Event / 2019
A Talk by Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar, I Can't Go On. I'll Go On, 2016/2019, Neon and metal frame,118.1" x 118.1" / 3 x 3 m
Courtesy Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh and the artist, New York
Converge 45 in collaboration with Portland State University is pleased to host a talk by Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker, Alfredo Jaar on December 17, 2019 at 6:30pm in Lincoln Hall (Room 75). The talk is part of Artistic Director, Lisa Dent’s, three-year program, Facing Between Centers, presented by Converge 45. For Jaar’s talk at Portland State University, the New York-based artist will discuss his multidisciplinary and prolific artistic practice exploring urgent sociopolitical and cultural issues such as unequal power relations, migration, globalization, and conflict.
Jaar currently lives and works in New York and has been shown extensively around the world, known as one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. Through installation, photography, film, and community-based works, the artist examines and bears witness to the complexity of our current time. A welcome will be presented by Leroy Bynum Jr., Dean of PSU's College of the Arts and MaryAnn Deffenbaugh, Executive Director of Converge 45. Mr. Jaar will be introduced by Converge 45 Artistic Director, Lisa Dent.
The talk is free and open to the public but reservations are required to attend. Please RSVP by December 16, 2019 at www.alfredo-jaar-converge45.eventbrite.com
About Alfredo Jaar: Jaar currently lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007, 2009, 2013), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010) as well as Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).
Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); Whitechapel, London (1992); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1994). Major recent surveys of his work have taken place at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2008); Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlinische Galerie and Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin (2012); Rencontres d’Arles (2013); KIASMA, Helsinki (2014) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017).
The artist has realized more than seventy public interventions around the world. Over sixty monographic publications have been published about his work. He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018.
His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MOCA and LACMA, Los Angeles; MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo; TATE, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MAXXI and MACRO, Rome; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlaebeck; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; and dozens of institutions and private collections worldwide.
About Lisa Dent: Lisa Dent was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, NY and has held curatorial staff positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. She was director of the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY and from 2004-08 owned and managed Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, CA where she presented the work of emerging and mid-career international artists. Dent received her BFA from Howard University, and MFA from NYU. She completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial studies, has served on several juries and committees and is currently a board member of Triple Canopy.
About Converge 45: Converge 45 is a nonprofit organization that provides a curatorial platform for the visual arts in Portland and the surrounding region. Through annual programming led by a Guest Artistic
Director in collaboration with cultural partners, the organization supports the region’s arts ecology and expands the conversation around contemporary art.