Nancy Valladares

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 artist presentation with Nancy Valladares whose practice delves into the histories of image-making, through the lens of botany,  ecology, and more-than-human worlds. 

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.

About the Series

The Institute of Contemporary Art, the Weitzman Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to present a series of free public lectures and artist presentations that connect a group of distinguished artists, writers, activists, and disruptors to the Philadelphia public.

In their varied approaches and techniques, these individuals speak to ICA’s ethos of artistic experimentation and practice that engages with the social and cultural themes of our time. As artists, writers, and cultural producers, their artwork and criticism expand across themes of popular culture, queer life, kinship & community, and de/construction through the utilization of sculpture, performance, sound, collage, installation, and more.

In this lecture series, we invite you all to engage in conversation with our participants and become a part of an active dialogue that explores the stake of contemporary art in our society and culture.

Nancy Dayanne Valladares is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and educator from Tegucigalpa, Honduras currently based in New York. Her practice closely examines photography’s historical entanglement with botanical imaginaries and chemical legacies. Nancy’s work grapples with the networks and flows of image making, and their accompanying technological regimes. Alongside artist Hsurae, Nancy is co-founder of Lythologies.org a decentralized research group interested in climate futures and new ecological imaginaries. Valladares was a resident at Triangle Arts Association and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and received fellowships at Harvard University’s Film Studies Center and the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative at MIT. 

Nancy’s work has been exhibited and screened at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sakiya Foundation, Ramallah; Goethe Institute Chicago; Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago; and Microscope Gallery in New York. 

Registration
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Captioning will be available for this program via Zoom. If you require any other accessibility accommodations such as audio description or ASL interpretation, or have any questions about the program, please contact Brittany Clottey at bclottey@ica.upenn.edu.