The New Social Environment#408

All bets are off: Jorge Pardo

Featuring Pardo and Phong H. Bui

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Artist Jorge Pardo joins Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Kendra Sullivan.

In this talk

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Jorge Pardo

Portrait of Jorge Pardo.
Artist Jorge Pardo’s work explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including Pinacoteca de Estado São Paulo, São Paulo (2019); Hacienda la Rojeña, Tequila, MX (2019); Victoria Miro, London (2018); and Petzel, New York (2017), and is part of numerous public collections. Pardo has been the recipient of many awards including the MacArthur Fellowship Award (2010); the Smithsonian American Art Museum Lucelia Artist Award (2001); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995). Pardo studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago and received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1963, he currently lives and works in Merida, Mexico.

Phong H. Bui

Photo of Phong Bui taken by Nicola Delorme
Photo by Nicola Delorme
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Kendra Sullivan reading.

Kendra Sullivan

Image of Kendra Sullivan kneeling with a toddler.
Kendra Sullivan is an artist, writer, and director of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also acts as publisher of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She is cofounder of the Sunview Luncheonette and a member of the ecoart collective Mare Liberum.

❤️ 🌈 We'd like to thank the The Terra Foundation for American Art for making these daily conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive.