Art Lecture Series | Jennifer A. González, “Speech as Medium, Democracy as Metaphor”

Sharon Hayes, I March in the Parade of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free, 2007-08. Photo by Andrea Geyer

Jennifer A. González, “Speech as Medium, Democracy as Metaphor”
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
7 PM, Mills College, Lisser Hall


Jennifer A. González is Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and also teaches at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has published in Frieze, Bomb, Diacritics, Camera Obscura, Open Space, Art Journal, the Journal of the Archives of American Art and numerous exhibition catalogs including most recently Jimmy Durham: At the Center of the World (2017). Her first book Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art (MIT Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Her second book focused on the MacArthur-award-winning artist Pepón Osorio (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). She is chief editor of the recently released Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press, 2019). She has lectured extensively at universities and art museums nationally and internationally, including the Guggenheim, LACMA, SFMOMA, Smithsonian, Terra Foundation, and Whitney Museum.


Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.


Supported by the Jane Green Endowed Lecture in Art History.