Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2025
Technology/Transformation
June 30th to July 4th
July 1st
18:30, Conference
Even Better Than the Real Thing: Curating the Whitney Biennial at the Precipice of the Twenty First Century, Chrissie Iles
School of Arts, Ilídio Pinho Auditorium
This lecture by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses the challenges of curating the foremost survey of contemporary art in the United States at a critical moment in the country's history, and the relationship between thediasporic and the global in the formation of what constitutes 'American' art.
Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, as well as major retrospective exhibitions of Marina Abramovic, Dan Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono. She has also curated exhibitions of Paul McCarthy, James Lee Byars, Jack Goldstein, and several group shows, including Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s, Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, and Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977, which was named Best Group Exhibition in New York in 2001 by the International Association of Art Critics. In 2010, she co-curated Off the Wall: Thirty Performative Actions at the Whitney Museum and the Serralves Museum in Porto, and more recently curated a Sharon Hayes exhibition (2012).
