Artist Talk With Athir Shayota
The M, 350 Robert Street North, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
- 09/14/2019
- 1PM
Event details
Artist Athir Shayota, featured in Mizna’s 20th anniversary retrospective exhibition History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, will give an artist lecture on Saturday, September 14 at 1 pm at the M. Shayota will speak about his time as an artist in the Midwest, first at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, and then as a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. Touching on Midwest painters such as Nancy Mitter, Robert Wilbert, Richard Jerzy and the seminal Detroit painter Sarkis Sarkisian, Shayota will discuss the influence Midwest museum collections and exhibitions had on his early work.
What: History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary Artist Talk
When: Saturday, September 14th, 1 p.m.
Where: The M, 350 Robert Street North, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
About Athir Shayota
Athir Shayota (b.1968, Iraq) is a New York-based painter who has exhibited in galleries and institutions, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Arab American National Museum, Cooper Union Humanities Gallery, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery (Doha, Qatar). He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, MO (1992). His work has been reviewed or featured in such publications as The New York Times, Callaloo, Bidoun, Mizna, and ArtAsiaPacific magazine’s Almanac.