The Department of Art regularly invites artists, critics, historians and designers to participate in the Visiting Artist Speaker Series, classroom lectures and critiques. The Speaker Series happens every fall semester and is free to the public.

Kenny Schachter has been curating contemporary art shows in museums and galleries while teaching art history and economics for more than thirty years between Switzerland and the United States. Schachter has a column on Artnet.com and contributes to various international publications, including the New York Magazine and The Times Magazine (UK). He has been featured in newspapers, magazines and books internationally including the cover of The NY Times Magazine (September 1996) and the book Boom by Michael Schnayerson (2019). Schachter co-authored an NFT book with Noah Charney of Cambridge published by Rowman & Littlefield November, 2023.

After making digital art for decades, Schachter has spearheaded the traditional art world’s adaptation of Non Fungible Tokens in 2020-1 by lecturing at Yale and the Hirschhorn Museum and has written more than a dozen feature articles on the subject. In 2021, he curated wide-ranging NFTism exhibitions (a term he trademarked) at Nagel Draxler in Cologne, Institut in London. His latest NFT projects are Pop Principle: The Game with the UK’s Daata and Open Book with Async.

Schachter had a retrospective of his art at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery in New York in the summer of 2018, curated a show at Simon Lee Gallery in London (Fall 2018) and a solo show at Kantor Gallery in LA (Feb. 2019). He recently had a show with Eva Beresin at Galerie Charim in Vienna (May 2021) and participated in Art Basel 2021 (Basel and Miami) with Nagel Draxler Gallery. In addition, Schachter inaugurated the first one-person exhibit in Nagel Draxler’s Crypto Kiosk Gallery in Berlin between January – March 2022. For 2023 Schachter has one person exhibits at the NFT Gallery in NYC and London (May and October) and a mid-career museum survey at the Francisco Carolinum, Austria, in September.