Published On Aug 23, 2024
From January to July 2024, four group exhibitions opened in Los Angeles that used race and identity as an organizing methodology, presenting the work of Black, Asian American, and Latinx artists. The exhibitions took place in both museums and galleries and examined such topics as networks of mutual support; collective contributions to culture; conceptual approaches to identity and family history; community building and activism. Within the context of how exhibitions in past decades took up identity and the politics of representation and with the backdrop of the current political and cultural climate, this panel asked what is the importance of race and identity-based group exhibitions today? How has the approach to such exhibitions changed over time and what is the value, or purpose, now?
We gathered the curators of the four exhibitions to participate in a conversation on curatorial practices and the ambitions and challenges of their projects.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, audiences joined us for ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ.
๐๐ป๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ด๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ, ICA LA Good Works Executive Director and co-curator, ๐๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (February10โJuly 28, 2024)
๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐, artist and co-curator, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ), Hauser & Wirth (February 27โMay 5, 2024)
๐๐ฟ. ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป, curator, ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ, USCโs Pacific Asia Museum (January 26โApril 24, 2024)
๐๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐, artist and co-curator, ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (February 24โJune 1, 2024)
๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐ฑ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ, artist and co-curator, ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (February 24โJune 1, 2024)
๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ป๐ด๐น๐ถ๐๐ต, art historian and program moderator, Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
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