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Summer 2024 Exhibitions Opening Celebration

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May 31, 2024 5:00 PM

Wexner Center for the Arts

Free for all audiences with ticket

Public reception with light hors d’oeuvres, DJ, cash bar, food truck, and open galleries | 5–8 PM
Galleries, Lower Lobby, and Wexner Center Plaza

Conversation with Jonas N.T. Becker (updated time)  | 5:15 PM 
Film/Video Theater
The talk will be made available with captions and a transcript on this page for future viewing

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Join us for the free opening of exhibitions featuring multimedia works by Wex Artist Residency Award recipients Jonas N.T. Becker and Tanya Lukin Linklater.

Explore the connections between the environment, economics, class, and culture in these moving presentations. Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void, their largest museum exhibition to date, reflects Becker’s work connecting their experiences as a native of the Appalachian region to broader questions of environmental injustice and inequity. The exhibition premieres several new photographic and video works, including the Film/Video Studio–supported Class Struggle. Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather), her first US overview exhibition, features installations, performance works, and a Wex-commissioned project informed by her visit to Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Newark, Ohio. Her works cite Indigenous art lineages, embrace ancestral belongings, and consider how weather organizes communities as well as our environment.

The exhibition opens to both members and the public at 5 PM. At 5:15 PM, everyone is invited to a conversation with Jonas N.T. Becker, Gina Osterloh, and Judith Transue in the Film/Video Theater.

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Spring 2024 Exhibition Opening Celebration.

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About the artists

Jonas N.T. Becker has exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; FotoFocus Biennial at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles; and Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California. Awards include the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Fellowship (2022–23); Lucas Artist Residency Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, California, (2016–19); Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Switzerland (2015); and Six Points Fellowship (2011–13). Becker is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2023–24 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme External Fellow at Ohio State. They live and work between West Virginia and Chicago.

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Tanya Lukin Linklater has recently participated in the Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Her work has also been shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; among other institutions. Her first collection of poetry was Slow Scrape (published by the Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism Books in 2020 and by Talonbooks in 2022). A catalogue, Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather—copublished by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Oakville Galleries; and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin—was released in spring 2024. Lukin Linklater’s Alutiiq/Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska where much of her family continues to live. She is a tribally enrolled member of the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions in the Kodiak archipelago.

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Jonas N.T. Becker’s A Hole is not a Void is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by former Head of Exhibitions Kelly Kivland and former Curator Lucy I. Zimmerman, with support from Curatorial Assistant Jonathan Gonzalez and Curatorial Intern Madelyn Thompson.

Tanya Lukin Linklater: Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather) is organized by Kelly Kivland, former head of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and director and lead curator at Michigan Central, with support from Curatorial Assistant Jonathan Gonzalez.

TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER'S EXHIBITION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Teiger Foundation
Canada Council for the Arts

SUPPORT FOR THE OPENING CELEBRATION PROVIDED BY
Ohio Humanities

EXHIBITIONS 2023–24 SEASON MADE POSSIBLE BY
Bill and Sheila Lambert
Carol and David Aronowitz
Crane Family Foundation

FREE GALLERIES MADE POSSIBLE BY
American Electric Power Foundation
Mary and C. Robert Kidder
Bill and Sheila Lambert

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR FREE GALLERIES PROVIDED BY
Adam Flatto
CoverMyMeds
PNC Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development 
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
 Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging
 Nationwide Foundation 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
 Mike and Paige Crane 
 Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Bruce and Joy Soll 
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle 
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate