Thursday, October 15, 6:00 p.m.

Public talk with artists Luis Camnitzer and Liliana Porter and presentation of the book The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964–1970 by curators Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Úrsula Dávila-Villa. Introduced by Edward Sullivan, NYU’s Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art.

The book is published by the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin as part of the museum’s exhibition of the same name, which presented for the first time an in-depth historical analysis of The New York Graphic Workshop (NYGW), a group founded in 1964 by Camnitzer, Porter, and José Guillermo Castillo. The artists will discuss their work and ideas while working together at the workshop as well as how the NYGW years shaped their current artistic practice.

In English. Reception to follow.

This event is made possible through the generosity of the office of the Dean of Humanities, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, and the Barbara Duncan Centennial Endowed Lectureship.

Biographies

Luis Camnitzer was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1937 and immigrated to
Uruguay in 1939. He studied art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, architecture at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and sculpture and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1964 he moved to New York, where he currently lives and works. His work has been shown internationally and is represented in many collections including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, the Tate Modern, London, the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Switzerland, and the Blanton Museum of Art. He has frequently received grants, prizes, and honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and 1982. In 1969 he began teaching as an art professor at the State University of New York, the College of Old Westbury, where he is currently professor emeritus. He regularly contributes articles to various publications and has written several books, including Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation (2007). He served as the pedagogical curator of the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil and is currently the educational curator of the Fundação Iberê Camargo, also in Porto Alegre.

Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. She studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, and at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, where she specialized in printmaking. She has lived and worked in New York since 1964. Her artwork includes printmaking, painting, installations, photography, video, and public art projects. Her works have been shown internationally and are represented in many collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Modern, London, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, and the Blanton Museum of Art. She was an art professor at Queens College, the City University of New York, from 1991 to 2007. In 1994 she completed a permanent public artwork for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, installed in the 50th Street Station of the New York subway. She has received numerous prizes and grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980 and three visual art grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Ursula Davila-Villa is the interim curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art. She holds an M.A. in museum studies from New York University and a certificate in art history from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. She worked at Cai Guo-Qiang studio, New York, as researcher for the Beijing Olympics 2008 artistic program and archival researcher for the retrospective exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. She was the public programs assistant coordinator at the Guggenheim Museum.She has published and lectured on contemporary art and museum studies in the United States and Latin America.

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro is the director of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York City and Caracas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Essex in art history and theory. From 2003 to 2008 he was curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art. He was coordinator of exhibitions and programs at the Casa de América in Madrid, visual arts director at The Americas Society in New York, and founding curator of the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art. In 2007 he served as chief curator of the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary Latin American art.