Sue Williams, Coitus Interruptus (detail), 2011, oil on canvas, 42 x 54". Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

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Visiting Artists Lecture Series
Past Lectures

		Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Evan Holloway Evan Holloway is a Los Angeles-based sculptor who has had recent solo exhibitions at Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles; Harris Lieberman, New York; the Approach, London; and the Pomona College of Art, Claremont. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including All of This and Nothing at the Hammer Museum; Moby Dick and The Wizard of Oz at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the 2008 California Biennial; and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He received his MFA from the UCLA Department of Art in 1997. View video
photo: Michael Wells		Thursday, February 2, 2012 Mari Eastman Mari Eastman’s paintings have been shown in numerous exhibitions locally and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include those at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Emily Tsingou Gallery, London; Sies + Hoeke, Dusseldorf; and Spruth and Magers Projekts, Munich. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Orange County Museum of Art; and the Hammer Museum. She lives in Los Angeles and has been a frequent visiting lecturer in painting and drawing in the UCLA Department of Art.
		Thursday, January 12, 2012 Jeff Wall Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential artists working today. Since the late 1970s his work has been central to any discussion of the place of photography in contemporary art, and of the pictorial tradition more broadly. His work has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1997, at Schaulager, Basel and Tate Modern, London in 2005, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2007. A group of his works was shown at the Hammer Museum in 2003. He lives in Vancouver. View video
		Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Sue Williams Sue Williams is a New York-based painter who has had solo exhibitions at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge; IVAM, Valencia, Spain; Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Select group exhibitions include Keeping It Real at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery; Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands; Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Biennials 1997, 1995, and 1993. Her exhibition at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, opens on November 10. View video
		Thursday, October 6, 2011 Mark Leckey Mark Leckey is a British artist whose work has been shown widely internationally including solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and Le Consortium, Dijon. Recent group exhibitions include Push and Pull at Tate Modern, London; the Eighth Gwangju Biennale in South Korea; Moving Images at Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Playing Homage at the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery. His performances have recently been presented in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2008. View video

2010-2011

May 26, 2011: Silke Otto-Knapp - View video
May 5, 2011: Charline von Heyl - View video
February 3, 2011: Laura Owens - View video
January 20, 2011: James Welling - View video
October 27, 2010: Dan Graham
October 14, 2010: Walead Beshty - View video
September 30, 2010: Yoshua Okón - View video

2009-2010

May 27, 2010: Anthony Hernandez (Art Council Chair) - View video
May 6, 2010: Jim Goldberg
April 21, 2010: Stan Douglas
February 25, 2010: Mary Kelly - View video
February 4, 2010: Josiah McElheny
November 12, 2009: John Knight
November 5, 2009: Lauren Bon
October 22, 2009: Marilyn Minter - View video

2008-2009

May 14, 2009: Runa Islam (Art Council Chair) - View video
February 19, 2009: Catherine Sullivan - View video
November 13, 2008: Amy Sillman
November 5, 2008: Rachel Whiteread

2007-2008

May 8, 2008: Andrea Fraser
May 1, 2008: Gregory Crewdson
March 13, 2008: Wangechi Mutu
January 17, 2008: Roy Arden
November 29, 2007: Glenn Ligon
October 25, 2007: Sam Durant

This lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund and is hosted by the Hammer Museum.

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