Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/04/2025
7:15 pm
Location
ArtCenter College of Design (Hillside Campus)
Category(ies)
Installation shot of “Baby Blue Benzo” (Photo – Sara Cwynar)
The Spring 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series will feature Sara Cwynar.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.
Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, BC) lives and works in New York. Anchored in the artist’s obsessive archiving of popular images, Cwynar’s work deploys photography (and more recently film) in installations that interrogate the powerful role images play in our everyday lives. How are images created—and why? How do they work, proliferate, endure, or disappear? Cwynar draws on material, both contemporary and dated, to explore the seductive ruses of the commercial image and the power dynamics they serve and reproduce.
Cwynar received an MFA from Yale University and a BDes from York University in Toronto. Her most recent exhibition, Baby Blue Benzo, an immersive installation at David Zwirner’s 52 Walker, New York, NY, anticipates her forthcoming solo, Sara Cwynar, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Past projects include, S/S 23, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023); Apple Red, Grass Green, Sky Blue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Source, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2021); Sara Cwynar: Down at the Arcade, a commission for the Performa Biennial, New York (2021); and appearances in group shows including, L’Image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); and Greater New York, The Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, NY (2015/16). Cwynar’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada, among others.
See the full Spring 2025 seminar schedule here.
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