News 2024: Visiting Artist: Ellen Altfest

Artist Lecture, 3:00 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Time: 3:00 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Location: CVPA 153 Lecture Hall, UMass Dartmouth. Open to all.

About Ellen Altfest

Ellen Altfest was born in 1970 in New York. She currently lives and works in New York and Rising Fawn, Georgia. She received an MFA from Yale University, New Haven (1997), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2002) and was awarded a studio at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, NY (2004–05). Altfest has been granted residencies at SAGA House, Kyoto, Japan (2022); the Zabludowicz Collection, Finland (2016); Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco, Italy (2014); Chinati Foundation, Marfa (2010); and lead an ‘Artist Workshop’ at the Kyoto City University of Arts (2014). Since her first solo exhibition with White Cube in 2007 she has had solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2022); White Cube, Hong Kong (2019); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2015); New Museum, New York (2012); White Cube, London (2011); and Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2010). Group exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Museum Dhondt–Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2016); KUAC Gallery, Kyoto (2014); Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (2012); and The National Academy Museum, New York (2006).

Artist website: www.whitecube.com/artists/ellen-altfest

This event is sponsored by the Painting and Printmaking Club at the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
For questions or additional information contact Prof. Elena Peteva at epeteva@umassd.edu