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In this virtual Diversities in Practice talk, artist Tony Cokes shares insights into his work and the dialogue it creates with popular culture, politics, and critical theory.
Cokes’s new project made in collaboration with past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Sarah Oppenheimer was recently showcased at FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. His 1988 video Black Celebration (A Rebellion Against the Commodity) is in the center’s collection.
Art historian Tom McDonough joins Cokes in a Q&A following the talk—RSVP to receive the Zoom link and submit a question in the chat. The talk also streams to this page, and viewers there can text a question via the Wex hotline at (614) 813-3416.
IMAGE CAPTIONTony Cokes, image courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
Diversities in Practice is a collaboration between Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative. This series includes talks and moderated discussions featuring a range of artists, thinkers, and practitioners engaged in compelling and critical work, centering projects that examine, shape, and push both material and ideological boundaries. These presentations will be available online throughout the year.
Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. His work is included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, and he has had solo exhibitions around the world, including his show that opened in June 2022 at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Cokes’s work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many other institutions. Learn more about Cokes's work on the Green Naftali website.
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art Visiting Artist Program.
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