Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by faculty member Brad Kahlhamer.

Kahlhamer is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His work has been collected by institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Denver Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, among others.

He is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell award and a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency on Captiva Island. He has written the essay "SUPR NDN" for the Denver Art Museum's touring exhibition on Fritz Shoulder work. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Europe, and was represented by the legendary Deitch Projects from 1999 until its closing in 2008. New York Times critic Holland Cotter wrote on his 1999 Exhibition Friendly Frontier, "The results have the ungrounded feel of Plains Indian ledger book drawings, with a charge of psychic irritation and urgency that those drawings keep suppressed." "Bowery Nation," his large installation in the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary has been on tour in South America. His vast dream catcher array "Super Catcher" debuted at SFMOMA's reopening in 2016. His next major show is "Makeshift" at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, open from September 23, 2018, until March 2, 2019.