Mills College Art Lecture Series: John Herschend

Wednesday, February 25, 2015
7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall

Jonn Herschend is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and experimental publisher whose work explores fiction, reality and the narrative structures that we employ as a way to explain the chaos and clutter of our everyday lives. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Den Frie Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen, Denmark; SITE Santa Fe, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the co-founder and co-editor, along with Will Rogan, of the experimental publication THE THING Quarterly, and is a recent recipient of a Danish Arts Council grant for his work as co-curator of the Deadpan Exchange international exhibition series. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California Berkeley, San Francisco State University, California College of Art and Stanford University. His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Sponsored by Herringer Graduate Lecture Series