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Department of Art and Art History

The Visiting Artists Program

Each year, internationally known artists visit the department during fall semester to give public lectures and seminars, and to meet with graduate students for critiques.

Recent visiting artists include:

  • Painters: Erik Parker, Yun-Fei Ji, Polly Apfelbaum, Trenton Doyle Hancok, Dana Schultz, Bridget Riley, Mary Heilman, Julie Heffernan, Pat Stein, Richmond Burton, Alexis Rocman, Philip Taaffe, Jim Nutt
  • Photographers: Sharon Lockhart, James Welling, Justine Kurland, Mitch Epstein, Michael Snow, Barbara Ess
  • Installation/Performance/Transmedia: Tony Conrad, Stanya Kahn, Daniel Bozhkov, William Pope.L, Barbara Bloom, Lawrence Weiner, Matt Mullican
  • Printmakers: See GAPP, Guest Artist in Printmaking Program
  • Sculptors: Amanda Ross-Ho, Luis Gispert, Kristin Morgin, Rachel Harrison, Dario Robleto, Sarah Sze, Petah Coyne, Judy Fox, Mark Dion, Charles Long, Charles Ray, James Turrell

Map to Art Building (ART)

Current Events in the Department of Art and Art History

Fall 2011 Visiting Artists

Steve Roden

Lecture: Monday, September 12, 5–6 pm, ART 1.102

Seminar: Tuesday, September 13, 2–3:30 pm, ART 3.206 (Transmedia Studio)

Los Angeles-based artist Steve Roden works in painting, sound, installation, video, and performance. His work uses various forms of specific notational systems (written language, musical scores, maps) and translates them through self-invented systems, which then provide an improvisational rubric to influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. He received an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1989. Roden has been exhibiting visual and sound works since the mid-1980s and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at such venues as the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Greece.

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Jon Rafman

Lecture: Monday, October 24, 5–6 pm, ART 1.102

Seminar: Tuesday, October 25, 2–3:30 pm, ART 3.206 (Transmedia Studio)

Jon Rafman, who lives and works in Montreal, often acts as a cyberspace anthropologist, performing exploratory ventures into areas of the Internet such as social media and web mapping sites. Rafman represents automated, “neutral” documentations of our world via Google Maps and conducts guided tours of Second Life, providing sociological glimpses at varied online subcultures. Through these almost curatorial efforts, Rafman questions ideas of privacy and surveillance and seeks, in a sense, to “humanize” digital media. He received an MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. His work has been seen in exhibitions at venues such as The New Museum, New York; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Johan Berggren Gallery, Sweden; and the 2010 Ars Electronica Festival, Austria.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko

Lecture: Wednesday, November 16, 5–6:30 pm, ART 1.102

Seminar: Thursday, November 17, 2–3:30 pm, ART 3.206 (Transmedia Studio)

Krzysztof Wodiczko utilizes architectural facades and monuments as surfaces for his politically charged slide and video projections. His work speaks to issues of democracy, including human rights, violence, alienation, and inhumanity. In the spirit of tactical media, Wodiczko’s artwork “reveals the contradiction of the environment and the events actually taking place there.” Wodiczko earned his MFA in 1968 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the last decade, Wodiczko has realized more than seventy public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. Since 1985, he has been honored with eight major retrospectives at such institutions as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.