Since the early 2000s, the Visiting Artist Lecture Series has
invited nationally recognized artists, critics, and curators
to campus for public lectures and interactions with the Master of
Fine Arts program. This series is housed in the College of
Letters and Science and organized by the Department of Art and
Art History studio faculty and M.F.A. studio art candidates.
Public lectures are at 4:30 pm and are free and open to the
public.
Lectures will be held primarily in the Community Education Room
at the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, unless otherwise
noted.
Sky Hopinka, who was
born and raised in Ferndale, Washington, is a member of the
Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. His video,
photo, and text work centers around personal positions of
Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as
containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary,
and nonfiction forms of media.
Tarrah
Krajnak (b. 1979) was born in Lima, Peru. Her
photographs are in collections including the Centre Pompidou and
Museum Ludwig. Her book El Jardín De Senderos Que Se
Bifurcan (2021) was named to the Museum of Modern Art’s
inaugural list of 10 photo books of the year.
Rina Banerjee is
a visual artist whose work draws on her transnational and
personal history as an immigrant. Her paintings and sculptures
use a wide range of materials and historical references to
explore ethnicity, race, migration and American Diasporic
histories.
The Art Building is located on Hutchison Drive, about halfway
between the Memorial Union and Mrak Hall on the UC Davis campus.
There is limited parking behind the building, but there is
visitor parking nearby, across the Arboretum in lot VP5.
