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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 19, 2016—Sharon Hayes, associate professor of fine art at the University of Pennsylvania, will give the Annual Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art at Williams College on Saturday, Oct. 22. The event will take place at 3 p.m. in the Williams College Museum of Art, Lawrence Auditorium, room 231. It is free and open to the public.
Through performances and multi-media installations, Sharon Hayes investigates how speech—oral and written, public and private—intersects with politics, history, personal identity, desire, and love. Drawing on a range of artistic and academic practices—including anthropology, film, history, journalism, linguistics, literature, and theater—her work uses historical strategies of protest and activism to consider our current political moment as well as potential futures.
Hayes has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Andrea Rosen Gallery, and the Tanya Leighton Gallery. Her work been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and numerous museums and venues in Europe and the Americas. Hayes is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alpert Award in Visual Arts, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, among other awards. She holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art, established in 1994 by Madeleine Plonsker, Harvey Plonsker ’61 and their son, Ted Plonsker ’86, examines current issues in contemporary art. Past lecturers have included artists Lynda Benglis, Kerry James Marshall, Jessica Stockholder and Jon Rubin.
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Published October 19, 2016
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