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Dec. 4, 2012:SHAHZIA SIKANDER

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.

Still from “SpiNN” 2003

More information can be found here:

www.shahziasikander.com

Shahzia Sikander Art21

“Unseen” 2012

Sept. 11, 2012: KATE GILMORE

The VALS team would like to thank everyone for making last week’s debut such a memorable event. This week we are honored to have Kate Gilmore as the next visiting artist in our series. There will be a screening of a selection or her performances and a discussion over food and drink.

Wall Bearer
Wall Bearer 2011

 Kate Gilmore is an installation, video, and performance-based artist.  Selected exhibitions include the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Bryant Park (Public Art Fund); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Artpace, San Antonio; The J. Paul Getty Museum; The Rose Art Museum; Istanbul Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center. She has a solo exhibition opening at MOCA Cleveland in March 2013.  Gilmore has been the recipient of several international awards and honors, such as the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, The LMCC Workspace Residency, New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Residency.  Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Links to videos and images of her performances can be found at www.kategilmore.com.

Walk the Walk, Bryant Park, 2010

 

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Sept. 4, 2012: ALFREDO JAAR

Kultur=Kapital

The VALS team is very excited to present our inaugural speaker for the 2012-2013 season: Alfredo Jaar.

Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1956.

His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice, São Paulo, Sydney, and Istanbul among others, as well as Documenta in Kassel.

Venues for his solo exhibitions include the New Museum in NY, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Fundación Telefónica in Santiago and Musée des Beaux Arts in Lausanne. This summer in Berlin an extensive retrospective titled, “The Way It Is. An Aesthetics of Resistance,” was presented by the New Society for Visual Arts across three major sites around the city.

Jaar is a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and has received Spain’s prestigious Premio Extremadura a la Creación.

More information can be found at:

www.alfredojaar.net

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/art/alfredo-jaar

The Eyes of Gutete Emerita 1996/ 2000