Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It, 2011, secession, Vienna, Austria.
Logan Lecture: Stephen Prina
Stephen Prina is an art polymath. Since the late 1970s, Prina has moved nimbly between the disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and music. His projects reference art history, personal biography, and musical compositions that shift and change depending on the context in which they are presented. Prina often appropriates the work of other artists, exploring the post-studio afterlife of objects and recordings presented in galleries and museums, and received by critics and historians of art. Through his engagement with these works, Prina highlights the shifting nature of art’s reception and interpretation across time.
This event is part of the 2024-25 Logan Lecture Series.
Stephen Prina, SonciDan, 1996, S.O.36, Berlin, Germany.
About the Artist
Stephen Prina has had solo exhibitions of his work at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. In 2003, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. His work is in the collections of Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Prina taught for over two decades at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and is currently professor of art, film, and visual studies at Harvard University.
Since 2007, the Logan Lecture Series at the Denver Art Museum has presented talks by over 120 contemporary artists. Organized by the Modern and Contemporary Art department, the series is made possible through the generous support of Vicki and Kent Logan.
