The Distinguished Visiting Artist Program brings senior practicing artists to the Department to lead an intensive seminar, participate in graduate student critiques and assist MFA students in the development of their work and early professional career. Past visiting artists include Rebecca Belmore, Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol, Mark Boulos, David Claerbout, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Melanie Gilligan, Dan Graham, Brian Jungen, Mary Kelly, Michael Krebber, Scott Lyall, Ken Lum, Josephine Pryde, Jeanne Randolph, Stefan Romer, Cheyney Thompson, Kerry Tribe, Francesco Vezzoli, Ian Wallace and Li Yifan.
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Jakob Jakobsen - Artist's Talk
March 06, 2013
Jakob Jakobsen is a politically engaged visual artist, educator and activist. He was part of the Copenhagen Free University from 2001 to 2007 (copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk), was co-founder of the trade union Young Artworkers (UKK) (ukk.dk) in 2002, and the artist run television station tv-tv in 2004. He was professor at the Funen
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ART & VALUE: An Artist's Talk by Dave Beech
February 12, 2013
Dave Beech is an artist in the collective Free (with Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan), as well as a writer and curator. He studied painting at Leicester Polytechnic and Cultural Theory the Royal College of Art, where he researched the historical development of the concept of philistinism from Romanticism to Postmodernism.
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Arms Are Overrated: An Artist's Talk by Stanya Kahn
January 17, 2013
Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video, with a practice that includes performance, writing, sound design, drawing, animation and digital media. Kahn’s hybrid media practice borrows from pop vernacular, documentary tropes, improvisation, comedy and experimental film/video praxis in its
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Conversations with Stalin: A Performative Reading by Eleanor Antin
November 29, 2012
As part of the exhibition, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, at the Belkin Art Gallery, Eleanor Antin will give a performative reading of chapters from Conversations with Stalin.
Eleanor Antin is a major figure in the history of feminist art, who works in a variety of media, including
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TOTAL DISCLOSURE: An Artist's Talk by Scott Lyall
March 07, 2012
Scott Lyall is a Canadian-born artist, whose practice constructs intricate dispositifs, in which various epistemological models and concrete material processes find themselves in unfamiliar proximity, producing surprising aesthetic and theoretical effects. His print-works, graphic images, and sculptural
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Robert Macaire Presents: An Artist's Talk by Cheyney Thompson
November 30, 2011
Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. His work is the subject of a survey exhibition which will open at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on February 9, 2012. Alongside recent exhibitions at Sutton Lane (Brussels and Paris), Galerie
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A Talk by Francesco Vezzoli
November 14, 2011
Francesco Vezzoli is an Italian artist known for his lavish video works, in particular "Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula," and for his embroideries. His work explores melodrama, humour, and glamour, gravitating toward famous film directors, authors, fashion designers and pop icons, who star,
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Miss Austen Enjoys Photography: An Artist's Talk by Josephine Pryde
November 09, 2011
Josephine Pryde is an artist who lives in London, and in Berlin where she has been Professor for Contemporary Photography at the University of the Arts since 2008. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery, London; MD72, Berlin; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Group
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UN TRAIN PEUT EN CACHER UN AUTRE
April 01, 2011
Michael Krebber is a Cologne-based German artist whose practice incorporates painting, drawing, installation, critical writing and bookmaking. He has taught a painting class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2002. His critical writing has been published in Texte zur Kunst and
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Popular Unrest: An Artist’s Talk by Melanie Gilligan
November 23, 2010
"Of course you're special, special like everyone else."*
Melanie Gilligan is a London-based Canadian artist whose practice incorporates video, performance, drawing and installation, critical writing, and music. Gilligan has received numerous awards and commissions for her recent video works, which
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Ken Lum: On Public Art and the Unsayable
September 22, 2010
Ken Lum's practice as an artist is concerned with the dialectics of the private and public construction of identity, space and politics. Born in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work, Lum is internationally renowned for his work in sculpture, painting and photography. Monument for East Vancouver (pictured) is his
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Maria Eichhorn
February 01, 2010
Maria Eichhorn will present on works like the "Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices", "Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft", her new book The Artist's C o n t r a c t , the journal C a m p u s , her exhibitions "The Politics of Restitution", "Prohibited Imports" and, "Money at
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Ian Wallace
January 11, 2010
Ian Wallace is a Vancouver-based artist and art historian. A recent recipient of the Molson Prize, he is known throughout the world for his critical reflections and contributions as and pioneer in photo-conceptual art. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Wallace has served as a mentor and
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Mark Boulos
March 03, 2009
Mark Boulos works with documentary film, often around the themes of political militancy and religious ecstasy. He recently exhibited his work in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Swiss Art Awards in Basel, Bloomberg Space in London. He has received awards
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Bik Van der Pol
January 14, 2009
The Rotterdam artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been making work together for ten years. Proceeding from their engagement with the immediate surroundings they create installations, often architecturally inspired, which they fill with a specific
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Dan Graham
October 31, 2008
Dan Graham was one of the first artists to work within the parameters of "Conceptual Art" in the 1960s. He works across architecture, film, photography, and performance. Some of the main ideas, themes, and approahces he has explored throughout his career include: inter-subjectivity, the mirror and the double, time
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David Claerbout
October 11, 2008
David Claerbout's work explores the conventions of film and photography via digital technology. Often his work investigates the blurred boundary between still and moving images, with the main focus being on the manipulation of time: the singular moment versus narrative – repetition and the expansion of a moment into
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Jeanne Randolph
October 10, 2008
Jeanne Randolph is an autonomous intellectual whose talks, performances and writings reveal the commonalities between psychoanalytic theory, spectator sports, western philosophy, doo-dads, contemporary Canadian visual arts, advertising, insect life and other stuff. Her first book, PSYCHOANALYSIS & SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
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Mary Kelly
October 06, 2008
Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings.
Her recent exhibitions include Documenta XII, Kassel, , WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007, the 2004 Biennial,
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Li Yifan
October 03, 2008
Li Yifan is a Chinese artist and documentary filmmaker.
The Distinguished Visiting Artist Program is made possible through the generous support of Rennie Marketing Systems.
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Rebecca Belmore
March 13, 2008
Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through
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Stefan Romer
March 04, 2008
Stefan Romer is professor for New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and works conceptually between art practice and critical theory; his works and essays are widely exhibited and published. His background is activism and documentarism with the tendency to de-conceptualize traditional epistemological canons and dissolve
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Andrea Fraser
January 29, 2008
Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to
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Kerry Tribe
November 29, 2007
Kerry Tribe has had solo exhibitions at Art 28 Statements, Basel; REC, Berlin; Galerie Masonneuve, Paris; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her work has also been shown at Kunst-Werke Berlin; The Generali Foundation, Vienna; ARTSPACE, Auckland; 36th Edition International Film Festival,
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Brian Jungen
February 15, 2007
Panel Discussion with Brian Jungen.
Assistance provided by the Dean of Arts Office has enabled Brian Jungen to be the Distinguished Visiting Artist in residence for February 2007 in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. AHVA gratefully acknowledges assistance provided by the Dean which as made this
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