Artist Talk: William Villalongo
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Art Museum
Talk starting at 5:00 PM, public reception 4:30–5:00.
This event is free, and all are welcome!
Please join us at the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Art Museum for a public, in-gallery talk by artist William Villalongo on October 30, 2024. Villalongo will be speaking from his exhibition, William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations, currently on view. Visitors are invited to attend a reception beginning at 4:30 pm. Our galleries will also be open before the talk.
William Villalongo (b. 1975, Hollywood, FL) was raised in New Jersey and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has been the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor's Grant. In 2021 he was awarded the Jules Guerin/Harold M. English Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Princeton University Art Museum; Studio Museum, Harlem; Weatherspoon Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery, in addition to the Grinnell College Museum of Art. He is an associate professor in the School of Art at The Cooper Union in New York.
William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations was organized by the Grinnell College Museum of Art. The exhibition is on view at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵAM through December 20, 2024.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for African and African American Studies.
