long legacy of exploration into the spatial, material, and embodied conditions of contemporary life.  

Cox-Richard’s, whose sculptures and installations inspect details of cultural and material histories by way of considering porousness, energy exchange, and resistance, has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows along with residencies at the Core Program, Millay Colony, RAIR Philadelphia, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent exhibitions include Yvonne, Guatemala City; Artpace, San Antonio, Texas; Diverseworks, Houston, Texas; Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; and MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. Recently, Cox-Richard was the recipient of the Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists.

Toussaint-Baptiste’s work, spanning roles as both artist, composer, and performer, considers errant relations that push toward the limits of subjectivity. Tousiant-Bapiste’s fellowships and awards include the Camargo Foundation Core Program Fellowship; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Sound Artist-In-Residence; Bessie Award for Outstanding Music Composition and Sound Design, the Jerome Foundation Airspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center; and the Rauschenberg Residency 381. Recent exhibitions and performances include The Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; Performance Space, New York, New York; The Kitchen, Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.

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