Lectures and Talks

Jaye Rhee explores how we navigate physical and virtual spaces, constructing ambiguous environments and imaginary worlds through video, photography, and performance. In her practice, Rhee engages with images and their production, reflecting the way visual culture mediates identity, memory, and perception.

Rhee has shown her work at various international venues, including the Bronx Museum of Arts, New York; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea; La Triennale di Milano, Italy; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Norton Museum of Art; Queens Museum of Art, New York; and Seoul Museum of Art.

She has participated in artist residences at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Changdong International Studio Program, Palais de Tokyo Workshop, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rhee received a BFA in 2001 and an MFA in 2003 from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in New York and Seoul.

Rhee’s multi-channel video installation Voiceless Song (2025) is currently on view in the Arts of Asia Galleries on level 5 of the Martin Building.

David Huffman creates "social abstractions," large-scale paintings combining social and political themes with inventive abstract mark-making. Influenced by progressive Black politics, Afrofuturism, Pop art, basketball, and the television shows Star Trek and Astro Boy, Huffman layers these references to reflect on the African American experience.

In his paintings, Huffman transports us to celestial realms where images of basketballs float like planetary bodies while the circuitous netting of hoop chains ground his work in the urban environment of his youth. His current work recalls NASA’s Cold War-era space race and Sun Ra’s hypnotic sonic experimentations to envision a world where Black Americans may freely prosper.

Huffman joins crystal am nelson, assistant professor of African Diasporic Visual Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, in a conversation about his almost three-decade-long practice as an artist.

With Pissarro's Impressionism as a springboard, the Perspectives on Pissarro program series offers a fresh take on the exhibition, the artist, and his world.

Join curators, art historians, and a horticulturalist as they share insights into Pissarro's work and the natural landscapes that inspired him. Register for individual sessions or enjoy a discount for the full series.

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With Pissarro's Impressionism as a springboard, the Perspectives on Pissarro program series offers a fresh take on the exhibition, the artist, and his world.

Join curators, art historians, and a horticulturalist as they share insights into Pissarro's work and the natural landscapes that inspired him. Register for individual sessions or enjoy a discount for the full series.