MFA Fine Arts presents writer Jane Ursula Harris in conversation with artist Jacolby Satterwhite, about his multimedia practice. The dialogue will highlight Satterwhite's interest in subculture, mythology and technology as well as his collaborative approach to both subject matter and material. “We’re in the age of the remix. There’s no such thing as originality anymore. Now it’s just about how you use information around you to generate your individuality,” Satterwhite says.

Jane Ursula Harris is a New York-based writer who has contributed to publications including Art in America, Artforum, Bookforum, BOMB, The Paris Review, Flash Art, The Believer, The Village Voice, Vice/GARAGE, The Huffington Post, Surface and Time Out New York, among others. She has contributed essays to various catalogues such as Participant Inc.'s NegroGothic: M. Lamar; Hatje Cantz's Examples to Follow: Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Jezebel: Carla Gannis; Kerber Verlag’s Marc Lüders: The East Side Gallery; Phaidon’s Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing; Phaidon’s Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting; Universe-Rizzoli’s Curve: The Female Nude Now; and Twin Palms' Anthony Goicolea. Harris is currently an art history faculty member at the School of Visual Arts.

Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe, including most recently at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (2017); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017). He was awarded the United States Artist Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellowship in 2016. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. In 2019, Satterwhite collaborated with Solange Knowles on her visual album, When I Get Home. Upcoming solo shows will be presented in the fall of 2019 at Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia and Pioneer Works, New York.

Talk

Jane Ursula Harris and Jacolby Satterwhite

Room 101C