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Michael Rakowitz

Wavelength Lecture Series

Lecture Date(s)

October 13, 2020 at 7pm

Speaker(s)

Raven Chacon

Moderator(s)

Stephanie Smith, Chief curator of the Institute for Contemporary Art, VCU

Language

English

Location

Online

In Collaboration

VCUarts, the VCU Institute
for Contemporary Arts
and VCUarts Qatar
Image caption: ©MichaelRakowitz

Wavelength is an online lecture series that is a new collaboration between VCUarts, the ICA, and VCUarts Qatar. A dynamic group of artists, designers, curators and scholars have been invited to share their work with the VCU communities in Richmond and Doha as well as the general public throughout the 2020–21 academic year.

Biography

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Michael Rakowitz

Artist

michaelrakowitz.com

Michael Rakowitz is an artist living and working in Chicago. His work has appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th and 14th Istanbul Biennials, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, and Transmediale 05.

He has had solo projects and exhibitions with Creative Time, Tate Modern in London, MCA Chicago, Lombard Freid Gallery in New York, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Kunstraum Innsbruck. He is the recipient of the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; a 2012 Tiffany Foundation Award; a 2008 Creative Capital Grant; a Sharjah Biennial Jury Award; a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Architecture and Environmental Structures; the 2003 Dena Foundation Award, and the 2002 Design 21 Grand Prix from UNESCO. He was awarded the Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square, which was on view from 2018 through 2020.

A traveling survey of his work premiered at Whitechapel Gallery in London in June 2019, and subsequently to the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Torino, Italy and is currently on view at the Jameel Art Centre in Dubai through November 2020. A new comission, titled April is the cruelest month, will be unveiled with Turner Contemporary in Margate as part of England’s Cultural Coast initiative. Rakowitz was recently named the 2020 Public Art Dialogue awardee, and was named the 2020 Nasher Sculpture Prize Laureate. He is Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.

Public Programming

Oct. 13, 2020 ― 7 to 8:30 PM

Wavelength Lecture series: Michael Rakowitz

Video

Michael Rakowitz: Excerpt_LC

Northwestern professor Michael Rakowitz discusses his Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition, his recent commission for London’s Fourth Plinth, and his vision of a world where his artwork is obsolete.

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