OyG Projects Gallery Assistants
Havily Nwakuche is an Igbo-American installation and performance artist exploring cultural touchstones, domestic spaces, and abuse. A BFA graduate of Cornell University, she creates work rooted in textiles, photography, and performance—distorting everyday objects to uncover the twisted truths society has come to accept as normal. In addition to her artistic practice, she is professionally interested in how art lives in public space and functions as a tool for community building and healing. Havily has worked with arts institutions and organizations such as the Monument Lab, Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Mobile Print Power, and has exhibited work in the U.S. and Italy.
Dyllan Gabriel (Larmond) is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist. His artistic practice, centered in traditions of painting and drawing, is a brightly colored exploration of identity and objecthood through the lens of queerness, turning a desiring gaze on people, objects, spaces, sounds, and cherished memories. His work explores interpersonal connections through the questioning of the fine line between the personal and the parasocial and what it means to be seen, amplified, and adored under the queer gaze.
In 2022, Dyllan was a featured artist in Spotify’s Culture Next Report, which debuted at the Cannes Lions Festival. In 2023, he coordinated and participated in a group exhibition, Fingerfertigkeiten, at the St. Agnes Studios in Berlin, Germany, contributing as an artist and studio assistant.
Dyllan joined Ortega y Gasset Projects as a gallery assistant in 2024 and also works as an intern and studio assistant with the Fire Island Artist Residency. Dyllan earned a BFA in Studio Art, graduating with honors from New York University.
Website: https://www.dyllangabriel.com/
Instagram: @bestiedyll
Pierce Kinnally is Queens based artist. After school, he spent time as a graphic artist for an agency servicing major financial and health institutions, contributing to projects winning several marketing awards. He left marketing to work as a studio assistant, embroiderer, delivery boy and dog walker to focus on his personal studio work. Son of a horse girl, his practice currently centers on personal themes of obsession mixed with how queerness intersects with the equestrian motif, its class dichotomies and lineage, and paintings as domestic objects.
Pierce received his BFA at SVA in 2018. He most recently showed in a studio exhibition with the mentorship of Chris Bogia in May 2025, “Blow Winds! And Crack Your Cheeks!”, a series of paintings on hobby horses.
website: piercekinnally.com
instagram: @piercecorbink
James DeBay (born Burlington, Vermont) is a visual artist currently studying at Pratt Institute, where he is pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, with a minor in History of Art. He resides and works in both Brooklyn, New York, and Richmond, Vermont. He was an artist-in-residence at the Fish Factory, in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. He has also been employed at Munson in Utica, New York. DeBay has twice been the recipient of the Alfred T. Granger Art Fund Scholarship, Pratt Institute’s LMJ Material Award, and Pratt Munson’s Outstanding Freshman Award. DeBay’s art process is one of flux, constantly evolving as a young artist, though always remaining investigative and curious. His current work is concerned with the junction of nature and human, as well as emotion and logic. Specifically, he is interested in the pathos of science, informed by his life-long love of and exposure to the outdoors.
Website: jamesdebay.com
Ortega y Gasset Projects includes a small but mighty team of gallery assistants. Our invaluable assistants help with gallery sitting, art installation, administration, events, and interacting with gallery visitors. Through working directly with Co-Directors, assistants gain hands-on experience with all aspects of operation at OyG.
Accessories to the Project
Works by current and former OyG interns Megan Heckmann, Netta Sadovsky, Amy Stober, Alex Zandi and Kaini Zhou
Curated by OyG Projects
August 8 – August 16, 2015