Announcing the 2017-18 Hayden Distinguished Fellows

This year, the Yale School of Art will welcome four Hayden Distinguished Fellows to campus. This new fellowship, generously made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas, will bring globally recognized leaders in art and the academy to Yale to work with students as teachers, mentors, and critics. The Fellows’ engagement will strengthen a critical link between the Yale School of Art and the international artistic community, as Fellows give public lectures, teach classes, and participate in studio visits and critiques.

Carol Bove

Artist

An acclaimed artist recently exhibited in the Swiss Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, Bove’s practice reflects on her interest as a researcher. Carol will serve as a critic in the Sculpture Department during the fall and spring semesters.

Carol Bove lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her sculptures, assemblages, paintings and prints are represented in permanent collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France; The Aishti Foundation, Beirut and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include Polka Dots, David Zwirner, New York; Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa, Henry Moore Institute, England (in collaboration with Museion, Bolzano, Italy and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium); The Plastic Unit, David Zwirner London; Caterpillar, High Line, NYC and The Equinox, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Her work has been featured in prominent group exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012; The 54th Venice Biennale in 2011; The 2008 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center. She co-represented Switzerland in the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Richard Hawkins

Artist

Known for his work in sculpture and collage, Richard Hawkins has had his art featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Richard will visit campus several times during the fall and spring semesters to work with students in the Painting and Printmaking Department.

Richard Hawkins received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas Austin in 1984 and his M.F.A. from Cal Arts in 1988. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York; Richard Telles, Los Angeles and Jenny’s, Los Angeles (all 2016); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2013); The Art Institute of Chicago which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). His work is in the permanent collections of MOCA Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Hawkins was the 2012 Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy, Berlin.

Peter Osborne

Philosopher, Art Theorist and Critic.

Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London

A renowned scholar in aesthetics and contemporary art practice, Peter Osborne will be at the School for Art for two months in the fall, teaching the first-year course Critical Practice, giving lectures, visiting studios, and participating in critiques of student work.

Professor Osborne received a BSc in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bristol in 1979, and a MA and a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1980 and 1989. From 1992 to 2010 he taught Philosophy and Art Theory at Middlesex University, London. From 1983 to 2016, he was an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy. He has contributed to a range of international journals (including Art History, Cultural Studies, New German Critique, New Left Review, October, Telos and Texte zur Kunst) and to the catalogues of major art institutions (including Manifesta 5, Tate Modern, Biennale of Sydney, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Office of Contemporary Art Norway, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.) In 2011, he was co-curator (with Marta Kuzma) of the Norwegian Representation at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2014, he was the keynote speaker at the 2nd World Biennial Forum, Sao Paulo, Making Biennials in Contemporary Times. From 2013 to 2015 he was Principal Investigator on the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council project on Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities. He has recently held Visiting International Chairs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris 8 (2012 & 2014) and in ‘Philosophy in the Context of Art’ at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2015). His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2005), El arte mas alla de la estetica: ensayos filosoficos sobre el arte contemporaneo (2010), Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013) and The Postconceptual Condition (forthcoming from Verso in late 2017).

Hito Steyerl

Filmmaker and Writer

One of the leading figures in developing her own paradigm that incorporates looking at digital technologies and their impact on tendencies in contemporary art, Hito Steyerl will be in residence at the School of Art in the spring when she will teach classes, present a public lecture, and conduct research for a developing artist project.

Steyerl’s prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a highly discursive position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics, constituting a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries. Her films and lectures have increasingly addressed the presentational context of art, while her writing has circulated widely through publication in both academic and art journals, often online.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Artists Space, New York; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2015); Van Abbemuseum, Eidenhoven, The Netherlands; ICA, London, UK; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); the Art Institute of Chicago; E-flux, New York (2012); Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2010); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2009); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2008). Group exhibitions include the German Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy; the Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; CAC Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania (2015); Cut to Swipe, Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Darknet, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Bienal de la Imagen en Movimento, Goethe- Institut Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014); The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology, MCA Chicago; Nine Artists, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Bergen Triennial, Bergen, Norway; Venice Biennale (2013); Taipei Biennial; Gwangju Biennial (2010); documenta 12, Kassel (2007) and Manifesta 5, San Sebastian (2004).