Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Carmen Winant

Thursday, October 17, 2019 @ 12:00pm, Anderson Gallery, 907 1/2 W Franklin St.

Carmen Winant: FIRE ON WORLD

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 5:30pm, Institute for Contemporary Art (VCU ICA)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant is an artist, writer, former Dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University. She received her BA from UCLA and Master's degrees in Critical Studies and Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts in 2011. Winant's recent projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Wexner Center of the Arts, and through CONTACT Photography festival, which is currently showing twenty-six of her billboards across Canada. Winant's artist books -- "My Life as a Man" and "My Birth" -- were published by Horses Think Press, SPBH Editions, and ITI press. Her forthcoming book, "Notes on Fundamental Joy," seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us, will be published by Printed Matter Inc. Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography. Her work utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt.