18h au Café Pompier
[CONFÉRENCE] de McKenzie Stevens, commissaire d’exposition
dans le cadre de Fan Zone, Master Art, cycle 2
MacKenzie Stevens is Deputy Director at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, California.
Her curatorial work centers socially engaged practices, artist-driven projects, and collaboration. Stevens trained as an art historian and an archivist and holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the University of Southern California. Prior to relocating to San Francisco in 2023, Stevens was the director and head curator at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin. There, she organized exhibitions including Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil, Corentin Canesson: Sleep Spaces / Les espaces du sommeil (co-curated with Corentin Canesson) and Lisa Lapinski: Miss Swiss along with solo projects with Carolina Caycedo, Carmen Argote, Nikita Gale, Michael Queenland, Nancy Lupo, Juan Pablo González, Madeline Hollander, amongst others. She co-edited Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil (Tower Books, UT Press, Austin), edited Lisa Lapinski: Miss Swiss (Inventory Press, Los Angeles), and contributed to publications including, Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, Made in LA 2016, Made in LA 2018, Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles, amongst others.