Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Sanya Kantarovsky.

Sanya Kantarovsky is a Moscow-born artist based in New York, who works across the fields of painting, printmaking, animation and film. In 2023, he presented solo gallery exhibitions at Taka Ishii, Kyoto, and Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles; and was recently the subject of several institutional solo exhibitions including Aspen Art Museum, 2022; Kunsthalle Basel, 2018; and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2017. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands; the Jewish Museum, New York; and SculptureCenter, New York. His work is held in numerous collections including the Tate, London; Courtauld, MCA Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ICA Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. A monograph of Kantarovsky’s work, No Joke, was published by Koenig Books in 2016, with a new comprehensive monograph forthcoming from MIT Press in 2024.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and critics presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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