Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 5:30 PM  |  Center for Creative Photography 108

Bio: Lucy Raven is an artist living in Oakland, California and Astoria, New York. Her films, animations, and installations have been exhibited internationally, including most recently at Mumok, Vienna, Wavelengths (Toronto International Film Festival 2013) Toronto, the 2013 Whitney Biennial, and the Hammer Museum.

Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1977 and received her BFA from The University of Arizona School of Art in 2000. Her work has been exhibited most recently in solo shows at the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles CA and at art and film spaces internationally, including the Whitney Biennial 2012, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, West Adams, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; PS1, Long Island City, NY; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; and the Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England. She is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, and her writing has appeared in publications such as Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls (Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College/Whitechapel Gallery/Portikus, 2010); Deborah Stratman: Tactical Uses of a Belief in the Unseen, (Gahlberg Gallery, 2010); and Inge Morath: The Road to Reno (Steidl, 2006). Raven was the co-curator of The Marfa Sessions at Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, TX and Nachleben at the Goethe Institute in New York. She lives in New York City and Oakland, California.

Dwelling: From Space to Place in the Visual Arts | VASE 2013-2014