A Visual Studies Public Lecture in partnership with The Vega Foundation and The Power Plant
Lucy Raven lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2008.
Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at the Barbican, London (2025); Vancouver Art Gallery (2025); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2024); Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2023–24); Wiels, Brussels (2022); Dia Chelsea, New York (2021); Serpentine Galleries, London (2016–17); Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2016); VOX centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal (2015); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2010). Additionally, Raven’s work was included in the 2024 Gwangju Biennale, 2022 and 2012 Whitney Biennial, New York; 2018 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; and 2016 Montreal Biennial.
With Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, she is a founding member of 13BC, a moving image research and production collective. Raven teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
Raven's latest work Murderers Bar is on view at The Power Plant until March 22.
Image credit: Lucy Raven, Murderers Bar, 2022. Colour video, quadraphonic sound, aluminum and plywood screen, and aluminum seating structure. © Lucy Raven; Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery. Artwork Co-commissioned by Vancouver Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation.
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