Virtual Talk: Gary Carrion-Murayari, Sean Connaughty, Shanai Matteson: McKnight Discussion Series at Mia
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Please join us for the McKnight Visual Artist Discussion Series with 2018 fellows Sean Connaughty and Shanai Matteson in conversation with Gary Carrion-Murayari, curator of art at the New Museum in New York. The discussion will be held in the Pillsbury Auditorium. Admission is free, but ticketed.
This discussion series pairs a nationally recognized art critic or curator with two McKnight Visual Artist Fellows. It offers attendees an opportunity to learn more about the fellowship recipients and how their work intersects with broader contemporary art ideas and concerns.
The McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships are awarded annually to established Minnesota-based artists. In 2018, eight McKnight Visual Artist Fellows were selected to receive $25,000 each and an opportunity to meet with arts professionals from across the country.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Gary Carrion-Murayari is the Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum in New York. Over the past nine years, he has curated solo exhibitions by artists including John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Ellen Gallagher, Haroon Mirza, Camille Henrot, Nari Ward, and Hans Haacke. He has co-curated several New Museum group exhibitions including, “Ghosts in the Machine,” “NYC 1993,” and the 2018 New Museum Triennial. Carrion-Murayari previously worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2003 to 2010, where he curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions including the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
Sean Connaughty’s socially engaged art projects address the impact of human beings on global ecology. By working with communities and agencies governing our public spaces and infrastructures, he uses public art as a catalyst for mitigating damaging behaviors. In addition to his McKnight fellowship, Connaughty recently received a 2017 Forecast Public Art development grant for his Lake Hiawatha Visioning Project and in 2016 had a solo exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum featuring his collaborative project Anthropocenic Midden Survey – Mississippi River. A graduate of both MCAD and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Connaughty is a lecturer in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Shanai Matteson is an artist, writer, social justice activist, and cultural community organizer. Matteson creates collaborative artistic projects, documentary films, creative writing, print media, and social spaces that recognize and deepen relationships between people and place. Through her arts activism, Matteson challenges hierarchical power structures and helps her collaborators transform the systems these shape. She is one of the co-founders of Water Bar & Public Studio, an artist-led benefit corporation, social space, and creative community that serves water and addresses the local impacts of climate change. Her current artistic project, Overburden/Overlook, is a multiyear, multiphase collaboration with social scientist Roopali Phadke and a network of women who live and work on Minnesota’s Iron Range. The project addresses the future of mining in the region, past and present relationships between extraction and culture, and the overlooked and undervalued labor of care, repair, and regeneration.
This series is co-presented with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). Fellowships are funded by the McKnight Foundation and administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Free.