LUCY SKAER 

 

 

Lecture Tuesday March 1, 2022, 11:30 AM EST 

 

 

Lucy Skaer is a sculptor whose work slows ideas down to abstractions and makes them concrete. She once put a whale skeleton behind a partitioned wall so that it was only visible one sliver at time. She represented the ancient Terracotta Army of Chinese funerary figures as 530 tenmoku-glazed stoneware lozenges—an homage, in part, to the British ceramicist Bernard Leach. Who makes history? What is the “grammar” of sameness and difference? How do ideas unfold?  These are questions of Skaer’s art. Recent solo shows include The Bloomberg Space in London,2020, SMAK, Ghent, 2019, Talbot Rice in Edinburgh, 2018, Tate St Ives, 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin 2017, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, 2017, Institute Melly (Formerly Witte de With) in Rotterdam, 2016, Yale Union in Portland, 2013, Tramway in Glasgow, 2013, and Sculpture Center in New York, 2012, Kunsthalle Basel, 2009. Major group exhibitions include the Carnegie International, 2018, Documenta 14, 2017. Lucy Skaer received a BA from the Environmental Art Department at Glasgow School of Art. She was a 2009 Turner Prize nominee. She is at work on a commission for the Thames Tideway Sculpture Park for 2024 and will be a forthcoming resident at the Chianti Foundation. 

 

PIERO GOLIA

 

 

Lecture Tuesday March 8, 2022, 11:30 AM EST 

 

 

Italian-born, Los Angeles–based artist Piero Golia is a sculptor of situations. His work—always heterogenous and unpredictable—can broadly be defined as “social sculptures,” acting as a catalyst to spark a chain reaction, altering the viewer’s perception of art and expanding the possibilities of what art can mean. Golia’s sculptures and installations have entered esteemed public collections and have been exhibited at major international museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Witte de With, Rotterdam; MoMA PS1, New York; Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland; The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.  Golia co-founded the Los Angeles-based Mountain School of Arts in 2005. In 2013 he was invited to co-represent Italy at the Venice Biennale. He was recognized with a Graham Foundation Award in 2014 and finalist for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2021.

 

FRANCISCA CARVALHO

 

 

Lecture Tuesday March 22, 2022, 11:30 AM EST 

 

 

 

Francisca Carvalho was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1981. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2004 she completed the Advance Course in Visual Arts at Ar.Co. In 2009 she graduated in Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (FCSH-UNL); In 2016 she completed an MFA in Multidisciplinary Studies at the Mount Royal School of Art – MICA. In 2014 she received a Fulbright/Carmona e Costa Foundation scholarship. Since 2008 she has been teaching drawing and painting at Ar.Co. Recently her work has been exhibited in several solo shows at art foundations, institutions and galleries like: “Chordata”, Culturgest, Porto (2016); “Hasta”, National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi (2018); “Tiger montain”, A Maior (a curatorial project by Bruno Zhu), Viseu (2018); “Hentai Flipper Tsunami” with André Almeida e Sousa at Sá da Costa, Lisbon (2019); “Loom”, ArtWorks, Póvoa de Varzim (2019); “To wake up late” Lehmann + Silva Gallery, Porto (2019); “Le ciel du spermatozoide” Fernando Santos Gallery, Porto (2020); “Cosmic Tones”, CIAJG, Guimarães (2021). She has also participated in collective shows like: “Farsa”, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); “Canto”, Appleton Box, Lisbon (2020); “A wake”, Outono Projects, Lisbon (2020); “Orto di Incendio”, Istituto Nazionale per la Gráfica, Rome (2019); “Navigator. Art on Paper Prize”, Chiado 8, Lisbon (2018). In 2018 she received an artistic-research grant from Gulbenkian Foundation and Oriente Foundation to pursue a research on natural dyeing practices, kalamkari and hand-block printing in India. In 2010 she co-founded Atelier Concorde, an artist’s-run space in Lisbon.

 

SHANA MOULTON  

 

 

Lecture Tuesday April 19, 2022, 11:30 AM EST 

 

 

Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.

Recent solo shows include the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA, the MNew Museum, NY (online), , Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, MOCA Cleveland, OH, Contemporary Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden, s, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany, and presented her video and performance works in many group shows in international museums, biennials, and film festivals.

 

LUCY ANNALEE DAVIS

 

 

Lecture Tuesday April 26, 2022, 11:30 AM EST 

 

 

 

Annalee Davis is a visual artist, cultural instigator, educator and writer, with a hybrid practice. She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados. Her studio, located on a working dairy farm, operated historically as a 17thC sugarcane plantation, offering a critical context for her practice by engaging with the residue of the plantation. She has been making and showing her work regionally and internationally since the early nineties.

In 201, Annalee founded Fresh Milk, an arts platform and micro-residency program. In 2012 she co-founded Caribbean Linked, an annual residency in Aruba, cohering emerging artists, writers and curators from the Caribbean and Latin America. In 2015, she co-founded Tilting Axis, an independent visual arts platform bridging the Caribbean through annual encounters. From 2016-2018, she was Caribbean Arts Manager with the British Council, developing programming in Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and part-time tutor at Barbados Community College (2005-2018). She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1986) and an MFA from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989).

 

Additional 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).

 

AYISHA ABRAHAM

Bangalore-based Ayisha Abraham is a visual artist who does installation art and mixed media work. She has made a series of short digital films crafted out of found footage.  Her films and videos have been screened at the South Asian Film Festival for Documentary, Kathmandu, Nepal, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Pompidou Center, Paris, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.and at the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works as a visual arts consultant at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India. 

 

VISITNG CURATORS:

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.

 

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.

 

BÁRBARA PEREA LEGORRETA 

Bárbara Perea Legorreta is an independent Mexico City-based curator and writer. Her practice focuses primarily on media and sound art and is grounded in the concept of exhibition making as a platform for critical thinking. Core aspects of her practice include transdisciplinarity and fostering dialogues between media art, contemporary practices and audiences. She is interested in listening practices and perceptual phenomena in relation to art. Bárbara Perea Legorreta has curated exhibitions and festivals in Mexico, Europe, Canada and the United States, including at Plataforma Puebla 2006; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; and the Venice Biennale, among others. 

DAN CAMERON 

Dan Cameron is a curator of contemporary art who also writes about art, teaches & gives lectures about art, makes art, serves on art-related juries and boards, and advises both public and private collections. He has lived in downtown Manhattan since 1979, although for periods of time he has also been based in New Orleans, LA and Long Beach, CA. 

 

Throughout his 40-plus year career organizing exhibitions, Dan has steadfastly championed both the unexpected and the under-recognized. In 1982, he was the first American curator to organize a museum exhibition on LGBTQ art, and in 2008 he launched the Prospect New Orleans triennial in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Along the way, he has curated international biennials in Istanbul, Taipei, Ecuador and Orange County, California, as well as retrospectives of such esteemed artists as Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Peter Saul, William Kentridge, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Cildo Meireles, and Martin Wong. As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2017, the Palm Springs Art Museum hosted Dan's exhibition Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969.

 

EVELYN C. HANKINS 

Evelyn C. Hankins has been a curator at the Hirshhorn since 2008. Her most recent projects include Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes (2018–2019), a major monographic survey, and Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge (2017–2021), the internationally renowned artist’s largest work to date. Hankins was lauded for her exhibition Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (2016), a two-part project comprising a historical show focusing on Irwin’s groundbreaking artworks from the 1960s and a major new scrim installation in response to the museum’s distinctive architecture.  While at the Hirshhorn, she has also organized an array of projects, including Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History (2017); Susan Philipsz: Part File Score (2016); At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection (2014) (co-curated); Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance (2013); Over, Under Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present (2013); ColorForms (2010); Walead Beshty: Legibility on Color Backgrounds (2009); and The Panza Collection (2008). She also was the venue curator for the traveling exhibitions, Andy Warhol: Shadows (2012); Blinky Palermo (2012); and Guillermo Kuitca: Everything (2010). Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University.

SARAH O’KEEFFE

Sara O’Keeffe works at Art Omi after serving as Nancy E. Meinig Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2019-2022. There, she organized From the Limitations of Now (2021), an exhibition developed with community partners inspired by a speech that Oklahoma-born author Ralph Ellison delivered in his home state about art’s role in addressing histories that have been suppressed in Oklahoma and across the country. During her time at Philbrook, O’Keeffe added significant works by Marisol, Lonnie Holley, and Troy Montes-Michie to the Museum’s permanent collection.

From 2013-2019, O’Keeffe was at the New Museum in New York as Assistant and Associate Curator, where she co-curated Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (2017) with Johanna Burton and Natalie Bell, a group exhibition that investigated gender’s place in contemporary art and culture, and was on the curatorial team for the Triennial: Surround Audience (2015) with Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin. While at the New Museum, she curated projects with Morgan Bassichis, Dynasty Handbag, Carolyn Lazard, Tau Lewis, and Sable Elyse Smith, among others.

In 2016, O’Keeffe organized the Museum’s first youth summit, Scamming the Patriarchy, developed by an emerging generation of artists, writers, and activists, including BUFU, Brujas, Discwoman, and members of House of Ladosha. The summit was organized around five guiding principles: healing, self-love, skill building, political education, and empowerment. She has contributed to ArtReview, CURA, Mousse, Osmos Magazine, Topical Cream, and catalogues including the Triennial: Surround Audience, Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, and La Biennale di Venezia 2019: May You Live in Interesting Times. Before joining the New Museum, O’Keeffe worked in the Curatorial Department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from 2011-2013.

LIAO LIAO 

Liao Liao is a Curator, art critic, cultural columnist, lecturer of academic lectures at the doctoral program of National Taiwan University of the Arts,  Qinghua University, and Sichuang art institute. He was the juror of the New Star Art Award, film screenwriter, documentary filmmaker. Main exhibitions and works: Paris "Sino-French Erotic Art Joint Exhibition", Taipei Exhibition "All Solids Disappeared", Beijing "The Third Copy: Shi Jinsong Solo Exhibition", Longli International New Media Art Festival, "NetEase Cup" Global Digital and Sculpture Competition, " NOT ONE CONDITION" Hundred Young Artists Exhibition, etc. He used to be a cultural columnist for "Reader", "Phoenix Culture Channel", "China Youth" and other media. He writes art reviews in media such as Art Investment, Art Market, Artron Art, Artist Guest, Fortune Hall ART, etc. Published books: cultural review "Insights", art review "The Third Reproduction", Documentary: Producer of The Metamorphosis Of Book. Movie: Screenwriter of "Golden Hong Kong Film Club".