Carl Pope: Public Projects

Date: Thursday, October 11, 12:30 pm

Speaker: Carl Pope Jr.

Carl Pope, Jr. is a photographer and multi-media artist who first came to prominence in the 1990 exhibition “New Photography 6” curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art. His work has been shown across the US, including in the 1996 Whitney Museum show "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art" and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He is currently in the exhibition "Words Fail Me" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Pope's work investigates social and economic networks, using public art projects to mine hidden histories and narratives from the grass roots and/or margins of culture. He has received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His work is represented in many museum collections, including George Eastman House, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.