The Spring 2024 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky

Cyrus Dunham presents Carolyn Lazard

This event is free & open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.

See the full Spring 2024 Seminar schedule here.

Carolyn Lazard is an artist based in Philadelphia. Their work has been exhibited in several institutions including Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; KW and the Hamburger Bahnhof, both Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Long Take (2023), a co-commission between the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Their work was included in both the 2019 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 Macarthur Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cyrus Dunham is the author of A Year Without a Name, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. He has written widely about prisons, trans history and politics, and art. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a Dornsife Fellow in Nonfiction at the University of Southern California.

Image credits: Photograph of Cyrus Dunham by Grace Pickering.

The Graduate Art Seminar is a forum for graduate students and members of the ArtCenter community to enter into dialog with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. The Seminar is a core component of ArtCenter's Graduate Art program. The Seminar is also free and open to the public.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio, which provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres of film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.