Mills College Art Lecture Series: Bessma Khalaf

March 14, 2018

7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall

Bessma Khalaf (born in Baghdad, Iraq) is an interdisciplinary artist utilizing photography, video, sculpture and performance to explore the boundaries of landscape, place, and image. While employing processes of degradation such as (burning, smashing, shattering, melting, defacing, eating, regurgitating, etc.) Khalaf earned her B.A. from San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, and M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Her works have been exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA and the ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY. Herringer Graduate Lecture Series