HAMZA WALKER LECTURE AT PSU, Monday Dec 1st

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education/Associate Curator for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago - a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art. His most recent group exhibitions include

Black Is, Black Ain’t, 2008
Meanwhile in Baghdad…, 2008
All the Pretty Corpses, 2005
The Here and Now, 2005
A Perfect Union…more or less, 2004
New Video, New Europe: A Survey of East European Video, 2004

Monographic exhibitions include

Katerina Seda: It Doesn’t Matter, 2008
Katharina Grosse: Atoms Inside Balloons, 2007
Scott Short: A Survey, 2007
Mai-Thu Perret, 2006
Peter Welz, 2005

He was the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant and the 2005 Walter Hopps Award for curatorial achievement. In addition to serving on numerous panels and juries in Europe and the United States, he has written for numerous catalogues, magazines and journals such as Artforum and Parkett.