The Spring 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky

Tim Griffin presents Cory Arcangel

This event is free & open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.

See the full Spring 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Cory Arcangel (born 1978, Buffalo, NY) is an artist and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway.

Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Applying a semi-archeological methodology, his practice explores, encodes, and hacks the structural language of video games, software, social media, and machine learning, treating them as both subject matter and medium.

Ongoing and recent presentations include: Let’s Play Majerus G3 at Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany; ALL I EAT IN A DAY, a group exhibition curated by Cory Arcangel and Giovanni Carmine at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Digital Witness, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Water, Wind & Fire at ART on THE MART, Chicago, IL.

Arcangel has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Barbican Art Center, London, United Kingdom; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland. His work is represented in collections such as Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Galleria D'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., MD; Tate, London, United Kingdom; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

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Tim Griffin is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles, where he currently serves as executive director of The Industry. Previously, Griffin was both executive director and chief curator at the interdisciplinary New York space, The Kitchen (2011–2021), where he organized projects with artists including Chantal Akerman, ANOHNI, Cory Arcangel, Charles Atlas, Joan Jonas, Ralph Lemon, Aki Sasamoto, and Danh Vo; presented overviews of historical work by Gretchen Bender (2013) and Julius Eastman (2018); and conceived the organization’s electronic music series Synth Nights, as well as the group exhibition and performance series: From Minimalism into Algorithm. 

From 2003 to 2010, Griffin was editor of Artforum, where he organized special issues on performance; art and poetry; art and its markets; and the museum in a contemporary context. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, and include catalogue essays on Maria Hassabi (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY), Ralph Lemon (Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY), and John Baldessari (Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom). Monographic texts are forthcoming on Sayre Gomez and Avery Singer. Griffin edited Writings on Wade Guyton (2018) and penned a keynote essay for the volume, and a new book on artists’ changing engagements with history and memory is forthcoming from Sternberg Press, Berlin. In 2015, he was awarded the insignia of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Image credits: Installation view of Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement (Version A), courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.