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Studio VU Lecture Series

The Department of Art annually invites national and international voices in creative, curatorial, and critical-thought fields to the Vanderbilt campus through the Studio VU Lecture Series. Each visiting lecturer has a recognized career in visual arts, performance art, art criticism, and/or a combination. In addition to giving a lecture, the visiting speaker conducts one-on-one critiques with senior art major students.

The Studio VU Lecture Series began in 2007. The Department of Art would like to thank all collaborators, cosponsors, and community members for their continued support for the Studio VU program.

All lectures are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

2024-25 Lectures

Pedram Beldari – October 17, 2024

Deborah Stratman – September 11, 2024

2023-24 Lectures

Friends of Printmaking – March 28, 2024

Saya Woolfalk – November 8, 2023

RaMell Ross – October 25, 2023

2022-2023 Lectures

Jiha Moon – February 8, 2023

Josephine Halverson – January, 18, 2023

Lenka Clayton – November 16, 2022

Past Lectures

  • Cosmo Whyte
    • artist, Wednesday, March 17, 2021
  • Suzanne Lacy
    • artist, Wednesday, February 10, 2021
  • Liz Deshenes
    • artist, Thursday, October 1, 2020
  • Dawit L. Petros
    • artist, Wednesday, September 16, 2020
  • Nao Bustamante

    • artist, Wednesday, October 16, 2019

  • Amy Cutler

    • artist, Wednesday, November 6, 2019

  • Ghada Amer
    • artist, Monday, September 10, 2018
  • Bill Fick & Carlos Hernandez
    • printmakers, Wednesday, September 19, 2018
  • John Gerrard
    • artist, Thursday, October 4, 2018
  • Guillermo Galindo
    • artist, Wednesday, October 10, 2018
  • Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
    • artist, January 23, 2019
  • Art, Justice and Democracy: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Inaugural Lecture Series 
    • Panel on Wednesday, November 14 2018
    • Holland Cotter (art critic, New York Times)
      Adam Szymczyk (art director, Documenta 14)
      Olu Ouguibe (artist, professor)
  • Aki Sasamoto
  • Chloë Bass
  • Thenjiwe Nkosi
  • Ruth Erickson – Mannion Family Curator at Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
  • Hrag Vartanian
    • editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, October 26, 2016
  • Ian Berry – Dayton Director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
    • curator, November 16, 2016
  • Regina Jose Galindo
    • artist, November 9, 2016
    • (cosponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt and Space 204)
    • Communida, public performance, Vanderbilt Stadium, November 12, 2016
  • Pedro Barbeito
    • artist, February 8, 2017
  • Robert Todd
    • film maker and artist, November 18, 2015
  • Regina Agu
    • artist, January 20, 2016
  • Mahwish Chishty
    • artist, February 10, 2016
  • Pablo Helguera
    • artist and writer, September 25, 2014
  • Jon Rubin
    • artist, September 26, 2014
  • Penelope Umbrico
    • artist, October 29, 2014
  • Phoenix Savage
    • artist, February 18, 2015
  • Leighton Pearce
    • experimental film maker, October 23, 2013
  • Sanford Biggers
    • artist, November 20, 2013
  • Charles Long
    • artist, February 19, 2014
  • Lane Reylea
    • artist and art critic, March 19, 2014
  • Antoni Muntadas
    • artist, October 27, 2012
  • Hung Liu
    • artist, September 19, 2012
  • Carrie Mae Weems
    • artist, September 22, 2012
  • Obadike (M+K)
    • artist, March 20, 2013
  • Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
    • artist, October 10, 2011
  • Zineb Sedira
    • artist, November 3, 2011
  • Trenton Doyle Hancock
    • artist, February 22, 2012
  • Jens Hoffman
  • Barry McGee
    • artist, October 6, 2010
  • Dana Hoey
    • artist, November 3, 2010
  • The Art Guys
    • artist, January 26, 2011
  • The Yes Men
    • artists, March 16, 2011
  • Beth Cavener Stichter
    • artist, April 7, 2010
  • Oliver Hearing
  • Okay Mountain
    • artists, February 23, 2010
  • Michael Smith
    • performance and installation artist, October 1, 2008
  • Jules de Balincourt
    • artist, October 22, 2008
  • Linda Weintraub
    • art critic and author, January 14, 2009
  • Enrique Chagoya
    • artist, February 18, 2009
  • Emma Amos
    •  artist, October 1, 2007
  • Teresa Hubbard & Alex Bircher
    • artist, January 30, 2008
  • Mark Dion
    • artist, February 27, 2008
  • Roger Shimomura
    • Artist, March 12, 2008