Wattis Institute’s 2021–2022 research season is inspired by the work of Lorraine O’Grady
The yearlong research season, Lorraine O’Grady is on our mind, uses the work of artist Lorraine O’Grady as a lens to think about our contemporary moment through a series of public lectures, screenings, performances, and other events.
San Francisco, CA—September 21, 2021—Artist Lorraine O’Grady is the subject of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ 2021–2022 research season, Lorraine O’Grady is on our mind.
Throughout the year-long research season, which runs from September 2021 through July 2022, the Wattis will use O’Grady’s work as a point of departure—exploring various questions and themes connecting other artists and ideas to O’Grady’s work—for a series of public lectures, performances, screenings, and other events featuring prominent artists and thinkers.
Those events begin Tuesday, September 21, with a free online lecture by Catherine Morris, Sackler senior curator at the Brooklyn Museum. With Aruna D’Souza, Morris is curator of O’Grady’s Both/And, the artist’s first monographic exhibition which was on view at the Brooklyn Museum from March through July 2021. Beginning with her intersectional engagement with art world feminism in the early 1980s, the lecture is structured around a discussion of O’Grady’s critical interventions into the western art historical canon, culminating in her most recent project Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!). ( … )