Lecture Series

The School of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series brings highly acclaimed international artists, writers, and critics to the school throughout the year. Each lecture is free and open to the public.

Fall 2024

Ling-lin Ku
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 5:30pm, Kresge Theatre

Assistant Professor of Art and multimedia sculptor Ling-lin Ku’s studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in-between digital data and tangible materials through digital fabrication. She uses local references, including food, body parts, and products; yet through proximity, scale, texture, display structures, and material, Ling-lin upends our relationship to the known.

Josh Kline
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 5:30pm, Kresge Theatre

Josh Kline works in installation, video, sculpture, and photography. His work questions how emergent technologies are being used to change human life in the 21st Century. He often utilizes the technologies, practices, and forms he scrutinizes—digitization, data collection, image manipulation, 3D-printing, commercial and political advertising, productivity-enhancing substances—aiming them back at themselves.

Eugene Macki
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 5:30pm, Kresge Theatre
Presented in collaboration with Mattress Factory

Eugene Macki is a multi-disciplinary artist who grew up in Hackney, East London. Macki’s artwork is known for its versatility and encompasses a range of mediums including sculpture, installation, land art, experimental video, and performance. Macki’s work explores what it means to exist and the role of objects within this field of existence. They are also interested in different types of transformations, and how objects come to acquire meaning. Macki will be opening their solo exhibition at Mattress Factory on Friday, November 15, 2024.

Marshall Reese & Antoni Muntadas
Friday, November 1, 2024, 5:30pm, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry

Antoni Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942 and has lived in New York since 1971. His work addresses social, political, and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks. Marshall Reese is a Brooklyn-based artist working in various media including video, information networks, custom hardware and software, editions, and temporary public art events. Muntadas and Reese will host a screening of their film “Political Advertisement XI 1952-2024” followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Kathleen Newman of Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of English.

jackie sumell
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 5:30pm, Kresge Theatre

jackie sumell is a multidisciplinary artist and abolitionist inspired most by the lives of everyday people. Her work has been successfully anchored at the intersection of activism, education, mindfulness practices and art for nearly two decades, and it has been exhibited extensively throughout the world. sumell’s most celebrated project, Herman’s House, resulted from a 12-year collaboration with political prisoner Herman Wallace, who spent over decades in solitary confinement in the State of Louisiana, for a crime he could not have possibly committed. Fueled by the desire to keep Herman’s legacy alive, The Solitary Gardens, turns solitary confinement cells into garden beds that are the same size and blue-print as the cell Herman, and so many others spend decades in.

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Previous Visiting Artists

Spring 2020
Alisha Wormsley, Jaume Plensa, Hilton Als, Johannes DeYoung, Walid Raad

Fall 2019
Anya Clarke & Mitsuko Verdery, Kalup Linzy, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Amanda Ross-Ho, Tschabalala Self

Spring 2019
Janelle Iglesias, Jeremy Deller, Ulrike Müller, Thaddeus Mosley, Lenka Clayton & Jon Rubin, Sean Lynch, Beverly Semmes

Fall 2018
Rachel Rose, Miguel Gutierrez, Saba Innab, Zoe Leonard & Rhea Anastas, Alex Da Corte, Jessi Reaves

Spring 2018
Allison Smith, Cristobál Martínez, Dread Scott, Andrea Zittel, Heather Dewey-Hagborg & Chelsea Manning, Frances Stark, Robb Hernández

Fall 2017
Ian Cheng, Erin Markey, Shannon Ebner, Malik Gaines, Erin Cosgrove, Angela Dufresne, Sarah Oppenheimer

Spring 2017
Sandi Hilal, A. L. Steiner, Petra Cortright, Marc Horowitz, Firelei Baez, Narcissister, Wangechi Mutu & Adrienne Edwards, Imin Yeh, Huey Copeland

Fall 2016
Sondra Perry, Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Ming Wong, Nat Trotman

Spring 2016
Laleh Mehran, Ben Bigelow, Echo Eggebrecht, Willie Doherty, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Discoteca Flaming Star, Aureia Harvey of Tale of Tales, Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy

Fall 2015
Cornelia Parker, Rania Matar, Jill Magid, Marina Rosenfeld, Angela Washko, Silvia Kolbowski

Spring 2015
Cara Benedetto, Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev, Oron Catts, Yun-Fei Ji, Roberta Smith, Eric Shiner, Ryoji Ikeda, Rick Lowe, Emily Jacir, Jules de Balincourt

Fall 2014
Carrie Moyer, Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Jen Delos Reyes, Kelly Richardson, Nikki Lee, Duke Riley, Jin Shan, Robert Storr

Spring 2014
Emily Cheng, Elika Hedayat, David Joselit, Eddo Stern, Amy Sillman, Shahzia Sikander, Dinh Q Lê, Nina Paley, Eric Dyer

Fall 2013
Tania Bruguera, Richard Pell, Pedro Reyes, Yasumasa Morimura, Peter Schjeldahl, Laetitia Sonami, Suzanne Wright

Spring 2013
Shana Moulton, Charles Atlas, Tehching Hsieh, Diana Al-Hadid, Otto Piene, Carrie Mae Weems, Pyuupiru

Fall 2012
Camille Utterback, Nicholas Van Woert, Julie Heffernan, Graham Harman, Moyra Davey

Spring 2012
Wafaa Bilal, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Ali Momeni, Stuart Comer, Lisa Sanditz, Brody Condon, Shary Boyle, Maya Lin

Fall 2011
Melissa Ragona, Pauline Oliveros, Nobuho Nagasawa, Stelarc, Simon Leung, Carolee Schneemann, Eva & Franco Mattes, Carol Conde & Karl Beveridge

Spring 2011
Golan Levin, Tom Sachs, Marina Zurkow, James Acord (memorial video screening), Adam Zaretsky, Amy Franceschini, Cynthia Lin

Fall 2010
Kate Gilmore, Richard Pell, Dzine, Jer Thorp, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Jean Shin, Doryun Chong, Nicola López, Guillermo Gómez Peña

Spring 2010
Trevor Paglen, Kim Beck, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Daniel Bozhkov, David Familian, Janine Antoni

Fall 2009
Ann Hamilton, Susanne Slavick, Ayanah Moor, Jim Trainor, Nikki Lee, Pat Oleszko, Paolo Pedercini, Xu Bing, Claire Bishop

Spring 2009
Peter Fend, Dara Greenwald & Josh Macphee, Steve Lambert, C. E. B. Reas / Marius Watz, Sarah Oppenheimer, Anne Ellegood, Nato Thompson, Marianne Weems, Tony Conrad, Daniel Martinez

Fall 2008
Thomas Hirschhorn, Ryan Gander, Charlie Todd, Stephanie Syjuco, Haegue Yang, Mark Bradford, Jeffrey Kastner, Julia Christensen, Yes Men, Barry McGee

Spring 2008
Will Rogan, Enrique Chagoya, Caroline A. Jones, Steve Kurtz, Paul DeMarinis, Joshua Mosley, Heather Kelley, Swoon

_{The Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series is made possible in part by Elizabeth (Thompson) and Thomas M. Cox (A’29) Distinguished Artists Funds, Robert L. Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, and Orville M. Winsand Lecture for Critical Studies. Carnegie Mellon makes every effort to provide accessible facilities and programs for individuals with disabilities. This publication can be made available in an alternate format upon request. For accommodations, contact the School of Art at schoolofart@cmu.edu or 412.268.2409. Lecture and event details are subject to change or cancellation.}