Awol Erizku - SCAD deFINE ART 2024 Atlanta keynote lecture

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• Monday, Feb 26, 2024  2pm - 3pm

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Link myth, tradition, and culture at SCAD deFINE ART 2024 Atlanta keynote lecture with Awol Erizku.

On the occasion of his first solo museum exhibition, X, at the SCAD Museum of Art, Awol Erizku will deliver a keynote lecture at SCAD Atlanta. Gain insight on Erizku’s impressive career as he discusses his multidisciplinary artistic practice and the inspiration behind his compelling work.

About the artist
Conceptual artist Awol Erizku (b. 1988, Ethiopia; lives and works in Los Angeles) attended New York City’s Cooper Union before receiving his M.F.A. from Yale University. Erizku has developed a multidisciplinary practice encompassing photography, sculpture, painting, installation, film, and sound. Referencing and reimagining African and Black American cultures from Nefertiti to hip-hop vernacular, Erizku rejects Eurocentric notions of art and beauty in favor of building his singular Afrocentric aesthetic, an ideology he refers to as “Afro-esotericism.” He has presented solo exhibitions with the Public Art Fund, New York, and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York. His work has been exhibited at prominent institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark.; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto; and the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, among others. His work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Fla.; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He recently published Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax, the first comprehensive monograph of his career to date.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024.