Autumn 2018 in Brief
Diving Into the Wreck: Re-enacting Critical Practice—the course for all first-year MFA students from each area of graduate study and led by Dean and Professor Marta Kuzma—will include guest speakers Peter Osborne, Andrea Fraser, Muneer Ahmad, Walid Raad, and Tavia Nyong’o, among others.
Andrea Fraser will lead an all-school workshop following her public lecture and presentation in Diving into the Wreck on October 9 and 10. Additionally, the YSoA is continuing to extend the all-school workshops as cooperations with schools and departments across Yale University. This autumn’s all-school workshops also include Hito Steyerl’s Cryptocurrency Workshop (with the Yale School of Management) and Sarah Oppenheimer’s The Sensitive Machine Workshop (with the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design).
In GRAPHIC DESIGN, a new course, Programming as Writing, will be offered for the first time this fall, following a series of public conversations hosted at EIK in the spring by Dan Michaelson, Ayham Ghraowi, and Laurel Schwulst. Back for his 21st year, Karel Martens is holding a workshop for first-year students and Linda van Deursen returns from Amsterdam to teach second-year students. On Thursday, September 27, Nientara Anderson will be giving the 2018 Paul Rand Lecture, The White Student Body: the racialization of youthful innocence in America, the erasure of black students from histories of student activism, and the exclusion of black students in academic spaces.
In PAINTING and PRINTMAKING, Matt Keegan and Troy Michie join as full-time lecturers, and Ronny Quevedo, Karin Schneider, Suzanne McClelland, Cameron Martin, Cheyney Thompson, Kamrooz Aram are joining the ranks as critics. New seminars include Robert Storr’s Isms and Wasms, and Samuel Messer’s Making the Mark. Second-year students are recommended to take Sophy Naess’ new class, When Attitude Becomes Form as a forum for collaborative work on their MFA shows in early spring 2019.
John Pilson will be the Acting Director of Graduate Studies in PHOTOGRAPHY during Gregory Crewdson's scheduled Sabbatical. A.L. Steiner, Presidential Visiting Fellow and Critic will offer an undergraduate/graduate seminar. Esteemed author and critic Lynne Tillman will teach a six-session writing workshop. Paul Graham, Wardell Milan, Renee Cox, James Welling, and Deana Lawson will join the critic panel. Guest critics and visiting artists will include: Teju Cole, Ken Lum, David Campany, Lucy Gallun, Mitch Epstein and Judith Joy Ross.
Newly appointed Assistant Professor in SCULPTURE Aki Sasamoto will be making studio visits and taking part in reviews. Performance studies scholar Jenn Joy will be returning as a full-time critic to teach a seminar course, make studio visits, and take part in weekly critiques. Returning visiting critics Ariana Reines and Leigh Ledare will be joined by Ajay Kurian and Garnette Cadogan. Sarah Johnson, Fred Moten, and New Haven artist Robert Taplin will join as visiting artists.
UNDERGRADUATE Studies welcomes new faculty Anna Collette, John Edmonds and A.L. Steiner to the Yale College course roster. Markus Schinwald will join as Lecturer to teach a new seminar, Temperamental Spaces. Some of the many visiting artists this year are photographers Xyza Cruz Bacani, William Williams, Larry Fink, Robert Lyons, and painters Tony Shore and Roberto Juarez.
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Matt Keegan and Troy Michie Appointed Full-Time Lecturers in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art
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Matt Keegan, left, and Troy Michie, right.
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After an extensive search, the Yale School of Art is pleased to announce the appointments of Matt Keegan and Troy Michie as full-time Lecturers in Painting and Printmaking. Both artists begin their appointments in Autumn 2018. Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking, and member of the search committee, Anoka Faruqee notes, “I am excited to welcome new colleagues Troy Michie and Matt Keegan. Each of them brings a dynamic art practice coupled with a dedication to unpacking the context around making, teaching, and exhibiting art. Their presence will strengthen our department's commitment to lively collaborative exchange.”
On the appointment of Matt Keegan, Dean Marta Kuzma adds: “Matt is an engaged artist who explores language, materials, and identity formation. His teaching that arrives out of an artist practice extending between production, writing and editing, and curating will contribute immensely to an already dynamic department.” Matt Keegan is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice consists of video, photography, sculpture, and image making. He brings thirteen years of teaching experience from many institutions including Barnard, Bard, Cooper Union, and Columbia. Central themes in his work address the complexities of language and cognition, stemming in part from his experience growing up in a bilingual home. He is committed to collaboration though exhibition making and publishing. His solo exhibition, “Generation,” was presented at Participant Inc., NYC in 2017. An iteration of this show, titled “Replicate,” opened at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA later that year. In early 2017, “A Traveling Show” (with Kay Rosen) closed at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. This exhibition was initiated as “Eine Wanderausstellung” at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria. Recent group exhibitions include “The Artist’s Museum” at The ICA Boston, “The Sun Placed in the Abyss” at the Columbus Museum of Art, “We Are the Center for Curatorial Studies” at CCS Bard Hessel Museum, “Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and “Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim,” The Guggenheim, New York. Keegan’s first monograph, OR, was co-published by Inventory Press in conjunction with his 2015 solo show, “Portable Document Format,” at Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway. Keegan is the co-founding editor and publisher of North Drive Press (2004-2010) and founding editor of == (2012 and 2015). Matt received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon in 1998, and an MFA from Columbia in 2005.
On the appointment of Troy Mitchie, Dean Kuzma adds: “Troy reintroduces an important critical perspective with respect to collage, revising it with respect to current sociopolitical concerns, race, sexuality, and desire. His modes of inquiry are important to critical formats already explored by Anoka Faruqee, the Director of Painting/Printmaking at Yale.” Troy Michie joins the School of Art after teaching at Vassar College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In these capacities, he taught drawing, printmaking, and a course around photography and collage. His own work uses collage and other forms to explore shifting narratives of identity through the lenses of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality. His experience growing up in a border town in West Texas has affected his scholarship and artistic practice, including the work in his first solo exhibition “Fat Cat Came to Play” at Company gallery, where he explored the cultural significance of the zoot suit. Michie’s work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad, including the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Stedelijk Museum’s-Hertogenbosch, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and the Artist’s Institute. He has received grants and fellowships from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Art Matters, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Recess Art and Denniston Hill. Troy received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011.
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Upcoming Events: Autumn 2018
Events are free and open to the public.
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Barbara Hammer: Yale MFA Photography Guest Lecture
The Art of Dying (Palliative Art Making in an Age of Anxiety)
Tuesday, September 11 at 3:30PM
1156 Chapel Street, Room G10, "The Pool"
Co-sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Summer Fellowship/Travel Grant Presentations
Monday, September 17 at 6:30PM
36 Edgewood Avenue, Room 204
Graduate student recipients of summer 2018 travel grants and fellowships will return to the School of Art to share their experiences with the community. Yale School of Art strives to expand opportunities for graduate students over the summer--these presentations engage new students for the upcoming summer and also prepare these students for their own fellowship or residency experience.
To see a full list of prize, fellowship, and residency recipients for 2018, please click here.
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Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel
Monday, September 24 at 6PM
EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue
Yale School of Art will host a panel of the 2018 MFA graduates who had been selected to teach as part of the Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) partnership initiated this past summer (and as an integral component of the School’s Art and Social Justice Initiative): Ernest Bryant (Painting/Printmaking '18), Clare Kambhu (Painting/Printmaking '18), Julia Rooney (Painting/Printmaking '18), Danny Ginsburg (Painting/Printmaking '18), Nate Pyper (Graphic Design ‘18). Also participating in the evening’s discussion will be Zelda Roland, director of YPEI, in a reflection on the inaugural visual art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, CT. The panel will explore how the Yale School of Art will further develop the curriculum and art pedagogy for incarcerated students in institutions that extend beyond the Manson Youth Institution and to provide graduates of the Yale School of Art with unique teaching opportunities.
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Andrea Fraser: A Yale School of Art Talk
Tuesday, October 9 at 7PM
EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue
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Laura Mulvey: A Yale School of Art Talk
Monday, October 22 at 6PM
EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue
Followed by a Dialogue between Laura Mulvey and Rizvana Taylor.
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A.L. Steiner: Yale School of Art Presidential Fellow Lecture
Monday, November 5 at 6PM
EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue
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Painting Free: In Conversation with Howardena Pindell
Wednesday, November 28 at 5PM
Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel Street
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Join a discussion with the American artist Howardena Pindell, Yale MFA 1967, and Courtney J. Martin, Yale PhD 2009, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Dia Art Foundation.
The event is co-sponsored by Yale Alumni Art League, the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale School of Art.
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