Jan 2021 public programs

Faculty Panel: Imaginative Practices

for Survival

Art Talks speaker bios

Rebecca     

Belmore

Nikita

Gale

Ruth

Erickson

A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore's work is rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies, land and language. Belmore participated in Documenta 14 and represented Canada at the 2005 Venice Biennale.

Nikita Gale's practice is often structured by long-term obsessions with specific objects and the ways these objects gesture towards particular social and political histories. Recent shows of Nikita's include those at MoMA PS1, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Hammer Museum. 

Ruth Erickson is the Mannion Family Curator at the ICA Boston - her scholarly work has a specific focus in film and performance, art collectives, institutional critique, and social art practices. Recent exhibitions include Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist, Nari Ward: Sun Splashed, and Hesam Rahmanian: The Birthday Party.

Eric N.

Mack

Doris 

Salcedo

Self described as a painter, Eric N. Mack pushes past the medium’s traditional canvas-to-stretcher
format with mixed media tactile assemblages. His recent shows include those at the Brooklyn Museum, Mass MoCA, Kunsthalle Basel, MoMA PS1, and the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

 Doris Salcedo’s sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Solo exhibitions include those at the Guggenheim, MUAC, and Tate Modern.