June 2024 Residency thematic: “A Fresh Start”
ArtTALKS
June 25-28, 2024
Tuesday, June 25
Abigail Winograd
Wednesday, June 26
Dana Hoey
Thursday, June 27
Luis Croquer
Friday, June 28
Sreshta Rit Premnath
Opening of Jeffrey Gibson U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, co-curated by Abigail Winograd
Art Talks Speaker Bios
Abigail Winograd
Co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennial featuring Jeffrey Gibson, the first ever indigenous American artist featured, Winograd has held positions at the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, D.C., the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Dana Hoey
A photographer who examines contemporary female identity through staged and directed photographs and videos, Hoey’s solo projects include those at MOCA Detroit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, D.C., Petzel Gallery, NY, and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMB, Baltimore. Hoey is currently pursuing an MDiv at the Harvard Divinity School.
Luis Croquer
Originally from El Salvador, Croquer has been a curator at El Museo del Barrio in NYC, deputy director at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, director and chief curator at MOCA Detroit, and director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham. Now in academia, Croquer will be our inaugural visiting faculty at Clark MFA in Visual Arts.
Sreshta Rit Premnath
Premnath is a mixed media artist whose works explore the relationship of power exerted over marginalized communities. Solo exhibitions include those at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, ICA San Diego, CAM St. Louis, Nomas Foundation, Rome, and the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. Premnath is an associate professor at Williams College.
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