Colloquia names Fasolino and Koppelman for Futures 2027

Colloquia has selected Camilla Fasolino and Hayes Conradi Koppelman for its 2027 Futures program, an exhibition and professional development platform for emerging artists. Their show opens Aug. 7, 2027, in Woodstock, Virginia, and runs through Aug. 31.

Why it matters: - Colloquia Futures gives early-career artists a free exhibition platform, curatorial support, and no commission on sales. - The program is designed to help artists move from promising work to sustained professional practice. - The 2027 cohort reflects Colloquia’s focus on artists exploring presence, intimacy and the material traces of human connection.

What happened: - Colloquia selected Camilla Fasolino and Hayes Conradi Koppelman for Colloquia Futures 2027. - The opening reception begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7, 2027, at Colloquia in Woodstock, Virginia. - The exhibition remains on view through Aug. 31, 2027. - Admission is free.

The details: - Colloquia Futures is the gallery’s annual exhibition and professional development program for artists at the beginning of sustained professional practice. - Each year, two or three artists are selected through review of their work, intentions, cohesion of practice, readiness for public exhibition and openness to curatorial dialogue. - Selected artists receive exhibition development, installation planning, professional presentation, marketing, press outreach, documentation, mentorship and public engagement support. - There are no application or participation fees. - Colloquia takes no commission on works sold through the Futures exhibition. - Fasolino will present While We Are Here, a mixed-media body of paintings developed from temporary shared life in Tokyo. - Koppelman will present In the Wind I Once Knew, which combines original poetry, digital illustration, found textures, printing and manual intervention. - Fasolino’s work uses Italian pigment traditions, Japanese iwa-enogu mineral pigments, and hand-stitched fragments of vintage kimono and obi silks. - Koppelman’s work draws on text, symbolism, daily-life textures, and mixed digital and physical processes. - Koppelman’s recurring imagery includes bare trees, crows, skulls and other symbols of death and decay. - Following the 2027 presentation, Fasolino and Koppelman will help review applications and select the artists for Colloquia Futures 2028.

Between the lines: - The program is selective, but Colloquia frames it as mentorship and professional readiness rather than a prize or trend survey. - The pairing emphasizes contrast: Fasolino starts from physical proximity and shared domestic life, while Koppelman starts from mediated distance and fragmented communication. - Both practices turn temporary or incomplete contact into layered physical surfaces, suggesting a shared interest in what human connection leaves behind. - Ritcheson said Futures asks artists to bring a serious practice into public view and accept rigorous dialogue. - Ritcheson also said the support is substantial because the expectations are substantial. - Colloquia says the post-exhibition role for selected artists creates continuity between cohorts.

What's next: - Fasolino and Koppelman will prepare exhibition-ready bodies of work for the 2027 show. - Colloquia will handle curatorial development, installation planning and public-facing promotion leading up to the opening. - After the exhibition, the two artists will join the selection process for Futures 2028. - More information is available from Colloquia at +1 202-368-2274.