JAN TUMLIR in conversation with Charles Long, Tom LaDuke, Inès Kivimäki, Jeffrey Stuker
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October 18th, 2024, 5:00 pm.
JAN TUMLIR in conversation with Charles Long, Tom LaDuke, Inès Kivimäki, Jeffrey Stuker 〰️ October 18th, 2024, 5:00 pm.
JAN TUMLIR in conversation with the Artists:
Charles Long, Tom LaDuke, Inès Kivimäki, Jeffrey Stuker
October 18th, 2024, 5:00 pm
September 28 - October 26, 2024
Curated by Ewa Słapa
Charles Long
Born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and works in California. In 1981, he received a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art while also participating in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program that year, and later earned an MFA from Yale University in New Haven in 1988. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Riverside. Throughout the past two decades, Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas, Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100 Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010), and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico (2005).
His work was featured twice in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1997, 2008), and has also been included in notable group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other museums. His work is represented in important public and private collections worldwide, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum in Missouri, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Tom LaDuke
Born in 1963 in Holyoke, MA, received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California State University, Fullerton. LaDuke has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. He has been included in recent group exhibitions at Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; The Storefront, Bellport, NY; L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; and California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. His work may be found in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, NY; Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, and elsewhere. LaDuke lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Inès Kivimäki
Born in 1990, France, is a Finnish - Algerian artist that lives and works in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from UC Riverside and a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Beginning with research, her projects expand through a variety of mediums: her work is interested in emerging and ancient technologies, device dependency and its implications to self- image. ” Kivimäki’s solo and group exhibitions include the Culver Museum in Riverside (2024), Fulcrum Press (2024), Phase Gallery (2023), Human Resources (2023), Gallery 2A, Art Center DTLA, Roberts Projects in Los Angeles and Arkadia Gallery in Helsinki. “ She currently co-runs project space Timeshare in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles.
Jeffrey Stuker
Jeffrey Stuker (b. 1979; Fort Collins, CO, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Stuker received his MFA
from Yale University, New Haven in 2005. Recent museum exhibitions include Digital Witness at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2024) and Three Lives at University of California, San Diego, QI Gallery, as part of the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include Mantis Te Vidit, at Studioli Roma, Cilento (2024), From a Defoliated Monograph, at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles (2024), and Next Year in Monte Carlo at Ben Hunter, London, UK. Previous museum exhibitions include Objects of Desire at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2022); The International Biennial of Contemporary Photography at MOMuS, Thessaloniki Greece (2021) and Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Most recently, works from Stuker’s installation at the Hammer and his solo show, Next Year in Monte Carlo at Ben Hunter were acquired by LACMA.