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This lecture is part of the 3-day "Objects, Sculptures, Locations" lunchtime lecture series.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellow Charles Ray (BA '75, Art) is an American artist celebrated for his sculptures of altered and refashioned familiar objects.

Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Ray's "career as an artist…is easily among the most important of the last twenty years."

A 1975 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, he has had solo museum exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), Kunstmuseum Basel (2014), Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2006), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998). His work has been included in Documenta IX (1992), three iterations of the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2013), and five  installments of the Whitney Biennial (1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2010).

Learn more about Charles Ray.

Other events associated with Charles Ray's Alumni Fellow residency:

• Objects, Sculptures, Locations: Lunchtime Lecture Series
  • Objects in Relation to the Arts: a Lunchtime Lecture by Graham Harman, Professor of Philosophy, Southern California Institute of Architecture
  • Sculpture and Space in Greece: Then and Now a Lunchtime Lecture by Richard Neer, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
• My Soul is an Object: Artist Talk with Charles Ray
• Campus Sculpture Walk with Charles Ray and Director Lauren Lessing, UI Stanley Museum of Art