Spring 2020 Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series
WILLIAM POPE.L: Notes on recent work of the past five years
Please join us for Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series of the Spring 2020 semester, featuring the renowned Chicago based artist, William Pope.L!
BAMPFA | 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
Monday, April 6th | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm
All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public
About the Artist
Pope.L (b. 1955, in Newark, NJ) is a Chicago-based visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. Recent solo exhibitions include 'member: 1978-2001', Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2019), 'Choir', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City(2019), 'Conquest', Public Art Fund, New York City (2019), 'One thing after another’, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018), 'Flint Water', What Pipeline, Detroit, Michigan (2017) and ‘Trinket’ at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (2015). Group exhibitions include 'Brown People Are The Wrens In The Parking Lot', University of Chicago, Illinois (2017), 'Whisper Campaign', Documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017) and 'Claim', Whitney Biennial, New York City for which he was awarded the Bucksbaum Prize (2017).
This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice & co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design and BCNM