Announcing the Autumn 2019 Hayden Distinguished Fellows and Visiting Artist

In Autumn 2019, the Yale School of Art will welcome two Hayden Distinguished Fellows and one Hayden Visiting Artist to campus. Initially launched in 2017, this fellowship, generously made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas, will continue to bring globally recognized leaders in art and the academy to Yale to work with students as teachers, mentors, and critics. Past Hayden Distinguished Fellows include Carol Bove, Richard Hawkins, and Hito Steyerl.

Peter Osborne will return for his third year as a Hayden Distinguished Fellow, a role in which he will be visiting studios, participating in critiques of student work, and lecturing in the first-year course Critical Practice. The School of Art is welcoming Andrea Fraser as a Hayden Distinguished Fellow for the first time, following her enthusiastically received public lecture here in 2018. Fraser will likewise lecture in Critical Practice, and will also conduct a Group Relations workshop for first-year students, in which psychoanalytic perspectives are applied in experiential demonstrations of a group relations-based approach to group critique.

Also joining the School of Art for the first time as part of the Hayden initiative is Jessica Stockholder, who will serve as a Hayden Visiting Artist for the Fall 2019 semester. As Visiting Artist, Stockholder will be giving a public lecture in New Haven on October 28, in an inauguration of the School’s 150th anniversary year. In a talk entitled “Hinging: How to put it in the world,” Stockholder will speak to the range of her work over time, addressing how she consistently works with material, color, and form to embody her interest in edge, boundary, autonomy, dependence, and coherence in the face of happenstance. Her talk will be followed by a conversation between the artist and novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic Lynne Tillman alongside Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma.

Andrea Fraser

Artist

Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups. She is Professor, Interdisciplinary Studio Area Head, and Chair of the UCLA Department of Art. Retrospectives of her work have been presented by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013), the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015), the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona and MUAC UNAM Mexico City (both 2016).

Her 2018 book, 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics—co-published by the CCA Wattis Institute, Westreich/Wagner Publications, and MIT Press—documents the political contributions of the board members of over 125 major US art organizations in the 2016 election cycle and its aftermath, examining the intersection of cultural philanthropy and political finance in the age of plutocracy.

Her most recent book, Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews 1990-2018—co-published by A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books—bring together almost 30 years of dialogues and dialogue-based art works, a form that has been central to her work as an artist.

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

Professor Peter 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 (2018).

Jessica Stockholder

Artist

Jessica Stockholder works at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture, employing conceptually-rich colors and materials to revolutionize the space of mixed media installation. She is the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. After graduating from the Yale School of Art’s MFA program in 1985, she was appointed the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at the School in 1999—a role she held for over a decade.

In 2010, Stockholder was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, which was followed by an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Columbia College in 2013. She has exhibited widely in North America and Europe, at such venues as the Dia Center for the Arts, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Open Air Museum in Middelheim, Belgium, the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada, and Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery in New York.

In her most recent exhibition, Stuff Matters, at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Stockholder curated an intersection of her own work with work from the museum’s diverse collection. This exhibition included two new commissioned works, works from the past three decades of her work, and work from many centuries of the Museum’s collection. This show followed from other recent exhibitions in which Stockholder has invited other artists to work with her as she explores questions of relational aesthetics and context. Her work is represented in various collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Stockholder has received numerous grants including the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several grants from the Canada Council.