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Painter Jean-Pierre Roy to Present Auerbach Lecture on Oct. 27

October 14, 2026
Submitted By: Office of Marketing and Communication
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The second Auerbach lecture for the 2026–27 academic year will feature Jean-Pierre Roy, a Brooklyn-based painter and teacher. His talk will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. as part of the HAS Auerbach Lecture Series.

The lecture will be held in Wilde Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.

About the Artist

Born in Santa Monica, California in 1974, Jean-Pierre Roy is a Brooklyn- based painter and teacher. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2002. He is currently represented by Gallery Poulsen, DK and Davidson Gallery in NYC. Roy has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Asia and has had solo museum exhibitions at the Torrence Art Museum in Los Angeles and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach.

His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New York Post, ArtNews, Art in America, New American Painters, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, The Seattle Stranger, The Wall Street Journal, Hi- Fructose, and Juxtapoz amongst others. His work is in collections of Anita Zabludowicz, Jerry-Ann Cheney, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jean Pigozzi, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bjorn Borg amongst others.

About HAS Auerbach Lecture Series

The Auerbach Visiting Artist Lecture Series began in November 2001 and is made possible by a gift from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund of the Hartford Art School Endowment, Inc. The gift enables the Hartford Art School to bring visiting artists to campus each year for one to two days; during that time, the artist delivers a public lecture and spends time in the studios critiquing student work.