Join us for a lecture by artist and Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor Lee Mingwei followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Born in Taiwan and currently living in Paris, New York, and Taipei, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking, and conversation. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction and take on different forms with participants' involvement and change during an exhibition. He has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gropius Bau, Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and he has been featured in biennales in Venice, Lyon, Liverpool, Taipei, Shanghai, Sharjah, Sydney, the Whitney Museum, and Asia Pacific Triennials.
Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick, this distinguished visiting professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public. Learn more at saic.edu/vap
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access
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