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Black and white photograph of "Al río / To the River" showing barbed wire barricades in the foreground and the Laredo Field Office in the background.
Al río / To the River (detail), 2016-2022 Gelatin silver prints, C-prints and inkjet prints. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Maxwell Graham, New York.
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Black and white photograph of "Al río / To the River" showing barbed wire barricades in the foreground and the Laredo Field Office in the background.
Al río / To the River (detail), 2016-2022 Gelatin silver prints, C-prints and inkjet prints. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Maxwell Graham, New York.

2026-2027 Keith L. and Katherine S. Sachs Visiting Professor Lecture: Zoe Leonard

2026-2027 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
6:00 pm

ICA, 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia

Free and open to the public
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The Weitzman Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Contemporary Art are pleased to present an artist lecture and presentation with Keith L. and Katherine S. Sachs Visiting Professor Zoe Leonard.

This free public lecture is part of a series that gathers distinguished artists, activists, writers, and disruptors whose work engages with the social and cultural themes of our time.

Registration
Link to register | Link to watch this program via Zoom

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About the Artist
Zoe Leonard was born in 1961 in New York. Leonard is a visual artist working in photography, sculpture and installation. Her work has been exhibited broadly, including recent solo presentations at The Chinati Foundation, US (2024); Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (2022); Mudam, Luxembourg (2022); Whitney Museum, New York (2018); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015). Her work is currently on view in the 61st Venice Biennale and was included in the 57th Carnegie International (2018); Documenta IX (1992) and Documenta XII (2007) and in Whitney Biennials in 1993, 1997, and 2014. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020), the Bucksbaum Award of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2014) and an Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2006). She is a founding member of the artist collective fierce pussy which has been active since 1992. Leonard lives and works in New York City.

Support
The Master of Fine Arts program at Penn is focused on the professional development of visual artists. Through workshops, seminar courses, international residency opportunities and interactions with curators, writers and artists, the program provides an open intellectual framework to foster independent methods of artistic research.

Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft & Jacob W. Doft, Stacey & Robert Goergen Jr., Hilarie L. & Mitchell Morgan, the Nash Family Foundation, Joline & David Stemerman, and by Dana McDonald Strong & Mark W. Strong.