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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Artist Talk: Jill Magid

Thursday, October 21
5:15 - 6:30 PM
Art 223


Jill Magid’s (American, b. 1973) performance-based work involves immersing herself in systems of authority, building relationships with police and Secret Service agents in order to explore issues of vulnerability, observation, and trust. She received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam from 2000-2. Magid has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including the Whitney Museum (2010), the Tate Modern London (2009), Yvon Lambert Gallery Paris and New York (2009), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007), the Centre D’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007), and Stroom, Netherlands (2008). Jill Magid lives and works in New York.