Visiting Artist Program
The Visiting Artist Program has been a vital component of the Department of Art and Art History since 1972 and is one of the oldest programs of its kind. Each year, a diverse group of 8-10 nationally and internationally recognized artists are invited to CU to present their work and ideas to a large audience of students, faculty, and community members. During their stay, artists present a public lecture; join the faculty-led Visiting Artist Seminar to work closely with graduate and advanced undergraduate students; meet with students for individual critiques; and contribute to the program’s long-running What Follows professionally produced artist interview series. The Visiting Artist Program has collaborated with the CU Art Museum, Colorado College, the Denver Art Museum, Boulder Valley Public Schools, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Communikey, and other organizations and institutions in Front Range to realize ambitious programming. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker at (303) 492-2539.
Visiting Artist Schedule Fall 2011/Spring 2012 - All lectures will begin at 7:00 p.m. in 1B20 (basement of the Visual Arts Complex)
Arlene Shechet – February 7
Arlene Shechet is a ceramic artist who lives and works in New York City and Upstate New York. She is the recipient of a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award as well as three separate New York Foundation for the Arts awards. A great deal of her artwork is grounded in forms, images, and processes that emerge from Buddhist practices. Her investigations of religious iconography found in devotional, architectural, and vernacular forms have distinguished her work within the contemporary arena that shuns explicit religious references. Without irony and without devotional creed, Shechet explores how the materials and the making of sculpture and drawing can embody aspects of spiritual practice. She received a M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and a B.A. from New York University, New York, NY
Aki Sasamoto – February 21
Aki Sasamoto is a New York-based, Japanese artist, who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues in New York and abroad. Besides her own works, she has collaborated with artists in visual arts, music, and dance, and she plays multiple roles of dancer, sculptor, or director. Sasamoto co-founded and co-directs Culture Push, a non-profit arts organization, in which diverse professionals meet through artist-led projects and cross-disciplinary symposia. Sasamoto’s performance/installation works revolve around everyday gestures on nothing and everything. Her installations are careful arrangements of sculpturally altered found objects, and the decisive gestures in her improvisational performances create feedback, responding to sound, objects, and moving bodies. The constructed stories seem personal at first, yet oddly open to variant degrees of access, relation, and reflection.
Janine Antoni – March 6
Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body. She has chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness, and used the brainwave signals recorded while she dreamed at night as a pattern for weaving a blanket the following morning. Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; S.I.T.E. Santa Fe; and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The recipient of several prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, Janine Antoni currently resides in New York. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Nao Bustamente – April 3
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lesley Flanigan – April 24
Lesley Flanigan is a New York-based vocalist, artist, composer and performer. Inspired by the tangible elements of electronic sound, she builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones and speakers. Performing these instruments alongside traditional instrumentation that often includes her own voice, she creates a kind of physical electronic music that embraces both the transparency and residue of process — sculpting sound from a pallet of noise and subtle imperfections. She studied sculpture at the Ringling College of Art and Design, and received a masters in art technology from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University.
Fall 2011
Stan Shellabarger & Dutes Miller – September 13
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger explore the dynamics of love and loss through performance pieces that emphasize the artistic process as a metaphor for the cycles of life and death, of connection and separation. The Chicago-based couple has been creating collaborative work for over 17 years bringing together their respective fascinations with the body to produce performance art that speaks to universal themes in relationships in a distinctly physical way.
Binh Danh – September 27
Binh Danh’s work investigates his Vietnamese heritage and the collective memory of war, both in Viet Nam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with “mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality.” His technique incorporates his own invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the Daguerreotype process.
Anita Jung – October 25
Anita Jung is interested in aspects of the ephemeral, the overlooked, the discarded, the backgrounds of our lives. Her use of materials transform the mundane into something that is familiar but disorienting, a displacement of mind/body and time. Through exploring this aspect of the domestic sphere, the manifestation of nostalgia and longing come into focus only to re-dissolve into abstraction. The imagery remains intangible, allusive and fleeting, yet incessantly present.
Spencer Finch – November 8
Spencer Finch carefully records the invisible world, while simultaneously striving to understand what might lie beyond it. Whether he is relying on his own powers of observation or using a colorimeter, a device that reads the average color and temperature of light, the artist employs a scientific method to achieve poetic ends. Contrary to what one might expect, Finch’s efforts toward accuracy- the precise measurements he takes under different conditions and at different times of day- resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject.
We would like to thank our students for making this program possible with funding from Art and Art History Student Activities Fees.
Visiting Artist DVDs
The VRC maintains a collection of DVDs from the department’s Visiting Artist Program, available for 2 business-day checkout to faculty and students within the Department of Art and Art History (undergraduate students must present their Buff OneCards). These include the artists’ public lectures and the What Follows… interviews series. DVDs are not available until the semester following an artist’s visit:
List of Visiting Artist DVDs
We are honored to have had the following visitors participate in our program, the list is long but so is our history:
Comprehensive Catalog of Visiting Artists
2012-2011
Ryan Mrozowski
Stan Shellabarger & Dutes Miller
Binh Danh
Matt Wedel
Anita Jung
Spencer Finch
2011-2010
Chris Sauter
Clayton Brothers
Shana Moulton
William Basinski
Yeondoo Jung
Del Harrow
Marina Rosenfeld
Larry McNeil
Robert Pruitt
2010-2009
Joel Peter Witkin
John Jota Leanos
Dario Robelto
Rosalie Favell
Hank Willis Thomas
Marjetica Potrc
John Hitchcock
Sara Lindley
2009-2008
Tsehai Johnson
Don Gregorio Anton
Patrick Lichty – Yes Men
Haiko Meijer – Onix
Zhi Lin
Gudrun Gut
Regina Jose Galindo
Timothy Weaver
Robert & Shana Parke-Harrison
Barbara Madsen
Clare Twomey
2008-2007
Richard Notkin
Lita Albuquerque
Andrea Polli
Karen Kunc
Carlos Runcie Tanaka
Christoph Heinrich
Beth Lipman
Duane Slick
Chris Jordan
Bently Spang
Mary Jo Bole
Jan Theun van Rees
Marguerite Kahrl
2007-2006
Shahzia Sikander
Karyn Olivier
Tania Bruguera
Josiah McElheny
Akio Takamori
Rula Halawani
Oscar Munoz
Kenneth Kerslake
Mindy Shapero
Judith Lowry
2006-2005
Paul Pfeiffer
Carol Flax
Eleanor Antin
Lawrence Argent
Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick
Mindy Shapero
Melanie Yazzie
Rick Lowe
Enrique Chagoya
2005-2004
Rene Garcia & Anne Balsamo
Neil Cummings
Archive: Ann Walsh & Chris Kubrick
Gala Committee: Constance Penley & Jon LaPointe
Harrell Fletcher
2004-2003
Nina Katchadourian
William Pope L.
Adrianne Herman
Jim Stone
Devorah Sperber
Phyllis Green
Barbara Takenaga
Michael Ray Charles
James Rouvelle
2003-2002
Zineb Sedira
Fatma Charfi
Emily Jacir
Salah Hassan
Susan Hefuna
Robert Irwin
Beverly McIver
Luis Gonzales Palma
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Kerstin Abraham
2002-2003
Betsy Damon
Eugeio Dittborn
Saint Clair Cemin
Karen Finley
Colleen Cutschall
Alyson Shotz
Eddie Dominguez
Pitaloosie Saila
2001-2000
Xenobia Bailey
Diego Romero
Lori Man
Frances Whitehead
Mel Chin
Walter McConnell
Fred Tomaselli
Ed Kawaikaulaau Aona-Ueoka
Kim Abeles
Jolene Rickard
Victor Masayeva Jr.
Charlene Touchette
Truman Lowe
Joe Fedderson
Nancy Pobanz
Native American Art Symposium: Duane Slick, Rubie Sooktis, Angela Gonzales, Ava Hamilton, Windle Ward Churchill, Alfred Young
2000-1999
Arnold Mesches
Sue Coe
Dinh Q. Le
Judy Moonelis
Margo Sawyer
Shazia Sikander
Sheldon Brown
Kip Fulbeck
Sadie Benning
Graciela Iturbide
Peter Marcus
Adela Matasova
1999-98
Multi-Nationals – Uti Aigner, Teresa Serrano, Melanie Smith, Eugenia Vargas, and Pablo Vargas-Lugo
Brenda Miller
David McGee
Fazal Sheikh
Kukuli Velarde
Chico Macmurtrie
Barbara Degenevieve
Radcliffe Bailey
Doug Jeck
George Kuchar
Nobuho Nagasawa
Nahum B Zenil
1998-97
Luis Jimenez
Pauline Stella Sanchez
Bill and Mary Buchen
Beauvais Lyons
Jeffry Mitchell
Susan Leopold
Accra Shepp
Mark Pharis
Cynthia Moku
Joanna Osburn-Bigfeather
Adela Matasova
Bruce Yonemoto
Glenn Ligon
1997-96
Lidya Buzio
Carmon Colangelo
Joe David
Ismael Frigerio
Yong Soon Min
Adrian Arleo
Bauer Sa’
Ingrid Schaffner
Michal Shaughnessy
Shelly Silver
Patty Wickman
David Wilson
1996-95
Stephen DeStaebler
Carm Little Turtle
Long Nguyen
Rea Tajiri
Benito Huerta
Denise Ward Brown
Daniel J. Martinez
Joseph Grigely
Lourdes Portillo
Annabeth Rosen
Deborah Willis
Howardena Pindell
1995-94
Aida Laleian
Rev. Immanuel Trujillo
Marion Boulton
Mark Thompson
Ann Agee
Ruth Hardinger
Carmen Lomas Garza
Nayland Blake
Coreen Simpson
Paul DeMarinis
Sue Williams
Fred Wilson
Joyce Scott
Elizabeth Scott
1994-93
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
Lonnie Holley
Christian Walker
Lorna Simpson
Leni Schwendinger
Ann Hamilton
Mary Beth Edelson
Tyrone Mitchell
Clark Richert
Mark Burns
Ellen Dissanayake
Lucy R. Lippard
Suzanne Lacy
Eleanor Antin
David Antin
Moira Geoffrion
1993-92
Bonnie Gordon
John Pfahl
Mary Lucier
Liz Larner
Hugh J. Merrill
Mr. Imagination
Ron Nagle
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Robert Stackhouse
May Stevens
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Cecelia Vicuna
Mae Weems
1992-91
William Short
Lloyd Menard
Alex Grey
Terry Allen
William T. Wiley
Deborah Small
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
David Ireland
Dominique Mazeaud
Susan Mieselas
Houston Conwill
Kay Walkingstick
Gillian Lowndes
Loni Ding
1991-90
David Dunlap
Ida Panicelli
Joan Semmel
John Pfahl
Bonnie Gordon
Sylvia Snowdon
Arnold Zimmerman
Andres Serrano
Julie Ault
Robert Colescott
Elizabeth Hess
Richard Artschwager
Daniel Reeves
Katherine Porter
Jonas Dos Santos
Serrano Lambert
1990-89
Jimmie Durham
Thana Lauhakaikul
Kenneth Hale
Adrian Piper
Judy Baca
Allan Sekula
Richard Slee
Carol Hepper
Ingrid Sischy
Adrian Saxe
David Avalos
Jaune quick-to-see-Smith
Peter Rose
Richard Damon
1989-88
Kay Miller
Alfredo Jaar
Howard Kottler
Helen Harrison
Newton Harrison
Michael Tracy
Linda Connor
Eric Bainbridge
Susan Morgan
Hal Foster
Walter Ostrom
Michiko Itatani
Ned Smyth
Dennis Adams
Sue Coe
1988-87
Victor Burgin
Allam McCollum
Gene Youngblood
Jack Goldstein
Roni Horn
Jaqueline Winsor
Robert Brady
Robert Arneson
David Hickey
Tom Butter
Janis Provisor
Peter Saul
Anita Thacher
Richard Gordon
1987-86
Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid
Bryan Hunt
Barbara Kruger
Keith Smith
Todd Walker
Allen Ruppersberg
Nance Obanion
Judith Shea
Barbara London
Max Almay
Mary Kelly
Louisa Chase
Dennis Adrian
Al Held
1986-85
Jacquelyn Rice
Richard Bosman
Phyllis Bramson
Mike Bidlo
Warrington Colescott
Allan Kaprow
James Pomeroy
Ida Applebroog
Dennis Oppenheim
Anita Thatcher
Ken Little
Michael Smith
Viola Frey
1985-84
Chris Burden
Dike Blair
Judy Rifka
Herk Van Tongeren
Patrick Clancy
Jean-Paul Curtay
Rudy Autio
William Walmsley
Martha Diamond
Cecelia Condit
Hollis Sigler
Ned Rikfin
Thomas Lawson
Craig Lanager
Patterson Sims
1984-83
Sharon Gold
Harris Barron
Ros Barron
Theodora Skipitares
Michael Lucero
Cheryl Laemmle
Paul Berger
Joanna Beal
Andrea Gill
John Gill
Stanley Boxer
Fran Noel
Stan Brakhage
Larry Calcagno
1983-82
Italo Scanga
John Catterall
Joe Lewis
Otto Piene
Howard Finster
Bill Daley
Jun Kaneko
Sam Gilliam
Rachel Rosenthal
Martha Rosler
Deborah Butterfield
John Buck
Ellen Land-Weber
Jack Ox
1982-81
Sue Hall
Bud Shark
Peter Alexander
Roland Reiss
Deborah Remington
Terry Allen
Ed McGowin
Robert Kushner
April Gornik
Eric Fischl
Barbara Jo Revelle
Mike Mandel
Larry Sultan
Jody Pinto
1981-1980
Siah Armajani
Michael Meyers
Mary Beebe
Alvin Lucier
Judy Pfaff
Chris Enos
Richards Jardin
Bernard Chen
Roger Welch
Richard Jackson
Juergen Strunch
Stanley Snyder
Helene Winer
John Perreault