FMCA Annual Meeting & Artist Lecture by María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Register:
Friday, Jun 28, 2024
5:30 p.m.
| Free with registration |
*Registration is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.
Location:
Lecture Hall
5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States
Please join the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art for our Annual Meeting from 5:30–6 p.m.
At 6 p.m., guest artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons will give a lecture on her work, which is free with registration.
The lecture will be followed by an exclusive FMCA Member reception in FJC Dining Rooms A&B.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons combines and crosses diverse artistic practices, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of history, memory, gender, and religion; it investigates how each one of these themes informs identity formation. Campos-Pons was born in 1959 in Cuba and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has served as Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University since 2017.
Campos-Pons has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Behold, a survey of her work spanning four decades, is currently on tour at the Brooklyn Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, closing May 4, 2025. She has presented over thirty solo performances commissioned by institutions that include the Guggenheim Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her works are held in more than thirty museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
In 2023, Campos-Pons was awarded the prestigious MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship for exploring personal and collective histories across the Caribbean with a distinctive and expansive visual style. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Campos-Pons has founded or co-founded several non-profit arts organizations including the Intermittent Rivers, a Biennial Project in Matanzas, Cuba; the Engine for Art Democracy and Justice at Vanderbilt with Vanderbilt and Fisk University; and When We Gather, a multi-faceted art project celebrating the elemental role women have played in the United States.
The Detroit Institute of Arts acquired Campos-Pons’s work Soy una Fuente (I Am a Fountain) in 2023.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Please join the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art for our Annual Meeting from 5:30–6 p.m.
At 6 p.m., guest artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons will give a lecture on her work, which is free with registration.
The lecture will be followed by an exclusive FMCA Member reception in FJC Dining Rooms A&B.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons combines and crosses diverse artistic practices, including photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of history, memory, gender, and religion; it investigates how each one of these themes informs identity formation. Campos-Pons was born in 1959 in Cuba and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has served as Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University since 2017.
Campos-Pons has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Behold, a survey of her work spanning four decades, is currently on tour at the Brooklyn Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, closing May 4, 2025. She has presented over thirty solo performances commissioned by institutions that include the Guggenheim Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her works are held in more than thirty museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
In 2023, Campos-Pons was awarded the prestigious MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship for exploring personal and collective histories across the Caribbean with a distinctive and expansive visual style. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Campos-Pons has founded or co-founded several non-profit arts organizations including the Intermittent Rivers, a Biennial Project in Matanzas, Cuba; the Engine for Art Democracy and Justice at Vanderbilt with Vanderbilt and Fisk University; and When We Gather, a multi-faceted art project celebrating the elemental role women have played in the United States.
The Detroit Institute of Arts acquired Campos-Pons’s work Soy una Fuente (I Am a Fountain) in 2023.
Photo courtesy of the artist.