Spring 2026 Series
Teresita Fernández / Tuesday, February 3
Claire Bishop / Tuesday, February 17
Marcela Guerrero / Tuesday, April 28
Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández in Conversation with Dolores Zinny
Tuesday, February 3
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
4:30 p.m.
(Image Credit: Axel Dupeux)
Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations. Her luminous, sculptural works poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of Fernández’s work, which confronts these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense.
Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a: Guggenheim Fellowship; Creative Capital Award; Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Award; Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; American Academy of Rome Fellowship; and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant. Her works have been shown both nationally and internationally at The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among others. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and is the first Latina to serve on the 100-year-old federal panel. In 2016, she conceived and directed the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium with the Ford Foundation
Claire Bishop
Ancestral Avant-gardes
Tuesday, February 17
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
4:30 p.m.
(Image Credit: Sarah Blesener)
Claire Bishop is an art critic and historian based in New York at CUNY Graduate Center. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012, winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism), a book of conversations with the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (Cisneros, 2020), and Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Verso, 2024, shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award). She is a a Contributing Editor of Artforum, a Guggenheim Fellow (2024), and her essays and books have been translated into twenty languages.
Marcela Guerrero
Tuesday, April 28
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
4:00 p.m.