Join artists Abigail Lucien and Malcolm Peacock for an intimate conversation on their artistic practices.

Malcolm Peacock: a signal, a sprout is on view through October 26, 2025 and Abigail Lucien: Under Other Skies is on view through December 28, 2025. Attendees are encouraged to visit the exhibitions in the BMA prior to the conversation.

*Please note that this program will take place outdoors on the BMA’s West Lawn.

This event will include ASL interpretation.

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About the Artists

Abigail Lucien

Abigail Lucien is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Implicating our relationship to material and place through an architectural vernacular, Lucien uses formal poetics to ponder concepts such as loss, love, and grief as fluid processions rather than states to reach or become. Lucien received the 2023 Sondheim Award, a 2023 Ruby’s Artist Grant, a 2021 VMFA Fellowship, and the 2020 Harpo Emerging Artist Fellowship. Lucien’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Frieze magazine, and Art in America. National and international exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MoMA PS1 (NY), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), SculptureCenter (NY), California African American Museum (Los Angeles), MAC Panamá (Panamá), and Tiwani Contemporary (London). Residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Amant Studio & Research Residency (Brooklyn, NY), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and The Luminary (St. Louis, MO). Lucien is currently based in Queens, NY where they are an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC.

Malcolm Peacock

Malcolm Peacock (b.1994) is an artist and athlete whose art often utilizes and alternates common physical actions—talking, gazing, braiding, singing, running—to emphasize the possibilities and feelings that accompany being present in proximity to others and to one’s self. His art looks closely at ways that intimacy creates emotional spaces occupied by Black folks. He has participated in residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the University of Pennsylvania, St. Roch Community Church, the Joan Mitchell Center, Denniston Hill, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Peacock has exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Terrault Gallery, Baltimore; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; the Prospect Triennial, New Orleans; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MoMA PS, New York; and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Peacock is the recipient of the 58th Carnegie International Fine Prize and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Roy Lichtenstein Award.

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Installation views, Abigail Lucien: Under Other Skies and Malcolm Peacock: a signal, a sprout. Photography by Mitro Hood