Stephen Prina
Artist
Stephen Prina, born in 1954, Galesburg, Illinois, is an American artist and Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Solo shows have been devoted to him by some of the leading international museums such as the Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2016); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (2015); LACMA / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); Wiener Secession, Vienna (2001); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2011 and 2009); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2010); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaeno, Seville and Bergen Kunsthall (2009); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts-Harvard University, Cambridge and Cubitt, London (2004); The Art Institute, Chicago (2001); Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt and Art Pace, San Antonio (2000); MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (1998); Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1992); The Power Plant, Toronto (1991); The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and P.1, New York (1989). Among the biennials and periodic exhibitions whom he participated to: Time Crevasse. Yokohama Triennale and Witney Biennial, New York (2008); SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2001); Documenta IX, Kassel (1992); 51st Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1991); APERTO Venice Biennale (1990).
The artist has returned to exhibit at The Madre / Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples more than thirty years since the collective exhibition Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana, presented at Castel dell’Ovo in 1986.
Stephen Prina lives and works between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles.
Stephen Prina
Artist
Stephen Prina, born in 1954, Galesburg, Illinois, is an American artist and Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Solo shows have been devoted to him by some of the leading international museums such as the Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2016); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (2015); LACMA / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); Wiener Secession, Vienna (2001); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2011 and 2009); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2010); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaeno, Seville and Bergen Kunsthall (2009); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2008); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts-Harvard University, Cambridge and Cubitt, London (2004); The Art Institute, Chicago (2001); Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt and Art Pace, San Antonio (2000); MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (1998); Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1992); The Power Plant, Toronto (1991); The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and P.1, New York (1989). Among the biennials and periodic exhibitions whom he participated to: Time Crevasse. Yokohama Triennale and Witney Biennial, New York (2008); SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2001); Documenta IX, Kassel (1992); 51st Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1991); APERTO Venice Biennale (1990).
The artist has returned to exhibit at The Madre / Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples more than thirty years since the collective exhibition Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana, presented at Castel dell’Ovo in 1986.
Stephen Prina lives and works between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles.
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The Laboratory of the FutureMay 20 – Nov 26, 2023The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. (more…)
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Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman: Ancestral Clouds Ancestral ClaimsOct 5, 2023 – Mar 17, 2024Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims is Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s first solo exhibition in Austria. It is centered around the presentation of a new work, coproduced by Kunsthalle Wien. The eponymous film is the latest part of a series called Elemental Cinema; each film in this series is dedicated to one of the four elements. In it, the artists have developed an approach that takes matter, material, and the elemental as its starting point – aspects which continue to be neglected and suppressed by the globally dominant order of thinking and being. (more…)
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MeltwaterAug 17 – Nov 30, 2023Each spring, icebergs calved from the west coast of Greenland make their way into the Labrador Sea, floating through ‘Iceberg Alley’ and eventually past the coast of Fogo Island where they drift into warmer waters as they slowly melt. (more…)
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Against ApartheidSep 29 – Dec 2, 2023Curated by Ashish Ghadiali, Against Apartheid explores the origins of climate apartheid through the work of international contemporary artists, activists and scientists. UN Special Rapporteur, Philip Alston, has dubbed the potential outcome of anthropogenic climate change as “climate apartheid” (more…)
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Joan JonasMar 17 – Jul 6, 2024Joan Jonas creates meditations on bodies, space, time, and nature. As she has explained, “The performer sees herself as a Medium: Information passes through.” The most comprehensive retrospective of Jonas’s work in the United States, this exhibition provides new insights (more…)
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Impressions of a Lived TimeDec 8, 2022 – Apr 16, 2023The exhibition is part of a comprehensive research on lesser-known painting and graphic works in Ștefan Câlția’s creative process. (more…)
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Harvard Design Magazine / Issue 51Multihyphenate: F/W 2023Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab” culture; “brand X brand” projects; and multiple, or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among the individuals, studios, and practices that engage in such work. For them, the “body of work” they produce matters more than maintaining a singular creative identity (more…)
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I Declare a Permanent State of HappinessKenneth GoldsmithMy entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein’s later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tractatus. But I always loved the idea of it; I am a conceptual writer, after all. –Kenneth Goldsmith (more…)
