Artist Conversation: Carroll Dunham

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Although drawing has been Dunham’s principal vehicle of artistic expression over the past five decades, he has never tired of testing its formal, material, optical, and intellectual possibilities.

Organized in conversation with the artist, Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1974–2024 presents a comprehensive survey of the interrelated archive of work that has emerged from his process-based practice.

Join the artist and curator Thea Liberty Nichols for a discussion about this unprecedented show, the first museum presentation focused exclusively on Dunham’s drawings.

Support for this program is provided by the Allan McNab Endowed Fund.

This conversation is presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Photograph by Laurie Simmons.

Carroll Dunham lives and works in Connecticut. His most recent solo exhibitions include National Museum, Oslo, 2023; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2019–2020. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Millesgården, Stockholm; Drammens Museum, Drammen; a mid-career retrospective was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2002. Dunham has also been included in notable group exhibitions including multiple Whitney Biennials and SITE Santa Fe; and at institutions including MAMCO, Geneva; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu Picasso, Barcelona; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Thea Liberty Nichols is an associate research curator in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Closed captioning will be available for this program. For questions related to accessibility accommodations, please email access@artic.edu.