HAROLD OFFEH

 Lecture Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 11:30 AM EST 

 Harold Offeh  is an artist working across performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture, grappling with issues such as colonialism, the dynamics of work, labour and gender, and ideals of masculine power. Offeh lives and works in Cambridge and London, UK. He has exhibited widely including at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Kettle’s YardCambridge, Studio Museum, Harlem, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, and Art Tower Mito, Japan. Offeh is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the largest award of its kind in the UK.

 

BANI ABIDI  

 Lecture Tuesday October, 26, 2021 11:30 AM EST 

Bani Abidi (b.1971) born in Karachi, Pakistan, and now working between Berlin and Karachi, uses video and photography to comment on politics and culture, often through humorous or absurd vignettes. Abidi studied visual art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg; Experimenter, Kolkata, amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include: Shanghai Biennale, 2020; 11th Seoul Media City Biennale, 2021; Edinburgh Arts Festival, 2016; 8th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2014; No Country, Guggenheim Museum, NY, 2013; Documenta 13, 2012; Kochi Muziris Biennial, 2012; Xth Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, 2009.

NINA KATCHADOURIAN

 Lecture Tuesday, November 9,  2021 11:30 AM EST 

Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video,

performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Much of her work originates in the mundane matter of the everyday, and makes the case for taking a closer look at what’s close at hand. Her video Accent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2016 Katchadourian created Dust Gathering, an audio tour on the subject of dust, for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A traveling solo museum survey entitled “Curiouser” opened in 2017 at the Blanton Museum of Art, with an accompanying monograph. Katchadourian is Full Professor of Practice on the faculty of NYU Gallatin. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World (Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, and Pace London, 2022) and Natural Selection, Pace Hong Kong, November 2021. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery and lives between Berlin and Brooklyn

INCI EVINER

 Lecture Tuesday, November 16,  2021 11:30 AM EST 

Inci Eviner was born in Ankara. After graduating from the Painting Department of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Eviner pursued a PhD in the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University, receiving her degree in 1992. After presenting her video work “Harem” in her representer gallery Galeri Nev Istanbul in 2009, she gained a high international interest and her works started to be included in important collections worldwide. Eviner received prizes from the Sharjah Art Biennial in 2017 (13 Prize); she was also invited to artist residencies such as Rauschenberg Foundation in Florida, Headlands Center for the Arts in California and ISPC in New York USA; SAM Art Projects in Paris and MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne in France; Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio in Como, Italy throughout her career.

SAM DURANT 

 Lecture Tuesday November 30, 2021, 11:30 AM EST 

 

Sam Durant is an interdisciplinary artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. His methodology is research based but with an emphasis on social engagement, often working with communities and groups in collaborative and performative formations. Durant’s work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including Documenta 13, the Yokohama Triennial, the Venice, Sydney, Busan, Liverpool, Panama, and Whitney Biennials. His work can be found in many public collections including Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, Tate Modern, London, England. Durant is based in Berlin and Los Angeles and teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts.

 JEFFREY VALLANCE 

 Lecture Tuesday, December 9, 2021 11:30 AM EST 

Jeffrey Vallance is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Best known for projects that blur the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curation and anthropological study. Among Vallance’s many solo exhibitions since the mid-1970’s, his most notable include The Vallance Bible at Centre d'édition contemporaine in Geneva, Switzerland (2012), The Word of God at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (2011-2012), The Vallance Bible at Centre d'édition contemporaine (2010), Lars Pirak of Lapland, an intervention project at Ájtte Sámi Museum in Jokkmokk, Sweden (2009), Relics and Reliquaries at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA (2007), De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal in Middelburg, Holland (2007), Preserving America’s Cultural Heritage at LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2006), among others.

sconsin-Oshkosh in 1982. Kahlhamer is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas and the Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, among others. His work has been exhibited extensively in the United States as well as internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Brad Kahlhamer: A Nation of One, at the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota (2019-2020) ; Super Catcher, Vast Array, at Open Spaces, Kansas City, Missouri (2018) ; Other Walks, Other Lines, at the San Jose Museum of Art, California (2018-2019). He was part of the Musée du Quai Branly’s exhibition The Art and Life of the Plains Indians opening in 2014 traveling to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

 

ADDITIONAL CRITIQUES WITH VISITING ARTISTS:

 

CARMEL BUCKLEY

Born in Derby, England, Carmel Buckley, Full Professor, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (United Kingdom) in 1978. She continued her studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Madrid University from 1979-80 and, with a Mexican Government Scholarship, at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City from 1983-84. In 1988 she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, New York as a Fulbright Fellow. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Art Sculpture Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award.

In 1994 she had a solo exhibition at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Recent solo exhibitions

include The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (2009), Clay Street Press, Cincinnati (2011), and The Center For Recent Drawing, London, England (2012); two-person show at Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England (2016-17); public art projects “Cloud’s Gold” & “Inhuman Colors,” Camp Washington, Cincinnati, OH, 2020. Group shows include Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (2005); Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (2006); E:vent Gallery, London, England (2009); Sculpture Key West, Key West, Florida (2011); “Women to Watch” at the Riffe Center, Columbus (2018); Columbus Museum

of Art, (2018); Anytime Dept., Cincinnati (2019).

 

SHELLY BAHL 

Bahl was born in Benares, India, raised in a few Indian cities, and later in Toronto, Canada. She is currently based in New York City. Bahl received her BFA (Visual Art and Art History) from York University, Toronto and her MA (Studio Art) from New York University. Her interdisciplinary work in drawing, painting, sculpture/ installation, performance, photography and video has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions in North America and internationally. Shelly Bahl is an interdisciplinary artist and decolonizing art trailblazer. She has been leading and participating in BIPOC and feminist artist-run culture in Toronto and NYC for over 25 years. Her art practice explores the strange and surreal aspects of cultural hybridity and old and new forms of colonization. She is interested in the global transmission of iconographies and other forms of visual culture. She also investigates the surrealistic experiences of women who lead enigmatic trans-cultural lives. These narratives are based in facts and fictions rooted in specific cultural histories, which she then re-contextualizes and re-imagines. 

SOWON KWON 

Sowon Kwon works in a range of media including sculptural and video installations, digital animation, drawing, printmaking, and books. Her recent work explores portraiture, perception, and historical memory as our bodies are increasingly submitted to and made accessible through technology. She has had solo exhibitions at The Kitchen in New York City, Matrix Gallery/Berkeley Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (now Altria). Her work has also been featured in many group exhibitions in the US and abroad at: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICA Boston, MOCA Los Angeles, The Queens Museum, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Artist Space, The Drawing Center, Artsonje Center in Seoul, Korea, the Gwangju Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale in Japan, and San Art in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is a recipient of fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts in Sculpture, The Asian American Arts Center, and The Wexner Center for the Arts in Media Arts. Kwon holds a double major B.A. in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of California in Berkeley, and an M.F.A from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She also attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

TODD AYOUNG

Originally born in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I., and educated in the United States, Todd Ayoung is a multi-media visual artist specializing in two and three-dimensional design. Todd has exhibited in museums and galleries in Denmark, Austria, Belgium, England, Holland, Colombia, Costa Rica, and throughout the United States. His artwork has been published in THIRD TEXT, Front 3, Fredag, New York Talk, DOCUMENTS, Bomb Magazine, Kyoto Journal, Semiotext(e), Found Object, Art Journal, New Observations, Social Text, ARTBAR, Artworld Digest Magazine and Shifter Magazine.

 

VISTING CURATORS 

 

ELYSE GOLDBERG

Elyse Goldberg, is currently an Independent curator and Art Advisor specializing in contemporary art, focusing on diverse visions of  emerging and established artists, developing public commissions and special projects, as well as mentoring artists. Goldberg, brings more than 30 years experience  in the contemporary art community, as former co-director of the John Weber Gallery from 1988-1997. Among the many seminal conceptual, minimal and landwork artists represented by Weber, she worked with, to name a few, Nancy Holt, Sol LeWitt,  the Estate of Robert Smithson,  Alice Aycock, Mel Kendrick, Allan Mccollum, Adrian Piper, Barbara Kasten, and Charles Gaines, Luca Buvoli. Upon leaving John Weber, she worked as an independent curator and art advisor, 1997-1999, curating shows such as Story for AC projects and Souvenirs/Documents 20 Years, PS122,NY. Goldberg joined the James Cohan Gallery in 1999-2020 as the Liaison of the Estate of Robert Smithson, after which her role expanded at the gallery as Director and developed  programming, worked  directly with represented artists such as Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Roxy Paine, Jesper Just, Fred Tomaselli, Yinka Shonibare, Ingrid Calame and Trenton Doyle Hancock, Simon Evans™. Goldberg collaboratively and individually organized in-house solo and group exhibitions, such as A Brighter Day, Cosmologies, Masks, Tell-Tale Heart (part two) White Noise,   Sages’ Sayings, (2nd Iteration) Wang Xieda, The Big Id, Object Fictions, Balls, engaged with curators internationally on exhibitions as well as worked with private collectors and museums to acquire works for both private and public collections. Having a strong interest in all film genres, in 1995,  initiated and co-produced a feature length Indie film titled Luminous Motion, along   with Good Machine producers Ted Hope and Anthony Bregman,  Executive Produced by  Fiona Films, directed by Bette Gordon, which premiered in 1999, showcased at the Locarno Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival  and premiered in New York City at the Angelika Cinema. Curated, Unseen, Fountain House, NY, a Not-for Profit  Foundation, Gallery and Studio which provides an environment where artists living with mental illness can express their creative visions and exhibit their work. Embracing artists who are emerging or established, trained or self-taught, Fountain House Gallery cultivates artistic growth, makes a vital contribution to the New York arts community and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness.

 

KRISTEN HILEMAN

Baltimore-based independent curator Kristen Hileman spent nearly two decades organizing exhibitions and building collections at museums, first as a curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC and more recently as the Head of the Contemporary Department at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Among her current projects is a survey of female-identifying artists working in abstraction across the Mid-Atlantic region, which will be presented at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington in late 2021 and at the American University Museum in Washington, DC in early 2022. During spring 2021, Hileman is visiting faculty at UMBC; she has previously taught courses on contemporary art and theory at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University.

 

CECILIA WICHMANN

Cecilia Wichmann is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has worked on major exhibitions, including Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art and Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963−2017. Her own curated exhibitions include Tschabalala Self: By My Self, SHAN Wallace: 410, Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young: Back and Song, Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist and Hitching Their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott, among others. Before joining the BMA in 2017, she led the Stamp Gallery and Contemporary Art Purchasing Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she completed her MA in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in 2015. She began her museum career at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.  

 

VESELA SRETENOVIĆ

Vesela Sretenović has been a senior curator of modern and contemporary art at The Phillips Collection since 2009. Upon her arrival to the Phillips, she initiated a series of ongoing art projects called Intersections, inviting contemporary artists—national and international, emerging and established—to engage with the museum permanent collection and architecture and present or create new work. Additionally, Sretenović had organized numerous solo exhibitions of prominent artists including Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Antony Gormley, Richard Tuttle, Los Carpinteros, and most currently a first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez. She is currently preparing two other projects by an Australian artist Marley Dawson and Harlem-based Sanford Biggers. Prior to joining the Phillips, Sretenović spent ten years as curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, while also teaching contemporary art and art

theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. Earlier in her career, Sretenović worked for the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She holds a BA from University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Doctoral degree in Humanities from Syracuse University.

 

YU YEON KIM 

Yu Yeon Kim is an independent curator of numerous international exhibitions including One Breath: Infinite Vision, Ink Studio Beijing (2019); New Conjunctions & Intersections, UN (2015) ; Idyllic Synthesis, Seoul Metropolitan Museum (2013); Mediation Biennale, Poland (2008); DMZ, Paju Book City, Korea (2000-6); Liverpool Biennial (2004) ; Translated Acts, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, Queens Museum of Art, New York, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2001-3); Gwangju Biennale (2000) ; Mexico Cinco Continentes y Una Ciudad Biennale (1998) ; Johannesburg Biennale, S.Africa (1997).

 

MANUEL CIRAUQUI 

Manuel Cirauqui is a curator and writer, working at the crossroads of contemporary art, design strategy, and experimental academia. Cirauqui currently serves as curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and is also the founding director of Eina/Idea, a think tank associated to EINA University School of Design and Art, attached to the Autonomous University of Barcelona. At the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, he has organized the major exhibitions Soto The Fourth Dimension (2019); Architecture Effects (2018, co-curated with Troy Conrad Therrien); Henri Michaux The Other Side (2018); Art and Space (2017); and Anni Albers.