Graduate Lecture Series: Hamza Walker (CANCELLED)

April 11, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Hamza Walker is the Director of Education and Associate Curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He is also on the faculty of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has written for Trans, New Art Examiner, Parkett, and Artforum, and penned catalogue essays on Darren Almond, Rebecca Morris, Giovanni Anselmo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Moshekwa Langa, and Katharina Grosse. He organized the first United States exhibition of works by Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, in 2011. Past curatorial projects at the Renaissance Society include a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (2010); "Several Silences" (2009); "Black Is, Black Ain't" (2008); "Katerina Seda" (2008); "Meanwhile, in Baghdad" (2007); "All the Pretty Corpses" (2005); "A Perfect Union...More or Less" (2004); and "New Video, New Europe" (2004). He is the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant, the 2005 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, and, in 2010, he received the prestigious Ordway Prize.