Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
@ SAIC | MacLean Center
112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, July 11th, at 6PM
Lecture: Tuesday, July 11th at 6PM in the SAIC Ballroom, MacLean Building
Description: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter, writer and teacher who grew up in Olympia, Washington and participated in Riot Grrrl in her formative years. She attended the Evergreen State College in the 1990s. This introduced her to holistic structural ideas about aesthetics and politics. She worked in used bookstores and bars until her thirties, when she moved to Chicago and attended the School of the Art Institute for graduate school, and now she is working and grocery shopping and taking walks in Norfolk, Connecticut with her wife, Fox Hysen, and dog, Moses.
She was a full time senior critic at Yale School of Art until 2021, and she is now teaching part time at Yale and SAIC, as well as low res MFA advising at various schools around the country. She has shown at The Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, The Program at ReMap in Athens, Greece, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany and many others. In 2013 she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She is a frequent guest lecturer at many schools across the country, including, in the past few years, Princeton University, The University of Texas at Austin, Cranbrook, University of Alabama, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low Residency Program, and Columbia University. She is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago In 2021 she opened a mid-career survey show at the Blaffer in Houston, Texas, called Comic Relief and accompanied by a monograph.
Photo by Fox Hysen.
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