It has been such a pleasure coordinating these lectures for such a receptive audience. Thank you for your wonderful suggestions and your enthusiastic participation. After our last exciting speaker of the semester, Shahzia Sikander, we will pass the reins over to Lauren Silva and Matthew Wilson who have an amazing lineup planned for the spring semester.
“Fleshy Weapons” 1997
Shahzia Sikander was born in Lahore, Pakistan and lives and works in New York City. She is a MacArthur fellow and a recent recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s inaugural Medal of Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such national and international venues as the MoMA, the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the Venice Biennale, and the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia.
We hope you enjoyed the highly spirited, entertaining, and insightful stylings of our very own Tom Roma as much as we did. This week, we are very excited to be welcoming the highly anticipated Tom Sachs as our penultimate speaker for the fall semester.
“NASAblad” 2008
Tom Sachs was born in New York in 1966. His work has been included in many exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and has been collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, San Francisco MOMA, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo. Major solo exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe, the Bohen Foundation, New York, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, and Fondazione Prada, Milan. Sachs lives and works in New York.
This coming week, our VALS team is very proud and honored to present our very own Tom Roma:
From “Dark Knights and Dark Horses” 2010
Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions including the MoMA and the International Center of Photography. His books include: “Come Sunday,” “Found in Brooklyn,” “Show & Tell,” “Sanctuary,” “Sicilian Passage” and “In Prison Air.” He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and, in 1996, became the Director of Photography here at Columbia University School of the Arts. His work is in numerous collections, including SF MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. He is also a founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake Magazine. Roma is a builder of, among many other things, baseball bats, motorcycles, and of course, cameras.
We hope everyone, along with their nearest and dearest, is safe and warm after a tumultuous couple of weeks. If anyone needs any assistance, please reach out and your Columbia community will be here for you. All you need do is ask.
Now that VALS is back up and running, we have another special outing planned for this coming Tuesday: a walkthrough with Jules de Balincourt at his current solo exhibition, “Ecstatic Contact.” Details have been sent to your emails as we are limiting this session to our graduate program.
Illuminated, 2012
Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris in 1972, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, MASS MoCA, Shanghai Museum in China, Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. De Balincourt founded and operated the alternative art venue Starr Space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Starr Space operated for three years and was used for diverse community programming like art events, yoga, a weekly farmers market, rock shows, church parties and fundraisers. His work will be the subject of solo exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2013.
Luca Buvoli is an Italian-born artist working with animated film and video, installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Solo shows include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the M.I.T. List Center, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC (2003). Group shows include the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa, and Greater New York at P.S. 1. His animated films and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Lincoln Center in New York, the ICA in Boston, and the British Library in London. A Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Buvoli has received grants and awards from NYSCA, NYFA, Creative Capital and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Guggenheim Museum and other institutions around the world.
Tomaselli, Field Guides, 2003Bradford, Los Moscos, 2004
This week, we’re taking VALS out of Prentis with two very special events that are not to be missed! On Tuesday, October 23rd, Fred Tomaselli has graciously invited us into his studio to view works in progress. On Thursday, October 25th, we will get a preview/ walkthrough with Mark Bradford of his upcoming show at Sikkema Jenkins. Details for both will be sent via email. Due to capacity limitations at both venues, these sessions will be limited to Columbia MFA Visual Arts students.
Penetrators, 2012
Fred Tomaselli was born in Santa Monica, California in 1956. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Berlin Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the Site Santa Fe Biennial, Prospect.1 New Orleans and the Sydney Biennale. Solo exhibition venues include the Whitney, the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art in Buffalo, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Brooklyn Museum. His work can be found in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, LACMA, MoCA LA, the MoMA and the Whitney. Tomaselli is represented by James Cohan Gallery in the United States and by White Cube Gallery in the UK. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961 where he continues to live and work. He has received many awards, including the Bucksbaum Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and, in 2009, the MacArthur Fellowship. He has been included in major exhibitions at LACMA, the Whitney, REDCAT Los Angeles, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem and has participated in the twenty-seventh Bienal de São Paulo, the Istanbul Biennial and “inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain,” San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico (2005).
Shirin Neshat is a visual artist known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. She was born in Qazvin, Iran and now lives and works in New York City.
Neshat has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Walker in Minneapolis, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjevik. She was included in Prospect 1, the 2008 New Orleans Biennial and documenta XI and has also participated in several film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, Sundance, and the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals.
Neshat is the recipient of the Lillian Gish Prize, the First International Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale, the Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and the 2000 Alpert Award in the Arts. A major retrospective of her work, organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, will open in 2013.
Marilyn Minter is a multimedia artist who lives and works in New York City. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including SFMoMA, the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival in France and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany. Minter has also been featured in solo gallery shows at Regen Projects in Los Angeles and Salon 94 and Team Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in “Riotous Baroque,” a group exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich which will travel to the Guggenheim Bilboa in June 2013.
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and participation in last week’s VALS visit. Let’s keep it up as we welcome Martin Kersels this coming Tuesday.
Sleeper’s Dream, 2003
Martin Kersels was born in Los Angeles and is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale. His body of work ranges from the collaborative performances with the group SHRIMPS (1984-1993) to large-scale sculptures such as Tumble Room (2001). Since 1994, Mr. Kersels’ objects and projects have been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including the 1997 and 2010 Whitney Biennials, the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, the Tinguely Museum, Kunsthalle Bern, and the Getty Museum. A survey of his work, entitled “Heavyweight Champion,” was exhibited at the Tang Museum in 2007 and the Santa Monica Museum in 2008. Before arriving at Yale, Mr. Kersels was a faculty member and Co-Director of the Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts.
This coming Tuesday, your VALS team is very excited to present multimedia artist, Paul Pfeiffer.
Playroom 2012
Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, HI, spent most of his childhood in the Philippines, and has lived and worked in New York since 1990. Sites for solo exhibitions include the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the Barbican Arts Centre in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Pfeiffer has participated in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale and is the recipient of numerous awards including the inaugural Bucksbaum Award, the Alpert Award, and the Guna S. Mundheim Berlin Prize. His work can be found in the collections of the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, the Ellipse Foundation in Portugal, the Guggenheim, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. Pfeiffer has a solo exhibition currently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery.
