Pace Live Artist Talk With Fred Wilson, LAXART Director Hamza Walker, and Pace Chief Curator Oliver Shultz Saturday, Nov 42 PM PDT1201 S La Brea AveLos Angeles Event Details:Artist Talk with Fred Wilson, LAXART Director Hamza Walker, and Pace Chief Curator Oliver ShultzSaturday, Nov 42 PM PDT1201 S La Brea AveLos AngelesHow to Attend: (opens in a new window) RSVPConnect: (opens in a new window) @pacegallery Pace Live is pleased to present a conversation between artist Fred Wilson, LAXART Director Hamza Walker, and Pace Gallery Chief Curator Oliver Shultz amid Wilson’s solo exhibition Dramatis Personae, on view at Pace’s Los Angeles space from November 4 to December 22. Situating Wilson’s instantly recognizable Murano glass works within his broader inquiries into the ways Blackness has been coded in the construction of Western art history, Dramatis Personae marks the twentieth anniversary of the artist’s presentation for the American Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale.Wilson is renowned for his interdisciplinary practice that challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives.Walker is the director of LAXART, a nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Prior to joining LAXART in 2016, he was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting contemporary art museum.Shultz is chief curator at Pace Gallery and director at 125 Newbury, Pace’s project space in New York. Before joining Pace, he was a curator at MoMA PS1, where he was part of the curatorial team on more than 20 exhibitions between 2015 and 2019. Read More Past Fred Wilson Dramatis Personae Nov 4 – Dec 22, 2023 Los Angeles Fred WilsonFred Wilson challenges assumptions of history, culture, and race, deconstructing the presentation of objects and cultural symbols. Beginning with his groundbreaking exhibition Mining the Museum (1992) at the Maryland Historical Society, he has staged installations of appropriated artworks and artifacts from museum collections.Learn More Hamza Walker. Photo: Todd Gray Hamza WalkerHamza Walker is Director of LAXART, a nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Prior to joining LAXART in 2016, he was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting contemporary art museum. Recent exhibitions at LAXART include Nikita Gale, Takers, 2022; Kandis Williams/Cassandra Press’ The Absolute Right to Exclude (2021); and Postcommodity’s Some Reach While Others Clap (2020). Oliver Shultz. Photo: Yvonne Tnt/BFA.com © BFA 2023 Oliver ShultzOliver Shultz is Chief Curator at Pace Gallery and Director at 125 Newbury, Pace’s project space in New York. Before joining Pace, he was previously a curator at MoMA PS1, where he was part of the curatorial team on more than twenty exhibitions between 2015 and 2019. In 2014, he served as Fisher Curatorial Fellow in Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He received his PhD in art history from Stanford University in 2018, where he was the Hume Graduate Fellow in the Arts, with a doctoral dissertation on the work of Paul Thek. He has lectured widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Courtauld Institute in London, the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, Hunter College, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Yale, among others. Journal View All News Adam Pendleton & Fred Wilson Recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Feb 16, 2024 Essays Wikimedia Fellow Kristen Owens Talks with Fred Wilson About the Artist’s Project, ‘Black Now’ Mar 02, 2023 Artist Projects Fred Wilson at Columbus Park in Brooklyn Jun 28, 2022 Pace Live Elmgreen & Dragset in Conversation with Fred Wilson Oct 08, 2020 Events — Artist Talk with Fred Wilson, LAXART Director Hamza Walker, and Pace Chief Curator Oliver Shultz, Nov 4, 2023