Press Release Pepón Osorio to speak on “Where the Me Becomes We,” 6:30 – 8:00 PM, Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the College of Visual & Performing Arts will feature a lecture titled “Where the Me Becomes We” by renowned artist Pepón Osorio on Tuesday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium of the Shaffer Art Building. This public presentation is co-sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center, the Latino/Latin American Studies Program, Punto de Contacto - Point of Contact, the SU Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and Syracuse University Art Education and will feature Mr. Osorio in a conversation about his practice in the context of his inclusive participatory process. The lecture will cover his artistic production from the late 1990s to his most recent work. A brief question & answer session will follow the presentation. The lecture is free and open to the public. Best known for his large-scale installations, Pepón Osorio merges conceptual art and community dynamics. Osorio’s work emphasizes the exhibition space as an intermediary between the social architecture of communities and the mainstream art world. He has worked with well over 25 communities across the U.S. and internationally, creating installations based on real life experiences. For more than a decade, Osorio has been presenting work in unconventional places prior to exhibiting in a museum setting, thus exploring the subjectivity of meaning in art and the multiple meanings that these installations achieve depending on their location. Osorio is a professor at Temple University’s Tyler School of the Arts. His work has appeared in El Museo del Barrio, New York (a retrospective); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA; Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Real Art Ways in Hartford, Conn.; The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Fco. CA; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas Venezuela; Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR.; Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NYC; Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Bienal de Cuba, Habana, Cuba; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia PA.; The RISD Museum, Providence, RI; the 27th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil; as well as storefronts, department stores and homes in many locations throughout the world. Osorio is the recipient of numerous distinctions including the 2001 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, the Whitney Biennial, 1993; an Alpert Award in the Arts-Visual Arts, 1999; and a John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 2001, Osorio was featured in the award-winning PBS documentary series Art21, Art in the Twenty-First Century. For more information, contact Tere Paniagua, Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community, at (315) 443-6410 or [email protected].
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