Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture: Emilia Kabakov
@ The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, May 5th, at 6PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901
The Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts is pleased to invite Emilia Kabakov to The University of Chicago to deliver this year’s Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture.
Born 1945 in the Soviet Union, Emilia Kabakov emigrated in 1973 and has lived and worked in the USA since 1975. She began working with her husband, the artist Ilya Kabakov (1933-2023), beginning in the late 1980s. Together they have gone on to receive numerous honors and awards, been awarded a multitude of public art projects, and their work has been acquired by public collections worldwide. They have had solo exhibitions in major museums around the globe, in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Moscow, Rome, London and many more. They have been recognized as Honorary Academics of Vienna Art University; Moscow Art Academy; Sorbonne University, Paris; and Bern University, Switzerland.
For the past twenty years, Ilya and Emilia have run The Ship of Tolerance, an international art project that unites children from different backgrounds, socio-economic classes, and religions. The project has been realized in Egypt, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, the United States, Cuba, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Greece. In 2025, it will be realized in Canada, Uzbekistan, and Saudi Arabia.
Established in 2018, through the generosity of Deborah Goodman Davis, the Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture Series brings vibrant voices to The University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts and the greater university community.
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