Mills College Art Lecture Series: Catherine Wagner

October 10, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall


Catherine Wagner will lecture in conjunction with the release of her 40 survey monograph Place History and the Archive, as well as the Archæology in Reverse exhibition at Mills College Art Museum.


Wagner works with elements of contemporary society and transforms them into conceptual photographs that investigate culture. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls "the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves. "She has received many major awards, including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowments of the Arts Fellowships among others. Her work is represented in major collections nationally and around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art Bologna, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art NY, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museum Folkwang Essen.