Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guillermo Kuitca is a key figure in the
history of Latin American art whose work finds inspiration in the realms of
architecture, theater, and cartography.

Kuitca has exhibited worldwide including major solo exhibitions at Museo
Rufino Tamayo, Mexico DF (1993) Whitechapel Gallery, London (1995) and at
the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and MALBA, Buenos
Aires (2003). Kuitca’s work has been included in significant group
exhibitions including the Bienal de São Paulo (1989), Documenta IX, Kassel
(1992), Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and Kwangju Biennale, South Korea
(1995), Istanbul Biennial (2001) and 52nd International Art Exhibition, La
Biennale di Venezia (2007). A mid-career retrospective was organized by the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, the Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo and the Miami Art Museum , Miami , Florida for 2008 and
2009. Kuitca is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York and Hauser &
Wirth in Zurich and London. The artist lives and works in Buenos Aires

This lecture is organized in conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Opera.

for more information go to http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/artists/record.html?record=6

Walead Beshty is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles.
Beshty holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the Yale University
School of Art. His solo exhibitions include: Popular Mechanics, Wallspace,
New York, NY (2009); Walead Beshty: Legibility on Colored Backgrounds, The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2009); Pulleys,
Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows, The University of Michigan Museum of Art,
Ann Arbor, MI (2009); Passages, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2009); Industrial
Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2008); Hammer
Project: Walead Beshty, The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2006);
Walead Beshty, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
(2004). He is a regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst and Afterall Journal,
and has written for Artforum, Aperture, Art Review, and Art on Paper, among
others. He served on the faculty of UCLA, CalArts, UCIrvine, and USC and is
currently an Associate Professor at Art Center College of Design.

Hayes’ installation, video and performance work has been shown at P.S. 1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrew Kreps Gallery, the Whitney Museum of
American Art’s Independent Study Program, Dance Theater Workshop,
Performance Space 122, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and The
Project in Los Angeles. In addition she has shown in galleries, exhibition
or performance spaces in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmö, Vienna and
Zagreb as well as in California, Florida, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont,
and in 45 lesbian living rooms across the United States.

Hayes was a 1999 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She also received a 1999 New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She was a participant in the Whitney
Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and received an MFA from
the Interdisciplinary Studio at UCLA’s Department of Art. Hayes is
represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.

for more information go to http://www.shaze.info/

Walid Raad works with video, photography, and literary essays to investigate the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. Highly regarded for his project The Atlas Group, Raad grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. Represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, his work has been exhibited at Documenta 11 (Kassel), The Venice Biennale (Venice), The Whitney Biennial (New York), The Ayloul Festival (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other festivals in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He lives and works in New York, where he is currently an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.

This event follows a lecture by Raad at the Modern Art Museum of Ft Worth on Feb 10. On Feb 11, Raad will join Noah Simblist, Assistant Professor of Art and Sarah Rogers, the Elenor Tufts Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Art History in a conversation about his work.

For more information about Walid Raad’s Atlas Group project go to

http://www.theatlasgroup.org/aga.html

Sofia Ponte’s work merges photography, sculpture, video, performance and sound. Her installations establish inter-media relations that critically investigate art boundaries and artists participation in contemporary society. Sofia creates and participates in projects that examine current strategies that translate our social experience into knowledge and propose new ones. This might happen at a museum, school, library or within a group of enthusiasts in the public sphere.

Ponte is from Libson, Portugal. She received her BFA from the University of Oporto in Portugal and her Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT in 2008. Sofia has exhibited internationally, including the Distrito Quinto Gallery, Barcelona, Spain; National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal; Grand-Hall de La Villete, Paris, France; and Kasteliotissa Space, Nicosia, Cyprus.

This lecture is sponsored by the Student Art Association

Lee Stoetzel attended SMU as an undergrad (1990) and studied at the Division of Art Meadows for his MFA (1993). In the last ten years, he has shifted his work from painting mainly to sculpture. He will discuss his working methods and ideas about reusing recognizable imagery in the wooden sculptures. He will discuss the recent 1:1 wooden sculptures of a “VW Bus,” “Jeep,” “Chopper,” “Computer,” and other new sculptures and installations rendered in similarly degraded material. He has exhibited at the Carnegie Museum, The Walker Art Center, Margaret Thatcher Projects, Clementine Gallery and Mixed Greens. He lives and works in New York.

for more information go to, http://www.leestoetzel.com/Works.html

Over the last several years, Yael Bartana has become known for her complex visualizations in the forms of photography, film, video, and sound works and installations. Whereas largely known in Europe, her work has not been as present in the U.S. until her recent exhibition at PS1 in New York. Her work creates a revealing ambivalence between playfulness and serious topics, time looped and halted, material from documentation and re-enactments.

Bartana lives and works in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2008); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008); The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2007); Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2006); Museum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2005); Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2004); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2004).

She has also been included in many group exhibitions including: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom (2008); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain (2008); Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2007); 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil (2007); Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2006); and the 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2005).

This lecture is presented with the generous support of the art history department and the human rights program.

Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977 in Bangalore, India. In addition to her upcoming exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth and the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, her has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Art Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She is represented by Talwar Gallery, New York. Shettar creates sculptural installations that refer obliquely to the effects of the burgeoning urbanscape in which she lives. By using a wide range of materials from the organic (such as beeswax, cotton, terra cotta, and lacquered wood) to the industrial (PVC pipes, plastic sheeting), Shettar evokes the present collision of high-tech Bangalore with its rural surroundings.

This lecture is in conjunction with Shettar’s Focus exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, on view till Feb 8, 2009

http://www.themodern.org/onview.html

Bjarnadóttir, a young Icelandic artist, was featured prominently in a recent exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. She often uses crochet and fabric weaving to fabricate provocative contemporary statements from traditional craft construction most often associated with the domestic life of women.

for more information go to http://www.hildur.net/

This lecture is in conjunction with Hildur Bjarnadóttir: Encircling, an exhibition at the Pollock Gallery September 13 through October 11, 2008.