Patty Chang, Hysterical Geographies and The Wandering Lake

Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 7 - 8:30pm

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 Patty Chang, Still from Invocations for a Wandering Lake, Part I, 2015, Video Projection, color, sound, TRT 12:49; installation dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and BANK/MABSOCIETY

Patty Chang, Still from Invocations for a Wandering Lake, Part I, 2015, Video Projection, color, sound, TRT 12:49; installation dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and BANK/MABSOCIETY

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Patty Chang, Glass Urinary Device, 2017, photo by Amy Lemaire

Patty Chang, Glass Urinary Device, 2017, photo by Amy Lemaire

Born in 1972 in San Leandro, California, Chang received her BA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1994. Her work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the Times Museum in Guangzhou, China; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She has received a Creative Capital Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and an Anonymous Was a Woman grant. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

The Fall 2019 IDS Lecture Series at The Cooper Union is organized by Leslie Hewitt and Omar Berrada. The IDS Public Lecture Series is part of the Robert Lehman Visiting Artist Program at The Cooper Union. We are grateful for major funding and support from the Robert Lehman Foundation for the series. The IDS Public Lecture Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

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