I Want Your Love

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 6 - 7:30pm

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Alfredo and Jessica, 2011, New York, New York - Touching Strangers.

Alfredo and Jessica, 2011, New York, New York - Touching Strangers.

The School of Art is pleased to host a lecture by Richard Renaldi, the Spring 2019 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography. 

Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received a BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. He is representedRenaldi by Benrubi Gallery in New York and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin. Five monographs of his work have been published, including Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground(Aperture, 2006); Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009); Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014); Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016); I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). He was the recipient of a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The lecture will be held in Room 215 of the Foundation Building. Please note seating is on a first come basis; an RSVP does not guarantee admission as we generally overbook to ensure a full house.

Located at 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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