STUDENT LECTURE SERIES: Oliver Herring

Thursday, February 20, 2014, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

SPRING 2014 STUDENT LECTURES SERIES

Oliver Herring

The work of Oliver Herring has been the subject solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. In 2009, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York featured Me Us Them, a 15-year survey of Herring’s work curated by Ian Berry. His TASK performances and parties have been held at museums, universities, and other spaces all over the world. In 2005 Herring was featured on the nationally-broadcast PBS program Art 21.

RM 315F at 6:30PM

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