Summer Salons
A Conversation with
Doron Langberg and Josephine Halvorson
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Please join us at 5:00 PM for a reception on our courtyard, followed by the Summer Salon event starting at 6:00 PM in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The event will include a conversation between our two guests and a moderated Q&A with the audience.
Portrait of Doron Langberg, 2024. © Alyn Horton Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro
Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, Doron Langberg currently lives and works in New York City. Doron Langberg received an MFA from Yale University School of Art, holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk. Langberg has attended the EFA Studio Program, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo artist residency, and the Queer Art Mentorship Program. The artist is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize.
Works by the artist are on view as part of collection displays at ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA and the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
The artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Doron Langberg: Part of Your World, was on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2024. Previously, an exhibition featuring new and recent works by the artist was on view at Rubell Museum Miami (2022–23). In 2022, Langberg’s works were on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as part of the major group exhibition A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now; at The Frick Collection, New York, as part of Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters; and at ICA Miami in Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection the first major exhibition to showcase the permanent collection.
Doron Langberg’s work is in collections including Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, USA; The Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston and Miami, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Genève, Switzerland; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
USA; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA; Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada; RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Rubell Museum, Miami, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.
Photo: Justine Kurland
Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, as well as printmaking, sculpture, and photography.
She earned her BFA from Cooper Union and MFA from Columbia University. Her career includes major international residencies and honors, such as a U.S. Fulbright to Vienna and a fellowship at the French Academy in Rome. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a 2026 Artists Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Halvorson’s work has been exhibited widely, including at Storm King Art Center, ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and James Fuentes in Los Angeles. Her work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins (New York) and Peter Freeman (Paris), and has been written about widely and has been featured in Art21’s documentary series, New York Close Up.
She is currently Professor of Art at Boston University and will join the Yale School of Art as Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking. Halvorson lives and works in Massachusetts.
About Summer Salons
The Summer Salons events are designed to encourage a lively exchange of ideas by bringing together prominent figures from the arts and culture community to the Work Center. Scheduled over four Friday evenings from mid-June to late August, this series provides a unique opportunity for audiences in Provincetown and beyond to connect directly with some of today’s most influential creative minds. Set against the historic backdrop of the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, the Summer Salons invite these notable leaders to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge during an evening of conversation, learning, and community engagement. The result is a rare form of creative communion.
Proceeds from these paid events ensure that the Fine Arts Work Center is able to provide free arts and culture events for the Outer Cape Cod community year round.
