Roski Talks History

FALL 2023

Pablo José Ramíez – Nov 14
Curator

Andy Campbell / Jennifer West – Nov 7
Roski professors

Toni Smalls – Oct 24
Artist, art director

Kim Paquet Moran / Chandler Chow / Mackenzie Cantor – Oct 17
Roski Young Guns Panel – moderated by Roski Dean Haven Lin-Kirk and Alexis Zoto

Cosmo Whyte – Oct 10
Artist

Christopher Lew – Sep 26
Curator

Roman Ley – Sep 19
Design Director

Carolina Caycedo – Sep 12
Artist and Roski MFA Art Alum

Emma Berliner – Sep 5
Designer, Art Director

Danielle Shang – Aug 29
Curator, Writer, Art Historian

 

SPRING 2023

Nicole Miller – Apr 11
Artist

Sadie Barnette – Mar 28
Artist

Guadalupe Rosales, The Handtmann Photography Lecture – Mar 7
Artist

Lucy McRae – Feb 21
Body Architect

Aurora Tang – Feb 7
Curator

Paula Scher, Jan 31
Graphic Designer

Clara Kim – Jan 24
Curator

Genevieve Gaignard – Jan 17
Artist

madison moore / McKenzie Wark – Jan 10
artist and professor / professor

 

FALL 2022

Louise Sandhaus – Nov 15
Graphic designer and faculty at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

Martin O’Brien – Nov 8
Artist, scholar, teacher, and zombie.

Danielle Dean – Nov 1
Interdisciplinary artist

Vishal Jugdeo – Oct 18
Artist

Andrea Bowers – Oct 11
Artist

Charlene Liu – Oct 4
Painting, printmaking, and mixed media

Rick Griffith – Sep 27
British-West-Indian collagist, writer, letterpress printer, designer, and optimist futurist

Gala Porras-Kim – Sep 20
Artist

Rozae Nichols – Sep 6
Designer

Annette Miae Kim – Aug 7
Artist, researcher and educator

 

SPRING 2022

South of Expo: Art, Artists and Cultural Spaces Since the 1960s – Apr 29 – 30
With Kellie Jones, Ben Caldwell, Groger Guenveur Smith, Amitis (Ami) Motevalli, Cameron Shaw, Pilar Rivas Tompkins, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Bethany Montagano, Tiffany E. Barber, Ray Anthony Barrett, Alicia Piller and Felix Quintana.

Ku’er Worlds: Queering Chinese American Identities in Art and Film – Apr 21
Featuring Patty Chang, Andrew Thomas Huang, Jenny Lin, Lesley Ma, WangShui and Hao Wu

Heidi Lau – Apr 12
Artist

Julia Johnson – Apr 5
Designer

Belonging as Survival: Creativity, Activism and Community – Apr 1
With Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Adrian De Leon, Patrick “Pato” Hebert and Jocelyn Jackson

Frances Anderton – Mar 22
Architecture and design writer and critic

Hồng-Ân Trương – Mar 8
Artist

Bryan Allen – Feb 22
Designer

Josh Kline – Feb 13
Artist

Joseph Daniel Valencia – Feb 8
Curator

Nao Bustamante – Feb 1
Performance artist

 

FALL 2021

Jesse Mockrin – Nov 16
Art

Hassan Rahim – Nov 9
Art director

Kelly Akashi – Nov 2
Sculptural practice

Judy Baca and Gabriela Urtiaga – Oct 26
Artist and curator

Kour Pour – Oct 19
Los Angeles-based American artist

Sam Dewey and Rachel Zaretsky – Oct 12
USC Roski graduates who both won a USC Roski Macomber Travel Grant.

Jenny Lin & Meiling Cheng – Oct 5
Director of the MA in Curatorial Practices with Head of Critical Studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts

Roski Talks: Art in Mexico City – Sep 28
Panel discussion

Michael Ellsworth – Sep 21
Designer

Edgar Arceneaux – Sep 7
Artist

Queer Survivance – Aug 31
Panel Discussion

 

SPRING 2021

Simon Leung – Apr 21
Artist

Amelia Jones – Mar 31
Professor, Roski School of Art & Design

Diedrick Brackens – Mar 17
LA-based textile artist

Karin Fong – Mar 11
Director and designer

TJ Dedeaux-Norris – Mar 10
Artist

Carmen Winant – Mar 3
Artist

Keith Mayerson – Feb 24
Art Professor

Cog•nate Collective – Feb 17
Interdisciplinary research projects and public interventions

Black Gay Mail – Feb 4
Artists: Alan Bell, Ajamu X, Gregory Victorianne, and Ric Irick

Ruby Lerner – Feb 3
Founding Director of Creative Capital

Ellen Lupton – Jan 28
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

 

FALL 2020

Crenshaw Dairy Mart Artists – Nov 4
Artists who  founded the Crenshaw Dairy Mart

Cameron Shaw – Oct 28
Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM)

Legacy Russell – Oct 21
Curator, writer and artist

Peter Wu+ – Sep 23
Artist

Candice Lin – Sep 16
Interdisciplinary artist

Matthew Schum – Sep 9
Writer

Coco Fusco – Sep 2
Interdisciplinary artist and writer

 

SPRING 2020

Robeson Taj Frazier – Mar 3
Cultural historian

Anne Ellegood – Feb 25
Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, LA

Sara Daleiden – Feb 18
Strategy, facilitation, evaluation, communications and project coordination

Andrew Campbell – Feb 4
Art historian, critic, and curator

Bill Barminski – Jan 28
Artist / designer

 

FALL 2019

Jenny Lin – Dec 3
Researcher, author

Paul Sahre – Nov 19
Graphic designer

Jeanne Vaccaro – Nov 12
Writer, curator, and teacher

Susan Silton – Nov 5
Artist

Dale Herigstad – Oct 22
Motion graphics, interaction design

Ginger Shulick Porcella – Oct 15
Curator

Gayatri Gopinath – Oct 10
Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University

lauren woods – Oct 8
Conceptual artist

Julio Cesar Morales – Sep 17
Artist, educator, and curator

Young Joon Kwak – Sep 10
Artist

Yunhee Min – Sep 3
Site-specific installations and architectural interventions

 

SPRING 2019

April Greiman – Apr 16
Design practitioner

Rita Gonzalez – Apr 2
Curator

Lonnie Holley Performance with Nelson Patton – Feb 28
Artist and musician

Roski Talk: Yuki Kihara – Feb 12
Interdisciplinary artist

Richard Pell – Feb 7
National History Museum

Ruben Ochoa – Jan 29
USC Roski Associate Professor

Tanya Aguiñiga – Jan 22
Artist and designer

 

FALL 2018

Mia Locks – Nov 6
Independent Curator, USC alumna

Thomas Mueller – Oct 23
Artist and Ceramist, USC Roski Professor

Won Ju Lim – Oct 16
Artist and Architect

eL seed – Oct 9
Artist and Calligrapher

Ramiro Gomez – Sep 18
Artist and Painter

Michael Gillespie – Sep 11
Film Historian and Theorist

Sandra de la Loza – Sep 4
Artist and Educator

Erin Christovale – Aug 28
Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

 

SPRING 2018

Leslie Hewitt – Apr 18
Artist, Photography, Sculpture, and Site-specific Installation

Hamza Walker – Apr 3
Executive Director of LAXART, Los Angeles

Patty Chang – Mar 27
Professor of Art, Roski Performance and Film

Minerva Cuevas – Mar 20
Artist, Installation, Video, and Photography

Tavia Nyong’o – Mar 6
Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Studies, Yale University

Theaster Gates – Jan 24
Artist, Social Practice

Senga Nengudi – Jan 19
Artist, Sculpture, Performance, and Choreography (In conversation with scholars, Elissa Auther and Amelia Jones)

Live Artist Live Simultaneity – Jan 12-13
Featuring Nao Bustamante, Beatriz Cortez, Rafa Esparza, Marcus Kuland-Nazario, Carlos Mertiel, Mickey Negrón, Gabriel Ruiz, Dorian Wood, Andy Campbell, Amelia Jones, Noura Wedell, Diana Taylor

 

FALL 2017

Njideka Akunyil Crosby – Nov 28
Artist, Painting, and Collage

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill – Nov 14
Art Historian and Curator

Tom Knechtel – Nov 7
Artist, Painting, and Drawing

Pepón Osorio – Oct 31
Laura Carnell Professor Community Art, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Suzanne Hudson – Oct 17
Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, USC

Luara Aguliar – Oct 10
Artist

Shannon Ebner – Sep 26
Associate Professor of the Practice of Fine Arts

Karen Moss & Bill Kelley, Jr. with Paulina Varas & Jennifer Ponce de Léon – Sep 19
Community-based social art practices

Shanti Pillai & Marc Gomes – Sep 12
Artists, Third Space Performance Lab

 

SPRING 2017

Julia Meltzer – Mar 28
Director, Clockshop

Nayland Blake – Mar 21
Artist, Curator, Founding Chair of ICP / Bard MFA Program

Sherin Guirguis – Mar 7
Artist, Associate Professor of the Practice of Fine Art, USC Roski School of Art and Design

Mark Allen – Feb 7
Executive Director, Machine Project

 

FALL 2016

Beatriz Cortez – Nov 29
Artist and Cultural Critic

Yong Soon Min – Nov 15
Artist and Professor Emeritus, UC Irvine

Naima Keith – Nov 7
Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Programs, California African American Museum

Dr. Andy Campbell – Oct 18
Assistant Professor of Critical Studies

Julie Mehretu – Oct 13
Painter

Mónica Mayer – Sep 27
Artist, Archivist

Jennifer West – Sep 20
Associate Professor of Fine Arts Practice, USC Gayle Garner Roski School of Art and Design

Mira Schor – Sep 13
Artist, Writer

Dan Cameron – Sep 6
Freelance Curator

Pilar Tompkins Rivas – Aug 30
Director of Vincent Price Art Museum

 

SPRING 2016

Suzanne Lacy – May 3
Performance, Conceptual Artist

Mary Kelly – Apr 19
Artist

Sabela Grimes – Mar 29
Choregrapher and Composer

Shahidul Alam – Mar 29
Bangladeshi photographer, educator, and global media activist

Edgar Arceneaux and Mark Greenfield – Mar 22
Artist(s)

Kori Newkirk – Mar 1
Artist

Kathy High – Feb 23
Artist

Pawel Leszkowicz – Feb 16
Art Historian and Curator

Lynn Hershman Leeson – Jan 26
Artist and Filmmaker

Jennifer Doyle – Jan 19
Visual Cultural Theorist, Historian and Professor of English and UC Riverside

 

FALL 2015

Ewa Tatar – Dec 1
Art Historian, Art Critic, Freelance Curator, and Editor for Ha!Art Magazine, Obieg Magazine

Jennifer Steinkamp – Nov 17
Artist

Faith Wilding – Mar 29
Artist, Writer, Educator

Rick Griffith – Aug 29
Design Director at Matter