Tao Leigh Goffe

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 Tao Leigh Goffe.

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
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About the Artist
Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD, is the founder and Executive Director of Dark Laboratory and author of a book by the same title published in 2025 by Doubleday. A Black feminist theoretician, she is Associate Professor of cultural history and literary theory with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She has worked in the past at institutions including Princeton University, Cornell University, Leiden University, New York University, and Johns Hopkins University. Her research is rooted in decolonial thought, literature, and theories of labor that center Black feminism’s engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. Dr. Goffe did her undergraduate training at Princeton where she developed a deep passion for molecular biology and dark room photography, which she studied there as well as literature. She earned her doctorate from Yale University.

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.