1 Friday
12:00PM - 1:00PM
FREE
Instructor: Meg Linton
A series of online conversations with creatives about the state of making. Join Meg Linton, independent curator and writer, as she virtually visits the studios of known and emerging artists, exploring their work, influence, philosophy, and creative process.
Victoria Fu is a visual artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan. Fu has received grants from Art Matters and the Harpo Foundation, and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork, both individual and collaborative with artist Matt Rich, have been exhibited widely, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial, New York Film Festival, Palm Springs Museum of Art, IX Nicaragua Biennial, and solos at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, The Contemporary Baltimore, among others. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Fu lives and works in San Diego, where she is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at University of San Diego.
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Meg Linton has 20+ years of experience as a director and curator of contemporary art spaces. Meg is best known for her exhibitions, programs, and publications she curated during her decade-long tenure as the Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Currently, she is working on an exhibition about the life and work of artist Keith Julius Puccinelli for the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara; is lead producer on a documentary film about 1970s-80s feminist performance art in Los Angeles called ACTING LIKE WOMEN directed by Cheri Gaulke; Studio Manager for Steve Roden at inbetweennoise.com; the new Administrator of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation; and she is researching and writing an historical novel about a suffragette in the Mid-West.
You can find her on Instagram @meg_linton.