New American Paintings

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

We’re thrilled to announce the third iteration of our new call for artists, NOVA 3 💫Tap the link in our bio to learn mor...
09/10/2026

We’re thrilled to announce the third iteration of our new call for artists, NOVA 3 💫

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and apply!

NOVA is a new bi-monthly digital call for artists created to spotlight outstanding contemporary artists through a curated online publication. While some editions will be open to all submissions, others will explore specific themes, concepts, or ideas. All selections are made by the New American Paintings editorial team.

Being featured by New American Paintings places your work before an international audience of collectors, curators, galleries, and art professionals. Over the years, inclusion has helped artists secure exhibition opportunities, gallery representation, acquisitions, and meaningful professional connections.

NOVA builds on that legacy in a dynamic digital format— expanding visibility, accessibility, and engagement for contemporary artists worldwide. Each digital issue will be distributed to New American Paintings subscribers and will be available FREE online to reach the broadest possible audience.

The deadline to apply for NOVA 3 is September 30, 2026 (11:59 pm EST)

NOVA 2 is free to view online now it tap the link in our bio to read the first issue and discover 20 incredible emerging and under-recognized artists you need to discover!

We’re thrilled to present NOVA 2, a new digital publication from New American Paintings 💫Tap the link in our bio to read...
09/08/2026

We’re thrilled to present NOVA 2, a new digital publication from New American Paintings 💫

Tap the link in our bio to read it for free!

NOVA is a new bi-monthly digital call for artists created to spotlight outstanding contemporary painters through a curated online publication. While some editions will be open to all submissions, others will explore specific themes, concepts, or ideas. All selections are made by the New American Paintings editorial team. NOVA 2 features 20 emerging and under-recognized artists from across the United States.

Being featured by New American Paintings places your work before an international audience of collectors, curators, galleries, and art professionals. Over the years, inclusion has helped artists secure exhibition opportunities, gallery representation, acquisitions, and meaningful professional connections.

NOVA builds on that legacy in a dynamic digital format— expanding visibility, accessibility, and engagement for contemporary artists worldwide. Each digital issue will be distributed to New American Paintings subscribers and will be available FREE online to reach the broadest possible audience.

We are currently accepting applications for the third edition, NOVA 3. The deadline to apply is September 30, 2026 at 11:59 pm. Tap the link in our bio to apply!

Jeffrey Heiman Jeffrey Heiman featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Ho...
09/08/2026

Jeffrey Heiman Jeffrey Heiman 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.
Homme au Bain (After Gustave Caillebotte)
Oil on Canvas
60 x 48 inches
Jeffrey Heiman is a painter whose work explores the intimacy of private, everyday moments and the absences created by distance, memory, and shifting relationships. He often returns to domestic spaces of childhood rooms, apartments he’s inhabited, or imagined interiors as a way to examine how emotional life becomes embedded in place. The surreal quality in his work comes from the way these spaces warp, flatten, or open, reflecting how memory compresses time and rearranges experience.

Drawing on art-historical lineages of constructed space, projected sexuality, and psychological interiors, Heiman is interested in how painting can hold both clarity and uncertainty at once, treating space as a carrier of feeling rather than a setting for literal depiction. He has primarily lived in Seattle, and in New York where he earned his MFA in Painting from Bard College. He currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Rowan Howe Rowan Howe featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, th...
09/07/2026

Rowan Howe Rowan Howe 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.
Untitled
Water color pencil and gouache
10 x 8 inches
“Lately I’ve been thinking “I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours”. The relation to my work seems quite literal, the subjects often show you their ni***es and crotches, like a prepubescent game. But it is the curiosity in this phrase that really enamors me. I am interested in how we perform for each other and the areas where we are allowed to let our guard down. As I share the work with others I am taken by their responses and interpretations. The painting has its own way of “showing mine” and the stories I get in return seem to offer a reciprocal trust.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Trang Huynh Trang Huynh featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, ...
09/04/2026

Trang Huynh Trang Huynh 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.
Late Night
Oil, linoleum print, collage, laser-cut on canvas
36 x 36 inches
“Thương is a powerful word in Vietnamese. Thương means unconditional love, a love that exceeds one’s personal selfishness. Paradoxically, when you add the adverb “bị” in, bị thương means to be hurt. My work explores the contradictory meanings of this word, illustrating the intertwined relationship between love, pain and forgiveness, particularly through the lens of a Vietnamese Post-War generation. Drawing from historical narratives and personal experiences, I place these timelines in conversation and explore what inherited history means to me. My art offers a reflection on the inherited scars left by colonial oppression, and a desire to heal and love. My mixed-media paintings are defined by intricately layered compositions, incorporating oil painting, printmaking and collaging. Among these densely layered settings, I place figures of my family and friends, capturing them in moments of connection and intimacy. This depiction of people within intricate compositions is my way of addressing the tangled relationship of affection and suffering, and of ways that generational trauma manifests in everyday life.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Fatima Kaleem Khan فاطمہ کلیم خاں featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Clair...
09/03/2026

Fatima Kaleem Khan فاطمہ کلیم خاں 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.
ےہ ینشور ملع
colored pencil, soft pastel, and charcoal on canvas
26 x 23 inches

“My work traces the image of discipline as it weaves through my understanding of the home, the school, and the soap opera, and its
contribution to the development of domestic and national narratives. By collecting and reworking stills from TV, internet reels, and school accounts, my drawings recreate the melodrama of these environments, exploring tension and parallels between discipline and drama, ideology and superstition, and authority and its subject.

Where superstition attributes misfortune to curses, ideology underpins the forces driving conformity. These influences become motifs in the work, materialising in moments like ‘the slap across the face’, ‘fainting from shock’, and ‘the revenge plot’. Creating friction in the soap opera, characters often employ the workings of the evil eye and/or embody a state-sanctioned domestic virtue. I reference fabrication through the use of fake hair, collage, embroidery and various embellishments in my drawings, which signify a false fashioning. By incorporating the sequential nature of narratives and both literal and figurative framing, the work examines how ideology is performed, disseminated, and consumed as soft power.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Our open call juried by JERRY SALTZ Jerry Saltz has been extended! Tarp the link in our bio to apply!Saltz is the Senior...
09/02/2026

Our open call juried by JERRY SALTZ Jerry Saltz has been extended!

Tarp the link in our bio to apply!

Saltz is the Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine and a
2018 Pulitzer Prize recipient. Saltz was previously the senior art critic at the Village Voice since 1998, where he was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism (in 2001 and 2006). A frequent guest lecturer at major universities and museums, Saltz was also the sole adviser on the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Saltz has written for Frieze, Modern Painters, Parkett, Art in America, Time Out New York, Flash Art, Arts magazine, and many others. It is our pleasure to welcome him back to NAP for the third time.

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 in the Northeastern United States.

JUROR: Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, New York Magazine
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 9.7.2026 11:59 pm (EST)

All artists living/working in CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT are eligible to apply.

A $65 extended application fee is required to apply.
If selected, there will be no additional costs and you will receive a free issue.

Mar Figueroa Mar featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Han...
09/02/2026

Mar Figueroa Mar 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.
All Night I Rose and Fell, My Thoughts Floating Light as Moths
Acrylic on canvas
35.5 × 23.5 inches

“A subtle magic unfolds in Figueroa’s paintings, where figures appear alongside shadow selves, herbs, and small lives, moving in quiet metamorphosis. Rooted in her Andean heritage, her work traces delicate reciprocity between human and nonhuman forms through cycles of care, vulnerability, and transformation. Everyday interiors become stages for ritual, as herbal baths, egg cleansings, and lunar planting unfold as intimate acts of repair and attentiveness, while surrealist tableaux gather figures and symbols shaped by Catholic iconography and folk traditions. Delicate lines, as fine as an ant’s leg or a single strand of hair, delineate forms and guide narrative scenes with quiet precision.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Colin Day Colin Day featured in our 2026 MFA Issue # 183 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the ...
09/01/2026

Colin Day Colin Day 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.
Enriched uranium
Ink, latex, marble dust, acrylic, flashe, and prismacolor on panel
18 x 14 inches
“Every mistake I have ever made has brought me to this moment. Every thought, decision, action, and circumstance. Every object and picture that I have seen or held. Every person I have met, every stranger who delayed me. You. All of these props occupy my interior. This collection of memories, dreams, relationships, fears, and desires is the only thing unique to me. The fragments are simply recombined and reoriented in my studio. My recent work exists at these borderlands between the interior and the exterior, the psychological and the social. The borderlands are center stage, as it were. This is both literal and metaphorical; the paintings are dioramic and theatrical but are also analogous to my emotional landscapes and how I have obscured them from public view through social masking. The work performs as a therapeutic interface, in both form and content, and acts as a container for catharsis.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston

Scout Curtin Scout featured in our 2026 MFA Issue 183 🌞 The artists in this issue were selected by Claire Howard, the Ha...
08/30/2026

Scout Curtin Scout 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.
Here and Other Places
Oil on Canvas
60 x 49 inches
“I think of my paintings as love letters to practice, to the history of painting, to individual objects, and occasionally to people, places, or moments. I use images as opportunities to organize space, creating pictures that are psychological, intimate, and anachronistic. My process is about reactivity, construction, and presence, allowing a slow reveal of the image and desire for painting to operate as a barometer for my internal world and the content

I consume. I’m interested in rectifying the painting’s inner logic - constructing and deconstructing the image, destabilizing the viewer, using mark making, vibrational color, pattern, and line as tools for building an internal visual language. The finished pieces are muted paintings of domestic images, made to a scale roughly resembling that of my body. I see the subject as the formal elements of painting and my relationship to the medium, as much as the emotional landscape suggested by the picture and its linguistic implications.”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
mfaboston Boston University MFA Painting

Address

Boston, MA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+16177785265

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when New American Paintings posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to New American Paintings:

Shortcuts

Share

Category