VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series with Zoë Pulley

August 26, 2026 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Dock 72, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1 Dock 72 Wy, Brooklyn, NY 11205

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Three images on a dark purple and magenta wavy gradiated background in a tiling pattern. The largest image is on the left, a vertical portrait of a woman wearing her hair in buns, white sunglasses, and a black-and-white checkered tank top. She has a number of tattoos on both her arms, and has a large smile. She appears to be well-lit with an artwork behind her. The top right photo features a square, pink and orange woven work hanging in the center of a well-light, white room, with a black-and-white checkered floor. The bottom right photo is of a large, textile work with different layered fabrics in pinks, purples, and oranges.

Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome Zoë Pulley to the VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Hosted by our Fine Arts MFA program, VALS is one of several free and open-to-the-public events we offer each year. Follow us on Instagram @prattfineart to see what’s coming up, and we look forward to welcoming you soon!

Zoë Pulley (b. Chicago, Illinois) is an artist, educator, and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work utilizes textiles, writing, and digital media to examine American heritage and the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks.

Pulley received her MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Pulley is an inaugural recipient of the Rhode Island School of Design Society of Presidential Fellows Award and was named the Graduate Graphic Designer to Watch by GDUSA in 2023.

Pulley was an Artist-in-Residence at Smack Mellon and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has exhibited work at MoMA PS1, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Eastville Community Historical Society, Heritage House Museum, the Newport Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. Her work is held in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Valentine Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Beinecke Library, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, and the MET Watson Library.

She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and a Session artist at Recess Art for the 2026–2027 season.

Previous VALS artists include: Diana Al-Hadid, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Izzy Barber, Judith Bernstein, Michael Berryhill, Wafaa Bilal, The Black School, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Pradeep Dalal, Abigail D. Deville, Nicole Eisenman, Florencia Escudero, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Scherezade García, Rico Gatson, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nancy Grossman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Hyde, Laura Kalman, Lotus Kang, Nina Katchadourian, Elektra KB, eri king, Baseera Khan, Savannah Knoop, Leigh Ledare, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ann Lewis, Tau Lewis, Kalup Linzey, Ibrahim Mahama, Park McArthur, Alicia Mersy, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Lavar Munroe, Narcissister, Rashaad Newsome, Catherine Opie, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Alexis Rockman, Aura Satz, Shazia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Nyugen E. Smith, Wendy Red Star, Brigitta Váradi, Dan Walsh, Yu-Wen Wu, Hu Xiangqian, and Frank Wang Yefen.

We are grateful to the Robert Lehman Foundation for supporting this series.