Visiting Artist Colloquium
Each year a series of visiting artists talk about their work and studio practice. each event begins with a lunch at 11:45am. The talks start at 12 noon and last roughly 45 minutes with additional time for a Q&A. All colloquium talks will take place on the second floor bridge of Whittier hall.
Updated January 13, 2025
2024-2025 Visiting Artist lineup:
SPRING 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Josephine Halvorson
https://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/josephine-halvorson
Josephine Halvorson makes paintings on-site, face to face with an object in its environment. Often no more than an arm’s length away, she detects variations in texture, light, and temperature, transcribing these perceptions through the medium of paint. The result is an intimate portrait of the object, capturing both a natural likeness as well as the often unseen or overlooked character of her chosen subject.
osephine Halvorson has taught at The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville Columbia University, and Yale University. Since 2016, Halvorson has served as as Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
Friday, February 21 2025
Kenny Rivero
https://www.kennyrivero.com/
Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; works in New York. MFA Yale 2012, BFA SVA 2006.) Rivero's work, which spans paintings, collage, drawings, and sculpture, explores the complexity of identity through narrative images, language, and symbolism. His aim is to deconstruct the histories and identities he has been raised to understand as absolute and to re-engineer them into new wholes, with new functions. His creative process allows him to explore what he perceives as the broken narrative of Dominican American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles. Rivero cites the hybrid qualities of salsa, hip-hop, house music, jazz, and merengue-as well as Vodun and Santeria, which were present in his daily life growing up-as core influences on his decision-making in the studio. Kenny Rivero's work is represented in notable public collections including The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; El Museo del Barrio, New York. NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Collection of Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Beatriz Cortez
https://beatrizcortez.com/
Beatriz Cortez (b. 1970, San Salvador, El Salvador; lives and works in Los Angeles and Davis, CA) received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. Cortez’s work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and imaginaries of the future.
She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis. Beatriz Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Mexico City.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Andrew Ferentionos
https://andrewferentinos.com/
Andrew Ferentinos is an architect and designer based in the northeast region of the United States. His office specializes in custom designed homes, accessory structures for private estates and farms, as well as artist studios and galleries. His work is distinguished by a rigorous attention to detail and belief that construction is an art. His expertise ranges from custom cabinetry and furnishings to preparing master plans and landscape design. Ferentinos opened his office in 2012 after working in New York City for such prestigious architects as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Raimund Abraham, and Francois de Menil. Andrew holds degrees from The Cooper Union and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FALL 2024
FRIDAY, September 27, 2024
Richard Rezac: Sculpture: Influence, Context, Process
https://www.richardrezac.com/
His sculpture is reliant on a deliberative process with each work, which allows for an ongoing re-definition, however subtle. All of his sculpture has originated from drawing with the aim of synthesis and simplification. He has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among others. Since 2000, he has had 32 solo exhibitions,.
His sculpture is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Until his retirement in 2019, he was Adjunct Full Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in both the Painting and Sculpture Departments.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Lola Sheppard
https://lateraloffice.com/filter/Office/TEAM
Lola Sheppard is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and is also a Director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective, founded in 2008, which probes the spatial by-products of contemporary resource logistics.
Lola Sheppard is committed to architecture’s new relationship to social and ecological possibilities – not just solutions. Her research exists at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. It privileges architecture as a mutable territory that is formed out of and responsive to its history and environment. Much of her recent work and teaching has focused on the role of architecture, infrastructure, and the public realm in the unique and challenging context of Arctic Canada.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Priya Suresh Kambli
https://www.priyakambli.com/
Priya Kambli was born in India. She moved to the United States at age 18 carrying her entire life in one suitcase that weighed about 20 lbs. She began her artistic career in the States and her work has always been informed by this experience as a migrant.
She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and continued on to receive a Masters degree in Photography from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008 PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project Color Falls Down, published in 2010.
