Recent Visiting Artists

Inside the Designer's Studio: Chris Pullman
April 16, 6:30-8pm | University Hall Amphitheater

Malcolm Wright
Lecture: Japanese Restraint and Western Minimalism
March 25, 7pm | Marran Theatre

Malcolm Wright Demonstration
March 25 | 700 Beacon Street
artist's website

Zhang Minjie
Director of Printmaking
China Art Academy, Hangzhou
March 24 | 700 Beacon Street

Ivona Zdravevska
Interactivity
March 5, 2009 | 601 Newbury Street
AIB alum Ivona Zdravevska (BFA Design '05) recently earned her MFA in Communication Design & Technology from Parsons The New School for Design. Currently exploring interactions through dynamic media, Ivona presented three projects incorporating light, sound, game processing, and design.
artist's website

Xu Bing
November 12, 2008
Prospect Hall | 1803 Massachusetts Avenue
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Internationally renowned artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Xu Bing spoke about the development of his art, from his experiences during the Cultural Revolution to the present day.  Images at left.

Born in Chongqing, China in 1955 and raised in Beijing, Xu Bing enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1977, where he studied printmaking, received an MFA in 1987, and currently serves as Vice President. In 1990, Xu Bing moved to the United States, making his home in Brooklyn, New York. Xu Bing's work has been shown throughout the world in solo and group exhibitions, including: the Venice Biennial; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1999, Xu Bing was awarded the MacArthur Award for Genius by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of his "...originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy." In 2003, Xu Bing was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize for his work in Asian Art and Culture, and in 2004, the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi. 2006 saw the publication of Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing, a multidisciplinary study of Xu Bing's landmark work, Book from the Sky, by the Princeton University Press.

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