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Jefferson Pinder Visiting Artist in Painting & Drawing
Oct 4, 2018
07:30 PM
Visual Arts Building, E125
107 River Street, Iowa City, IA 52246
Jefferson Pinder’s work provokes commentary about race and struggle. Focusing primarily with neon, found objects, and video, Pinder investigates identity through the most dynamic circumstances and materials. From uncanny video portraits associated with popular music to durational work that puts the black body in motion, Pinder’s work examines physical conditioning that reveals an emotional response. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo shows including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, Showroom Mama in Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Phillips Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Pinder’s work was featured in the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, and at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2016, Pinder was awarded a United States Artist’s Joyce Fellowship Award in the field of performance and is a 2017 John S. Guggenheim Fellow.
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